Incredibly Ace Moments

[will123]

1 minute ago, spooky_moss said:

There's a scene in one of the movies where captain america holds onto a building with one hand and a helicopter with the other hand, and his muscles bulge RIDICULOUSLY huge. I saw it in theatre and couldn't help but burst out laughing at that scene, which set my friend laughing too. I could feel the whole theatre glaring at us but I just couldn't help myself, it seemed so funny!

A while back I watched about the first ten minutes of one of the CA movies. I had to change the station.

 

"People really pay to watch this crap?"

 

To me it wasn't much better than the original Batman series from the 60s. As my nephew (he's 23) said several years ago when I asked him about all the comic book based movies. "I don't like them, too much CGI".

[Sean_Bird]

2 minutes ago, spooky_moss said:

There's a scene in one of the movies where captain america holds onto a building with one hand and a helicopter with the other hand, and his muscles bulge RIDICULOUSLY huge. I saw it in theatre and couldn't help but burst out laughing at that scene, which set my friend laughing too. I could feel the whole theatre glaring at us but I just couldn't help myself, it seemed so funny!

lol, that weirdly makes me think of when my partner and I went to see the latest Star Wars movie in theaters. *spoiler* we live in a college town, so for big movies like that, the theater is always packed with college kids. There was a group of guys towards the front, and towards the end when the two characters kissed, this one guy cheered "YES!!" and threw his arms up in excitement; and then as soon as one of the characters disappeared, he cried out "SHIT!" It was adorable, and one of my favorite moments in a movie theater.

 

In terms of just laughing, I had to hold myself back SO HARD when people started turning to dust at the Infinity War movie. The theater was packed with college students who were sobbing and crying about their favorite characters dying, and I had to hold myself back from laughing hysterically. (Most of those actors had contracts for future films, so like... not sure why so many people were upset) The timing of the film was so poorly done there was no way I could ever take their "deaths" seriously.

[spooky_moss]

3 minutes ago, Sean-Kat said:

lol, that weirdly makes me think of when my partner and I went to see the latest Star Wars movie in theaters. *spoiler* we live in a college town, so for big movies like that, the theater is always packed with college kids. There was a group of guys towards the front, and towards the end when the two characters kissed, this one guy cheered "YES!!" and threw his arms up in excitement; and then as soon as one of the characters disappeared, he cried out "SHIT!" It was adorable, and one of my favorite moments in a movie theater.

 

In terms of just laughing, I had to hold myself back SO HARD when people started turning to dust at the Infinity War movie. The theater was packed with college students who were sobbing and crying about their favorite characters dying, and I had to hold myself back from laughing hysterically. (Most of those actors had contracts for future films, so like... not sure why so many people were upset) The timing of the film was so poorly done there was no way I could ever take their "deaths" seriously.

As long as it's not tooooo distracting, I honestly like when people audibly react to a movie in theatres! It makes the experience more interactive and makes me feel more connected to the other moviegoers. I have a feeling this is an unpopular opinion, though

[will123]

28 minutes ago, spooky_moss said:

As long as it's not tooooo distracting, I honestly like when people audibly react to a movie in theatres! It makes the experience more interactive and makes me feel more connected to the other moviegoers. I have a feeling this is an unpopular opinion, though

I remember years ago when a bunch of us (in our 20s) went to see National Lampoon's Vacation. We got there about five minutes before the movie started so we had to split up and find seats. At times I'd be the only person laughing at the 'sight gags'. After the movie was over and we went to grab a bite my friends were asking what did I find so funny at certain parts of the movie. I'd tell them and then they'd figure out the joke LOL

[Sean_Bird]

2 minutes ago, spooky_moss said:

As long as it's not tooooo distracting, I honestly like when people audibly react to a movie in theatres! It makes the experience more interactive and makes me feel more connected to the other moviegoers. I have a feeling this is an unpopular opinion, though

I actually feel the same! I just hated Infinity War, lol. They kept literally announcing what they were going to do, spending twenty minutes doing it, announcing they were going to do another thing, spending twenty minutes doing that, and did that for the entire movie, my guess because they wanted to dumb it down for the audience. By the time it got to the "deaths", I just wanted it to be over. So like when they were drawing out Spiderman's scene, and everyone around me was sobbing and crying, I just wanted to shout "GOOD. DIE ALREADY. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST JUST DIE, WE KNOW YOU'RE COMING BACK IN THE NEXT MOVIE. GET IT OVER WITH AND MOVE ON."

