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post #1 of 45
Thread Starter 
I just found out that my best friend didn't just joke about not caring for people. I have my fair share of hatred myself and can be very cynical about it. To a degree I'm very dissapointed by people and the harm they cause me (and in general)

Still I find myself to be a very helpful person, trying not to be like them. I speak up for people even if it's not my business. But he wouldn't even bother helping someone breaking down on the street. So in a sense he is in part one of the people I despise. And that's a fact I find hard to overlook. Just for good measure: I don't like one of my sisters because she's openly rassistic and has no empathy for my brothers girlfriend who refused to meet our family because of her sociaphobia.

I'm kind of torn. I consider my friend to be one of the only persons I can truthfully trust. We share a lot of interests and have the same kind of twisted humour. I spend alot of my freetime with him. But should I be friends with someone who only would call an ambulance for me because he happens to know me?
post #2 of 45
Breaking down on the street? As in, doing flips and moonwalking?
post #3 of 45
What the hell is "rassistic"?
post #4 of 45
It's probably in your best interests to hold on to any friends you can get.
post #5 of 45
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Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
It's probably in your best interests to hold on to any friends you can get.
Yep. Who knows, you may be a complete asshole. So keep the friends you have.
post #6 of 45
My best friends loves the Rush Hour movies and shitty comedies in general. So?
I still love the guy.
post #7 of 45
You're friends with an asshole. It happens.

If you enjoy each other's company and have similar interests what does it matter? I was under the impression that people, friends or family, didn't have to think exactly alike in order to have a relationship.
post #8 of 45
'rassistic' is such a powerful word. Also, the fact that you say "should I be friends with someone who only would call an ambulance for me because he happens to know me?" means he can't be a complete asshole. At least he'll call an ambulance.

Also, if you want to be a true friend, you need to spend your time now trying to get him to change. Halt the rassistic and selfishstick tendencies they have.
post #9 of 45
Is your friend Daniel Plainview?
post #10 of 45
Your friend sounds both glurristic and dravenly. Is he a vondruke?
post #11 of 45
We don't care. We're not joking.
post #12 of 45
Aren't wee his closest friends?
post #13 of 45
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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny View Post
We don't care. We're not joking.
I care. I plan on dispensing love and relationship advice on a semi-regular basis. I, for one, want to hear more about the socio-phobic non-family meeting whore of a girlfriend his brother has.
post #14 of 45
Don't we have Blogs now?
post #15 of 45
Are you really supposed to help people broken down on the road? I see people broken down on my commute everyday and I curse them for having such shitty cars that break down and get in my way thereby delaying my morning coffee. So to the OP, people like your friend are the normal people.
post #16 of 45
After reviewing your past 20 posts Nino (a lot of posts about how totally awesome Rambo is and one describing a wet dream you had) I think it's time you launched your own CHUD blog.
post #17 of 45
You should suck his cock...if he comes in your mouth without a warning he is not a true friend.
post #18 of 45
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Originally Posted by Imperator GAC View Post
Are you really supposed to help people broken down on the road? I see people broken down on my commute everyday and I curse them for having such shitty cars that break down and get in my way thereby delaying my morning coffee. So to the OP, people like your friend are the normal people.


I see people broken down all the time. As I approach them I think "Damn, maybe I should stop and help" and as I pass them, having not stopped, I think "Oh well, sucks for them. Maybe next time." Next time never comes.

I think I could be Nino's friend.
post #19 of 45
Bancroft, why don't you have any sympathy for Nino's brother's girlfriend's sociaphobia, you heartless bastard?
post #20 of 45
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Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
After reviewing your past 20 posts Nino (a lot of posts about how totally awesome Rambo is and one describing a wet dream you had) I think it's time you launched your own CHUD blog.
Was the wet dream about Rambo? Because that would be blog-worthy.
post #21 of 45
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Originally Posted by BobClark View Post
Bancroft, why don't you have any sympathy for Nino's brother's girlfriend's sociaphobia, you heartless bastard?
I'm covered in rassisticy and she's probably just being a bitch.
post #22 of 45
Wait, the stranger had a creepy mental breakdown on the street? Or did his car break down? 'cause if a prerequisite for your friendship is that you have to help out every random guy breaking down in traffic, then I wouldn't be surprised if your friend's busy typing up his own "Friendship Concerns" thread right now.

And the correct misspelling is "Racisistic". If you're gonna spell things wrong, at least spell them wrong right.
post #23 of 45
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Originally Posted by Minsky View Post
Your friend sounds both glurristic and dravenly. Is he a vondruke?
Rep rep rep rep. And some to Quarant, too. Witty motherfuckers.
post #24 of 45
I hear the site is looking for writers to provide the main page with consistent updates.
post #25 of 45
I've been extremely lucky to have some of the all-around greatest friends in existence and know that they're damn good people. But regarding the few friends I have who don't happen to be and can be particularly ignorant or loutish I sorta square it with my conscience by never letting them slide. I recommend showing your disapproval by cussing him out and telling him straight up ya don't approve if he's acting like a bastard. If he's gonna be a whiny piece of shit and would rather stop hanging out with you than even consider improving his behavior then you'll be better off anyhow by his absence.
post #26 of 45
This thread is all kinds of awesomness.

