Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

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I'm not saying this is a grown-up conversation, Kit, I'm saying that you are acting like a spoiled child because our conversation is not to your liking. Join in, or stop clicking on the thread.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I know it sounds shallow, but dammit, our self esteems *are* partly based on *feeling* like we look good.

The quickest way to feel like you look good is to have someone else tell you this.

Obviously, there are other ways to feel good. And there are other things to prop your self esteem up on (if my self esteem came solely from my looks, I'd have killed myself years ago. My self esteem comes from people telling me my songs are good).

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Kate I totally understand where you're coming from on thee crush. At least I think I do. It's a similar feeling to that which I was bemoaning the lack of when I said that I missed the thrill of the chase on some other thread back on the real ILE. There's a real heady rush when crushee kind of in your orbit and you/them is a cross between real stuff/real stuff amplified in yr head/and stuff you really want to happen. Even when you know it'll come to nothing, the pain is good because you're...*alive* when you feel this way. But it's hellish dangerous though. Be careful.

I think I look good today, but I probably don't.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not saying this is a grown-up conversation, Kit, I'm saying that you are acting like a spoiled child because our conversation is not to your liking.

haha there's a first time for everything on this thread.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

The danger is part of the appeal, Dr. C.

"I know you're gonna break my heart
Coz that's what hearts are there for
I know you're gonna tear me apart
Coz lord knows I'm not careful"

Great for creativity, hell for sanity, but aren't the best things always?

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I HATE crushes with a passion. I think I posted on Watercooler about my last BIG crush - I hated every minute of it. Thinking about something you can't have all day every day is nothing less than torture.

xpost This is what I need, some first-hand first date experience. I'll remember that, this is good stuff.

The amusing advice is, I fear, a real life advice site. I reacted the same way that you did - the kind of girl who would find that sort of conversation stimulating isn't really the kind of girl I'd like converse with.

make up a random theory about how women who gain weight are actually lesbians.

ha ha ha beyond parody.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"Lie to her. It's okay to lie to women. They're not people like us."

tissp! (tissp!), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yay for tortured artists!

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i like it when people who i have crushes on have crushes on me, but not if it's otherwise.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeh, the unrequited part of it was kind taken as read.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Dr C, today:

http://actors.ardenas-place.com/pictures/gc10.jpg

Maaarghk C (Maaarghk C), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link

My hair's better than that though.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I'm torturing myself, and it's not working, I just keep snapping back into la la la la crushy crushy crush crush land.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not really that bad to have crushes though, i usually have about 50 on the go at any point.

yeah, man, if you're having crush problems i feel bad for you son but i've got 99 problems but my crush ain't one HIT ME

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kind of staggered that Kate's advice is "Find out what she likes. Find out what she likes. Find out what she likes. If you run out of that, find out what she's like." I mean, it's not necessarily the case that someone defines themselves by their 'interests'. Obviously _I_ don't want to date someone who doesn't, but that's just me :)

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

PS: Best Mark C name ever!

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the "find out what she likes" was more of a way into a proper conversation, rather than a conversation in itself, yes? No? I mean, one lass who's emailed me has said that she's gone to lots of festivals (good sign) and seen such bands as C0ldpl@y and @thl3t3 (v. bad sign). But this doesn't actually MEAN anything, it's just a way in to find out what kind of person she is. Some of my best friend like the EXACT OPPOSITE STUFF to me, that doesn't make them any less cool.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

If it was a girl asking, my reply would be "find out what he likes, find out what he likes..."

Sorry, Andrew, but in the world of dating, I kinda *do* have a bit more experience than you. I haven't always been a celibate misanthrope.

Dating *is* about getting to know someone, and the quickest and easiest way to get to know someone is to get them to talk about themselves. And from that you can proceed to the stuff you have in common. That's how it *works*.

x-post - Johnny OTM, it's a way of finding something to talk about.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i think conversations, at a date or otherwise, should be a mixture of things she likes, and things you like. and things that neither of you like.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

and never call your date a celibate misanthrope

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Well done St Greg! all you have is the internet, yet even here you manage to upset everyone by being an arse!

Keep this up and you'll make us mere trolls look bad

Mr. Comnenus (Mr Comnenus), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Did I follow mine own advice, last night? You bet I didn't! (not that it was a date of any sort, but you know what I mean.)

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Well done St Greg! etc etc

D-
must try harder

the D is for Darramouss.
sorry to interrupt, Watercoolants. do continue.

Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, Andrew, but in the world of dating, I kinda *do* have a bit more experience than you. I haven't always been a celibate misanthrope.

I resemble that remark.

Dating *is* about getting to know someone, and the quickest and easiest way to get to know someone is to get them to talk about themselves.

Oh yes, absolutely. So why not get them to talk about themselves?

