Watch sitcoms growing up

Watch sitcoms growing up

Be convinced i'll have a close group of friends when i grow up and we will go on wacky adventures and hang out daily

Turn 30

No friends

No social life

No life at all

Just wageslave all week and then sit alone all weekend

Seinfeld is a show about utter neurotic assholes.

What do you think Kramer was thinking at this very moment?

It helps that George is unemployed, Kramer has no job, and Jerry controls his schedule so they have time where they can meet up consistently

sitcoms are better than real friends

>Turn 30

>No friends

>No social life

>No life at all

>Just wageslave all week and then sit alone all weekend

literally me but am 21 but i know there wont be a happy future for me since kindergarten

Start abusing alcohol.

George and Jerry are still friends in their 30s and have known each other since HS

No one keeps in touch with their high school friends in their 30s in real life

We're your friends

It is so over.....

Be me

Every day after High School

"""Friends""" would show up at my home

Wanna ride our pushbikes to construction sites

Always take the piss out of me for enjoying the internet

Don't get along with any of 'em

They all have kids & wives now, facebook profiles with every school-connection added like posers. The only dude i liked played instruments, was in a band & enjoyed quality music

you have no social skills
you have no personality
you have no loyalty
you have no desirable traits to draw others to you
you bring nothing to the table
you have no ambition or drive

every single one of these is a choice that you COULD choose to fix, but dont. you act like a victim, but its only self destruction. nobody cares about a loser committing suicide. make a choice to be better (not just wishful thinking, actual action) or shut the fuck up.

He says while posting on Anon Babble

i release a particularly smelly fart in your proximity, as the foul stench reaches your nostrils - I know i made a good choice. This displeasure brings me great satisfaction

why dont you watch this to know what is wrong with you lol, dont remove the time mark

youtube.com/watch?v=7dttki3rrOU&t=1498s

My best friend from high school stopped texting me back when we were in our 20s. I haven't heard from him in almost ten years. He didn't give a reason. He just stopped replying to my messages.
Why has he done this to me?

Books

lmao no thanks gramps

Because you post frog pictures

As soon as i left college i lost contact with everyone i knew in the span of 6 months, that was 15 years ago..........

Thank god, living like the people on TV would be exhausting.

The reality of it is that this world doesn't really have much to offer. Other than money, materialism and senseless pleasure, what else is there? Shit's lame as fuck.

Truth

it's a full time job just entertaining bitches and their enablers no matter where you fall on the social ladder. the losers are winning on that front.

life is what you make it. you can either sit around and wait for something to happen to you, or you can sculpt your own experience. its up to you. just dont cry like a baby and pretend to be a victim when the only person to blame is yourself.

I can see why you don't have any friends.

There could be many different reasons anon, I ghosted my HS group of 4 at ~21 just because we didn't really share much in common and they just wanted to hang out and go out to clubs. It could also be his own insecurity.

I did this and I regret it. It wasn't because of anything he did. I was genuinely too lazy to reply and then all that time passed and so it goes.

I'm not sitting around, I'm doing something that makes sense to me. I'm just pointing something out. That shit gets old, quick. Anyone still caught up in that bullshit is missing the whole point of this life.

i've got plenty of friends that i regularly see and interact with. its cute that you want to project onto me though. did somebody cut you out of their life too? somebody you looked up to? very sad, im sure.

I had a group of 3 friends and I could have stayed in touch with them but honestly they turned into super normalfags and I find them boring, so I ghosted them.

And that's what makes it funny retard

You did the right thing

Working is the most soul destroying thing ever. I've been working full time for 10 years already (30 years old) and i'm supposed to just do this for another 35 fucking years and then drop dead? Just get up and give 5/7 days of the week to some coporation 46 weeks out of the year, this is life?

This is the issue I have. I just took 2 weeks of sick leave because it's all so pointless. I've done everything suggested stayed in contact with friends and family, ate healthy, took my dog to the park and I just lost it and decided not to go into work. I wasn't even drinking that much I just slept like 16 hours a day. I'm a financial controller on $150k a year managing a team of 5.

