[bubba]

Luv2B_Sassy, on 14 May 2018 - 07:49 PM, said:

That sucks. Congrats on becoming a Latter-Day Saint though.

I could never do the underwear..... The caffeine unfortunately is a life or death thing.....

[worry]

Aw man. I'm dreading the cruel pranks the human body plays on its owner as times passes.

[bubba]

It's not pretty....

[Slow Ben]

The thought of giving up coffee is too horrifying to even imagine.

[Nicodimas]

Luv2B_Sassy, on 14 May 2018 - 07:49 PM, said:

That sucks. Congrats on becoming a Latter-Day Saint though.

LDS are the best their whole religion is built the world could end at any time. Hence they prep for it ! Love em

[Maark Abbott]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 11 May 2018 - 08:37 AM, said:

Maark Abbott, on 11 May 2018 - 07:21 AM, said:

The sunshine and heat. I'm photophobic - the light hurts my eyes. It also draws happy, playing children into the streets and nothing irks me more than the sound of a child's laughter.

Step 1: Acquire lawn.

Step 2: Shout at said children to "get off it".

Step 3: ???

Profit!

Ahahahaha, yesssss. Git orf mah lawwwwwn.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I saw Love Never Dies on Mother’s day with my wife. It was fucking terrible. I like a good musical, we have season tickets. I see a decent number of them. This was probably the worse I’ve seen. It’s the sequel to Phantom, and bad enough it makes Phantom retroactively worse. Terrible stuff.

[QuickTidal]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 15 May 2018 - 01:41 PM, said:

I saw Love Never Dies on Mother’s day with my wife. It was fucking terrible. I like a good musical, we have season tickets. I see a decent number of them. This was probably the worse I’ve seen. It’s the sequel to Phantom, and bad enough it makes Phantom retroactively worse. Terrible stuff.

This is one of those things I've instinctively avoided like the plague. Phantom didn't need any kind of sequel, and I've heard nothing but shit reviews. Also, how you go from Paris as a setting to fucking Coney Island is beyond me.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

QuickTidal, on 15 May 2018 - 01:50 PM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 15 May 2018 - 01:41 PM, said:

I saw Love Never Dies on Mother's day with my wife. It was fucking terrible. I like a good musical, we have season tickets. I see a decent number of them. This was probably the worse I've seen. It's the sequel to Phantom, and bad enough it makes Phantom retroactively worse. Terrible stuff.

This is one of those things I've instinctively avoided like the plague. Phantom didn't need any kind of sequel, and I've heard nothing but shit reviews. Also, how you go from Paris as a setting to fucking Coney Island is beyond me.

Also chimes with everything I heard about it too. Speaks volumes when a sequel to one of the most successful musicals in the world can't do a full year in the West End before being canned! As QT said though, that story did not remotely need a sequel.

[QuickTidal]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 15 May 2018 - 01:57 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 15 May 2018 - 01:50 PM, said:

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 15 May 2018 - 01:41 PM, said:

I saw Love Never Dies on Mother's day with my wife. It was fucking terrible. I like a good musical, we have season tickets. I see a decent number of them. This was probably the worse I've seen. It's the sequel to Phantom, and bad enough it makes Phantom retroactively worse. Terrible stuff.

This is one of those things I've instinctively avoided like the plague. Phantom didn't need any kind of sequel, and I've heard nothing but shit reviews. Also, how you go from Paris as a setting to fucking Coney Island is beyond me.

Also chimes with everything I heard about it too. Speaks volumes when a sequel to one of the most successful musicals in the world can't do a full year in the West End before being canned! As QT said though, that story did not remotely need a sequel.

I will say that there is a quasi-prequel novel out there called simply PHANTOM by Susan Kay (written in 1990), and it functions as biography for Erik's difficult childhood, and up to him taking up residence in the Paris Opera....and as much as I didn't think Phantom needed a prequel of any kind either, it's a wonderful book that fills out Erik's POV in the story a little more fully. Hard to find though.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I read that, it was ok but unneeded also. This musical though...either Andrew Lloyd Weber is broke or has dementia. There’s no other explanation that this shit could have been written by the same guy. Disregarding the terrible songs and music, just the plot was so bad and poorly written it felt like bad fan fiction.

