Earning Friendship

[bridgetester]

*borrowed from prolixfootle"Friends must earn friendship and, while I will be civil to people I dislike, I will not voluntarily engage in activities which put me in prolonged contact with them, no matter who they are

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[omega025]

heeh, am I boring?

[bridgetester]

Of course you are. That's exactly I've friended you and try to read your journal somewhat regularly. I friend all the boring people. ;)

[omega025]

Yay. ;-)

[lonnerz]

sarcasm is about the only way to make life humorous sometimes

Maybe its being civil once removed?
but thats a long stretch

[bridgetester]

I simply adore that icon. Unfortunately, I already have my quota filled. *grumblesigh*

[lonnerz]

ya at 15 Im going nuts. I need to put the extra $10 down to get 50 :) But feel free to look thru all my icons .. they are always changing

[bridgetester]

You think you're going nuts? How do you think I feel with a limit of 3 icons? :P

[ladytabitha]

I put up with them for the duration of the event, and then try to get away as politely as possible.  I try to keep in mind that they're people, like I am, and wouldn't want to be treated crappishly.

And hooopefully they get the hint.

[bridgetester]

Oh, I'm not mean. I'm just not as nice as usual. And given that I'm often "too nice", that's not horrible treatment. ;)

I'm thinking specifically of an idjit or two in my gaming group, and a few annoying students here.

[moonfall]

i've been thinking about friendship a LOT lately. i might need to steal this and elaborate on it. ;)

hrm...boring...usually the boring f-o-f i've known were just passive, so i didn't have to deal with them much. if a person is talking to me, i guess i have a high tolerance for boredom. i can also eat most cafeteria food. hrm...

[bridgetester]

Feel free to look through my "friend" memories. They provide some interesting perspective.

Unfortunately, I seem to encounter the talkative boring people. *sigh*

[moonfall]

*giggles* now i'm wondering if, in person, *I'M* one of those talkative boring people. :D

[bridgetester]

I know I can be boring if people don't care about my interests. But as I get bored by some things that people talk about, it all evens out. We just find people who find enough of the same things interesting and enough different things interesting that we maintain conversation. :D

[epistolarysmack]

oooh... boring friends of friends. oh how I know that problem. I go with agressively ignoring them...

[bridgetester]

Aggressive ignoring, yessss.... *steeples fingers* Send them to Coventry, or rather the closest possible conversational state that isn't active rudeness.

[epistolarysmack]

Belgium! Belgium!

Bah to Belgium! Bah, I say!

[bridgetester]

Nah, the Benevolent Dictator Lydia always needs more manual laborers to improve her beloved homeland, Yakutsk and its subsidiary Irkutsk. *quotes college friend's Risk strategy*

Or Wyoming. No one lives there anyways. Have you ever known someone from Wyoming? It's a black hole. Or maybe just a blank spot appropriate for freestate. Square states are weird like that. *quotes partially from another college friend*