Frank’s still here?

This is such a thoughtful response and I feel awful for not having the mental faculty to respond to it with more clarity and thought at the moment but I absolutely need to have this conversation. All this to say, I will be back in a bit with some actual things to say, questions/concerns and such.

lmao at dressing up manipulation and deception as “skills” utilizing “hard work”. sales people aren’t compensated for hard work. they are compensated for moving product. that can be extremely easy if one has the skillset of “lacking compunction”.

I highly, highly doubt you’d find it easy regardless of how dismissive you are of what I’m sure you’d refer to as ‘soft skills’

just don’t think anyone else is gonna respect you for it.

Lol are you in High school? You really thought you had me with my desire to be ‘respected’

Not all sales people fit the caricature of some slimy liar.

Sales is one of the few professions that compensates people’s skills and hard work proportionately. They’re not ceos who manage people like livestock.

What, I don’t get it?

But, like, I come from the middle class (I think?) and things seem absolutely dire for people like me.

Right? I can’t even imagine this dehydrated brain looking thing ever tasting any good.

What about the chill zone, or the cool zone, or the calzone?

And lastly, I’ll say this, it’s completely disingenuous to remain “friends” with someone after you’ve been friendzoned if you initially had romantic feelings for them and those romantic feelings still persist. Unless your feelings magically also changed to platonic ones, then there’s a relational imbalance that will always linger. It’s better to just say “hey I like you in a more romantic way and even though you want to be friends, perhaps it’s better that we don’t hang out.”

Interesting, can you expand on this and why you shouldn’t be friends with someone you’re attracted to? Like, do you think ‘platonic’ and ‘romantic’ are binary conditions?

I’m not aaying you’re wrong but I’m interested in why you think it’s strictly disingenuous. I completely agree with the rest of what you said btw

Yeah, agreed about the misogyny.

Also, as I think about it, what if it partially stems from people politely rejecting others, after a date, by telling them they just want to be friends when they don’t actually mean it?

I’ve had that shit happen to before and it kind of blows. Went on a date with a cool, attractive girl in a new city where I didn’t know anyone, and she let me know afterwards that she thinks I’m cool but just wants to be friends. I was like ‘fuck yeah, I don’t give a shit’ but we never spoke after that :( Don’t say it if you don’t mean it, but then again maybe I should have put in more effort into staying in contact with her.

Yeah see, even if I was deeply interested in a romantic relationship with that person, I’d never take it to the next level and stay within boundaries out of fear of not losing them.

Is that conceited?

Fixed my wording but I think my point remains. If you have a genuine friend who isn’t romantically interested but is there for you otherwise, whatsdabigdeal hea?

Could you help me do that? I’ve never really used chatgpt

Hey! Can you lol? Let’s say, can you be the totally legit subcontractor for a prestigious German automobile company’s manufacturing arm?

Fuck, do you really think it’s illegal? Really do not give a fuck about the ethics of it.

Euros are worse than americans

:honk-enraged: GET A FUCKING PE

I really fucking should be, the fuck

It’s better than RoS by an order of magnitude, but that is literally one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.

That’s BECAUSE OF THIS HUNK OF SHIT.