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why when i ask '' whats the matter?'' their is always a long delay and the i get ''.... oh nothing?''

where if she were to ask me what i'm thinking about i'll tell her - normally it's about warhammer anyway


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Why when I ask '' whats the matter?'' their is always a long delay and the I get ''.... oh nothing?''

where if she were to ask me what i'm thinking about i'll tell her - normally it's about warhammer anyway

This thread is so much better after 4 beers.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:This thread is so much better after 4 beers.

So are some members of the opposite gender.

snurl wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:This thread is so much better after 4 beers.

So are some members of the opposite gender.

And with that we find ourselves back on topic

DA's Forever wrote:

snurl wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:This thread is so much better after 4 beers.

So are some members of the opposite gender.

And with that we find ourselves back on topic

Unpossible! >.<

Avatar 720 wrote:

Contrary to most guy's way of thinking

I doubt even 'most' men think it's 'impressive'; surveys done by glossy mags are a load of BS, especially those that like to generalise based off the results of a tiny handful of men/women that were probably hand-picked by staff instead of asked at random. What they do is like going into a smoker's area and saying you surveyed 10 people who were in favour of lifting the smoking ban, or going into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and saying that 80% of all males are actively trying to quit drinking, because you interviewed 5 people and 1 guy wasn't.

All these surveys and studies done on people up and down the country to gauge people's ways of thinking baffle me, as neither I nor anybody I know have been interviewed for these things, in fact, i reckon I could stand in the middle of town and survey 500 people that walk by me and still come out with a majority 'No, i've never been surveyed before now'.

As for me, IM and crap has always been a last resort, and this is a last resort situation. My mobile phone is knacked, my landline is bugged by my brother who listens in eagerly and there's little chance of seeing her face-to-face without arranging something, which brings us back to the problem of arranging it.

Trust me, please, i'm not a complete newbie to this stuff, and other people have already confirmed that this situation is calling for a last resort option. I'd prefer to be face-to-face or even on the phellytone, but that can't happen right now.

Dragging this thread back on topic a bit. What do your parents think of his behaviour? Can't you get this brother of yours to feth off for 20 minutes? Or alternatively unplug and hide the other phone.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

Contrary to most guy's way of thinking

I doubt even 'most' men think it's 'impressive'; surveys done by glossy mags are a load of BS, especially those that like to generalise based off the results of a tiny handful of men/women that were probably hand-picked by staff instead of asked at random. What they do is like going into a smoker's area and saying you surveyed 10 people who were in favour of lifting the smoking ban, or going into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and saying that 80% of all males are actively trying to quit drinking, because you interviewed 5 people and 1 guy wasn't.

All these surveys and studies done on people up and down the country to gauge people's ways of thinking baffle me, as neither I nor anybody I know have been interviewed for these things, in fact, i reckon I could stand in the middle of town and survey 500 people that walk by me and still come out with a majority 'No, i've never been surveyed before now'.

As for me, IM and crap has always been a last resort, and this is a last resort situation. My mobile phone is knacked, my landline is bugged by my brother who listens in eagerly and there's little chance of seeing her face-to-face without arranging something, which brings us back to the problem of arranging it.

Trust me, please, i'm not a complete newbie to this stuff, and other people have already confirmed that this situation is calling for a last resort option. I'd prefer to be face-to-face or even on the phellytone, but that can't happen right now.

Dragging this thread back on topic a bit. What do your parents think of his behaviour? Can't you get this brother of yours to feth off for 20 minutes? Or alternatively unplug and hide the other phone.

I can't believe this might actually help me.

Dragging this thread back on topic a bit. What do your parents think of his behaviour? Can't you get this brother of yours to feth off for 20 minutes? Or alternatively unplug and hide the other phone.

My Mum and Dad are getting divorced atm, and so my Mum lives somewhere else. My Dad is at work from 7:10am till 7pm and i'm either with him or at home with my brother who gets home from school at 3:30pm.

And no, my brother doesn't work that way. Telling him to 'feth off' will spark a string of sarcastic laughter from him and he won't move a muscle unless he wants to. He's violent, abusive and all-around uncontrollable; most people said he would grow out of being a gakface when he was younger, but he's just gotten worse and worse. I'm actually pretty damn sure any visits I make to him in the future will be to a prison, 'cos that's the only place I can see him going if he can't stop realising that the world doesn't revolve around him.

