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[Alex C]

Yeah, fish hooks can be real bastards. Usually you should try and push it through a bit and cut the barbed part, but one time on a family fishing trip my mother got one stuck in her hand deeply enough that we couldn't really push it back up and out without having nothing left to pull on. Eventually we just had to reattach the line to the head and pull. 

I guess it wasn't in her head though, at least.

[tania]

i find friends with benefits tends to work better when they aren't an ex, but it just depends on the people and the situation. i find it pretty easy not to get attached to boys and am much happier when i'm getting laid on a regular basis, so i tend to dismiss critics who go on about how it's a terrible idea and always fails and so on and so forth. some people can make it work and some people can't, you just have to know yourself well enough to have an idea of whether or not it's something you're capable of so you don't end up putting the other person in a shitty situation.

[Patrick]

Okay, yeah, that's generally disastrous because you will almost always see one of the people become reattached and lead to drama.

Conveniently, when my current lady broke up with me earlier and we did the 'friends with benefits' thing, we *both* got reattached. And now it's better than it ever was before the breakup.

[Darkbluerabbit]

I am pretty sure I have told this story before on this very forum, but it is worth repeating, because it is disturbing and hilarious.

One of my friends went to a rural hospital for slicing several of her fingers open while drunk.  In the next room, a woman was having a fishhook removed from her ladybits.  I honestly wonder how this happened.

My fourth grade teacher also enjoyed telling us about a fishing trip with her husband where they witnessed someone getting a fishhook stuck in their eye.  Their EYE.  Not eyelid.  Eye.

The moral of the story is; fishhooks fucking terrify me a lot.

[PizzaSHARK]

It's too bad common sense doesn't really override feelings completely. I guess the metaphor I would use is that a failing relationship is a lot like having a fish hook stuck deep in your finger. Pulling the thing out is pretty bad, but you still need to get the damned thing out so you can move on with the rest of your day. Knowing this lets you steel your resolve, but it doesn't really make it hurt any less.

Cutting the head off to remove the barb makes removal more or less painless.  Obviously if it's not a complete penetration, you have to force it through so it becomes one - still less painful than ripping it out backwards, though.

How does that fit into your analogy? :p

[David_Dovey]

I am so happy with the way this thread is going.

[Jace]

I am so happy with the way this thread is going.

Me too.

[jhocking]

What the analogy suggests is that you should hang around the person you want to break up with even more, so much that decapitating them becomes the least painful way to break up with them.

[Alex C]

It's too bad common sense doesn't really override feelings completely. I guess the metaphor I would use is that a failing relationship is a lot like having a fish hook stuck deep in your finger. Pulling the thing out is pretty bad, but you still need to get the damned thing out so you can move on with the rest of your day. Knowing this lets you steel your resolve, but it doesn't really make it hurt any less.

Cutting the head off to remove the barb makes removal more or less painless.  Obviously if it's not a complete penetration, you have to force it through so it becomes one - still less painful than ripping it out backwards, though.

How does that fit into your analogy? :p

It doesn't. I did already say you should cut off the barbed part a post later while relating an anecdote in which it wasn't possible to do so. Also, anyone who says it's nearly completely painless that way hasn't done it.

[Patrick]

Obviously if it's not a complete penetration, you have to force it through so it becomes one

Remember to use lube dude

[est]

STOP TALKING ABOUT FISH HOOKS OH GOD

[Patrick]

I want to start a fishing thread just to spite you.

[ViolentDove]

I've been slightly scared of fishing hooks ever since I was a kid. There used to be this anti-smoking campaign ad where a dude would put a cigarette in his mouth and then a goddamn barbed fishhook would shoot out of the cigarette and pierce through his mouth. That was some scary shit when I was little.

[Alex C]

That's still some scary shit.

[öde]

I want housemates so I can freak them out with little things like cigarettes with fish hooks through the filter just lying around.

[tania]

jeez, and i thought canada's warning labels were bad -

[Patrick]

Man that looks like meth-tooth instead of tobacco-tooth.

[BrilliantEraser]

What the analogy suggests is that you should hang around the person you want to break up with even more, so much that decapitating them becomes the least painful way to break up with them.

I lol'd. Oh, and fun fact = you have the same last name as me.

[Liz]

Oh man. RELATED.

[Ballard]

Insert webcest joke here.

[PizzaSHARK]

It's too bad common sense doesn't really override feelings completely. I guess the metaphor I would use is that a failing relationship is a lot like having a fish hook stuck deep in your finger. Pulling the thing out is pretty bad, but you still need to get the damned thing out so you can move on with the rest of your day. Knowing this lets you steel your resolve, but it doesn't really make it hurt any less.

Cutting the head off to remove the barb makes removal more or less painless.  Obviously if it's not a complete penetration, you have to force it through so it becomes one - still less painful than ripping it out backwards, though.

