Naked Photo Test

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I've been puzzling recently what I would do if I had to go away for a few days. I'd have to take my cats to a cattery as I have no-one I could ask for that kind of help. My co-worker asked, "Couldn't you ask one of your friends" forcing me to admit I didn't have any.

BUT.

This thread is cheering me up no end, as I realised I simply don't have any friends in Leicester. There are 3 people I would trust with that kind of material, who just happen to live too far away to catsit effectively. As do all my family.

But the article was definitely worth reading. I'm further down the path to cutting myself off from the world than my colleagues, so I tend to think of it as a bizarre accident that has happened to me, rather than a result of choices I have made. I think perhaps it is time to start reversing the process. Because he is right in some ways - not least the fact that the more you rub along with people the less corners you have.

oh my god. I would come to your house in a heartbeat! I'm a nice girl . Polite in every way. I find you charming, entertaining,smart and fun. I'm sure Id be grinning ear to ear.

If I ever do manage to buy a ticket to Europe you just remember me. I'm comming over!


I'll actually read the article later. I would also like to know what that
bizarre accident was SG.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

that bizarre accident was SG.

Yup, kinda sums it up
I just mean that I haven't always taken responsibility for the lack of social interaction in my life, preferring to believe it happened quite by chance.

Thanks for the kind words. You're definitely welcome any time you want to drop by. I'd love to show someone round and I'd buy you a wonderful curry. And if we didn't get on, I'd leave you babysitting my cats and bugger off to my parent!

[hijack] Just to clarify - the issue with my cats is that they are house cats and people-dependant. It wouldn't be a question of someone popping in once a day to dish up food - I could find someone to do that. They would cry themselves hoarse if left alone for more than 24 hours. So I'd need a real friend, who was willing to move in for as long as I was away - that's what I don't have (closer than 70m away).

This was an issue this weekend as Dad was rushed into hospital Friday night and at the time it was a suspected heart attack. He's still in for observation, but it's been diagnosed as angina. They're being careful because he had a blood clot on his lung last year following his knee replacement. He goes for a full set of tests Monday. Anyway, it made me realise that without friends nearby it is harder to cut and run. If it had been serious I'd have had to take them with me.

[/hijack] and apologies for interrupting an interesting thread!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Tell Dad a bunch of yanks are rooting for him. For you too, we care and were here 'round the clock for you're convenience.

snip ~they are house cats and people-dependent. ~snip~ They would cry themselves hoarse if left alone for more than 24 hours.~snip

Oh dear, cat owners are so naive. You think because they treat you like slaves, they're dependent.

The truth is, you wouldn't be two blocks away before they would have their buddies in, playing cards, with Chinese food or pizza on the way.

[xoxoxoBruce]

1. Not enough annoying strangers in our lives.
snip~ Get stuck in the waiting room at the doctor? No way I'm striking up a conversation with the smelly old man sitting next to me. Plug the iPod into my ears and have a text conversation with a friend, or play my D'S. Filter that annoyance right out of my world.

And that would be awesome, if it were actually possible to keep all of the irritating shit out of your life. But it's not. It never will be. As long as you have needs, you'll have to deal with people you can't stand from time to time. But that skill, the one that lets us deal with strangers and tolerate their shrill voices and clunky senses of humor and body odor and squeaky shoes, is being burned right out of us.~snip

The meat of his first point rings true for me. Of the half dozen good friends I had, four are dead, and one is dying. The remaining one I don't see often enough.

Probably when I lived in Boston, riding the subway/trolley line, I was immersed in people the most. Of all the annoying things people do rated on a scale of 1 to 10, being bombarded with it every day, I wouldn't notice anything less than 5, half the time.
Then, I could press my weight and dead lift double, too.

Now I find going out in the world, most everything they do is 8 or higher. I know it's not them getting worse, although there may be more of them, because they're a % of the population. Everything changes, including us.
It's my tolerance has eroded....and I probably couldn't dead lift my weight.


You could say, so what, in this electronic world I can live in my virtual reality. Yes some, maybe even most of the time. But unless you're Howard Hughes, not completely. Even if you do, it's not healthy.

I'm sure some of you, considering all the technical expertise here, have created yourselves what could be electronic retreats. I wonder how much you use it to keep people at arms length?

[limey]

I'm well aware that I choose to live on the edge of civilisation because most people irritate me and that most people irritate me because I live on the edge of civilisation.
(The edge, by the way, is not just a physical location, but also defined by the fact that I don't buy a newspaper, don't listen to the music that most people do, don't watch the TV programmes that most people do ...)
That being said, I'd trust most of my "neighbours" with that photo ... so I'm one of the lucky ones ...

[xoxoxoBruce]

So they refer to you as the odd one, or strange one, without being derogatory?

[limey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

So they refer to you as the odd one, or strange one, without being derogatory?

I suppose so ...

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I wonder how much you use it to keep people at arms length?

I would probably use it more if it worked out for me but apparently I am better on this side of the screen :p

Now about the original post. I read the article finally.

The original idea just wasn't about nudity. We have nudity galore these days so that isn't a big deal.I say the bar was set too high to gauge trust and friendship. Is there any normal friendship that can stand under the weight of having sex with a beast? no,so I think the whole premise of the test is off.

Now if it would have said 'child porn of yourself' surfacing I would have said sure. Lots of people I could trust with that.

I like low gauges of friendship like someone pulling your dress out of your panty hose when comming out of the bathroom. Anyone who does that is a friend indeed! hehe

About the list . #1. I think kids get a big dose of annoyance these days.Every walked in a middle shoool?
#2. I grew up in the country. I do agree that the sense of community isn't like it was when I was growing up. People were just nicer back then.
#3 & #4. There should be a law where we all have to 'text' all pretty and flowery like SG's story telling OR at least old world of some sort then even the insults would sound nice ( j/k)
#5 Constructive critism is a good thing.
#6 I don't watch the news.
#7 see number 5.