Learning the local language and an "intellectual debate"

[gerefan2]

Over the last few months, I've gotten to know all about Kong, and I enjoy getting to know people like that and learning from their personal experiences. I know all about his family, childhood, ambitions, likes / dislikes, what makes him happy and sad, about his boyfriend, etc. Doesn't that type of thing interest you, or are you just happy being as big of a narccasist (sp) as Trump?

Perhaps frequent isn’t such a Nosy Parker...well perhaps.

[cdnmatt]

Or maybe frequent has forgotten what it's like to have a friend. Could be that too.

[frequent]

I don't get it frequent, don't you enjoy learning about other people, their background, their aspirations, what makes them tick, etc.?

Yes Matt and I believe, despite never having met you, I have a very good idea about you - your background, your aspirations, what makes you tick. However the pathology of you is fascinating - I'd have to say it conforms so closely with what we know about the Entitled Millennial - whereas I've no interest except as an appalled bystander with the sort of human dross that, for example, passes through Judge Judy's court. Not everyone is as fascinating as me or you - or, more precisely, few people are as fascinating as me or even you. There are occasional flashes of unexpected humour from the little people - christian's recent admission on his blog that he's only just realised, after several years of lengthy visits to Thailand, that Thai boys don't like guys who have beards (so he shaved his off) is a recent favourite

Perhaps frequent isn’t such a Nosy Parker...well perhaps.

How's the research going on posts by gerefan2 on Google?

[cdnmatt]

I still don't understand where you get this entitled millenial bullshit from.

I started my first company when I was 17, although it was rather amateur company. Then I busted my ass landscaping for a couple years working 90 hour weeks of labor, before going on to start my first actual professional company when I was 20. I've worked my ass off most of my life, just as I continue to do now, thank you.

[frequent]

I still don't understand where you get this entitled millenial bullshit from.

I started my first company when I was 17, although it was rather amateur company. Then I busted my ass landscaping for a couple years working 90 hour weeks of labor, before going on to start my first actual professional company when I was 20. I've worked my ass off most of my life, just as I continue to do now, thank you.

Excellent news but I wonder what you make of my Jane Austen quotation whenever I reproduce it? Or does it just pass through your mind not understood because it represents an attitude to life completely beyond your comprehension: "Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.” If you fail to understand that that is my default position on almost everything that happens on SGT then you are in a sorry state. I struggle to take myself seriously; I'm baffled when other people do

[cdnmatt]

So in other words, you're just some old dude who has given up on life, and has accepted his failures?

[frequent]

So in other words, you're just some old dude who has given up on life, and has accepted his failures?

I'm heading off now to slash my wrists. Although I suppose I could take heart from that other old dude Albert Einstein who is recorded as saying “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know”

[frequent]

So in other words, you're just some old dude who has given up on life, and has accepted his failures?

Here you are Matt, something that should appeal to your love of the British sense of self-deprecatory humour - New York Times London crime Twitter appeal backfires http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46557035

One of the comments reminds me of something that happened to me in Sydney Airport a few weeks ago. I was on a moving travelator and an Asian youth - early twenties I'm guessing - with his parents was on another travelator coming towards me. For some reason he decided at that point to remove his pullover and his t-shirt rode up, exposing his torso (but not his nipples). When he saw me looking with interest he glared. In response I licked my lips

[francois]

. For some reason he decided at that point to remove his pullover and his t-shirt rode up, exposing his torso (but not his nipples). When he saw me looking with interest he glared. In response I licked my lips

Ergo, you are just another dirty old man, like all of us.

[frequent]

Ergo, you are just another dirty old man, like all of us.

I hadn’t realized that was ever open to doubt