How does that fit into your analogy? :p

It doesn't. I did already say you should cut off the barbed part a post later while relating an anecdote in which it wasn't possible to do so. Also, anyone who says it's nearly completely painless that way hasn't done it.

I never said painless, I said less painful.  Getting a fish hook in any part of your body isn't what I'd call a painless experience

[RedLion]

Those fishhooks sure are cheeky little bastards.

[PizzaSHARK]

Honestly that whole fish hook thing wasn't done with the idea of making it analogous to anal sex, but it's turned out to be amusing so I'm just continuing to push onwards.

[Gingernut]

Wow, that is strange, and pretty terrible. Could you elaborate?

Did the police get involved? How long were you together before it happened? Were you hurt?

I called his mum. Never got a response. We'd only been together a few months, weren't living together or anything. I asked his mum to fill me in on stuff, she faffed, said 'she was sure he was about somewhere', and she'd 'geth him to call me' she never did. I got fed up of calling, and I just figured he never wanted to see me again and was being a coward. Went past his flat one day- it was being lived in, all his stuff was still there, and I figured his mum would have told me if he was a missing persons.

[RedLion]

Honestly that whole fish hook thing wasn't done with the idea of making it analogous to anal sex, but it's turned out to be amusing so I'm just continuing to push onwards.

Wait, what? When did we bring anal sex into this?

The fuck is going on?

[PizzaSHARK]

Nothing.  Nothing is wrong.  Everything is fine. 

(It's all a conspiracy and you're better off not knowing.)

[Jace]

What?!
What the hell is even going on here?!

Are we talking about fishing or relationships?

(or both, wherein we fish for relationships?)

[pwhodges]

Er...

My daughter has had a lifetime of choosing unsuitable men to live with, and then getting ripped off by them.  The latest left after she refused to marry him, took the second car that is in her name, ran up loads of parking tickets, refused to give her an address (beyond the city name) for forwarding mail (including bailiffs' warnings about said fines) and demanded a proportion of the value of the house (I won't go into that). 

He was seen yesterday, with his dad, removing mostly, but not entirely, his stuff from the house.  A neighbour called my daughter, who rushed home, getting there after he had gone.  A few minutes later, a man knocked at her door demanding to see him, saying he had a warrant for his arrest (reason not given).  When he had satisfied himself that he wasn't hiding in the house, he asked for details of his car so that he could track it and set up a roadblock to catch him.  Oo-er!

In his favour, I can say that he has very good teeth.

I suppose I'll hear more in good time...

[Orbert]

Paul, I'm actually intrigued and would love to hear the rest of that story when it unfolds.

[Patrick]

No kidding, I can't wait to watch this guy get nailed by the law.

[pwhodges]

Well, I'm intrigued too! 

I should say that my daughter did not let the last man into the house without properly verifying that he was in fact a pukka (plain-clothes) policemen; but at present we have no inkling of what the ex is actually wanted for (I don't think they set up roadblocks for parking fines yet - it's really not a police state here, by a long way!).  On the occasions that he has had a job, it has been working for social services or something similar; of course, helping with rehabilitation of ex-prisoners has brought him into contact with some bad sorts, I suppose.

No use to speculate, really.  Perhaps he was unhinged when six months ago the horse he had on loan to ride, and to look after (a fine animal, though elderly), was shot by the owner without his being told (yea, more back story...)

[BrilliantEraser]

Poor horsie!

::Waits intently for the rest of the story::

[20 jazz funk greats]

okay okay i have one now.

so my ex was visiting me and we were trying to "patch things up" ie, arguing about everything ever and remembering why we really don't belong together.  i'm not going to bother describing the fighting in too much detail, and anyway, that's not the point of the thread. but it ended with him saying that buying the ticket to come see me was a waste of money and grabbing 30 bucks from my wallet and i was rather angry, (partially because i need it, being an unemployed student and partially because it's just a major dick move) and tried to snatch it from his hand, but he balled his hands into fists and looked like he was going to punch me (he didn't though) so i just gave up on trying to get it back, called him lowlife trash and kicked him out of the apartment.

there is a little bit more to it than that, but that was the weirdest part. i never expected him to steal from me. 

[jhocking]

Oh man. RELATED.

Her profile lists her location as CT so it's likely actually. My family on my father's side is from there.

I wonder if I am related to this one fairly well-known game designer named Clint Hocking. That would be an amusing coincidence.

ADDITION: liz your av reminds me, my mom just found a photo of me when I was just a couple months old. I looked like a lizard, that will be my new av.

[Liz]

Joe this is probably my favorite picture of you, I think I might keep it as my avvie for a while. It really adds something to my posts when you read them while picturing that face.

[Inlander]

J-Ho as your avatar week!

