DATING MAKES PEOPLE CRAZY! AND YELL AT THEIR MONITORS!!!

[Portia]

RE: http://theboard.byu.edu/index.php?area=viewall&id=37901

Yellow may ban comments on the Board, but he can't stop me from creating a poll. Give me insane relationship questions or give me death!

Note that I am entirely ignoring the question*-asker, but rather, asking you to vote on the wittiest, funniest, or most helpful of the writers' responses. Prizes may be involved.

Incidentally, I think "A Slap" is Uffish and that Queen Gertrude is Whistler or K&G.

*In the loosest sense of the word.

[A Mom, but not yours]

That's not fair! I want to vote for about six of those answers.....

(Probably the most entertaining question I've read in a long time, but I can see the need to ban comments.)

[Twister of Fate]

I agree with A Mom. Any question written like that is just begging to spark controversy and be made fun of for the next 32 1/2 minutes.

[Yellow]

Not only can I not ban you from creating a poll, I actually highly encourage it.

Yay for readers who make forums!

[TheAnswerIs42]

I agree with Mom! The whole thing was friggin hilarious. That guy must have been seriously ticked off. But hey, if not for the psychos who YELL before they think, the Board would just be that much more boring!

[bismark]

i wrote that question.....

[UffishThought]

Then you're a fool. Or trying to stir something up, which you did. Because I'm pretty sure that when you ask them, girls tend to be happy to go out with you.

[bismark]

ok fine i didnt... that was a 2 am joke attempt.. sigh

[Eponine]

Ok, so I attend a failing single's branch when I'm home for the summer, and I was reading a book that someone brought to something cause it was just lying around. It was called "The Rules" and it made me laugh. It's about how to get a man, right? One of the tips is to never call a guy and try really hard to not return his calls. You, aparently, want him to be chasing you, and you don't want him to know that you like him. I don't wonder any longer why no one dates in this branch.

[mabel]

dude! i totally read that book for my "writing in the social sciences" class at byu. i'd never heard of it, but it was on a list of books that we could read to write reviews, and i pretty much trashed the whole thing hardcore. then last year there was this guy in my ward who actually owned his own copy of it so that he could like use it on girls and stuff... or use it against them? ...or something?...he brought it to our apartment for my sister to read b/c he thought , yeah... anyway, she was really mad and took it back to him without reading it... and now she's married and i don't even know that he has a girlfriend...haha! that book may work sometimes, but it still pisses me off. it's just the rules for playing the game, but playing games is so jr. high. grow up. be honest with people. you might not date a lot, but when you do it'll be a lot less complicated. not that i've ever managed to have anything uncomplicated, but i'd like to.

[Wisteria]

Har, har. Uncomplicated dating . . . is a myth. Unless you want to do what Mischievious is tempted to do sometimes and go in for an arranged marriage. I would be very glad to be proven wrong, if anyone can do it . . . here's your chance to tell a story about uncomplicated dating.

[mabel]

well, wisteria, you're right... but, in my defense, i did say less complicated... i suppose statements like that, in order to be accurate, ought to be qualified in terms of types or degrees of complication... but, let's face it, that might not be possible... that's what makes them complicated, right? haha!

[krebscout]

I'd like to say that I've had two uncomplicated dating experiences. My first boyfriend was in high school and we liked each other, smooched, and broke up: pretty straight-forward.

My second and current boyfriend (there was a mission and another boy or two in between) was pretty straight-forward as well. We became best friends, liked each other, and still do. The only complicated part was when I tried dating while he was on the mission.

I'm also lucky to be able to say that all of my breakups have been really nice.

It depends on how you deal with it, really.

[Wisteria]

Yay! Thanks for proving me wrong, Krebscout. I feel the world is a slightly happier place now. I'm not being sarcastic, either. And Mabel, I was looking at the last bit of your post where you said "not that I've ever managed to have anything uncomplicated, but I'd like to" as my reference for stating that uncomplicated dating is a myth. I think the reason I've never had an uncomplicated dating experience is that I've never had a mutual breakup. It makes it a lot harder when one person still wants to keep going and the other doesn't.

[mabel]

wisteria, i like that i know you in real life because...well, just cuz this seems more fun that way...haha. anyway...

i've never had a mutual breakup either. in fact, i've never had anything mutual enough to make it anything to break up. so when i say dating is complicated i don't just mean relationships are complicated, i mean just the whole concept is complicated. i'm sure it isn't that way for everybody, but it is for me. wisteria is probably vaguely familiar with my sister, who lived with me until recently when she got married. she met her husband on a blind date. they hit it off right from the start. some people have all the luck...

[Portia]

Hmmm . . .anyone else agree with me that while having an S.O. is great and all, that it is not necessarily less complicated, and even perhaps more so?

Maybe I just don't have that innate need for a boyfriend shared by so many 'round here, yet they seem to keep popping up. Or, that I am the type of person towards whom people are indifferent or really like, so I have gone on precious few typical "dates."