 

For Endgame, which was just a better movie imo, all the reactions was really fun. :3

[SpaceDustbin]

On 11/19/2020 at 3:33 AM, Sean-Kat said:

and I had to hold myself back from laughing hysterically

This was me during most of the last Star Wars movie 😂

[twetzel59]

On 11/18/2020 at 9:38 PM, spooky_moss said:

As long as it's not tooooo distracting, I honestly like when people audibly react to a movie in theatres! It makes the experience more interactive and makes me feel more connected to the other moviegoers. I have a feeling this is an unpopular opinion, though

This reminds me of how, when I watch movies at home instead of at the theater, I'm always talking throughout the movie. My friends do the same but if I'm with my dad it drives him crazy 🤣

[spooky_moss]

14 minutes ago, twetzel59 said:

This reminds me of how, when I watch movies at home instead of at the theater, I'm always talking throughout the movie. My friends do the same but if I'm with my dad it drives him crazy 🤣

Omg I'll totally talk a bunch through a movie while watching at home but if someone else does it when I'm trying to watch, I get annoyed. I'm such a hypocrite for that 🤣

[J.Rose]

I had a bit of a mythology phase because I was really into astronomy and constellations and ancient history. I remember researching on what it was like for women in Ancient Greece and Rome because that’s what we were learning about in school. I then found out about the Vestal Virgins that serve Vesta and can take a vow to stay unmarried virgins for their whole lives. Needless to say I was immediately like, « That’s what I would do. Man, I wish they had something like that now. » So, 12 year old me made a whole YouTube playlist with stuff about the Vestal Virgins and I straight up dressed as Vesta for Halloween. I feel like that should have been the first sign. 
 

TL;DR : Other girls had crushes in middle school, I wanted to swear a vow of virginity to a goddess. 

[Wholock314]

6 hours ago, J.Rose said:

Other girls had crushes in middle school, I wanted to swear a vow of virginity to a goddess. 

I don’t know if you’ve read the Trials of Apollo series, or anything in the Rick Riordan/Percy Jackson universe (the two most recent series have an incredibly diverse character base, almost everyone is represented) but a group of side characters are the hunters of Artemis, which is basically a group of badass, immortal maidens who have sworn off men and sexual relations. One of their newest members (a character from Heroes of Olympus and one of my favorites) is asexual, and joined basically just to stop people from trying to get her to date/set her up. I am SO happy about it! But that’s what your post reminded me of because the Hunters are like a warrior version of the Vestal Virgins.

 

It also reminded me that when I was in middle school I used to seriously consider becoming a nun (that should have been a sign) - still think about it on occasion. 

[Wholock314]

There must be something wrong with the Spotify ad algorithm, I keep getting birth control advertisements, and there isn't even an option where I can say "this ad is not relevant". Admittedly they're preferable to the ones with people chewing/talking with their mouthful in them (why is that even a thing!?) but I find it amusing that something, somewhere looked at my eclectic listening habits then saw 22F and went "Yeah, birth control, that HAS to be relevant", um no... go back to snack food and movies please lol.

[naakka]

Recently I've had several tele broadband marketers (telephone subscription & broadband sellers) calling me. Here it's a trend that there's a lot of young men (hardly ever any women or older people) working on these companies, like it's a trendy field among this demographic I guess.

 

Anyhow, I've started to notice that all of them probably use flirting or something, to subconsciously attract the female customers. They laugh even for the smallest thing you say, they sound extremely interested in your life like they could sit there whole night listening to you, and they also laugh at certain tone I assume you would normally hear between a flirting couple. I just find these calls extremely awkward. It doesn't have any effect on my decision making and I just kinda feel bad for the guy to basically sounding like an escort. I feel awkward talking just normally, but at the same time, I'd feel more awkward to "play alone" with my tone. Whenever I get a call from any other type of tele marketer, regardless of their gender or age, I don't get this weird feeling.

 

Anyone here experienced the same? (Though this could be one of those "only in Finland" things lol.)

Edited November 24, 2020 by naakka
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[Janus the Fox]

2 hours ago, naakka said:

Recently I've had several tele broadband marketers (telephone subscription & broadband sellers) calling me. Here it's a trend that there's a lot of young men (hardly ever any women or older people) working on these companies, like it's a trendy field among this demographic I guess.

