Why are you so boring? (to Tabris)

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It's Reyn Time! said:
I once successfully evaded the police while carrying an apocalyptically drunk friend on my shoulders. We ducked into an alley and didn't get caught, despite said friend loudly ranting about UK agriculture law.

I got Brian May (of Queen fame's) autograph while gushing blood from a nasty mosh pit related injury to my eye. I rambled something concussed about music and you could actually see the mixture of concern and disinterest in his handwriting.

As a house party I hosted was winding down I noticed a flashing yellow light coming through the curtains. Several friends of mine had raided a nearby construction/roadworks site and stolen every kind of stop sign, traffic cone, barricade etc and filled my front garden with them. The flashing lights came from the icing on the cake - a 12 foot tall set of battery operated traffic lights, cycling through red, amber, green. Thousands of pounds of equipment illuminating the whole street with the crime they'd just committed.

At another house party we stole an industrial roll of cling film from work, threaded a baseball bat through it and cling filmed the following; our friend Sarah to the staircase, our friend Tom inside his own car while he slept (he had to roll down a window and use his keys to cut his way out in the morning, it took him about an hour and a half) and both ends of a street using trees on either side of the road.

At that same house party the miserable shit I lived next door to kept phoning the police to complain and spying on people in our garden from his back window, so we faked an accidental death, complete with a hasty mannequin burial to give him a genuine reason to call the police.

I've been to a bunch of checklist places and done tourist bollocks, I've been blackout drunk, I've tripped my balls off and I've been as high as it's possible for me to get. I've been chased by the police, private security, thugs, a ticket tout, a German pimp, chavs and junkies, been attacked and fought back and I've walked home with the taste of blood in my mouth. I've made poor decisions because of lowered inhibitions and nightclub lighting and I'm sure I've BEEN the poor decision on more than one occasion. I've been disappointment with women I yearned for and fell deeply in love with ones I never expected I would. I did all of this while going to college, working full time and maintaining good friendships and relationships.

That part of my life was done by my mid twenties. It was reckless, experimental, insane at times and a whole lot of fun, but to have carried on chasing that would've been pretty pathetic going into my late twenties, thirties. I'm in my mid thirties and a parent now, and a fucking good one I have to say, in part because I got all of that shit out of my system while my body was capable of keeping up with it. I'm raising a human life and using the experiences I've had in my 35 years to shape it as best I can. That may seem boring to you, but by any scale it's more important and meaningful than eating at a well reviewed restaurant. Hopefully that's a value I can teach to my boy so that he doesn't end up a braggart and eternal bore who sees other people as being there for his entertainment.

That's the part you don't get, your friends who've become parents will occasionally wish they could have a night away, some rest perhaps, but by and large they knew what they were getting into and decided the sleepless nights and shitty nappies would be worth it. They'll have a romanticised notion of doing the things you do, but here's the thing: they're not wishing they could do it with you. They see your social media updates and they skip right past them, because they've decided what they're doing is more important and more rewarding than hanging out with you.
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I hate quoting walls of text, but this entire post is worth reading. the bolded is the payoff
 
Silver Arrows said:
-Believes that everybody should live in skyscrapers

-Does not see why people live or prefer to live in the suburbs and not Downtown Vancouver

-Seriously does not go anywhere else unless it is on a Skytrain stop

-A bunch of other things, I'm sure Vancouver-GAF can elaborate
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Simon Belmont said:
And NHL GAF. I hate to admit he's one of ours.
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don't forget that time he thought everybody should spend $400 on first dates.

amazing that all his communities know him as a superdouche, but clearly everybody else is the problem. These damn people having children and other priorities in their life.
 
Silver Arrows said:
-Believes that everybody should live in skyscrapers

-Does not see why people live or prefer to live in the suburbs and not Downtown Vancouver

-Seriously does not go anywhere else unless it is on a Skytrain stop

-A bunch of other things, I'm sure Vancouver-GAF can elaborate
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Don't forget big into designer brands and going to expensive restaurants so he can tell others that he went there. He's like the perfect description of what Instagram wants its users to be. I also assume he takes pictures of food everywhere he goes.