[Runa]

My most recent ended relationship, he was crazy.

No really, he was manic depressive, had ADHD, and biploar. Did I mention a former crack addict? He also liked popping Xanax and drinking himself to a state where he couldn't function. Talk about a Bag O' Win!


He told me all of this a little way into the relationship. My only thought was "Oh great, I need to get out now. But what if he tries to kill himself?" A few hours later I found myself sitting on his chest pinning his arms down to keep him from harming himself anymore than he was and I was like, "Oh man, I need to get the hell out of this...", but being the person that I am I wanted to try and help. Cha. That is not going to happen. I was honestly petrified to break up with him because if he did something stupid I knew that ignorant people would pin the blame on me. So I just waited it out, and luckily for me his ex contacted him (oh, she's just like him also, I'm not exaggerating) saying she was pregnant. I was free. Thank god.

I'm glad things happened when they did because I met my current boyfriend shortly after, I have not been this happy in years. He's got that something no one else in my past had.

[Edith]

I really shouldn't swing at this one, but it's so damn easy.

He's got that something no one else in my past had.

A wang?

[Runa]

I really shouldn't swing at this one, but it's so damn easy.

He's got that something no one else in my past had.

A wang?

o.0;
In a metaphorical way you are correct.
Since the rest of the guys were pansies. Crying about not being aloud to play video games. Lawl.
Wrestling Games on teh ps2 iz serizbiznuzz.

[Alex C]

It is serious business.

At least, I feel more seriously about it than most females. Which isn't saying much.

[Patrick]

Man I never understood wrestling games. At least, not WWF-style ones. Which, incidentally, are the only ones.

Yup, I never understood wrestling games.

[parm]

I got dumped by letter!

The letter was posted in Rwanda.

[Lines]

I guess the weirdest one was the last one - he went away on some school related trip (he went to a Christian uni and I think it was a mini-mission convention or something) and I told him to call me when he got back. He never called me. I found out from a friend who lived in his dorm that he was hanging around his ex girlfriends.

After two years I'm still curious about why he never told me. I get the feeling he was scared.

[StaedlerMars]

I got dumped by letter!

The letter was posted in Rwanda.

Wow. I'm sure there's an interesting story here somewhere, unless of course you also live in Rwanda?

[eddie]

I went out with a girl for 3 weeks when I said its over she ran away crying so much she ran into a door.

[michaelicious]

Love hurts, love scars...

[Patrick]

S&M?

[Runa]

It is serious business.

At least, I feel more seriously about it than most females. Which isn't saying much.

I'm a video game junkie but a wrestling game? Come on now. I hardly find any entertainment in it. To each their own though.

But regardless, it is the fact that I got a phone call at 4am to sobbing, "The/sob guys/snort won't/hyperventilate let/sobbingmore me plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay/annoyingwhiningandincomprehensablebabble."
You want me to drive 20 minutes out of my way on a school night to put them in time out? Slap them on the hands tell them no and that sharing is caring?

I just say, grow a pair, get a job to buy your own tv, ps2, and video games.

Man I never understood wrestling games. At least, not WWF-style ones. Which, incidentally, are the only ones.

Yup, I never understood wrestling games.

Nor have I. Every time I see one my eyes burn.

[RedLion]

I'm a video game junkie but a wrestling game? Come on now. I hardly find any entertainment in it. To each their own though.

But regardless, it is the fact that I got a phone call at 4am to sobbing, "The/sob guys/snort won't/hyperventilate let/sobbingmore me plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay/annoyingwhiningandincomprehensablebabble."
You want me to drive 20 minutes out of my way on a school night to put them in time out? Slap them on the hands tell them no and that sharing is caring?

What the hell. Was the guy five?

[Alex C]

Video games are not to be cried over. Crying is for stuff like funerals or accidentally running over your own beloved pet. I also don't hold it against my mother's significant other that he cried once while in the Navy. Apparently, he was working at a bench grinder and slipped, which immediately tore his thumb nail clean off and rendered his nail bed a bloody pulp. Bonus points for waiting until he got back to his room to cry and for the fact that his thumb nail never really grew back properly. And this is a dude who I once saw break off a rusty trailer hitch of with his bare hands. When he says something hurts, I take him at his word.

As far as wrestling video games are concerned, I was speaking of video games in general, although wrestling games aren't really all that bad. I never liked them very much, but they are very conducive to trash talking and relentlessly dicking over people who are ostensibly your allies. Just like in real (but still fake!) wrestling! Basically, they can be fun for the same reasons Smash Brothers can be fun; things devolve into a massive furball really quickly and anyone who takes it too seriously should be immediately mocked. I mean, really, it's a wrestling game. Smacking your friend in the back with a steel chair isn't a betrayal, it's a genre staple.