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By the way, this is my first ever serious post, so I apologise for any loss of direction inside it.
It’s all about Friend problems.
Funny enough, they're related to games and GAD.
When I first won GAD, I only had a GBA and a 64, no dvd player and nothing higher. As soon as I won, I told my mates all about it and they all suddenly wanted to win themselves. And as a matter of fact, between 2 of them, they've won 7 or 8 of their own. But some of them didn't. They kept on asking me if I could get them a prize, and like the d**k that I was, I said yes to my best mate. But then another mate said "How come you're getting him something and not me?" and so on for several people. But the thing was, at the time I didn't have much.
Then, the price of the game you won for cheats etc. went down, so I could get even less. Once again they found out, annoying me even more. Just one of them decided to win for himself, and has now won 5 times. So I'd now won 4 or 5 times, and decided to get my friend something. But then I found out that I would be getting a dvd player, but I was nice and still got my best mate a dvd, something making many of them jealous. I kept on saying "the time after next" to many, about 5, partly as I was over confident with myself in winning a lot. Then, in a separate competition, I won MGS2, when I didn't have a PS2.
I only told my 2 best friends, but one blabbed it and the others found out, when a lot of them had PS2s. It came down to the next person that I planned to give a gad to, but then my best mate, who i'd given a dvd too complained as he knew that I was better friends with him than the other person but I was giving the other person something of higher value, when if it was me, I honestly wouldn't care. (I forgot to mention that I'd won Star Wars episode 1 on dvd in a seperate compo, and gave it to a mate who liked Star Wars instead of best mate, so I had to get my best mate something first) The other friend came up with an idea that he could get the dvd that I’d already given to my best mate, and the best mate could get MGS2, but no, best mate had to be selfish and want both. So, since I suck at saying “No” (as you may have noticed) I decided to use my free gad to get something for other friend who wanted MGS2, and give MGS2 to the person who I’d already given something to. The others were annoyed, but then again they did know we were best mates.
I haven’t given away anything else. But now the person who I’d given 2 things to decided to try out GAD, and lost. He got annoyed and copied cheats from other sites to win, 2 or 3 times. Now this made all the others ticked off, and they asked him for a prize too, to increase their chances. But he said no, selfish once again. The whole situation has made me realised some things:
1.) I can’t stand up to my friends.
I just find myself weak among them. I have an inability to say no in the situation, and I find them often over-powering me. Why?
2.) I live in rich North London.
Not vastly rich, but pretty well off. I go to an expensive school, and I’ve only just noticed that my friends don’t seem to realise that money doesn’t go on trees, as they seem to think that I’m just gonna give my prizes that I put a lot of effort in to winning them, and discovering the site in the first place. Some of them know I’m not as good friends with them than I am with friends who I’ve given stuff to, yet still think that I’ll get them stuff. They are all selfish, and I sometimes am too. They live in relatively rich families, and so do I, but I don’t expect more money! I understand selling a console when you’re done with it, but I don’t understand selling every single thing you can just to get money, when you already have a lot of it!
For example, the person who I gave Star Wars: Episode 1 to didn’t appreciate it apart from saying thank you, and even told me himself that he didn’t like it. So when I got a dvd player, I asked for it back, since he didn’t even like it. But he had to be a selfish w**ker and say “You can buy it off me” and “If you get me a Gad of my choice, I’ll give it back to you.
Another example is the person who I gave two things to. I did ask for the dvd back when I got him MGS2, but he said “No, it’s too late now!” and since I suck at standing up to friends, I just couldn’t get it back. In the end, I got that same dvd for myself, anyway.
3.) I’m terrible in socialising.
I’m not quite sure how I made the friends I have in the first place, because whenever I try to make new friends I always find myself being to shy to talk to people I don’t know. I just don’t seem to know how! The same goes for talking to girls, too.
4.) All of my friends fall for the crazes.