The difference between you and Seinfeld is he lives in NYC, where it's piss easy to make friends, have a social life, and have fun things to do on the weekends.

This but unironicaly

I'm sure you have friends kiddo

And what do you watch?

I hear you, and it's a breath of fresh air to hear some fucking honesty. I don't know what to tell you other than you're not alone. I took the monk pill, that's what makes most sense to me. I see this world filled with clueless people just doing the motions and the same song and dance as everyone else cause everyone is just so lost. It's so fucking sad to see. We as humans are capable of so much more than what this world limits us to. We are not just flesh to work for businesses. We are Spiritual beings that are capable of things well beyond what anyone in power will ever tell you about yourself.

You either see it, or you don't.

See I got that. But as I went past 30 I started to get sick of that group of friends. Until years later when I finally dropped them all. Will I regret it? Probably but at least I got to have it. Fun for awhile.

And now we have the phone, social interaction is always in your pocket, never need to "meet" people irl

All of my childhood friends died from OD'ing, because they were weak cunts or they're in the pen for being dumb cunts. 39yo phone poasting while drunken driving

Anon the characters are rich NEETs. Seinfeld is what life would be like if you were privileged
t. 41 and never worked

I've done everything suggested

maybe stop doing what is "suggested" and find something that actually makes you happy and satisfied? happiness isnt the same for everyone. figure your own shit out if the "tradtional" answers that others have dont fit for you.

Unironically this is life, this is what we all signed up for and agreed was a good thing.

All good things. The reasons why you got along when you were young change over time. You'll miss the good times, but thats just nostalgia.

Lol ok guy, let me organize that fight club

You could try going outside. It's what I would do if I had enough confidence to leave my house.

its cute to believe in mystical nature magic and all, and if thats how you find happiness, good for you, but dont delude yourself into thinking that everyone is just plain miserable and lying to themselves. sure, there ARE a lot of people doing that, and one of the biggest scams is college and getting stuck with student debt and no direction. but some of the people doing "stupid, pointless shit" are actually enjoying themselves. just because their brand of happiness isnt the same as yours, doesnt make either of them false.

My friends and I are kind of like Seinfeld, in that half the group seems to not like interacting with anybody else.

Did I imply otherwise? Fucking dumb retard nigger.

make choices, retard. you can either sit around wondering why you feel so hollow despite "doing what i was supposed to do", or you can take action to figure it out. the only one to blame is yourself.

I did this to my friend because he always wanted to hang out. Like I enjoyed taking to him but he’s like an hour away and I can’t be bothered to drive that far

Like I said. You either see it or you don't. Remain a slave to the worldly powers that be. We all have our choices to make in life, each which have their own share of repercussions. I've made my choices, and I deal with the repercussions every day. Most people are miserable, which is why they seek distractions. Put someone in a quiet room, to themselves with no electronic devices and you will start to see misery and panic. Metaphorical opium for the masses isn't satisfaction. It's just dulling the senses enough to keep doing what the machine wants you to do.

I haven't made any friends since high school. Just met people whom I occasionally drink with.

t. 25

fun fact: it gets worse by 40

Uniroincally asking, how the fuck do you make friends past the age of 30?

Realistically, you don't. Unless you have a gf or wife who also has friends, who in turn might be dating someone you can hope you share enough common interest to make a friend. People at that point tend to just come to terms with their loneliness and make the most of it.

have a wife and kids and then hang out with a neighbor or something

dont know, dont care. only have one true friend i can confide in and i guess my dad is also my friend too

Kramer has no job,

Maybe that was initially intended, but they did eventually reveal he had a union job and they were on strike for several seasons.

I mean if you want money, yeah.

34

married

kids

full time job

multiple mortgages

sitcoms are pure wish fulfilment. only trust fundies can afford to live such slack lives because a show about five people wageslaving all day is not interesting.

This haunts me

Remain a slave to the worldly powers that be

who said anything about being a slave?

