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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 2 days ago

"That's a man, man!"

"Austin, that's my mother!"

"Well you have to admit, she does look a bit man-ish..."

[–] Juice260@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel like this meme was made by a gen z kid that grew up with filtered pictures being normal

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm gen z but my problem is mostly that I tend to be attracted to my friends more... Which kinda limits the pool. Whoops.

[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It limits the pool for sure but when it works it works real good. Good luck to you.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

True, so far it hasn't really worked out though. And it also makes it much harder to get over someone. In the end I'll probably find someone but with a lot of hurt along the way before I do, I imagine.

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[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 119 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Now try finding someone you find attractive and who also finds you attractive in return (it's impossible).

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

I did a calculation once about my chances of finding a compatible long-term partner, inspired by the Drake Equation and using many many assumptions. The numbers are not good: ~22 out of 8 billion.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (7 children)

As a married man, I gotta say you’re probably selling yourself short or have unrealistic expectations of a partner.

Remember that whoever you’re going to date is a person, not a robot. People are not quantifiable. One day they may be a dick, the next they may be pleasant. Some people are willing to compromise and others aren’t. Man, woman, or other, it doesn’t matter. If you’re not willing to compromise something, you’re never going to find someone.

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[–] WarTowel@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

So you're saying there's a chance

[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That seems absurdly low. Are you sure that all of your criteria are non-negotiable? And entirely uncorrelated?

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Look I wasn't completely serious about it, there's no way to actually calculate something like that.
For example what's the fraction of people that find me attractive. It could range from 0.05 to 0.5. I have no way of knowing.

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[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Wouldn't be a problem if someone took dating as seriously as Skyscanner takes flight tickets.

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yall need to lower your expectations god damn

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I like reminding my single friends that 73% of Americans are considered overweight. 41% are obese.

A shocking amount of my male friends are overweight or obese and refuse to date overweight women.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I only need to make 1 assumption to solve that equation for me

0% of people would find me attractive

QE fucking D

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Honestly if you lower your standards it gets pretty easy.

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[–] quafeinum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Give it time. Sometimes they can start out vanilla and warm to the idea of kinks through your relationship. Usually those kind of things aren’t set in stone.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

That's the boat I'm in, except that I'm also gay and the popular trend is poligamy. :) Fml

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Idk i find like 80% of women i know attractive, its just that i have such confidence problems i dont ask anybody out.

Remember, if you find them attractive that means they're out of your league!

/s

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

you, standing on a cliff overlooking the horizon, and ten billion light-years away there is a point you will never, ever be physically capable of reaching because the very expansion of the cosmic medium itself will move it further away from you than it already is now even if you traveled in that direction at the speed of light for ten billion years.

caption: finding a girl who finds YOU attractive

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Over the years of talking with my wife about who we find attractive, she has realized I find almost all women attractive in some ways and normally the ones that are supposed to be attractive i find less attractive. She hated this realization because she applied it to herself, and it made her feel bad... I just find the good in most people, that's all!

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There’s a coworker of mine that when the topic arises and he gets asked what is his preference (in terms of the types of women he likes) his response is “women” 😂

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

he likes: big girls, pretty kitty girls, really witty girls, singin' ditty girls; he likes the leggy girls with the nice thighs; he likes a good chest no matter what size; he likes the belly folds, he likes the sixpacks, really tall queens, and the shortstacks, from the mild girls to the wild girls...

yea

he likes girls

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 51 points 3 days ago (3 children)

now imagine being gay and the dating pool is 90% smaller.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 49 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Be ace and the dating pool is 100% smaller.

[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

Be me and the dating pool is 200% smaller.

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I swear this has the opposite effect. In more than one instance, I've told someone I'm ace and it's made them more persistent, like they're thinking 'Oh, I can fix that.' No, I assure you, you can't. Please stop. :(

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Now imagine dating exclusively in the furry fandom (while also being gay)

E: rawr, shoot your shot if this matches you :p

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Emi@ani.social 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm bi myself and a shut in. How do you find people in general I don't know.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

From what I understand if you just stay in front of the computer that they will magically manifest inside your home.

[–] Emi@ani.social 30 points 3 days ago

Amazing, I'll just keep doing that thanks.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've heard that it also goes faster if you complain about women being evil and stupid on the computer.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

When you find a (rare!) female online, you must protect her at all costs. She will be surrounded by ne'er-do-wells and men of ill-intent. You are her knight. She is your lady. You must never doubt yourself in this. Nature will take its course.

That's when you start negging her.

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[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's been something hard about transitioning, being aware of how fewer and fewer people find me attractive the further I go. Ah well, it's not like I was going to find a partner anyways, looks really never came into play in the first place.

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[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The upper one depicts the guys around me. I can go through the lower one, but the result is usually this.

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