Thread: Why I don't have friends.

Originally Posted by Andante

So, you are a male of the species! why such an avatar? do you have a fetish for high heels? or are you bi-sexual?

My secrets die with me.


And with Rick Santorum, John Ashcroft, Barney the Dinosaur, Handy Smurf, The Rock, and Chuck Norris. My secrets die with us.

Originally Posted by science

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But I also don't take any pride in displaying my cultural superiority. People know. I don't have to flaunt it. So I have some friends.

Same deal with my cultural superiority. I'm a hillbilly by accident of birth. I feel not pride but noblesse oblige.

Originally Posted by science

Perhaps I'm excessively cynical, but I simply do not expect to find people in real life who share my interests closely enough to have a meaningful conversation. I have a friend for classic rock, blues, and jazz up to about 1968. I used to have a friend for literature. There are a couple of women who'll occasionally watch an opera with me. And my wife makes a real effort now and then - to be fair to her, I really don't like most of her TV shows, but she has sucked me in with a few of them (currently Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory).

But I also don't take any pride in displaying my cultural superiority. People know. I don't have to flaunt it. So I have some friends.

Oh god, The Big Bang Theory is the worst show I've ever watched. I don't even meet friends who have interests in those things. The great thing about my life is my fiancee is interested in everything that I am. She's even constantly turning me onto free jazz and atonal classical music and stuff like that. She's heavy into art music and art film, philosophy, and all that sort of stuff. I've always hated the idea of having separate friends for every interest and hobby. We do everything together, from fashion shopping, to watching all the same shows, watching/playing sports, going to concerts, etc. etc. There isn't any real difference in the things we embrace and we genuinely enjoy eachother's interests. Makes the need for friends an absolute zero!

Wow. That sounds like the sort of like-on-like girlfriend that Sheldon has. Sure you don't watch that show?

Positive, as I have no idea what you're talking about.

Originally Posted by Couchie

I was in a liquor store today looking for a Riesling. The store keeper walks over to me and asks if I'm German. I reply, "I wish". So she asks why I need German wine. I reply, "I'll be watching some Wagner tonight and I don't mix, darling". She walks away without saying anything.

You seem to be even more Germanophile than the Germans themselves.

"I'd like a Riesling, and your papers, please."

Originally Posted by ComposerOfAvantGarde

I think he has made it pretty apparent that he has a wife if you take a look at some of his other posts.

Don't you have a sense of humour ??

Originally Posted by Cnote11

Oh god, The Big Bang Theory is the worst show I've ever watched.

At the very least you need to watch some "Joey" or something to get perspective.

But for a real treat, check out this Korean drama/sitcom that's on now - North and South Korean spies joining forces to win some international competition, with adventures such as when they find out that the treadmills they're running on are bombed and if they stop running they'll all blow up - so queue up a long montage of the stars running, looking worried, getting sweatier and increasingly tired, all set to music mimicking the Titanic soundtrack. If you can put up with it for seven or eight minutes, the deus will get all ex machina and then we can have some really predictable romance - the girl super-spy is starting to realize that the incompetent prince (South Korea is a kingdom in this story) actually has a heart of gold.

That is perspective.

Originally Posted by Cnote11

Oh god, The Big Bang Theory is the worst show I've ever watched. I don't even meet friends who have interests in those things.

Just when I thought Cnote was cool. That's why, like Science, I have a friend for everything.

I'm sorry, but any Chuck Lorre is automatically out for me. I just can't stand his style of humor. I never saw Joey, but I find Friends to be a horrible show as well so I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like it. However, that Korean show seems awesome

Originally Posted by Andante

Don't you have a sense of humour ??

No. Since when?

Originally Posted by science

My secrets die with me.


And with Rick Santorum, John Ashcroft, Barney the Dinosaur, Handy Smurf, The Rock, and Chuck Norris. My secrets die with us.

Who the heck are they???

Originally Posted by Cnote11

Oh god, The Big Bang Theory is the worst show I've ever watched. I don't even meet friends who have interests in those things. The great thing about my life is my fiancee is interested in everything that I am. She's even constantly turning me onto free jazz and atonal classical music and stuff like that. She's heavy into art music and art film, philosophy, and all that sort of stuff. I've always hated the idea of having separate friends for every interest and hobby. We do everything together, from fashion shopping, to watching all the same shows, watching/playing sports, going to concerts, etc. etc. There isn't any real difference in the things we embrace and we genuinely enjoy eachother's interests. Makes the need for friends an absolute zero!

Sounds like the average hipster couple......

Well then, I'm glad other people can have relationships as happy as mine. We tend to leave out the drum circle thing though.

Originally Posted by Couchie

I'm 1/4 German actually. 1/4 Russian and the rest Welsh.

Well get Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel to sing some aria in German (composed by you-know-who), accompanied by a Russian orchestra & you're covered. Throw in a Canadian conductor & that would be your ideal musical-ethnic combination.

This is the best joke I can do guys. & it's pretty pathetic. So in future I'll stick to the boring things as usual.