Anyone have a$$hole friends?

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DWW

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There is this one in particular.

He can be totally levelheaded and cool one moment. And the next, make fun of you if you don't live up to his "ideal" way.

Particularly we disagree MAJORLY in the field of computer programming (our expertise). He always clowns me and says I'll amount to nothing while talking himself up to be this major next Linus Torvalds or Alan Cox or something of that nature with the ambition of Bill Gates--I kid you not, he keeps talking about how rich he will be in the coming years from this MAJOR project he does at work which I've seen and is nothing impressive.

I tend to think my ideas are a lot better and plan to develop them more. I don't even tell him them because I know he would belittle them some way or another. By no means do I plan on getting rich though, merely they are just nifty I think.

It is almost hilarious to listen to him go on and on and on ALL about himself like how much he makes, his car, how rich he is going to strike it and how little I know about the "real" programming world because I don't work for his small time company which is, really, a pathetic business. All the while it is "this is how much LESS than me you will make, because, you know, your not as GREAT as me" and "when are you going to buy a new car, yours sucks, my car is SO much better" and since I'm very good at doing finances and saving money (even though he probably makes triple what I do) he questions me where I get money for stuff "how can you afford that? you don't make enough". And he must put in more hours talking about his car than anyone else I know.

And yet since I moved away from home, he is the only friend around this area and I've known him for a number of years so he is fun to hang out with when we go drinkin, girl hunting, playin pool and stuff like that. Anything NOT computer related.

/rant

So anyone else have total cheesehead friends?
 
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hdeck

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i have lots of asshole friends

*edit* but they aren't assholes to me
 
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Eli

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Uh, find new friends?

Is he holding a gun to your head? :p

I generally try not to associate with assholes.
 
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Mill

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Sounds like you met him on ATOT. No, I actually don't have friends like that because it isn't worth the time. All of my friends and I are pretty levelheaded.
 
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DWW

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I don't know why I chill with him.

Probably cause I've known him since high school and the fact he CAN be somewhat "normal" when he gets his mind off his "dynasty" or whatever you want to call it (ego?). And for the fact I don't have many new friends around where I live now but him.
 
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CTrain

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The reason why you're still friends with him is that you've learned to deal with his bad attributes.

Looking back at how I've met some of my friends, they all did stuff that made them @ssholes.
But once you hang out with them more and more, those bad attributes can be ignored.
They'd probably say the same thing about me.
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: Millennium
Sounds like you met him on ATOT. No, I actually don't have friends like that because it isn't worth the time. All of my friends and I are pretty levelheaded.
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Fact is his friends and him are one and the same though.

I have had friends like this...they are more or less acquaintances though, usually people I have to work with.

I have one friend though (only because I have known him for 10+ years and his parents) that does nothing but talk about the same things each time that for the past 10 years he hasn't gotten.
 
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EmperorIQ

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yea D W W, i know exactly how you feel, i'm sorta in the same situation, but i think recently instead of just ignoring my friend i've told myself that i can't bring myself to trust him anymore and that he's not really all that worth it to maintain a friendship with. I always hear (from him) about how sad his life is, and that his family is poor, but this kid buys 400$ digital cameras, sells them for a cheaper price to get money to buy a better one( if found, also applies to other objects), etc. etc., and such, but he doesn't have a job, still gets allowances at the age of 20. he always criticizes me about how inconsiderate i am, and puts me down and walks all overme, and yet expects me to be a completely considerate to him, and respect him. He always presents himself as a self-made independent man, but his mom still cleans his room for him, still does his laundry, he didn't know how to write a check until i showed him 3 months ago, and yet he still talks down to me as if i'm a kid. I've finally gotten sick of his selfish attitude and hypocrisy and really have come to terms with myself that we can't be anymore than just people who went to the same high school. pffffffft 5 years of friendship gone. . .

D W W, have you ever just told your friend about how stupid he is (when he is) and just say that you don't appreciate how you're always being put down? I've kept my anger in for too long and it just got too deep, if you are, don't hold in anything, let him know that he's being an a$$hole. . . .
 
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dolph

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all of my friends are assholes. they're temporary until i can find new ones. unforuntately, it's been about 20 years and i still have the same ones... i really need to bump it up on my to-do list
 
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TheHeartless

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can't say that i do. The few that i do have can annoy me at times...but meh, that might just be me and being a girl....my friends are generally supporative of me.
 
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Originally posted by: DWW
So anyone else have total cheesehead friends?
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I DID have an asshole friend, but I told him to basically f@$# off about 4 months ago. You want a story? Here goes....

About 4 years ago, we both worked at McDonalds around the same time we graduated high school together. (We're both 22 now) He was having problems with his long-time girlfriend, and we had just got done with a busy night of constant customers. He took a 15-minute break, and was arguing with his gf out in the lobby. Well, he stayed out there for about 20 to 25 minutes, so I asked the manager to go see how much longer he had, because I wanted to take a break. (She was a cool manager and liked us both, so no biggie asking her.) May I also point out that he has the worst temper I have ever seen out of anyone, yet he has never shown it to me yet. Well, this one guy we worked with went up there and told him I was talking about him, and of course he got pissed. After that ensued the threats of getting my ass kicked after work ended, and generally yelling at me and making the rest of night uncomfortable. Needless to say, I told him I wasn't fighting him, and didn't talk to him for over a year.

We got to where we were friends again, and just 4 months ago, he snapped at me again. This time over a $20 GeForce2MX I let him borrow. He claimed I never told him it was a loan, yet I did tell him this, and it's in writing on my personal forums where my friends and I always chatted it up. When I went to retrieve it one day, he decided to be a d!ck, and first talk about how he was left with no video card because I decided without warning to him that I wanted MY video card back. Then he went into how I was never a friend to him, and anytime we partied it was on his dime (please note I have no idea what the hell he is talking about on that one, I never partied with him much because he's an alcoholic). I told him to keep the damn card, that he ruined our last chance at friendship over $20. I haven't talked to him since.

He was/is an a$$hole. I'm glad to have him rid of my life :).
 
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