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11-07-2009, 10:39 AM
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Oh, Why NOT!!!
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Originally Posted by TVandSportsGuy
This women at my job always hears me talking to my male co-worker about what games I will be watching tonight. She knows I'n single and felt the need to say
"So you watch sports everynight? I guess she was trying to say-"Do you have interest in women? Why can't a women just accept that I have no interest in being in a relationship and more interest in watching sports with friends? Why do so many women feel that every 34 year old man must all be the same?
I still don't get it.
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Just because 'you guess' doesn't mean that's what she was saying at all and based on your previous and redundant judgement calls I wouldn't put too much stock in what 'you guess.'
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11-07-2009, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by miu
I don't know about thinking your weird, but it would cause me to think that you'd make a lousy guy to date and enter into a serious relationship or marriage with. Being addicted to watch sports on tv is not healthy or productive. After all, unless you are an aspiring sports player or athletic coach, what does it add to your life to watch all these sports games? How does watching sports enrich your life?
Watching sports is a very passive activity that's a big waste of time in your case. And choosing to watch all these games prevents you from having a real girlfriend or an interesting full life. And you probably care more about the outcome of each game than any real person in your life. It's really quite disturbing to think of all the hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours that you've wasting in your lifetime watching sports games on the boob tube.  |
But should a women who is engaged to be married be so concerned about how I chose to live my life when I'm not working?
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11-07-2009, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by bobman
maybe she thinks you need to get a life ?
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But she doesn't know if I'm watching sports at a friends house or a sports bar so she really can't assume I have no life. |
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11-07-2009, 10:44 AM
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If it bugs you, then go ahead and ask her about it. What makes you think she meant something negative?
Anyway, to answer your question, No, I don't think it's weird to watch sports every day. For what it's worth, I watch talk shows every night before bed. Lots of people watch the news every night. Nah, not weird.
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11-07-2009, 10:44 AM
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ichigo ichie 1 time 1 meeting unprecedented
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a 6 figure man at living with a woman or in a divorce court is generating money therefore is useful and "mature".
a 34 year old single man sitting at home living his own life watching football alone relatively happy
is not generating money for any woman and is therefore not being "mature".
he is indeed "weird". he also represents 25% of the population.
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11-07-2009, 10:45 AM
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Exactly, anyone looking for a meaningful relationship will pass him over, but he refuses to accept this.
Theres nothing wrong with it, if its what he wants. Opinions are what they are. Hes not self assured enough to let it go in one ear and out the other.
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Originally Posted by miu
I don't know about thinking your weird, but it would cause me to think that you'd make a lousy guy to date and enter into a serious relationship or marriage with. Being addicted to watch sports on tv is not healthy or productive. After all, unless you are an aspiring sports player or athletic coach, what does it add to your life to watch all these sports games? How does watching sports enrich your life?
Watching sports is a very passive activity that's a big waste of time in your case. And choosing to watch all these games prevents you from having a real girlfriend or an interesting full life. And you probably care more about the outcome of each game than any real person in your life. It's really quite disturbing to think of all the hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours that you've wasting in your lifetime watching sports games on the boob tube. |
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11-07-2009, 10:49 AM
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If ignorance is bliss why aren't more people happy
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Unless he is the general manager of a professional or college team and gets paid for it, then YES, it is weird!
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11-07-2009, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by TVandSportsGuy
But she doesn't know if I'm watching sports at a friends house or a sports bar so she really can't assume I have no life.
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Your to sensitive, let it go. Its no ones business at work what you do with your time your off the clock. This is where you run into problems, who cares what she thinks. |
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11-07-2009, 10:57 AM
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Is it weird that a chronically single couch potato worries what his engaged coworker thinks of him?
Probably, yes.
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11-07-2009, 11:02 AM
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Staying inside the lines
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I think it's really weird that people think you are weird because you've given them a choice to title you as weird. The weird thing about weird things is that in a public forum someone will always side on the point that you are weird and strange or weird as it seems have an arguable point for their position.
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