A little more faith. (519 hits)
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Submitted by Glenn Carey <g.l.e.n.n.carey.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2008-04-11 10:13:03 EDT
I went out last night with a friend from school. He happens to live just down the road from a popular local pub frequented by hordes of attractive, young university students on Thursday nights. 'Trevor' was shouting me the entire night and on an empty stomach I quickly surpassed the status of 'severely wasted'. I'm twenty-one and Trevor is ten years my senior so naturally he was dictating the drinking pace at somewhat more than my sense of rationality could tolerate. All I remember is leaving in a cab with Trevor and two random girls, said girls ditching us immediately upon being served the meals we bought for them and finally, Trevor and myself in the back seat of a car occupied by two foreign exchange students.
As it turned out, our new friends were Malay-Malay, having been educated about the three predominant races comprising modern Malaysia. This was all news to me, however Trevor is half Sri-Lankan and lives with foreign exchange students on campus residence. His ability to relate to and engage people of limited English astounds me. At any rate we scored a free ride back to Trevor's place and had a rather interesting conversation with our international cousins. In my experience Asian people in general are always more than delighted to observe the nonchalant manner in which the average Westerner can refer to both relationships and women (or in more specific terms, 'pussy') in casual conversation with complete strangers.
While I was drinking with Trevor at the bar earlier in the night we found ourselves in an incredibly fast-paced conversation with two young, female science students. No less than a minute into the conversation with the girl I decided to give my attention to, I stopped her and said, "the only time besides now I've seen a girl speak at such a rate of words was when I saw that show 'Gilmore Girls'. Only that show makes me feel physically sick which is the complete opposite of how I feel about this conversation."
Not much further in and I told her, "Would it be okay if I loved you?". Shortly after, though that short time was filled with consistent banter, she returned with, "I think I'm going to have to like you."
I thin I said it best when I pointed out to 'Sara', "I don't think I've ever met a girl who can hold her own in a conversation and imbibe alcohol with equal skill and vigor."
Shortcut to a few rounds later and Sara decides to hit the dance floor. I hadn't eaten for a solid 10 hours and knew damn well my honky lack of rhythm would only be further impeded by my level of inebriation. Trevor and I left Sara and her friend (who wing-girled brilliantly, I must say, while Trevor wing-manned equally well) to make their way to the dance floor.
Just as I've found in the past week or so of reading Ubersite obsessively, meeting Sara was a welcome reminder that the types of people I can relate to easily are out there somewhere. They're not so hard to find if you can make the effort to be yourself without any great pretensions. If was able to make a post while stoned out of my mind a couple of days ago and still get some feedback from people who are on the same wavelength, then find a ridiculously intelligent girl in a bar and manage to engage her for a half hour or so while I was incredibly drunk, it probably isn't so hard to keep finding people like that.
I like it whenever I find myself having a little more faith in people. It's not always so easy to find.
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Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2008-04-14 12:47:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-04-14 04:10:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Sara's a nice name :)
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-04-12 10:50:13 EDT (#)
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meeting Sara was a welcome reminder that the types of people I can relate to easily are out there somewhere. They're not so hard to find if you can make the effort to be yourself without any great pretensions
great line.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2008-04-12 04:44:16 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I didn't read this. I probably won't read this either. I'm just letting you know so that this +2 feels empty and meaningless.
Maybe now you'll understand why I cut myself.
Hahahahahahahaha.
Boner.
I love that word.
Submitted by loan_officer (user info) at 2008-04-12 02:29:08 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2008-04-11 23:50:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Glenn. (user info) at 2008-04-11 22:18:27 EDT (#)
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Being writing students, Trevor and I had a tape recorder with us. Upon playing back the tape the next day I found that my speech remained surprisingly intelligible throughout the night, though as usually happens those words tended to be delivered with an increasing volume of saliva as the night wore on.
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That's creepy. The tape recorder, not the saliva.
Submitted by Glenn. (user info) at 2008-04-11 22:18:27 EDT (#)
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Being writing students, Trevor and I had a tape recorder with us. Upon playing back the tape the next day I found that my speech remained surprisingly intelligible throughout the night, though as usually happens those words tended to be delivered with an increasing volume of saliva as the night wore on.
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2008-04-11 17:27:21 EDT (#)
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Nice post, but I'm guessing that the highly drunken "conversation" with "Sara" went a little more like this:
(what you recall)
"the only time besides now I've seen a girl speak at such a rate of words was when I saw that show 'Gilmore Girls'. Only that show makes me feel physically sick which is the complete opposite of how I feel about this conversation."
(what you really said)
"Yewwww talwk reallly fastttttt. Glub, snort, Think I'm gonna be sick! Sorry bout yer shoes."
(what you recall)
YOU: "Would it be okay if I loved you?".
HER: "I think I'm going to have to like you."
YOU: "I don't think I've ever met a girl who can hold her own in a conversation and imbibe alcohol with equal skill and vigor."
(what you really said)
YOU: "I LOVEEEE YOU, glurp, snort!!"
HER: "Who are you and why did you puke on my shoes?"
YOU: "I like beer! Do YOU like beer!?
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-04-11 17:22:38 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Hookhand (user info) at 2008-04-11 15:04:37 EDT (#)
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Eh, you had an ok night. Sex is a +2.
