Irreclaimable Minutes of Your Life

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Nailed it.

“Provoke, provoke, provoke, I’m the victim! Provoke, provoke, I’m the victim! Provoke, provoke, provoke…”

This goes for me as well as anyone else. I can’t pick and choose what principles I want to apply to best suit my needs. I can’t manipulate the truth to justify my behavior. Responsibility and accountability are huge. When I stop avoiding responsibility and playing the victim, only then can I have some personal growth.

I’m no longer bleeding-heart about Twitter and humor. I’m always proud of my stupid one-liners. But if I have to put tits or bin Laden’s head as my avi to get noticed in a sea of wannabe-comedian cock, so be it.

Twitter is like a welfare program for self-confidence. You post a few jokes, and you get some cheap stars. But if you think you have potential, get off it and make something of yourself, because Twitter validation is largely worthless.

Boston and Dating

 Has anyone heard of the concept that in Boston, women are reserved and selective, but elsewhere the women are much nicer, open and willing to flirt with you? 
 I can't answer this question myself because I've really only known Boston, which is full of single women, and boondocks Ohio. I'd like to say the women in Ohio and Kentucky were much more laid back and flirty to me, but the sample size was not large enough for me to make that determination. I will tell you one thing I've noticed. Boston is the only area where I've been consistently grilled right off the bat about whether I have a college degree or not.
 So, is there any validity to this statement? Are women in the West Coast, South and Midwest easier to talk to than Boston women? 
EDIT: 
 Maggi, you're pretty spot-on about that. It seems I have to try harder to hit on the same quality women I've met elsewhere.
 Marie, that sounds really familiar. An Ohio transplant who moved there 30 years ago says that even HE'S had a hard time fitting in with the locals. According to him, if you don't go back three generations, you're not quite one of them.
 Appreciate the female perspective. In addition, I was really hoping on some of the guys here to tell me that I'm not crazy and women outside of Boston really aren't afraid to walk up and flirt with you.

Flirt

If we’ve flirted a bit online and then I suddenly stopped, we’re still cool, right? I don’t think anyone is taking offense, but if so, you shouldn’t be. Flirting online just reminds me that I need to get my lazy ass outside and find a real-life woman and stop pretending I can just hop on a flight and we can grab dinner in Texas, Mexico, Iceland, or wherever the heck you live.

Andy’s Complete Lexicon of Fancy Words

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Updated 3/10/11

Hypocrite

I’m surprised at how often I reach out to strangers while there are a half dozen members of my extended family I’ve completely given up on.

“Everybody wants to save the world. Nobody wants to help with the dishes.”

Reach out

I've made myself absolutely miserable for over a year now. I've destroyed what I'd built up and saved up. I'm just now starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel and an actual purpose in life.

But now I'm seeing, more than ever it seems, that so many of my friends are in real distress. I'm here. So fucking reach out already.

Originality

There are basically three types of people on Twitter in the scope of comedy:

1. Those who post jokes that are as original as they can imagine and take pride in that. They validate other such users who are also playing the game of originality. They are each other’s peers. THAT’S FINE.

2. Those who absorb humor from life and reword it. They don’t care if it’s been done before and don’t want the burden of determining originality. They’re just keeping the humor flowing. THIS IS ALSO FINE.

3. Those who wish to laugh, but do not care about accruing followers through original humor. They’re just here to have fun, post funny movie quotes, whatever. THIS IS ALSO FINE, as long as they’re not stealing.

If you’re a 2 or a 3, great. Enjoy Twitter exactly how you like. But if you’re trying to be a 1, you really can’t fly the “No joke is original” flag. It’s a slap in the face to people who take great pains to be original. If you consider yourself a peer with those who hold themselves to a higher standard of originality, then you kind of have to fess up when you’re caught repackaging a joke. Rewording is not creating. Creating is creating.