2012 Off topic thread(basketball,movies,etc whatever)

[zY|]

For a while I thought I might be dead inside, but when my son went to kindergarten, I was a mess. So I do actually have feelings, so that was nice to learn. But I went to this cancer benefit last night, and it was just really apparent that I am getting fucking weird, in a bad way- not in a lovable eccentric way, but in way that makes everyone around you feel awkward. So do you think you can feel yourself becoming a weirdo? I am definitely not crazy though, I have all of my faculties... but Ithink I am losing the ability (more accurately, the desire) to maintain the facade. I think I am on the verge of become a guy that is just way the fuck out there.

I meet people like this from time to time, regular intelligence, but just operating in a different universe than everyone else. You guys might hear about me living under a bridge or something soon, just fyi.

Ok details. How were you acting at said cancer benefit?

[SPX]

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[MMA_scientist]

Ok details. How were you acting at said cancer benefit?

Just like my normal self. But I am just more and more awkward in social situations. This was a girl I went to HS with, so it was basically a HS reunion. My wife was just like "WTF is wrong with you, people are trying to talk to you, and you just keep blowing everyone off." I really hate glad handing, schmoozing, and I have a really hard time carrying on conversations when I have no interest. Its like I don't even care to feign interest. I am just like "oh reall, who cares". It isn't like I took my pants off and laid on the couch in a church, I just don't care very much at all about pretending to care about stuff. I am realizing that pretending to care about stuff is really the entire basis of all human interaction. Everyone seems to be in agreement that I am asshole now.

FWIW, I felt really weird in the room (it was a giant room at a country club) with the brain cancer girl in a wheelchair while everyone yucked it up. I was thinking "don't you fuckers know there is imminent death among us?" I was preoccupied with her presence and I thought the whole thing was weird the way they were holding her out as a hero, but no one was talking to her.

I have always been a little bit like this. I have done the whole Office Space thing in interviews in the past where I just can't take all the BS, so I just tell the truth... it really freaks people out btw. But it is starting to take over everything, and I don't even care. I don't even care if something "catastrophic" happens like losing my income. I just think, well, I will just live differently, not the end of the world.

[poopoo333]

^^I get where you are coming from being socially awkward in some social situations. There really just isn't shit to say most of the time, especially around groups of people you don't know/care to talk to. I feel like I come off as an asshole in a lot of situations where people say something jokingly to me at work and I just think it's stupid so I say "yeah" and give some fake smile or laugh. I just cannot act like most of the population and somehow act like I am interested and get stuck in some stupid fucking conversation and dumb shit.

I guess I can relate to your first paragraph. I don't really think like this: "don't you fuckers know there is imminent death among us?". I will definitely bullshit and tell people what they want to hear when it comes to getting by/ahead in school or work.

[zY|]

I am realizing that pretending to care about stuff is really the entire basis of all human interaction.

Honestly, I'm getting more like this myself. I just don't care and don't have the energy to pretend. Although, in my case, I think it's equal parts not caring and also just hating everything and disagreeing with everything anyone says. I don't know if that says more about me or everyone else, but whatever.

[SPX]

I find that I also have a hard time giving a fuck about what other people say or think or are going through, but I do genuinely feel that I SHOULD care. Living life in a world where people are just going around and being cynical and only caring about themselves seems like a really shitty world to me. So even if I have to fake it until I make, I do think it's important to try.

[zY|]

BTW are any of you faggots keeping up with Breaking Bad this season? Shit is the realest.

[SPX]

I watched the first episode but that is as far as I've gotten. I need to get on it.

[poopoo333]

BTW are any of you faggots keeping up with Breaking Bad this season? Shit is the realest.

Never seen an episode in my life. Don't spoil it. My friend talked me into watching it today at the gym, so I am going to start at season 1 on Netflix.

[zY|]

I watched the first episode but that is as far as I've gotten. I need to get on it.

Yeah, you do.

[zY|]

Never seen an episode in my life. Don't spoil it. My friend talked me into watching it today at the gym, so I am going to start at season 1 on Netflix.

Honestly, you just need to watch the first episode and you'll know if it's for you.

[poopoo333]

Honestly, you just need to watch the first episode and you'll know if it's for you.

Alright. I will try and watch episode 1 tomorrow.

I also heard about these shows and am interested:

True Blood
Dexter

Ok, that's it. Prison Break sounds interesting from the title alone...what's it about?

I have also started watching Criminal Minds...pretty interesting. I like Law and Order SVU better though.

[MMA_scientist]

I don't really think like this: "don't you fuckers know there is imminent death among us?". I will definitely bullshit and tell people what they want to hear when it comes to getting by/ahead in school or work.

Well, I just meant because the cancer girl was there, and she was all puffy and in a wheelchair. She can't remember her kid's names (yet she did know me). I am not preoccupied with death at all... i just meant that the girl is expected to die any day.

[zY|]

And what is up with fucking cancer awareness benefits. I'm pretty sure everybody is aware by now of how much ass it sucks. And it's always for the major types, too, that everyone gets.

[MMA_scientist]

Honestly, I'm getting more like this myself. I just don't care and don't have the energy to pretend. Although, in my case, I think it's equal parts not caring and also just hating everything and disagreeing with everything anyone says. I don't know if that says more about me or everyone else, but whatever.

Yep. That pretty much sums it up. I wasn't like this before, but now I am, so it is sort of strange for me. It is like I am watching myself go farther and farther down the road that ends with me being old and alone, yet I don't try to turn around because I don't care.