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WCDT strips 3671 to 3675 (5th to 9th February 2018)
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: Case on 08 Feb 2018, 09:43 ---
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 07 Feb 2018, 22:46 ---To be honest, I wouldn't object to someone trying to fix mine. Blergh.
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My high-school 'friends' idea of "fixing my love" life was schlepping a slightly underage vague acquaintance to our graduation ball without an invitation, aiming her at me, and watching the results from a safe distance. Moment I saw her, I realized that:
a) Those moron's idea of "fixing someone's lovelife" was pretty much: "We've seen him interacting friendly-like with her once while he was tending bar, ergo it must be twue wuv!"
b) "OhShit this could be a crush!"
c) Standing in front of a guy three years your senior that you might have a vague crush on, at his invite-only graduation ball, without an invitation ... must be one of the most humiliating environments to get your crush crushed in.
All those things running through my head, in a split second. Guess what comes out of my mouth?
"Uhmmmmmhiiiiii!!!??? What are you doing here?"
We met 10 years later. She offered me a lift from the train station, then kicked me out of the car in some remote part of town. Being the Soul-and-confidence-crushing-Nemesis of someone else's discovery of their Eros is ... perplexing, highly overrated and sometimes it requires astonishingly little actual action on your part. Srsly, a tendency to freeze right after you stuck your foot in your mouth and a gaggle of brainless frenemies is all it takes.
Thanks, 'Friends'!
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That entire situation sounds utterly horrifying. Poor you. And her.
(Also, while the whole scenario sounds pretty awful, my middle-class Brit internal monologue is screaming "But that's a faux pas! In a social situation! People you are acquainted with might SEE!!! THOSE MONSTERS!!!!!"
As you can tell, my internal monologue also conforms quite happily with the Terry Pratchett theory of multiple exclamation marks.)
Case:
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 08 Feb 2018, 09:55 ---That entire situation sounds utterly horrifying. Poor you. And her.
(Also, while the whole scenario sounds pretty awful, my middle-class Brit internal monologue is screaming "But that's a faux pas! In a social situation! People you are acquainted with might SEE!!! THOSE MONSTERS!!!!!"
As you can tell, my internal monologue also conforms quite happily with the Terry Pratchett theory of multiple exclamation marks.)
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Poor her, mostly - I mean ... I turned out a pro-nerd, with the standard set of social graces that usually comes with the package, so my natural strategy of 'letting someone down gently' was a) Hoping they 'get it' on their own ... somehow, with the escalation option of b) The FadeAway (I was seriously floored when I learned that there are people who believe that The FadeAwayTM is a Girls-thing).
But I'd have kindasorta liked the chance to be loathed for my actual shortcomings, see what I mean?
The incident left me with a serious dislike for people with an inkling to play match-maker. After that, those folk mostly make me think of ... matches. Funny, huh? Can't fathom why ... :evil:
P.S.: I confess that I seriously resented being seen as "the guy who needs to be set up". And also with a girl that I wasn't into that way, and who was three years my junior (I was 19 at the time, age of majority in Germany is 18, age of consent was 16 back then. I felt like some sort of child-molester). The half-ride-half-walk through town sorta closed that circle: Sometimes, your injured pride is not what matters most.
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: Case on 08 Feb 2018, 10:06 ---But I'd have liked to be loathed for my actual shortcomings, see what I mean?
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Live the dream, man. Live the dream.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 08 Feb 2018, 06:20 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 08 Feb 2018, 06:12 ---Mass Effect 2 & 3, EDI and Joker. EDI is the artificial intelligence that runs their ship and Joker is the pilot. At first she's always angry at him because he's wreckless and disorderly[.]
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I would think wrecklessness would be a good thing in a pilot. :-)
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corrected the typo.
Aenno:
--- Quote from: Stoutfellow on 08 Feb 2018, 06:20 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 08 Feb 2018, 06:12 ---Mass Effect 2 & 3, EDI and Joker. EDI is the artificial intelligence that runs their ship and Joker is the pilot. At first she's always angry at him because he's wreckless and disorderly[.]
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I would think wrecklessness would be a good thing in a pilot. :-)
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Yes, with any other ship; but here we're talking about HER body, you know!
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