ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling

6 points. I have never used a floppy disc, used a Walkman, blasted my music in public by any means, sent a fax, recorded music from radio to cassette, or used dial-up.

Here's the thing. Most women I've met aren't superficial. If you were to gather a bunch of girls and get them to rank each other by attractiveness, you'd effectively get them ranked by extroversion. Also, a bunch of the stereotypical manly things make for bad partners.

I think a lot of the signals you are sending will be recieved as Dad Material. This means you will only attract girls that want to settle down and who imagine a future where you and a little mini version of them are having the best princess tea parties. I see this as a blessing, but this also means you will attract the crazy ones who want you to impregnate them immediately right now.

I am pretty similar to how you described yourself. Four years ago, i also was in a similar rut, although i had dated several girls at that point. Three years ago, I met a girl that was literally everything I wanted in a partner and more. A year and a half ago, I proposed to her, and this year we are going to get married. As far as I know, literally everyone who meets me tells her she's got the most amazing partner and that she's so lucky to have such a caring, polite sweetheart as her future husband. The only person who doesn't like me is her Karen of a mom, because I think she envisioned her perfect little girl marrying a rocket surgeon or something. I think this is similar to how you'll end up.

Also, if I'm reading you right, you sound like either a teen or a new adult, since you're still figuring yourself out. As an adult, I never had a hard time getting a partner; I suspect you won't either. Just keep working on yourself.

This guy looks like the dude from Programmers Are Human Too

Emo Horse

Technically my problem isn't that I can't smell at all, it's that I have pretty much every seasonal allergy so when I was growing up I never had the opportunity to learn how to use my nose. As a kid my parents tried to address this with decongestant, but I think I built up a tolerance because they stopped working for me. Every once in a blue moon, there will be two weeks where I can actually smell things, but I will consistently misidentify what I am smelling since I never learned how to smell. This leads to me embarrassing myself by saying demented things like claiming flowers smell like burnt popcorn or that my fiancée's cooking smells like burnt plastic. I suspect that not being exposed to smells at a formative age caused my brain to just not bother with the nose-interperetation part of the brain. Maybe when I die they could dissect my brain and figure that out.

I've thought about getting back on the decongestants again, but I don't want to overdo it and damage my liver. I like my liver. I want to treat it well. My fiancée's dad also told me about some shots he got to get rid of his grass allergy, so I might look into that

No this was a brand-new sealed container of lactose-free 2% milk

That actually sets my mind very much at ease. I was so worried about getting sick from it.

I think I need to modify the title to "How to detect spoiled milk if you cant smell and your sense of taste is only technically there"

I still have no idea what the endgame of this scheme is supposed to be

Talking in terms of hope or wishing them luck is a good substitute. Serves the same purpose, but doesn't carry the god baggage. It also has the extra benefit of sounding more sincere, since it's just non-standard enough to give the impression that you actually put thought into your well-wishes without sounding seriously unusual.

My go-to is actually variations of "I have faith in you" and then encourage them based on whichever one of their strengths is most applicable. For example: "You're smart. I have faith that you'll spot whatever opportunity presents itself next."

And of course, there is the classic atheist thing of replacing the thoughts and prayers with actual help. A lot of the instances where thoughts and prayers are actually appropriate include times where they need emotional support, which costs nothing but time and energy.

It's a reference to the Wug test. Specifically the prompt "This is a man who knows how to gling. He is glinging. Yesterday he ______"

At the time the test was developed, it was commonly believed that children need to be instructed on how to conjugate each individual word they learn, or else they will end up englishing very ungoodly. The test showed that even young children have a grasp on how to pluralize and conjugate even unfamiliar words, and can make guesses on the meaning of new words based on context clues.