People my age may understand this bit better than those older (13). Whenever a new “thing, fad” or “craze” comes about, my friends immediately get into it and waste away their money on it, whether it be the recent popular age of rubbish kerrang rock, or pokemon, which even I fell for at the time. But just that time. And eventually, of course, it just wasn’t “in” anymore. But when WWF went “out” I still liked it, unlike them, showing my taste differed.
Right now, they all mention bands I’ve never heard of and how cool they are, whether it’s Lost Prophets, A, Linkin Park or System of a Down, when they all sound the same in my opinion “crap”, yet they don’t seem to realise that soon they’ll die down, and that I’m not gonna suddenly change my opinion! Another example is mobile phones. When they became popular, they all immediately got one, and said I was a loser for not getting one. I eventually did, when my older sister gave me her old one.
5.) I’ve forgotten other things I was meant to say.
Damn. :(
6.) I need advice from the sensible ones around here
Allardini
It’s all about Friend problems.
Funny enough, they're related to games and GAD.
When I first won GAD, I only had a GBA and a 64, no dvd player and nothing higher. As soon as I won, I told my mates all about it and they all suddenly wanted to win themselves. And as a matter of fact, between 2 of them, they've won 7 or 8 of their own. But some of them didn't. They kept on asking me if I could get them a prize, and like the d**k that I was, I said yes to my best mate. But then another mate said "How come you're getting him something and not me?" and so on for several people. But the thing was, at the time I didn't have much.
Then, the price of the game you won for cheats etc. went down, so I could get even less. Once again they found out, annoying me even more. Just one of them decided to win for himself, and has now won 5 times. So I'd now won 4 or 5 times, and decided to get my friend something. But then I found out that I would be getting a dvd player, but I was nice and still got my best mate a dvd, something making many of them jealous. I kept on saying "the time after next" to many, about 5, partly as I was over confident with myself in winning a lot. Then, in a separate competition, I won MGS2, when I didn't have a PS2.
I only told my 2 best friends, but one blabbed it and the others found out, when a lot of them had PS2s. It came down to the next person that I planned to give a gad to, but then my best mate, who i'd given a dvd too complained as he knew that I was better friends with him than the other person but I was giving the other person something of higher value, when if it was me, I honestly wouldn't care. (I forgot to mention that I'd won Star Wars episode 1 on dvd in a seperate compo, and gave it to a mate who liked Star Wars instead of best mate, so I had to get my best mate something first) The other friend came up with an idea that he could get the dvd that I’d already given to my best mate, and the best mate could get MGS2, but no, best mate had to be selfish and want both. So, since I suck at saying “No” (as you may have noticed) I decided to use my free gad to get something for other friend who wanted MGS2, and give MGS2 to the person who I’d already given something to. The others were annoyed, but then again they did know we were best mates.
I haven’t given away anything else. But now the person who I’d given 2 things to decided to try out GAD, and lost. He got annoyed and copied cheats from other sites to win, 2 or 3 times. Now this made all the others ticked off, and they asked him for a prize too, to increase their chances. But he said no, selfish once again. The whole situation has made me realised some things:
1.) I can’t stand up to my friends.
I just find myself weak among them. I have an inability to say no in the situation, and I find them often over-powering me. Why?
2.) I live in rich North London.
Not vastly rich, but pretty well off. I go to an expensive school, and I’ve only just noticed that my friends don’t seem to realise that money doesn’t go on trees, as they seem to think that I’m just gonna give my prizes that I put a lot of effort in to winning them, and discovering the site in the first place. Some of them know I’m not as good friends with them than I am with friends who I’ve given stuff to, yet still think that I’ll get them stuff. They are all selfish, and I sometimes am too. They live in relatively rich families, and so do I, but I don’t expect more money! I understand selling a console when you’re done with it, but I don’t understand selling every single thing you can just to get money, when you already have a lot of it!
For example, the person who I gave Star Wars: Episode 1 to didn’t appreciate it apart from saying thank you, and even told me himself that he didn’t like it. So when I got a dvd player, I asked for it back, since he didn’t even like it. But he had to be a selfish w**ker and say “You can buy it off me” and “If you get me a Gad of my choice, I’ll give it back to you.
