Two pages back, but it's comments like this why I keep coming back to this place. Sorry Parker, but you've been dethroned, for now.
So your foot shouldn't high five your knee? I have a chocolate pie in front of me. This pie is the result of a tear fest I had 1.5 hours ago, where I was asking The Husband to pick up said pie from the grocery store and started crying. Pregnancy is stupid.
Yeah that doesn't bother me. Show me a video or picture of broken bones or blood spurting and I'm kind of eh, whatever. Show me a picture or video of a dead animal or someone skinning a snake or something like that? I'm out.
Its pretty simple. We were together about 6ish months (friends 6 months before that) before she moved to Kansas for work. She is only there to get experience so she can get a job back here in Chicago. Also, its cost equality. Going out in Chicago for a weekend (the girls I like don't reside in dive bars): drinks, cabs, etc, is almost as expensive as a round trip to Kansas City from Chicago on Southwest. I know some of you small town folk are like "OH MY GOD HOW MUCH DO YOU SPEND?" but Chicago is the third largest city in America and like I said, I'm not going to dive bars. Cab to the bar can be about $10-15. Drinks at the bar including tip can be anywhere from $7-$12, usually getting 3-4 of those. If you're with 2 friends and do a round of shots, that'll be about $20 at least. If you take a cab to another bar that's another $5-10. Not to mention if you get shitfaced and try to talk to a girl, you get her a drink(s) that's another $7-12. Cab ride home $10-15, then let's not forget drunken mexican food, another $10. Do that Friday and Saturday? That's can easily get around to $150 a weekend and that's zero guarantee me getting laid. Its an hour and 10 minute flight, barely enough time for a show like Homeland. The key is that there was always a deadline and there wasn't a question if we wanted to give it a try (insert lovey dovey stuff here). Toss in we both have desk jobs so we're on gchat talking all day, texts, and google hangouts. It's not that bad. Far from fucking ideal, but luckily she's low drama so I don't get those heart wrenching "Oh my god, I miss you so bad, why aren't you here! Wtf!?!?!" messages I've seen people get in LD relationships that cause issues. Longest we've gone without seeing each other in person has been 8 weeks, but we recently just saw each other twice in a month 21 days apart so it evens out. Best part is I completely avoid her periods! tl dr - She's really cool. Yes, yes it is. OH and that Alison Brie picture is supposed to be a nipslip photo, not sure if anyone caught that.
Long distance relationships are possible. By adults. Not by college students. Carrying a long distance relationship into college is like wearing a tractor tire around your neck that attracts angry spotted skunks. It can't be done. Especially by a guy, who even if single is currently caught up in the greatest paradox of his life will never be so horny, never be again surrounded by so many beautiful, horny and readily available women who will have absolutely nothing to do with him. Unless of course, he has coke. After I was seeing my wife for a year, she did a four-month internship in Hong Kong (lived with her party-girl mother who already lived there, in a 45th floor condo overlooking the water I was a little jealous of THAT fact). It was easy. People with a bad connection or haven't seen each other for long or more likely to fail at a long distance relationship. I was a fucking moron for not figuring out a way to visit. Look at this freaking town, I gotta go: ...it BECKONS me.
How cool! I found this on youtube. It's some friends of mine from back in '87 or so. I really thought they were going to be the next big thing in music, and then hair metal died. I still dig this song though, and the lead guitar is awesome. I was in the studio when the vocals for this song were put down, it was quite fascinating....it was my first time in a studio. Their closest brush with the big time was being Poison's opening act in Japan somewhere around '89. Other then that, enjoy some 80's hair cheese....I can't believe we thought we were cool looking like that.
Here's my friend's band, who did get their 15 minutes with this song (and another called "Slowly Slipping Away). And THOSE mullets are unbeatable. Hair Metal cheese par excellance. I still always love bugging him with the question "What the fuck was Judge Reinhold doing in YOUR video in his prime?" His answer finally? "I think he thought he was shooting a short art film and they lied to him".
My favorite story about that song I posted was asking the singer "What the fuck does "She's got the looks that take control" mean?" Seriously, it makes no sense. His answer? "I was working at the car wash and there was this girl...and I was like...Dude! She's got the looks that take control!" I just nodded and agreed with him, because how can you rebut that statement? Yes, the singer worked at a car wash, and the 2 guitarists worked construction. The bass players and drummers were kind of a revolving door.
For what it's worth, the last girlfriend was long distance. We started off that way because we both liked each other (duh), and wanted to see where it went. For a short time I was only a 1.5 hour drive from her, then a 3.5-4 hour drive. Obviously we didn't work out, but I don't think it was due to the distance. I still have 1.5 years left on a contract and I think we were close to having a serious talk about our future, and I would have had to find a different job to be closer to her / move in with her. It gets to be a lot of work; she didn't have a car, buses weren't really an option, and you rack up a lot of kilometres and wear on the car quite quickly. Why date someone outside of my area? I live in a town of 15,000 people, 70% male. That's why. But to be more romantic about it, some chances you just have to take, even if you know it won't work. As Maimonedes said about the pursuit of truth, it's something in which you may never succeed but which at the same time you are never allowed to give up. I probably wouldn't start a long distance relationship with a girl in Australia on such a whim, but hey.
Today I am wearing my Bengals starter jacket and jersey to the fancy brunch place my friends and I are heading to in an hour. I just wanted to step in and wish a Who Dey? To Ballsack, Kubla, Clutch and anyone else that happens to be rooting for Cincinnati on this glorious Sunday!
So I am gathering you aren't hard to pick out from a crowd then. Bengals easily have the loudest colours in sports. My one friend ONLY wears a bengals jersey anytime we go out and finding him in a crowd is as hard as finding a forest fire.
The Husband and I did long distance for almost 2 years. Once a month trips (for me) to see him, lots of flight miles, and then once he was in Texas, it was a 4 hour drive to see him. Due to the whole training thing, he couldn't (once he was in Texas) stay overnight with me, so often the drive was for a day's worth of time. If the relationship is worth it to you, you make it work. You don't mind the miles or the distance, and god knows that with FaceTime, text message, snapchat, and whatever else multimedia tools you have at your disposal, it isn't as bad as it could be. Until you go to bed alone at night. Then it fucking sucks.
I only wear Bengals stuff on game day, and since I live a few hours from Cincinnati there are quite a few of us in similar outfits. I may very well be the only one at brunch in one. Most of the nice places are stuffed with churchies, and not drunk sports fans.
Definition of irony- taking Welbutrin for depression and it messing up your libido. Fuck that, I'm going cold turkey off this shit.
It's great timing that we're talking about long distance relationships, because I just got into one. There's this girl who was in my home room in highschool, she left after 10th grade, so we haven't actually been in the same room in 16 years. But we started chatting on facebook, and snapchat, and now we're pretty much planning on jumping into a full relationship when I get back. Unfortunately, that's not til July, but I do get to spend a lot of June home on leave.
Kudos for not calling her your "girlfriend". These days there is nothing more obnoxious than people who consider typing back-and-forth with a person they've never had sex with or even met in person a "relationship". There IS no connection in that. It's like saying you're dating Sonja from Mortal Kombat. What are you, a dipshit football player for Notre Dame?