With my academic professional ties with tech, there’s strong indications there’s more females in the industry on the front lines then there are men.  This alters a trend where men where almost exclusive toward tech jobs.  A small trend toward tech that heavily rely on strong social skills.  An example of the front line is telemarketing and the front desk like any reception area that naturally need a good tech background and strong social skills.  Combined from my knowledge, female from facing tech jobs, men from back end technical and what I’ve looked into, those on an autism spectrum even further back than that.  It’s often not easy getting access to tech jobs as female or autistic still.

[naakka]

4 hours ago, Janus DarkFox said:

With my academic professional ties with tech, there’s strong indications there’s more females in the industry on the front lines then there are men.  This alters a trend where men where almost exclusive toward tech jobs.  A small trend toward tech that heavily rely on strong social skills.  An example of the front line is telemarketing and the front desk like any reception area that naturally need a good tech background and strong social skills.  Combined from my knowledge, female from facing tech jobs, men from back end technical and what I’ve looked into, those on an autism spectrum even further back than that.  It’s often not easy getting access to tech jobs as female or autistic still.

Thank you for the reply, that was very interesting! I kinda don't get the first part of your reply, what does "strong front line with females" mean (English not my native xD)?

 

So for autistic people, the demand for good social skills would be the problem... but what's the problem for females? Some sort of prejudice, or weakness on tech knowledge?

 

Anyway, thanks for your insight 😊

[Janus the Fox]

3 hours ago, naakka said:

So for autistic people, the demand for good social skills would be the problem... but what's the problem for females? Some sort of prejudice, or weakness on tech knowledge?

As tech develops, it often becomes a social job, as once everyone is on the same level of technological knowledge, soft and social skills become a focus.  Autistic could be left to the sidelines beyond some level of technical innovation in their fields.  One big area is that Females are often disproportionality less likely to be interested in or take a technological field of study, dependent on that field.  As I've been in Academics though many a year ago now, there's more females then taking a study like Information Systems, Website Development, Animation and more while men would be more inclined in Programming, Software Development and others.  Yeah I still believe that there's strong prejudice for women in the field trying to enter in still parts of the world, a similar manner as to which an Autistic is more inclined for tech, fall behind on the socialising nature of technology.

 

That was a study I done about 8 years ago in my Computing degree, I'd wonder though what has changed.  I haven't specialized in anything myself but kept the focus on Information Systems and maintained the broad 'jack of all trades' idea in Computer Science, Math, Networks, Software, Website Design, HCI, Multimedia tech, help-desk/troubleshooting, computer forensics, hardware repairs etc with a broad read into the Psychology, Philosophy, Criminology, Business Analysis and Economy of computers and Systems Theory.  The Autism aspect for me is unfortunately a visible problem getting a foot into the door, as age advances for me.  The personal gender question does compound the employment question personally as well.

[Craig W.]

I had to GOOGLE "does the carpet match the drapes?" after 5 minutes of thinking!

[SugarButterFlour]

8 hours ago, Ferbthemighty said:

I had to GOOGLE "does the carpet match the drapes?" after 5 minutes of thinking!

I didn’t understand that for the longest time 

[Dr. Mendo]

10 hours ago, SugarButterFlour said:

I didn’t understand that for the longest time 

I still don’t understand :•0

[will123]

10 minutes ago, Dr. Mendo said:

I still don’t understand :•0

TMI warning

 

Spoiler

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/the_carpet_matches_the_drapes

 

[hikarin]

Now I understand and I really wish I didn't. (I though it was something about eyes matching with hair or clothes) Who thought that phrase up and why did they decide they wanted to release it into the world. I just want to talk

 

[Skycaptain]

@hikarin, that's just one of many euphemisms for the same thing. Most are probably thought up by people with too much spare time on their hands. 

[Janus the Fox]

I’ve never understood that phrase to mean anything else other than literal matching carpet and drapes

[craigularjoe]

I was filming some interviews today with a co-worker, and with one of the subjects I just thought, oh, she has a good smile, and seems fun, so I understand why she was asked to do it. There was also a male counterpart of this, where I thought exactly the same. After we were done, my co-worker wouldn't stop talking about how "hot" she was, etc. In my mind it was like, "oh, so that's how ace I am."

[SunlitMoonlight]

I have a sort of crushy/squishy thing on this boy in my online classes. I hadn't seen him until we did webcams the other day. 

