According to the media, we're supposed to 1: Sit around with them and fix each other's hair; 2: Complain about men constantly to each other; and 3: Have sex with each other when we get bored and horny. (#1 and #2 both sound boring as hell, but #3 sounds perfectly all right to me.)
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:41 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 25 August 2003 02:42 (twenty years ago) link
You got it.
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:50 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Monday, 25 August 2003 02:52 (twenty years ago) link
and RJG, why don't you just step over to the HATE Orbit thread and start posting there?
― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:56 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:58 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 25 August 2003 02:59 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 25 August 2003 03:02 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 25 August 2003 03:04 (twenty years ago) link
― JesseFox (JesseFox), Monday, 25 August 2003 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
― donna (donna), Monday, 25 August 2003 05:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Scaredy Cat, Monday, 25 August 2003 05:36 (twenty years ago) link
(I'm ignoring the slight inferiority complex I have in the friendship, him being cleverer, more handsome, more motivated, richer, more confident, sportier etc. etc.)
Significant others as "best friend" - what do you think?
― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 25 August 2003 08:20 (twenty years ago) link
Then she moved to another city, which obviously changed our relationship. We're both crappy at keeping up long-distance friendships, so we drifted apart. Since then, she's moved back here, but our relationship's isn't the same any more. We have different circles of friends now, so we see each other quite irregularly. But I still spend every Christmas with her, and we still have that connection that made us friends in the first place.
As for really close friends, I've always had several of them. Throughout the years I've lost some and found some new friends, but I've always had maybe ten people who I can call anytime and talk about anything. I couldn't imagine it being different.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 25 August 2003 08:23 (twenty years ago) link
i think this is one of those things where in some cases SO would be BF as well, and some cases where SO and BF would be different, and that neither scenario is necessarily better, just different
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 25 August 2003 08:27 (twenty years ago) link
Can I be the first cheesy person and also include my mum and my little brother as my closest friends? My mum hates when I say that, as she doesn't want us to be "friends", she likes us being a close mother and daughter. But it's evolved so much over the years, that it's changed significantly from when I was younger. My little brother is the biz as well.
I should get out more.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 25 August 2003 08:43 (twenty years ago) link
― hellbaby (hellbaby), Monday, 25 August 2003 08:45 (twenty years ago) link
― minna (minna), Monday, 25 August 2003 09:38 (twenty years ago) link
I think they are very good friends and have known them for many years.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 25 August 2003 09:49 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 25 August 2003 09:50 (twenty years ago) link
i kind of concur with that. i have some close friends but they're sort of all over the place and i don't know any of their friendy-groupy things well enough to do friendy-groupy things with them though i did use to have a best friends until about 2 1/2 years ago. i think it's probably quite rare to have a single best friend who you sitck with and are able to keep in regular contact with cos life is far too complicated. and a lot of the time who you end up being friends with is so random.and there are so many people in the world everyone must have hundreds/thousands/millions of potential best friends (depending on how amenable one is) so what's the point of just sticking to one.
― DJ Baird, Monday, 25 August 2003 11:29 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:56 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Monday, 25 August 2003 11:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 August 2003 12:27 (twenty years ago) link
My other best male buddy, who I met at my last school, was always semi envious-I think sometimes I gave him the impression that he didn't measure up or something and they didn't meet each other for years. Even so, he was pretty much there when my other mate wasn't and we had more in common cause I refused to grow up as fast as my other buddy did, who's practically a grandpa :-).
My best female friend is the fucking best. Always trying to make me get my shit together, poking fun at those who need it and always there with the sympathy and the sarcasm.
― Barima (Barima), Monday, 25 August 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Lara (Lara), Monday, 25 August 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
I have two male best friends, neither of whom I've spoken to consistently in awhile - both are former SOs - one high school, one more recent. I love them all.
― luna (luna.c), Monday, 25 August 2003 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:37 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 25 August 2003 21:44 (twenty years ago) link
You're the best friend that I ever hadI've been with you such a long timeYou're my sunshineAnd I want you to knowThat my feelings are trueI really love youYou're my best friend
Ooo, you make me live
I've been wandering roundBut I still come back to youIn rain or shineYou've stood by me girlI'm happy, happy at homeYou're my best friend.
Ooo, you make me live.
I'm happy, happy at homeYou're my best friendYou're my best friendOoo, you make me liveYou, you're my best friend.
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 25 August 2003 23:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 August 2003 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 25 August 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
― duane, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 02:07 (twenty years ago) link
― duane, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 02:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 09:13 (twenty years ago) link
-- jed_e_3 (c_ohar...), August 25th, 2003.
i agree with jed....although i have actually known him for nigh on 30 years. he is my bezzie mate 4ever.....FOSAP when are you coming to visit me?
― scampi, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 00:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
That said, the sense of "best friend" isn't quite as strong as it used to be. I mean, when I was younger I thought more in terms of "tiers" of friends, and... well, I mean I realized even then that it was a somewhat psychopathic way to divide up people but... I like lists.
― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 03:28 (twenty years ago) link
i definitely have a few. 1 in this city (girlfriend best friend), 1 from school (oldschool best friend), and my boyfriend (trumps everyone else best friend). all different kinds of best friends.
― Surmounter, Monday, 16 March 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
My wife is obv my bestest friend, but outside of her, I've had the same best friend since first grade. I'm going to carry his coffin one day or he's gonna carry mine.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 16 March 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought this thread was about dogs
― \∫Öζ/.... argh oh noes! (ken c), Monday, 16 March 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I've had a number of best friends over the years but I currently maintain a best male friend and a best lady friend. Neither of whom I'm dating.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
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― calstars, Saturday, 16 June 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link