That warm blue does look cozy, in that it looks like the color that your dad’s old too-short shorts were in the 70s.

I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but what’s an example of a warm blue? I can’t imagine it.

Except how long could I really restrain myself from trying to skip the stone off of the nearest body of water?

To be fair, 99.999% of virgins don’t have kids, so that’s just true to brand

If you don’t think to bring something with you, you have to go back and get it (for example)

I’ve thought about launching an anti woke brand and doing it, but the amount of hate I’d need to surround myself by would not be good for the soul

They can even talk back!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Alpha

Some of them are alphas (?!)

Doctors also influence the avoidance of holidays there

Is there a native Portuguese speaker in the child’s life? Otherwise it’s a little dicey, because they’ll inherit your errors, but if you’re really careful about it and flood them with Portuguese language input from native speakers in the form of songs and audiobooks that you can read along with in person, you can still give them a good linguistic foundation.

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I could spring from my ankles, but getting my knees involved made me mess up the timing and I got no lift.

I used to be unable to jump, but then I did Morris dancing. I learned how to jump normally at 27.

He also had a bit of a chip on his shoulder about it, to be fair.

He was Austrian in Germany and those are both very stereotypically Austrian names.

I was on a third date, and we met an acquaintance of mine. I went to introduce them and blanked. Worse, I went for what I thought I remembered, which ended up close enough to be culturally insensitive. His name was Franz and I said Fritz and he was pretty hurt.

This might not be quite what you’re looking for, but I have a lot of fun with folk dance. There is probably a community in your area (though it might be mostly older people, they’ve been practicing for a long time and you shouldn’t discount them), and it’s a zero pressure environment, which means people tend to come back. Check out “[your area] folk dance society” or “contra dance,” for the one that I really enjoy.

It is a different feeling from performative dance, but you can look for something like Morris dance, if that’s more your bag.

I’m a type-A personality with ADHD.

I think the problem is (ironically) exacerbated by lacking better language to describe things. Einstein was trying to describe the world, not come up with something new. I think that does involve “creativity,” but I’d argue that it’s not the same impulse.

Children absolutely come up with things that don’t seem to have any relation to what they’ve experienced, but it’s not useful creativity, like what Einstein possessed.

This comment somehow feels insulting to both Einstein and children, but I don’t mean it like that.

I read it like that too, and wish I hadn’t, but I was mostly joking. People in this thread should be more prepared than I was from the context anyway