Th4tGuyII

It ia very much an English speaking world thing, but I wouldn't say US-centric as we have basically the same greeting in the UK.

Yeah, that wouldn't fly as much here either - if somebody asked how my day was, I'd be inclined to think they want a summary at least.

Unless Anon is willing to put in some serious work, like properly going back to school or busting their ass learning (and getting good at) a trade, then their life is kinda fucked.

You can't just crawl out of almost 20 years of NEETing into really any kind of job, especially without the charisma to at least try masking it.

Also fuck knows why Anon's parents just let them drop out of school and basically cease to exist outside of playing videogames for best part of two decades. That's plain bad parenting.

As others have pointed out, the problem is "How are you?" on its own is generally a greeting not a question.

As such the answer is largely irrelevant - so while it doesn't have to be outright lie, the answer shouldn't be longer than a single statement and shouldn't make the other person feel like they need to be concerned.

If you want a slightly less beaming answer you could go with "Alright", "same old, same old", "same as always", or "Eh, could be worse", or any of the other suggestions already made.

Well it's good to know everyone is starting to agree with the Remainers... Nearly a decade too late.

For her part, the chancellor told BBC News that she thought “sustainable aviation and economic growth go hand in hand"

As said in the article, the technology to reasonably decarbonise planes doesn't really exist yet - so the only path to "sustainable aviation" is to reduce it to the point it can be properly offset by other decarbonisation efforts.

That makes these two concepts almost entirely mutually exclusive without proper planning, and just slapping multiple airport expansions down then saying "It's fine, we'll plant a few trees at some point" doesn't fucking cut it.

Oh yeah, I'm sure he just walked up and asked Elon to organise this in the first week of his presidency - the return via SpaceX definitely wasn't planned and organised well before the election happened /s

More proof that Trump lies as easily as he breaths, and that his ~~cult~~ base will believe anything that comes out of his mouth, no matter how easily it can be debunked

I'd be honest. Life is as much (if not more) about luck as it is skill.

There are smart folks out there who have spent their entire lives working hard, probably made decent money, but will never be rich because an opportunity they were equipped to capitalise on just never arrived.

By that same score, there are people who stumble onto or are born into opportunities for wealth that most people will never see by sheer happenstance.

My only impression of him being that he enabled your wife's cheating, I'd hazard a guess he was born into his opportunity - and while that doesn't diminish his own efforts, its not a fair comparison to make. Apples to oranges and all that.

Well to be fair, over a decade of Tories gutting public infrastructure to give out tax cuts for the rich will do that. Will the population remember that, or just start blaming Starmer for not fixing everything inside of a year, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Imagine getting stabbed with a bootleg CS:GO knife

On one hand, its nice that they actually responded, because even that can't be taken for granted nowadays.

On the other hand, they spent more text on telling you they're holding onto your data (and trying to milk you for more) than they did telling you the thing the email was about!!

Genuinely such a good idea - though it'd likely have to be censored to fuck if it goes up pre-watershed, which would take some of the joy out of it

While I absolutely agree with the sentiment here, I doubt it'd convince anyone remotely "pro-life" - because one's "just a chicken", and the other's human.

I mean Christ, if you can't get them to sympathise with the life carrying the fetus, you're not gonna succeed with a random chicken's.