OT: 2018 OT Non-Ski Resort Thread

Fortnite or no?

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  • i'm telling del zotto

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Fire Benning

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Oct 2, 2016
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Raps are still trash but they needed some sort of change because obviously what they had wasn't working. Whoever comes out of the east will just have the honour of losing to GS in the finals anyway.
 

PM

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Apr 8, 2014
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Just making it to the finals is a huge accomplishment for a team that has never been there. Of course Golden State is probably going to win again, they turned their (only) weakest position into one of their strongest, but that doesn't mean you roll over and play dead. Is this how people thought about hockey in the 80's when the Islanders and Oilers were winning every year?
 

ProstheticConscience

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In Case Of Dumping:
  • delete all contact information. Unfriend on facebook. Eliminate all mutual friend contacts.
  • No phone numbers, no email, no facebook, no instagram, no nothing. Clean sweep.
  • Take all photos, mementos, keepsakes and tchotchkes and put them in a box. Tape it shut. Put that box under your bed.
What you have to do is treat your breakup as an addiction. She (or he, shouldn't judge) is heroin or meth or whatever, and you're trying to get clean. When you're getting clean, you have to eliminate every shred of the drug. You have to go to zero. ZERO. Nothing. And stay there.

The Law of Addiction: reintroduction of an addictive substance to a former addict re-establishes the addiction.

That's the standard you have to hit. And it SUCKS. Really. It does. Having been there for...well, let's just say more than a couple of things over the years, it's just not fun. And getting dumped is right up there, especially when you didn't see it coming. You feel like an arm or a leg has suddenly been lopped off. Part of you is missing. Gone. And it hurts like f***.

But it's like ripping off a band-aid. You can slowly tease off bits and pieces and hurt yourself for as long as you want, or you can rip it off and be done with it. Once the decision has come down the longer you chase what's lost the more you'll hurt long-term.

It sucks but there it is.
 

Horse McHindu

They call me Horse.....
Jun 21, 2014
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In Case Of Dumping:
  • delete all contact information. Unfriend on facebook. Eliminate all mutual friend contacts.
  • No phone numbers, no email, no facebook, no instagram, no nothing. Clean sweep.
  • Take all photos, mementos, keepsakes and tchotchkes and put them in a box. Tape it shut. Put that box under your bed.
What you have to do is treat your breakup as an addiction. She (or he, shouldn't judge) is heroin or meth or whatever, and you're trying to get clean. When you're getting clean, you have to eliminate every shred of the drug. You have to go to zero. ZERO. Nothing. And stay there.

The Law of Addiction: reintroduction of an addictive substance to a former addict re-establishes the addiction.

That's the standard you have to hit. And it SUCKS. Really. It does. Having been there for...well, let's just say more than a couple of things over the years, it's just not fun. And getting dumped is right up there, especially when you didn't see it coming. You feel like an arm or a leg has suddenly been lopped off. Part of you is missing. Gone. And it hurts like ****.

But it's like ripping off a band-aid. You can slowly tease off bits and pieces and hurt yourself for as long as you want, or you can rip it off and be done with it. Once the decision has come down the longer you chase what's lost the more you'll hurt long-term.

It sucks but there it is.

ProstheticConscience,

Hockey disagreements aside, much respect bro. Thank you for sharing that. These past two weeks, I've been trying to get answers from her and have been trying to contact her to death, but to no avail. All it's done is bring me sadness. I also came to the realisation yesterday that my only path to happiness and recovery is to let her go completely. Your 2nd last sentence is completely and utterly true.

While I'm not a drinker or do drugs, I do turn to food when I'm feeling depressed. I've gained 5 lbs in two weeks. I think it's high time that I lose my new found pregnancy weight, lol. Mourning time is over, time to get back on the horse. Thanks again man.

One mental image I'm having difficult with is from July 5th. After our half day together at the museum, we went to the Subway to go home. Me to my apartment, her to her dorm. She gave me one of those hugs and then put her head on my shoulder for about a minute while I stroked the back of her head. My heart knew that she was trying to say good-bye to me for the last time but my mind didn't want to accept it. Whenever I get this image in my head, I almost can't breathe and feel like fainting. Hopefully, it goes out of my head soon. Atleast I've stopped crying at work now in my private moments and so that's a positive.
 
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Huggy43

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Jan 13, 2016
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Since we're in relationship/dating corner:

Trying to decide if it's using apps or the city that explains my current streak of multiple dates with a person & them ghosting afterwards.

(Not so surprising) plot twist: it's likely an issue involving myself the entire time.
 
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mossey3535

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Feb 7, 2011
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Since we're in relationship/dating corner:

Trying to decide if it's using apps or the city that explains my current streak of multiple dates with a person & them ghosting afterwards.

(Not so surprising) plot twist: it's likely an issue involving myself the entire time.

Ghosting is standard practice now.
 

Horse McHindu

They call me Horse.....
Jun 21, 2014
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Ghosting is standard practice now.

Ghosting is immoral, but I definitely understand the need for it.

Some times - people just want to get laid with no awkward clinginess afterwards. I used to regularly engage in this when younger because I didn’t care how it impacted others and wanted to give a good story to my bros.

Escorts are expensive and will burn a hole through your wallet and so I definitely understand the need for ghosting. It comes down to choice I guess. If potentially hurting someone and spreading negativity isn’t as important as your own needs, then by all means, ghost away. I personally wouldn’t do it anymore however.
 

ProstheticConscience

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God, dating has got so totally and completely strange since I got married. Will be 19 years married this august, and I have no idea how being single even works anymore. Good thing my wife and I are happy together.

Internet dating didn't exist when I was single. Just wasn't a thing. No tinder, no Plenty of Fish, no nothing. You usually had to leave the house and go to a bar or something. There were phone lines, but that was different. I've seen people in bars or coffeeshops browsing through tinder or their dating apps while standing in line. Twenty years ago if you used the phone lines, you did it at 2am in your kitchen with all the lights off.
 

mossey3535

Registered User
Feb 7, 2011
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Ghosting is immoral, but I definitely understand the need for it.

Some times - people just want to get laid with no awkward clinginess afterwards. I used to regularly engage in this when younger because I didn’t care how it impacted others and wanted to give a good story to my bros.

Escorts are expensive and will burn a hole through your wallet and so I definitely understand the need for ghosting. It comes down to choice I guess. If potentially hurting someone and spreading negativity isn’t as important as your own needs, then by all means, ghost away. I personally wouldn’t do it anymore however.

Ghosting is morally indefensible.
 

M2Beezy

Objective and Neutral Hockey Commentator
May 25, 2014
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God, dating has got so totally and completely strange since I got married. Will be 19 years married this august, and I have no idea how being single even works anymore. Good thing my wife and I are happy together.

Internet dating didn't exist when I was single. Just wasn't a thing. No tinder, no Plenty of Fish, no nothing. You usually had to leave the house and go to a bar or something. There were phone lines, but that was different. I've seen people in bars or coffeeshops browsing through tinder or their dating apps while standing in line. Twenty years ago if you used the phone lines, you did it at 2am in your kitchen with all the lights off.
Good thing for now but be careful cause over a MAJORITY of marriages in canada end in DIVORCE now. FACT
 

y2kcanucks

Le Sex God
Aug 3, 2006
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Surrey, BC
Since we're in relationship/dating corner:

Trying to decide if it's using apps or the city that explains my current streak of multiple dates with a person & them ghosting afterwards.

(Not so surprising) plot twist: it's likely an issue involving myself the entire time.

Stop dating Jim Benning fans and you'll see better results.
 

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