meeting people is easy.

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― jess, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

by people i mean either friends or lovers.

any discussion of radiohead will earn you our derision. which is enough.

― jess, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suck at it. Once I've actually met them, I do aiight. But approaching people, be it girls or guys, I am at a loss. At social events when I am totally detached and not talking to anybody, that is when it really gets to me. (At which point I usually run home to listen to my radiohead cds. Sorry, jess.)

― bnw, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wots radiohead got to do with it? i have believe it or not SHYNESS issues and thus meeting people is an embarassing trial in which i do lots of polite smiling and not much talking and this must render me vacant in the eyes of the meet-ee. my solution: i only talk to people when i am drunk and full of myself, in which case i worry i must scare said people witless with my loud abrasive manner. but that's okay, sometimes people find me quite approachable because of that - like once they've seen me embarass myself then they realise that i'm not such a scarey person and it just gets easier from there on. so in conclusion i don't find meeting people easy i think its a trial.

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I take time to clock the personality time.......squinty little indie- types that look like they're lifeless tightasses, I don't even bother with......there's a table......you best be down to dance on it.....shit, I dance like a girl, I get persecuted.....I even do the snake-y arms with my eyes closed sometimes....ahaha, man, I'm a dork......but forildo, I just be totally crazy random (this is the thing....superenergized, knowing randomness is the backbone of my social life), big ridiculous words juxtaposed with ebonicized or snide humor, aggro but wise, not fratboy style......a few Ramosi- original ice-breaker outbursts: "I swear, the smell of summer, like right now.....it always got me livin' gorilla"......"puerto ricooooooo!"......."Leno's a fucking pussy, yo"........."this weed got me discombobulated supreme.....yo, how come some redheads have yellow teeth, and they don't even smoke?"

― Ramosi, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What Di said. Almost to the letter.

― Mark C, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I meet a person around once every 3-5 years. The whole thing is lifestyle compatability, which is a problem when you seem to be best cut out for unapproachable eccentrics with plenty of indifference to spare. Beyond superficial subcultural/minority cliques, it's a sea of small talk revolving around the same 20 or so conversational staple-lines. Burn through it with social skillz and come home exhausted and empty at the end of the night... or avoid it all simply by emitting an aura of "like I give a fuck about you" with a 50 foot diameter.

― Honda, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, it is - if you're the kind of person who finds it easy. I'm pretty extrovert and gregarious, which suits it. The friends part is easier than lovers, because I'm not terribly attractive, but I've found that much easier than I always imagine to be the case.

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can only do this if I really, really have to, and even then it takes some time. But it does mean that the friends I have I'm close to, they're not just acquaintances who I go out with sometimes - in fact, the only time I've done something like that and gone out with loads of people was last week and it was horrible. Of course, going out with only one or two people all the time means you don't meet new people that easily anyway. It's a vicious circle.

― Bill, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Approaching strangers = AAAARGH

Talking to people you know even a tiny tiny bit about = Surprisingly easy

Forming ongoing friendships ect with latter = nightmare

― Graham, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Friends: eh, not *that* hard.
Lovers: k-difficult.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you wouldnt be on here if you had friends so i dont believe any of you

― kiwi, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Long-Life Friends: also k-difficult-ish

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

people have to get past the gaping wound in the middle of my face first...after that, well it all depends on whther they like barbra or not.

― Queen G, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Everything is difficult with FatNick around.
DG: "Hello, I'm David, this is Ni-"
FatNick: "AIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

― DG, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

meeting people is like the sun, turns its heat on three and one, seeing eyes is hard and hot, leave untouched, forget-me-not.

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But at least FatNick makes his presence known.

Sometimes I would rather not even say 'hi' -- lost in thought or whatever. There are a couple of people on my bus route to work and back I see every day that I don't think I've ever said one word to, even though we wait at the same stop and all. But at other times I'm in full 'hi, how are ya?' mode -- this was very handy at the radio station when new people started working there, and will come in very handy today at the party, with tons of folks I don't know set to arrive. So it depends. I have some shyness around people I find attractive but don't know at all, so it's like, where do I begin? Meeting them through another context (see my comment on the library thread, for instance) helps determine whether they're worth talking to.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what ned said about attractive people. as in, not just lover- attractive, but i-want-you-to-be-my-friend attractive. i get friend crushes all the time, and then don't want to open up my idiot mouth in front of them and drive them away. people i don't like quite so much: plenty of time for them. can jibber away with them for hours, exchange phone numbers, go to their parties. going to one on friday night, actually.

― minna, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Meeting people is a pleasure! I like it. If I like them. Otherwise it's a bore but you can still get interesting things out of most people, enough to rescue the occasion.

― Pyth, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you wouldnt be on here if you had friends so i dont believe any of you

haha! lots of us here are friends in the real world too. take the dunners crew for instance.

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"But at least FatNick makes his presence known."

Nick's antics (live) are quite good for discerning people's humour - chances are if they think he's a prick then they are most likely to be one themselves, if they laugh along then they're cool. That seems to be the result so far...

AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

― DG, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Next time I'm in London, bring him along. I will judge him then.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i miss fatty nicky.

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's too busy practising his PERFECT SINE WAVE ATTACK to post, I'm afraid.

― DG, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Meeting people is easy. It's actually where you go from there that's hard.