Another example is the person who I gave two things to. I did ask for the dvd back when I got him MGS2, but he said “No, it’s too late now!” and since I suck at standing up to friends, I just couldn’t get it back. In the end, I got that same dvd for myself, anyway.
3.) I’m terrible in socialising.
I’m not quite sure how I made the friends I have in the first place, because whenever I try to make new friends I always find myself being to shy to talk to people I don’t know. I just don’t seem to know how! The same goes for talking to girls, too.
4.) All of my friends fall for the crazes.
People my age may understand this bit better than those older (13). Whenever a new “thing, fad” or “craze” comes about, my friends immediately get into it and waste away their money on it, whether it be the recent popular age of rubbish kerrang rock, or pokemon, which even I fell for at the time. But just that time. And eventually, of course, it just wasn’t “in” anymore. But when WWF went “out” I still liked it, unlike them, showing my taste differed.
Right now, they all mention bands I’ve never heard of and how cool they are, whether it’s Lost Prophets, A, Linkin Park or System of a Down, when they all sound the same in my opinion “crap”, yet they don’t seem to realise that soon they’ll die down, and that I’m not gonna suddenly change my opinion! Another example is mobile phones. When they became popular, they all immediately got one, and said I was a loser for not getting one. I eventually did, when my older sister gave me her old one.
5.) I’ve forgotten other things I was meant to say.
Damn. :(
6.) I need advice from the sensible ones around here
Allardini
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True friends are the ones that will stick with you whatever - and bloody hell dont I know it !!!
It's hard because you always want to be the nice guy - but it means nothing in the long run. The best thing to do is just cut your losses and start again. Forget about what has happened in the past and just carry on - If they ask you to help them again just say no - don't tell them if you win anything else then they wont know and you wont have a problem with it..
I hope it helps a little.
It's hard because you always want to be the nice guy - but it means nothing in the long run. The best thing to do is just cut your losses and start again. Forget about what has happened in the past and just carry on - If they ask you to help them again just say no - don't tell them if you win anything else then they wont know and you wont have a problem with it..
I hope it helps a little.
To be fiar, if you hadn't told anyone you'r won, then you wouldn't be in this mess.
But your "friends" do seem a right bunch of idiots.
I'm in the same siuation as Grix in that all my mates take the pee out of everyone, and we all have a laugh about it.
"It's a poor man that can't laugh at himself." Apparently.
Sounds like you need to change your social group, although that's a lot easier said than done...
But your "friends" do seem a right bunch of idiots.
I'm in the same siuation as Grix in that all my mates take the pee out of everyone, and we all have a laugh about it.
"It's a poor man that can't laugh at himself." Apparently.
Sounds like you need to change your social group, although that's a lot easier said than done...
Sorry, there was a bit more to that.
If you can't insult your friends, without them going off in a group and talking about you behind your back, then they aren't friends. I take the pee out of a good friend of mine a lot, which I then make a good effort to tell him I'm only joking... but I'm often the butt of jokes too, so we all get along well.
Haven't seen any of them really this holiday though. They're, or should I say, we're all busy doing work. It does irritate me that they can say that they can't go out on Friday night because "they've got tons of work to do"... that's crap really. I mean, if you've got work to do, do it before, and then we can go out and do something, instead of sitting inside and wallowing in self pity.
But that's what exams and coursework does to you, unfortunatly.
I don't really pick my friends. Well, I *kinda* do on here, but there's so many people, I don't really want to know everyone intimately. Anyone I can talk to on the same level, is a friend of mine. I don't care if they hate all my musical tastes, or can't stand me because of my different views... if I can speak to them at a level that I enjoy, and they respond back at the same level, no matter what their opinion is, I still think they're good to be around.
Most of my friends however do have very simular tastes to me. If I don't like something that they like, I'll say, but it wouldn't affect our friendship. I mean, why the hell would it anyway?
Tell your friends what you think of them. Don't be afraid. If they walk away, you don't need them. Find someone you can talk to, not give things to so you look cool.
