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MerchManDan · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 1448 Location: Somewhere else.

I don't see how a guy complaining about getting friendzoned is being manipulative.
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ShadowCell · Joined: 03 Aug 2008 Posts: 5264 Location: California

the manipulative use of guilt?

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9304 Location: Bellingham, WA

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9304 Location: Bellingham, WA

... So as to avoid any personal responsibility for not hooking up/going out/whatever.
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fritterdonut · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:40 am Post subject:

As someone whose done a fair bit of arc welding, I just wanted to point out that lifting your welding mask while welding is a great way to do some serious UV damage to your eyes. Especially if you're doing stick (not so much for MIG because the nozzle tends blocks your view of the arc somewhat).

Unless she's doing OxyAce welding, and those goggles/safety glasses are at least shade #5, in which case it's fine.

Workshop safety awaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy
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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 5314

Having had "friends" completely up and disappear without word because I had the audacity to date somebody not them (keeping in mind, none of 'em asked me out) really crashed my self-esteem at one point.

I'm not the prettiest girl in the world, but I definitely won the genetic lottery in that I'm skinny with big eyes and lips. I was thoroughly convinced for the longest time that my looks were the only reason dudes would ever talk to me. It wasn't narcissism. I thought I was so awful and impossible to deal with that as soon as they -actually- got to know me they'd book it.

So you know what? Fuck this idea that being 'friendzoned' is the WORST FUCKING THING that could possibly happen to you. And seriously, fuck anybody who's decided a girl (any girl) is only worth their time if there is some hope they'll get to fuck her later. And none of this bullshit about love, if she isn't worth their time as a friend then they're obviously just making up excuses to expect sex.
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starkruzr · Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Posts: 75

Just as those people needed to learn there is more to relationships with the opposite sex than romance, so did you need to learn that your experience did not reflect on you as a person of worth.

There are a lot of lonely people in the world, and many of them have a very difficult time bearing it.

Guest · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 2163

So the Friend Zone™ only applies to people of the male persuasion?
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fritterdonut · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 4:30 am Post subject:

I dunno about you guys but I just count myself lucky to even be in a so called "friendzone". You can never have enough friends.

Although I tend to think of myself more as that friend you know who helps you with stuff (moving heavy stuff, helping with chemistry work) than as a serious romantic interest. This is probably a bad thing.
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Samsally · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 5314

I wasn't completely clear, but I did speak in past tense for a reason. My sense of self worth is fine, now.

That in no way means that their behavior was any less shitty and underhanded.
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