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Remember that time I asked Ask Metafilter how to form meaningful relationships with children even though I don't have any of my own and everyone called me a gross weirdo

Because buddy, I sure do

Paul ✨ @pts

Had to actually beg people to stop "answering" the question, I felt like such a fucking chump

@pts jesus. Yeah uh I too have been blood in the water when AskMefi suddenly becomes a weird shark feeding frenzy

@markpopham usually it's fine! And once in a great while it's like YIKES

@pts yeah honestly it feels like one person with respond to a question uncharitably and then it SNOWBALLS

@markpopham yeah it's like, that one person gives everybody else who's been kind of squinting at you permission to unload on you