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@alice I tried, for years, to talk to the "guys holding fish" about if they would take me fishing as a date and it was always: "oh that was one time on my buddy's boat" or "oh, that was from a trip" or "we were on a charter boat"

They NEVER actually FISH!!!!

@pencilears @alice IDK I matched with a guy who was an actual fishing guide once

but I was like six inches taller than him and not Roman Catholic so it wasn't going to work, alas

@sarae @alice yeah, you need somebody who actively likes tall women, just not worth it otherwise.

@pencilears @sarae @alice
OMG.
You all really want the fisher people?
I can't NOT meet fish heads in my line of work.
Even *I'* have caught a few.

@ohmu @sarae @alice the situation is dire out there if you're looking for a person with any kind of hobby

@ohmu @pencilears @sarae @alice

clew Mar 22

people who like the same kind of fishing should hang out yesno? Save friction with other people

I know someone whose second marriage, late in life, was happy while they could both go bass fishing all the time and be silent together. Then they got too frail to do that and everything fell apart.

@pencilears @sarae @alice

@clew
That's so sad! Oh no!

@ohmu @clew @pencilears @alice we like different kinds of fishing but I'm learning to fly fish

@sarae
That's love right there.

@clew @pencilears @alice

@ohmu @clew @pencilears @alice I mean when someone's like, would you like to fish the north fork of the Flathead, if you've got any sense you try to learn a new skill😆

@sarae @clew @pencilears

That's .. very true. I'm jealous. Nice!🎣

@ohmu @pencilears @alice biologists are super weird and I would totally have been willing to consider reasonable offers, back in the day

Tobias 🌒🌕🌘Mar 22

@pencilears @sarae @alice dating a tall woman would be amaaazing, imho. That's all I'm going to say about it.

My camera shoots fascists Mar 22

@pencilears @alice

Similar experience matching and chatting with women who have a picture of themselves river rafting/rock climbing/skydiving/outdoorsy-ing. I now subconsciously caption those photos "here's that one and only time ever I did [activity] that I have no intention of doing again but posted because I want you to think I am adventurous. Also, it was eight years ago."

I am betting that straight men do this constantly. Seems very much like a dude thing.

@Mikal @alice yeah, I learned the hard way that people mostly falsely represent themselves as outdoorsy because that's a way of trying to avoid fat people.

Jokes on them, I'm fat and outdoorsy.

My camera shoots fascists Mar 22

@pencilears @alice

Huh, that had never occurred to me but I guess it kind of makes sense? I always assumed it was because being outdoorsy or adventurous is hip, especially in my two dating geographies (Northern California and southern Arizona).

Ugh. Why are people. I'm starting to see the appeal of robots 😂

@Mikal @alice if I ever loose my wife I will not be going back on the market

Shadow53 Mar 22

@pencilears @alice Well clearly you never met *this* guy (satire): https://archive.is/2e9sf (archive/unpaywall of https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-a-tinder-guy-holding-a-fish-and-i-will-provide-for-you)

Goopadrew Mar 22

@shadow53 @pencilears @alice "I will sustain you with my love and with my fish" lol this is poetry

@shadow53 @pencilears @alice

Now imagine that pic with Donald's face...

@pencilears

Fishing is just an excuse to drink beer

@Didthat1957 I too, like so hang out outside all day sipping a tallboy of Vitamin R

@pencilears

American beer is just something that you rent. Not a real beer.

Tobias 🌒🌕🌘Mar 22

@Didthat1957 @pencilears Arrogant Bastard beer is still a beer you rent, but it lets you know it's a real tenant.

@Didthat1957 I've had enough homebrew small batch artisanal IPA's to last me a lifetime.

@pencilears

It's the sluggish stuff at the end of the bottle that you love.

@Didthat1957 Question, did you perhaps first get on the internet somewhere around September 1993?

Because you're bringing big September energy to this conversation right now.

@pencilears
Hmm I got on the internet in 1976 it was called arpanet we used shark mail, my connection was with a modem that you put a phone receiver in at 300 baud.

@pencilears
September energy? Is that saying I am into the fall?

@pencilears
I am way older than you think,

@pencilears
No i am nuclear, an old man, in the old days I was one of people that started the internet. 1993? No try 1976.

Twotired Mar 22

@pencilears @alice Fill disclosure: it didn’t even occur to me that the answer implied that person was holding a fish that they caught! I was picturing a person holding a random large dead fish from the market!

gkrnours Mar 23

@pencilears @alice remember the running gag in stargate sg1 when o'neil spend like half the show trying to bring people fishing and at the end, it's reveled fishing is short for sipping beer in long chair near a pond that's supposed to be free of fish