Ever Broken Up With Your Best Friend?

[Wrath of Foamy]

Only three.

One at high school. He was a bit of a tearaway and was sent to live with his Dad in the middle of his GCSEs. I visited him once, made the critical mistake of laughing during the nails to the face scene in Bride of Chucky (forced, I was an edge lord) and although nothing was said, was never invited back. I think that his Mum struggled and his Dad was a lot stricter, but he kept his distance. I saw him again during the last year of school, out of the blue. He was living with his Mum again, his Mum had moved into a flat closer to town. We had a good afternoon, but we never bothered after that.

I was best friends with a kid, but we became bored of eachother and stopped talking to eachother, once we went from secondary school and split paths by going to different High Schools.

Same with my cousin, who was two years older. He was a lovely kid who really looked after me, but we just stopped hanging out. I spent too much time on his PS1 when I was there, probably thought I was using him. We still see eachother whenever I visit with family, every year or so. We get on.

 

[mozfonky]

I had a high school/college friend that was very loyal as a friend, but we were both into writing at the time and he would always steal my shit. At first, he asked me if he could tweak some of my stuff and turn it in as his own because it was due today and he was going to fail, so I helped him out and said yes that one time.

But then I was at his house and I find a stack of papers and it was all my writings that he turned in as his own for the entire semester. I told him to stop and I thought he did...

Fast forward a couple years and his girlfriend dumps him, then she tells me that he secretly stole everything I ever let him read. And that he was actually trying to sell a screenplay I wrote as if it were his.

It's possible she was lying but given his history I believed her and just cut ties with the guy.

I never even told him why either. I'm not interested in hearing his denials or excuses. I just wanted to be done with him.

If I were still spending all my time with that guy then I never would've met my current BFF, who's amazing. I have to move soon though, so we'll have a few States between us. It sucks but good friendships should be able to endure distance.

i absolutely believe it, i know a nationally known author, he did that to me and I'm sure many other people. He is a shitty person and the me too movement ruined him anyways. Why would he plagiarize? Don't really know, I think it would mainly come down to a real lack of true confidence because, in my opinion, anything he wrote would have sold given how he was propped up in the book world and with his identity of being a native american, he was pretty much a token pushed by the book industry and there were enough people that liked reading about his fucked up stories of being Indian too. Now, that's all gone and us indians were happy about that because he was not well liked or very nice to his own kind.

 

[The_Renaissance]

Not a best mate but a close one, recently - was meant to be his groomsman, he cancelled his own wedding, didn't tell the boys, took us all on a fake stag weekeend in Spain, and when we got back his double life all came out once my sister talked to his broken ex-fiancee. All of us quietly disconnected from him. Stopped messaging, stopped inviting him anywhere, blunt responses to his messages, declined any invites from him. None of us have spoken to him for almost a year now, nor seen him. In 18months I've seen him accidentally for 5 mins, and we used to see each other most weekends. He's a sad, tragic case now.

 

[Fedorgasm]

i absolutely believe it, i know a nationally known author, he did that to me and I'm sure many other people. He is a shitty person and the me too movement ruined him anyways. Why would he plagiarize? Don't really know, I think it would mainly come down to a real lack of true confidence because, in my opinion, anything he wrote would have sold given how he was propped up in the book world and with his identity of being a native american, he was pretty much a token pushed by the book industry and there were enough people that liked reading about his fucked up stories of being Indian too. Now, that's all gone and us indians were happy about that because he was not well liked or very nice to his own kind.

LOL I know who you're talking about and I find his work to be highly overrated.

Except the stuff he stole from you. I'm sure that's great!

 

[Mike]

Yeah. Used to have a group of friends that went back to my mid 20's. Then one guy gave up on life and moved back home to live with his parents. Another guy was best man at my wedding, then 3 months later he vanishes completely. Spent months calling and leaving messages and trying to track him down. We were friends for 12 years at the time, my longest friendship. For a while I thought he must have died, but it turns out he's living back home somewhere. So... ghosted yet again? I dunno. Third guy killed himself two years ago. We weren't super close and were more friends through my other friend but that fucked me up a bit.

He was having mental health issues and we were gonna move him out here. I was gonna get him set up where I work and have him carpool with me until he got on his feet. I think he would have liked it here and maybe I'd still have a friend. I wish I would have done something sooner. The guilt eats me up some nights. My closest friend over the last 16 years married a total bitch. Toughed it out for years but between that and his kids being little shits I just couldn't anymore. Since I moved out here 6 years ago I've only made a few casual friends through work that ended when those jobs did.

 

[Davidjacksonjones]

Still going strong with my best bud @Davidjacksonjones

On God

Real N's ride til the end. Real NS

 

[Ornife]

i absolutely believe it, i know a nationally known author, he did that to me and I'm sure many other people. He is a shitty person and the me too movement ruined him anyways. Why would he plagiarize? Don't really know, I think it would mainly come down to a real lack of true confidence because, in my opinion, anything he wrote would have sold given how he was propped up in the book world and with his identity of being a native american, he was pretty much a token pushed by the book industry and there were enough people that liked reading about his fucked up stories of being Indian too. Now, that's all gone and us indians were happy about that because he was not well liked or very nice to his own kind.

