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[cactusy]

is the place that doubles as an arcade seriously the only bar in town? where do you people go to get plastered and make bad decisions?

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[cactusy]

I would have accepted painting easels

not my scene, but I get it

[levelshift]

People like painting their fucking fingernails, even that would've been better.

[cactusy]

I've done my nails before

or had them gone

I'd still pass at doing it at a party though, it's too high school sleepover

[levelshift]

I haven't.

Yeah, it is. High school sleepover is a step up from elementary school arts and crafts, though.

*DONE not gone

[cactusy]

I'd say they're equally bad for different reasons

I figured!

[levelshift]

Really? Why?

[cactusy]

for the same reasons kids and teenagers are annoying in different ways. high-schoolers come with weird posturing and failed attempts at maturity

[levelshift]

[..................................

He's a little annoyed by this, but it's true. There are kids back home that he knows who fit that description perfectly.

(But not himself, of course. He's come a very long way!)]

They can be annoying, but that's easier to shut down than a little kid being irritated. Those brats are relentless.

[cactusy]

[Regrettably, Shaw has no idea she's talking to a teenager.

Even more regrettably, she wouldn't respond any differently even if she did know.]

I had a conversation about this with a friend not too long ago

I'm going to copy and paste what I said to him

babies are better than children are better than teenagers

the older they get, the worse they get, until they hit about 25

[levelshift]

I've got no experience with babies.

[Babies never even occurred to him.]

So what, do people suddenly become tolerable when they age from 24 to 25?

[cactusy]

no way

but it goes back down a little. 75% intolerable instead of 100%

[levelshift]

And what about people over 25?

[cactusy]

same

75%

after they hit the threshold of real adulthood, people stop getting less annoying with age

[levelshift]

So basically, everyone is annoying, adults just slightly less so.

[cactusy]

now you're getting it

[levelshift]

Then as a teenager I guess I know where I fit in.

[cactusy]

[She's probably supposed to feel chagrined here, but...]

guess so

you weren't immediately obvious until you told me, so that's a plus for you

[levelshift]

I'm pretty fucking certain I'm more of an adult than most of the adults here. That's why.

[cactusy]

all teenagers think that. it's part of what makes them annoying.

[levelshift]

Most teenagers only have to worry about stuff like doing well on a midterm or whether their peers like them or not. They don't have anything important going on, so they blow up the petty, insignificant shit as if it matters.

[cactusy]

depends on the teenager and where they're from, I guess

even the teenagers in tough parts of the world are more annoying than the adults, though

[levelshift]

Then I guess it's a good thing I don't give a shit whether an adult finds me annoying or not.

[cactusy]

good