What I find funny about all of this is an inability to understand why people have aged and don't find the same grind they did when they were younger fun anymore. It's also an inability to understand that a lot of the stuff he does is to try and be flashy and show off and say look how much money I have. In reality, people with actual money don't do a lot of the stuff he does. People who brag about restaurants and designer brands are usually the ones whom don't have the actual disposable income to burn to support it.
 
It's Reyn Time! said:
I once successfully evaded the police while carrying an apocalyptically drunk friend on my shoulders. We ducked into an alley and didn't get caught, despite said friend loudly ranting about UK agriculture law.

I got Brian May (of Queen fame's) autograph while gushing blood from a nasty mosh pit related injury to my eye. I rambled something concussed about music and you could actually see the mixture of concern and disinterest in his handwriting.

As a house party I hosted was winding down I noticed a flashing yellow light coming through the curtains. Several friends of mine had raided a nearby construction/roadworks site and stolen every kind of stop sign, traffic cone, barricade etc and filled my front garden with them. The flashing lights came from the icing on the cake - a 12 foot tall set of battery operated traffic lights, cycling through red, amber, green. Thousands of pounds of equipment illuminating the whole street with the crime they'd just committed.

At another house party we stole an industrial roll of cling film from work, threaded a baseball bat through it and cling filmed the following; our friend Sarah to the staircase, our friend Tom inside his own car while he slept (he had to roll down a window and use his keys to cut his way out in the morning, it took him about an hour and a half) and both ends of a street using trees on either side of the road.

At that same house party the miserable shit I lived next door to kept phoning the police to complain and spying on people in our garden from his back window, so we faked an accidental death, complete with a hasty mannequin burial to give him a genuine reason to call the police.

I've been to a bunch of checklist places and done tourist bollocks, I've been blackout drunk, I've tripped my balls off and I've been as high as it's possible for me to get. I've been chased by the police, private security, thugs, a ticket tout, a German pimp, chavs and junkies, been attacked and fought back and I've walked home with the taste of blood in my mouth. I've made poor decisions because of lowered inhibitions and nightclub lighting and I'm sure I've BEEN the poor decision on more than one occasion. I've been disappointment with women I yearned for and fell deeply in love with ones I never expected I would. I did all of this while going to college, working full time and maintaining good friendships and relationships.

That part of my life was done by my mid twenties. It was reckless, experimental, insane at times and a whole lot of fun, but to have carried on chasing that would've been pretty pathetic going into my late twenties, thirties. I'm in my mid thirties and a parent now, and a fucking good one I have to say, in part because I got all of that shit out of my system while my body was capable of keeping up with it. I'm raising a human life and using the experiences I've had in my 35 years to shape it as best I can. That may seem boring to you, but by any scale it's more important and meaningful than eating at a well reviewed restaurant. Hopefully that's a value I can teach to my boy so that he doesn't end up a braggart and eternal bore who sees other people as being there for his entertainment.

That's the part you don't get, your friends who've become parents will occasionally wish they could have a night away, some rest perhaps, but by and large they knew what they were getting into and decided the sleepless nights and shitty nappies would be worth it. They'll have a romanticised notion of doing the things you do, but here's the thing: they're not wishing they could do it with you. They see your social media updates and they skip right past them, because they've decided what they're doing is more important and more rewarding than hanging out with you.
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Tabris said:
Since people on complaining about not giving examples. Example Vegas trip:

- Get to the airport Friday morning and grab breakfast there. You ate. Not a big deal.
- Enjoy some mimosa's on the flight. You drank. Not a big deal.
- Arrive and check in the hotel, usually somewhere like MGM Grand. You spent a lot on a hotel.
- Get some shopping done, maybe pick up new sunglasses as the weather is amazing. Shopping talk is boring as fuck. Its what you talk about when you have nothing else to say.
- Grab some lunch at a place like BURGR You ate again. Big deal.
- Head to Wet Republic (pool bar) which usually has some awesome DJ playing. Plus I absolutely love the concept of a pool bar. Mildly interesting.
- Go back up to your room to get changed into nice formal wear, maybe a suit (gotta suit up in Vegas in my opinion but some people don't like wearing suits). You changed clothes. Big deal.
- Go to see Zumanity by Cirque Du Soleil Ok, this is admittedly very cool.
- Go get dinner at Nobu which is De Niro's Japanese fusion restaurant and is amazing. Food. Again.
- Hopefully you've added some new people to your entourage during Wet Republic or between clubs so you're getting to hear and participate in a lot of new and interesting conversations. About what suit you changed into?
- Club hop between places like Marquee and Hyde Bellagio As a person who's clubbed in both North America and Europe, its all the same shit. It really is.
- Somewhere in between probably played some blackjack or craps and maybe won some money. Kind of interesting but only so much you can talk about with gambling.
- Go back to your hotel room and have sex with your girlfriend. Unless you're in the company of people who have never talked to the opposite sex, this is also not a big deal.
- Fall asleep. Is this the climax of the story?
- Repeat same kind of schedule with mixed up people, venues, and events (maybe a different kind of show, or maybe rides at places like stratosphere)
- Fly back home Sunday morning. Hopefully early enough that you can just relax back to watch NFL games (or late enough that you can watch the NFL games at a bar while playing video poker chatting with your buddies). And then finish up chilling out and playing some video games that Sunday night. Cool but not exactly thrilling or anything.
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All this stuff is what the average young person does on a weekend, just not all at once. And really, 90% of the post can be boiled down to "I ate and drank with people." Its a fun weekend for sure but its not such a big deal. The only difference is you seem to place a very high value on the name and title of what you've done. I don't even know why you found your trip interesting, just that you went to a bunch of seemingly popular places.

You need to understand that people who have had kids don't give a shit about what kind of stuff they bought at a store or what kind of expensive shit they drank at some over-priced bar. And honestly, speaking as a person who makes great money and has been around very materialistic people - its lame.

You should re-watch American Psycho.
 
stn said:
All this stuff is what the average young person does on a weekend, just not all at once. And really, 90% of the post can be boiled down to "I ate and drank with people." Its a fun weekend for sure but its not such a big deal. The only difference is you seem to place a very high value on the name and title of what you've done. I don't even know why you found your trip interesting, just that you went to a bunch of seemingly popular places.
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But don't you see, if he went to eat and drink at friends' during a game/dinner night, that would be boring!
 
gamechanger87 said:
Don't forget big into designer brands and going to expensive restaurants so he can tell others that he went there. He's like the perfect description of what Instagram wants its users to be. I also assume he takes pictures of food everywhere he goes.
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OP is Dan Blizerian minus the punching prostitutes bit.

FTF said:
lol wow at this thread...so basically OP wants to be Dan Bilzerian or have Dan as his best friend?
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Goddamnit you beat me to it.

It's Reyn Time! said:
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Excellent post. Thanks for the insight.

Earthanoid said:
I am convinced Tabris is channeling Barney Stinson. I'm waiting for him to start talking about some equivalent to the Bro Code.
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OP did in his HIMYM thread.
 
Nozem said:
Yup:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...tatistic-imaginable-about-being-a-new-parent/
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Looks like someone didn't read the paper. Drop relative to base mean is -0.12 with a standard deviation of 1.7. So parents are barely less satisfied than the normal population. And a reasonable proportion are indeed much happier.
It's telling that a study designed to help promote child birth is jumped on and misinterpreted by people looking to justify not having children.
 
Lol, I dunno. I'm not a parent, but going out to a nice restaurant, drinking, gambling, or buying shit isn't exactly my idea of something I find particularly fulfilling or rewarding. What do you even find that interesting in Vegas?
 
Subpar Spatula said:
Why do the OPs usually double down? He's most likely jerking off to this 19-page dedicated to him. Probably started on post 3.

