Doom Metal Alchemist

I guess "successfully" is subjective, I thought their music was dull as dirt. Unless you strictly mean commercially successful, then yeah. Are they American? I know Shirley Manson's Scottish. I thought Butch Vig was British, but I could very well be wrong about that.

I mean, it's just water. And I'm sure they chew on much worse. I don't know if puppies are like human babies and don't have any teeth when born.

I was able to get good at guitar because I could suck at home in private without embarrassing myself in front of anyone. I was not willing to continue in organized sports after one year of tee-ball because I hated sucking at it in front of all my team mates. I was going to make this it's own thread, but I may as well just post it here... I did not ask out any women today.... but I did do something I consider just as good, but in a completely different way.... as you may or may not have noticed, I took out all mentions of my band out of my profile. That is because we basically split up a few weeks ago. There is a guy who works at the local Guitar Center, who is / was the drummer for who I suspect will forever be in my eyes the greatest local band of all time: Beastmaker. A doom metal band that put out two good full length albums on Rise Above Records (for those uninitiated, Rise Above Records is one of the most premiere labels for the stoner and doom metal niches). They signed to a new label I think last year, but the band leader founded a new band that he and the label are far more heavily focused on. Today I saw a post on facebook by the label about "Beastmaker's demise." So I figured, I'll ask the drummer if he wants to join my new doom metal project. My ex-singer told me that the drummer was not into touring which is perfect for what I want to do. I had some shit to do today anyway. I was at Burger King eating lunch, feeling great about it, then I arrive at Guitar Center, feeling confident, then I see him and all of a sudden a flurry of butterflies in my stomach. It felt the exact same as when I psych myself up to ask out a woman I have a crush on. But I got through it, I don't think I came off as a dink, he friended me on facebook on his own volition. He declined, but he said he doesn't like bands and projects, he likes jamming and audio engineering. It sounded like he was in Beastmaker because the leader is his "beset friend in the whole world." He also didn't really agree with the label's post about the band being dead, he doesn't see it as being like a concrete is it dead or is it alive thing. ANYWAY.... this experience today almost feels like a warm-up to asking out this cute girl at work.

For me what always gave me the impression that just asking out random women was normal on the fly was TV sitcoms. Those characters fucking ALWAYS just ask random women out and get dates. WTF? Every fucking show from the 90s. EDIT: Also, I wouldn't say I'm charismatic at all. I gravitated so much to Internet message boards because it feels so much easier talking and expressing myself this way than to people in person (all genders).

I don't think I ever did that, lol. The company I worked for provided us with leads and gave us scripts to apply to them specifically.

Only at the office. We dressed more casually out in the field. Like I would always wear a polo shirt. But that's not the case with every company.

I hardly ever bring that up to anyone, because I have some kind of fear as coming off as bragging, because there's usually no un-awkward way to bring it up. I have brought it up to some people at work, but only because it came up naturally... like this one guy noticed my Black Sabbath tattoo. I asked if he liked them, and he said, "I like everything about them." So told him I play guitar in band that is very much influenced by Black Sabbath. But again, it seemed natural to bring it up in that situation.

I know I said earlier in the thread that I would heed the Prince of Persusia's advice, but I'm not that dumb.

No, she is. Usually it happens so suddenly that I look right back at her when she does it. That really didn't occur to me. I figured if she wanted me to pull the trigger, she'd be more smiling when looking back at me. It looks like when she does she's almost staring daggers at me. But if she's ANNOYED that I'm not pulling the trigger rather than flirting.... hm.... I was a retard in high school who had my heart set on one certain girl, and she always had a boyfriend when I asked her out. So I purposely never asked out any other girls throughout high school, just making sure I was available the next time I found out she was available. One of my biggest regrets in life, as it gave me a complete lack of experience in not only asking out girls, but also dating. So then after high school I developed a deep depression isolated myself and had no friends and just stayed home all the time, except for going to classes at college. Occasionally I did ask out women, but not often. But apparently it's a thing now with my generation that women want to get to know a guy BEFORE they go on a date with them. Anyone want to corroborate this as true or false? My first four crushes I ever had in my entire life forever fucked me up... every single one of them said I was ugly when they found out I liked them. And I never even got to tell them myself that I liked them because my friend was a douche and told them I liked them without consulting me about it first. Well, I did ask another friend to tell the second one for me. But the other three heard about it from someone else against my will. Since then rejection has been a lot less harsh, yes. The problem isn't so much being told no, it's a fear of being thought of as creepy. You yourself said I was already being weird in finding out where she sits and starting to sitting there. And it would be a lot easier if I could just ask her out without giving a fuck about getting to know her first. But from what I understand, women now, at least those in my generation, want to get to know a guy before going on a date with them. And I'm just not comfortable getting to know people I don't know. And it's not just women, it's guys too. The drummer in my ex-band noted to me how he noticed I was far more comfortable and talkative and joking around him the more I got to know him. Another problem I have in being social is I just don't like to interrupt people when they're talking, because my mom was always pissed off when I did that, so I applied "don't interrupt" to literally everybody. So now I try to look for lulls in conversation to say something. But sometimes people literally never stop conversing with each other and no pause occurs. I know it sounds like I'm just making excuses, but... I know I dropped the ball last time I saw her, it's not like I think I did the correct thing.

