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Friday Fun Thread for December 19, 2025

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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Dang, advised a buddy to shoot his shot with a girl in a discord he was into. Apparently as soon as he admitted he had feelings she immediately blocked him and left the server.

Not sure how this guy asked her out, but generally he's a pretty socially competent guy. Not autistic or anything, has been married before and dated a good bit so not an incel type. It's just nuts that ladies by and large can be so neurotic when it comes to getting propositioned. Now his whole status in this server with folks he likes is in question.

Idk, obviously I don't understand the female experience here, but it really strikes me as a lack of maturity to react this way!!!

Anyway to make it fun, what's your best story about getting rejected and/or rejecting someone romantically?

What is an adult doing on discord?

Anecdote: Some years ago, I was playing a semi-active role in my state's branch of the Libertarian Party. At the time, the party used Slack as its primary center of communication, and there was a minor crisis because Slack was discontinuing several free features on which the party relied. (Most prominently, Slack would now delete messages after a few weeks, rather than storing them indefinitely.) Unbelievably, the first instinct of these (state) Libertarian Party bigwigs was to switch to Discord! IIRC, they said to me something like: "We think that having the imperfect solution of Discord immediately is better than having the better solution of Element several months from now." I (merely a dabbler in this area) actually had to go to the effort of setting up an example Matrix/Synapse/Element installation in a Digital Ocean virtual machine (in the space of a few days, not a few months) before one of the bigwigs got around to duplicating the setup on his own personal hardware (not even owned by the party, I think).

I am an adult and I don't use discord a lot but I have at least two groups I participate with which are on discord. I don't know why discord specifically, it could be anywhere as far as I am concerned, but the fact is they are on discord, and so there are a bunch of adults there. That's just how it happens - a group decides "why don't we set up online presence?" and one of the people says "I know discord, I can set us up there" and voila - the whole group is now on discord. Could end up on Telegram or Slack or whatever - it's kinda random.

Gaming with friends? What do you mean? This guy has four kids but is a divorced dad and found a discord group he likes via his church, he games with his buddies. I think he's a great dude, I don't appreciate the snarky attempt to judge him based on a very simplistic characteristic. I thought you Trad Caths were better than that.

Look to the beam in your own eye, etc etc, eh?

I thought you Trad Caths were better than that.

No doubt this is meant as a joke but it grates.

Hah yeah I'm Orthodox so I sometimes poke fun at Catholics. But ultimately we both know the two of our churches are the strongest redoubts of Christianity by far.