As someone who comes from a small town and moved to a city - this is all 100% accurate. I wasn't 2 years out of high school and started noticing people my age had already both had kids and were starting to get divorces. Good ol' fashioned home-town morals.
When I was in the 8th grade, I had a friend with two kids. TBF he had been held back for four years and should have been a senior in high school by that point, but it was still pretty unusual.
I mean, unironically, kudos for being realistic and also not havin the same 'my personality is I like dog/cat and outdoor activity/athletic activity and want to travel' profile.
And yet many women prefer that. Tinder is shit anyway, it's rarely for serious relationships. I heard only 10% of matches on Tinder end up seriously. My friend's experience corroborates that.
I've been out of the dating game for a while. Isn't Tinder aimed mostly at one-night stands? Doesn't one filter solely by appearance, by swiping people?
I haven't used Tinder in a while, and never got any dates from it, but the app is really superficial. It seems to be only for the ridiculously good looking people, so yeah, the app is more popular for one night stands. Swiping on people is the norm for any dating apps, but the algorithm on Tinder seems to be more discriminatory, I understand.
I live in a rural area too and still have all my teeth too, well, except for one that I lost when the back of a folded stock shotgun hit me in the face when I was a kid and wasn't prepared for the recoil without the stock against my shoulder. But I had that tooth replaced with a fake one, so it still looks like I have all my teeth.
I'm glad you didn't knock out your rizz tooth. Were you holding the gun too far forward because your arms were short or was the stock folded and you were using a pistol grip?
... that's kinda concerning ... and if they are in the US, disappearing people is starting to become the norm in that country. Hopefully everything is OK. Thanks for the info.
Ah, see what you mean. Yeah, the term is never used like a nick or pet name, it's a state, like Dead or Pregnant. "He's my baby daddy" isn't a term of endearment, it's literally "To [this] baby, [he] is daddy"
Oh yeah. Don’t even get me started. Mine keeps me so up to date with the drama, I even know how her new boyfriend threatens her, but I also know she can’t leave him because she won’t have a car to drive to work which is like 40 km away because she’s an idiot and got a job in a place where there were no apartments available.
I find it morbidly funny because she used to assault me all the time and was extremely mentally abusive as well. Now she’s crying to me that her new bf, who she was warned about, is mentally abusive and pushed her against the wall.
Both of them are the kinda people that humanity would be better off without them. Them getting together was a major victory for me because I knew at least one if not both of them would get hurt eventually.
Anyway, if I sue her for child support like I’m entitled to and she won’t make the payments, the debt won’t be erased until 2052. She won’t be able to get any credit until she’s in her 50s. It still won’t be comparable to what she did to me, but this is the limit of what I can do legally to gain back a fraction of what I’ve lost (6 figure sum spent on her whims in 2 years is just the start of it, she legitimately messed up my physical health too. I didn’t sleep properly for 2 years and may have lost about a decade of actual life expectancy over the shit she put me into)
There's oddities in the Anglosphere where people act like marriage is permanent even though divorce is pretty common and most jurisdictions either have no-fault divorce or let you divorce with a rubber-stamp of "irreconcilable differences"
I have an hypothesis on "small town hot", with no basis but my observations.
People tend to be hotter and fitter in small towns because the competition for a mate is so stiff. Also, the attractiveness is out of scale with the lower incomes. Also, there seems to be less of a middle ground. You're either hot or a fat slob.
You have no idea how correct you are. I moved from a small town to a massive city and after a while I noticed there was a lot less overweight people and people were just generally in better shape.
Move somewhere where you don't need a car and can walk and take public transit. Humans are not built to drive around everywhere and only walk in parking lots.
So does redneck business. Ever met a young man who works a ranch or farm? LOL, walking doesn't get you that body. And the women have to compete for such men.
My take isn't rural vs. city, good or bad. I'm simply stating what I've seen IRL.
Suburbs usually aren't "small town" as far as I have heard. Small town is usually surrounded by rural, yet has a decent population. Though I will agree most small towns still involve driving. The properties are often bigger.
To get to walkable you need tiny town... in which you also wouldn't need the app, cause you already know everyone.
Never been around small towns? The selection pressure is immense.
My camp is outside a town of 900 souls. Observe the people going in and out the local grocery/convenience store vs. the people at a Circle K in the city. Night and day.
In a large population, you can be fat, plain, unstylish, whatever, still find a mate. Of course that doesn't account for "the best of the best", but seems to me "average" is quite a bit higher in rural areas, even given the lower income.
Bro I don't know how to tell you this but rurals be fucking and it's not always pretty.
You're going way too pseudoscience buzzword bullshit on this, villages of 500 people did just fine historically and "small towns" in America are about 5000.
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 100 pts · 337d
As someone who comes from a small town and moved to a city - this is all 100% accurate. I wasn't 2 years out of high school and started noticing people my age had already both had kids and were starting to get divorces. Good ol' fashioned home-town morals.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 337d
It's the fault of the homosexuals and the transgenders destroying the sanctity of marriage!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 337d
Dang sexy homosexuals and transers.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d
Oh, stop it, you. 😊 I could destroy a marriage on a whim, you know.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d
besides your own?
