Sigh. You seem to think you’re performing cunning stunts, but you’re really just showing yourself up as a, well, you know.
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I tried to give my daughter’s number at Ulta today, because she has one of their reward cards and I don’t. I got the number wrong.
As a woman on social media, I get crap like this from dudes with a mediocre grasp of English all the time. They can’t (or won’t) comprehend things like “I’m not interested”, “I’m married”, or “Stop messaging me.” And then they get angry that I don’t fall for their romance scam bullshit and tell me to “stop wasting people’s time”.
So really the only thing unbelievable about this to me is that it’s a woman.
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The intended inference is an insult to those who actually possess Charisma, Uniqueness Nerve and Talent.
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Damn it, I could’ve sworn I’d gotten on the list, but noooo…
I’m disappointed in the disappointed in boingboing list.
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Yes, and I will tell you why.
I have a secret desire to be a comedian. When I am with friends, I am pretty funny. But watching some of the great comedians and their greatest bits I realized - shit - I can’t do that. They all seem to have some of the funniest shit in the world happen to them. I am sure you can think of your favorite funny person and some of their classic stories. Like Ron White’s “I got thrown out of a NY bar.” or Bert Kreicher’s “The Machine”. John Pinette’s “Chinese Buffet”. Louis CK seems to excel at this sort of joke. Dave Chapelle is great too.
Anyway, the point is, do you REALLY think all of those stories happened exactly they way they tell them? Of course not. If they aren’t 100% completely made up, often times they are highly embellished. Does that make it stop being funny? Hell no.
Not just comedy, but think about books or movies or comics. Are dragons and magic and vampires not being real (sorry melz) make those stories any less enjoyable? Nope.
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Did you at least ask for the address? That sounds like a golden opportunity.
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This.
I also feel sorry for the women herself. To not be able to let go, to not be able to accept being wrong at all must be a horrible way to exist. Even at the end when she knew that she was incorrect, she’s not (in her own mind) wrong. But she is miserable.
Edited for verb tense/typo.
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Golden opportunity or scam of the Nigerian Prince variety. 
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Yeah, totally my reaction also. The guy seems like a pretty sorted-out, laidback dude - happy family, young kids, day off work, free time and a charged battery, like he says. Chilling and on top of things.
The woman OTOH is stressed, can’t get to the store, is worred about Jess exposing her other daughter to drugs, is trying to fit her schedule around Jess’ plans to get a lift to the movies… yes, she should have got the message a lot earlier but frankly the whole exchange just made me sad. Life is hard for some people, and we can’t know what’s going on with them.
(Also re. her saying “after you watch porn” or whatever at the end, he made some remark early on about having lots of adult-oriented ideas for messing with people, which she may have misconstrued.)
Just my $0.02.
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Or maybe the opposite? You seem to have a hard time accepting that someone can be this stupid. I wish I still had this kind of naivete.
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I’m sad that it ended. I fell in love with the characters.
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Had to think on that one for a minute. Upvoted!
The bloke comes out of it pretty badly too, I thought, as he gets quite insulting later on.
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Brendan Duffy (Complaint: “Annoying Lefty Bullshit”)
Is that a negative? That sounds like a perfect summation of my entire philosophy.
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Mark created it, I think! I might be the source of the “so would you say you are disappointed?” sub-meme.
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That ext was for me. Um, can you send me my money?
With standup comedy or fiction the audience enters into it expecting much of it to be silly or nonsensical. This purported to be an authentic, unedited interaction from real life, and therein would lie the humor. That people get so upset by my suggesting it’s fake proves that point.
So wait, did Jess and Brad get to see the movie? I NEED TO KNOW!
And something tells me Jess still got her ass beat when her mom got home because somehow it was her fault also.
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Its a modern day version of Ralphie pointing the finger at Schwartz when he his mother demands to know where he heard such horrible words.
“OW MOM WHAT I DIDN’T DO NOTHING!”
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