The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXVIII

[SS-18 ICBM]

Women who touch me on the shoulder or arm when they're talking to me drive me up the wall(and there are more of them than I would have thought).

Strangers who do that? That's weird.

 

[Farm Boy]

Co-workers and acquaintances do that more often than strangers, though that happens too. I don't like it. Now, I'm not insulted or offended by it, I just find it unpleasant. It also seems to happen more with women who have had children and gone through the years of super-touch-saturation where humans typically want to touch them all the time. I get it, it's socialization. Like I said, it's my privilege, yay, to suck it up.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Some people can be really touchy-feely. I mean more than just a friendly guy or gal that pats you on the back once or something. That said, despite my usually aloof, stoic demeanor, I do like it, though, as long as it isn't ridiculous like grabbing my crotch or something.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Co-workers and acquaintances do that more often than strangers, though that happens too. I don't like it. Now, I'm not insulted or offended by it, I just find it unpleasant. It also seems to happen more with women who have had children and gone through the years of super-touch-saturation where humans typically want to touch them all the time. I get it, it's socialization. Like I said, it's my privilege, yay, to suck it up.

Do pats on the head happen? Now that would be really weird.

 

[Farm Boy]

Don't think I've been patted on the head. Though people have played with my ponytail. That's not happened in a while.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I suppose these people are familiar though, right?

 

[warpus]

I do not know how they compare to machines designed for the purpose, but plants make pretty good moisturisers.

What sort of plants?

 

[warpus]

Co-workers and acquaintances do that more often than strangers, though that happens too. I don't like it. Now, I'm not insulted or offended by it, I just find it unpleasant. It also seems to happen more with women who have had children and gone through the years of super-touch-saturation where humans typically want to touch them all the time. I get it, it's socialization. Like I said, it's my privilege, yay, to suck it up.

There's a woman in our department who used to waltz into my office without knocking, she'd walk right up to my face and stand in my personal space, she'd call me "baby", touch me..

Well, I told her to knock it off, she doesn't do it any more.

Some people just have no manners.

eh didn't mean to dp

 

[Tahuti]

Don't think I've been patted on the head. Though people have played with my ponytail. That's not happened in a while.

Female strangers have played with my beard a lot.

 

[Farm Boy]

I suppose these people are familiar though, right?

As in I run into them at work and they generally outrank me? Yes. That's a type of familiar.

 

[Borachio]

I'm fine with being touched. Up to a point.

But keeping the birds off my plums can be a bit of problem from time to time. (Did I mention I've got a small orchard at the bottom of my garden?)

 

[Samson]

What sort of plants?

Any pot plants. Cacti would be very bad, something with a lot of leaf area would be best. It being in the sun will make a lot of difference. Plants are pretty much transpiration systems from their roots to their leaves.

 

[Farm Boy]

I'm fine with being touched. Up to a point.

But keeping the birds off my plums can be a bit of problem from time to time. (Did I mention I've got a small orchard at the bottom of my garden?)

Shady or full sun? Dark enough to sprinkle in some mushrooms? MMmmmm.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Well, I told her to knock it off, she doesn't do it any more.

Good to know it didn't repeat despite the request.

 

[Arwon]

I wonder what changed that made all of this start. I guess it's possible I've always had issues with dry skin, but I've never really noticed any wounds until recently.

Thanks for the tips. Going to see if Costco has some sort of a cheap moisturiser.

Isn't it also weird that this Vichy stuff isn't labelled as moisturiser? Seems like, if a guy like me was looking for moisturiser and had money to throw around, I wouldn't buy this - because I just wouldn't know what the hell it is.

I guess I should probably ask one of my sisters what they recommend.

I think the word "hydro" and derivatives are the clue. I had to google and look at Amazon reviews of what it does to be sure.

 

[daft]

Would it be a wise move to simply abandon civilization and run off into the wild and become a hermit?

 

[Lohrenswald]

Not if you enjoy bathrooms with water access.

 

[Joecoolyo]

But keeping the birds off my plums can be a bit of problem from time to time. (Did I mention I've got a small orchard at the bottom of my garden?)

I spent a minute trying to read the first part as innuendo. Didn't understand, continued the sentence.

The world makes sense now.

 

[sophie]

I'm fine with being touched. Up to a point.

But keeping the birds off my plums can be a bit of problem from time to time. (Did I mention I've got a small orchard at the bottom of my garden?)

 

[Joecoolyo]

It was a bit hard to swallow at first, but I thought long and hard and I think I've got my head around it now.