OP, aren't you that cool guy who missed the Vancouver Meet-Up at a bar because he was playing Fallout 4? You're not as fun as you think.

Edit: Found it: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=185578046&postcount=344
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Hahahahahaha, he refused to meet with people because of freaking fallout. Trying he is the life of the party :lol :lol
FloydtheFathead said:
Some people do, I don't talk about him because he hasn't posted that much this year because Peyton is garbage now.
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Yeah, I love how he won't even use him as an avatar anymore. So much for the deep love of the mannings and their greatness!
 
The thing is, I don't buy into the whole "Being a parent is the most important, meaningful thing you can do" line of thinking, because ultimately, some people have more to contribute that childrearing would get in the way of, be it art, philosophy, journalism, philanthropy, invention, political activism, scientific research, etc. On an individual level, I would consider all these things as or more significant than childrearing (again, speaking only on the level of the individual), and I strongly dislike the "nothing is more important than family, having kids is the highest pursuit" notion that seems to run through society, especially when kids so often end up obliterating a person's interest in things that our outside of said kids (a modern value that I hope is an aberration, not an irreversible trend).

At the same time, though, having a kid is pretty much infinitely more meaningful than being a boorish, oblivious bore.
 
Nerfgun said:
you know what you are missing? things that don't involve conspicuous consumption.

I don't have kids. married. here are some trips we have done:

- hiking to Machu Picchu
- cycling in Outer Quebec
- South African Safari
- sailing down the east coast of America
- nighttime cave diving in Cuba

You know what I saw at all of these activities? every one? kids doing the same with their families. you know what I did not see? turbodouche fratboys flashing empty brands and getting "inspired" by ultra orthodox Yelp excursions. cause all that is good for is boasting to other people who are also somehow impressed by a sunglasses logo. broaden yourself, man.

also, watch American Psycho again because I feel you missed the point.
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OP take this guy's advice.
Both in terms of trips and major motion pictures.
 
Zaraki_Kenpachi said:
Yeah, I love how he won't even use him as an avatar anymore. So much for the deep love of the mannings and their greatness!
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Much like his role model, he is unable to accept that people change and get older and have different interests that are beyond trips or playing football. People move on to the next step.
 
LouisaFerre said:
Lol, I dunno. I'm not a parent, but going out to a nice restaurant, drinking, gambling, or buying shit isn't exactly my idea of something I find particularly fulfilling or rewarding. What do you even find that interesting in Vegas?
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All that stuff is pretty boring Vegas wise, it's standard stuff for a lot of people (especially younger ones) to go to whatever restaurant/club is hip just to say they've been there. It's actually kind of pathetic that someone as old as the OP would be so proud of it, like it was something racially different, when literally tens of thousands of people do exactly the same thing every weekend.

The best stuff in Vegas is when you get off of the beaten tourist/weekend warrior track, like when I got shitfaced in the middle of the day and ended up wandering around the arena in MGM where they were setting up for the country music awards. My drunken Solid Snake skills were in full effect and I managed to evade security, talking to some of the workers and for whatever reason convinced them I was part of the same union and we ended up going to the The Stage Door (great off-strip dive bar) where we drank Bloody Marys with a group of street performers in costumes like Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.

That's at least more interesting than "I went to a club and drank" which you can literally do in any decent sized city in the world. OP just seems like a self absorbed asshole and that's probably the reason his married friends don't want to hang around him anymore, because it's not interesting to them to hear a shallow manchild's tales of picking up barely legal women.
 
Pretty much everything on tabris' list except clubbing and drinking I can do or have done while having a child.

Shit when I go pick him up for a weekend I usually go on dates at night while he stays at my sister's. The last time I picked him up we went to Tahoe. The next time I pick him up we're going to San Fran just to hangout.

Kids only limit you if you let them.

I get a lot of numbers from women because they find it "hot" that I am a single dad. Especially when I take my son to museums or nice restaurants because he's a well behaved child.
 
bosseye said:
This is amazing, seriously. Aside from being overly long and full of pointless detail, the entire subtext is "look at how great I am, look how much attention was a being paid to me".
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Welcome to pretty much every Tabris thread/comment. He has posted more photos of his apartment than most parents will ever post of their children. He even makes an annual thread just to post some more of them.
 
