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I think I would struggle to be really good friends with someone who is teetotal because I don't do many activities that are fun while sober. There just wouldn't be enough crossover in spare time activities.

I guess that depends what you'd categorize as "good friends." But if life experience has taught me anything is that when it comes to men, there are always three topics of conversation you can rely on to avoid any awkward moments of silence; video games, sports, and women.

The trick is finding which, games, sports, or type of women you both like. 

Mine are, rpgs, football, and ones with phat booties.

The sports thing is so true. Personally I don't chill with guys who don't watch sports lol. EASIEST thing to talk about IMO

Did anyone else see the Brazil-Argentina game? The Brazilians were mobbing the ice cream referee so bad Neymar trying to intimidate the referee Luiz Gustavo pushing the referee

I think by good friends I meant like all purpose friends. Like I've always known some people who I'll see for just one reason like they are in my classes at uni, but I would never invite them to do anything else. Good friends are the people who you'd go out of your way to see and invite them most places.

I don't like talking about football in real life that much. It winds me up when people are only informed by newspapers and the occasional game on TV. It seems like a waste of time talking about stuff papers have just made up. Also not really into the whole soap opera stuff that goes on a lot of the time. Some of it is interesting but most of it isn't. I'd say I only really talk about football properly with my dad, cause he goes to the games with me. A few of my friends talk about it a little bit, but not in depth.

Girls is probably what we talk about most of those 3. Films is probably another pretty universal one, everyone in the world watches movies.

I don't. Last film I've watched was Pacific Rim. I usually watch films only after they make their way onto Netflix 13 years after they were released and they've already been talked out.

Actually, I think the reason for that is because I don't actually have any friends, at least not any like you've described. Obviously, I have a lot of homies, homeboys, blood brothers, compadres, comrade and cousins, that I might chill with on occasion but I haven't had a friend like you've described since highschool, even then I only had two. Which explains why I actually went to the movie theater a lot those days. 

Wish I could go back and watch some better films, I onced ditch school to watch the first transformers film of all things. 

vel wrote:The sports thing is so true. Personally I don't chill with guys who don't watch sports lol. EASIEST thing to talk about IMO

Like you chill with anyone, ffs.

My roommate is such a noisy eater. I genuinely don't know how you can make that much sound while chewing.

SBSP wrote:My roommate is such a noisy eater. I genuinely don't know how you can make that much sound while chewing.

Hate noisy eaters.  Fucking animals who should be forcibly reeducated or exterminated.

In DC, members of the upper-middle class aspiring to join the upper class (the most dangerous beasts on earth) smack their lips to appear posh.  It is horrifying.

I am very anal about most noises. I hate people whistling, coughing, chewing, clinking dishes around, singing, laughing in an annoying way when I'm not in the conversation, burping and there's probably more. I know that it's unreasonable for me to expect people to conform to my desired level of quiet so I don't ever really say anything, I just let it chew me up inside.

I used to have a nocturnal roommate with a really high pitched annoying laugh, a high pitched singing voice that he used pretty much all the time, a smoker so he coughed a lot and some weird issue where he burped all the time. I wanted to burn the house down sometimes. Woke me up/kept me up with these habits many times.

You would get utterly sick of my roommate very quickly then. Occasionally he'll just talk to himself out loud. He keeps his shoes on inside, so he's even noisy when he's just moving around.

SBSP wrote:You would get utterly sick of my roommate very quickly then. Occasionally he'll just talk to himself out loud. He keeps his shoes on inside, so he's even noisy when he's just moving around.

Does he avoid getting drunk and puking everywhere at least?

None of us drink, so that's not a problem.

Scott_LFC wrote:

vel wrote:The sports thing is so true. Personally I don't chill with guys who don't watch sports lol. EASIEST thing to talk about IMO

Like you chill with anyone, ffs.

aren't you grieving your dead dog or something?

Most of the time I listen to music it's to drown out other people's noise.

I think I've evolved to legendary levels of chill over the years because a few years back EVERYTHING bothered me but almost nothing like that bothers me anymore.

Well, to be honest, the other day someone was smoking near me and I could swear that they were purposely blowing their smoke into  my direction. That actually was really irritating.

this middle-aged black lady was causing a scene on a packed bus because some guy gave her a dirty look when she stepped on his kicks lol

some smokers are just ignant but some people are just waste ffs

i met this girl at work today and she told me that some guys shot at the back of her car with a shotgun and there were the holes across her trunk

i'll get a pic tomorrow and post it here, i was like wtfff

vel wrote:i met this girl at work today and she told me that some guys shot at the back of her car with a shotgun and there were the holes across her trunk

i'll get a pic tomorrow and post it here, i was like wtfff

Do you still live in Canada?

First time I've ever gotten up at 7am at uni, might actually go to my first ever 9am.

Theo Filippo wrote:First time I've ever gotten up at 7am at uni, might actually go to my first ever 9am.

I've never known anyone get better at attendance as time goes on. In my first year I attended virtually every lecture regardless of what time it was at, by third year I was regularly missing 5PM starts because I was too hungover.

One for all you Teetotal boring bastards to consider

http://www.cracked.com/article_19464_6-things-they-say-hurt-careers-that-statistics-say-help.html

ResurrectionRooney wrote:One for all you Teetotal boring bastards to consider

http://www.cracked.com/article_19464_6-things-they-say-hurt-careers-that-statistics-say-help.html

It was on cracked. Must be true.

Childish Logic wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:One for all you Teetotal boring bastards to consider

http://www.cracked.com/article_19464_6-things-they-say-hurt-careers-that-statistics-say-help.html

It was on cracked. Must be true.

You think it isn't? Alcohol is a major part of socialising in Western society, people who choose to abstain from socialising aren't as well liked and therefore don't do as well.

That article also tells you to "be a jerk," "be more sexist," and to "get fat."  I don't want to be any of those things.  I think I'll just take my chances, even if it means I earn a wee bit less.

Are you never going to drink Glen? I can see why others would set a steadfast no because of religion, but Christianity loves alcohol (albiet more on the Catholic side and I'm guessing you're apeskypaleyone). I thought I wasn't going to drink when I was like 14-15, but then I just gave it a go and enjoyed it.

Zzonked wrote:Are you never going to drink Glen? I can see why others would set a steadfast no because of religion, but Christianity loves alcohol (albiet more on the Catholic side and I'm guessing you're apeskypaleyone). I thought I wasn't going to drink when I was like 14-15, but then I just gave it a go and enjoyed it.

I may change, but I suspect I will just take Rei's approach and have it on special occasions, or I may just wait until people start drinking maturely.  That's probably around the age 30 for most people.

Some people think you are a prude, but others think that you are some sort of deep, reclusive genius when they learn you don't drink.    I just need to make sure they never actually have a conversation with me.

Glen Miller wrote:That article also tells you to "be a jerk," "be more sexist," and to "get fat."  I don't want to be any of those things.  I think I'll just take my chances, even if it means I earn a wee bit less.

The other things comes with costs - being less liked, being less healthy, dying sooner - having a nice drink in a bar is a cost well worth paying. It's not a "wee bit" less, it's thousands of pounds per year, over your career that's a frightening amount of money. It'll also make you more liked and strengthen any friendships you have that are worth strengthening.

Fair enough.  Still, it's not exactly relevant to me considering I won't even legally be able to drink until just before I graduate, so if my future employers are kicking up a fuss about my refusal to buy a fake ID during a third-year interview, then that's just tough.  I'm under the impression that moderate drinkers are the ones who earn more on average-doesn't that make people who are too hung over to attend a class at 5 in the afternoon just as vulnerable?