so this one guy in my group of friends, i'm pretty cool with. he's the guy i talk to about music the most; he's a musician and he does some engineering work and he's got a lot of general knowledge of music so we talk about it a lot. we generally get along pretty well when we hang out.

however, he's awful with women. not in the same way i am--while i'm generally unsuccessful, i think i'm pretty self-aware in that i know where i stand with a girl at a given time. he doesn't. he doesn't usually seem egotistical, but he seems to think every girl is interested in him the way he is interested in them. he's usually wrong, but the problem is that he jumps three steps forward when he's interested in a girl, so that anyone else who might be interested has already been put in an awkward situation. it's a very territorial sort of thing, like either he gets the girl or no one does.

competition is not the issue in this instance, though. the issue at hand right now is that last week i invited my female friend to hang out with our group of friends because she lives in a town near where we were hanging out, and she wasn't up to anything, and we haven't gotten to hang out much recently. she mostly talked to me all night with the exception of when we both talked to one of my other friends a bit. we then left the bar to hang at a friend's place, and my overeager friend took interested parties on a Wawa run. my female friend and maybe one or two other people went with him. presumably they chatted a bit in the car, and that was it.

the next day, he texts me asking if she's single. i explain that i don't really know what the situation is, but she's in the messy back-and-forth ending of a 2.5-year relationship. he said something along the lines of "i got the feeling she really wanted to talk to me." god knows where the fuck he got that idea.

now he's inviting her out to all this stuff that he's doing, stuff that he hasn't even invited me to do. i have no idea how to handle this. basically i want to tell him to fuck off and leave my friend alone, stop staking claims on any decent-looking woman we ever hang out with, and to generally get a clue. but he's also my friend and i don't really want to do that. i just want him to figure that out without me having to tell him.

any ideas?

Tell him about BSG, say the music thread is where it's at, ask him if he reads the random thoughts thread, specifically page 10.

that shit sucks, though.

Tales from my Alma Mater:Sword-wielding Hopkins student kills intruder

"You don't expect to hear that someone you know killed a guy with a samurai sword," said Ardila, 19.

td11 wrote:that $#@! sucks, though.

i'm thinking about just telling him she got back together with her boyfriend for good. just to see what he does.

No wonder you're so smart, making some joke involving yeast that I don't get. You went to Hopkins. It all makes sense.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:Friend of mine just texted me that he just ate next to Jayson Werth at Honey's and that Werth had two lunchs.

Great success

i relayed that story to my friend tonight. it started "a guy i know went out to lunch..."

swishnicholson wrote:Tales from my Alma Mater:Sword-wielding Hopkins student kills intruder

"You don't expect to hear that someone you know killed a guy with a samurai sword," said Ardila, 19.

friend of mine in college had a samurai sword and a crossbow among other curiosities. I could see this happening to him only he would've been on the wrong end of the weapon.

jerseyhoya wrote:Can't get enough seltzer. Do I want the next bottle to be Mandarin Orange or Raspberry? Decisions decisions.

lime seltzer is the only way to go... but it's so hard to find. can't be lemon-lime

FTN wrote:i wont lie, this stuff is fantastic

What does this taste like? I, like Bucky, drink Mountain Dew (just not THAT much), but I've come to think this new offering will taste like the inside of a glowstick and immediately melt my kidneys. Still, I am curious.

Barry Jive wrote:any ideas?

It might sound harsh, but I would tell him she told you she was really creeped out by how strong he was going after it, and that she was never really interested in the first place, although she might have been if he was more casual about it.

Guy needs some reality, even if it's embellished.

I really wish I knew what this guy meant by 'Keep fucking that chicken'. It sounds like an interesting euphemism with a wide variety of uses, but maybe it's too nonsensical.

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Can't stop listening to "My Michelle". Not good.

The best thing in the world is good sex. The second-best thing in the world is bad sex.

idk

good sex > Eagles victory > bad sex

why do fashion shows usually feature the ugliest, least wearable clothing i have ever seen yet are regarded as awesome?

Houshphandzadeh wrote:idk

good sex > Eagles victory > bad sex

Hard to argue.

CalvinBall wrote:why do fashion shows usually feature the ugliest, least wearable clothing i have ever seen yet are regarded as awesome?

Wearability isn't a goal, or a claim made, of the work presented at high fashion shows.

At the kinds of fashion shows that get the most publicity and tv air time, the designers are competing against each other within a pretty specialized format - understanding a high fashion show is kind of like understanding a NASCAR event, you have to be into it and know the players to care - for jobs designing more pedestrian clothes that you would probably like more.

There are plenty of fashion shows where uniforms and sportswear are shown off, but they happen at closed industry events and conferences instead of on E! or whatever.