h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK, I've got the shits, and it's time for a rant...

Almost all the women I know are either married, divorced, coupled or in the throes of "getting over" the last guy they were with. None of the single ones seem to want to be with me enough that they have actually tried to get me interested in being with them.

I'm sick of it. The whole damn' pursuit is tiring and fruitless. All it does for me is make people smile - which is fine in itself but doesn't provide me with any physical satisfaction. I'm tired of being ignored by the people who can do most to relieve my distress (married and coupled women, interestingly enough, seem to find me fascinating, but it still doesn't get me supine).

I'm tired of waiting to be noticed, of being actively prevented from telling women how good they look and how much I want them. I'm tired of preventing myself from saying so much about the women who excite me. I'm equally sickened by the prospect of telling these women how much they excite me and having them ignore or belittle me.

I'm fed up with other people's expectations, I'm distressed at how little consideration I even seem to be due in the course of normal societal behaviour, and I'm disgusted that I can work so hard, be so nice, seem so friendly, listen so much to the trivialities which beset the daily existences of other people, devote so much time, attention, sympathy, understanding and friendship and still have noone who wants to listen to me, sympathise with me, try to understand me. I don't mind actually doing all these things, mind you, but there has to be something more to it from others than unending loneliness and superficial appreciation.

To put it bluntly, I'm shat to bits, and it's only Thursday morning...

Wow.

What can I say...? People are a problem.

You're right, buster, people are a problem, but I'm not quite sure why that realisation spawned this particular tirade...!

I think in future I might try to limit myself to the declaration that I'm having a shitty day, and leave it at that!

How're things by you, anyway?

again with the buster? I get that everywhere these days!

Things are pretty cool right now: work is not busy and Christmas drinks seems to be popping up all over the place.

If I could just work out what to do for New Year's Eve I'd be a happy fella!

Would you prefer to be called "pas"...?

The brotherhood of St. Thagus is having a do in Holt, if you particularly like the worship of the bottle...!

The, um, brotherhood of St Thagus?

I wasn't actually a founding member of this sect (cult...?), but its genesis lies in the spirit of Bacchus, with a Christianized nomenclature to re-familiarise him for the people of the Western World. The basic ceremony of the cult is to drink and be sociable, so as you can imagine we have no shortage of novices .

Unfortunately, only the truly devoted and worthy will continue to drink and be sociable for as long as we typically do it, but it does form a basis for a populist religious doctrine...!

PS sorry to take so long to reply to your post, bubster, but the server at work crashed again - I'm at home now!

That's almost word for word what I related to Monsy some seven-odd years ago. I'd had about all the female friends I could stand! Friendship was NOT what I was looking for.

By the time I met her I had given up on the ladies. They were not worth the time and money I had been spending on them. Seemed they were much more attracted to the "arse"holes, and only needed me for a shoulder to cry on when one of the "machos" dumped on them!

Evidently the timing was perfect. We were both looking for the same things, had been through the same games and were both tired of the B.S.. We'll be married seven years come Christmas day. Seven of the happiest years of my life.

What I'm trying to say is.....relax(I know, not easy!) Sometime....when you least expect it, and from someone you couldn't possibly predict....you'll find her. Someone looking for the same things you are. Then, and only then, will all this idiocy seem worth the trouble.

NM

And you can take that for a fact Hypoman ! I have been in exactly the same situation since 1993 when a 6-year relationship ended.
O.K. so the situation has improved since two months but I know what you mean. In my case there were some ladies I knew and got along with very well but they were always married to friends of mine...

One thing though : Don't be so bloody nice all the time... you can be too good a friend you know. In my case women tended to talk a lot because they couldn't talk to their boyfriend/husband/whatever...but if these guys want the good they will have to take the 'bad' as well..

Good luck,

TM.

hmmm

Elaborate please..?

Hmmmmmm ?

TM.

Nope...just hmmmm!!
shazzPRME

Ah, for a moment I thought that was a 'wait till you get home' kind of hmmmmm...

TM.

It's time for me to hide, me thinks!LOL Don't think I want to see the conflagration!!!!

NM

The what..? Remember Earthman, that your mode of speech is somewhat different than mine...LOL

TM.

Wait 'til you get home kind of hmmm is about right TM
shazzPRME

Right..... Yeess..... very clear now.

??!!!???

I am glad that we sorted that out then LOL
shazzPRME

Not really but I assume you will explain it to me soon...

TM.

hhhmmm..... I think I sorted that out myself......think I'll let Monsy "have the con" now!!!

NM