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23 Nov 2013, 3:56 pm

I just got it after looking at the post again! (before reading the more recent posts) :lol:


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23 Nov 2013, 4:10 pm

Asperger96 wrote:
ChameleonKeys wrote:
jetbuilder wrote:
Oh (still don't quite get it) :oops:


I took it to mean "Kiss my A**...pergers!" You know, like a word play.


Thanks everyone, I'll never try to make another pun :silent:


Classic. :wink:


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24 Nov 2013, 5:59 pm

redrobin62 wrote:
If you went to my job and asked, "Who's the weird and crazy one around here?" All fingers would point to me.

I don't necessarily like being the weird and crazy one. It just turns out that way.

Being weird and crazy leads to loneliness and depression and I don't like that.

Being weird and crazy means you stick out like a sore thumb in your neighbourhood and your neighbours avoid you like the plague.

Being weird and crazy means you'll dine by yourself, watch games on TV by yourself, maybe even drop dead and nobody would know for weeks.

<--- Doesn't want to be weird and crazy any more.


Crazy and weird don't really mean the same thing.



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26 Nov 2013, 2:11 am

micfranklin wrote:
redrobin62 wrote:
If you went to my job and asked, "Who's the weird and crazy one around here?" All fingers would point to me.

I don't necessarily like being the weird and crazy one. It just turns out that way.

Being weird and crazy leads to loneliness and depression and I don't like that.

Being weird and crazy means you stick out like a sore thumb in your neighbourhood and your neighbours avoid you like the plague.

Being weird and crazy means you'll dine by yourself, watch games on TV by yourself, maybe even drop dead and nobody would know for weeks.

<--- Doesn't want to be weird and crazy any more.


Crazy and weird don't really mean the same thing.


Perhaps not, but they are both somewhat derogatory nonspecific descriptors for particular behaviours that others deem undesirable. It would make less sense if they both meant the same thing, because then RedRobin would effectively have been saying "Being weird and weird means..." which is redundant.


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