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Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 5:42 am

Okay Sleepy, "Quonza"... Discuss that.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 12:41 pm

Originally posted by Aegis
Okay Sleepy, "Quonza"... Discuss that.

Did you mean quanza?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 12:46 pm

Dear dr Sleep...

Any topic? OK, here is a topic for you: what to do when it turns out your best friend is gay and deeply in love with you.

Another interesting situation: you live together with your father (who is divorced from your mother since many years) and it turns out he is in love with your girlfriend. What to do?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:16 pm

Re: Dear dr Sleep...

CE, you get two because i am generous and i will have to wait for Aegis answer before i can converse on that subject.

Originally posted by C Elegans
Any topic? OK, here is a topic for you: what to do when it turns out your best friend is gay and deeply in love with you.

(i was going to post something excessively glib...i have resisted the temptation

This is also going to be a long post since i need to spout something after seeing Minority Report)

There are several different ways to react to this situation, your reaction can depend greatly on setting for the sake of argument you are in a park...so your best friend tells you this shocking news...only it isn't that shocking since you have suspected them for a while, there is those glances, the subtle hand strokes they make, the carress of your arm. Lets face it men aren't that sharp so i suspect the bloke would be mostly just shocked.

So we digress to the man/woman diachotomy, i will have to split up reactions for their inclusion in this debate.

First off MAN:

The man is sitting casually, maybe groping his manliness, giving it a little scratch, maybe just rearranging. Anyway he cough's. His next motion is one of communication "What did you do this weekend" he asks his still-in-the-closet friend "Oh nothing much" is the reply...
"Oh come on i have seen the way you handle the ladies..."
"It's not what you think"
"Ahh" he taps him gently "i know how it is, pretend to be all sensitive, pretend they are your friends and wham you hit them with a little bit of the good stuff " the man nudges his friend "and they are yours..."
"it definately isn't like that" He argued sternly.
"So what did you do"
"I went to a club"
"Well that's what..."
His friend interupts "no, not that kind of club, a more glitzy club"
"Sounds good, so did you get any poon?"
"You...could...oh to hell with it, I'm Gay!"
"Your what!"
"I am gay, and you know what, i love you!"

*the audience pauses* Now there is a reaction from the man, it can go several ways, there is a number of effectors that can prompt whatever response is taken but we will take an average. The average man depending on his character will have one of four reactions:
1) Pound his face in until you silence the repressed feelings...
2) Talk it out, explain why it can't work
3) Go back to the house, get drunk and forget it ever happened
4) Realise you have felt this way forever and end up going out of the closet yourself.

Obviously since this is men it isn't very complex, it is pretty standard. Women however are different, the story plays out the same but they have more options, they have five or six and the options are as follows:

1) Pound her face in until you silence the repressed feelings...
2) Talk it out, explain why it can't work
3) Go back to the house, get drunk and forget it ever happened
4) Realise you have felt this way forever and end up going out of the closet yourself.
5) Help that person by getting them councilling, make them realise their mistake
6) If all else fails pawn them off to anyone else around, they wont mind, after all she really is nice...

The guy would never think of this, why? Because he is just too stupid!

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:32 pm

Another interesting situation: you live together with your father (who is divorced from your mother since many years) and it turns out he is in love with your girlfriend. What to do?

Well the one thing you don't do is hang around with any sons in the neighbourhood and you certainly don't work out naked in your garage...that ain't healthy

Your question depends greatly on the individual, it is very difficult to make the great leaps in logic and situation, but i am in a fly-by-my-pants mood, so here goes.

There is a number of ways to deal with this situation:

1) Look sad and say doh!
2) Talk to your father, explain the many reasons it can not work for him, point out how she doesn't find him attractive, how the neighbours would be shocked. Most of all explain to him how by depriving him of this woman it will make him a stronger person and he will find the right woman some day.
3) Explain forcefully that if he touches your woman his brand new (insert here) gets violently trashed.
4) Show him the picture of your departed mother, use a "Guilt Trip" to make him think he is wrong and show him the error of his ways
5) say "You can have her dad" after all there are plenty of fish in the sea..
6) In this modern society it isn't unheard of that a syndrome will develop, the French for this is "Le Doublé up" it means several different things, most of them sordid. For some reason this is the option that most men would chose

The options are clear and the boundaries are not, in the end it is purely one for guesswork, really the woman should get involved but then you would have a macho display of who is the bigger man, that can only end badly. For the safety of all, the discussion should be handled over beer and pool.

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:38 pm

A topic

Topic - Band whores. Tim armstrong of rancid plays in The transplants who have the drummer from Blink 182 who also plays in boxcar racer who had Tim armstrong sing thier cd.

thug

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:46 pm

Re: A topic

Originally posted by RandomThug
Topic - Band whores. Tim armstrong of rancid plays in The transplants who have the drummer from Blink 182 who also plays in boxcar racer who had Tim armstrong sing thier cd.

It's long been a tradition of more progressive music to trade band members, unfortunately this tradition has also now moved on to rancid, The Transplants and Blink 182.

You have to look way back for when it started, the time is difficult to pinpoint, some say that it is directly after the Rolling Stones first smoked a cigarette, others claim it is after Morrison took his first hit of acid. Either way a tradition was born.

The bands back then featured very little in the way of budget, the big studio labels didn't exist and the artists had to survive on their own to a large degree. This more than anything precipitated the large "swapping of band members" debacles. To be frank it sometimes helped fragment the musical styles, little to many people know but Ringo once got ousted from the recording booth in favour of the drummer from a Christian Rock band of the time.

