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kira
just browsing around (354 posts)
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11-08-09, 05:01 PM
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#61
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Originally Posted by John99 thats not funny.
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Myspace...?
Ok, sorry, John if that was not funny..!
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Treval
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11-08-09, 05:04 PM
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#62
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Originally Posted by kira [*]know the culture of the people where you live. Observe them. Pay attention to what make them happy, angry, disappointed, and so on.
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[*]respect the culture or the value of the people around you. Be tolerant. You can keep your own value but don't insist this on them.
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I am disgusted by the culture around me and the people. My tolerancy reaches a few milliseconds.
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BUT, don't be irritating. Learn to read body languages. Be sensitive with situation. Learn this by observing and observing and observing..
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Yeah.. my conversations with people are completely 'strained'.. people's bodylanguage is stiff, they feel very uncomfortable with me (like this icon: :S). I asked them about their things and that's where it ends. It doesn't go further. Also I'm in a class with 100+ people who are absolute autism patients.. rofl. It's just a ****ed up situation with them. We sit in the hallways, everyone looks at the floor like they are some shy 12 year old girls and no one says anything and the silence is just killing.
It's like this every time. Occassionally you see a conversation between 2 or 3.. out of a 100.. LOL.
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[*]be humble. Arrogant people rarely make friend.
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Ah yes I'm very arrogant.
I always find myself way too intelligent for others.
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[*]after exam, immidiately approach one of your friend, ask him or her, whether he/she wants to go to bar or coffee shop with you.
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The answer is always no.
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Normally people are tired after exam, they either want to sleep or to relax. Express your feeling and influence your friend, like by saying: "sheesshh.. I feel sooo fed up with this exam.. wanna go have some drinks with me? Come on, go with me, I'll buy you a drink for now".
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Tried it. They react ':S' to me and want to get away from me.
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[*]ask any of your classmates to study together with you
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Laugh. You see we are in our last year, there are no groups. Every man for himself. We all have to hand in a project that we must work on, solitary. No help from others.
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[*]open conversation with your classmates. [i]Hey, what is your plan after graduation?
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Concering that, one of them got mad at me for shaking hands with him every time I saw him. He said: "Do you always have to shake hands for ****'s sake?!". So yeah.
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[*]follow the news so you have always interesting topic to discuss with people.
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Yeah. You tell them the news, they discuss it with you. That's where it ends.
I once got far, got a classmate to like me, he gave me his phone number and asked me mine. He came over to discuss our project (from last year).
He kept asking me things about class/project the whole time, even on MSN.
Finally he admitted he only wanted to contact me because he needed my help on the programming. That was it. He was profiting from my intelligence.
He abused me. Nice, isn't it?
That's why I am hesitant to new friendships.
This other guy in my class last year was also all friendly all of a sudden. But that **** also just wants me to help him through the heavy academic theories they serve us at this moment.
All he wants is my brain, nothing more. I can confirm this because last year he did this and then he just ignored me after two weeks, went to talk with the rest and when I tried to talk to him he just looked weird at me and ignored me. Also very nice.
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Easy, or?
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My answer to that: A lot easier said than done.
Well, this was the best answer yet.
Thank you very much for your elaborated reply.
Treval
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kira
just browsing around (354 posts)
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11-08-09, 05:06 PM
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#64
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Originally Posted by Enmos No offense, but doesn't that kind of mean that he's faking it?
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He is not faking it, of course. It's just previously he wasn't sensitive with some 'socializing issues'. He didn't care the people. Now, he does, and so people care him, too.
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Originally Posted by christa i have like 200ish friends in facebook, and most are people i went to school with, myspace has 123friends
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I don't remember how many friends I have in facebook, perhaps about 200, too, and most are people that went to school and uni with me, too. I don't have myspace.
Last edited by kira; 11-08-09 at 06:08 PM..
Reason: removed some details
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Enmos
Go away! (36,494 posts)
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11-08-09, 05:08 PM
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#65
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Originally Posted by kira He is not faking it, of course. It's just previously he wasn't sensitive with some 'socializing issues'. He didn't care the people. Now, he does, and so people care him, too. Now for last three years he always got invited to spend summer holiday in his French friend's villa (me too, last year and this year he took me with him). We got to meet the parent of his friend. Absolutely nice people.
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So the difference is that he didn't care about people and now he does?
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Treval
Registered Senior User (48 posts)
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11-08-09, 05:09 PM
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#66
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Originally Posted by deicider i have OVER 9000!!!
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It's OVER 9000!!!!!! WHAT THE **** BOOM!!! ROFL
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kira
just browsing around (354 posts)
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11-08-09, 05:20 PM
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#69
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Treval, sounds like you study in some serious environment. Perhaps one of those best school in your country...?? Maybe it's the last year exam that gives pressure on the social environment. If so, I don't think socializing should be your issue, though...