― Sean, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it depends how often you leave the house

― cherrysqueak, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sean = bang on, but then what do I know, I'm a prick.

― chris, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

meeting people is painful. i go out lots; i go to gigs most weekends and take pictures of bands. i don't hang out and talk to people, apart from a few close friends. i have no conversatinal skills and i'm prone to anxiety attacks. yet people always approach me [sometimes 4 or 5 a night] and try to talk to me. often complete strangers. the pattern's almost identical - they walk up while i'm putting my disks away or changing camera settings, they ask "so, get any good shots?", they expect me to carry on a conversation. i mumble an answer and stand there shifting my weight from foot to foot hoping like hell something shiny will distract them soon, or worrying that they'll think i'm a hopelessly arrogant primadonna who's above talking to them. i've even contemplated having a little card drawn up, with
[a] yes, thank you.
[b] a few, given the unsatisfactory lighting conditions.
[c] not really, the {crowd | amp setup | microphone stands} have been obstructing my view.
...and so on, so i can just circle a letter and escape the clutches of their extroversion altogether. it'd just be easier that way.

― petra jane, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i didn't ask you if you got any good shots when i met you. did i? i don't remember. i remember going "hi i'm di" and then getting a full- on case of socialphobia.

― di, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Meeting people is easy. Liking them? Not so much.

― rainy, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the hopelessly arrogant primadonna is almost as good as the yelling at them drunkender harpie almost

― ducklingmonster, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Meeting people is hard. I come across as painfully shy even why I'm trying for arrogant. This means that the only people who talk to me tend to be polite and considerate. Which has its ups and downs. I am often approached by those Christians who ask you to join youth groups/cults.

― isadora, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bet today is the day I am due to meet my potential future husband and I will drive him away due to sore throat croaky voice horror - that and for some reason I feel extremely fuzzy. I think I need some medicine. Or at least a cup of tea. I tend to fall into relationships but just don't know how to sustain them and screw up somehow. Oh I know how! By acting like an fool (complete with jesters hat obv).

― Sarah, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Meeting people is easy when you have to spend barely any time with them because then it doesn't matter if you make a fool of yourself, but it's hard when you've got to SEE them again. I went visiting a college and stayed overnight last weekend and I was shocked by my utter lack of shyness; I think the impermanence of the connection explains it.

― Maria, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yeah of course i was gonna say somethin like so what cause i don't like ppl anyway. i guess what i really mean is more like what rainy said tho.

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― mike hanle y, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Meeting people is hard. I come across as painfully shy even why I'm trying for arrogant.

don't think you come across as painfully shy or arrogant. actually you have a very nice manner, i think its all in your tone of voice.

― di, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...

http://b.casalemedia.com/V2/48089/57901/im_300x250_ani.gif

― carne asada, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

You met someone cool online????!!!! Awesome!

― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ohhh I was so much less misanthropic 5 years ago! Poor little Pyth.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Think I know half the people in my local Spoonies, sadly enough.

― Bodrick III, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

but forildo, I just be totally crazy random (this is the thing....superenergized, knowing randomness is the backbone of my social life), big ridiculous words juxtaposed with ebonicized or snide humor, aggro but wise, not fratboy style......a few Ramosi- original ice-breaker outbursts: "I swear, the smell of summer, like right now.....it always got me livin' gorilla"......"puerto ricooooooo!"......."Leno's a fucking pussy, yo"........."this weed got me discombobulated supreme.....yo, how come some redheads have yellow teeth, and they don't even smoke?"

-- Ramosi, Friday, April 12, 2002 8:00 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

how do we live without this guy

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

same way we live without luna?

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

luna could never bring the ebonicized randomness enough for me

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but you said "we"

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

who were ramosi's internet girlfriends

― deej, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

lol hit me up on aim drake

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

this weed got me discombobulated supreme

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

leno's a fucking pussy, yo!

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

custos tribute thread <---> ramosi tribute thread

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

classic icebreakers

― deej, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Approximately 4 litres of bottled water so far, planning on 6 (I usually drink 4-5 liters a day total but I'm trying to flush myself out today) ..... breakfast (i had time): 1 bowl frosted mini wheats with strawberries, 2 pancakes with 1 piece of "chocolate orange" melted and mixed in each(this is my own invention), an inch of skim milk out the gallon (fuck a glass), 1 asian pear, 1 rice cake with nutella on it......lunch: footlong pizza sub loaded, bag of sour cream & cheddar chips and iced tea from subway, was still hungry so I went and got a strawberry sundae from mcdicks, word........when I got home I had a handful of pretzel "flips" and another pear and some licorice.......I'm getting ready to go see Blade 2 right now and afterwards we're probably going to Grand Buffet (chinese)......niggas like to watch me consume insane amounts.....I know which foods to avoid (the 'fillers'), which to stock up on.....I'm the buffet ninja......I should remind yall this is pretty normal for a day, and I'm 135 pounds........if my metabolism ever conks out, shit will definitely hit the fan.....it's okay, though, I'm gonna marry an italian girl, they keep it real.
-- Ramosi (olafsonski...), April 9th, 2002.

lol canadian forgot to edit both spellings of litres

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

an inch of skim milk out the gallon (fuck a glass)

:-O

― and what, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

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