Awkward Social Situations.

what's encyclopedia dramatica?

http://www.boomspeed.com/neogeoarcade/confused.gif / tuomas

omar, keep posting those. i mean, if you want to.

xpost

no no...

it's too awkward now

no, it's ok, they're funny!

augh, sorry

haha

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we need a thread of the penguin and the wolfie

do you want to start one or should i....

You start a new thread on ILX.

SOMEONE STARTS THE SAME THREAD AT THE SAME TIME

i would tune into that thread and watch
i don't know if i could start one

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LOL!

haaaaaaaa

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without awkward social situations i would hate life way more. they're what make the world go round.

i'm a beast at awk social situations too. at night it's a wrap

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yes there's a tumblr now

http://courage-wolf.tumblr.com/photo/1280/134517339/1/OvGzJqgfXpfumdjlWlfhXCi9

What is the penguin called?

awkward

courage wolf is way better when its inspirational and not 4-chan misogyny humor

yup

yes too many of them do so

p.s.

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I was gonna post hungry like the me on the other thread yesterday!

okay, how to deal with this:

I live in a small lolcollege town, and a couple moved in across the street two years ago. In theory we should hang out - similar ages, they look like they'd be into the same kinds of stuff, etc, but we never met them and the guy was kind of surly and didn't seem interested in meeting us when we'd cross paths.

However, a year and a half ago our friend had a post-breakup series of flings and ended up hooking up with a dude a couple times who said he was single, then changed that to being in a long distance relationship that wasn't working out, then fessed up to being married and that his wife was actually here with him. He was totally cheating on his wife with this younger newly single girl. Over the next month we realized it was our neighbor and we began to refer to him as WC for "wife cheater", and calling her CW, for "cheated wife". We'd see them out the window or on the bus but still never met either of them, and always wondered how to deal with them if we ever actually had to.

Tonight we went to a party at my wife's colleague's house and finally met them which was awkward enough, but made even stranger by totally getting along with them - she's super cool, seems like she and my wife would be friends, they want to hang out with us, and so on.

So what now? I feel really weird hanging out with this guy who cheated on his wife with our friend, like three of the four of us know a secret that the wife doesn't know. Do we call him on it? Tell him that we know and see if he decides to not hang out with us because of that? Act like nothing happened, while knowing that he was cheating on her?

I take cheating kind of seriously, and they have six month old twins now. But maybe she knows what he was up to and they worked it all out - she's doesn't seem stupid or oblivious or anything, and she has to have wondered what he was doing when he was vanishing overnight to sleep with our friend. I don't want to call him out in front of her, but it feels so crazy to pretend like nothing happened.

Seriously, what am I supposed to do? Nothing? Tell him we know? Casually bring up our friend by name so he can figure it out on his own?

Casually bring up our friend by name so he can figure it out on his own?

This may actually be your best (or least-worst, realistically) move.

as a performer, I hate it when I'm in a get together with someone I don't know, and a friend goes "You should hear Jerry play, he's phenomenal!". Because then it always involves me having to play for everyone and in the back of my head I think "geez, what if the dude that was just told I was amazing thinks I suck, I'm going to feel like such an asshole".

leave it, they've got twins. you don't want to be responsible for those kids growin gup without a dad, even if he's a cheating dad. it's always possible that having children has made him wise up. if you really have to do something, mentioning your friend by name is the least worst option but i'd say don't get involved unless you want to heap misery on this family.

The only winning move is not to play.

go for the threesome

they're only six months old, I don't think they're into threesomes

dude "twins" = boobs

they're only six months old, I don't think they've grown boobs

I think not playing is probably the only legit move. I don't want to cause the downfall of anyone's marriage, particularly where kids are involved. Nor do I want to end up being really close friends with the wife only to feel like I'm holding back some horrible secret from her.

Unless they somehow come out and say that they had some rough patch that they worked out or something, it's probably best to be neighborly and nothing more.

you're forgetting blackmail.

One of my coworkers pointed at my neck where I have a pimple coming in and said, boy you're too old for that which led to me getting a bit huffy and self conscious. When I just looked in a mirror, I realized it looked a little like a hicky, which is pretty clearly what she meant. Whoops.

i am not the kind of person who normally uses "pooh-pooh" in a sentence.

but today, i was in a meeting, and i was basically trying to express that i didn't want totally dismiss the value of a certain dataset. and i started a sentence with something like "now, don't get me wrong, i certainly don't want to...", and i paused to find the right word. and for some reason, i just could NOT figure out a way of saying it that did not involve saying "pooh-pooh", so i just fucking WENT FOR IT and said "i certainly don't want to ...pooh-pooh on that dataset, but ..." and kept going like it was no big deal. but it WAS a big fucking deal, to me at least, and i giggled it a little bit to myself at the end of the sentence.

that's the first time i've ever used "pooh-pooh" in that kind of context, out loud, and later i realized that you don't say "pooh-pooh ON", you just say "pooh-pooh".

FUCK

ahahahahahaha

<3

Z S rules

NEVER AGAIN dudes

oh man

that's like something that would happen to me in a nightmare

awwww. you can pass it off as being like 'hating on'. except with more excrement.

"I'll take a wee wee bit more to drink"

nice

Isn't it "I'll take a wee wee on a bit more to drink" to be equivalent to the original story?

Z S that is an embarrassing situation but that story is basically perfect.

It's like an ad for one of those telephone sex lines: "POOH-POOH ON MY DATASET! Calls cost £$£$£ / min. Must be 18 or over."

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yesterday i was trying to find seats for a friend and myself in a crowded dining situation. i made a reasonable proposal which was rejected by an awkward stranger in favor of a ridiculously awful rearrangement that took literally 2 minutes to complete

at least i didn't say poo poo

That reminds me of a situation that happened to me once on a train.

<snoball enters packed rush hour train, goes over to two backpackers who are taking up six seats with all their gear>
snoball: "Hey, do you mind moving some of your stuff so that some people can sit down?"
backpacker: "Huh?"
snoball: "Maybe put some of your bags up on the luggage racks so that people can sit down?"
backpacker: "No we're not going to do that."
snoball: "Why? This train is packed and..."
backpacker: "We're not moving out bags."
snoball: "Did you buy six tickets or only two?"
backpacker: "Eh?"
snoball: "What you want to do is have some consideration for other people." <snoball storms off up the carriage>

pleasant dinner table conversation with those near and dear to me

:(

Wow, so much drama about a table!! Jeez, when that happens to me, I just pack up my shit and take it back to the office.

<3 to u conty

thanks, man. i'm cool, but holidays are fraught.

they are

Friend said I looked tired, i explained i was saving my energy for being cheerful over Christmas as i find it hard work. She laughed and agreed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f2-88pyRtU