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 337d
Every single one within a mile radius.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 337d
When I was in the 8th grade, I had a friend with two kids. TBF he had been held back for four years and should have been a senior in high school by that point, but it was still pretty unusual.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d
Christian love works fast
Norin@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 337d
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 89 pts · 337d
I mean, unironically, kudos for being realistic and also not havin the same 'my personality is I like dog/cat and outdoor activity/athletic activity and want to travel' profile.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d
And yet many women prefer that. Tinder is shit anyway, it's rarely for serious relationships. I heard only 10% of matches on Tinder end up seriously. My friend's experience corroborates that.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 337d
I've been out of the dating game for a while. Isn't Tinder aimed mostly at one-night stands? Doesn't one filter solely by appearance, by swiping people?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 336d
I haven't used Tinder in a while, and never got any dates from it, but the app is really superficial. It seems to be only for the ridiculously good looking people, so yeah, the app is more popular for one night stands. Swiping on people is the norm for any dating apps, but the algorithm on Tinder seems to be more discriminatory, I understand.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 336d
That was before. The cishet monogs showed up and made everything a bummer.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 335d
isn't 10% pretty good though?
ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org · 64 pts · 337d
I live in a rural area too and still have all my teeth too, well, except for one that I lost when the back of a folded stock shotgun hit me in the face when I was a kid and wasn't prepared for the recoil without the stock against my shoulder. But I had that tooth replaced with a fake one, so it still looks like I have all my teeth.
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 337d
I'm glad you didn't knock out your rizz tooth. Were you holding the gun too far forward because your arms were short or was the stock folded and you were using a pistol grip?
ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org · 9 pts · 337d
stock folded, I wasn't prepared for the recoil without the stock on my shoulder.
I've been shooting guns since I was like...7 and I was always abnormally tall and strong for my age when I was a kid
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 337d
So... Midwest, too?
ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org · 4 pts · 337d
nope. Rural area. Not midwest. I use a VPN and I use it well
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 337d
Fair point, though I was meaning it in more of a silly "samesies" thing. 🖖🏼
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d
You have a bonus tooth!
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 54 pts · 337d
What small town is this from? ... asking for a friend .... who also has all their teeth.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 51 pts · 337d
No clue, but it very easily could have come from the one I grew up in.
The_Picard_Maneuver is MIA, so I dove into my ~2014 era meme folder and am posting some golden oldies
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 337d
... that's kinda concerning ... and if they are in the US, disappearing people is starting to become the norm in that country. Hopefully everything is OK. Thanks for the info.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 34 pts · 337d
He could just be on vacation? Someone just pointed out earlier today he hasn't posted in 2 weeks.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 337d
gabereal@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 337d
We call those 'weekends' here in the US, and we are lucky to have them! /s
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 337d
Don't anger the owner class. They'll debank & nobody you faster than you can say "spare change". 😅😶😶🌫️
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 337d
Plenty of Americans get vacations! Engineers, doctors, lawyers, cops who murdered someone, congresspeople…
Taldan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
2 week long vacations? That's exceptionally rare
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 336d
I mean I was also listing only extremely prestigious careers, the comment was quite facetious.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d
*2 months
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 337d
2014? She might have a divorce and a meth addiction going on by now.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 337d
And no one knows how many teeth she got left
socsa@piefed.social · 28 pts · 337d
I can stop doing meth anytime I want
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 337d
Good. Let me have what you're not using.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 337d
Self-control?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 337d
No thank you.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 337d
Just a small town girl....
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 58 pts · 337d
midnight train going anywhere cancelled due to 50 years of 0 investment in infrastructure
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 332d
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 332d
The PokeCenter is also closed due to goverment shutdown, Nuzlocke mode is now in effect.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 337d
Livin' in a lonely world...
ICastFist@programming.dev · 20 pts · 337d
"multiple baby daddies"
Can someone explain what that is to my non 'murican ass?
InputZero@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 337d
She has more than one child with more than one man. There are multiple people her babies call daddy.
x00z@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 337d
Calling them baby daddies feels awfully sexual.
ValarieLenin@midwest.social · 45 pts · 337d
Wait till you hear how babies are made....
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 337d
the baby daddies are the daddies of the babies.
x00z@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 337d
If a 31 year old would call me a "daddy" I wouldn't directly think of "father".
Dasus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 337d
My baby daddies = my children's fathers
"I have multiple baby daddies" = "My children are by different fathers"
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d
Ah, see what you mean. Yeah, the term is never used like a nick or pet name, it's a state, like Dead or Pregnant. "He's my baby daddy" isn't a term of endearment, it's literally "To [this] baby, [he] is daddy"
jnod4@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 336d
In Newcastle we call cats pussies without a single crease in our faces, you're just gooner brained, words do mean other things in the offline world...