Put someone in a quiet room, to themselves with no electronic devices and you will start to see misery and panic. Metaphorical opium for the masses isn't satisfaction. It's just dulling the senses enough to keep doing what the machine wants you to do.

you mean like, you, using a screen to post holier than thou bullshit on Anon Babble? yeah dude, you really took the monk pill and figured things out. you're SO blissful, lmao. its "the machine", the SYSTEM, man! its keeping you down! lmao what a fucking pseud. you think that you've had some kind of grand revelation, and yet you've done absolutely nothing WITH it. the only one you're lying to is yourself. get a grip, kid. also, you can put an amish dude in solitary confinement, and he would be miserable too.

yeah, a lot of people are miserable, and a lot of them are miserable because they're trained to be miserable. but by the same token, a lot of people really arent doing too bad and are actually pretty content with life. sometimes you just have to count your blessings. sometimes you just have to recognize that the shit making you "miserable" isnt that serious and you're making mountains out of molehills. all you have to do is figure your own shit out and make choices accordingly. the worst thing anyone do is inaction and just waiting for life to "happen" to them.

At work. A bunch of people from my job have been meeting up in the weekends.

a few thousand years ago you'd be doing the same thing but instead of waging 5 days a week you'd be hunting animals and gathering water and firewood and fighting other tribes 7 days a week. it's six of one, a half dozen of the other - both situations have their pros and cons. at least in modern day you have a furnace and a grocery store

>Just wageslave all week and then sit alone all weekend

thats where you messed up

my dad, my brother and my best friend from high school. that's all i have for friends and that's all i need.

I did but we all stopped making an effort since covid. I can see maybe one more Superbowl or holiday get together but we may have already hung out for the last time

I did take the monk pill. You don't know anything about me, and majority of people are a slave, whether they want to come to terms with that or not. I'm not miserable anymore, because I came to realize I don't have to follow what everyone else is doing and adapt to be happy. In fact, that was one of the causes of my distress. You keep trying to reintegrate people into the system, as if it's flawless and the real issue is the individual who holds something against it.

You are the perfect slave.

Exactly my fucking point. This whole system solely benefits a few and has the rest maintain it while they get to live on permanent vacation. There's huge fucking flaws that no one cares to really point out, out of fear. That's what keeps this bullshit going. Fear.

You keep trying to reintegrate people into the system

i've done no such thing. you're incredibly illiterate if thats what you got from my posts.

the real issue is the individual

is the ONLY thing i've said. you either figure out a different way, or you dont.
also, you're kidding yourself if you think that you're a "monk" or in any way not engaging with "the system". incredibly narrow minded of you, especially considering the fact that you're shitposting on Anon Babble. anyone that claims "im not miserable anymore" while viewing others as "slaves" is quite clearly just desperately covering things up and using the mantra to lie to themselves. your thin veneer of enlightenment is pathetic. am i euphoric and devoid of misery or inconvenience? no. but at least i have my shit together and i have clear direction. i know MYSELF enough to figure out my own happiness and how to achieve it, and thats what the friendless anons here are lacking. your "embrace the friendless. become monk. return to nature. transcend" abstract platitudes are hollow and retarded, on top of reeking of pure cope. yes, people can and do get stuck in "the system" and "doing what they were told they were supposed to do", but that doesnt mean "reject system. become monk." is "better". they just need actual direction, and that direction comes from within. thats why im not telling people anything specific to "do", like "just garden bro" or any other activity. they need to figure it out for themselves. cultivating the self will lead to more happiness than simply rejecting the world. thats the coward's cope. its literally principle skinner going "am i the one thats wrong? no, its clearly the WORLD thats wrong."

