• barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    • What music do you like?

    • MAGA?

    If you like music, and hate MAGAs, we can be good friends.

    If you dont like music, and hate MAGAs, we can probably still be friends.

    If you LOVE the music I love, but are MAGA, then you can fuck right off. I don’t hang with Nazis, no matter what your musical tastes are.

    • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      6 days ago

      I know a few who would answer skyrim, avengers and ???. They’re kinda nice but also insanely lame and boring.

  • dadjokesfordays@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 days ago

    What brings you happiness or joy in life?

    What do you do for fun?

    What’s one thing you’d 100% recommend to someone brand new to the world?

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago
    • Is modern medicine a scam?
    • Is the current political world trend good or bad?
    • Do you respect transgender people?

    Reasoning:

    • Are they conspiracy theorists
    • Are they pro oppression and racism
    • Are they tolerable of people who are seen as extremely outside of the standard norms and recognize that they don’t pose a threat to them personally
    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Enterprise D - I like the carpet.

      Heath Ledger.

      Immolate - I’m not a destroyer, but $20 is $20.

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
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    7 days ago

    most of my questions would be subjective and may not apply to others:

    • what kinds of plants have survived you taking care of them? how?
    • paracetamol, ibuprofen, naproxen or NSAID? why?
    • what’s your funny youtube link you are comfortable to share? what makes it amusing?
  • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Just be interested and ask them questions about their life and hobbies and see if they do the same.

    It’s a starting place. The rest depends on building trust and respect and common interests.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    7 days ago
    • What is your name?
    • What is your quest?
    • What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Do you drink coffee black?

    What do you think of motorcycles?

    What is the highest elevation you have hiked to?

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Sometimes, depends on the coffee…

      They’re neat. Don’t own one.

      I live in the Great plains… So maybe like a +100 ft.

    • TehBamski@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I don’t drink coffee. Don’t care if you do. But I do think people who “have to have my coffee,” are weird.

      I think motorcycles are cool. I totally get the appeal of feeling the road, the wind on your body, the excitement of letting it open up on a straightaway. I just don’t think I could have one where I’m at and make it to the end of the year alive. Too many fucking truck princesses and a third of the drivers here drive like dog shit.

      The highest elevation I’ve been to while hiking was just a bit over 9,000 ft. My group of four were bummed when we realized that not everyone (myself included) was gonna be able to make it to the top, as we weathered out. It was cold as fuck up there. We started seeing snowflakes coming down up ahead on the mountain. I ended up realizing that I would have become a rescue issue if I voted to go up. You live and you learn.

      How about yourself?

      • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I enjoy coffee but I mostly quit caffeine a few years ago so I don’t need my coffee. I do enjoy a quality water-processed decaf a couple of times a week. I like strong and black, no sweetener.

        I’ve owned a few motorcycles and technically I still do but it isn’t running and isn’t a priority this year. I have other things I’m investing in. You can ride anywhere if you learn to ride super defensively and wear quality gear head to foot.I want to come home to my family every time. It’s a ton of fun though and I like to go motocamping.

        I like to hike mountains but I’m currently in the eastern US so I only make it to nice mountains about every other year. The Smokies have great challenging hikes but they’re no fourteeners. I know that number doesn’t make sense to metric people. I’ve hiked seven mountains over 14k feet, a few of them more than once. The tallest is Mount Whitney in California, the highest point in the contiguous 48 states. I’d like to travel to climb something taller. I’d like to also climb Mount Rainier even though it’s a little shorter, just for the winter mountaineering. I already own snow shoes, crampons, Ice axe etc. I’m getting older so it’s getting higher on my bucket list.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    My dad, when I was a kid, used to open the door quickly, look down at my visiting friend and say “Who the hell are you?”

    Then he’d shut the door abruptly, wait 3-4 seconds, then open it, laugh, and welcome them in.

    If you can do that and they don’t get offended, they’re friend material.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 days ago

      My dad, when I was a kid, used to open the door quickly, look down at my visiting friend and say “Who the hell are you?”

      Sad story time.

      A friend of mine was visiting one of our mutual friends nearby in the big city while I was in the far, far outskirts. He was such a positive influence that I agreed to come visit at the same time and catch up, as he was always a great time. This excellent friend always brought a gallon of stories, his usual infectious manner, and this time he brought a surprise new girlfriend.

      I did the “who the hell are you” and she got put off. It went reeeally poorly. They left for home the next day, ahead of schedule, back to America. He shut me out. Over the years he kinda shut everyone else there out, too, as far as I know, as he focused on the birth of two kids in succession and then his wife’s affliction with an aggressive debilitating disease; it may have been ALS. He shut a lot of ancillary things and people out, and I get that of course, but I am disappointed that my last interaction was a bombed joke.

      It’s been 18 years. I finally booted him from my social media about 7-8 years ago.

    • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Wide implementation of this technique would certainly explain why anxious/nervous people would have fewer friends.