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Now shut up and listen to your elders. We won't do you wrong, son. Just settle down. Put down the pills. If only Heath Ledger had listened to us. But noooo. Did he have 58 YEARS OF COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE? No! He was 30 years short, and then, bang. And we don't mean the fun banging he did on Brokeback Mountain. We're amazed that some of you people know how to get out of bed in the morning and brush your hair. If you had 58 YEARS OF COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE, you wouldn't have any fucking hair. Just brains. Lots and lots of brains.
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Well..I'm 17 and my parents still won't let me date and there's this guy I want to go out with..He likes me back but he works all the time and I only see him on sundays. That's not the issue though. How do I get my parents to understand that I'm old enough and should be allowed to date already? Or get around it without getting grounded? My parents are strict.. (link)
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There is a way to get past this form of child abuse:
http://www.jlc.org/index.php/factsheets/emancipationus
Child abuse is always defended by people who say things like, "They're only doing it for your own good." But these same things are said about parents who hit their kids with golf clubs and lock them in basements - by people who think those things are OK (and yeah, there are some of those..). The only question to ask is: is what you are doing hurting anyone?
The only answer is: your parents suck.
Defend them, and you're just denying yourself. Wait it out if you must, but don't think that what you're doing is wrong.
Or else your dating life is OVER. Forever.
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So this is my first year of college. Just my luck, I get a roommate that has no life except her boyfriend. He stays in our room for weeks at a time and has no life himself. Mind you, it is against the rule to have boys stay the night in our dorms. I have talked to my roommate about him TWICE. I told her I didn't like that he was here so much and I thought it was fair that he only visited once a month and didn't stay on school nights.
Well we just got back from Christmas break and NOTHING has changed. It pisses me off to no end. I would love to just go tell on her, but #1 I have my boyfriend visit once a semester and I don't want to get in trouble and #2 I don't want to start shit with this girl since I'm going to be forced to live with her until May.
The other night, my roommate and her boyfriend were in the room doing god-knows-what on the top bunk and I was on my bottom bunk talking to my boyfriend on the phone. He could tell I was upset, but I couldn't straight out talk about my roommate without saying their names. So he told me to say #1 to refer to my roommate and #2 to refer to her boyfriend. So we did that. I didn't say anything obvious so that she would know we were talking about her.
Anyway, ever since then she's been really mad at me. I think somehow she knew what I was talking about. She won't even talk to me. I think she's being really immature because she invited her boyfriend up AGAIN. I'm going through a lot right now because my grandpa just had a major surgery and this is NOT something I want to deal with.
Here are my options:
1) Completely confront her and TRY to be calm. Ask her why she's upset and apologize if I have to for not going straight to her with my issues.
2) Move out and get a different roommate (which I'm trying to avoid just to spite her because I know that's what she wants)
3) Just go to my residence life director and tell her everything my roommate did and let her handle the situation.
What do I do? I'm so upset right now. (link)
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Out of your answers, 1 and 2 (in that order) are the best, and #3 should be out of the question, as it violates Rule #1654 of our Order: Cops Always Make Things Worse.
OK, you're the one asking for advice, so here goes. She's not being immature. You're the one saying shit like, "#1, #2" to your bf on the phone. You need to upgrade that shit. She hates you not because you were talking about her but because you didn't respect her enough to at least say her name, much less confront her.
All of this conceals the real problem, though: any school which doesn't allow perfectly healthy young adults to have open sexual relations in their own habitats is a Nazi Facility. You are being treated as the jew was once treated, and it's not right.
Therefore, the official advice of The Order is:
Drop out of school, effective immediately. What you are being taught is far more dangerous than what you think you are being taught.
There is no second choice. No confrontations. No "talking things out". The bold choice is always the Right Choice.
Do not choose wisely, our friend. You have no choice. You must merely act. Now.
EDIT: Let us please revise this answer to your satisfaction:
Oh you poor dear! Please continue to talk about your roommate in secret code with your Once-a-Semester See-I-Have-a-Boyfriend. I'm sure this will make up for all the lost time between you two. Meanwhile, try and just...Make Faces. I'm sure she'll get the hint.
The world has tons and tons and tons of sympathy. For cowards.
Keep that school spirit, girl!!!
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So my boyfriend and I like to hang out at school in the morning during the zero hour. And seriously, we just talk. Occasionally I'll hug him, but there's honestly minimal kissing. It's just kinda how it is.
Anyway, most of the time around friends we just hug each other, and before class it's like, 'goodbye, *kiss*' and then we're done. It's not like it's anything all that bad that you don't see around schools anyway.
So the issue is, one of my friend's been giving me a hard time about it. Like, this girl was talking about how she hates when couples get all into it in public, and my friend was all, 'kinda like you guys!' And I told her that it wasn't how it is, and she said 'oh please, you guys are always all over each other.'
We're really not. Honestly, I'm not into the whole PDA thing, hugs are mostly all I'm comfortable with at school.
So...how can I talk to my friend about this? Obviously she thinks it's something bad, because she told me, 'people always say, oh, I saw her with her boyfriend'. Well, yeah, we talk. That's mostly it.
And should I talk to him too? Maybe say something about nothing other than hugging at school?
I dunno, this is bothering me. I always said I'd never get into the whole PDA thing and it looks like I have, even though I'm serious, it's not as bad as she makes it sound.
Help? (link)
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Strictly from an interpersonal, behavioral and psychological perspective, your female friend most likely has some repressed homosexual tendencies.
And has the hots for you.
This is more common than you might think. There is a reason for her comments, and that reason cannot be found in the realm of logic. It cannot be found in even in the area of superstition. She consciously believes that she witnesses something that simply isn't there, i.e., the PDA that you insist does not exist.
This is because, subconsciously...she wants you.
This is normal abnormal activity for someone who isn't ready to accept that her friends have something that they themselves do not. You have 2 choices and ONLY TWO CHOICES.
The first is to dump your "friend". She will do more harm than good at this point.
The second is to dump your "hugs-only" boyfriend. This could be deadly.
The third choice...does not exist.
Choose wisely, dear friend. For if you choose the wrong path, unspeakable horrors await for you in the near future. We know...because we did it, too.
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