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alfa147x

Lifer
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It gets harder to make friends as you get older.

Hopefully that doesn't happen to us. We are social people.

My wife has a few friends. Allow me to describe the main ones:

1. Couple #1: The guy is a geek, likes video games, and is funny and pretty cool. The wife is so annoying that I want a truck to run over my head when I'm around her.

2. Couple #2: The wife is a good person but incredibly naive, idealistic, and annoying. The husband was a guy she met online and dated a whopping 2 months before marrying (after she was "in love" with another guy she dated for 2 months). He is an IT guy but claims to be "passionate" about opera, cares about the brands of kitchen utensils, and is a pretentious "foody" and actually thinks an MBA is an "academic" pursuit. He is someone effeminate and my wife and her best friend think he might actually be gay.

3. Best friend: Single, good looking girl with big knockers. Very pretentious and her life is a wreck (finances and love life). Can't find any decent guys and the guys she does hook up with are generally a joke.


Rough. My gf has horrible taste in friends. She's always been the quite push over.
 

Locut0s

Lifer
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There is a very good reason I don't go to house parties. The beer sucks.. I refuse to drink cheap beer. This guy I know almost forced me to drink PBR.. he went to say that.. "you are America so you must drink PBR." I just told him to fuck off.. left the place and bought my self a $12 bottle of Duvel.

Yeah cheap beer is horrible. What's the point of drinking something that tastes like urine? Or what I would assume urine tastes like.
 

IndyColtsFan

Lifer
Sep 22, 2007
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For others it might be stressful though?

They actually think that by making you sit or team with people you don't know or work regularly with that it will somehow help build "teamwork" or "comraderie." Again, it doesn't. It just annoys most people. I doubt anyone gets stressed by it.
 

IndyColtsFan

Lifer
Sep 22, 2007
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There is a very good reason I don't go to house parties. The beer sucks.. I refuse to drink cheap beer. This guy I know almost forced me to drink PBR.. he went to say that.. "you are America so you must drink PBR." I just told him to fuck off.. left the place and bought my self a $12 bottle of Duvel.

PBR? Were you partying at alfa's house?
 

zzuupp

Lifer
Jul 6, 2008
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I especially like these silly-ass corporate exercises when they claim they're trying to "get you out of your comfort zone" when they pair you in groups with other departments or people you don't know. Uh, sorry, all that does is annoy me for a few hours.

Somebody must like them. I certainly don't either.
 

IndyColtsFan

Lifer
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Somebody must like them. I certainly don't either.

Did you ever see that old episode of Saturday Night Live from the early 90s when Dana Carvey was spoofing Ross Perot? In the skit, Ross (Dana) went to a mall and was just throwing money at people to make them do stupid, humiliating things to get cheap laughs. I think that's why the HR-type people do it -- it amuses them. :D
 

busydude

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They actually think that by making you sit or team with people you don't know or work regularly with that it will somehow help build "teamwork" or "comraderie." Again, it doesn't. It just annoys most people. I doubt anyone gets stressed by it.

I hate it. It is basically the same as working in a team for a course project. I always have a member who refuses to work.. annoying pricks.
 

IndyColtsFan

Lifer
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My company is very big on "team building" exercises. You guys have probably seen my almost annual thread in OT bitching about our yearly exercises.
 

busydude

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PBR? Were you partying at alfa's house?

LOL. I don't think so. :awe:

My college is filled with hipsters though. I just don't understand.. that guy's parents are doctors practicing in Chicago. I have never seen him buy a beer other than PBR.
 

zzuupp

Lifer
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Did you ever see that old episode of Saturday Night Live from the early 90s when Dana Carvey was spoofing Ross Perot? In the skit, Ross (Dana) went to a mall and was just throwing money at people to make them do stupid, humiliating things to get cheap laughs. I think that's why the HR-type people do it -- it amuses them. :D

:)

Bingo. I think we have a winner!
 

IndyColtsFan

Lifer
Sep 22, 2007
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LOL. I don't think so. :awe:

My college is filled with hipsters though. I just don't understand.. that guy's parents are doctors practicing in Chicago. I have never seen him buy a beer other than PBR.

My wife likes PBR and is mad hipsters like it. To be fair, it is pretty good for a cheap beer but I much prefer a locally brewed porter or something like that.