@Stigma Sounds about right for a labour government. UK fireworks are already gay. No more bangers, no more loud aerial shells. UK is a crap country with no individual freedom and no tolerance of any man having any fun unless its liberal fun like gay sex or drugs.

I saw the UK is planning to ban fireworks for private purchase now.

That place is such a drag on the soul.

@MentORPHEUS So, you're either using a browser that blocks trackers and targeted advertisements (which I don't think so because if you're doing that you would also use an ad blocker) or you're seeing adverts targeted at you which means the good people here at trp.red are left wondering... what's all that TP for @MentORPHEUS? What's it all for? What're you doing with all that toilet paper, huh? Hm. Hmmm!

@Stigma funny, but most likely apocryphal

Ford didn't invent cars, but rather improved on the manufacturing process and saw to it that all of his employees could afford one

@Vermillion-Rx

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Henry Ford, supposedly

@Stigma

putting it all out there.

A disturbing many of them don't even realize they're doing it.

Sometimes you can even tell when they're ovulating by how they dress and act a bit sexier than they normally do.

But it's rarely conscious on their part.

@Vermillion-Rx Woman I'm working with, she's flirting her way around the office putting it all out there. She might as well be one of those spin advertisers with flashing neon pointing right at her pussy. She's early 20's about a 6 and has shown no signs of positive personality traits. No one's taken her up on the offer, mostly, I imagine, because we didn't travel half way round the globe for another western woman with no value add to our lives...

Just watched Citizen Vigilante. Uwe Boll is a shit director, no doubt - but at least he tackles the rape of Europe in this film.

Armie Hammer goes on a vigilante rampage against illegals who are raping and murdering the natives.

Banned in Germany, lol.

Poor acting and a mostly ludicrous script AND media like this is usually containment/outlet for actual rage and action, but it was fun to see nonetheless.

@Stigma when that sort of shit happens to me, I'll usually act slightly amused and say something like "you're awfully trusting". If they keep at it too much, especially if they start telling me shit I don't want to know, I'll straight up tell them that I don't want to know.

Today, all three of the colleagues I work closest with began to confide in me. All three on separate occasions, began to divulge things to me they wouldn’t necessarily want people to know (or otherwise do want people to know and have found an outlet in me).

Now, I don’t like it, and I would like it to stop. I mostly don’t like it because I strongly believe their confidence is not due to traits I find positive in myself or them. They aren't how we might say ‘alpha’ traits - they see me as empathetic and having enough time to hear their woes.

Is there a way to pivot away from this dynamic, preferably as neutrally as possible?