If you can't insult your friends, without them going off in a group and talking about you behind your back, then they aren't friends. I take the pee out of a good friend of mine a lot, which I then make a good effort to tell him I'm only joking... but I'm often the butt of jokes too, so we all get along well.
Haven't seen any of them really this holiday though. They're, or should I say, we're all busy doing work. It does irritate me that they can say that they can't go out on Friday night because "they've got tons of work to do"... that's crap really. I mean, if you've got work to do, do it before, and then we can go out and do something, instead of sitting inside and wallowing in self pity.
But that's what exams and coursework does to you, unfortunatly.
I don't really pick my friends. Well, I *kinda* do on here, but there's so many people, I don't really want to know everyone intimately. Anyone I can talk to on the same level, is a friend of mine. I don't care if they hate all my musical tastes, or can't stand me because of my different views... if I can speak to them at a level that I enjoy, and they respond back at the same level, no matter what their opinion is, I still think they're good to be around.
Most of my friends however do have very simular tastes to me. If I don't like something that they like, I'll say, but it wouldn't affect our friendship. I mean, why the hell would it anyway?
Tell your friends what you think of them. Don't be afraid. If they walk away, you don't need them. Find someone you can talk to, not give things to so you look cool.
I totally agree with Wookiee here.
It's things like this that make me really apprietiate how great my friends are.
Conversation with one, as well as I remember.
Me: "I won a game again."
Friend: "Cool. Don't suppose you could write something for me? You know, win me a game?"
Me: "F*** off, win your own."
Friend: "Fair enough."
And that's all I've ever heard of it. Apart from being asked if I've won any more recently, it's hardly ever bought up.
Conversation with one, as well as I remember.
Me: "I won a game again."
Friend: "Cool. Don't suppose you could write something for me? You know, win me a game?"
Me: "F*** off, win your own."
Friend: "Fair enough."
And that's all I've ever heard of it. Apart from being asked if I've won any more recently, it's hardly ever bought up.
Any "friend" who wants something from you other than your friendship isn't really a friend at all.
Any "friend" who gets jealous when you give something to someone else, without giving them something of equal or greater value, is also not a friend.
I suggest you look for new friends.
Any "friend" who gets jealous when you give something to someone else, without giving them something of equal or greater value, is also not a friend.
I suggest you look for new friends.
Just tell your friends to stop being such selfish bstards and win with their own time and patience, the situation that you are in just now is far from ideal, and indeed if you cant put a stop to the bickering you could end up with no friends left.
By the way, this is my first ever serious post, so I apologise for any loss of direction inside it.
It’s all about Friend problems.
Funny enough, they're related to games and GAD.
When I first won GAD, I only had a GBA and a 64, no dvd player and nothing higher. As soon as I won, I told my mates all about it and they all suddenly wanted to win themselves. And as a matter of fact, between 2 of them, they've won 7 or 8 of their own. But some of them didn't. They kept on asking me if I could get them a prize, and like the d**k that I was, I said yes to my best mate. But then another mate said "How come you're getting him something and not me?" and so on for several people. But the thing was, at the time I didn't have much.
Then, the price of the game you won for cheats etc. went down, so I could get even less. Once again they found out, annoying me even more. Just one of them decided to win for himself, and has now won 5 times. So I'd now won 4 or 5 times, and decided to get my friend something. But then I found out that I would be getting a dvd player, but I was nice and still got my best mate a dvd, something making many of them jealous. I kept on saying "the time after next" to many, about 5, partly as I was over confident with myself in winning a lot. Then, in a separate competition, I won MGS2, when I didn't have a PS2.