And from that you can proceed to the stuff you have in common. That's how it *works*.

Sure, but that seems to me directly opposed to your previous post. Am I missing something?

x-post - Johnny OTM, it's a way of finding something to talk about.

But the thing you're trying to get them to talk about is them?

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

"the D is for Darramouss."

No, i'm not Darramouss. I think you're grossly underestimating your ability to inspire the hatred of complete strangers.

Mr. Comnenus (Mr Comnenus), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I know you're not Darramouss. You're more articulate, but tragically, less amusing than him.

D- = You are worse than Darramouss. But don't take it to heart.

I am perfectly aware of my unrivaled ability to inspire hatred in strangers.

Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i partly and generally agree with what kate had said, but i wasn't so sure about the bit about "the quickest and easiest way" thing..

i much prefer to just try and have a good time than seeing a date as some kind of data mining exercise with speed and efficiency being an issue! see in my ideal date either person will just start talking about anything, interest or not, and the other will listen and respond accordingly, with no agenda like "i'm going to find out this this this and this about you by 9:15 and then i'll tell you how much i like the same thing" because i find that that usually hinders a genuine conversation.

but of course it is not always so straightforward becasue often people go into a date WITH an agenda usually being "I AM GOING TO HAVE TURKED YOU TWICE BY 11:30" but i dunno. i can't really give good advice because i not often go on blind dates and so when i do go on dates and stuff it's usually people who i know want me to turk them by 11:30 anyway.. so it's probably differnet.

maybe the advice is to never go on blind dates unless you're not really that bothered about being turked.

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't go on many dates, either, btw! just in case you think i have swamps of people wanting to turk me all the time

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

For gods sake, it was just a suggestion to a couple of boys who said that they were having trouble finding conversations on first dates. It's not the be all and end all of dating advice.

And it's a fuck of a lot better than what was suggested on the site linked to.

We now return you to my crush, already in progress.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

What is turking and can we eat it?

Ed (dali), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Pork like a turkey?

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The other other white meat.

Ed (dali), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah - someone else who uses the word 'turk'. I though it was just my mate Andy. (not A. Farrell).

But Andrew (Farrell) - good to see you last Friday, sir! Hope you got home safely with yr parcel. Did you see any of teh gig? We started off like Motorhead for the first 5 or 6 songs (according to one of our regular fanz), but ran out of steam a bit for the last few.

Dr.C (Dr.C), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I do not want what I cannot have. Repeat to fade.

I WANT I WANT I WANT

God, I need sleep. What should I have for lunch? I've got £1.62.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Eating does come into it, methinks. xpost

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"come into it"

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't remember, what with being celibate and all. Is it like eating toast and spaghetti in bed?

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I only saw half of the first song, I'm afraid. Did the Freezer run out of steam?

Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

£1.62 can buy you Some Chips. Fat + carbs != wildly unstable metabolism, no not at all.

Is it like eating toast and spaghetti in bed?
It is if you're doing it wrong.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Or really well, depending on your predilection.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"But why must I explain myself! Excuse myself! Why must I justify with my Honesty and Compassion my desires! So I have desires--only they're endless. Endless! And that, that may not be such a blessing, taking for the moment a psychoanalytic point of view . . . But then all the unconscious can do anyway, so Freud tells us, is want. And want! And WANT! Oh, Freud, do I know!"

Alexander Portnoy (g00blar), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

you have to come into it first

ken c (ken c), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm hitting that afternoon lull.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't started doing any work yet. This project is gonna be fucked.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got a cheese and nonion sammich and some cheese and nonion crisps. £1.50.

Literature has all the answers, doesn't it?

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Just finished building a bike for someone - pinarello carbon fibre frame, campag eurus wheels, ultegra groupset. It looks pretty fancy.

Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Yexpost.

g0000blar (g00blar), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

AAARRRGGGG ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH

Oh why did I drink so much last night? I knew I should have gone home after the gig. Gooblar, I curse you and the PBW and your hangover inducing ways.

Will this hangover ever go away?

Next time after a gig, I'm not going drinking afterwards. Not for all the pretty boys in Canada.

masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

hello! hurrah finally it sent me a password! last night was wicked. no hangover but i didn't wake up til like 11 or something (not bad, i think we left the bar at 4? so i prob got home about 5/5.30) so am very glad i am not working today.

HURRAH though, i am back at the lovely job from tues :) and then i have another one the week after that. lovely lady at temping agency told me lovely things about people saying lovely stuff.

emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

My lack of password has been distressing too, hence my long silence on the boards. Yay to people saying nice things about you! (tho why anyone would say anything otherwise is quite beyond me)

I've got a feeling I'm gonna be here a million years, but I ain't leaving until I've cracked this tricky problem with the Data Profile Co-efficients.

Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link


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