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Originally Posted by Treval I am disgusted by the culture around me and the people. My tolerancy reaches a few milliseconds.
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Why is that..?
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Ah yes I'm very arrogant.
I always find myself way too intelligent for others.
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This is why you have difficulties in making friends... You can be very intelligent, but remains humble, too... On the other hand, very intelligent people won't be arrogant, because they would notice that there are always other people who knows better in some other things.. nobody knows everything
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Concering that, one of them got mad at me for shaking hands with him every time I saw him. He said: "Do you always have to shake hands for ****'s sake?!". So yeah.
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Hmmm... you gotta learn to read body languages more...
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I once got far, got a classmate to like me, he gave me his phone number and asked me mine. He came over to discuss our project (from last year).
He kept asking me things about class/project the whole time, even on MSN.
Finally he admitted he only wanted to contact me because he needed my help on the programming. That was it. He was profiting from my intelligence.
He abused me. Nice, isn't it?
That's why I am hesitant to new friendships.
This other guy in my class last year was also all friendly all of a sudden. But that **** also just wants me to help him through the heavy academic theories they serve us at this moment.
All he wants is my brain, nothing more. I can confirm this because last year he did this and then he just ignored me after two weeks, went to talk with the rest and when I tried to talk to him he just looked weird at me and ignored me. Also very nice.
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Well, some people are opportunist, I have met many of them, but not all people are like that. If people ask your help, help if you can. Sometimes, maybe you also need their help. But, if people asking your help all the time, without ever helping you back and want to take everything for granted, you can look for other friends...
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Well, this was the best answer yet.
Thank you very much for your elaborated reply.
Treval
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You're welcome. Sorry for not helping much..! Relax man, I believe it's just the pressure of final year.
Last edited by kira; 11-08-09 at 06:09 PM..
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11-08-09, 05:22 PM
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#71
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Originally Posted by Treval I have 9 friends on FaceBook. Awesoooome.
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Indeed, foreigners who come to the USA are notorious for calling everyone who is nice to them a "friend." In this way, they end up having a rolodex containing 100+ friends who they see once a year, by chance, and refer to them as friends on that basis. In a lot of ways, it's very similar to having 600+ "friends" on facebook. Many foreigners probably consider all of them friends too.
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kira
just browsing around (354 posts)
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11-08-09, 05:29 PM
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#72
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Originally Posted by Enmos So the difference is that he didn't care about people and now he does?
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That is one of the difference.
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Originally Posted by Treval I have 9 friends on FaceBook. Awesoooome.
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Nine friends is better than nothing!!?!?!  It's the quality that matters. I agree with Enmos, you can't have too many friends (not in facebook, though, in real). Real friends really take time. Hell, my boyfriend alone take almost 50% of my time but I took 50% of his too ^.^
Last edited by kira; 11-08-09 at 06:10 PM..
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Enmos
Go away! (36,494 posts)
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11-08-09, 05:34 PM
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#73
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Originally Posted by kira That is one of the difference. He admit he also used to be quite arrogant, now he isn't. I don't know, man, perhaps it's the love in the air he just changed.
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Hmm so the effort was in learning to care about people? How does one go about that without faking it?
Sorry, I'm just trying to understand..
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Originally Posted by kira Nine friends is better than nothing!!?!?! It's the quality that matters. I agree with Enmos, you can't have too many friends (not in facebook, though, in real). Real friends really take time. Hell, my boyfriend alone take almost 50% of my time but I took 50% of his too ^.^
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I guess that should have read CAN
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kira
just browsing around (354 posts)
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11-08-09, 05:41 PM
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#74
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Originally Posted by Enmos Hmm so the effort was in learning to care about people? How does one go about that without faking it?
Sorry, I'm just trying to understand..
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To you it may appear as if he is faking it. To him, he recognizes it as his negative aspect, so he decided to change for his betterment. I don't think he is faking anything.
Last edited by kira; 11-08-09 at 06:11 PM..
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11-08-09, 06:24 PM
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#75
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Originally Posted by Treval I have the right to say and do whatever I want.
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Ok, then. If you have the right to say any unreasonable thing, so do I. Go and die.
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11-08-09, 07:09 PM
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#76
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Originally Posted by Enmos You don't 'make' best friends, it just sort of happens.
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About 15 of my friends were handmade by me. :P
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Treval
Registered Senior User (48 posts)
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11-09-09, 05:49 AM
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#77
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Originally Posted by visceral_instinct Ok, then. If you have the right to say any unreasonable thing, so do I. Go and die.
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Banned! -dances-
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DRZion
Registered Senior User (459 posts)
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11-13-09, 08:31 PM
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#80
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Anonymity leads to depression and crime. This is why huge housing projects often devolve into ghettos. Note how it is frowned upon being anonymous in america - it is unsafe.
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