^ Agreed. It's very rare I can't rally up my girlfriends randomly... and if I can't, it's usually because they already had plans. Very rare I can't find at least one of my friends to go do something!

2/4/2010 10:12:36 AM

well said lucy! I &hearts u!

lucyinthesky has cast a spell over all of TWW to fall in love with her.

2/4/2010 10:13:53 AM

^ hai gurl

And BC nobody reads the last post on a page :

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" girls realize that they can't rally their clique on the fly and that their guy leaving means they'll be at home bored and he'll come home drunk and happy. women are highly competitive and jealous individuals so this does not appeal to them."

Then these girls have the wrong friends. Or they need more friends. What kind of loser girls are your friends dating?

I always tell my guy friends, "If a girl doesn't have any girlfriends at all, it probably means that she has jealousy/insecurity issues."

And I tell my girl friends the same thing about guys who don't have guy friends.

Obviously, it's a rash generalization, but nine times out of ten, it's true. People who don't have friends of the same gender generally have insecurity issues. Or they're just mean/douchebaggy/bitchy.

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM. Reason : .]

2/4/2010 10:14:15 AM

To those knocking the whole "taking your ring off" part of my original argument:

Its not asking them to bang someone else, its not even asking them to flirt with someone else. Its just a sign that you're part of the team and not completely bitchmade. A group of us go to AC, NY, Cabo, etc. for the weekend. If you're the only one wearing a ring, you're going to put a serious damper on the rest of us. You don't have to bang the Portuguese waitress...you just have to make it look like you'd entertain the thought of doing so.

I hope that makes sense.

2/4/2010 10:15:37 AM

I don't have a lot of guy friends because most guys are competitive assholes.

2/4/2010 10:16:07 AM

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"What kind of loser girls are your friends dating?"

White ones

2/4/2010 10:16:37 AM

I see what you are saying about a team, SF, but I would be very hurt if qntmfred took his ring off. The ring means more to me than just a piece of jewelery.

2/4/2010 10:17:33 AM

^4 I have to admit, if my husband took off his ring I would be seriously pissed off. That's deceitful. End of story.

Plus, you know if the wife took off her rings she would get accused of being a hussy.

^ Exactly!

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM. Reason : .]

2/4/2010 10:17:44 AM

It sounds like I'm woman-hating right now, but I'm not. Dudes have their own slew of neurotic shit.

Still though, fuck. It's absolutely obnoxious that girlfriends still heap stress on me and I don't even have one

2/4/2010 10:19:31 AM

i'll probably rarely, if ever, wear my wedding ring. the company i'm going to work for doesn't allow any jewelry to be worn in the plants.

but we are thinking of getting small tattoos around our ring fingers that would go under the ring if it were on the finger

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:22 AM. Reason : and i just hate shit on my wrists and hands. no watches, no rings.]

2/4/2010 10:22:07 AM

Punchmonk and Samwise:

The point is that you're not supposed to like your husband taking off his ring, which is why he's not supposed to tell you. Its a sign of bonding among males. If you didn't mind him taking off his ring, there would be something wrong with your marriage/

2/4/2010 10:22:20 AM

girls, how many of you have been or are jealous of your boyfriend's best friend?

2/4/2010 10:22:58 AM

^ best friend a guy or a girl?

2/4/2010 10:24:03 AM

McDanger has actually been spitting a lot of TRUTH in this thread.

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"For the most part, however, they have to be treated like fucking children and princesses. They constantly have to be the center of attention or they FUCKING. LOSE. IT."

is pretty dead on.

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"Agreed. It's very rare I can't rally up my girlfriends randomly... and if I can't, it's usually because they already had plans. Very rare I can't find at least one of my friends to go do something!"

but you're, what, 23? at 27 it is an entirely different ball games. women's cliques fade and men try to keep theirs strong, but that whole jealousy/competitive issue i mentioned above comes into play to throw a wrench in it.

2/4/2010 10:24:30 AM

^3 Um, never

^ Meh, I guess. We'll see when it gets there.

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:25 AM. Reason : .]

2/4/2010 10:24:53 AM

4^Never.

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:38 AM. Reason : ]

2/4/2010 10:25:24 AM

My last bf wouldn't let me hang out w/his best friend bc his best friend would hit on me.

I've always liked my boyfriend's best friend. Then again, I usually use a guy's friends to judge his character, so I probably would be less likely to date a guy with sketch best friends. Birds of a feather, blah blah blah...

