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No internet must have been horrible *shudder*
What did we do before it?
Lots of things, as it happens.
Things that would kill you mostly, like jumping off the end of the jetty and riding around in the back of Utes.

Melbourne seems to be targeted a lot.
Sad times.

Jeez , the stupid s**t you would get up to before internet makes me cringe , if there was facebook back then I would have been ruined by all the footage people would of taken of me doing things that people dared me to do

Sad times indeed.

Not autistic....shamanic

I'm just catching up with recent events

^ I've spent many hours with Terrence.

"Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people — but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless. Look, see the child's swollen, swollen belly, and the flies that crawl at the corners of his eyes, his skeletal limbs: will it make it easier for you to know his name, his age, his dreams, his fears? To see him from the inside? And if it does, are we not doing a disservice to his sister, who lies in the searing dust beside him, a distorted, distended caricature of a human child? And there, if we feel for them, are they now more important to us than a thousand other children touched by the same famine, a thousand other young lives who will soon be food for the flies' own myriad squirming children?
We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain.
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.
A life that is, like any other, unlike any other."
--from Neil Gaiman's American Gods

I bet they were good times too

I've had people here message me and seem very friendly, but eventually ask about my relationship status, saying it's just out of curiosity, and then stop chatting with me when I tell them I'm a nonromantic asexual. So yes, it does seem like a good number of people are actually looking for romantic relationships, not friendships. I wish they'd at least be a bit more upfront about it so I didn't keep thinking I've made a friend when I haven't really

Wow, I'm so happy for you and your son

Do yours come from newish people that you haven't even really interacted with?
Weird.
One wanted to sext.
Thanks, but no thanks.
One wanted me to come to their house and was very insistent and was making all these plans like I had actually agreed to it, or even would.
And I've had weirder ones...
Do I seem like the type?

ok so who's in the wrong here?


i'm applying for a study abroad program for next summer and i've already made the NON REFUNDABLE $450 payment as part of the application. to finalize the application though you need to complete an interview with the program director who is also a professor of mine

i emailed him on tuesday at 5 pm saying i can meet at 10 am on a wednesday (on tuesday at 9, he sent out an email asking us to confirm a time monday to wednesday from 9-11).
i was thinking he meant next wednesday - not the day after (today) so that's what my response meant.

but at 8 AM today he sent me a reply saying he can meet at 10:20. i didn't see this email until 10:30. i was waiting for a response all night and wasn't planning on getting up earlier than i normally do.

on wednesdays, he has office hours at 4 PM as well so i sent him an email this morning after i realized i missed it apologizing and asking if we could have the interview then.

i didn't get a response all day. i went to his office - and he never showed up. usually he announces whenever he's not gonna be available for office hours so i was really surprised and disappointed and i'm freaking out wondering whether or not i've been disqualified for missing the appointment and i cannot relax.

did i waste $450 or..???

well i mostly look for friendships here since i know any hope of finding a partner here is a pipe dream. i agree people should disclose their intentions early since i was really looking forward to having coffee or something with another person from here. this guy was planning to drive two hours to meet me so he wasnt all that local either.

there was only one person on this website that's from around here. that i know of.

she got banned and most of us here know who she is.

also i hardly think that romantic relationships and friendships are mutually exclusive, you can't really have a meaningful relationship with someone you can't be friends with first.

why do sh***y things keep happening this year?

I third this.

I didn't check how new they were or weren't, but they have been people who hadn't really interacted with me before messaging me. I figured they'd read some of my posts and wanted to get to know me better for friendship reasons, but it seems that wasn't quite the case. It's never gone any further than asking about my relationship status and finding out that I don't want one, though - I guess I can be thankful for that.