I only told my 2 best friends, but one blabbed it and the others found out, when a lot of them had PS2s. It came down to the next person that I planned to give a gad to, but then my best mate, who i'd given a dvd too complained as he knew that I was better friends with him than the other person but I was giving the other person something of higher value, when if it was me, I honestly wouldn't care. (I forgot to mention that I'd won Star Wars episode 1 on dvd in a seperate compo, and gave it to a mate who liked Star Wars instead of best mate, so I had to get my best mate something first) The other friend came up with an idea that he could get the dvd that I’d already given to my best mate, and the best mate could get MGS2, but no, best mate had to be selfish and want both. So, since I suck at saying “No” (as you may have noticed) I decided to use my free gad to get something for other friend who wanted MGS2, and give MGS2 to the person who I’d already given something to. The others were annoyed, but then again they did know we were best mates.
I haven’t given away anything else. But now the person who I’d given 2 things to decided to try out GAD, and lost. He got annoyed and copied cheats from other sites to win, 2 or 3 times. Now this made all the others ticked off, and they asked him for a prize too, to increase their chances. But he said no, selfish once again. The whole situation has made me realised some things:
1.) I can’t stand up to my friends.
I just find myself weak among them. I have an inability to say no in the situation, and I find them often over-powering me. Why?
2.) I live in rich North London.
Not vastly rich, but pretty well off. I go to an expensive school, and I’ve only just noticed that my friends don’t seem to realise that money doesn’t go on trees, as they seem to think that I’m just gonna give my prizes that I put a lot of effort in to winning them, and discovering the site in the first place. Some of them know I’m not as good friends with them than I am with friends who I’ve given stuff to, yet still think that I’ll get them stuff. They are all selfish, and I sometimes am too. They live in relatively rich families, and so do I, but I don’t expect more money! I understand selling a console when you’re done with it, but I don’t understand selling every single thing you can just to get money, when you already have a lot of it!
For example, the person who I gave Star Wars: Episode 1 to didn’t appreciate it apart from saying thank you, and even told me himself that he didn’t like it. So when I got a dvd player, I asked for it back, since he didn’t even like it. But he had to be a selfish w**ker and say “You can buy it off me” and “If you get me a Gad of my choice, I’ll give it back to you.
Another example is the person who I gave two things to. I did ask for the dvd back when I got him MGS2, but he said “No, it’s too late now!” and since I suck at standing up to friends, I just couldn’t get it back. In the end, I got that same dvd for myself, anyway.
3.) I’m terrible in socialising.
I’m not quite sure how I made the friends I have in the first place, because whenever I try to make new friends I always find myself being to shy to talk to people I don’t know. I just don’t seem to know how! The same goes for talking to girls, too.
4.) All of my friends fall for the crazes.
People my age may understand this bit better than those older (13). Whenever a new “thing, fad” or “craze” comes about, my friends immediately get into it and waste away their money on it, whether it be the recent popular age of rubbish kerrang rock, or pokemon, which even I fell for at the time. But just that time. And eventually, of course, it just wasn’t “in” anymore. But when WWF went “out” I still liked it, unlike them, showing my taste differed.
Right now, they all mention bands I’ve never heard of and how cool they are, whether it’s Lost Prophets, A, Linkin Park or System of a Down, when they all sound the same in my opinion “crap”, yet they don’t seem to realise that soon they’ll die down, and that I’m not gonna suddenly change my opinion! Another example is mobile phones. When they became popular, they all immediately got one, and said I was a loser for not getting one. I eventually did, when my older sister gave me her old one.
5.) I’ve forgotten other things I was meant to say.
Damn. :(
6.) I need advice from the sensible ones around here
Allardini
It’s all about Friend problems.
Funny enough, they're related to games and GAD.
When I first won GAD, I only had a GBA and a 64, no dvd player and nothing higher. As soon as I won, I told my mates all about it and they all suddenly wanted to win themselves. And as a matter of fact, between 2 of them, they've won 7 or 8 of their own. But some of them didn't. They kept on asking me if I could get them a prize, and like the d**k that I was, I said yes to my best mate. But then another mate said "How come you're getting him something and not me?" and so on for several people. But the thing was, at the time I didn't have much.