Unplugging and hiding other phones is impossible. He'll just start attacking me or coming over and abusing me whilst i'm on the working one; plus one of them is in his room, so i'll never be able to get to it, nevermind unplug it. If our Dad is home, then he's the next port of call for him, and somehow, despite my brother lying his face off for the past god-knows-how-many years, he's still a good enough liar to scoop a whole chunk of blame off himself and dump it on someone else. Unplugging a phone so i can have a private conversation seems fine unless he's giving the details, then it makes what i'm doing seem akin to mass-murder.

Lock him out the house for 15 minutes or send him down the shops with money for a chocolate bar. Or borrow someone else's mobile, or use a pay phone.

Save up a little cash and use a payphone, if you can find one.
Or ask a good friend if you can use their phone.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Lock him out the house for 15 minutes or send him down the shops with money for a chocolate bar. Or borrow someone else's mobile, or use a pay phone.

Lock him out? That requires me getting him out and keeping him there with no repurcussions; I could be kicked out if my Dad knows that i've been locking my brother out (yes, I believe i've been old enough to be legally kicked out for almost 2 years), either that or sent to live with my Mum, who has no landline, or computer.

Send him down the shops with chocolate bar money? He's 15, not 5. I dunno how that works in America but here you'd be told to bugger off, albeit in a more vulgar way.

I don't have anyone who I can use the mobile of. Nobody I know IRL lives near enough nor considers me enough of a friend for it to be possible. There's a reason why i've spent every friday/saturday night for the last few years sat at home with nothing to do except go on WoW etc. I was just that weirdo who had a group of close friends in school, anyone outside that group would abandon me in a heartbeat. But that close group has since scattered, with the closest guy being 30mins-1 hour away and either in college or busy elsewhere.

Pay-phone is the only other viable option, but the only one I know of outside Stockport is in my local village... and it hasn't worked for ~5 years... unless it's worth spending £2 on a return train ticket just to use the payphones at the station (this would require me getting her number again and then hoping she picks up and it's not turned off/she's busy), and then waiting an hour for the return train, i'm in the middle of one of the largest inconveniences ever.

Your younger brother sounds like he has some 'issues', in all honesty is he handicapped in some fashion?

Perhaps you could get your dad to keep him distracted for long enough for you to make a call. You have a right to a private life, your dad should appreciate this.

Can't you somehow arrange to be in the house before your brother gets home? I mean how are you on the internet right now? Where's a phone? You know it would be better if you do it face to face. Doesn't matter if you have to go on some stupid journey and wait in the rain for an hour because you'll just be "passing by" and "hey, I'll be in town on saturday, what to meet up for a coffee?"

Dunno if he's handicapped; ever since a simple tonsillectomy was buggered up by our local hospital and he almost died (yeah, this didn't precede his terrible behaviour, but it can't have helped) he hasn't trusted any doctor; he'll decline doctor's appointments when he's ill and won't go near the hospital anymore (the one he was rushed to was since shut down by the old Government). If it was psychological, someone would have to come to him, and that would require him wanting to do it.

Dad distracting him might work, but he usually resorts to shouting "Get out!" (or other vulgar language) if you stand in his room for more than 10 seconds, and he won't stop until you leave or he pushes you out.

Arranging to be home before him is... problematic. I go to work with my dad until next week, and he works an hour away. Having him take me home half-way through the workday so I can make a phonecall isn;'t likely to go down well. As for phones at the office, company policy is that they can't be used for personal calls, which are limited to using your mobile phone.

I'm on the internet now because it's my lunchbreak.

I know F2F is better, but I can't do that, I don't know what she does and where she goes every second of her life. Best before internet is the station pay-phone.

Avatar 720 wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Lock him out the house for 15 minutes or send him down the shops with money for a chocolate bar. Or borrow someone else's mobile, or use a pay phone.

Lock him out? That requires me getting him out and keeping him there with no repurcussions; I could be kicked out if my Dad knows that i've been locking my brother out (yes, I believe i've been old enough to be legally kicked out for almost 2 years), either that or sent to live with my Mum, who has no landline, or computer.

Send him down the shops with chocolate bar money? He's 15, not 5. I dunno how that works in America but here you'd be told to bugger off, albeit in a more vulgar way.