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d
Yeah I don't know what any of that means, but the above is the In Real Life meaning.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 337d
Wait till you hear about baby mommas
LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 336d
“Yeah, this one goes out to all the baby’s mamas’ mamas..”
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 336d
That’s an excellent song, though my experience is different luckily
I actually get along ok with my baby mama’s mama. She has essentially disowned her daughter though.
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d
Are you four eels, and not a guy?
miked@piefed.social · 4 pts · 336d
and baby momma drama
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 336d
Oh yeah. Don’t even get me started. Mine keeps me so up to date with the drama, I even know how her new boyfriend threatens her, but I also know she can’t leave him because she won’t have a car to drive to work which is like 40 km away because she’s an idiot and got a job in a place where there were no apartments available.
I find it morbidly funny because she used to assault me all the time and was extremely mentally abusive as well. Now she’s crying to me that her new bf, who she was warned about, is mentally abusive and pushed her against the wall.
Both of them are the kinda people that humanity would be better off without them. Them getting together was a major victory for me because I knew at least one if not both of them would get hurt eventually.
Anyway, if I sue her for child support like I’m entitled to and she won’t make the payments, the debt won’t be erased until 2052. She won’t be able to get any credit until she’s in her 50s. It still won’t be comparable to what she did to me, but this is the limit of what I can do legally to gain back a fraction of what I’ve lost (6 figure sum spent on her whims in 2 years is just the start of it, she legitimately messed up my physical health too. I didn’t sleep properly for 2 years and may have lost about a decade of actual life expectancy over the shit she put me into)
confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 337d
From Urban Dictionary's top definition:
Short for "Baby's Daddy". The father of your child, whom you did not marry, and with whom you are not currently involved.
kofe@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 337d
I hadn't heard it was unmarried specifically, like if they did get married and divorced they're still fathers of the babies
twice_hatch@midwest.social · 3 pts · 336d
There's oddities in the Anglosphere where people act like marriage is permanent even though divorce is pretty common and most jurisdictions either have no-fault divorce or let you divorce with a rubber-stamp of "irreconcilable differences"
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 336d
The young lady's paramours are not the strongest with their pullout game.
Nolvamia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 336d
It's similar to me and my small collection of ex-wives.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 337d
Timbr
udon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 336d
Does she have all teeth in her mouth or just still keeps them somewhere?
TeddE@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 336d
She keeps them with her collections of children and baby daddies.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 4 pts · 336d
Just gonna have to swipe right and find out.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 337d
Totally totally doesn't have a meth addiction. She can quit any time!
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 337d
I feel like there's the workings of a madlibs style remix of this post if you swap the right bits around, but I can't quite crack it
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 2 pts · 337d
If you do, post it!
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 337d
And she’s got well over 100 likes, I’m betting.
shalafi@lemmy.world · -13 pts · 337d
I have an hypothesis on "small town hot", with no basis but my observations.
People tend to be hotter and fitter in small towns because the competition for a mate is so stiff. Also, the attractiveness is out of scale with the lower incomes. Also, there seems to be less of a middle ground. You're either hot or a fat slob.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 337d
I assumed it meant the opposite: ‘hot relative to the limited choices in the local dating pool but average if compared to like models etc’
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 2 pts · 337d
Or, in particularly small towns, just “hot relative”
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 16 pts · 337d
People in walkable cities tend to be hottest. Daily exercise does a lot of good for bodies.
Awkwardparticle@programming.dev · 2 pts · 337d
You have no idea how correct you are. I moved from a small town to a massive city and after a while I noticed there was a lot less overweight people and people were just generally in better shape.
Move somewhere where you don't need a car and can walk and take public transit. Humans are not built to drive around everywhere and only walk in parking lots.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d
So does redneck business. Ever met a young man who works a ranch or farm? LOL, walking doesn't get you that body. And the women have to compete for such men.
My take isn't rural vs. city, good or bad. I'm simply stating what I've seen IRL.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 337d
That's not really small town though, in my mind. I was thinking of like suburbs where people drive everywhere.
Zexks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d
Suburbs arent small town.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 337d
Suburbs usually aren't "small town" as far as I have heard. Small town is usually surrounded by rural, yet has a decent population. Though I will agree most small towns still involve driving. The properties are often bigger. To get to walkable you need tiny town... in which you also wouldn't need the app, cause you already know everyone.
heydo@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 337d
Small town hot would be a normie in a large city.
arin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 337d
Small town would be homeless in a large city, that's why they are in the town.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 337d
Never been around small towns? The selection pressure is immense.
My camp is outside a town of 900 souls. Observe the people going in and out the local grocery/convenience store vs. the people at a Circle K in the city. Night and day.
In a large population, you can be fat, plain, unstylish, whatever, still find a mate. Of course that doesn't account for "the best of the best", but seems to me "average" is quite a bit higher in rural areas, even given the lower income.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 336d
Bro I don't know how to tell you this but rurals be fucking and it's not always pretty.
You're going way too pseudoscience buzzword bullshit on this, villages of 500 people did just fine historically and "small towns" in America are about 5000.