Then, the price of the game you won for cheats etc. went down, so I could get even less. Once again they found out, annoying me even more. Just one of them decided to win for himself, and has now won 5 times. So I'd now won 4 or 5 times, and decided to get my friend something. But then I found out that I would be getting a dvd player, but I was nice and still got my best mate a dvd, something making many of them jealous. I kept on saying "the time after next" to many, about 5, partly as I was over confident with myself in winning a lot. Then, in a separate competition, I won MGS2, when I didn't have a PS2.
I only told my 2 best friends, but one blabbed it and the others found out, when a lot of them had PS2s. It came down to the next person that I planned to give a gad to, but then my best mate, who i'd given a dvd too complained as he knew that I was better friends with him than the other person but I was giving the other person something of higher value, when if it was me, I honestly wouldn't care. (I forgot to mention that I'd won Star Wars episode 1 on dvd in a seperate compo, and gave it to a mate who liked Star Wars instead of best mate, so I had to get my best mate something first) The other friend came up with an idea that he could get the dvd that I’d already given to my best mate, and the best mate could get MGS2, but no, best mate had to be selfish and want both. So, since I suck at saying “No” (as you may have noticed) I decided to use my free gad to get something for other friend who wanted MGS2, and give MGS2 to the person who I’d already given something to. The others were annoyed, but then again they did know we were best mates.
I haven’t given away anything else. But now the person who I’d given 2 things to decided to try out GAD, and lost. He got annoyed and copied cheats from other sites to win, 2 or 3 times. Now this made all the others ticked off, and they asked him for a prize too, to increase their chances. But he said no, selfish once again. The whole situation has made me realised some things:
1.) I can’t stand up to my friends.
I just find myself weak among them. I have an inability to say no in the situation, and I find them often over-powering me. Why?
2.) I live in rich North London.
Not vastly rich, but pretty well off. I go to an expensive school, and I’ve only just noticed that my friends don’t seem to realise that money doesn’t go on trees, as they seem to think that I’m just gonna give my prizes that I put a lot of effort in to winning them, and discovering the site in the first place. Some of them know I’m not as good friends with them than I am with friends who I’ve given stuff to, yet still think that I’ll get them stuff. They are all selfish, and I sometimes am too. They live in relatively rich families, and so do I, but I don’t expect more money! I understand selling a console when you’re done with it, but I don’t understand selling every single thing you can just to get money, when you already have a lot of it!
For example, the person who I gave Star Wars: Episode 1 to didn’t appreciate it apart from saying thank you, and even told me himself that he didn’t like it. So when I got a dvd player, I asked for it back, since he didn’t even like it. But he had to be a selfish w**ker and say “You can buy it off me” and “If you get me a Gad of my choice, I’ll give it back to you.
Another example is the person who I gave two things to. I did ask for the dvd back when I got him MGS2, but he said “No, it’s too late now!” and since I suck at standing up to friends, I just couldn’t get it back. In the end, I got that same dvd for myself, anyway.
3.) I’m terrible in socialising.
I’m not quite sure how I made the friends I have in the first place, because whenever I try to make new friends I always find myself being to shy to talk to people I don’t know. I just don’t seem to know how! The same goes for talking to girls, too.
4.) All of my friends fall for the crazes.
People my age may understand this bit better than those older (13). Whenever a new “thing, fad” or “craze” comes about, my friends immediately get into it and waste away their money on it, whether it be the recent popular age of rubbish kerrang rock, or pokemon, which even I fell for at the time. But just that time. And eventually, of course, it just wasn’t “in” anymore. But when WWF went “out” I still liked it, unlike them, showing my taste differed.
Right now, they all mention bands I’ve never heard of and how cool they are, whether it’s Lost Prophets, A, Linkin Park or System of a Down, when they all sound the same in my opinion “crap”, yet they don’t seem to realise that soon they’ll die down, and that I’m not gonna suddenly change my opinion! Another example is mobile phones. When they became popular, they all immediately got one, and said I was a loser for not getting one. I eventually did, when my older sister gave me her old one.
5.) I’ve forgotten other things I was meant to say.
Damn. :(
6.) I need advice from the sensible ones around here
Allardini
Page: