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What is the sell by date for a friend?
Mencken said we wear out friendships and need dispose of them.
Mencken said we wear out friendships and need dispose of them.
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... or we wear out our welcome.
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I had a dog that wore out after 16 years...
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(I'm googling Mencken.)
But real friendships are based on common ground- mutual affection/admiration, common causes, a history....
as long as you can relate with the person you shouldn't need to dispose of them.
Besides, you can't break-up with a friend, you can only stay out of touch.
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I had a dog that wore out after 16 years...
He let you spit on his head for that long?
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I recently sent a friend of more than 50 years an FO email.
His son came outta the closet. I got no problem with gay sons. His son is top shelf in most repects tho he's clueless about how to hold a hammer. But my old homophobic friend, and we were homophobic bullies in our tender years, has pulled a curtain across our past. IT NEVER HAPPENED! Uh, yes it did. NO, I WAS ALWAYS A HOMOPHILE AND LOVED THE LIL COCKSUCKERS. Uh, what about Pierre the beautician? HE WAS A GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR. Then why did you stand on the street in front of his shop and blow him kisses? IF YOU AINT GOT A PICTURE IT NEVER HAPPENED. AND MY WIFE SAYS YOURE A BAD INFLUENCE AND I CANT STOP BY AND HANGOUT NO MORE.
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Ah reckon so.
The wife and I have been together for about thirty years.
Hasn't always been friendly...
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My first wife and I made it about 12 years all told.
I get to likin' somebody, an' they don't stick around too long.
When you get to dislikin' 'em...,
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I find that friendships are based on necessity. She has skates, you have a key. She has a rich harvest of pussy, you have a bank fulla money.
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A relationship based solely on necessity isn't a real friendship.
These are the people we find easy to lose contact with once they've served their purpose.
ETA- Necessity can be a starting point, but lacking a sympathetic premise it will never blossom in a real friendship.
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When you get to dislikin' 'em...,
Well, there are a lot more of them stickin' around than there should be.
I hate jumpsuits and I don't look all that good in Penitentiary Orange.
If they could see their way clear to changing the shade to Hemi Orange . . .
well, some motherfuckers best be shittin' an' gittin'.
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Just rev up the V8 and drown them out...
Go full Comanchero in the ol' Camaro. or Ranchero.
Go full Comanchero in the ol' Camaro. or Ranchero.
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I'm still very good friends with girls I met in 1st and 2nd grade. Vacations together, helping out when really in need kind of stuff. It's not a daily one as we live thousands of miles apart but it's longstanding.
With that being said, I've taken a step back from my closest friend of 13 yrs. I'm just tired of what's going on of about 3 yrs now of negativity. About her life, her husband, job, anything to do with me when we're together.
Something was really eye opening to me when she was telling me about a good friend of hers going thru grief, losing 2 family members. But she didn't really have time for her, she worked you know and the friend lived 30 mins away. and thankfully I live a mile away. As someone who can relate to fresh grief, that was a slap in the face how lightly she regarded it. Bitch.
With that being said, I've taken a step back from my closest friend of 13 yrs. I'm just tired of what's going on of about 3 yrs now of negativity. About her life, her husband, job, anything to do with me when we're together.
Something was really eye opening to me when she was telling me about a good friend of hers going thru grief, losing 2 family members. But she didn't really have time for her, she worked you know and the friend lived 30 mins away.
and thankfully I live a mile away. As someone who can relate to fresh grief, that was a slap in the face how lightly she regarded it. Bitch.
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I've been meaning to ask you, why Indians look like Smurffs when theyre depicted on murals and posters, etc. Youre not really blue are you?
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Were they being choked in those murals?
The blue tone that you see used in depicting certain hindu gods like Krishna, Rama... (I'm guessing that's what you're referring to) is to show their dark skin tone.
My theory is that since Indians don't find dark skin attractive... they went with the blue colour.
I've heard BS that it has to do with the qualities of those gods but Krishna is shown as dark skin in his Vithoba avatar. And the places where you find temples dedicated to vithoba are regions where you find darker skinned Indians.
I could be wrong of course.
You should ask Byron, he is the resident Indian expert. Actually there are a whole bunch of them. I'm just a poser.
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In reality if you had rich friends and relatives who were fond of you then you'd get a nice burial with a marble tomb to mark your grave or they'd use sandalwood in your funeral pyre.
In death nothing matters. But in the moments before that friends matter (not popularity).
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Hmmm a poser. Prolly a homosexual anthropology professor from an obscure Canadian college. One of those saffron robed Hare Krishnas who shunned sex. Why am I the last to know!
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And blue is more attractive?
It is cool and neutral, and I can associate the colour blue with some of the qualities.
Like Vishnu's blue... associated with water.
Shiva's for neelkanth (blue neck)
Krishna... no idea why he was ever depicted as blue (hence my theory that it was because dark skin was offensive). The modern images show Krishna as almost white... people have forgotten that krsna means dark. There is this famous lullaby sung to kids (I'm catholic and I know it) where Krishna asks his mother about his dark skin.
Again, just my theory. I'm no expert and not a hindu.
