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I have no idea who the fuck that is.

She's cute. Her music is catchy but those lyrics are hilariously dumb.

I'm with Cadavre... that face is a train wreck.

I guarantee you there is a Mickey Rourke (minus the boxing and being a bad ass) story behind that face.

This trend has been building for years, but it depends where you go. Here, people are genuinely nice, if they aren't they are passive aggressive, which you won't have to deal with in a day to day basis because most of the interactions aren't long term.

The Midwest, especially upper Midwest has always seemingly been a haven for the polite, but even here, as you witnessed at the WCHA Final Five with me, that's not always the case (though sports and politics turn people into different animals haha).

You've got to pick and choose battles, but as corny as it sounds that goofy commercial they have on TV with the "Values: Pass it on" where the old lady walks the kid across the street and other see and and do something (there is an insurance one as well) that's usually how that kind of stuff works.

So I always go out of the way, sometimes to my detriment to be polite and nice, but you know when you are polite and that makes some people uncomfortable that society has shifted (also the whole miss/ma'am bit in the North is a bit annoying, but you just adjust and learn as you go).

It was funny though, I when I was at I think Wild/Kings, a kid ran by me and said "excuse me", I almost wanted to stop him and say "Good job boyo, being respectful will take you far in life and open more doors than you think as well as make people respect you" and then high five his parents for not sucking complete ass.

Some people get away with murder these days, entitlement, or just in general lack of respect for people or whatever else.

Don't let it get you down, just keep plugging away and make sure if and when you get a chance to reward it, you do and if you get a big situation you call them out on it.

Also---Chrysis it sounds like the people you work with are just assholes. My Mom used to complain about all the gossipy annoying types at her work. You just need to find a good outlet to vent that shit out, crying can purge it in ways, but in the end you'll still probably feel the same unless you are proactive about it.

It was to put the Drive chip tune remix via a Sega Genesis onto your MP3 player.

Nah mate, it's harder to admit when you need to reach out then when you don't.

Believe me, it would be easy for me to just give into my Irish genes and push all this shit deeper and find horrible outlets for things, than to work on it in a positive manner. We've seen how that's worked out so far.

The stoic man as the basis for manliness is bullshit. It's a myth right up there with the pantheon of gods.

In these types of cases I'd agree with your point of wishing to be born in a different era, as these problems may not exist (like cancer wasn't nearly as prevalent, because by now both of us might be dead if born during a certain time in history), but this stuff is way more prevalent then people would like to let on.

Some look at it as a weakness. You need to look at dealing with this as a strength. It's like the wrestling slogan "pain is a weakness leaving the body", being able to open up and go after this shit guns a blazin is doing that same shit. It makes you stronger.

Always remember that.

If you need to talk, let me know lillebror.

It's good you are moving on it though, that's the key.

Also, you can grow a beard. Deep within those Polish-Australian bloodlines there is some Viking.

Oh, and something I forgot to mention when we last talked. If your squad matches up with the Kings in the playoffs, punch Dustin Brown in the fucking mouth.