I genuinely and sincerely don't care whether you take me serious or not in what I claim to be. Again, you know nothing about me, what I do or how I even do it. All you can do is make blind assumptions, and for what? You think I don't know who I am and what I do? Save this bullshit self help "pick yourself up and get back in the race" nonsense for people who don't have a clue about anything. What's funny is that you think I'm going to read all that bullshit.

you care enough to larp on Anon Babble, lmao

Clearly my message triggers the fuck out of you. Good.

your cope for being unemployed and friendless in mom's basement is that you "took the monk pill" lmao. still posting on Anon Babble though

Keep seething, my friend. Or, go enjoy that badass life you live lmfao. Or, keep responding to a pointless argument LMFAO! Farewell.

I go to a local bar, and every time I walk in everyone shouts my name. that's about it. could be worse, could be stuck at home with my wife.
only kidding, I don't go to bars and I don't have a wife.

youtube.com/watch?v=B7JcGYilsuE

based

sounds like a skill issue honestly

kramer works when he needs to
which isnt often as it seems he doesnt need to pay rent for some reason and eats jerry's food.

anon those sitcom are carefully crafted scenarios to keep a watcher engaged.
Real life is so much more dull and friends and hanging out and nights out are overrated.

You're comparing the 90s to our current times, this was normal in the pre-social media age, what we are experiencing is abnormal.

t. icelandic poet

Why has he done this to me?

sometimes you just gotta move on.
even if nothing is wrong.

What was NYC like before 9/11 in the 80s and 90s? Was there genuinely this much jovial free time in society back then?

you'll never know, could be any reason really. I ghosted all my highschool friends once I met new people in college because I realized what a toxic group we were, a guy in that college group ghosted all of us when he moved to a major city because it was too much of a hassle to keep in touch I totally get that and would probably have done the same. I lost touch with all my childhood friends because they grew up rich and I couldn't keep up with their lifestyle in my 20s.

I wouldn't give it too much weight, it might not even be about you. If it bothers you that much you should just write him a quick message and get some closure on it.

The way my mother talks about it, unironically yes.
People are overworked and don't have near enough money to actually do things, and even if they did, everything is objectively worse because it's more crowded and more minorities.

One of my old best friends from high school is in a long term relationship with a girl I used to know as a teenager. He didn't know her back then. I knew her because one of the older guys who sold us weed (and other shit) used to fuck her.
So it happens. But I don't really talk to either of them anymore.

Women are genuinely much wiser than us in that regard. Most of them subconsciously know that it's only practical and natural to regularly invest in their social capital by keeping relationships they have afloat and being opened to making a new one if there is a chance, whereas we tend to not care about that much until it's too late. Thus, they make sure they won't end up being completely alone, and we end up exactly where we were going—in the middle of social nowhere.

Kenny Kramer, who the character is based upon, lived in an apartment paid for by the National Endowment for the Arts. Larry David lived in the same building with Kenny and based Cosmo Kramer on the life of Kenny Kramer, including his taxpayer subsidized lifestyle. This is never really explained in the show so you can consider it non-canon, but it's still the inspiration for the framework the character exists inside of.

imagine how it was in the 50's before the money printing and mass immigration started

if you really want friends (why should you, they suck) be more proactive about it, invite people to hang out, help them with their problems, etc

Was there genuinely this much jovial free time in society back then?

Not for working/middle class people, but they certainly had more than they do now considering everyone has to work constantly just to make ends meet. I grew up working class in the 90s and we had 1 or 2 vacations every year. Now I'm working class in my 40s and vacations are impossible.

acquire one friend and then branch out from there. I'm not the socializing kind but I've been hanging out with the same group of people since college, sometimes one will bring a new person in and that new person will get closer to a few people in the group if they have common hobbies or interests, that's how you make new friends in my experience. We are all between 30-40 yo. Getting that first invite to the group is probably the hardest part I'd say, but then again sometimes my friends will bring over random coworkers they've just met so it's not like you have to make an effort to be included.
Hobby stuff in general is the key, even I've made casual friends with people I see regularly rockclimbing, if I wanted to those could potentially become new friends I see outside of the gym.
I have no idea how I'd personally make new friends though, it's a miracle that I've kept any from college at all and if I move i'm screwed.

