jayseven

See, the 'facebook official' isn't something that bothers me but its mere existence calls into question the whole 'labelling' thing. I'm quite content coasting along with my lovely lady and enjoying everything but other people repeatedly ask me "so when's to going to be facebook official?" as if there's a lack of authenticity to the relationship I have! Also, I use facebook events for larger shindigs. My default practice is just texting people but events do help to clarify things and cut down on repetition.

I know what you mean. I used to have friends to invite me to their shows kinda to make their gig look more important or whatever. But I just either deleted them or asked them to stop as I'd never be available. I think people are assuming that I'm doing a similar thing - inviting them but not caring about hearing back. But I do. I have a mental list of people who don't ever respond and they just stop getting invited. Then they can assume that they were right all along, where actually it was their inactivity and reclusive nature that has crossed them off. I hate people who complain about never doing anything or being invited anywhere, when they never invite anyone to anything or organise anything. (this sounds like I'm having a go at you -- I'm not I'm just channelling rage) I have almost daily instances of this. There are a few bottlenecks down the highstreet where invariably there's someone pushing a pram, a bloke on crutches, an obese person on a scooter thing and a kid with a dog all walking at 1mph. I have been up the park standing on the path waiting for a friend and an old person, who has seen me standing there for the 5 mins they took to walk my way, walks right up to me and says "ecuse me!" as if I was in his way, when the entire other half of the path was there, free for him to detour. I'm just frustrated at everyone.

Ok so I'm frustrated because of facebook events. Essentially, people think "oh I've got an invitation! I'll look at this, then just not say whether I'm going or not because lots of people have an invite and they won't notice if I say nothing at all." Typically if it's a night out it's all done via texts, which people kinda feel they HAVE to respond to because tehy KNOW that I know they've got the fucking invite. On facebook people can just pretend they haven't seen the invite yet -- even though they're sitting on the chat list with their little green circles. I just find it really rude. I've created an event to play pool on the weekend as I have a friend who can get us two free tables at the local pool hall - however he needs to know rough numbers. So there's 30 people invited, of which at least 12 are just courtesy invites to people I've not seen in a while, or people who aren't strictly part of teh 'core' group of friends who are going, who have their own social main group and will be too scared to come hang with us without their security blankets. But still, as a gesture they'll get an invite and the opportunity to turn me down. So I've texted everyone whose number I have to ask them again, and immediately I get 5 responses -- a mixture of yeses and noses. I hate how facebook really trivialises or overblows social interactions. It's a weird system of communication and I don't like teh non-committal nature of it. I also hate how 'facebook official' is a legit thing now; an actual milestone to charter by. It has legitimately complicated my situation by placing a blue-boxed, white lower-cased lettered cloud above me. That bit makes little sense, BUT I KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

I was at the brighton-hull game yesterday and the right-winger for brighton kept pulling back the ball and faking a cross with his left foot, only to turn again to go on his right. The thing is he NEVER actually put a cross in with his left foot so it was utterly predictable. I was shouting "LEFT FOOOOOT!!" every time he got the ball. When Brighton scored from a free kick with a left foot I just shouted "TOLD YOUUUUU!" ... Well it was funny for me.

Carboot, charity shops, bought (male) mate a dress for £1, pub breakfast, pizza and beer lunch, go see brighton - hull football, drinks, mate turns up in dress, friends buy me shots and jagerbombs all night without me asking, lovely people, lovely times, lovely girl with lovely smile.... tax cheque arrives for £323 so I've survived! Woo! BONUS CONTENT! My friend's facebook status; http://www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/341209717 dA seems to be down for me right now so I haven't actually seen it yet This is my mate (more of a friend of a friend, eh) who was a vegetarian for years, and now makes quality sourced hand-made meat-based produce. His van was voted amongst Brighton's top 10 restaurants by someoneorother, and it's not even a shop! It's a trailer thing! P.S. http://nick-edwards.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/trolls-pantry-face-meltingly-good.html is another related post.

I think low chaos is the hardest way (assuming you went for no detection/no weapons), and actually when you're able to be a kick-ass dude it's much easier -- but still pretty rewarding. Goddamn I want a sequel.

Dude it's N-E! It's the sole reason I love this place. You get genuine words when you need it. Keep posting here (or in other threads) if you're finding it difficult. You'll find the support. And I'd happly punch people in the face but I hear the wage isn't so great! :P One day I'll come to germany. Buy me a pint when that happens. before then if I fall into similar pitfalls as you then just be there for me! And thus the socialist N-E continues to rotate on its axis.

I was lolling at the special stages... but the video had a lot of excess shit. Might check out more of their stuff though!

You sound like someone who has loved someone intensely, but not known that it's possible to love others. Your heart is fighting to hold on because it's afraid it'll never feel again. There are better people out there for you. It just isn't something that happens overnight. Some people get lucky and meet someone new quick, others wait years. But you will never meet someone interesting if you are so preoccupied with, frankly, feeling sorry for yourself. Self-pity is not an attractive feature. Which is why you need to continue to progress! Keep her gone; keep working at bettering yourself. Don't be in a hurry to replace that part of your life - learn to live life by yourself. The whole point of love is that you share life. It's not about giving over a chunk of you to their control. If I was wallowing in the wake of a lost love then I'd've not only had my eyes shut to a decent girl but also have been repulsive to her. I'm not saying you can snap out of it -- I have wallowed for months. I'm just saying that meeting someone new is a significant thing - a significant sign that does not come easy. Don't be in any hurry, because if you are then all you'll do is rush into a new mistake. You're lost and alone. Find yourself.

