your friends turn to you as the "sane one" who they can talk to about shit, when you yourself are actually a somewhat well-disguised emotional wreck?

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especially entertaining when they request and you give advice in moments when you yourself are wasted and lame-ified beyond any hope of hope!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 February 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago) link

but then you feel somewhat confident giving advice cuz you realise no one listens to you to begin with! so you can say anything without fear of ruination!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 February 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

Advise them to take up scuba. It is the panacea for all ills.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 2 February 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

threads like this remind me why i luv the nickalicious

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 2 February 2004 08:13 (twenty years ago) link

i knew this was you, nick!!!!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 2 February 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, but...

Try to tell them your own prob and they either don't want to know, or else they think you are still talking about them and 'add one' to your own situation to describe theirs...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 2 February 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago) link

This happens to me all the time. Especially when I sort of zone out due to fatigue/insecurity for a second and realize that all my guy friends have all slid out to the porch and I'll be stuck in the middle of some crazy coked-up girl-talk crossfire for the next long while. The great thing is that lots of girls think I'm gay and therefore trustworthy with all sorts of prime slagging ammo about their boyfriends. Did I just say slagging? Don't worry I'm not gay.

― Le Coq, Monday, 2 February 2004 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

Its an easy mistake to make, with your name...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 2 February 2004 11:54 (twenty years ago) link

It means "The Rooster"! That's crazy masculine!

― Le Coq, Monday, 2 February 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago) link

!!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 2 February 2004 12:18 (twenty years ago) link

But Coq, you're a fucking nutcase! Your friends must be screwed up.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 2 February 2004 12:42 (twenty years ago) link

Not enough love for the scuba solution on this thread.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

Being masculine is SO GAY

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

People confide in me a lot. Some of them are even able to ignore that I am in fact a well-disguised emotional wreck. Everyone is in fact crazy.

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 2 February 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago) link

Holy crap! I AM NICKALICIOUS.

Markelby: That or normal.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

haha "the sane one"

50% of the time you communicate in drum noises! It's beyond me how someone can be confuse you with a sane person.

Much love, wit respect to the verbal riddims though. ;-)

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

Woah I forgot all about starting this thread.

Dale OTM. It's almost like these people don't know me at all!

I think the thing here is these people's definition of "sane one" might be synonymous with "not on the tail end of a massive coke bender".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 February 2004 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

Ha - this is exactly how my family is with me.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link

poor nickalicious. i relate. i think i have "please! unburden yourself!" written on my forehead in an ink visible only to complete lunatics.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I always feel a bit confused when people confide in me because they should be well aware that I'm not exactly the most together person myself! But I guess I am a good listener and a lot of times all anyone wants is someone to listen to their problems or worries.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

For some reason people follow my advice when i am obviously wonky on booze and I also say "I have no clue what I am talking about" after doling out wisdom.

Stick a noodle in me and call me Momus.

― LiquidTide (LiquidTide), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

nicklicious, I trust your friends' discernment in this. You may look at your cuurent mental and emotional equipment and see a big heap of assorted Legos scattered all about and you think, "What a freaking mess. I've GOT to get my shit together."

Your friends look at your pile of Legos, compare it to their own pile and say, "Damn, look at how many Legos nicklicious has. I can't make shit out of this small-ass pile. He's got enough to build something really classic."

― Aimless, Monday, 2 February 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.madhattersneverland.com/News/2003/July2003/Lego_hansolo.jpg

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Monday, 2 February 2004 18:25 (twenty years ago) link

Wow Aimless. That's a great analogy! Sometimes I wonder if some of the prime factors contributing to my emo-insanity (job and child and whatnot) are the very things these people base their nickalicious-is-sane notions on. A great analogy indeed.

Almost as great as a Lego Han Solo frozen in carbonite.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link

Just make sure you don't step on 'em.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

Thank you, nicklicious. You managed to make me blush, which drove more blood into the vicinity of my brain than it has seen for several months. It positively wallowed in the luxuriance.

― Aimless, Monday, 2 February 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

This never happens me, I think I'm not seen as good for this.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:12 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not sure if I'm seen as the sane one or not. I think in my circle of friends it rotates.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:18 (twenty years ago) link

Weekly or monthly basis, Ned?

― Barima (Barima), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

Usually more long term.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

All the people I hang out with at uni think i'm the sane one and they all come to me with their problems.

Some days I just get sick of it and tell them about my stint in the psych ward. It usually works a treat.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

my strategy in high school was that when i got really fed up with this state of affairs i'd burst into tears in public, have people pay attention to me and hug me, and then feel better for another few weeks. (it wasn't *consciously* manipulative....)

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link

(but now in college all my friends are very sane and generally happy people without much drama. it was jarring at first but it's really nice.)

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 2 February 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

Why do they tell me these things!?! Ew.

All I'll say is, uh, half plus seven rule. Half plus seven.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

ha ha I like the idea that I could use this thread to vent behind these people's backs.

If you tell me you're gonna quit one more time and don't actually do it I'm gonna kick your ass!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

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