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trickey is offline trickey
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does her boyfriend not get annoyed by her behavior?

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The solution to your problem lies along on of two paths:

Path 1 (The responsible one) Tell her what you think of her and refuse to let her in the door, hang up on her when she calls, and every day in every way be sure to firmly exclude her from your lives. This should work if you are men enough to ignore her pathetic attempts at whining and double down on your adamancy.

Path 2 (The fun one) Use her as your own personal amusement device. Let not a moment go by while she is there that you don't find a way to put her down, make her the butt of your jokes, play tricks upon her etc. Give her not a moment's rest. When she tries to bum a smoke, give her one whose filter was placed up your own butt previously, and then see how long you guys can go without cracking up. Ditto the food, etc. Make every annoying habit she has into a laugh riot for yourselves, but this time at her expense and not yours. She will quickly become uncomfortable around you, and hopefully will stay away after a while. Meanwhile you recoup your losses a bit by getting all of your aggressions out, and you can still pretend with horrifically mock sincerity that you aren't fvcking with her at all.

In the future, a small dose of #1 early on makes a lot of pain as well as the moral riskiness of #2 unnecessary.

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Annoying "Friends". How do you dump them?


Dang if I know. I've tried everything from letterwriting to exiling Matthew Perry to the Moon.

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Some people are not as social as others. I haven't met her to judge for myself, but there is a good chance she does not realize what a ***** she is being, or understand there is something wrong with her behavior. I don't reccomend you cut off ties with her right away. Have you and her friends sit down with her and have a talk, and explain what she does that you don't like and how you feel, and see if it possible to come to terms with her. If she refuses to change her behavior, well then simply tell her you don't want to see her anymore and don't let her in. But I think you should at least try to talk out your problems with her in a calm manner.

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Path 2 (The fun one) When she tries to bum a smoke, give her one whose filter was placed up your own butt previously, and then see how long you guys can go without cracking up.



I had a woman bum smokes from me for years at work, until I told her I dirty D**ked one before I gave it to her.



ACK!

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I had a woman bum smokes from me for years at work, until I told her I dirty D**ked one before I gave it to her.



ACK!


I don't know why I find that so funny, but it cracks me up. I guess there is still a bit of the Butthead alive and well in my 41 year old body.

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Me too, that's why I said it. On the plus side, she never bummed a smoke again.



ACK!

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now let me get this straight. She's ugly, mean, eats your food, and takes your smokes? wow, do you guys bend over when someone tells he'll kick you in the ass?











HEy..why is your friend dating such a barker?


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The solution to your problem lies along on of two paths:

Path 1 (The responsible one) Tell her what you think of her and refuse to let her in the door, hang up on her when she calls, and every day in every way be sure to firmly exclude her from your lives. This should work if you are men enough to ignore her pathetic attempts at whining and double down on your adamancy.

Path 2 (The fun one) Use her as your own personal amusement device. Let not a moment go by while she is there that you don't find a way to put her down, make her the butt of your jokes, play tricks upon her etc. Give her not a moment's rest. When she tries to bum a smoke, give her one whose filter was placed up your own butt previously, and then see how long you guys can go without cracking up. Ditto the food, etc. Make every annoying habit she has into a laugh riot for yourselves, but this time at her expense and not yours. She will quickly become uncomfortable around you, and hopefully will stay away after a while. Meanwhile you recoup your losses a bit by getting all of your aggressions out, and you can still pretend with horrifically mock sincerity that you aren't fvcking with her at all.

In the future, a small dose of #1 early on makes a lot of pain as well as the moral riskiness of #2 unnecessary.



I personally would go with number 2.

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Easy. All you guys sit her down and explain all the do's and don'ts to her. Things like no bumming smokes, no stealing food, no freeloading, sort of thing. Oh, don't forget to keep your doors locked.

If your best friend doesn't like it, explain this situation to him. If he really is a friend, he will understand. If he doesn't, well, dump him too.

