Neurotic Cat
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Dear forumites.
It has been my understanding through life that there are certain 'rules' which we are encouraged to live by:
For instance it is considered very bad form to start seeing your best friends boyfriend shortly after they have split up (something my best friend seems blissfully ignorant over). Also I have known male friends who have had a rule that they would never date each others sisters?
Are there any 'unwritten rules' that you apply to your life?
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Always stood me in good stead that one, though you don't get to avoid being piggy in the middle to those friends who don't adhere to that rule.
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Once a mate has slept with or 'gone steady' with someone, that person is forever off limits. This rule that must adhered to in order to preserve friendships, I feel.
Always buy your round, even if it's a 25 quid monster and you're about to leave.
Always make sure the drunkest person in a group gets home, or at least into a taxi.
There are others I'm sure, but these are the most prominent 'social rules' that come to mind.
Edit: The people I hang around with have always considered sisters (adult ones anyway...) to be fair game, and I went out with a mate's sister once. Actually I've always thought brothers who get jealous of their sister's boyfriends to be a bit creepy.
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quote:Originally posted by My Name Is Joe: I've always thought brothers who get jealous of their sister's boyfriends to be a bit creepy.
Jealous implies that the brother has incestuous feelings for his sister so yeah that'd be damn creepy, but the reason I've always believed in the whole friends' sisters being out of bounds rule is because the idea of a mate and your sister getting it on is just too weird, and if the relationship ends badly you're likely to wind up the piggy in the middle..
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quote:Originally posted by Physic: Jealous implies that the brother has incestuous feelings for his sister so yeah that'd be damn creepy, but the reason I've always believed in the whole friends' sisters being out of bounds rule is because the idea of a mate and your sister getting it on is just too weird, and if the relationship ends badly you're likely to wind up the piggy in the middle..
To be fair I don't actually have a sister, so maybe I don't get it the way those with sisters do.
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quote:Originally posted by Neurotic Cat: Also I have known male friends who have had a rule that they would never date each others sisters?
Lol. One of my mates married mine.
Their beginning made for some comic awkwardness on his part. When he was first trying to go about asking her out he was so nervous about it he asked us both to the cinema. He's 6'2", and was about 27 at the time.
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But I didn't say put everything that you put in your mouth in your ****! Mind you, you live in amsterdam right, ladies put strange things in their ****'s there for money don't they. I can understand why you might be confused.
quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: Their beginning made for some comic awkwardness on his part. When he was first trying to go about asking her out he was so nervous about it he asked us both to the cinema. He's 6'2", and was about 27 at the time.
And she was..? Where did he take her, to see the Care Bears Movie?
quote:Originally posted by Physic: Jealous implies that the brother has incestuous feelings for his sister so yeah that'd be damn creepy, but the reason I've always believed in the whole friends' sisters being out of bounds rule is because the idea of a mate and your sister getting it on is just too weird, and if the relationship ends badly you're likely to wind up the piggy in the middle..
To be fair I don't actually have a sister, so maybe I don't get it the way those with sisters do.
Does this rule not apply equally to brothers? Shouldn't I feel over-protective of my male sibling, and threaten any randy female friends who threaten to carry him off to their evil boudoirs?
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I always had a crush on SG5's utterly beautiful younger sister, but never followed it up. I'd like to suggest this is out of a sense of moral propriety and an unwillingness to risk a valuable friendship, but the truth is she wouldn't sleep with me in a million years. Otherwise I'd be up there like a rat up a drainpipe. Fuck friendship.
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This one time, as a youngster, I slept with my friend and then a week later slept with her sister, who had recently split from another friend. It's okay to do that when you're a kid though. Not when you're an adult.
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Especially not with children. That's definitely frowned upon, though it's more of a 'written' rule then an 'unwritten' one.
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I remember being at a Christmas pub quiz with my family some years ago. The evening was a bit strained, punctuated as it was by sundry petty arguments with my younger brother about anything either of us could think of to disagree about. On our way out of the pub at the end of the night, I was accosted by local wrong'un Tarzan Jim. He drew my attention to the piece of misteltoe hanging overhead and, before I had a chance to so much as wail "jesus god no", I was enveloped in a whisky and pipesmoke fug as he planted a scratchy-beard smacker right on my mouth. Mum and Dad were already out of the door but I turned around to find my 13 year old brother suddenly incandescent with red-faced fury, yelling "GET OFF MY SISTER". I thought that was really sweet: of course, we fought all the way home in the car, and for much of the next 5 years in fact, but it showed he cared.
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Christ, you'd get in to loads of trouble if you carried on like that with children. Saying that though, doesn't Peter 'Jesus' Stringfellow reguarly bed girls of 16?
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: Saying that though, doesn't Peter 'Jesus' Stringfellow reguarly bed girls of 16?
That's allowed, though isn't it. 16 year olds have been branded "fuckable" by our moral guardians and you can cheerfully indulge in state-endorsed sex with them as much and as often as you see fit.
Speaking of which - I was watching my school production of Bugsy Malone, from when I was 15. The girl who played Tallulah was well fit, and I went into a slightly bad taste reverie about how goddamn fit she was, and remembered fondly the time she got drunk on Diamond White at a party and I snogged her in the queue for the toilet. What are the rules on fancying 27 yeat old girls from when they were 15, as long as you were 15 at the time? Are we allowed to fantasise about early encounters with girls as young as 13, or would it be better to purge the sexual memory completely and replace it with over 18s only?
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One of my people with learning difficulties once opened up his briefcase and proudly showed me his porn video that he had bought at the market and said "But what I don't understand Lisa, is why anyone would let themselves be filmed making love?" I struggled to keep a straight face while I replied "Well Stephen, some people just like that kind of thing." He then went on to show me all the condoms he had, but reassured me that I didn't need to worry because he was "still a vegan."
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Because I was busy thinking of an image of Benway with a suitcase full of porn and condoms lining his watch salesmen jacket, I wrote ‘Thank you for your e-mail regarding Benway’ and only just spotted it before I clicked on ‘send’
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I've never understood how it is that you can have sex at 16 but have to be 18 to watch someone else having sex on film.
Presumably, you couldn't even watch yourself having sex. Assuming that you'd managed to get the scenes rated by the BBFC for distribution. Not that I'd want to watch myself having sex. In fact, that would be be horrendous.
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my sister once said to me "oh why dont you just go out with someone nice, like Jenny." jenny is a freind of my sister who is the sister of a freind of mine that i used to play in a school band with, i said it would be far too weird, now sex starved and desperate, she is gorgeous and i would at the drop of a hat (as long as it took a week for the hat to hit the floor[anyone who read the sex and relationships thread will understand])
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Mind you, you live in amsterdam right, ladies put strange things in their ****'s there for money don't they. I can understand why you might be confused.
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