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[Doktor Howl]

She was crazy, ie. the wrong kind of crazy, ie. super into him.

That ain't always bad.  Jenn and I are like matching "Over-Attached GF".  But yeah, that's an exception, especially for me.

Sigh. My vagina is an ill wind that blows no good.

That line is too good to waste.

also:

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

She was crazy, ie. the wrong kind of crazy, ie. super into him.

That ain't always bad.  Jenn and I are like matching "Over-Attached GF".  But yeah, that's an exception, especially for me.

Sigh. My vagina is an ill wind that blows no good.

That line is too good to waste.

also:

I don't even remember how to have anything more than a lingering fondness. I'm still hung up on a ghost, but circling in a bad-idea holding pattern.

[Doktor Howl]

I don't even remember how to have anything more than a lingering fondness. I'm still hung up on a ghost, but circling in a bad-idea holding pattern.

I have never understood what you see in that guy.  I mean, there's no accounting for that sort of thing, but it seems to me that he's exactly the kind of guy that would make you homicidal.

And as far as the capacity thing, it's probably because at our age, you're at the wrong end of the dating curve, and what's on the market is more likely to want to finger your earhole¹ than drive you mad with passion. 






¹ I never doubted your word about that incident, but part of me couldn't believe it.  Then I visited Portland, and I am ashamed to say that I had NO idea.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't even remember how to have anything more than a lingering fondness. I'm still hung up on a ghost, but circling in a bad-idea holding pattern.

I have never understood what you see in that guy.  I mean, there's no accounting for that sort of thing, but it seems to me that he's exactly the kind of guy that would make you homicidal.

And as far as the capacity thing, it's probably because at our age, you're at the wrong end of the dating curve, and what's on the market is more likely to want to finger your earhole¹ than drive you mad with passion. 






¹ I never doubted your word about that incident, but part of me couldn't believe it.  Then I visited Portland, and I am ashamed to say that I had NO idea.

It's all horribly, bizarrely true. As is the clown (*actual clown) I was really into, who was into wearing women's underwear. I was down with that. Then one night, he came to one of my parties. Walked out without saying a word and never returned my phone calls. I still don't know why.

As for Mr. Language, Even I don't know what I saw in him. I have no idea why I'm still hung up on him. He's not even ALIVE. Haven't seen him in years. He was never hot. I seriously don't fucking know. I have enough 30-somethings after me, I sometimes think I should just go with it, but I just can't bring myself to date that young. The irritating grad student with model looks keeps trying to flirt, but unfortunately I HATE HIM.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I was doing a really good job of pretending that guy never existed.

[Cain]

I've just realised now I'm moving back to London, I can far more effectively troll OKCupid and Craigslist, because I'll always have the potential to meet people in real time and do the same.

I am prepared for epic and terrible dating adventures.

Ohhhh my god.

I can't even imagine dating in London. It... just no.

Whats special about dating in London? Like, ive noticed in bigger cities its a heartless and cutthroat style, but idk if you mean that.

Well, Londoners can be like New Yorkers in that respect.  Everyone has somewhere they need to be, and either you're actively helping them, or you're in the way, and need to get out. In a literal and romantic sense, that is.

But London also has 25% of the UK's population, and probably 90% of its wealth (pulling figures out of my arse here).  It's cosmopolitan, but curiously parochial.  It's image obsessed and subculture obsessed.  It is a melting pot insofar as it manages to combine the worst aspects of every culture the city chooses to "celebrate".  It is, in short, a shiny, self-obsessed shithole with expensive drinks and food, which attracts people who find those qualities to be positives.

[Demolition Squid]

I've never felt threatened in London - although I've (mostly) avoided the rougher areas. If you look like you know where you're going and what you're doing, people do tend to just get the hell out of your way. I don't really tend to go there on a whim any more, though. When you don't live there, London is definitely a place you approach with a plan of action.

Any time I think about London these days, though, I think about how Nick Cave summed it up.

I started thinking about London,
And how nothing good ever came from this town,
And if the Thames weren't so filthy,
I'd jump in the river and drown.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Wow. I ended up blocking him. Jerd Guillame-Sam. Convinced that he has some deep truth that my mind is just not open enough to accept. Fucking nutbag.

I thought I ran into some bozos on the born-again pages.   

I sent him a video and told him that if he really wants to understand my worldview, he needs to watch it.

Mosselman?

This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHeveueWyBk

THIS IS GLORIOUS!

[axod]

Driver just greeted me with "Oh My God, good. You speak English."

In Portland?

That kind of raises the question of how the HELL did you get a taxicab in Portland?

Hah. No. At work. Truck driver. At most, 25% of the people I deal with are native English speakers. Kind of wondering why anyone with that kind of attitude would choose to be in this profession. Hell, I wonder why anyone who ONLY speaks one language would be in this profession. Most of our in-house drivers are Ukranian. A couple of them I communicate with in Spanish because it's easier for both of us.

I would never have expected that.

[axod]

I've never felt threatened in London - although I've (mostly) avoided the rougher areas. If you look like you know where you're going and what you're doing, people do tend to just get the hell out of your way. I don't really tend to go there on a whim any more, though. When you don't live there, London is definitely a place you approach with a plan of action.

Any time I think about London these days, though, I think about how Nick Cave summed it up.

I started thinking about London,
And how nothing good ever came from this town,
And if the Thames weren't so filthy,
I'd jump in the river and drown.

Eh, I have unusually bad luck with random jaunts to London.  Really, it's like a bad fucking dream.

[Cain]

I've never felt threatened in London - although I've (mostly) avoided the rougher areas. If you look like you know where you're going and what you're doing, people do tend to just get the hell out of your way. I don't really tend to go there on a whim any more, though. When you don't live there, London is definitely a place you approach with a plan of action.

Any time I think about London these days, though, I think about how Nick Cave summed it up.

I started thinking about London,
And how nothing good ever came from this town,
And if the Thames weren't so filthy,
I'd jump in the river and drown.

I've rarely ever felt threatened either in London, even in the so-called "rougher" areas.

That said, the city itself feels menacing and wrong on some deep level.  Like someone nuked the site 20,000 years ago and even though all the readings say it's safe...you can't help but feel the possibility of unseen death in the air.

[Cain]

Oh, and accepting coffee from Russians is a bad idea, of course.

[Eater of Clowns]

I was being a super turd yesterday afternoon and dragging my feet about going to see my friends' band play.

Five hours later I'm in a dive bar in Newport at a table surrounded by roller derby girls, listening to rock and roll and drinking Narragansett.

It's nice to be reminded just how fucking wrong the lazy, whiny asshole inside me really is.

[Eater of Clowns]

Sigh. My vagina is an ill wind that blows no good.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Wow. I ended up blocking him. Jerd Guillame-Sam. Convinced that he has some deep truth that my mind is just not open enough to accept. Fucking nutbag.

I thought I ran into some bozos on the born-again pages.   

I sent him a video and told him that if he really wants to understand my worldview, he needs to watch it.

Mosselman?

This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHeveueWyBk

THIS IS GLORIOUS!

It's pretty much the reason Youtube was invented, I think.