P.S. You can all give up smoking, it works great

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urban..DAMN you and your "being rational" mumbo jumbo.





























I say pick on her and make her cower away

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just throw your own feces at her...

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These are all great. But honestly, I think we're doomed. We're all just too damn nice to people... I mean, actually we're complete *******s, we talk about everyone behind their back and dislike around 90% of the planet. But to people's faces, we can't be mean.

However, there may be a glimmer of hope on the horizon. She's started hanging with this loser vegan from her work who doesn't drink, smoke and likes to sit around drinking tea on the weekends (sorry if this describes anyone here ) as well as his loser friends. But I honestly think the real reason she likes him is because he has a car... Coincidentally she started hanging out with him as soon as my friend with a car made it clear he didn't want to be her choffeur anymore (:rolleyes

Somehow we need to capitalize on this. But how....

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remember, saying to people that they're *******s, is basic freedom, IIRC, enshrined in the constitution, or whatever piece of cardboard you have there in canada.

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Back in highschool me and (mostly) some of my friends had a very similar problem... It was mostly limited to school though, although she did invite them to her "birthday party" (where they turned out to be the only ones).

Luckily it was only the last 6 months of highschool or so.

She was fat and small, a year younger with hardly any friends in her own class. Telling her we hated her and she just had to piss off didn't help. She just thought we were joking, or it only lasted for a little while.

The "wimpy" solution would be to talk to her friend first and try to let him deal with it. If that doesn't work do it together.
As to how to capitalise on the vegan... Make subtle (or not so subtle) comments about what a cool guy he is, and why she doesn't hang out with him more often.

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although she did invite them to her "birthday party" (where they turned out to be the only ones).



good idea with the other dude, Mercator.

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good idea with the other dude, Mercator.


Yeah, totally... I think this vegan could be the silver bullet to our problems. Although I'm afriad that if we're all like "yeah, what a cool guy he is" she'll start bringing him over and when she comes down. Then we'll have to change the story and be like "he's an as*hole..."

Oh, and off topic, if you want to know what she looks like, take a look at Wierd Al's video "Fat". She really looks like him in that video (no joke) both bodywise and facially. And her parents are European Jews (like wierd al's were I think)... that might explain the mooching

Joke!

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Hehehe like I said, it's hilarious that the persons unavoidable appearance becomes ammo when you don't like their personality. Well, I guess you can kind of hold it against them when they're fat

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Why don't we all order a mob hit on her while were having our fun and games? That'd put her away for good and all you'd have to worry about is your conscious for the rest of your life.

Sorry, just staying in the spirit of the thread. Anyway, she doesn't sound like a very nice person ... but there's better ways of dealing with it, like Sikander's #1 option. Rationality, indeed, can be a good thing.

After all, you don't want her turning into a firestarter or anything. Some spurned people do turn twisted that way.

Gatekeeper

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Photoshop a bunch of hilarious photos by adding her face to appropriate pictures, then make a scrapbook out of it, have everyone sign it and give it to her as a gift.

Perhaps a few really meaningful and well written poems on why you hate her so much slipped in as well. Girls just die when you hand them pure, sincere creativity. She could keep it as a memento of her horrible youth!!!

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Photoshop a bunch of hilarious photos by adding her face to appropriate pictures, then make a scrapbook out of it, have everyone sign it and give it to her as a gift.

Perhaps a few really meaningful and well written poems on why you hate her so much slipped in as well. Girls just die when you hand them pure, sincere creativity. She could keep it as a memento of her horrible youth!!!


Man, If only I had some pictures of her on my hard drive.

If only I had photoshop too, but kazaa could solve that...

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You're a meanie FA. I think che will be scared

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That's so funny you started this thread, I have the same exact problem!