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2008-04-11 12:16:14 EDT (#)
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ok
Submitted by MrsKitty (user info) at 2008-04-11 11:05:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:52:05 EDT (#)
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Oh Christ!
Mrs Kitty I have a bag of Pic and Mix in my car if you want to have a look? Go on help yourself, they're over there in the corner. Dont mind the puppy he doesnt bite.
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Yay! Candy! And I love puppies!!! This is gonna be... wait... wait just one minute. You're trying to TRICK me aren't you?
Submitted by X54 (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:54:03 EDT (#)
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It's an amazing coincidence, isn't it, how you always meet the most intelligent people when you're drunk?
Did you know that in Bahasa Malaysia, words are pluralized by repeating them? "My cats," for example, would be spoken as, "Saya kuching-kuching." Have another drink and you'll appreciate how smart I am for knowing that.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:52:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
A very positive message regarding the social wonder that is a university campus. The reality, however, is rather dark.
Makes me think about Charles Manson and hippy comunes where free love meant duty sex for everyone and the ostracisation of any people who actually fell in love.
No wait, sorry, I'm getting university campus confused with the north of england again. Nevermind.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:52:05 EDT (#)
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Oh Christ!
Mrs Kitty I have a bag of Pic and Mix in my car if you want to have a look? Go on help yourself, they're over there in the corner. Dont mind the puppy he doesnt bite.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:45:46 EDT (#)
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It's ok, im gay for drogo.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:44:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MrsKitty (user info) at 2008-04-11 15:39:19 BST (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:35:50 EDT (#)
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"MrsKItty"
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Hello? Yes?
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WOW
Submitted by MrsKitty (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:41:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:40:34 EDT (#)
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Mrs Kitty didnt you mum ever tell you not to talk to strange men?
Well Em is worse, he isnt even really a man.
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You're right. I'm sorry. No more strange men for me, no matter how much candy they offer or how cute the puppy they claim to have lost is.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:40:34 EDT (#)
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Mrs Kitty didnt you mum ever tell you not to talk to strange men?
Well Em is worse, he isnt even really a man.
Submitted by cat_head (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:40:05 EDT (#)
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Don't expect many people on here to notice it, but you write very readably.
Submitted by MrsKitty (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:39:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:35:50 EDT (#)
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"MrsKItty"
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Hello? Yes?
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:35:50 EDT (#)
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"MrsKItty"
Submitted by Glenn. (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:31:07 EDT (#)
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Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:27:29 EDT (#)
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Being drunk is no reason to bore us all to death
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fkn lolz
Submitted by MrsKitty (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:29:34 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Glenn. (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:26:54 EDT (#)
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I drank a lot tonight. I could have posted something better for Uber but fuck it, mundane shit that actually happened is just easier to organise into words, generally. I'm a cunt, sorry Kitty. Just waving my internet cock around because I'm drunk, ya know how it is. Well, kinda anyway.
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Awe, I got an apology. I love you again. Let's not fight anymore. :)
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:27:29 EDT (#)
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Being drunk is no reason to bore us all to death.
Submitted by Glenn. (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:26:54 EDT (#)
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I drank a lot tonight. I could have posted something better for Uber but fuck it, mundane shit that actually happened is just easier to organise into words, generally. I'm a cunt, sorry Kitty. Just waving my internet cock around because I'm drunk, ya know how it is. Well, kinda anyway.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:25:26 EDT (#)
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Mother of fuck?? Have you actually sobered up yet, or has my brain just gone numb reading this?
What the fuck are you talking about when you say that you cant keep up with a 30 year old bloke drinking when you are 21? Have you been living under a flipping rock? Are you one of these new molly coddled cotton wool wrapped youths whose first experience outside in the real world away from Mummy and Daddy is going to University?
I only ask because at 21 you really should be able to keep pace drinking more that adequately.
Christ I cant wait until Nintendo bring out Wii drinking, it may help the youngsters of today.
Submitted by MrsKitty (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:21:14 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Glenn. (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:17:25 EDT (#)
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I hate to rate my own posts more than neccessary, but you don't have any of your own for me via which to say this to you, Kitty. Here goes:
Die.
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Wow... such negativity. And it's "necessary", just so you know. You big meany :(
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:18:58 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
"I went out last night with a friend from school. He happens to live just down the road from a popular local pub frequented by hordes of attractive, young university students on Thursday nights. 'Trevor' was shouting me the entire night and on an empty stomach I quickly surpassed the status of 'severely wasted'. I'm twenty-one and Trevor is ten years my senior so naturally he was dictating the drinking pace at somewhat more than my sense of rationality could tolerate. All I remember is leaving in a cab with Trevor and two random girls, said girls ditching us immediately upon being served the meals we bought for them and finally, Trevor and myself in the back seat of a car occupied by two foreign exchange students.
As it turned out, our new friends were Malay-Malay, having been educated about the three predominant races comprising modern Malaysia. This was all news to me, however Trevor is half Sri-Lankan and lives with foreign exchange students on campus residence. His ability to relate to.........."
...and then I got bored.
Submitted by Glenn. (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:17:25 EDT (#)
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I hate to rate my own posts more than neccessary, but you don't have any of your own for me via which to say this to you, Kitty. Here goes:
Die.
Submitted by MrsKitty (user info) at 2008-04-11 10:15:25 EDT (#)
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Awe, you tried. +2 for effort!!!