Dumbing of Age

Alright put me down as slightly scared due your policing of how people eat food. Since I also have issues with flavour and texture and thus am picky.

But yeah the so what if he has a girlfriend thing is kind of not so great.

I feel a similar way about Walky, to be honest. As in, I know I'm supposed to find his flaws endearing and all, but honestly I don't see why.

Also, who would expect Joe to be the one championing Jacob's fidelity to his girlfriend? If I was Joyce I sure wouldn't put too much stock in Joe's opinion of other people's relationships.

This Go is kinda awkward

why not? He doesn't do persistent relationships but it doesn't mean he can't understand people that do.

Joe hates drama with a passion. Jacob and Raidah are a happy, stable, committed couple, which means less work for Joe as a friend. If Joyce gets in the way of that, Joe will be expected to be there for Jacob during the fallout.

Remember when Danny broke up with Dorothy? Or tried to come out to him as bi? Joe knows that he can get away with that shit because Danny's Danny and can't get fed up with him. If Joe's a jerk to Jacob during a trying time, Joe will lose a friend and primo wingman material.

And Joe's reaction to Joyce asking him for help—as seen on Patreon—was that he's only aiding Joyce because he gives zero shits about her. If shit goes wrong for her on account of his advice, or if he says the wrong thing, no skin off his back. He doesn't want Joyce in his life anyway.

edited 16th Jan '17 2:38:24 AM by Wackd

I don't want to police how people eat food so much as the contrary; I don't like seeing those things restricted. I like good restaurants and new food experiences. Someone who eats the exact same thing every time, and who can't even think of trying new flavours and different presentations, hits me as ... incredibly small-minded and limited.

They're entitled to be like that if they want, sure, and if I liked them in other respects I'd just put up with it, but I'd still see it as an orange flag (and I might find myself forever compulsively pushing them to try something different). Throw in Joyce's other serious bad habits, like trying to turn her friends into a puppet show, and I'd walk away.

@Wack'd that makes sense.

@Spin Alright avoid restaurant hang outs with you got it, not that we would hang out. I don't know I feel like if I'm going somewhere to eat with my friends I'd prefer it to be food everybody liked, and not be that worried about "new experiences" or whatever but like spending time with these people instead.

edited 16th Jan '17 2:48:03 PM by phantom1

One can hang out a lot of places, many of them cheap or free. Restaurants are about food.

Not everyone's looking for brand new food experiences in restaurants - some people just want to eat what they like.

My mom likes pizza with green peppers baked on it and then pulled off. It does affect the flavor.

On the other hand, my dad has such a dislike of mushrooms that he won't eat the no-mushrooms side of a half-mushroom pizza.

edited 16th Jan '17 4:50:03 PM by TParadox

Unless you are sharing food I don't see how that effects you Spin, you might have to order at a restaurant that serves food everybody likes but you can order whatever you like when there.

I've been known to order things I've eaten before and know I like in restaurants myself, actually. (Mmm... Spiced savoury doughnut with slow-cooked ox cheek filling... Chicken cashew salad with orange... Peruvian lime-marinated ceviche...) My problem with someone like Joyce isn't about having favourite dishes; it's the terror of difference, of even thinking about trying anything new. It's a mind-set that I find irritatingly childish at best, frighteningly xenophobic at worst.

Though there's still no possible excuse for putting pineapple on a pizza.

Next time I order one with them, I'll toast you

Joyce...

I love that Alt-text.

Joyce do your job as distraction (anyways yeah, I hope things work out for Sarah but I also don't think Joe should stop being with um her name escapes me at the moment and don't think there into polyamory even if Sarah and the other girl didn't dislike each other).

edited 17th Jan '17 12:45:54 PM by phantom1

I don't think Joe is with anybody.

Joe and Roz are reliable booty calls for each other and that's about it.

Isn't the whole point with Joe that he's a reliable booty call for anything with boobs and a pulse?

Yeah, but who else takes him up on that offer?

Jacob, I meant Jacob. Their names both start with J. At least I didn't type Joyce like I almost did several times.

edited 17th Jan '17 9:22:31 PM by phantom1

That would be accurate... if Joyce and Ethan's relationship wasn't done for the wrong reasons

Yeah pretty much.

Jacob is an optimist, it seems. I think he'll be disappointed when Joyce explains "No, I was totally trying to 'cure' a gay guy."

Oh very much so. No it was not some sweet chaste romance/QPR type thing it was Joyce trying to cure a gay guy (I mean it was also due to her not being able to be with a guy where they had sex it was just also about curing him of being gay which yeah). That will be awkward to explain.

edited 18th Jan '17 9:04:34 PM by phantom1