Comments on: Scary-Crayon keeps it comin’! http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/ The eldritch domain of Wes Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:59:07 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=8646 By: CL http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-176 CL Sun, 01 May 2005 05:56:26 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-176 >>No, you should not get a new job so you can date. You should get a new job so you’d be happier.

Wow, Bob is becoming almost as wise as Dave! He even sounds like him!

]]> By: Greg http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Greg Sat, 30 Apr 2005 06:00:21 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-172 Well, I can't say anything about dating, but I just got back from HHGTTG, and I don't know how to approach this. I'm gonna say read the book first, cause it's an awesome read, but then don't plan to laugh much during the movie, cause all the jokes you laugh at in the book you've already laughed at and are hardly worth laughing at again. Otherwise, it's a decent film. Well, I can't say anything about dating, but I just got back from HHGTTG, and I don't know how to approach this. I'm gonna say read the book first, cause it's an awesome read, but then don't plan to laugh much during the movie, cause all the jokes you laugh at in the book you've already laughed at and are hardly worth laughing at again. Otherwise, it's a decent film.

]]> By: T.A.B. http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-171 T.A.B. Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:53:58 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-171 No, you should not get a new job so you can date. You should get a new job so you'd be happier. Job security and satisfaction takes priority over dating. If I lost my job, my dating life would go on hold. But, once you have a job you like, then you date (if you want to). No, you should not get a new job so you can date. You should get a new job so you'd be happier. Job security and satisfaction takes priority over dating. If I lost my job, my dating life would go on hold. But, once you have a job you like, then you date (if you want to).

]]> By: Wes http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Wes Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:01:45 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-170 Okay, let's get this straight. First of all, to offer solutions to these problems is to acknowledge that they a) <i>are</i> problems and therefore b) constitute valid reasons for not dating. So the "being afraid" theory is out. Now, the other thing. Given that you're always complaining about it, do you really think dating is so great that, per #4, you would actually recommend that one <i>quit his job</i> in order to comfortably ask out one of his (now ex) co-workers (who, by the way, may not even be interested)? Or that you would recommend making a move that one is neither prepared nor can afford to make <i>just</i> because it would put one in a better position to date? Bloody hell! I am interested in moving -- you know that -- but I assure you that dating is the <i>least</i> of my reasons for wanting to do so. Because, aside from all of the other practical reasons, I'm really don't care that bloody much about it! Okay, let's get this straight. First of all, to offer solutions to these problems is to acknowledge that they a) are problems and therefore b) constitute valid reasons for not dating. So the "being afraid" theory is out.

Now, the other thing. Given that you're always complaining about it, do you really think dating is so great that, per #4, you would actually recommend that one quit his job in order to comfortably ask out one of his (now ex) co-workers (who, by the way, may not even be interested)? Or that you would recommend making a move that one is neither prepared nor can afford to make just because it would put one in a better position to date? Bloody hell!

I am interested in moving -- you know that -- but I assure you that dating is the least of my reasons for wanting to do so. Because, aside from all of the other practical reasons, I'm really don't care that bloody much about it!

]]> By: T.A.B. http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-168 T.A.B. Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:36:39 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-168 My rebuttal: 1. Move. Or learn to drive and get a car. 2. Move. 3. I can't respond, since I don't know the reason. 4. Get a new job. My rebuttal:

1. Move. Or learn to drive and get a car.

2. Move.

3. I can't respond, since I don't know the reason.

4. Get a new job.

]]> By: Wes http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Wes Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:31:06 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-167 Oh yeah, Pauly boy? Well I just finished reading <i>No Exit and Three Other Plays</i> by Jean-Paul Sartre yesterday and started in on <i>The Glass Menagerie</i> by Tennessee Williams this morning. <b>BOOYAH!!!</b> :mrgreen: Oh yeah, Pauly boy? Well I just finished reading No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre yesterday and started in on The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams this morning. BOOYAH!!! :mrgreen:

]]> By: pAUL http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-166 pAUL Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:27:33 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-166 HHGTTG is going to be the only movie ive ever seen where ive read the book before seeing the movie, And thats saying alot, because i think ive only read about 4 books my entire life. I liked the books tho and im not getting my hopes up but i hope the movie doesnt suck. I saw the old BBC movies or whatever, and they fucking suck. So now i feel intellectually superior to Wes.. for one weekend. And i'm not a fan of Mos Def's acting, or music (except for Black on Both Sides) so he better not fuck the movie up! And i probably look more like Mos Def than you Wes. HHGTTG is going to be the only movie ive ever seen where ive read the book before seeing the movie, And thats saying alot, because i think ive only read about 4 books my entire life. I liked the books tho and im not getting my hopes up but i hope the movie doesnt suck. I saw the old BBC movies or whatever, and they fucking suck. So now i feel intellectually superior to Wes.. for one weekend.

And i'm not a fan of Mos Def's acting, or music (except for Black on Both Sides) so he better not fuck the movie up! And i probably look more like Mos Def than you Wes.

]]> By: Wes http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Wes Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:26:35 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-165 I love it! Obviously I'm afraid of dating, since those can't actually be valid reasons. Let's go through a few fuller explanations, then! 1. I don't live in NYC and we don't have the greatest transportation system around here and I don't drive. Kinda makes meeting up difficult, yes? In this case, she doesn't live next door or even in the same city. 2. I live at home with my mother. Come in, won't you, dear? This is my room -- have a seat on my bed. You know, after you find your way through all of the piles of books and mountains of action figures and pull a Spider-Man maneuver just to get across the bloody threshold. 3. We'll discuss this one later, because it would require its own separate post! However, it has much to do with some of the reasons listed <a href="http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/03-10-2005/but-i-like-me-and-thats-what-counts/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. 4. There's still the awkward workplace thing! That's all for now. Ja! I love it! Obviously I'm afraid of dating, since those can't actually be valid reasons. Let's go through a few fuller explanations, then!

1. I don't live in NYC and we don't have the greatest transportation system around here and I don't drive. Kinda makes meeting up difficult, yes? In this case, she doesn't live next door or even in the same city.

2. I live at home with my mother. Come in, won't you, dear? This is my room -- have a seat on my bed. You know, after you find your way through all of the piles of books and mountains of action figures and pull a Spider-Man maneuver just to get across the bloody threshold.

3. We'll discuss this one later, because it would require its own separate post! However, it has much to do with some of the reasons listed here.

4. There's still the awkward workplace thing!

That's all for now. Ja!

]]> By: T.A.B. http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-164 T.A.B. Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:25:02 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-164 I'm reading the sentences you just wrote:

"honestly the state in which I’m in now kinda precludes even the possibility of dating"

"I really doubt it would work for one reason in particular, and while I’m usually more forgiving with foreigners regarding the point, eventually I think she’d irritate me beyond it"

You're afraid of dating her, and you're justifying not making the attempt. Rebuttal?

]]> By: Wes http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Wes Fri, 29 Apr 2005 15:18:40 +0000 http://www.wesoteric.com/blog-archives/04-29-2005/scary-crayon-keeps-it-comin/#comment-163 TAB: Oh? How so? TAB: Oh? How so?

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