What's the hardest you've tried to get dumped?Groovypoodle writes, "My mate once told his girlfriend that he didn't think it was working only for her to laugh and tell him he was hilarious. Saying she was 'too weird' and 'slightly violent' and that he didn't like her was equally hilarious. Ripping off her wing mirror, throwing it through the windscreen
and storming off in a huff merely generated an apology from her a week later..."
Just how hard have you had to work to get someone to take the hint and stay dumped?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 10:33)
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Crap things happen, people behave badlyBut...I still believe in human beings' innate goodness.
Yes, I may be living in a world of my own...but I honestly believe in the story about Socrates* - he was travelling from Athens to Corinth and was stopped by a fellow traveller who had just come from Corinth. He asked Socrates what the people in Athens were like, Socrates asked him how he found the people in Corinth, "Awful people", Socrates told him he'd find Athenians much the same.
As he went on another traveller stopped him and asked the same question, Socrates replied in the same way and the traveller told him that the people in Corinth were marvellous people, friendly, hospitable, kind and so on. Socrates told him he'd find the Athenians much the same.
Yeah, people can be evil, unkind gits...but I still honestly believe in that one righteous man in Sodom.**
*Not sure if it was Socrates, all I can remember is the general gist of the story - who and where are immaterial, it's the moral of the story that's important.
**A lot of good that did them.
And apologies for more, no doubt, incorrect references.
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chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 11:06,
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