We talking Sherman Alexie or what?

 

[Jack Reacheround]

I know that dude moved in with another friend eventually, continued doing things like having minors over all night and supplying them with alcohol, and letting them drive home. And eventually he got them both kicked out of their apartment (he has never not been kicked out of an apartment), and had to move in with his parents, resulting in their divorce.

Meanwhile, I bought a house. Then I sold it and bought a larger house.

 

[Gutter Chris]

Not really bestfriend but a college buddy of mine. We were in different bands but almost the same genre(He's into ska I was into punk). We were inseparable and hung out for 2 years. He wanted to start a band with me and needed a snare drum for his garage studio. I lent him mine because I was gonna be the drummer anyway. Things turned ugly when I hooked up with the hottest chick on campus. He started avoiding me and would talk shit to my face. I only realized it when another college buddy told me everyone was gunning for my new gf. I lost a snare drum, I got a hot wife and we have 2 kids. I think I came up on top.

Ska sucks.

 

[The_Renaissance]

That's messed up lol, poor woman. You need to hook her with Vitor "handsome chad" Petrino

My sister told her several times to leave his weird ass, and she didn't and now they've weirdly gone back to some kind of 'business as usual' type situation, where they've tried forgetting about him neglecting and treating them like shit for 2yrs and blatantly having affair(s) too. Stockholm Syndrome on her part, IMO.

 

[Dogpound2020]

Yeah. Used to have a group of friends that went back to my mid 20's. Then one guy gave up on life and moved back home to live with his parents. Another guy was best man at my wedding, then 3 months later he vanishes completely. Spent months calling and leaving messages and trying to track him down. We were friends for 12 years at the time, my longest friendship. For a while I thought he must have died, but it turns out he's living back home somewhere. So... ghosted yet again? I dunno. Third guy killed himself two years ago. We weren't super close and were more friends through my other friend but that fucked me up a bit.

He was having mental health issues and we were gonna move him out here. I was gonna get him set up where I work and have him carpool with me until he got on his feet. I think he would have liked it here and maybe I'd still have a friend. I wish I would have done something sooner. The guilt eats me up some nights. My closest friend over the last 16 years married a total bitch. Toughed it out for years but between that and his kids being little shits I just couldn't anymore. Since I moved out here 6 years ago I've only made a few casual friends through work that ended when those jobs did.

God damn, wild how they showed no signs of moving back or living back at home? Us fellas are weird like that huh. Must have been a pride issue as well.

Nothing worse than when your friend marries a bitch...is she hot at least? lol

 

[Mike]

God damn, wild how they showed no signs of moving back or living back at home? Us fellas are weird like that huh. Must have been a pride issue as well.

Nothing worse than when your friend marries a bitch...is she hot at least? lol

The guy that moved back home was kind of a hippy/free spirit type. I don't think he liked being out in the real world on his own. Always got along great with his parents too. I called periodically to catch up for years and he always seemed really happy to talk to me. About 6 years ago I moved out here and was very busy for a couple years and stopped calling. Haven't heard from him since. The other friend married a fat single mom with serious issues. It wasn't until some other shit went down that I realized I've put up with more disrespect from someone else's girl than I would EVER accept in my relationships with people. Between that and them raising several children that are turning into little shits because they suck at parenting, it was just too much.

 

[Fuglee]

Early 20's long story short good work buddy that lived nearby. We became pretty good friends even tried to rough out some businesses together. We'd regularly hang out, get into nonsense at work, that kind of thing. I met a bunch of people as a result of him and I talk to none of them save for one guy who is like a brother to me now, straight up ride or die that I can call on any time for anything and vice versa.

Anyways the first dude, over time I just realized was a complete degenerate spineless backstabber. He was always kind of a mess but it really flourished after one of our buddies in our pack got divorced. The very night that guy moved out from the home he had with his wife guy #1 was in there, spent the night and tried to smash. Always knew he had a thing for the women in that family but it really spiraled out of control. I couldn't believe someone would do that, and I couldn't believe the men in that family would tolerate that shit and let that dude still come around. I had words with him a few times after all that and it took everything in me not to beat the shit out of him in the middle of the street each time.

All that mess immediately changed the way I saw all of that group so I just cut myself off from them aside from the one guy who is still my buddy and the dude that was getting divorced. My buddy also had a falling out with that dude. As for the guy who was getting divorced, he got a shit deal, I don't talk to him anymore but he was a cool ass dude and every now and then I wonder how he's doing.

 

[mozfonky]

We talking Sherman Alexie or what?

Yup. He got what he deserved. Even though, honestly, he really didnt do anything that bad by the me too definition, he really didnt, hardly a wienstein. He just got caught up at the wrong time and a fellow author, a white female who he'd had an affair with, classic woman scorned most likely, was most responsible for putting together the story to put his ass out of business.

It's strange watching the Indian's reactions though, we're generally not like white people in terms of how we judge so for us to be totally apathetic to him, just tells me how deep the enmity ran. He did say a lot of cruel shit to his own people.

