"Stop trying to make it a thing!"

[JackWestJr]

Yeah, at the moment, I'm going to have to say Google+, Kinect (good for anything but gaming), and what ever else I thankfully CAN'T remember because it HASN'T been made 'a thing'!

 

[Ruzinus]

Friendzone. The very concept is ridiculous, as is the word. Sadly, this is also one of the things on the list that are already things, but should stop.

From experience on this forum, I've learned that quite a lot of people here think it's a thing and will come to its defense.
You're all free to do so, but I will not debate it with you. Go ahead. You "win". If you want to think it's a thing I will not try to convince you otherwise.

Unlike some folks on this forum, I agree with you completely.

The concept of the "Friendzone" is nothing more than a disgusting attempt to vilify someone who won't bang you (as in the general "you") or won't get into a relationship with you as if it's their fault and no one else's. There's always two sides to a story, after all, so blaming the other person and acting like you didn't do anything wrong is immature, selfish, and borderline narcissistic.

And yet the "Friendzone" has become a thing and a reason for people to demand sympathy instead of just moving on. And people are willing to give sympathy to the "Friendzoned"... ugh...

No.

Just no.

The original concept of the Friendzone did NOT vilify anyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pnMWvbFpS8

This is where it comes from. Watch the damn clip and make some attempt to understand the history rather than just sit around judging. Joey is offering sympathy and advice to Ross. At no point is Rachel vilified.

Unrequited emotions are a sympathetic state. They just are.

Is the term misused to vilify someone? Sure. Misuse happens. Using it to vilify either person involved is a jerk thing to do. You are the thing you criticize.

 

[Phantom Kat]

People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.

 

[Chris Moses]

You know, ever since the "selfie" became a thing, I've been silently facepalming often on the interent. Not only does the word sound rather pretentious, that's also how the act looks. Dunno why, but I'm a bit averse to people doing stuff that just screams "Hey, look at me, look at me!"

You may not want it to be a thing but it has been around since the days of AOL. It kind of is a thing now. You cant unthing things that are things.

Skinny jeans on guys needs to go away, unfortunately it too is kind of a thing now. But, at least in fashion, things don't usually stay things forever.

 

[Chris Moses]

You know, ever since the "selfie" became a thing, I've been silently facepalming often on the interent. Not only does the word sound rather pretentious, that's also how the act looks. Dunno why, but I'm a bit averse to people doing stuff that just screams "Hey, look at me, look at me!"

Well I can't speak for adults who do that but as a teenager it feels good to look good. Nothing heinous about in my opinion.

Are you saying that adults cant feel good for looking good, or is it that you literally cant (or wont) speak for adults.

Just curious...

 

[SidheKnight]

Google+

Kinect

Using your real name on the internet

 

[Nouw]

You know, ever since the "selfie" became a thing, I've been silently facepalming often on the interent. Not only does the word sound rather pretentious, that's also how the act looks. Dunno why, but I'm a bit averse to people doing stuff that just screams "Hey, look at me, look at me!"

Well I can't speak for adults who do that but as a teenager it feels good to look good. Nothing heinous about in my opinion.

Are you saying that adults cant feel good for looking good, or is it that you literally cant (or wont) speak for adults.

Just curious...

I literally can't speak for adults because I am not one. I'm just offering an opinion from the perspective of the generation that's been growing up with it that's all.

 

[Queen Michael]

People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.

Preach! Almost all the "weird" people I've met are yaoi fangirls who act like they're on a sugar high. Not weird, just predictable, really.

 

[Phantom Kat]

People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.

Preach! Almost all the "weird" people I've met are yaoi fangirls who act like they're on a sugar high. Not weird, just predictable, really.

I run into them incredibly frequently as I had the misfortune to be born with somewhat bishonen facial features. I really wish yaoi fan girls weren't a thing, or at least they could stop trying to share their "interest" with me.

 

[Queen Michael]

People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.

Preach! Almost all the "weird" people I've met are yaoi fangirls who act like they're on a sugar high. Not weird, just predictable, really.

I run into them incredibly frequently as I had the misfortune to be born with somewhat bishonen facial features. I really wish yaoi fan girls weren't a thing, or at least they could stop trying to share their "interest" with me.

I actually like yaoi (except for the stuff that glorifies rape), but the fangirls... well, they tend to pair up any character, call anybody who doesn't like yaoi a homophobe, ask gay couples who's the seme and who's the uke even though those things are only manga conventions and that question is as offensive as asking who's the "man" and who's the "woman," and generally not tend to realize that gay men are regular people like you and me. (No disrespect to the female yaoi fans who aren't like this, of course.)

 

[Phantom Kat]

People describing themselves as "weird". It almost always seems to be boring people trying to use "weird" as a defining characteristic because their personality is so bland. If there's one thing that truly weird people have in common; it's that they don't spend a large proportion of their time telling people that they're weird.

Preach! Almost all the "weird" people I've met are yaoi fangirls who act like they're on a sugar high. Not weird, just predictable, really.

I run into them incredibly frequently as I had the misfortune to be born with somewhat bishonen facial features. I really wish yaoi fan girls weren't a thing, or at least they could stop trying to share their "interest" with me.

I actually like yaoi (except for the stuff that glorifies rape), but the fangirls... well, they tend to pair up any character, call anybody who doesn't like yaoi a homophobe, ask gay couples who's the seme and who's the uke even though those things are only manga conventions and that question is as offensive as asking who's the "man" and who's the "woman," and generally not tend to realize that gay men are regular people like you and me. (No disrespect to the female yaoi fans who aren't like this, of course.)

Yea my girlfriend is actually a fan of yaoi. Luckily she wasn't one of the ones who would talk about how I would make an excellent couple with *insert male friend here*. It feels incredibly dehumanising to be turned into the object of someone's fetish, but I guess some people are probably into that as well.

I feel this is going slightly off topic but it's still kind of about a thing I wish wasn't a thing so I guess not.

 

[Poppy JR.]

Friendzone. The very concept is ridiculous, as is the word. Sadly, this is also one of the things on the list that are already things, but should stop.

From experience on this forum, I've learned that quite a lot of people here think it's a thing and will come to its defense.
You're all free to do so, but I will not debate it with you. Go ahead. You "win". If you want to think it's a thing I will not try to convince you otherwise.

Don't you mean "Palkatraz"?

 

[Barbas]

Isn't it so much fun when people type like this:

>Logged onto Escapist today.
>Implying something or another.
>What are these knobbly things with fingers on the end?
>WHY HAVE THEY CHANGED THE PEPSI LOGO.

I don't know where it came from, but it needs to go back there. Along with 'Owling', 'Planking', 'Selfies' and 'Beliebing'.