you dont. at 30 its over
friends take years to make and by that age, people already have their friends
you should have started at the most during high school
no, you colleagues are work are not your friends despite what they say

apartment paid for by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Doge will make sure that shit doesn't happen anymore.

you're gonna have to be a tryhard about it if you're serious about making new friends. It's pretty much like dating, so be prepared for multiple failures before it works. I travel quite a bit for work and move to a new HQ every two years so have had to make new friends all the time, if you live in a major city the fastest way for this is to get on those meetup apps and just go to stuff that's interesting to you until you hit it off with a person there, from there if things go well you exchange contacts and arrange to do more stuff together. Most of the people in those meetups are people who've recently moved to a new place so they're just as eager for new friends, it does skew rather young though so if you're 30+ you have to push through the age difference. I won't lie though, if you're not already a social butterfly the meetups are unpleasant to get through, kinda like looking for a partner in gym class except you're all new kids.

Just get up and give 5/7 days of the week to some coporation 46 weeks out of the year, this is life?

Actually, you'll probably be expected to work more than that. Inflation and all that.

all of these posts are by jewish social engineering propaganda bots

out of fear

More like out of habit and because there are no visible alternatives other than to live in a farm. Do you see any other? I don't.

when i hit my life's rock bottom, i got a simple job at fucking SUBWAY of all places and got my shit together. got a car, my own apartment, savings, nice things, and eventually a nice girl and we got a house together.

lmao. Nowaydays a job like that wouldnt get you shit, and you wouldnt even get the job in the first place du to all the immigrant who want it

I left my group after high school and they stopped trying to reach out after a few years

actually everyone else is to blame you temu drop shipping motherfucker. the only thing you can sculpt is your cope.

I have one high school friend who I talk to semi-regularly. Other than that I am very close to my oldest friend whom I've known since we were 7, as well as friends I made in college. I am far closer with them then anyone else in my life and can tell them pretty much anything.

Is this the thread?

thank you for proving my point with your baby tantrum.

I am 31 years old and I never even kissed a girl

The world was a lot less serious in the 90s.

They lived in pic related. Larry David paid $57/month for rent, which adjusted for inflation would be $300. No idea how much Kramer had to pay as these subsidy schemes often use complex formulas to determine end user payments.

People you work with I guess.

i didn't prove your point. I called you what you are.

I went to grade school high school and university with the same group of friends. Some are overseas now but we have a facebook group chat

Rent was like 400 bucks in Jerry's apartment building

It's just a badly written show for retards is all

Have hobbies that involve interacting with other people

Never have any HS friends

So never lose contact

It's called playing the long game

I'm 37 years old and I'm gay.

I do to three. Sorry you suck to hang with

hell yeah cumtown was pretty funny LMAO

Freckles are so fucking disgusting.

It just wasn't working out anymore. It's not you, it's me.

circumstantial friends are exactly that. Circumstantial. 99/100 friends are like that.

i do to three

Sorry you're down syndrome

I do to three

We need to do something about the ESL fags.

My boomer dad had a core group of college buddies that all stayed in touch. They were in the same dorm freshman year. And aside from regular phone calls and holiday cards and whatnot, would get together at least every few years. And all of them had lucrative interesting careers worth discussing, as well as wives and children.

Huh? More for me I guess.

And you have me!

Not having friends at 30 is normal. All your former friends have families and kids on top of their jobs. If you're lucky you might hang out during weekends every other week/month or during holidays

I did this to a friend of mine who got a girlfriend 10 years older than him and started trying to "help me improve my life".
He got really annoying an preachy so I just stopped talking to him

Is this the thread?

best part about being a drunk..it's always the thread

you don't

One thing I can remember vividly was being a horny kid watching Seinfeld and desperately wanting to be older because, I thought, I’d get all the sex I dreamed of. I’ve probably had sex a dozen times, the last time being about eight years ago. Kind of sad to think back and remember that hopeful optimism.

Both of my siblings have a half dozen lifelong friends and a few from college. I have one friend from middle school who I still talk to though they’re on the other side of the country. I haven’t kept up with a single other person from high school or college.

