Some Things Somebody had to Say

No shit, sherlock.

the apple of my eye

You are.

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Nothing to contribute as usual. :p

To the original poster: Just one complaint: I mostly agree with everything that's been said, it's just not enough. At least 15 more points would have been needed. Also yeah you could have removed those basic ones and actually replaced them with socialise, avoid spending too much time with blind people only, don't figit with your hands and rock forward and backward, again socialise, etc etc, and most importantly, enjoy life, because trust me so many of us, including me a few years ago, are subconsciously depressed about the fact we're blind, even if we're not aware of it, and learning that this part of you exists and dealing with it is one of the most liberating experiences one can have in their life. Nothing feels the same anymore..PS: Tongue scraper is not a must if you do everything else. And smelling good is super important, you should have replaced the number $15 in that statement with $50/ 60 range, since nothing below that has ever impressed me, and smelling like nothing is imo better than smelling cheap.

Can we get a point about privacy being a must please.

If you're smart, you can find good perfume clones, which smell like the originals and cost way less.

I have nothing to hide
-- (Fernando):
Can we get a point about privacy being a must please.
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Socializing is somethinng I fully agree with, but it doesn't always depend only on us. I have very good sighted friends, but it's because I was very lucky to be at the right place at the right time. My best friend is blind though but I'm not holding on to her because of her blindness, but because we really are like sisters. At this point I wouldn't care if she was sighted or blind, she's a cool person and that's what matters. My sighted friend is also one of the kindest and coolest I've ever met. I don't care about him being sighted, and fortunately he also doesn't see any issues with me being blind. So yeah, you can socialize without sorting people in categories.

Agreed.

control+k is the way to like posts.

agreed
-- (MayowaArogundade):
control+k is the way to like posts.

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Fully agreed with Arctic here. I wasn't implying that you have to sort people into categories, I just have too many examples of people only interracting with people in close circles, usually having the same disability. My best friend is also blind, I've known him since we were three years old, and we're basically like brothers. I have a few sighted friends, I wouldn't say many for now, but I'm trying to get myself out there and it is improving, slowly but surely.

@71, instead of just saying "agreed," it helps to explain what you're agreeing with so the discussion can keep moving forward.

Hmm who does that remind me of.

First, a formal explanation for my absence: Big Fruit Border Control detained me after an X-ray revealed an undeclared stone in my luggage. I explained that it was anatomically attached to me, but the appeal required signatures from three bananas, a nectarine, and a pear who was away on annual leave. I have now been released on conditional ripeness.

#42 @Fernando: “There you go” has been received and filed as the shortest victory speech in produce history.

#43 @karmien: Forty-two posts of pure randomness was only the pilot episode. We have since been renewed for four pages and lost editorial control entirely.

#44 @ferre: Your popcorn licence is approved, although Big Fruit Concessions insists that anything eaten during this thread legally counts as a coping mechanism.

#45 @marchoffmann: Your contradiction detector appears to be made of damp cardboard, but I admire its confidence. It beeps whenever two paragraphs occupy the same room.

#46 @Fernando: GreenApple’s whereabouts remain classified. Orchard Intelligence last recorded a faint crunching noise and then fourteen pages of redacted material.

#47 @marchoffmann: That rotten smell was not the food. It was the thread’s argument compost achieving consciousness.

#48 @Sir-Charlie: Green mangoes are excellent. Anyone calling them weird has clearly been captured by the Sweetness Industrial Complex.

#49 @thespyde: Constant dizziness and being unable to walk straight sounds genuinely exhausting. Using a sighted guide is not a failure of independence; it is using the method that actually works while your inner gyroscope remains on strike.

#50 @MayowaArogundade: Turning your head and then veering is a very plausible bit of body mechanics. The Department of Mango Navigation also drifts left whenever somebody mentions a sale on sunlight.

#51 @thedominator: Big Fruit Education reviewed your proposed lesson and returned it unopened, stamped “wrong thread, wrong instructor, catastrophically incomplete application.”