Back in 4th grade I had a 5 minute conversation with this one kid at my school named Andy. He was special ed. I think he has slight mental retardation. We're in 9th grade and his math and linguistic skills are in about 5th or 6th grade. He is also very uncoordinated. Anyway, after this conversation (which was about World War 2, which I was obsessed with at the time) I immediately became his best friend. He was now a war enthusiast. He followed me everywhere, and though he was nice, I couldn't have an intelligent conversation with him. He was so weird and so annoying. Anyway, he started to like my best friends better and he always changed his interests and hobbies so they were just like my friends. They actually like him!

Well, it's 5 years later. He still follow my two friends everywhere, and I always hang with them and because my friends are twins and he's always with one of them, we're always together. He is such a retard. He is now obsessed with anything that has to do with war. He learned hand to hand combat moves because he wants to be an Army Ranger. It's all he talks about. He wears combat boots and camo to school! His sense of humor is extremely annoying, and the look of him makes me sick.

I'll be walking down the halls and there he'll be. He'll say "Hi John." In this really crackly voice. He doesn't know how to clear his throat. Also when he talks, spit bubbles and stuff are always happening in his mouth because he doesn't know that he needs to suck up the spit in his mouth. He'll have this ear to ear grin on his face (he always does). He has very, very, very loose kips. He has a lazy eye and it makes him look just like he's crosseyed. He's got really weird shaped dark eyes. And the military buzz cut. He does everything he can to try and be like a soldier. He even made up a song about being a a ranger. Of course because he's absolutely tone death, it sounds like crap but here are the main words:

I wanna be a ranger,
Fly high. Fly high.

I forgot the rest of the words but he pretty much sings that over and over again. He's also got an extremely weird sense of humor. I'm too nice to tell him to bug off, and I can't. You see my two friends (they're great friends and I hate to make them mad) are very close to him. One of them, Stephen, is EXTREMELY protective of him. Everytime someone insults Andy, Stephen gets very mad at them. He seems unaware that Andy is the slight bit off. I even said once that he was slow, and he denied it and got all defensive! The other one, Brad, is more aware of Andy's stupidity, and admits the truth about him sometimes. But Andy acts gay to Brad! [The plot thickens] When we are on the bus to go to cross country meets and I sit next to Brad (I do this to 'take' Andy's spot) and Andy sits next to Stephen, it isn't long before he says, "Move, John. I want to sit next to Brad." But it gets worse. At this one cross country meet some of the guys were playing football. Andy was behind Brad and he goes, "We should play rugby." And he walked right into him from behind! But that's not all. At the same meet Brad and I were watching the awards. Andy likes to sneek up on people when he sees them, but the way he did it this time was just plain wrong. He walked up to him from behind and like squeezes his abs!

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That's actually sad. Sure he's slow, but he obviously doesn't mean any irritation at all... you can't hold his problems against him. It's fair to avoid someone like that kindly - but never to make fun of them, they're bloody handicapped

I can think of two kids in high school who fit that category. All of the realy cool math 14 failures were always picking fights with them to be "funny" in front of the crowds after school.

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I don't make fun of him in front of his face and I don't talk about him to anyone that has a remote chance of knowing who he is...I just talk about him on a forum because nobody knows me or him on it. And it's not that I don't like him because he's disabled...it's because he really annoys me.

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I can understand that. It's tough, you can't simply pretend nothing's wrong like your friend does, and it's not easy to sincerely excuse things that annoy you. Whether or not those things are of fault, they're still annoying

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hes not able to clear his throat??

theres this one girl I worked with and sometimes she would talk...and shed speak gurgly..like she had crap in her throat..i kept wondering if she realized she needed to clear her throat....felt like telling her...just gurgly.....got on my freakin nerves..

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You're a meanie FA. I think che will be scared


[scooby voice]
Aroo?
[/scooby voice]



Dude, your friend is lost. just give him up.

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che rawks.

scooooby

and I am NOT mean...take it back before I punch you in the back of the neck!!!!!




















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and I am NOT mean...take it back before I punch you in the back of the neck!!!!!


As I said...

 
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