I sometimes envy older virgins that still believe that once they get pussy every other issue they have will magically fix itself.

Why has he done this to me?

did it twice.
once due to social anxiety. he'd text asking to hang and it'd just produce anxiety leading up to the event for no reason. blew him off a few times, finally respond and go out and have a good time, repeat. eventually people get tired of being the one to reach out I guess and he stopped trying.
other time, still some social anxiety type stuff but moreso, he was doing so much better than me in life, hanging out ended up feeling depressing everytime. so long story short, not your fault, they were having problems

At least you are out in the world, anon. I have AVPD (basically I am a p*ssy) and I have no presence in the outside world at all, I have one social media account under a false name with one picture of myself and 2 of my cats, I have one bot follower. I have never had a job and have been living with my parents since I dropped out of highschool, I am a NEET in just about the strictest definition.

There is always someone worse off than you, take comfort in the fact that you are not as bad off as me.

Be me

Awkward and quiet as a kid, but still manage to have a handful of friends in middle school.

Dad gets a job across country. Have to start over again in grade 10.

Everyone at the new school already has solidified friend groups, so I can't really break in, and don't really want to.

randomly make a couple of friends in my last two years, but we lose contact after graduation.

try keeping up with my middle school friends on Facebook and MSN, but eventually we just stop talking.

Don't make any new friends in college because I can't manage my time. Just lay low until graduation.

Have trouble finding a steady job, just sort of bounce around.

Have one or two long-term jobs, but everyone there is a normalfag who I can't really talk with.

Nowadays I just shitpost when I want to say anything.

living with my parents

take comfort in the fact that you are not as bad off as me

im you but with dead parents, living in section 8 housing w/ neet bucks. hug your mom for me

All my coworkers in their 30s never mention having friends. They won’t shut up about their kids though

My son is failing math

My son doesn’t like the baseball practice we paid 500 for

Look what my daughter did in gymnastics!

Only one time did any of them mention a friend and that was their wedding. Which is the point where most friendships die anyway.

I didn’t lose it until I was relatively old as much as I tried but when it finally happened I didn’t feel any different and grew to regret how much time I’d wasted trying to lose it. After a while the act of it, myself, and all other people grew to disgust me.

The only friends a male will have as an adults are those he knew since school

I will, anon. We went for a walk in the park earlier, she's almost 50 and she has been smoking since before I was born. I am cherishing the moments that I still have with my parents since I know that they won't be here forever and I will be out on the street or in jail or dead.

oy vey my goy friend didn't want to be a wagie slave so I had do stop being friends with him!

Even if you had friends, about this time they have familes or girlfriends so they no longer can come over every weekend, instead you get 4 weekends a year the lads will come over.

Yes, I do. Read the Bible.

I will be out on the street or in jail or dead.

eh, you can crash at my place as long as we never have to speak

I have three close friends from middle school still in my thirties. 2 are in a group chat with me and just texted me 20 minutes ago. The third was a friend of my brothers and we used to hate each other until after HS graduation and then we became really close.

Rent was like 400 bucks in Jerry's apartment building

LMAO that same apartment would be $4,000 a month now. Way out of reach for a D-List standup like Jerry. All four of them combined wouldn’t be able to afford it.

you have no loyalty

Normies dont give a fuck about this. Two faced gossipers often have lots of friends

Frens? Yes all of you here are my frens!

Seriously tho, Anon Babble is a quite good substitute for socialization

Seriously tho, Anon Babble is a quite good substitute for socialization

no its not. what is wrong with you that you think wasting time here is anything like sitting around the table with friends laughing and chatting?

same
what do you do with your wages? i have nothing of interest to even spend it on

mothersday is tomorrow :)

You get 6 weeks of vacation?

Fear

No retard, it's because every alternative has failed miserably and people still have to eat.

The sitcoms from the 80s/90s are from a world that no longer exists. Shit economy, smartphones and social media obliterated it.
Bars nowadays is just everyone on their phones. No Cheers vibe at all.

good for him. hbu?

