Hornshire

Yes, yes. Your deluded mental state prevents you from perceiving reality. We know it must be tough, but you'll manage.

Flies that follow you because you need a shower don't qualify as goons, kitten.

It probably has a lot to do with how slow they find you to be normally, that inebriation doesn't really occur to them. It could also be the case that they easily could tell you, but that entails speaking to you so they would rather not.

No, you really should specifically encourage her to continue, to develop, and to improve. She has an interest and some talent, and with time and effort she could do great things. Not just things that are great for a kid in grade school. Foster an environment that values growth, not merely achievement.

Their "problem" is that they are, in fact, not self-absorbed, overgrown children racked with insecurity and unable to function socially on the most basic of levels. We know it's hard for you to imagine that a person without those features could exist, but such is your burden.

Potentially. It depends largely on the type of work you do, how much relevant experience you have in that particular field, and the typical cost of living for your area. But given no other context, the number in and of itself is not egregious.

Boring. Weak. Talk.

She's not avoiding you. She's just not interested in you and all your boring, weak talk.

We considered it. It's difficult to do anything with such a flaccid display of ineptitude, though.

You're going to have to offer at least seven for Us to even consider it.

Probably because a certain someone is either incompetent or immature. Very likely a mixture of both.

Woooosh. Also, preemptive "Woooosh" for what follows. G'night, tiger.

The lady doth protest too much.

That's a relief. It's a good thing your limited cognitive faculties prevent you from conceiving the unspeakable horrors of you actually roaming free on school grounds.

We aim for six. We usually end up with four-ish. Weekends sometimes help, but We don't ever sleep-in more than a few hours past when We have to get up on workdays.

He was going to get there eventually. He just wasn't Russian.

Because that's such a ludicrous proposition to hold.

"Supposed to be" is an awkward phrase. In general we use it to mean "ought to be" or "should be," implying some obligation or judgement. But when one supposes something, it is merely their best guess, given an apparent lack of relevant information, and by no means should that estimate stand in for a metric for which reality is compared to. The only thing such a comparison reveals is how much intuition one has towards the subject. All the error is in either the original supposition, or else the gauging of the outcome, and speaks nothing to the result itself. So when you feel you are not what you are supposed to be, the first question to ask is who is doing the supposing? If you, then what that tells you is that life is very complicated, and it's quite difficult to figure what the future holds. If someone else, who gives a flying fuck. They can worry about their own damn life. Pressing onward, assuming the former, the next area to exam is whether the difference between the actual and the expected is because of some unforeseeable outside factor, or a mischaracterization of one's self. Not an exhaustive list of reasons, clearly, but from there you can determine where your knowledge is lacking. An external cause suggests you may simply need to become more familiar with the way the world works; whereas an internal one says that you'd be better off getting to know yourself. In Our opinion, for what it's worth, this- not knowing one's self- is the fear that causes most people to become discontent with a distinction between the supposed and the actual, whether or not it's truly the root. Why this is the case, We're not sure, but it probably goes back to the notion that who we are supposed to be is who we ought to be, and that a mismatch between the two is some colossal failure, instead of the difference between a coin toss, or using some idealized vision held by society rather than an accurate, personal portrayal, or even something as simple as the person who you were when the supposing was done is no longer the person you are today and no revaluation has been made as of yet. But, to answer your opening question more directly: Constantly.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.

If frozen pizza counts, that. Otherwise grilled tilapia.

Sprite side has the numbers advantage. But also an image complex. We want to say Root Beer has an efficiency edge, but that's mostly just bias, probably.

We don't think so. "The boards" are gone. All they could do is open a new board. About half the time we spent on the boards since 2010 was looking at threads from before 2007. Without the archives, a new board would have no more draw than this place, and Our minuscule presence paints it a pretty stark likelihood. So, more to the point of the relationship analogy... things change. What you had at one point is no longer there to go back to. There is only forward. The only question is whether the person you've become wants to go forward with who this other person has become.