We've talked about it a lot, and she's afraid that she'll feel pretty bad when we split. It's a serious thing, not just a bit of fun. I've met a lot of people in my life and there's a list I can count on two fingers that made me feel like this. It's surreal, supernatural, sublime. I've done the long-distance thing and she hasn't, so I can kinda predict the roller-coaster ahead whereas it's all alien to her. In my heart of hearts, I know she can cope -- but still, having a not-quite-two-month relationship then an 8 month spell apart? It's a bit mental, really. It's sensible to put some failsafes into the mix. It's just that... having not met many people like this I KNOW I don't want to just let it go in 5 weeks time. So yeah, the brakes are off and we're enjoying it - the more we do, the more we'll experience the heartache of Aus. But hey, what is life without such intense drama? Makes me smile.

I've really enjoyed all of the games. Really got into 3 (which surprised me as I watched my cousin play for 6 hours and it looked dire). I look forward to seeing what they do. Surprised they're not doing more with the americas, and the BOAT!

I've really enjoyed all of the games. Really got into 3 (which surprised me as I watched my cousin play for 6 hours and it looked dire). I look forward to seeing what they do. Surprised they're not doing more with the americas, and the BOAT!

I've really enjoyed all of the games. Really got into 3 (which surprised me as I watched my cousin play for 6 hours and it looked dire). I look forward to seeing what they do. Surprised they're not doing more with the americas, and the BOAT!

Kinda related; seeing Hull vs. Brighton on the weekend. Iun can I bank on you not zooming over the oceans and continents to super-hero-vise the match?

A film set in the same world could be anything, or anything else in between! Could be a sit-com set in australia where tehy've been cut-off from the rest of the world and nobody knows why.

I think retro said it already, but jeeez! People spent years complaining there weren't enough of the 'classic' franchises and now there are too many?

Gaaah I hate all these rumours! I want solid infooooo! It's really exciting to finally have a new batch of consoles, as it's been far too long since the anticipation/megaton days.

Obligatory birthday salutations redface!

Nothing heroic at my end simple stuff. Ran out of money, booze and fags on the same day. I thought I had £4 which was going to get me some nasty cider and a cheap tesco value microwave meal. Turns out I dropped £3 somewhere so it's just the microwave meal. I have a cheque that should clear tomorrow for about £75, but that's got to last a fortnight if I'm medium-lucky, a week if I'm proper lucky and a month if I'm in-the-shit. But I have my friends to thank for keeping me propped up and fed these last few days, leaving me with only what is now half a day to 'struggle' through. Still annoying though!

It seems that Mutual Friend (I like how we're all adopting codenames for our little dramas - kudos @Raining_again for kicking it off) has been trying to stick her oar in a little bit. Basically, Mutual Friend is having boy troubles -- she likes this guy who is an absolute dickcunttwatface who treats her with absolutely no respect and if she shows a bit of backbone and says "you said you'd come over today. It's 11pm I've been waiting all day, where are you?" he replies with "ffs stop making me feel guilty! God, get a grip" ... which is a total :| in my book. MF isn't great at just.. severing it like she needs to. So anyway she decided to bring up (as if it ever went away) me leaving to Oz in like 5 weeks to Hot Girl (herein known in as 'my gal' or some other derivative thereof), and both MF and my lassie had been having a few drinks whilst I was *shock* sober, so at 2am I'm inundated with a barrage of worries and concerns and nonsense that essentially said "I don't think we should spend v-day together because it's a coupley thing and we're not a couple even though we are mutually exclusive, both like each other a lot, eat each other's faces in public and do worse in private, but I'm scared that if we get too close it'll be painful when we part" (paraphrasing, obv.). This was another mild melodrama episode, and thanks to the last one I was totes chill the whole time, lolling through and all that; I basically said "I'm not going to go in reverse. I'm not going to sabotage my own happiness through some fear that has yet to manifest." Clearly the pudding was well baked by me, because the proof was hotdamnyeahboi last night. Uh huh uh huh uh huh... A-hem... But yeah - got to consider MF a potential malefactor. She does deal in drama, so I hope she doesn't whisper in my lady's ear too much -- though my lady appeared yesterday and seems to have made up her mind -- we're going to give up on 'going slow' and enjoy our time and simply deal with the separation when it happens. My vote is in the long-distance relationship camp. But no facebook-official tag-line in sight!

I think it's still meant to be droll, though!

I'm trying to be more selective with games. While peeps makes awesome maffs I didn't play the first game and I don't have the patience to read it, and I think it'll be detrimental to me if I don't and therefore detrimental to everyone else if I play.

http://www.visitberlin.de/en/article/counselling-centres ... now I know you're not in Berlin but your google search will pull up better results than my .co.uk one. Of course there are options available to you that are free. You live in one of the most developed countries on the planet! Depression is a serious thing and because it is something that originates within your own head it is something that requires external help and guidance from experts who can give you added perspective. The help is there. But, as JonSt says, you have to take the ain't-easy path and get it yourself.

Why certainly, Bob. Here's sammich caught on camera being a bit of a loafer;

Great stuff guys keep up the good work!