Levitat0r
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People often express that by saying "I have X I need to do", so you can basically come up with anything you actually need to do; to let someone know you need time to yourself (and they can leave).
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Do you feel socially exhausted?
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I actually did that. I said I have to get some water but I asked if he wanted some. But it still worked. He said he needed to go
Levitat0r
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lol. It's such a widely recognized way to excuse yourself, you needn't even select an activity which requires solitude. I've long accepted that this is what people expect to hear because it's more polite than "I need time to myself now, but it was nice seeing you", which is what you really mean.
I really suffered in high school. I had zero energy for socializing. My high school was huge. I just enough energy to get in and then get out. I had to work in my last year, because my stupid mother kicked me out of house for a issue that wasn't my fault. I ran in and ran out of my high school in the final year.
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Levitat0r
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Adults don't like to discuss the social lessons they learned in high school precisely because they are of enduring accuracy, and that is not anything for society to be proud of.
Levitat0r
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I won't enumerate mine, but every movie and show you watch is about the alienation involved. I assume that's because the kind of person who winds up as a writer was pretty much, of necessity, the reject. Then, it stings a lot more when you didn't have any positive experiences to balance things out.
Get some water in sense "go out and buy water"?
Or you went in the kitchen in your home to get water?
Because I right now understand that it's the second option, which would also just make me sit and wait for you to get water and come back to me, because, you know, we're in your home, and taking water in like 10 secs and means to me "just a moment, I'm thirsty and will get smth to drink", that doesn't sound like "please go home" to me.
Levitat0r
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If you wanted to really mystify someone, you could say "Excuse me, but I need to go make some drinking water". From there, you can contemplate how to either make that sillier or how to link it to the hydrogen economy which, incidentally, never materialized.
Well, That quote would just prompt me to joke asking do they normally drink toxic water or stuff like that
Levitat0r
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Oh, so you would just assume the boring filtering route? If I were to do something as absurd as making water, I would burn a bunch of hydrogen for sure. I don't see a lot of humor on here, maybe because it's hard to predict how others will take it, but I get kind of loopy to self-medicate with my questionable sense of humor, and I hope it doesn't bother anyone.
I just suck at chemistry, so talks about hydrogen don't make me understand what person is saying, so I would ask to explain that to me
Levitat0r
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Water is H2O, so if you burn hydrogen it turns into water, so it provides a really simple way to "make water", even though it's kind of ridiculous as a concept. I was playing this old PC game, and some sort of tribal peasant claimed that he was ambushed by ruffians while "making water" in the woods, and I thought it was really funny because it left open the question of what he was actually doing.
Ahhh understand, thanks
Well, people can also "make water" by collecting morning dew, so that's something I would think about that that guy was doing. Or I just wouldn't think much about that, and just brush it off as a joke by itself
Levitat0r
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Not to derail the conversation, which I guess was done. No, that's not making water to me. Dew is already water. The guy was supposed to be some shaman, so I imagined him filling a decanter at the river, and then going and lying to his tribe and claiming that he summons water from the ether. So, anyway, if we are not going to have a universally satisfactory standard for politely asking visitors to leave, then we should declare that we need a moment to do something totally absurd. "I'm afraid I need to go, I need to sort my lemons by weight".Ahhh understand, thanks
Well, people can also "make water" by collecting morning dew, so that's something I would think about that that guy was doing. Or I just wouldn't think much about that, and just brush it off as a joke by itself
Ah, well if he's shaman then I would just imagine him casting magic or whatever shamans do in games
Do you have all those lemons cause life gives it to you to make lemonade?
I dunno, I myself just tell my acquaintances before they even come "that I'll throw them out after 9pm cause I have things to do," by its my style of humor, i sound straightforward and people are used to me saying things like that (although sometimes they label me rude, but they still stick around)
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I was camping. The friend visited my campsite. The water was about 100 feet away.
That tribal guy/shaman/whatever making water was most likely urinating.
Arsinoe
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For years xp I've been feeling like that since my teen years. But I've especially been feeling like that once I became an adult and had to 'get serious' and have responsibilities/become independent.
