A bit of family drama

Because really, what holiday would be complete without it?

( Get out the detergent, 'cos we're airing some dirty laundry... )

I was going to friendslock this, but on second thought, I'll leave it public. I pride myself on not talking about people behind their backs, and everything in here is something I'd gladly say to his face if I thought he had any actual interest in why I don't like him much. I've mentioned bits and pieces of it to him before, but my impression has been that he's far more interested in maintaining his self-image as the victim rather than fixing any of the flaws in his character, and far be it from me to shatter his illusions.

A bit of family drama

Because really, what holiday would be complete without it?

( Get out the detergent, 'cos we're airing some dirty laundry... )

I was going to friendslock this, but on second thought, I'll leave it public. I pride myself on not talking about people behind their backs, and everything in here is something I'd gladly say to his face if I thought he had any actual interest in why I don't like him much. I've mentioned bits and pieces of it to him before, but my impression has been that he's far more interested in maintaining his self-image as the victim rather than fixing any of the flaws in his character, and far be it from me to shatter his illusions.

We could be friends!

There's an old saw that's been circulating the Internet for at least a decade now, apparently written by someone who was having a pity party about relationships. I unfortunately don't have the Google-fu to find a version of it to link to, but it basically went something like "Asking a girl out is like interviewing for a job, and having them tell you 'I'm sorry, we decided to hire someone with half your qualifications who's probably a drunk and is going to slack off and treat us badly, but we want to keep you around as 'just a friend' so we can call you at midnight and cry to you about how awful this dude is, and maybe talk about how we should really hire you but never actually do it,'" etc. etc.

I think today's xkcd is a very nice rejoinder from the other side of that dynamic:

We could be friends!

There's an old saw that's been circulating the Internet for at least a decade now, apparently written by someone who was having a pity party about relationships. I unfortunately don't have the Google-fu to find a version of it to link to, but it basically went something like "Asking a girl out is like interviewing for a job, and having them tell you 'I'm sorry, we decided to hire someone with half your qualifications who's probably a drunk and is going to slack off and treat us badly, but we want to keep you around as 'just a friend' so we can call you at midnight and cry to you about how awful this dude is, and maybe talk about how we should really hire you but never actually do it,'" etc. etc.

I think today's xkcd is a very nice rejoinder from the other side of that dynamic: