Friday/Saturday drunk or otherwise thread

[Disco King]

There's a Weird Al parody?

[Disco King]

How do you do a food parody of "chicka-China, the Chinese chicken?"

[FlamingGlobes]

Yeah, what? You're really showing your age, Ram27.

[Disco King]

Next girl I ask out, I'm going to pitch a date in which the activity will be eating bread.

That way, if she agrees, I'll know she truly cares about me.

[FlamingGlobes]

punk as fuck

[Disco King]

Is being mad that a woman didn't disclose that she has celiac disease when she agreed to a bread date predatory and rape-cultured? Sound off in the comments below.

[teh b0lly!!1]

sorry about the girl DK.

i think you might be reading a bit too deeply into her motives. people will almost always prefer to distance themselves from perceived confrontation or difficult situations, even when they know full well that the other party is going to have to pay the price in full and will have to deal with the insult of being ghosted.

people are shitty and selfish. especially young attractive popular ones. it is what it is.

[buzzard]

Originally Posted by Disco King

Is being mad that a woman didn't disclose that she has celiac disease when she agreed to a bread date predatory and rape-cultured? Sound off in the comments below.

Why did you have to specify that said life form is a woman?

[FoolofaTook]

In case someone thought it was an aardvark.

[redbreegull]

haha

[qwerty sp]

Originally Posted by FlamingGlobes

punk as fuck

Hey, watch the potty mouth!

[Disco King]

I tried to spin this into a joke and hide my disappointment behind irony because that's the dank way to deal with interpersonal problems.

Made some call-back to some minor awkward instance between us a bit ago, and was like "it was because of that thing, isn't it?"

She replies saying she had a bunch of messages and it's been "hard for her to do social interaction" for the past couple of weeks.

I dunno, I've never been so busy that I just ignored somebody's texts for over a week right when we were just formalizing plans, but then again I have few friends and she actually has some, so maybe this is a normal thing?

I think it's more likely that she just lost interest and kinda sensed I was calling her out on it and messaged me back to save face. But I'd rather have it end on that note than on her just ghosting me and that being that.

I would usually feel badly about drawing attention to somebody's impolite behaviour, but maybe because my therapist and I have been talking about how I don't assert myself and kinda let people walk over me, I'm learning to feel less badly about it?

[Disco King]

Wow, memes are actually saving the day.

Even made a reference to the "regret rock" term b0lly or rbg came up with, but I'm pretending I coined it myself (sorry, it's a better story than "my internet friends on the Smashing Pumpkins message board came up with it).

[Disco King]

We can share that stuff, right? Didn't RBG give Vix permission to use the "ferrets are weasels with better PR" thing for her standup?

[teh b0lly!!1]

i'm testing "BOMB THREAT AT THE OLIVE GARDEN" for my standup tonight actually

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I tried to spin this into a joke and hide my disappointment behind irony because that's the dank way to deal with interpersonal problems.

Made some call-back to some minor awkward instance between us a bit ago, and was like "it was because of that thing, isn't it?"

She replies saying she had a bunch of messages and it's been "hard for her to do social interaction" for the past couple of weeks.

I dunno, I've never been so busy that I just ignored somebody's texts for over a week right when we were just formalizing plans, but then again I have few friends and she actually has some, so maybe this is a normal thing?

I think it's more likely that she just lost interest and kinda sensed I was calling her out on it and messaged me back to save face. But I'd rather have it end on that note than on her just ghosting me and that being that.

I would usually feel badly about drawing attention to somebody's impolite behaviour, but maybe because my therapist and I have been talking about how I don't assert myself and kinda let people walk over me, I'm learning to feel less badly about it?

i feel like this is the best you could have done.

it's clear that you're roundaboutedly calling her out on her ghosting maneuver, but it could also be interpreted as humorous, leaving the door open for future exchanges.

with that said though, she kinda sounds like an asshole. i wouldn't keep making advances towards her, subtle or not. it won't end well and besides, you gotta assert your high value as a man. ~

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[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I tried to spin this into a joke and hide my disappointment behind irony because that's the dank way to deal with interpersonal problems.

