I can't be friends with people who.....
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Anonymous
| OP- you are me!!! Lets hang out! |
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Republicans
Women who haven't worked since they got pregnant -- and their kids are now in high school. People who don't go anywehre without their children. |
Anonymous
Amen! Amen! Amen! and Amen!!!! |
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Anonymous
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No, because Republicans spend most of their time talking about how everyone is out to take their stuff.
They're boring. |
Anonymous
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I've found I'm actually capable of being friendly (if not close friends) with people who I never thought i could be - racist, Republicans, tea partiers even.
The only person who I could not be friends with was someone who was bipolar and refused to medicate. |
Anonymous
| Smoke Or don't vote |
Anonymous
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are meanies, assholes or selfish
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Anonymous
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... who have lived in the DC area for a while yet disdain the city and refuse to learn about it or enjoy anything about it.
... are close minded and judgmental. ... are willfully ignorant and think it's an admirable quality (i.e. Sara Palin and her ilk). ... who have a small sphere of knowledge and if they haven't heard of ______________ (fill in the blank with whatever) it's automatically considered not valid or useful. As far as teetotalers go, yes, they bug me, but it wouldn't preclude me from being friends with them. |
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Anonymous
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I don't drink much because I don't do well with alcohol - it goes right to my head and it's unpleasant for me physically.
I've always been like this - to the point that I wondered if I was allergic to red wine. But I have lots of friends who drink and my DH more than makes up for my abstinence. 
I can't be friends with people who constantly badmouth mutual friends - I just don't trust them. |
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OP here. It is so interesting to read the responses!!
I think maybe I "banter" with my husband in front if friends. Really need to stop that. And yes, I do have friends that don't drink, of course. For all different reasons. But I do end up hanging out with my wino friends more. The complaining about your husband thing - I admit it can go overboard, the husband bashing. And who likes that. But I think the people that never have a bad word to say - even a little thing - are the kind of people that are not very open. Because everyone needs to vent sometimes. And that's fine if they want to be less open with the details of their lives, but since I am a very open person, I enjoy people who are the same. |
Anonymous
Yeah, we couldn't be friends. I like a drink but I've found that the kind of people constantly bad mouthing their husbands (and encouraging you to) are the same people ruining dinner with their "couple banter" i.e. public bickering. Point is, no one needs to hear you gush like a Mormon housewife but endless bitching and public sniping is self indulgent and eminently slappable. Some women I've met REALLY like to bond over "my husband is a useless moron" type stuff but they're all divorced now so 
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Anonymous
| pp (20:40) here: GREAT thread idea though. |
Anonymous
Really, you can't be friends with a person unless they drink? That's not a good sign. |