I noticed that people with the most repellant and obnoxious personalities have big social circles. But autists who struggle with reading social cues make one faux pas and nobody will speak to them again. So why is rudeness okay in some cases but not others?

the National Endowment for the Arts.

Doge will make sure that shit doesn't happen anymore.

kek they are actually being gutted right as of last week. New USAID tier target for the billionaire concerned about his funding running out if the government cant pay its debt.

That happened to me as well where my best friend from high school "disapeared" in 2009 (he basically became a NEET for at least a decade) and the only way I can reach him is via email (he doesn't answer calls or reply to texts) and even then he makes it out like he is too busy to meet-up in real-life. I was emailing him just a couple months ago and he got pissy that I was "asking too many questions" and told me to only email him once every few weeks since he was "so busy". But I think he's still just a NEET.

Look up one of my old friends on xitter.

All his posts are about being a "girl dad" and boomer-tier wife guy bullshit.

I'm sure he's happy, but it's still grim.

My only close friends are from High School, about 5 of them. I think I'm autistic because I can't seem to create a meaningful bond with anyone else.

Honestly, I have zero interest in this and it's one of the reasons I don't have any friends. People leave. Even if you "stay in touch", it's not the same and I would rather just avoid any "lets get together every few years" shit.
Jerry and George were bros in junior high, through high school and then through college and then afteward. Newman said Kramer got mad at him because wanted to transfer to Hawaii for his postman job. And the ONE sad moment in the history of all of Seinfeld was when George was about to get married and Jerry said to Elaine "George is gonna get married, move to Westchester and I'll never see him again".

nta but

help them with their problems

niggas are too needy these days

I stopped using Anon Babble for a few years and just talking with normal people eventually lead to me getting married and being friends with regular people. You might want to try that. (Seriously)

I graduated high school in 2004 and remember thinking how incredible Facebook was in the few years after that since I was able to reconnect with all the people I knew in high school and attend their 21st birthday parties, etc. I got invited to the parties of people I barely even spoke to in high school. After that I thought Facebook had fulfilled its purpose for me; so I deactivated my account circa 2008.

If you can maintain five friendships then you likely aren’t autistic. True autism is suddenly realizing you have nobody to talk to and haven’t for years.

My younger brother grew up and eventually came around to having similar tastes in anime and video games as me so I consider him my friend now. I'll email him once and a while to give him new recommendations I find.

TALK YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKER

JUST TALK!!!!!!!!!!!

help them with their problems

being friendly≠being a people pleaser
people will abuse you

my friend did this to me because we live an hour away, doesn't chat or anything and now he's a starbucks loser and he's not my problem anymore. actually had the gall to say 'I'm glad we'll always be best friends even though we meet once a year'

>Turn 30

No friends

No social life

No life at all

Just wageslave all week and then sit alone all weekend

it'll be the same at 52, trust me

Friends aren't realistic.

you had friends in pre-k

that were replaced by friends in grade school

that were replaced by friends in middle school

that were replaced by friends in high school

that were replaced by friends in college

that were replaced by friends in your first job

that were replaced by friends in your new job

you got a gf and you joined her friend group

you broke up with your gf so you are out of that friend group

Because a consistent small barrage of bad qualities can be explained away by saying "oh that's just how he is you'll get used to it" whereas an autistic faux pas usually sticks out in a really abrasive and unnatural way and generally speaking nuerotypical people are horrified of nuerodivergent weirdos

I have ascended to true autism then. It's fucking horrible

neurodivergent

Just say disabled or mentally ill. It’s really pandering and two faced to pretend “oh you don’t have anything wrong with you you’re just *different*” when IRL we all know the truth.

It’s like calling some person who got his or her leg blown off “limb-divergent” instead of a cripple. Who do you think you’re kidding?

NORM!

I agree with you. Was just trying to answer the anons question accurately.