Made some call-back to some minor awkward instance between us a bit ago, and was like "it was because of that thing, isn't it?"

She replies saying she had a bunch of messages and it's been "hard for her to do social interaction" for the past couple of weeks.

I dunno, I've never been so busy that I just ignored somebody's texts for over a week right when we were just formalizing plans, but then again I have few friends and she actually has some, so maybe this is a normal thing?

I think it's more likely that she just lost interest and kinda sensed I was calling her out on it and messaged me back to save face. But I'd rather have it end on that note than on her just ghosting me and that being that.

I would usually feel badly about drawing attention to somebody's impolite behaviour, but maybe because my therapist and I have been talking about how I don't assert myself and kinda let people walk over me, I'm learning to feel less badly about it?

just start giving people an arbitrary time limit to respond to messages before they are dead to you

this is how my gf and I went without talking for 2 weeks and almost forever

pride at any cost

[Disco King]

Yeah, if I try to "win" her back into engaging with me, I'll just lose whatever shreds of dignity I have left (and as of the second quarter of 2017, dignity shreds are already down 72% from this time last year). Best to just focus on other people out there. Although my trust is depleting all the time, and I feel like in the age of being able to select from a catalogue of suitors at one's fingertips, pretty much everyone is only hanging around you until they can grab onto something better. I feel like this is going to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Hiding feelings behind irony is actually the most effective way to communicate with the fewest hurt feelings. The tried-and-true Slunken method. Build up enough irony that even you don't know what you mean anymore. Everybody wins.

Now I wish I tried that with the Anastasia girl. Instead I was all genuine about how I thought what she did was hurtful but I wanted to leave the door open to be friends because I valued her. Didn't work. I regret not just sending her a spicy meme.

[redbreegull]

ferrets are just weasels with better PR

[Elphenor]

if it supports my case I also have no friends

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

just start giving people an arbitrary time limit to respond to messages before they are dead to you

this is how my gf and I went without talking for 2 weeks and almost forever

pride at any cost

I do this with people I just meet, because I don't feel that some person who just game me their number really has any obligation to respond to my text. She could have just been being polite because she didn't know that I wouldn't yell at her for not giving me her number or something. If they don't respond to my first text, that's the end of that, no hard feelings. A lot of the time, I don't even send that first text if I could sense that it was a "politeness number" from the get-go.

But when it's somebody I've invested some time into and who I thought at the very least liked me as a friend, I feel pretty bummed when they don't respond.

I have one friend who I've never considered as more than a friend, and she was one of my favourite friends. She moved back to her hometown, and stopped responding to my texts after that, and that kinda hurt me. Although I know she has OCD, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Even when she was in town and we hung out, she only ever wanted to do things on campus, as she lived on campus. I could never get her to do anything off campus, it was always just smoking weed in her dorm or something.

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

if it supports my case I also have no friends

I feel like having an SO and not having any platonic friends would be worse than just not having any friends at all.

I can't imagine my life being one person. I feel like we'd merge into some creepy, gooey, single-bodied creature or something. *shudder*

[Disco King]

So, dump her, essentially.

[LaBelle]

People call them straight girls but they love to keep you going in circles.

[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I feel like having an SO and not having any platonic friends would be worse than just not having any friends at all.

I can't imagine my life being one person. I feel like we'd merge into some creepy, gooey, single-bodied creature or something. *shudder*

it's one facet of my free time somewhere between Punk and Videogames

[vixnix]

A lot long term relationships go through periods of exclusivity I reckon.

It's just too easy to book time in under various category headings, with the same person, because they're a one stop shop.

[vixnix]

It's not a good thing or anything. But I reckon it is a thing. Path of least resistance I guess

[vixnix]

Diarrhoea always moves in a downward direction if you will

[FoolofaTook]

Your mother always moves in a downwards direction, if you will.

[FoolofaTook]

KABLAM!