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No amount of instruments, degrees or self-adulation will compensate for an antisocial, abrasive and narcissistic personality that alienates people.
Well said.
Does anyone else have no friends?
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Well said.
Not the case at all, and most of my friends are big football fans.
When it comes up, I just move on and talk to somebody else
As for drinking, years ago maybe but no so much now.
The whole point of friends is that you have some shared interests.
3 of my friends I play Boardgames with
A few of them are video gamers
Most of my friends are, broadly speaking, in to the same sorts of music
Some have kids. Some don't.
Some like movies, some don't.
There's always some common link otherwise you wouldn't be friends.
Boardgame friends are the people I have most in common with. Those groups are amazing.
I can't imagine being friends with any of the guys I see at the gym. Glad I have my geeky side
Also agree social media and technology in general is killing people.
We don't have to go out, we don't have to remember anything. I don't think I'd want to be a child now. We soon will have the Internet embed in our heads.
If you don't have to remember anything what will we be?
Things will either get much better or we will end up slaves to corporations eventually. Wouldn't want to call it
We don't have to go out, we don't have to remember anything. I don't think I'd want to be a child now. We soon will have the Internet embed in our heads.
If you don't have to remember anything what will we be?
Things will either get much better or we will end up slaves to corporations eventually. Wouldn't want to call it
Well I suppose if you're happy that's the main thing.
Were they not impressed you made 278 well argued posts that the force awakening was ass?On what?
I was invited out the other by a cousin of mine at the weekend to meet people...
Women and men so called friends of my cousin...
All of them got on my nerves...They were dull, vacuous and thought the band that was playing was amazing...
I'm not sure it's because I play 7 musical instruments, I have a degree and appreciate my own company and individualism and make a conscious effort to not be like everyone else is hindering me...
But I'm glad I'm not one of those cows in a field happy with mediocrity...
I spent 4 hours listening to contrived crap about 40 somethings pretending they like skepta just to be cool
The sad ******* *****
I left...
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Well he isn't wrong. All Star Wars is populist ****.
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If you say so.
I had a great time watching it laser projected at the Empire Leicester Square.
Haven't seen it since the cinema.
I had a great time watching it laser projected at the Empire Leicester Square.
Haven't seen it since the cinema.
No amount of instruments, degrees or self-adulation will compensate for an antisocial, abrasive and narcissistic personality that alienates people.
On the contrary, I would rather meet people like that ; with something to say and talk about than anything else
Conflict of opinion and intellect and taste makes me feel alive...
Its a shame people are too scared to be who they truly are just to fit in.
What I just said to Richdog.
Are they though? Most people who I know who are in relationships are unhappy
they not impressed you made 278 well argued posts that the force awakening was ass?
No, plus they had never seen Highlander
the philistines
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Are they though? Most people who I know who are in relationships are unhappy
How can you know this? Do lots of people confide in you about their relationships?
Most people I know who are in relationships are seemingly happy.
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I don't have any 'go out' with friends, and I voted to remain.
Perhaps the wiser people don't join in with threads like those on a forum like this.
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On what?
I was invited out the other by a cousin of mine at the weekend to meet people...
Women and men so called friends of my cousin...
All of them got on my nerves...They were dull, vacuous and thought the band that was playing was amazing...
I'm not sure it's because I play 7 musical instruments, I have a degree and appreciate my own company and individualism and make a conscious effort to not be like everyone else is hindering me...
But I'm glad I'm not one of those cows in a field happy with mediocrity...
I spent 4 hours listening to contrived crap about 40 somethings pretending they like skepta just to be cool
The sad ******* *****
I left...
That's one of my biggest bug bears as well. When out and a band is clearly just a bunch of apes screeching down a cheap microphone and everyone in the group sits there with dreamy eyes and bobbing heads pretending it's the best thing they've ever heard. I can almost bet you almost nobody likes the music but they enjoy the collective group delusion.
Bit like Glastonbury. You get 2-3 good bands that can clearly play (I may not even like the music but can appreciate their skill) whilst the rest is just a group of unwashed stoners hopping around a stage screeching nonsense - whilst the ecstatic crowds with waving mobile phones appears to be on the verge of an orgasm.
Don't mind groups or people but the constant lying to themselves to be liked by others or 'fit in' bores me to tears.
What a load of clap. Seriously.
Avoided this thread thus far, though it's made enjoyable reading.
I like to think I have quite a lot of friends, in varying levels between "people I go do a quiz with" and "people I call when something devastating has happened and I need a strong drink". Definitely drift closer and further from people as time goes on.
I have my old school friends, where I only keep in touch with a few, my old uni friends, similarly few compared to 10 years ago, and those I've met since, in the UK or Taiwan.
Still, I'm currently on a trip round Europe with my wife, and thus far, a friend took care of us for 3 days in Rome, cooking us some dinners and taking us out, tomorrow we're off to Vienna, where another friend is flying over to see us for a week, after that we'll pass through Paris, where another friend is putting us up, then the UK, where a friend who isn't even there has left us the keys to his house, before 4 nights in London staying with a friend I met 10 years back in Cambodia.
These are all people I regularly keep in touch with - a lot of others come and go, and that's fine, but I like having the feeling of a bunch of folk around the world who will help me out, and I naturally do the same for them, should they ever wake up in a haze on my island.
I like to think I have quite a lot of friends, in varying levels between "people I go do a quiz with" and "people I call when something devastating has happened and I need a strong drink". Definitely drift closer and further from people as time goes on.
I have my old school friends, where I only keep in touch with a few, my old uni friends, similarly few compared to 10 years ago, and those I've met since, in the UK or Taiwan.
Still, I'm currently on a trip round Europe with my wife, and thus far, a friend took care of us for 3 days in Rome, cooking us some dinners and taking us out, tomorrow we're off to Vienna, where another friend is flying over to see us for a week, after that we'll pass through Paris, where another friend is putting us up, then the UK, where a friend who isn't even there has left us the keys to his house, before 4 nights in London staying with a friend I met 10 years back in Cambodia.
These are all people I regularly keep in touch with - a lot of others come and go, and that's fine, but I like having the feeling of a bunch of folk around the world who will help me out, and I naturally do the same for them, should they ever wake up in a haze on my island.
Classic narcissism and self-delusion. You and easyrider should get together then you can be the only awesome people in the world with impeccably good music and movie taste who understand each other. Hilarious.
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I like people (some peopel) but i prefer quieter pubs/nice bars where you can talk or dinners/evenings in.
Hearings a bit **** and i really cant dance (literally no sense of rythym with music) so going out to loud bars/clubs just equals me standing there feeling isolated in a crowd.
Cant talk, cant interact just stand there and drink.
Hearings a bit **** and i really cant dance (literally no sense of rythym with music) so going out to loud bars/clubs just equals me standing there feeling isolated in a crowd.
Cant talk, cant interact just stand there and drink.
Apart from my immediate family, I have no 'friends' I can depend on in an emergency, the few people I speak to outside of work never make the effort to get in touch with me, it was always me making the effort, now I don't bother. Prefer my own company anyway.
I was thinking about this recently.
Say i got ran over on the way home from work today and in a coma in hospital.
Pretty much none of my friends would know or be contacted/be able to contact my family.
Thye dont know my home number, my address my parents etc