I've got people here at work asking what Im giggling like an idiot at.
post #27 of 45
This thread alone is valid enough reason to bring back rep points.
post #28 of 45
Why would you be spending your free time with your friend and not your gf? No wonder she's got a fucking social phobia.

Attempt suicide and see if your friend will call an ambulance for you, at least you'll know.
post #29 of 45
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Originally Posted by Stormin View Post
I recommend showing your disapproval by cussing him out and telling him straight up ya don't approve if he's acting like a bastard. If he's gonna be a whiny piece of shit and would rather stop hanging out with you than even consider improving his behavior then you'll be better off anyhow by his absence.
Uh, the "behavior" in question had better be pretty atrocious for you to pull that kind of bullshit.

I wish my friends were slightly bigger assholes. Just a little.
post #30 of 45
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Originally Posted by Nino
I don't like one of my sisters because she's openly rassistic and has no empathy for my brothers girlfriend who refused to meet our family because of her sociaphobia.
One man's sociaphobia is another man's common senceification.
post #31 of 45
My oldest friendship and one of the closest is also one of the strangest. My best friend from high school - a guy I've been likethis with for 28 years - I have absolutely nothing in common with. Nothing. Zip. He's super religious, a devout Pentacostal; I'm a lapsed Catholic. He was always a good student, straight As; I had to force myself to work for every good grade I got, and that was only to keep my mother off my back. Good grades came naturally for him. He couldn't wait to get married and start a big family; I could have cared less about marriage, and kids were out of the question. He's very quiet and shy; I'm loud and outgoing. Politics: Him - conservative; me - liberal.

Don't even ask me how this friendship has worked for going on 30 years. I couldn't begin to tell you. This guy was my prom date when the gameplan to go with the people we both liked didn't happen - he had a crush on a girl he just couldn't muster up the nerve to ask, and I had a crush on a guy who didn't know I was alive. The week before the prom, we just decided, "Oh, the hell with this, let's just go with each other." The friendship itself started when he and I were thrown together as lab partners in science class - randomly paired up by our teacher. And we just, somehow, became fast friends, despite how completely different we are.

The weird thing is, our huge differences never got in the way of the friendship. We never wound up duking it out over our extremes, we respected the other person's views - I can't explain it any better than that. 27 years after stinking up our classroom by lighting a coil of sulfur on the bunsen burner, I found myself sitting at his wedding reception, answering the question, "So, you and Bobby are so different - how have you been friends all these years?" And I have to honestly say - it never occurred to me until that question was asked. Truly, not once in all these years had it dawned on either of us that we have zero in common. It's a strange friendship, and I don't know what makes it work, but it does.
post #32 of 45
People on the side of the road: call me crazy, but I just assume they have a god damn cell phone and help is on the way. If it's way out in the middle of nowhere, fine, alright. But if it's on 495 going to work up in Mass, to hell with them, they'll call, someone will come and help. Terrible? Maybe. True? You betcha.
post #33 of 45
So, your friend is cynical, uncaring, narcissistic, and enjoys mocking the misery of others he doesn't know?

And he doesn't post here why?
post #34 of 45
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Originally Posted by LisaNY View Post
It's a strange friendship, and I don't know what makes it work, but it does.

post #35 of 45
Picture's not showing up for me.
post #36 of 45
Skat Kat's totally copping a feel.
post #37 of 45
Now it's showing up. Hey, if I were on the amount of pills and booze that Paula is, all my friends would look like cartoon characters too.
post #38 of 45
Thread Starter 
Great that I can apparently brighten your guys evening at the office a bit.

To all the spelling-aficionados: Losen up a bit. As long as I constantly see people with English as their native language not knowing the difference between "their" and "there", maybe I could be allowed to make a mistake or two.

Regarding my earlier post I think the term "breaking down" is not the term I was looking for. Looking it up I see what I meant was "collapse".

And finally to those criticizing me for creating this kind of threads. I don't see why I should be wrong in doing so. It's been done before and it's the right forum. Please go boost your posting ratio somewhere else.
post #39 of 45
Even after this thread, my posting ratio is still 2:9.
post #40 of 45
I like his sig at least.

Kitano>genius.
post #41 of 45
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Even after this thread, my posting ratio is still 2:9.
Jesus Minksy, you're worse than pan and scan.
post #42 of 45
This thread embiggens everything that is great about this message board.
post #43 of 45
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Originally Posted by Nino View Post
Still I find myself to be a very helpful person, trying not to be like them. I speak up for people even if it's not my business. But he wouldn't even bother helping someone breaking down on the street.
You seem like a bit of a nosy busybody.
post #44 of 45
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To all the spelling-aficionados: Losen up a bit.
*twitch*
post #45 of 45
Maintain the friendship, just so you can call the cops when he inevitably shows you his weapons horde and shares his plans to "teach those jerks down at ___________ a lesson they'll never forget."
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