NEVER FORGET! BLUESOUP HAS FAILED US DAY!
Tchan:
I have nothing to add to this little chat, because I think everyone's basically covered it, except your username, Jerseygirl-ninety-thousand-zeros, is false advertising. You are NOT from Jersey. Try again, PAL. You're from NEW Jersey.
Thank you.
~ Someone from REAL Jersey, who finds it offensive that New Jerseyans call themselves "Jersey", such to the extent that when she says she's from Jersey, people automatically she means New Jersey, which is NOT true.
(By the way, we may be a small British island, but we OWN you.)
xoferew:
You make the cows, right?
Funny how us Americans never forget the "New" in front of York or Mexico.
Lorelei:
I suspect witch could write a best-seller about relationships if she could only be bothered to do so.
It's almost always enlightening to examine your current S.O.'s former relationships and whether s/he gets along well with them. If s/he has not managed to remain friends with any, and says nothing but negative things about them, the truth is that the problem is logically with your S.O. and when you figure this out and break up, you will join their ranks and be described in the same way.
It is also enlightening to examine how s/he gets on with his/her mother, especially if your S.O. is a guy. If they don't get along at all, any negative attitude about Mom is going to get applied to women in general. If they are "too" close, no woman will ever measure up to good ol' Mom, or get support from the S.O. when Mom is wrong. Women do the same with Dad (their attitude towards Dad sets the tone for their attitude about guys in general), and many tend to look and act more like their moms as they get older.
Some other truths:
1. People don't change dramatically from the way they are when you first start dating...except for the worse. If they are cheap, rude to service people, mysogynistic, bad with money, unfaithful, drunk, reckless drivers, bad dressers, tacky, addicted to anything, lazy, messy, argumentative, egotistical, hyper-religious, or whatever, keep in mind that they are sti trying to win you over and impress you when you first start dating, and if you accept bad behaviors then, thinking you can "fix" or "change" them, you are a fool.
2. How people treat their superiors and inferiors (bosses on one hand, servers on the other) is enlightening. If there's a vast difference, run.
3. Thrill seekers will get bored with you and cheat, or try drugs, or generally act like bored children at some point in your relationship.
4. The same advice about listening carefully when they talk about former S.O.s applies also to jobs, especially if they don't seem to keep one for long. If it is (supposedly) never their fault they got fired, then they are lying.
5. It is better to be single than stupid. If you ignore your common sense when dating, you are being stupid, and you will earn exactly what you get.
None of the above is earth-shatteringly new advice. I'm sure my great-great-grandmother was told similar things by HER mother. Only the very young and/or arrogant think that common sense guidelines don't apply to THEM and then get angry and defensive about it.
Sagana:
> I suspect witch could write a best-seller about relationships if she could only be bothered to do so.
Another unmarried marriage counselor...
Tchan:
Quote from: xoferew on 2008 April 05, 13:27:31
You make the cows, right?
Funny how us Americans never forget the "New" in front of York or Mexico.
Yep! We do. And the potatoes. We do Jersey cows and Jersey Royals.
And precisely. And New England.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page