We\'ll carry on

I agree with almost all, except the cake.

Marry me?

We\'ll carry on

@Millet: fffine, hold on

Millet, spilling the tea:

Dipper: No dude, I'm exactly the same in concerns to hugging. I don't greet with hugs. When people start coming at me, arms spread out I immediately get anxious/awkward feeling.

With that I also hate parties and loudness.
(I made a entire thread on loudness recently in the serious talk forum.)
Small gatherings of close friends is amazing but I see no point of paying
to be in a room that is stuffed like a sardine can and devoid of stimulating
conversation due to the blasting of music the speakers often can't even handle.
It's often smelly too from sweat and heavy breathing. Blegh!

I'm not adversed to being outside, I love the Fall weather and just want to enjoy it.
I only get to enjoy it though now that I don't live in a city.
It was impossible to just "exist" outside
without some obnoxious display of something occuring around me or at me.
I value my alone time greatly.

Hmm, I don't love orange marmalade but I don't detest it either.
It's like I'd never order it or buy it but if someone made it I'd kinda just
inwardly aknowlege its existence? Haha.

Millet, spilling the tea:

I can tolerate lakes pretty well so long as its not tons of people and the water is genuinely cool and not piss warm. xD

I don't think I've met someone who hated both tea AND coffee. Usually people are so on the fence of which one they
are obsessed with. (For me it's tea. tea. tea. tea.)

Millet, spilling the tea:

Yeah that was my experience when I lived in the city.
Well, no knife. But twice in one week I was groped.
Both times while I was carrying large bulky items to another location
and couldn't do much to defend/take action. I'm very happy to be
out in the woods now despite a long commute to work.

@Millet: Can I say everything? If not let me be specific: I hate words like doggo, spoopy, bork, etc. I feel like it makes people look like 8 year olds.

I'm a recovering addict and I hate being sober. I'd rather spend my life drunk / high and unaware of everything.

I seem to have an unpopular opinion on these kinds of websites, as I absolutely loathe anime.

I can't stand Markiplier or PewDiePie and I wish I could go one day without seeing their punchable faces.

I'm ornithophobic and while I don't hate birds, they scare the crap out of me and I just don't see their appeal.
Art and pictures don't scare me but I can't be in the same room with one that isn't caged. And if I'm at the park or something and one gets too close to me, I have to leave because I get too anxious. My fear used to be worse and just a picture or video would terrify me but I've been trying my best to desensitize myself.

Babies and toddlers aren't my favorite. I love my kids and that's because I made them. If they were someone else's kids, I would actively try to get out of being asked to babysit. I feel sorry that I feel that way.

I'm not big on sweets. I have to be in a certain mood for them to be appealing. Give me 100 cakes, I'll eat a small slice. Give me 100 steaks, I'll eat until it kills me. Lol.

Maybe it's because I teach Mandarin, maybe it's because I hate anime with a passion, maybe it's both, but I often run into people who want to learn Japanese and I just don't understand why Japanese over Mandarin. But, like I said, it's because I'm biased as hell.

I can't think of anything else at the moment.

I have nothing against people who like these things. If these are things you're passionate about, that's awesome! Passion is great. Just, you do you, I'll do me. It's just personal opinions. : )

@Millet: Lol I guess I'm just a salty old bag. I seem to be the one who always has a lot of unpopular opinions. : P

I used to kind of like anime. It wasn't my favorite but there were some shows I got into. There are two people that just unfortunately were so terrible that I can't take it seriously anymore. And I know that I shouldn't let people ruin things for you but it's hard for me.

I love Mandarin. Everything about it is pretty to me. How old were you? I teach the 8th grade. So I teach 13 and 14 year olds.
I usually teach numbers early on in my class because it's simple (in comparison to what we'll be learning weeks in) and it's a good way to practice tones and stroke order.

@Millet: Structuring my own responses in college was almost the premature death of my career. But I found a little book that had common grammar mistakes. It explains why it's wrong and shows you what's more appropriate. I like it a lot. I forced begged admin to order some copies for the students.
With the tones, I always say that it's important but I also say in the beginning to get as close to my example for their own vocal range. It is daunting to them and I try my best to be encouraging, not just "Right, wrong, pass, fail. Goodbye." And every Wednesday, I sit out in the hall and have them each come out one by one and say the vocabulary to me. I tell them how they are doing with pronouncing everything. Friday, it's the same type of thing but for a grade.

But, I'm sorry to hear that about your teacher. : ( That's sad.

I always have at least one smart ass who says that they can speak Mandarin in the beginning of the semester, so I say, "go ahead. Show me." Even though now that I'm in my 11th year of teaching, I know what's coming. "Ching chong ping pong ding dong ling ling." (Or something equally racist.) I always ask them to do so just to see what exact type of bullshittery I'm going to be dealing with.
I also let them pick seats in the beginning. It's solely for observation. I am always planning to assign them their seating later. But this way, I will see who I can and can't place near each other if I want to keep my sanity.

@Millet: I teach in a private middle school. It's kind of snooty and I've had kids threaten me with their lawyer father for giving them poor grades when their work deserved it. I took a year hiatus last school year because I had such a demanding health issue, that I wasn't able to work.

Aw. It sounds like she was a very lovely teacher. I'm sorry for your loss. As a kid, even just for a teacher, death is confusing and depressing. At that age, I don't mean confusing as in you don't understand what has happened. I mean confusing because you have so much conflicting and scary feelings that it's hard to keep up.

Lol yes! I always say "Tones are important. Use the wrong one and suddenly your mother is a horse!" And my students always find that amusing.
Haha! I love that waiter's reaction. People learning new languages are afraid of sounding dumb or accidentally being offensive, but I've found that you just have to take it in stride. Native speakers usually are excited that you're learning their language and don't mind mistakes. They get how difficult learning a foreign language is. I find this sort of attitude to be especially true with native speakers of languages that are often overlooked.