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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm more into the pre-emptive break-up, possibly after a short-term dalliance.
The first two are from this weekend, and the third was delivered to someone who just happened to be sitting next to the latest suitors. (Man, I can't believe I'm moving back to that town.)
This one incorporates Jongno's sage advice:
"We had fun, but this isn't going to work. I'm too old to be considering a relationship with a guy who I can't see as the father of my children. I promise I'll write you a great letter of recommendation."
FYI, Guru, he replied that I was just the sort of girl he'd like for the mother of his kids. Bless him.
This one is a little condescending, but true:
"I think there are three type of guys: good for the short term, good for the long term, and really sweet guys whom I wouldn't dare *beep* with. I don't want to hurt you, so we're not going to sleep together."
Short and sweet:
"Just so you know, you're not my boyfriend. Are you okay with that?"
(maybe this needs to be cross-referenced to Korea and the Single Girl, just to balance out the Lonely Western Girl tales of woe.) |
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merlot

Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Location: I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:54 am Post subject: |
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I've heard this more than a few times:
"We're all about fun together, and it's great. But that's all it is. And as much fun as we have together, I just think there should be something else."
...well, at least I'm fun. And the thing is is that these exes tend to end up with CPAs named Rex who only fertilize their yard when it looks like rain, who plan vacations six months in advance, who separate their nickels from their dimes each evening before neatly hanging their starched pants up in their closet of conventionality as their wives slowly remember a more unencumbered kind of stiffness.
So, it's no wonder I constantly get emails and calls from long lost lovers who long for fun fun fun in the sun.
fun is a godamned good trait to have; I'll change for no one |
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joe_doufu

Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:32 am Post subject: i got it again |
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Once again tonight I got a girl saying, "Oh, won't you introduce us [me and my niece] to some other American guys before you go? We really don't know lots of foreign guys. Here's a piece of paper and a pen, if you think of anybody."
I seem to attract this type. I don't know why girls think I'm a pushover, in fact I've *never* given in to this sort of thing, not since I was a shy college boy. I suppose it's because I don't pre-emptively project as an a-hole. |
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joe_doufu

Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
Short and sweet:
"Just so you know, you're not my boyfriend. Are you okay with that?" |
How's this for romantic, I got this a few weeks ago: "I'm unavailable. I'm going home alone." Ouch! |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Location: In front of my computer, again.
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:49 am Post subject: |
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What a funny thread!
I've said:
"We need a trial separation." (He finally agreed about the third time I tried this line).
and
"Sorry, you're too Christian and I'm not going to convert." (actually he convinced me to stick around, and months later split up with me because his parents wouldn't consider a foreign daughter-in-law).
and
"I know you have never slept with your wife (they got married when he was 16 and she was 9), but she's still your wife, and you're not getting divorced, since you can't marry me, what's the point continuing?"
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"You don't give me orgasms."
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--everything--- on ALL the previous posts and many swear words and many harsh things to a stalker and NONE of it worked (I left the country).
and
"This relationship is just physical, I need mental stimulation, too." |
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Bo Peabody
Joined: 25 Aug 2005
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:02 am Post subject: |
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The Man known as The Man

Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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| "I don't like squeezing your airbags as much as I used to". |
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hack

Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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| This week is 1 of the best times to dump your gf what wth VD coming up. Will save you a lot of money and expectations. If you really like her, hook up aga a few weeks later. Otherwise, NEXT???!!! |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
Short and sweet:
"Just so you know, you're not my boyfriend. Are you okay with that?" |
How's this for romantic, I got this a few weeks ago: "I'm unavailable. I'm going home alone." Ouch! |
Remember this one?
"Desperation is not hot."
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The Man known as The Man

Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Location: 3 cheers for Ted Haggard oh yeah!
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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From Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry The Dead Pool:
"Only with humans". |
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joe_doufu

Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| joe_doufu wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
Short and sweet:
"Just so you know, you're not my boyfriend. Are you okay with that?" |
How's this for romantic, I got this a few weeks ago: "I'm unavailable. I'm going home alone." Ouch! |
Remember this one?
"Desperation is not hot."
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LOL, some people just don't have the gene for drama/romance. |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| joe_doufu wrote: |
| kermo wrote: |
Remember this one?
"Desperation is not hot."
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LOL, some people just don't have the gene for drama/romance. |
Romance? Perhaps not. I can't stand romantic movies or books, though I can be rather sweet once I'm in a relationship. As for drama, come on. There were four guys that night in a virtual c*ckblocking battle royale. That's plenty of drama. |
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joe_doufu

Joined: 09 May 2005 Location: Elsewhere
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Romance? Perhaps not. I can't stand romantic movies or books, though I can be rather sweet once I'm in a relationship. As for drama, come on. There were four guys that night in a virtual c*ckblocking battle royale. That's plenty of drama. |
Huh? What battle? I thought we were speaking hypothetically. Upon further consideration I think this strategy of "pre-emptive rejection" is a bit presumptuous... you could be flattering yourself by taking for granted that a guy is even trying to pick you up... It decreases you to accuse a potential friend of "desperation" for you... not to mention pre-emptively telling him that he's not hot! |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| Romance? Perhaps not. I can't stand romantic movies or books, though I can be rather sweet once I'm in a relationship. As for drama, come on. There were four guys that night in a virtual c*ckblocking battle royale. That's plenty of drama. |
Huh? What battle? I thought we were speaking hypothetically. Upon further consideration I think this strategy of "pre-emptive rejection" is a bit presumptuous... you could be flattering yourself by taking for granted that a guy is even trying to pick you up... It decreases you to accuse a potential friend of "desperation" for you... not to mention pre-emptively telling him that he's not hot! |
Awww, sugar. I was just using that night as an example, and you used the battle imagery yourself on that occasion. I think you were pretty hammered that night though. You bought me a rose, you were laying the compliments on pretty thick, hovering at my elbow, and batting those long blond eyelashes at me. I didn't mean that you weren't hot, but that you were making your intentions very clear and it wasn't really fun for me. If you're going to argue the "desperation point" I may have to whip out "exhibit D." And trust me, nobody needs to see that.
As for the other guys, their intentions were clear to me based on their actions that night and in the past. I trust I won't have to be too specific here. I didn't arrange for them all to meet like some strange ecumenical harem (agnostic, Jewish, Muslim, Catholic, and me, a Protestant) but we did have an interesting religious discussion at one point. I just happened to run into two of you in the street, while the other two were two separate dates that just bled into each other.
There was some drama, and though I chose to go home alone, I had irritating dreams that one of the guys was in bed with me, kicking and stealing the sheets, and that I was sexually obliged to a bearded miget. The following weekend, I met only with women and men of ambiguous sexuality. Much more relaxing.
I didn't say I use pre-emptive rejection-- I just usually don't let things get to the point where I would have to "break-up" because I'm not really in a "girlfriend" sort of place in my life.
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| This week is 1 of the best times to dump your gf what wth VD coming up. Will save you a lot of money and expectations. If you really like her, hook up aga a few weeks later. Otherwise, NEXT???!!! |
VD? I think you're referring to Valentine's Day but the first time I read this, I was a bit misled. The expensive antibiotics I can understand, but the expectations? Anyway, it almost works both ways. |
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Swiss James

Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai
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Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| jesus- how about taking it to PM you two?! |
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