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QOTD Thread #332- Do you think that people should keep cats outdoors?
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Post by
Rankkor
#320- What is the biggest compromise you've made with a significant other- the thing that was the hardest to give up your ground on?
Well, obviously when is and isn't appropriate to fight back.
My wife is a very strict pacifist who believes in non-violence in the most strict way possible. Whereas I'm more pragmatic. I don't particularly enjoy violence, but I view it as a necessary evil that sometimes (thankfully those times are few) is indispensable to defuse an imminent danger, or a volatile situation.
This has made us clash more times than I care to remember, the latest of those, yesterday, where our little girl got into a fight to protect a friend, and my wife was too severe on her, whereas I held that sticking up for someone weaker than you is never an ignoble goal.
She and I have had to compromise our views on this regard on more than one ocation, with her reluctantly admitting that while she doesn't approves of my methods, she can't deny my intentions are always good, and me, admitting that more often than not, situations can be defused with words instead of fists.
We really had a big argument yesterday regarding the fight of our little princess, probably one of the harshest ones we've had. But it ended as all our fights do, once we both cooled off, and took a time off, we apologized to one another, and agreed on a compromise, and then kissed and made up =)
Post by
Interest
That nonexistent one.
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Post by
Rystrave
Been thinking about this for a day now. It has to be not playing WoW as much as I'd like to.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
#321- What was the last thing someone did that caused you to end a friendship?
Post by
asakawa
I have never had any kind of confrontation that ended a friendship. Friends come and go in one's life but I can't remember any drama.
Post by
Interest
Massive annoyance factor (see: clingy) and negative attitude.
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240140
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Post by
Rystrave
I have never had any kind of confrontation that ended a friendship. Friends come and go in one's life but I can't remember any drama.
Pretty much this. The friends that come and go weren't meant to stay in your life.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
I have had a couple of people who I have resoundingly written off after we had a falling out. I'm not one to stay angry very long, but I am someone who will make a judgement about whether or not someone was worth knowing and reacting accordingly.
Most recently, my fiancee's aunt was living with him, in the spare bedroom, before I officially moved in, and she was so controlling that you'd think she was doing him the favor, instead of the other way around. She would harass him if he left a dish in the sink, would complain if he was up too late talking on his headset in his office, would do things like take a whole bottle of wine without asking or replacing it, but when we screwed up whose frozen waffles were whose that became a federal emergency. And this was all with her crashing at his place.
Eventually, she moved out, and she went through his apartment and kind of told him what she was taking, like his broom and backpack and such. He just wanted her out of his hair, so he didn't fight her on it. I was also moving in at around the same time, and so it happened in me passing that I noticed she had loaded up an ottoman that matched a couch from the apartment, and was taking it with her, and when I asked about it she said she was going to use it until she got some new furniture, since she had no coffee table- and that it shouldn't be more than a YEAR. I asked boyfriend about it, and was like "A year? I figured she meant for like a couple of weeks."
So I, not wanting to have her have half of a furniture set for what was going to be our apartment, offered to buy her a coffee table (despite having seen her straight-up steal food storage containers and other things that she didn't even pretend to ask for), wanting to keep peace in the family, but also because boyfriend was really stressed out about her and the ottoman. Well, he told his mom that plan, and she called and screamed at her sister for stealing his furniture (he was unemployed and a student at the time), and the aunt was HUGELY offended that we would dare to offer to buy her furniture, or that he would not want to let her just take whatever she wanted from his apartment.
We were friendly with the aunt up to that point, and even though I felt she was often pushy and unreasonable I tried to make nice between everyone. But after that, I decided that she wasn't worth the effort of knowing (which apparently much of his family already felt), and so stopped caring what she thought or how she felt. She's not even getting a wedding invitation.
The last non-family friend I wrote off was in college. He had been working on the student newspaper with us, and I was on the editorial staff, and we found out that a weekly column we'd been letting him publish was actually stolen from another newspaper, and he was just putting his name on it. I was really offended by that, and just stopped speaking with him afterwards. It was just so pointlessly dishonest (we got zero compensation for articles) and unapologetically narcissistic, that it just changed my opinion of him entirely.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##ElhonnaDS##DELIM##
Post by
Skreeran
I have never had any kind of confrontation that ended a friendship. Friends come and go in one's life but I can't remember any drama.Yeah, this.
They always just kinda fade away when I move, or change interests. We talk less and less until we finally don't talk at all.
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588688
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Post by
asakawa
Last friendship, actually probably only one, that I've ended was with Interest, even though he probably didn't count it as a friendship. Which is part of why I ended it. *cry* *unreturned love*
teehee
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Post by
Rankkor
yep, I ended all ties with a friend on college when he said he believed all arabs should be exterminated "cuz they're all towelhead terrorists yo". Someone who displays such a blatant disregard for the faiths of so many, doesn't have a spot on my life.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
So Question #322 was e-mailed to me by Trollfucious, and I don't think I can paraphrase it, so I'm just going to cut and paste:
"Hello Honorable Moderator,
Trollfucious knows that honorable moderator is the one who chooses the questions for the QOTD thread, and heard that sometimes if the honorable users of the honorable Off-Topic send their own questions to the e-mail that the honorable moderator put in her signature, that she puts them as the QOTD. Trollfucious would like to know if the honorable Off-topic likes brownies, and what they like to put in their brownies. Trollfucious made some once that were very good on the parts that weren't burned, and he put in Oreo pieces, Hershey bar pieces, white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and then got the can of cream cheese frosting and put that on top of the brownies, but not all the frosting went on the brownies because Trollfucious ate some and then he gave the container to Dogfucious afterwards because Dogfucious watched Trollfucious make the brownies the whole time and was sad that he had no brownies for him because of chocolate not being good for dogs. So that is Trollfucious question."
So #322- What do you like in your brownies?
Post by
Trollfucious
Trollfucious is very happy that the honorable moderator used his question. However, Trollfucious forgot to answer yesterday's question, because he was very busy with the new Lego sculptures he was making, that he got for Trollfucian National Holiday. So he will answer now.
Trollfucious friend is Dogfucious, and he does not fight because Dogfucious says nothing and when he breaks things he doesn't know what he is doing and so Trollfucious cannot get mad. However, if Trollfucious had a friend who could speak and had thumbs, then he would have to stop having that friend if they were mean to other people or hurt them or stole from them. Or if Trollfucious found out his friend was actually a lemon- that would be bad too.
Post by
Interest
Oh god. I want to answer this one out of context. Too bad I don't put "those" things into the brownies.
So....the usual stuff? Chocolate?
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Post by
Gumballs
I just like my brownies with lots and lots of chocolate icing on them. Mmmmmm.
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