[ SECRET POST #4399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4399 ⌋

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[Cassandra Clare & her books: TMI/TID/TDA]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir]


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[Charmed]


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[Criminal Minds - season 4, episode 8 "Masterpiece"]


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[Tidying Up with Marie Kondo]











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Comments

What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Someone who isn't bad, they're just not very deep or invested in the world around them. Their only hobbies are watching The Cooking Channel and sports, they have no real interest in any current events unless it directly impacts them, they just seem to see life as it is: The sun goes up, they go to work, they come home, they go to bed.

Which sounds insulting, but I don't mean that as a bad thing, necessarily. I actually think a lot of people are like that. That's why I want a nicer word.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

"local"

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, without getting all SJW, to be honest, privileged? I mean, you have to be in a very comfortable state of life (and that's not a bad thing) to exist like this.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Not really. Hell, I'd say poor and underprivileged people are ever MORE likely to just be interested in the small things that make them happy. And they also usually don't have the time/energy to put into politics.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Being un-privileged doesn't mean that you're aware of the structural roots of oppression.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT: FWIW, I know people who fit the description I gave who I wouldn't call privileged at all. They're just... in their own bubbles.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't that what "basic" means?

What's a synonym for basic?

Simple? Plain? Quiet? Vanilla?

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

I think plain would fit but I feel like that has some negative connotations nowadays.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Superficial?

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Not necessarily? I mean, superficial sounds so negative. Being content with your life as is doesn't make you superficial.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Average. You've just described the vast majority of people, although I do think virtue signalling has become very commonplace but that is not at all the same as activism and the people doing it don't care about the issues beyond their direct impact on their lives.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Everyone is focusing on political awareness, but beyond that the person only has two hobbies, watching cooking and sports? That seems kinda less than average in general.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Average, I guess. Insular?

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

The closest word I can think of is "simple." The problem is, it's more negative when someone else uses it than when a person uses it about themselves. A person like this might say, about themselves, "I'm a simple guy," as a way of establishing the kind of person they are, and they would mean it either neutrally or positively, because as far as that person is concerned, being "a simple guy" is either a fine way to be, or the better way to be. But if I said, "Bob's just a really simple guy," I think that would inevitably be a little bit negative.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

since that describes me relatively well (except not the cooking channel, and i try to keep aware of current events but not to the extent of being INVESTED in them)...

...i'd probably go with "drained"; i just don't have the life energy (or frankly the money) after a day at (particularly shitty) work to give much of a damn about anything else

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[bur]

Comfortable.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[riddian]

"Shallow" is the first word that comes to mind for me. Which isn't exactly a nice word, but thinking about it, it's not really a good way to be, so I don't see why it needs to be nice. The unexamined life is not worth living, and all that.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

"No-frills"? As in, "she's a very no-frills kind of person"?

That IS positive to a lot of people.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Superficial?

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Trump supporter?

No, in all seriousness, I'd say...shallow? Uninformed? Uninvolved? Uneducated? Unengaged? Ignorant? Clueless?

I know none of those are positive things, but like someone else said, being that way isn't a positive thing. I can't think of a nice way to say it.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

"Uncritical"?

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[meredith44]

I'd say complacent, maybe?

Inner-directed?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe detached? Though, I'd call that more neutral than nice.

Sheltered? Cloistered?

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[(Anonymous)]

Banal.

Re: What's a nice word for this sort of person?

[thewakokid]

Man, all these words are so bad. That sounds like a fine life to me.

Satisfied, is the word I'd use.

Content, maybe.

If it didn't have connotations of mental deficiency I'd also go with Simple.

A simple person with a simple life, they get up they do the job that's in front of them. they find a modicum of comfort where they can and they don't let anything else complicate it.

It's an enviable life.