2/4/2010 10:25:58 AM

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"girls, how many of you have been or are jealous of your boyfriend's best friend?"

i ask because in all reality, my ex had a really close friend that was a girl and yea, i was really jealous. granted it was a long distance relationship. but yea.

guy best friend? no

2/4/2010 10:26:26 AM

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"The point is that you're not supposed to like your husband taking off his ring, which is why he's not supposed to tell you. "

If I ever found out he wasn't wearing his ring for reasons like you stated previously ... the wrath of Samwise would be unleashed

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:26 AM. Reason : .]

2/4/2010 10:26:34 AM

With the exception of a few comments, this thread makes me feel so lonely. I have no idea what you fuckers are talking about.

I also feel much smarter now. I wonder when people will stop sharing their retarded "insights." Generalizing is bad enough...hearing the same retarded generalizations over and over again for a decade and having to pretend it's new and meaningful...good Lord, it's awful. Like, seriously, at what age does the person who says "girls who don't have a lot of girlfriends are [blank]" get told to shut the fuck up instead of applauded?

My parents and their friends and my friends' parents don't say this stupid fucking shit all the time.

2/4/2010 10:26:41 AM

a guy in this scenario.


my best friend's gf must just be a psychotic

2/4/2010 10:26:50 AM

Lucy, why would you use that criterion to judge a man when you hang out with strippers and plastic surgery queens? Seems kind of double-sided don't you think?

2/4/2010 10:27:08 AM

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" but you're, what, 23? at 27 it is an entirely different ball games. women's cliques fade and men try to keep theirs strong, but that whole jealousy/competitive issue i mentioned above comes into play to throw a wrench in it."

Not true. All of my best girlfriends (a solid group of about ten of us, with another ten that join occasionally) are in our late 20s and early to mid-30s. And if someone needs a girls night, then a girls night happens. Probably because we're a group of about 20 people. But again, pick the right gfs and you won't have this problem.

2/4/2010 10:27:45 AM

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"a guy in this scenario. my best friend's gf must just be a psychotic"

sounds like it.

2/4/2010 10:29:48 AM

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"Lucy, why would you use that criterion to judge a man when you hang out with strippers and plastic surgery queens? Seems kind of double-sided don't you think?"

Only one of my friends is a former stripper. No current strippers in the bunch. And I'd say 50% of the women in my workplace have had plastic surgery. It's just the norm in my industry and in this part of Florida.

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:31 AM. Reason : .]

2/4/2010 10:30:07 AM

Sometimes if you call home first its just to make sure you are not gonna be expected for dinner.

2/4/2010 10:31:28 AM

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"It's just the norm in my industry and in this part of Florida."

So it's okay to judge somebody based on norm-breaking psychosis, but not on psychosis that conforms to a psychotic norm

2/4/2010 10:31:33 AM

usually when someone says something that I agree with, I say "I concur" even if it has been said forever. That is what a conversation is. I would like to hear someone say they disagree too without trying to be dominant in their thinking, that is what maturity is.

Opinions are a beautiful thing and everyone has them.

2/4/2010 10:32:48 AM

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"With the exception of a few comments, this thread makes me feel so lonely. I have no idea what you fuckers are talking about. I also feel much smarter now. I wonder when people will stop sharing their retarded "insights." Generalizing is bad enough...hearing the same retarded generalizations over and over again for a decade and having to pretend it's new and meaningful...good Lord, it's awful. Like, seriously, at what age does the person who says "girls who don't have a lot of girlfriends are [blank]" get told to shut the fuck up instead of applauded? My parents and their friends and my friends' parents don't say this stupid fucking shit all the time."

Has it ever occurred to you that people have different experiences? I can't think of a single girlfriend of a friend of mine that doesn't act this way. I don't think it has anything to do with an X chromosome, though, I'm not that stupid. It's certainly a cultural problem.

2/4/2010 10:33:49 AM

i think she is, as my post said she's almost like a crazy conartist. Me and the guy have been friends since second grade so i know almost everything about him and that drives her nuts.

2/4/2010 10:34:08 AM

well you obviously are not gay and after his nuts. I think it has been said before, women are just competitive. Sorry you have to deal with that, Jesse.

2/4/2010 10:35:51 AM

it's all good, he'll wake up sooner or later

2/4/2010 10:36:58 AM

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"women are just competitive"

no no no no no.

no.

women HERE are. it's a cultural problem. pretending that bitches are just crazy and can't help it helps to perpetuate the problem. fuck that shit. these women don't deserve that excuse, it's a mental-insanity plea.

these women need to put on their big girl panties and act like a fucking adult in an adult relationship

2/4/2010 10:37:47 AM

Where can a guy find good women?