I don't have anyone who I can use the mobile of. Nobody I know IRL lives near enough nor considers me enough of a friend for it to be possible. There's a reason why i've spent every friday/saturday night for the last few years sat at home with nothing to do except go on WoW etc. I was just that weirdo who had a group of close friends in school, anyone outside that group would abandon me in a heartbeat. But that close group has since scattered, with the closest guy being 30mins-1 hour away and either in college or busy elsewhere.

Pay-phone is the only other viable option, but the only one I know of outside Stockport is in my local village... and it hasn't worked for ~5 years... unless it's worth spending £2 on a return train ticket just to use the payphones at the station (this would require me getting her number again and then hoping she picks up and it's not turned off/she's busy), and then waiting an hour for the return train, i'm in the middle of one of the largest inconveniences ever.

Do they have prepaid mobile phones there? That would be an ideal solution. They are cheap and literally throwaway.

Frazzled wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:Lock him out the house for 15 minutes or send him down the shops with money for a chocolate bar. Or borrow someone else's mobile, or use a pay phone.

Lock him out? That requires me getting him out and keeping him there with no repurcussions; I could be kicked out if my Dad knows that i've been locking my brother out (yes, I believe i've been old enough to be legally kicked out for almost 2 years), either that or sent to live with my Mum, who has no landline, or computer.

Send him down the shops with chocolate bar money? He's 15, not 5. I dunno how that works in America but here you'd be told to bugger off, albeit in a more vulgar way.

I don't have anyone who I can use the mobile of. Nobody I know IRL lives near enough nor considers me enough of a friend for it to be possible. There's a reason why i've spent every friday/saturday night for the last few years sat at home with nothing to do except go on WoW etc. I was just that weirdo who had a group of close friends in school, anyone outside that group would abandon me in a heartbeat. But that close group has since scattered, with the closest guy being 30mins-1 hour away and either in college or busy elsewhere.

Pay-phone is the only other viable option, but the only one I know of outside Stockport is in my local village... and it hasn't worked for ~5 years... unless it's worth spending £2 on a return train ticket just to use the payphones at the station (this would require me getting her number again and then hoping she picks up and it's not turned off/she's busy), and then waiting an hour for the return train, i'm in the middle of one of the largest inconveniences ever.

Do they have prepaid mobile phones there? That would be an ideal solution. They are cheap and literally throwaway.

Frazzeled's right. A burn phone would be perfect. Failing that, have him ship some of his wiener dogs over. That might fix it.

Avatar720, why not try to strike a deal with? Offer him someone good in return letting you use the phone without him eaves dropping.

I just used to beat the piss out of my little brother for that sort of behavior.

I thought this was the accepted course of action.

Um....... i clike here expecting some funny remarks but now i am a bit scared.... anywho back to the topic the thinkg i dont get is why they genraly on come to me for answers in class......

a small waagh wrote:Um....... i clike here expecting some funny remarks but now i am a bit scared.... anywho back to the topic the thinkg i dont get is why they genraly on come to me for answers in class......

It's quite simple. As a "nerd", one is expected to be devilishly smart. Thus, all the hot and dumber-than-a-bag-of-dead-skunks girls come to you.

You have the reputation for being smart. Use that to your advantage.

You've shown yourself to be non-threatening and possibly easy to use, essentially.

Monster Rain wrote:I just used to beat the piss out of my little brother for that sort of behavior.

I thought this was the accepted course of action.

Apparently times have changed Monster,now one must be hypersensitive to the emotional well being of everyone around them...regardless of how big a pain in the ass they are.

Yeah you just have to be nice to them ??? now why wouldn't that work ????

Ultrasmurf_no_REALY wrote:Yeah you just have to be nice to them ??? now why wouldn't that work ????

Because lots of people are naturally donkeycaves, nice guys breed last.

good point

Do you have the internet at home? Use some sort of VoiP like Skype.

Yes, on Skype you can put money on the account and dial a telephone from your PC.

Use Amazon to order a prepaid, be sure to keep it on your person at all times or in a place where he'll never get it (locked safe?). Check before you order that the company has coverage in your area. Most company websites have maps showing their signal ranges.

Monster Rain wrote:I just used to beat the piss out of my little brother for that sort of behavior.

I thought this was the accepted course of action.

+1

Though I think he's growing up to be a fine young lad, all things considered.

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:I just used to beat the piss out of my little brother for that sort of behavior.

I thought this was the accepted course of action.

+1

Though I think he's growing up to be a fine young lad, all things considered.

This thread is sort of making me want a little brother to beat up, I feel left out!