I'm dating an older woman!
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Poor MadBaggins. Where shall I begin? How about the beginning...
What is she going to expect you to accept next?
If you want to stoop a little closer to her level (and lose the advantage), you can always hit her back by spilling the beans about your cousin. (Not by sleeping with her, like some suggested.)
She gave you a lot of bullshit which I will spare everybody the quote of.
Being common practice does not make something right. Just common. Probably something you can get past. If you're taking the bad with the good and slightly lowering your standards. That is, in great part, what growing up is about: forgetting about absolutes and perfection.
OK, Lesson number one (general rule): the love you feel is something YOU bring into the relationship. You're on your own. That's life. The thing is to find someone whose fantasies of love are compatible with yours. To love is perhaps more to look in the same direction than to look at each other.
Lesson number two: the crystallization stage ends at some point. You've hit it. Crystallization does not last for ever and ever and ever.
Lesson number three: 20, and the years around it, is the idealistic age. You will grow up and be jaded, like it or not.
Lesson number four: you can't erase from somebody's life someone who was their spouse and the co-parent of their children. The "jerkosaur" had been banging her longer than you. That's what makes their sleeping together again feel natural to them, however wrong when seen from an outside perspective. To her, it didn't feel like cheating.
Lesson number five: Many people have those standards. Romantics like you make up about 1% of the population. (Although I hope I'm not making a too big confusion here between introvert romanticism and committed fidelity. These might be 2 separate things.)
Now I can't wait to see if there's a breakup coming or if the innocent couple will withstand the trial by fire.
Sounds like she slept with her ex as everybody but you seems to have expected.
Is that her or you talking?
Here we go. It's not even funny, it was so predictable.
Very true to life. I know you didn't make this up.
She felt guilty, whatever justifications she gave afterwards.
Her yelling at you was proportional to the one she knew she deserved.
She felt so guilty she genuinely believed it was on purpose.
Between you and me, I don't think she has such high standards.
She was the stupid one for telling you the truth.
What is she going to expect you to accept next?
If you want to stoop a little closer to her level (and lose the advantage), you can always hit her back by spilling the beans about your cousin. (Not by sleeping with her, like some suggested.)
Translation: she wanted to make sure it wasn't better with her ex. Or maybe it was just a excuse to sleep with another man, for a change.
She gave you a lot of bullshit which I will spare everybody the quote of.
Being common practice does not make something right. Just common. Probably something you can get past. If you're taking the bad with the good and slightly lowering your standards. That is, in great part, what growing up is about: forgetting about absolutes and perfection.
She IS older, and she IS a woman. I think we're right on topic.
Someone has to have the power in a relationship, and it obviously isn't you.
Not really, although it is common practice.
Just not yet. Maybe it isn't such a good match after all, eh?Am I just not adult enough? I don't know what to believe anymore. The world is so cynical. I'm an old romantic with the soul of a poet, I wasn't meant for this world.
OK, Lesson number one (general rule): the love you feel is something YOU bring into the relationship. You're on your own. That's life. The thing is to find someone whose fantasies of love are compatible with yours. To love is perhaps more to look in the same direction than to look at each other.
Lesson number two: the crystallization stage ends at some point. You've hit it. Crystallization does not last for ever and ever and ever.
Lesson number three: 20, and the years around it, is the idealistic age. You will grow up and be jaded, like it or not.
Lesson number four: you can't erase from somebody's life someone who was their spouse and the co-parent of their children. The "jerkosaur" had been banging her longer than you. That's what makes their sleeping together again feel natural to them, however wrong when seen from an outside perspective. To her, it didn't feel like cheating.
Lesson number five: Many people have those standards. Romantics like you make up about 1% of the population. (Although I hope I'm not making a too big confusion here between introvert romanticism and committed fidelity. These might be 2 separate things.)
Now I can't wait to see if there's a breakup coming or if the innocent couple will withstand the trial by fire.
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Cut him some slack, he's distraught. Besides, we know he's no writer.
If you're going to spell Freudian in capital letters, spell it right, Squiggy!
Oh, I have them, but I'm not that idle. Does this mean I would take MadBaggins less seriously if I'd read them? However immature, he may have grown a bit since then. I have followed this season faithfully and judged according to it.
Oh, OK. I stand mis-corrected.Running/Inside joke.
For all the other late-coming fans of the show, Fraudian slip and parrot-phrasing are two of Madbaggins's more amusing malopropisms. Parrot-phrasing even has its own thread bomb running around somewhere.
I still try to educate him more than make jokes at his consented expense. Sort through the naiveté and you find flashes of what could become understanding when he grows up. But I can't be sure he really reads my posts. They do have more or less jeering each time, sometimes more than less. That may discourage.
Well, I operate under the assumption MB is somebody's dual, so I'll keep up the snark.
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Actually, with one or two exceptions, I think everyone stopped taking MB seriously early on in season one. Much like the new Battlestar Galactica, season one was the crown jewel of the MB saga. It'll take some time, but I think you'll enjoy working your way through them. Season one starts a little slow simply because it started off as what appeared to have been a serious thread, but things turned interesting and his credibility disappeared when he ignored everyone who wrote in the thread up to that point (It's also considered fun to remind him of exactly how many times he came here asking for advice only to blatanly ignore it
). Also, if you get through the first two seasons, it'll help you keep up with the commentary from the MB veterans.And, to answer your question... you will take him much less seriously.
In fact, there was also a cow discussion in there that got turned into a bomb as well... I'll see if I can't find them.
Don't worry... if he paid any attention to what gets posted, or took it seriously, he wouldn't still be here. Feel free to say what's on your mind.
It is sweeps month so this is the peak of the creative mountain when writers pull out all the stops. December is going to be filled with repeats and a Christmas special.
A MadBaggins Christmas special where he head-checks "Chuck" into a wiseman in a nativity scene and a big fight breaks out between him, Girlfriend and Daughter over his wanting to use a figure of Jesus with his arms wide open as a tree-topper because "it's the way things are supposed to be."
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Then it's as I suspected: why bother? Last night, I considered PMing MB to tell him to read my posts. He seems to be only the most self-centered person on the board by far. Then it's really dumb of him to complain about the comments if all he's doing is offering himself up to us like we're just an audience. He should know better than that!his credibility disappeared when he ignored everyone who wrote in the thread up to that point (It's also considered fun to remind him of exactly how many times he came here asking for advice only to blatantly ignore it
I do. I only try not to be part of a choir. I'm a soloist.[...]if he paid any attention to what gets posted, or took it seriously, he wouldn't still be here. Feel free to say what's on your mind.
Squiggy, flattery will get you anywhere. That's just a general rule. Don't consider yourself completely restored to my good graces. The only picture I have of you in my mind is still bending, with your pants down. Pull them up and cast your eyes down and it'll look like you're bowing.
How about me as a king?
Eh?
Are you dancing with yourself in drag?
Which, you're hot by the way.
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