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What are some weird flexes people have that they think make them better than others? (piefed.world)
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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

This. So much this.

I happen to have a job that takes me to all corners of the world. And my coworkers are the same. But the amount of them who have spouses that barely see anything else in the world is baffling.

And I grew up on a dairy farm in rural scandinavia ("town" would be an exaggeration), and as much as I like having that as a background, I think I made the right choice when I started exploring the world just because I could. Of all the xenophobic shitheads I've met, what they've all had in common is that they barely move.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

    I think that initial fear keeps many people from trying, but once you try it you want to see more. I've only scratched the surface with a few countries, and already it's just amazing how other people live. I think it's stunning how people can assume that the way they were born inn that town and with those morals are the "right" way to live. If I was born in the exact same family but 5000 miles away, I would have been completely different, and who knows what "right" would have been.

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