[worry]

I would like nothing more than to see the Phantom enter Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.

[Lady Bliss]

Bubba, on 14 May 2018 - 07:34 PM, said:

Having to give up caffeine.....like forever. It's like saying goodbye to the best friend you ever had.

I gave it up and feel great. I’ve found that once my body weaned off it, I didn’t miss it a bit.

[Cause]

I'm breaking up with the girlfriend tonight. I have waited too long as it is. She is not the one but for a variety of reasons (her grandpa had a stroke, I was in Japan) I have not had a chance to end things properly. I feel like an asshole, because I have to admit I have not been a good boyfriend lately. I don't like the person I am in this relationship and I am being unfair to her.

That said I have never been in a relationship in which things seem so mismatched, the more I have tried to pull away the tighter she tries to latch on and I feel she is oblivious to what's coming. This makes me feel even worse for delaying the break up. I think its going to be bad. In fact her two brothers are both getting married soon, her one brother recently got enagged and her family has been making marriage jokes and offering us free timeshare for trips away together. We have been dating for almost excactly six months, which is the same time her brother has been dating before he proposed but I think he is crazy.

[Gorefest]

Oof, sounds tough Cause. Still, if it really doesn't work it is better to talk it through sooner than later. Best of luck, there is no easy way of doing it. And don't chastise yourself too much, you cannot help your feelings and being honest is always the best course of action in any relationship. It will hurt in the short term but it is for the best in the long term.

[QuickTidal]

Gorefest, on 17 May 2018 - 03:26 PM, said:

Oof, sounds tough Cause. Still, if it really doesn't work it is better to talk it through sooner than later. Best of luck, there is no easy way of doing it. And don't chastise yourself too much, you cannot help your feelings and being honest is always the best course of action in any relationship. It will hurt in the short term but it is for the best in the long term.

^^This. Solid advice.

I have an additive of advice: And this will sound cold, if she's clinging to you tightly and doesn't see the same writing on the wall as you do...you MAY need to cut her out entirely afterwards. I once broke it off with a girl and she would still email me or call me and I'd pick up and answer and give her some banal chatter, but it dragged on for a long time and she kept trying to get me to change my mind about things in little instances...and my best friend gave me the most amazing advice. He said "You're giving her something she wants. Even just mild phone calls spell out "emotion" to her, and she's grasping onto that thinking you CARE at the same level she does, when in reality you're just being nice because you feel badly for breaking up with her. You have to cut her off for her own good. Don't answer calls, texts, or emails." As cruel as it might seem, this worked for me...and to give you an idea of how attached she still was after that... two years later...on Valentines day, when I was 2 years into the relationship with the woman who would eventually become my wife...she left me a message in the middle of the night about how she missed me. TWO YEARS LATER. So yeah, you may need to be cold iron and cut all communication off. Which also will feel shitty, but it's required in some instances.

[Macros]

What QT says.
Cut the cord, rip the plaster off etc.

It's a case of being cruel to be kind, if you dont see it going anywhere and clearly don't feel the way she does ending it sooner rather than later is the right thing to do

[Macros]

What QT says.
Cut the cord, rip the plaster off etc.

It's a case of being cruel to be kind, if you dont see it going anywhere and clearly don't feel the way she does ending it sooner rather than later is the right thing to do

[QuickTidal]

The new NIN song is terribad.

[Cause]

It was worse than my most pessimistic predictions. I said that her brothers engagement had made me reflect and that I didn't think we were moving forward. I said I think she would agree something was wrong and she replies that she loves me. Went downhill from there.

Im actually amazed that we could be so far apart in our thinking. She tried steering it to us taking a break and not a break up and I had to say that I didn't know what spending a week apart would change and I didn't want her to have false hope.

Then she said she thought it was a good sign that I said I wanted to take her on holiday. Which what actually happened is that on Monday she told me her aunt offered us her time share, and I said I'd have to see if I could get time of work.