 

I was struck by exactly how asexual my reaction was. It was like, "ah he has a face, cool, cool. Not a formless internet deity any longer."

 

And that was it. Apparently I've read too many books and seen too many shows lately and expected sexual attraction or something along those lines. Guess who forgot she was aaaacccceee!!! It was me, for like 20 seconds, and then i was like, "well yeah duh you're not gonna feel anything when you look at him. No duh. You are super hecking ace." 

 

So that was a thing.

[Sylvestra]

When I was 16, I escaped adult supervision together with two male friends when we were in Russia without speaking the language. They still managed to chat with two Russian teenagers on the street and get us all invited to a vodka party. This did not work out because we could not find the address (dark medieval pre-internet times). I said that I had felt ambivalent about the whole thing anyway. When one of my friends speculated that I had been afraid of unwanted sexual advances, I was surprised. It had never crossed my mind and I realized that this was dangerous.

[LadySlytherin]

I remember sitting with a group of classmates, them simply giggling at photos of men (and women) rating them (on fuckable, not so fuckable, even more fuckable) And I sat there silent, just thinking it was strange how people could BE like that. And then one of them asked me which celebretie I would like to fuck. And I just sat there like a deer looking at headlights. And that was the moment I realized: Wait, people actually look at peoples pictures and would actually bone them just for their looks? Thats not just a Fanfiction thing? 

Not the greatest story and probably a bit chaotic, since I'm not a native english speaker, but I thought I would chare. 

[Wholock314]

6 hours ago, Sylvestra said:

When I was 16, I escaped adult supervision together with two male friends when we were in Russia without speaking the language. They still managed to chat with two Russian teenagers on the street and get us all invited to a vodka party. This did not work out because we could not find the address (dark medieval pre-internet times). I said that I had felt ambivalent about the whole thing anyway. When one of my friends speculated that I had been afraid of unwanted sexual advances, I was surprised. It had never crossed my mind and I realized that this was dangerous.

As someone who's experienced unwanted sexual advances and didn't realize what they were until it was practically too late and extremely explicit, I can relate to being Ace has its risks/dangers.

[the great acescape]

I could have sworn I already posted this story here, but I haven't been active on here for months and I couldn't find anything in my post history to the effect. Apologies if I did somehow post this twice, but here goes:

 

Back in 2011 I was a junior in college, and I was studying abroad in Italy. We had this class on viticulture (literally the science of winemaking) and so as part of that we would visit and tour several wineries. It was actually pretty awesome, especially because the families who owned the wineries would often prepare some big, tasty meal and let us sample some of their wines. It was great.

 

Anyways, pretty early into the trip we visit this winery somewhere in Northern Italy (can't remember exactly where) and we're all being led around by this male tour guide. A lot of the students seemed really excited for some reason that I just couldn't figure out. No matter how nerdy I was, I couldn't imagine being so energetic about touring a winery in rainy, 40 degree weather. Oh well.

 

By the time everyone gets back on the tour bus, one of the professors starts teasing all the girls about their reaction to the tour guide and the group basically explodes. Apparently they all thought this guy was super hot. Like it was a pretty universal consensus, even. I felt like I was the only one out of the loop, but I thought better of saying anything about it. I didn't get it. He was certainly good looking, but beyond that I didn't really feel what these other college students were feeling. 

 

Idk, for some reason this is one of the stories that stick out in my mind when I think back on any "incredibly ace moments".

 

 

Edited November 29, 2020 by the great acescape
grammar

[Sylvestra]

When I was 20, I was with a group of ten women between 18 and 30 in a warm dark summer night and everyone was listing all their relationships, how they came about and how they ended. It was very educational, but I did not think at all about being asexual, I was much more astonished about the high percentage of active and passive cheating and multiple relationships, sometimes the same woman was telling how much she cried when her boyfriend cheated on her and then told how it came about that she cheated on another boyfriend. I heard about the problems with having three boyfriends at once and on finding out that your boyfriend has another girlfriend. And so on.

 

I decided then and there that I would always be completely nonjudgmental about any cheating issues that did not involve my closest family and friends because it was obvious that people are beyond help on this issue.

[Guest]

I woke up and like reality wasn't reality yet. For some reason I woke up with memories of sexual encounters I had. Basically I woke up questioning if I was a virgin because I had these random sex memories. I was pretty scared too. Like genuinely terrified that I had sex. Then shit became reality and it was still just hard to wrap my head around everything.