I just shared this in my office (here in KC). I may have started a mob.
I just shared this in my office (here in KC). I may have started a mob.
The US Military's hand to hand combat instructor had this to say on the matter: "In a fist fight, the person to win is the person whose friend shows up with a gun."
Why did I just know that this was a Gustave post before reading the article?
Question:
To the 2-3 people I work around, yes. There are 1500 people in my company, and the people on the opposite end of the room do not know I exist any more than I know they are here. I couldn't tell you one of their names.
Yah, but then there would have to be the situation where that comes up. Otherwise, I am walking across the room, parking by their desk, and bringing up random trivial stuff from the backpages of USA Today.
OMG GUYS DO YOU THINK THEY'LL HAVE AN NFL FEATURE PANEL WITH BEN UTECHT AND JERRY RICE AND CALL IT THE SCOOP WITH BEN & JERRY?
Oh I completely understand why you wonder about us. I mean, mayonnaise: legitimately bullshit. And yet Indiana exists.
Cynically, I have to ask "what if that is exactly how you greet your white friends?" On a more revealing note, I know white people who greet white friends at totally white things just. like. that.
Same here. On the floor I work on, there are precisely two black people. One is an older black woman and one is a married black woman my age. It'd be tough to see exactly how we could have an organic friendship, rather than just me going "HEY WHATS UP WANT TO BE MY BLACK FRIENDS?!" Also, if I was friends with both of…
I think we may know each other IRL.....
Making "friends" is difficult enough.
Yah really. I have 10 friends altogether, only 3 of which I see regularly. 3 are in the military and stationed anywhere from a quarter to half the world away, one is in Tennessee and I never see him, one works nights and has a kid so I see him maybe once a month? And two other friends who have kids and live one hour…
This post should be subtitled "The comments section will be a clusterfuck, more so than usual."
They are the same person.
Hamilton Jay beat you to this, Erin.