There are many incidents like this that litter the tawdry past of rock when you hear the music of these bands you are really just hearing the same thing over and over again, there is nothing new, if they swap bands who cares, they are all the same anyway, so one band might drop their pants more than the other, in the end they are the same.

RandomThug · Post by **RandomThug** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:49 pm

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Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 9:22 pm

Re: Dear dr Sleep...

Originally posted by C Elegans
Any topic? OK, here is a topic for you: what to do when it turns out your best friend is gay and deeply in love with you.

Another interesting situation: you live together with your father (who is divorced from your mother since many years) and it turns out he is in love with your girlfriend. What to do?

Been there, done that, still great friends with the guy.

@Sleep: Sorry, Quanza.

Also, you forgot to add the "Jail Bate" argument. Many a time my friend Jon and I (Jon's 18, I'm 17) will drive around town, checking out girls, and checking to see who's Jail Bate, and who's ripe for picking, so to speak.

Beldin · Post by **Beldin** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:11 pm

Ok, here's my question: What's the real origin of "Murphy's Law" . I know there are a lot of spin offs and some very entertaining explanations, but where/who/when/what was there in the beginning of all those cryptic "Murphy's Law" references...?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 3:01 am

Re: Re: Dear dr Sleep...

Originally posted by Aegis
@Sleep: Sorry, Quanza.

Is there anything specific you wish to discuss about it or should i just discuss the word in question?

@Beldin, Murphy's Law, i will have to do it later, i am feeling rather ill today so my faculties aren't all about me

Beldin · Post by **Beldin** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 3:02 am

Re: Re: Re: Dear dr Sleep...

Originally posted by Mr Sleep

@Beldin, Murphy's Law, i will have to do it later, i am feeling rather ill today so my faculties aren't all about me

OK, no worries, in your own time

.

Beldin

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 1:26 pm

Re: Re: A topic

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
It's long been a tradition of more progressive music to trade band members, unfortunately this tradition has also now moved on to rancid, The Transplants and Blink 182.

You have to look way back for when it started, the time is difficult to pinpoint, some say that it is directly after the Rolling Stones first smoked a cigarette, others claim it is after Morrison took his first hit of acid. Either way a tradition was born.

The bands back then featured very little in the way of budget, the big studio labels didn't exist and the artists had to survive on their own to a large degree. This more than anything precipitated the large "swapping of band members" debacles. To be frank it sometimes helped fragment the musical styles, little to many people know but Ringo once got ousted from the recording booth in favour of the drummer from a Christian Rock band of the time.

There are many incidents like this that litter the tawdry past of rock when you hear the music of these bands you are really just hearing the same thing over and over again, there is nothing new, if they swap bands who cares, they are all the same anyway, so one band might drop their pants more than the other, in the end they are the same.

Sorry, but I believe this to be a total bluff. Musically knowledged you may be, but you haven't actually given the examples that would suggest you know what you are talking about, except those that are jokes...

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 2:02 pm

Discuss the Theory of relativity as it relates to shopping for produce.

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 2:08 pm

Originally posted by Bloodstalker
Discuss the Theory of relativity as it relates to shopping for produce.

Ah, an easy one

G'luck Sleepo

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 4:19 pm

Re: Re: Dear dr Sleep...

Good work Sleep, I'm always interested to hear how people deal with those situation, and what options people consider

I haven't personally experienced any of them, but a friend of mine was the girl in the 2nd situation - it actually ended with her choosing the father

Originally posted by Aegis
Been there, done that, still great friends with the guy.

Glad to hear that

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 1:39 am

*Sigh*

*Looks at the line of people awaiting questions*

I knew I should of arrived earlier, my question can wait then.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sat Jul 20, 2002 7:25 am

Here's one: How come all the kids in the towns of Western Australia are wiggers?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 11:40 am

Murphy's Law:

The original term came about in of all places Ireland. The name Murphy is rather common in Ireland and it just so happened that a judge one day by the name of Murphy passed a law.

This law was soon to become known as Murphy's law, it was the first incident that warrented this law, many were to follow but overtime this law has lost it's hold in the court system, strange really since it is so intelligent.

Basically the owner of a hardware store at the time was being robbed by a rather rougish gentlemen, the rouge in question was taking him for everything he could, except until he came to pull a particularly important book down from the shelf, at this point everything literally went wrong, the whole shelf fell on this man and he was incapacitated.

So there was a lenghty process of getting this man back to health, they did so only to find out that this man intended to sue the owner of the store. Fortunately the Judge of the time decided it was a completely ludicrous claim and decided to pass down Murphy's law to prevent this kind of thing happening in the future.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 11:46 am

Originally posted by Bloodstalker
Discuss the Theory of relativity as it relates to shopping for produce.

Okay, since everything is relative surely one can presume that money, the handing over of money, the paying of tax, the paying of VAT, the taking of money by store clerk and the storing of money by that clerk is all relative to how one views the situation.

If one was more esoteric they might decide that the handing over of money was in fact not important to this transaction and just take without paying...this would not be good and could lead to a lack of taxes to pay for the basics in life.

One can tie this Theory of relativity as it relates to shopping for produce into many important parts of our life, how would the country survive without having all the money to keep the country safe, how would anybody afford the wonderful national health service.

So in conclusion i the theory of relativity applies to shopping for produce in as much as without it the whole world would stop functioning.