I don't understand what's so interesting about traveling. People have to work everywhere, it's not like I'm getting some grand insight.
 
99hertz said:
I don't understand what's so interesting about traveling. People have to work everywhere, it's not like I'm getting some grand insight.
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Being in contact with different things makes you more knowledgeable about the world around you and makes you have more perspective on your life.

It's really not a hard concept to grasp.
 
I'm always amazed people haven't figured out Tabris already. Every thread is the same.

Tabris,

Get over yourself. Your apartment is nice but soulless and lacks personality (which is also a reflection of you). These things you think you do that are special really aren't. In fact most of them are boring tourist shit that everyone does.

You come off like a sheltered child with limited exposure to culture. It's not a good look.


Btw
Canucks suck too. Go Kings!
 
Brazil said:
Being in contact with different things makes you more knowledgeable about the world around you and makes you have more perspective on your life.

It's really not a hard concept to grasp.
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If you want to learn about the world just read Wikipedia or read books on Geopolitics. I don't know what sort of knowledge you're going to learn from being scammed into going to a tourist trap.
 
TheKaeptain said:
I'm always amazed people haven't figured out Tabris already. Every thread is the same.

Tabris,

Get over yourself. Your apartment is nice but soulless and lacks personality (which is also a reflection of you). These things you think you do that are special really aren't. In fact most of them are boring tourist shit that everyone does.

You come off like a sheltered child with limited exposure to culture. It's not a good look.


Btw
Canucks suck too. Go Kings!
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Damn.

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The stuff Tabris does sounds nice and all, wouldn't mind doing it too but it's not interesting to hear about. Interesting stories sometimes has an element of danger or uncertainty. You're just kinda there at places.

I mean like you talk about clubbing, being the actual dj at a ultra lounge/rave/warehouse party is 100x better. When you drop that track and everybody loses it and big applause man it's a great feeling. (I experienced that when I was in my 20s)

I was at a field party and the cops came and raided it, we hauled ass and my boy put on some fucking Metallica (that was hilarious) all on adrenaline running from the cops on our asses he finally lost them.

The interesting stories are gonzo unexpected shit not telling about some mundane trip you took. That's like the single version of showing family camping trip photos.
 
99hertz said:
If you want to learn about the world just read Wikipedia or read books on Geopolitics. I don't know what sort of knowledge you're going to learn from being scammed into going to a tourist trap.
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The nerdiest thing I've read today. Why do you even go outside? Just read about it
 
99hertz said:
If you want to learn about the world just read Wikipedia or read books on Geopolitics. I don't know what sort of knowledge you're going to learn from being scammed into going to a tourist trap.
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This is the most bizarre thing I have read in a very, very long time.

Travel is an amazing thing to me. I love being in new cities, exploring beautiful scenery, eating new foods, and experiencing new things.

None of those things can be replicated by wikipedia.
 
Hollywood Duo said:
I never made any of those arguments. I have no interest in judging you for how you live your life and I'm not one of those people who lecture people on how poorly they are living their lives. If you read my follow up posts I said life is basically meaningless in the grand scheme of things so do whatever you want.
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Yeah, that's true and I apologize because my post was'nt sufficiently clear. Indeed, you didn't say those things per se. Nonetheless, you presented the argument that if we took a step down from our local life and looked at the bigger picture, it might be possible to say on a strict evolutionist level having kids can be understood as the biggest purpose in life because we need to procreate in order to preserve the human species.

And I disagree with this kind of reasoning (for the reasons I've exposed in my previous post) and think it's dangerous. Because, it is indeed often the kind of reasoning used by people with kids to unvalue my life as a childless person. So, you didn't go all the way through, but I nevertheless thought you paved the way (not on purpose) to this kind of argument. Therefore, I thought I had to intervene.
 
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