It's a very interesting case, he was a guy who got the break many people dream of in the great white world, he had a somewhat promising start and was willing to write something as anti-colonial as "Indian Killer" but then got the bright idea that maybe playing it up to his white audience and also writing kids books was a better way to go.

As far as plagiarism, in my case, he was always fishing for more writing, more poetry, more music, i just told him the last time that I had nothing and he never asked again. But, I also know that if he was doing that with me, he was doing that with other people. One other female author pointed to some Indian written book and said, "note the title" meaning Sherman had clearly stolen the title for one of his own books. Again, don't know why he'd do it because when you have that sort of token position, your liberal white, usually female audience will just love whatever you put out and as mentioned, a lot of people really didn't think his writing was all that great to begin with. The main charge from other Indians was that he was pushing "poverty porn"

Anyway, honestly, Indians are not a cold people traditionally so I hope we take him back at some point. No one is perfect. But.., he kinda did it to himself.

 

[syct23]

Lotta guys chose Hoes before Bros itt…

 

[mozfonky]

Lotta guys chose Hoes before Bros itt…

they usually do, I don't know why men are so weak today, it used to be the man was the man and the woman was the woman, something changed that and most women ball bust the fuck out of the men I see, whatever, not in my case. Women always know I'm a bad motherfucker pretty quickly and they give up on me. Which, considering all the back and forth, with the male usually whining like a little boy, is preferrable to me.

 

[DaleBoca]

This thread makes me want to listen to these
classics..

 

[Mike]

they usually do, I don't know why men are so weak today, it used to be the man was the man and the woman was the woman, something changed that and most women ball bust the fuck out of the men I see, whatever, not in my case. Women always know I'm a bad motherfucker pretty quickly and they give up on me. Which, considering all the back and forth, with the male usually whining like a little boy, is preferrable to me.

We got the old trojan horse. When I was growing up in the 80's and 90's I considered myself very liberal, but back then that just meant equality for minority and marginalized groups. And I felt like we were almost there and things were getting better. But the fight for equality didn't end when we reached equality. Then it turned into a fight for superiority by these previously bullied groups. Now many of the women seem pissed and are always bitching even though they on average have it easier than men. They get to reject any and all traditional gender roles but still hold us to ours.


We got people inventing new protected classes to be a part of, like all this gender shit, so they can whine and feel sorry for themselves about made up problems. While there are motherfuckers out here fighting for their life every day. It's obvious this is all being manipulated to some degree, which is wild because just a few years ago I would have said that was a conspiracy theory. A lot of things seem a lot more plausible when you accept how evil many people are.

 

[mozfonky]

We got the old trojan horse. When I was growing up in the 80's and 90's I considered myself very liberal, but back then that just meant equality for minority and marginalized groups. And I felt like we were almost there and things were getting better. But the fight for equality didn't end when we reached equality. Then it turned into a fight for superiority by these previously bullied groups. Now many of the women seem pissed and are always bitching even though they on average have it easier than men. They get to reject any and all traditional gender roles but still hold us to ours.


We got people inventing new protected classes to be a part of, like all this gender shit, so they can whine and feel sorry for themselves about made up problems. While there are motherfuckers out here fighting for their life every day. It's obvious this is all being manipulated to some degree, which is wild because just a few years ago I would have said that was a conspiracy theory. A lot of things seem a lot more plausible when you accept how evil many people are.

Our women are fucked up, they act like men too and then fall back on the the woman shit when it suits them. How they talk and act, all aggressive and loud is very offputting but I guess our weak pussy ass men like that shit. I don't, you may as well go find a hairy assed man for that personality. And ya, even though life is so easy comparatively for our women, still ain't happy. I feel for the men sometimes because I could see it wears on them and I could see one of them just snapping and killing his wife or something. The worst part is I don't really want to see a lot of this and I'm sorta forced to as they seem to have no qualms about doing all this in front of a third party. Sometimes I think the woman revels in belittling the husband in front of other people but I don't want or need to see it.

 

[Mike]

Our women are fucked up, they act like men too and then fall back on the the woman shit when it suits them. How they talk and act, all aggressive and loud is very offputting but I guess our weak pussy ass men like that shit. I don't, you may as well go find a hairy assed man for that personality. And ya, even though life is so easy comparatively for our women, still ain't happy. I feel for the men sometimes because I could see it wears on them and I could see one of them just snapping and killing his wife or something. The worst part is I don't really want to see a lot of this and I'm sorta forced to as they seem to have no qualms about doing all this in front of a third party. Sometimes I think the woman revels in belittling the husband in front of other people but I don't want or need to see it.

It's wild how all these political hacks convinced women that they're held down and abused and to hate men, decades AFTER they had already gained equality. And if you listen to a lot of them talk now they value having all these male traits and constantly criticize men. It's wildly hypocritical too as they can't wait to say how they don't have to cook, clean, be nurturing or loving or have any female traits. But then they expect men to have all the traditional male traits. So illogical. There's all sorts of stats saying a lot of younger guys just stopped even looking. Just chilling and not trying to meet women because they're sick of the bullshit. And this is 20 something guys.