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What's with the lull in relationship threads?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by FranchiseBlade, Mar 22, 2007.

  1. FranchiseBlade

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    I find it odd that I am asking. I read them, and sometimes post in them. But it isn't what I usually rush to the bbs to read.

    Anyway I guess I live vicariously through them to an extent. I don't have any serious problems to post about at the moment. There is a slight work/friend that I've had some issues with, but nothing really serious, and it seems to be working itself out alright... at least I think it is.

    So I was debating whether it was even worth posting about on the bbs, and decided it wasn't. There weren't really any romantic issues to be dealt with, so it definitely wasn't up to bbs standards. Having gotten mostly past the problems anyway, I thought I would check for some other relationship threads, and realized there has been a drought lately.

    Maybe that means everything is going along swimmingly for folks. I was just curious why the drought, and I hope it is that things are good.
     
  2. the futants

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    donde esta Isabel?
     
  3. FranchiseBlade

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    that was a steady supply. I may have even complained about the amount of them at the time, or made a joke about how many there were. Now I'm wondering why we have none.

    I guess I am more of a malcontent than I like to think.
     
  4. Ziggy

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    They are all the same. Someone complains or asks for advice or vents. Someone responds with "useless without pics". Jokes, jokes, serious, jokes, serious, serious, jokes. And in the end. No pics
     
  5. Sishir Chang

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    Maybe people have wised up about asking for relationship advice on CF.net.
     
  6. meggoleggo

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    Yup. You guys are are definitely some of the last people I'd resort to for relationship advice... No wonder there aren't threads anymore.
     
  7. rrj_gamz

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    Well, we do need more entertainment...Quick, someone do something stupid in their relationship, ASAP...Then tell us all about it...
     
  8. rhadamanthus

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    Paging FFB...
     
  9. RocketMan Tex

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    Damn straight. It's Thursday. Great Thursday night happy hours out there for Fatty. Could lead to an all nighter with a one-eye-blind drive home and a pseudo-booty call at 5 AM. Stay tuned..... ;) :D
     
  10. BrockStapper

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    what's a relationship?
     
  11. JuanValdez

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    It's spring in Houston. I'm sure everyone is too blinded with springtime infatuations at the moment to notice all the glaring problems in their relationships.
     
  12. professorjay

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    No news is good news.
     
  13. ima_drummer2k

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    OK, how is this?

    Question for you married suckers....er uh, guys out there:

    What is the correct order for getting married? Here are the steps, as far as I know.

    -Shop for a ring together
    -Buy the ring
    -Ask her parents permission to pop question
    -Pop the question
    -Give her engagement ring
    -Plan wedding
    -Get married
    -Be miserable for the rest of my life

    OK, the last one was a joke, but is my order pretty right on? Also, what is the difference between an engagement ring and a wedding ring? And, if you've already shopped for the ring together, how you you maintain the 'surprise' factor when you pop the question?

    Pardon my ignorance, but this is my first (and hopefully LAST) time...
     
  14. RocketFan007

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    I've never heard the shop for the ring together part.
     
  15. thegary

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    ima, i'm a bit :confused:
    are you about to pop the question?
    if you are, there are no rules, cheers.
     
  16. FranchiseBlade

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    I think your order is about right. I had a general idea what kind of ring my wife wanted, but we didn't really shop for them together before I proposed so she was surprised.

    Also ask the parents and pop the question fairly close together so the surprise doesn't leak out.

    Best of luck to you!
     
  17. Fatty FatBastard

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    Nah. I stay in on Thursdays these days.
     
  18. Isabel

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    Congratulations ima! Does everybody know the story of this - am I just out of the loop?

    Anyway, ummm, if you want to know, a couple of days ago my ex sent me an obnoxious birthday card, after not having communicated with me since mid-January. It was just a cheerful card like you'd give a friend, except it said, under the "Happy Birthday", "Love, your soon-to-be legally ex-husband but still sacramentally married husband, Ferdinand". What's up with that? (not to mention our divorce IS finalized and surely he knows that) It was timed to disrupt things, and sure enough, my new guy got irritated and destroyed it before I could see it, then was temporarily upset when I put it back together so I could read it for myself. (I'm just one of those curious people who has to know exactly what everything says, word for word, with my own eyes.) All that's better now... just more proof of how creepy my ex is...
     
  19. Fatty FatBastard

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    Sounds like you found another peach. Why, exactly was he opening and reading your stuff?
     
  20. Wangdoodle

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    That was my first thought...... verbatim!
     

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