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JadeLogan123 t1_iwhvg0a wrote

Not going to lie, I’d probably find it cheesy as well but you never know unless you try. At the very least it may loosen him up and get them both talking. I will always remember this one guy who came chatting me up on 20th birthday (31 next week so a while ago). He came with those really bad cheesy chat up lines (like “if I could change the alphabet I’d put I and U together”). He kept going with as many as he could remember, laughing through them (making me laugh as well), in a charming way that somehow worked. Cheesy as but it got me laughing, got us talking and made him memorable.

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xtinap79 t1_iwhv98i wrote

I feel for you, I too have been banned from using crazy glue. It doesn't seem to matter how careful I am, something bad always happens and once again all my fingers are glued together or glued to the countertop, etc. That stuff really is crazy. Never got it in my eyes though...

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s_in_progress t1_iwhqi7m wrote

Oof, this brings back a memory. In college I was volunteering with a family who really only spoke my second language, which I was still learning at the time. One day, I was helping the kids with their homework, and their mom had friends over- they kept saying one phrase kinda frequently and laughing, so my idiot ass thought it was a joke! (I had a co volunteer with me too, so she’s also culpable in this.)

Next morning, we walk into class and our professor was looking like his usual jovial self so I told him this “joke,” and his face, just, fell. We weren’t suppose to speak in English in this class, but he switched to it specifically to tell me to never say it again.

Guys. I had called my wonderful, kind, gentle (literally my favorite) professor some kind of a little bitch. This was in Arabic, and swears hit way different in Arabic. When I finally got around to asking the TA about it, I was absolutely mortified.

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