2/4/2010 10:39:14 AM

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"Where can a guy find good women?"

Your house

2/4/2010 10:39:59 AM

^^ for serious

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:40 AM. Reason : .]

2/4/2010 10:40:01 AM

My roommate is pretty hot.

2/4/2010 10:40:57 AM

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"McDanger: Has it ever occurred to you that people have different experiences? I can't think of a single girlfriend of a friend of mine that doesn't act this way. I don't think it has anything to do with an X chromosome, though, I'm not that stupid. It's certainly a cultural problem."

People sharing their experiences does not bother me. You should mention to your guys' girls that they need to pony up for weed and shit. Entitlement to free shit is intolerable. The out-of-control texting is...out-of-control and not okay. That's rude on your friends' part too though to be sitting there fucking texting when they supposed to be chilling. As texting grows in popularity, etiquette will hopefully emerge...

But, seriously, have you read the trash in this thread?

2/4/2010 10:41:39 AM

I def have been friends with women of different cultures and they run the roost or there is hell to pay. I know not all women are competitive but a good majority are.

I agree :

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"pretending that bitches are just crazy and can't help it helps to perpetuate the problem. fuck that shit. these women don't deserve that excuse, it's a mental-insanity plea. these women need to put on their big girl panties and act like a fucking adult in an adult relationship"

It is all about maturity and not thinking of herself all the time. She can def help that. It is selfishness.

2/4/2010 10:42:07 AM

I hate to sound like such a fucking hater. You people would understand if your last 15 social events (at the very least) had been fucked up in some way, shape, or form by a girlfriend.

The only time I can escape that shit is when I hang out with my best buddy up here in Pittsburgh, who's also single. Nobody runs our time and our dude friends are pretty envious. Do all the same shit we have always enjoyed: video games, hitting up the park to throw the football, sledding, hanging out and drinking, watching movies, etc. The only downside is we look pretty bromosexual I guess

2/4/2010 10:43:18 AM

2/4/2010 10:45:57 AM

BOYS CLUB NO GIRLS ALLOWED

2/4/2010 10:46:12 AM

2/4/2010 10:47:31 AM

i hate it when my friends lose their individuality and become "WE" people.

we can't go out tonight, we don't like that bar anymore, we have surgically graphed our bodies onto one another

2/4/2010 10:47:43 AM

Ah while I'm already venting I might as well continue

Somebody here mentioned the high-pitch-boyfriend-voice. What's even worse is the "go-silent-and-pout-like-a-toddler" moments where plans get proposed to a group.

"Hey, how about we go see __________?"

*girl immediately turns away, goes silent. shrugs when asked questions. gets into a hushed conversation with the guy she's with.*

WORD

2/4/2010 10:48:19 AM

^^ haha that reminds me of the apocalypse episode of family guy where quagmire and cleveland get fused together

[Edited on February 4, 2010 at 10:49 AM. Reason : goddammit mcdanger ]

2/4/2010 10:48:46 AM

IS IT TOO REAL FOR YOU, LUNAK

2/4/2010 10:49:19 AM

no i was pissed because i had to edit my post cause you were too fast

2/4/2010 10:50:12 AM

that's nutty, you should inform your SO of what's going on in case 1: there is something planned that you forgot or didn't know about that you really really really should be involved in, 2: they were expecting you at a certain time that you had previously told them, informs them that you will not be present until later etc.

as for permission there are a few times when you'd have to do this, holidays, birthdays, valentines day, etc, but typically no, not really.

check in? no.

why would you take your ring off? why would it affect your game? if anything it should enhance it by letting you become the 'safe' guy that gets her to stay and chat where you can get a toe in the door by having your married buddy wingman you. rings are pretty inconspicuous, or can be. if a guy in the group has a ring on and it negatively affects your game, you need to step your fucking game up.

home by 12? what? you should probably tell her about what time you'd be coming in but why would there be a curfew?

2/4/2010 10:50:23 AM

Calvin starts a "club" (he and Hobbes are the only members) which he calls G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS) club, and while holding "meetings" in Calvin's treehouse, they usually con up some way to annoy or socially maim Susie, the most instances of which usually backfire on them completely. Watterson admits that Calvin and Susie have a nascent crush on each other, and that Susie is inspired by the type of woman that he himself found attractive and eventually married.

2/4/2010 10:50:48 AM