Hey, I'm a good person.... which is shown in that I was so bad at selling insurance, I was actually LOSING money because of gas and cell phone bills.

BAD BABY SITTING

My company doesn't even allow us hourly workers to work more than 60 hours a week because it's against the law in the state of California. In fact I think the company policy caps at 55 hours a week. Recently a coworker came in to work when we've been having a lot of mandatory overtime and voluntary overtime because we've been very busy, and they sent her home before start of shift because she took on too much overtime to work any more that week. Though I guess it's a lot easier to prove you've worked more than 60 hours a week because of being clocked in than to prove you've been denied your breaks.

Pizza Hut isn't as bad as they used to be. Management bought pizza for all us peons at work last year and after I started eating it I noticed it was Pizza Hut. I was like, well this might be interesting.... because in the past, every single time I've eaten Pizza Hut, it has given me diarrhea. But I hadn't eaten it since I was a kid. And it didn't give me diarrhea that night. And the pizza felt and tasted different, it wasn't so damn greasy like it used to be.

Do milk and sour even mix well?

I always thought Garbage sucked, but at one point I did actually have a crush on Shirley Manson.

After I read the second panel, I actually expected the last panel to be the girl looking at the computer THROUGH the telescope.

Which post?

Well, there's really 2 things about this... 1) There's just a shyness and fear of rejection that I've had for decades that overrides logic. I know it's irrational. But that doesn't make it any easier to get over in the moment. 2) These past few weeks, I think she's been sending me signals.... but I do not think they are positive ones.... A couple times I would by happenstance be following her to the break area (not at all on purpose, we just happen to get to the walkway at the same time, and the walkway is very narrow so I can't just walk past her and her friend, so I have to follow behind, which is always awkward for me, because I'm generally a very fast walker). And sometimes, she'll just turn back and look at me, not saying anything. She doesn't smile while she's doing it. I fear she's been trying to tell me to leave her alone. I don't know. I haven't told a soul outside of you guys and my ex-bandmate that I'm interested in her, but it is very obvious she is very aware I am interested in her. I guess I made my attraction to her a little too obvious on accident, and I don't think it went over too well.

I really don't think she was giving me a sign, but I would absolutely love if this scenario happened.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

How is this shit even legal?

I've gotten 0 out of, uh, a lot. Wait, you've only wanted 10 irl guys over your whole lifetime???

I used to squeeze my moobs on occasion. I lost weight so I don't really have moobs anymore.

Well, I fail at life. Lately she's been taking her last break of the shift in the same break area I take mine.... but she sits in the opposite corner that I do.... Due to what I've already done and some comments in this thread, I'm too afraid to go sit by her again (and remain silent and have her wonder I'm sitting by her)... Welp, last night she threw me for a loop at sat pretty near where I usually sit... and she was by herself too... Instead of sitting next to her, I was going to sit in my normal spot.... but the small space to walk in between tables would have made it too awkward to sit in my normal spot, due to where she was sitting... It was like the clouds opened up, and God himself intervened, giving me the perfect excuse to sit by her at break and talk to her. So, did I? Nope, I walked passed her, sat in a spot not really by her and not where I normally sit either, and said nothing to her. Slow clap for Doom, everybody.

I don't care if the neighbors think I'm lazy. Also I live in a California suburb, no one's planting corn around here.