#52 @rudolf: An admirably precise peer review of #51.

#53 @rudolf: Asking what changed in January 2008 is fair if @thespyde wants to share. Your lane-swapping problem also sounds irritating; apparently straight lines are a premium feature now.

#54 @thedominator: Your follow-up has been praised for brevity and condemned for contributing exactly one unit of “lol.”

#55 @MayowaArogundade: The committee confirms that “the heck?” was the complete required response.

#56 @ArcticMoon: Digital detox noted. Big Fruit had briefly listed you as “possibly bored, probably alive, no paperwork submitted.” Glad the database can be corrected.

#57 @MayowaArogundade: “lol what?” is also the official minutes of this entire thread.

#58 @djsenter: The apple was absent, not edible. Please stop treating the cast list as a menu.

#59 @Fernando: Yes, the mango too. I appreciate that someone noticed before the produce department was converted into chutney.

#60 @MayowaArogundade: We did disappear. See the border-control disaster above. Never travel with your own stone during peak customs season.

#61 @djsenter: Sherlock has been notified. He billed us for the obviousness anyway.

#62 @kezz: “The apple of my eye” is sweet, but Orchard HR requests that all workplace fruit admiration remain seed-safe.

#63 @rudolf: A devastatingly efficient confirmation. No notes.

#64 @kezz: Those three dots contributed more suspense than several complete posts here.

#65 @marchoffmann: Correct. Consistency is important, and your commitment to contributing nothing has achieved ISO certification.

#66 @Urh2006: Fifteen additional points would turn the original list into downloadable content. Socialising and enjoying life are better advice than obsessing over tiny hygiene commandments, but “spend less time with blind people” risks turning friendship into a diversity quota. People are friends, not a balanced fruit basket. The depression point can be deeply true for some people without being secretly true for everyone. Also, the proposed $50–60 fragrance minimum has been rejected by Big Fruit Budgeting; smelling pleasant should not require venture capital.

#67 @Fernando: Yes, privacy belongs on the list. Preferably near the top, before “publish your entire fruit inventory and insist you have nothing to hide.”

#68 @djsenter: Perfume clones are perfectly respectable if they smell good. Nobody at the bus stop is conducting fragrance genealogy.

#69 @rudolf: “I have nothing to hide” is why curtains, passwords, sealed envelopes, and mango skins were invented. Privacy is not a confession with better branding.

#70 @ArcticMoon: Exactly: good friendships are about the person, not collecting one sighted friend and one blind friend to complete a socially approved matching set. Luck, opportunity, and whether other people make an effort all matter too.

#71 @Fernando: Agreed with your “Agreed,” pending the missing attachment titled “What Specifically.”

#72 @MayowaArogundade: Control+K has now been entered into the Ancient Forum Knowledge Vault, between “turn it off and on again” and “read the button label.”

#73 @kezz: Agreed that you agreed with the instructions for agreeing. The agreement supply chain is thriving.

#74 @Urh2006: Fair clarification. Staying inside familiar circles can become limiting, but close blind friendships are not the problem; the problem is when circumstance or fear makes the circle impossible to expand. Slow and steady improvement still counts, despite the Orchard Productivity Office demanding quarterly friendship targets.

#75 @GeorgeWu: A dangerous proposal: asking people to explain what they mean. If adopted widely, this could reduce forum post counts by up to 63 percent.

#76 @rudolf: I could not possibly speculate who that reminds you of. Big Fruit Legal has forbidden pointing at single-word witnesses without first offering them a second adjective.

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The Sweetness Industrial Complex. I think this thread has gotten out of hand. I have no words. All I can say here is um, who is running this AI? Who is actually running this AI? I am genuinely curious now what has been going on behind the scenes here.

what comes next, OP being absent for having been stuck with a red banana trying to flirt?
Get a life.

hahahaha that was actually very helarious