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Jon "Bad Wasabi" Wood ([info]mcity) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-05-08 11:04:00
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Remember, people should ask each other out. If someone doesn't ask you out, it means they don't like you.

Oh stupid_free. So unpredictable, yet still I know just what you're gonna do.

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[info]warchio
2007-05-08 04:46 pm UTC (link)
This is one of those wanks where I thought, 'Well, she has a point. Why is everyone dumping on her?' Because there's no end of useful in: 'If he's not asked you out yet, he's probably not going to.'

The problem is that then she kept TALKING and TALKING and with every post she made her point more and more cringey. It was just weird. All she had to say was - Oh, I know it's not true of everyone and it's not set in stone.'

But she just glommed onto her original statement and kicked and screamed and spat at anyone that came near.

It's odd. You get all embarrassed over having thought this crazy had a point and have the urge to sidle in, muttering excuses and wielding some sort of tranq gun.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-08 04:48 pm UTC (link)
I feel bad for her. I know a lot of people argue with her just because she's active on popular communities like stupid_free and brutal_honesty. She's usually right (or has a point) with her original statement and then everything just goes downhill.

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[info]warchio
2007-05-08 04:58 pm UTC (link)
She just can't seem to back down from the original point. It's as if acknowledging that anyone else has a point means that she has NONE! I have to say though, I'd have given up arguing with her after the third time she repeated herself. She clearly isn't going to change her mind or back down.

"My point! And I shall defend it to the death!"

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-10 12:21 am UTC (link)
ot, but since I've been watching old-timey black-and-white cartoons lately, I interpreted the boxer gloves in your icon as comically oversized Mickey Mouse-style ones at first and was not sure whether to laugh or cry, so I just stared. which seems to be the point of said icon in the first place.

that is all.

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[info]tunxeh
2007-05-08 05:12 pm UTC (link)
"If he's not asked you out yet, he's probably not going to."

If she had only said that, instead of "if he doesn't ask you out, he doesn't like you", it would have been far less stupid.

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[info]warchio
2007-05-08 07:32 pm UTC (link)
Or even if she'd said later that she'd worded that poorly and what she meant was....

But no! That would be a sign of weakness, you know.

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[info]mmanurere
2007-05-08 08:48 pm UTC (link)
I get a weird analytic-philosophy vibe from her -- "I define 'like' in such a way that if one person does not ask another person out then they do not 'like' that person, and thus I am right by definition."

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[info]goldberry
2007-05-08 10:38 pm UTC (link)
Oh lord, please don't give her to us! *Weeps for poor abused discipline*

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[info]mmanurere
2007-05-09 04:38 am UTC (link)
Sorry, I think "abusing the analytic philosophy people" is a requirement for my degree. French and comparative lit.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-09 02:03 pm UTC (link)
I definitely read that as "contraceptive lit". Because I clearly spend far too much time on teh intarwebz.

--meleth

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[info]catslash
2007-05-09 07:22 pm UTC (link)
Hmm. What would contraceptive lit be? Really bad porn? Anything dull enough to put you to sleep in five pages?

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Re: *Sighs* - [info]narcissam, 2007-05-09 09:00 pm UTC
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[info]herongale
2007-05-09 02:35 am UTC (link)
Yeah, when you define your whole universe according to taste, it is impossible to be wrong. By definition.

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[info]jaseroque
2007-05-09 11:46 am UTC (link)
Very Humpty Dumpty.

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[info]squib
2007-05-08 09:36 pm UTC (link)
Didn't help that the person most set in trying to argue against her was using as his sum total of Experience With Girlfriends the fact that he'd had two girlfriends on the internet.

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(Anonymous)
2007-05-09 12:20 am UTC (link)
Because there's no end of useful in: 'If he's not asked you out yet, he's probably not going to.'
Really? ...makes sense, I guess. :(

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-05-09 01:28 am UTC (link)
That's not the same as "if he hasn't asked you out, he doesn't like you", though. If you've been spending time together for a while and you like him and haven't said anything, the likelihood that he's doing exactly the same thing is not low, and so he's not going to ask you out even if he does like you.

(But don't look at me for dating advice, since the last time I asked a guy out I did it by kicking him in the knee and shouting "Spiderman!")

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[info]loonylupinlover
2007-05-09 02:47 am UTC (link)
I invited mine over to watch Batman: the Animated Series. So very romantic. Still together 2 years later. XD

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Re: *Sighs*
[info]chibikaijuu
2007-05-09 05:18 am UTC (link)
Well, it wasn't actually very effective because I then followed my carefully worded, polite invitation with "we should totally ask [other comicbook geek friend] if he wants to come too". So I did get him to go to the movie with me (and a party after), but it wasn't a date.

...but it was fun, so I am planning on kicking him in the ankle and shouting "Pirates!" in two weeks.

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[info]vzg
2007-05-10 05:44 am UTC (link)
I like your method. Mind if I borrow?

Oh, wait. Need hot friendly boy first.

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[info]thecheese
2007-05-09 03:48 am UTC (link)
But if he never asks you out (and you never ask him out), what difference does it make if he "likes" you? Nothing will ever happen, and no fun will be had. What a big, stupid waste of time/angst.

I think that's what she meant, although it doesn't seem to have been understood

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-05-09 01:36 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yeah, I agree that's probably what she meant, and it's often (but not always) good advice - but that's not what she said. And then when she got called on it she repeated the same words as if the meaning would change just because she willed it.

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[info]queencallipygos
2007-05-09 03:52 pm UTC (link)
But don't look at me for dating advice, since the last time I asked a guy out I did it by kicking him in the knee and shouting "Spiderman!"

Insert obligatory Eddie Izzard "D'you like bread? I've got French loaf!" reference here.

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[info]vzg
2007-05-10 05:45 am UTC (link)
Eddie Izzard references are applicable to everything in life. Or, if all else fails, Jim Gaffigan also works in a pinch, it seems.

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[info]icedark_elf
2007-05-10 06:14 am UTC (link)
*totally got asked out by current boyfriend over IM.

While he was two foot away.

Said yes the same way.

Is a geek.*

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Re: *Sighs*
[info]ktnb
2007-05-09 11:59 am UTC (link)
I totally agree with her original point too, which is why it's so hard to watch her go crazy in all her later comments. *sigh*

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