That's pretty pathetic, anon, but I do have admit that when Anon Babble was down, I felt genuine dread, and the loneliness I feel daily was amplified tenfold. The idea that I may lose access to this collection of maladjusted, mentally ill faggots upsets me greatly. I don't know how to interact with normies in a meaningful way. I never have, even before I discovered the internet. I try, but it just doesn't work. There's something "off" about me.

I have the opposite problem. I just want to be left alone so I can work on my hobbies and shit but I live with my family so I have to constantly put up with my retarded boomer father interrupting me with bullshit all day.

He sounds like a faggot .

put up with my retarded boomer father interrupting me with bullshit all day

bullshit hobbies will always be there, dads wont. that's life though. i resented him interrupting my vidya and bullshit when he was here, now would give anything to hold the flashlight while he works on the car again

he got pissy that I was "asking too many questions" and told me to only email him once every few weeks since he was "so busy"

i used to be that way. embarrassed i had shit going on in my life and trying to come up with lies to sound semi-sucessful was draining. don't give up on him. give him space, but dont stop trying. my friends did and it made it worse

You sound neurodivergent yourself.

Eyy, we got George Carlin ova here.

No Cheers vibe at all.

sad

Start doing meth and prostitutes.

the billionaire concerned about his funding running out if the government cant pay its debt

doesn't work that way, tard

Enough with the antisemitic remarks

It's not just vidya and tv, he'll interrupt me when I'm trying to do something productive like work on my coding portfolio and belittle me for doing that instead oglf helping him with chores he can do by himself. I've tried, Lord knows I've tried, to give him the benefit of the doubt, but everytime we try to discuss anything serious he just strikes me as a total nirmalfag moron who gets all his opinions from TV. He's dragging me down and I wish he'd just fuck off.

Why has he done this to me?

It's a free country, brother.

bullshit hobbies will always be there, dads wont.

Boy, I hope so. Can't wait for that asshole to die.

sucks for you

i still talk to my 5th grade friends not only since high school but even now through discord and we are 29.

31

never gf, never sex, never even been on a date

Live with my mom

Failing uni

no job despite constantly applying

I'm jumping off a bridge next week. Ask me anything

What type of bridge?

I really miss my friends. But I'm a bad person I think, so I don't have them anymore.

helping him with chores he can do by himself

total nirmalfag moron who gets all his opinions from TV.

chores he can do himself are often just an excuse to include you
as far as being a tv idiot, just treat it like senility has set in early. avoid topics that get either of your blood going and enjoy the time you got left. of course you could have a son of a bitch of a dad, but it sounds like normal generational gap that you'll regret fussing over eventually. my dad was a full blown trump tard voting against his interests like was a billionare while being just above the poverty line. Complaining about how unjust the inheritance tax was even though he left me nothing but a house with two mortgages and a stack of bills. but i still miss the guy despite his faults

Does that matter ?

Are you going to answer the question?

It's better to try than to give up. At least you might get/achieve something, instead of killing yourself and getting nothing.

voting against his interests

Importing millions of spics and somolians isn't in his interests.

I meant the post for the bridge suicide comment.

we already lost roofing and house cleaning...he's giving away tech jobs now. but whatever, you like indians vs beaners, good for you

Growing up was a lot like that 70s show for me. Myself and all my friends were latchkey kids and we would run around town and drink beer, smoke and have a great time. Most of them disappeared after hugh school or turned to drugs, scumbags and shells of who they were or could have been. I keep up with just a couple of them who were good people and talk with them all the time. My best friend Ive known for 20 years and we could share anything to each other, Ive known his wife almost as long too. I also have a couple guys I sefved with in the Army I still talk at and have over for BBQ. Building such solid friendships takes a long time, trust is something thats built. When you are comfortable with a friend youve known for decades you can rely on them and theres no reason for you to do the same for them, almost family.
Sucks some of you were clams, but also generations today dont go out and just socialize and build those connections anymore.

Fuck cant type.. I am druk

I'm 30 and three of my best friends are people I've known since high school or middle school. My only other close friend, I met in trade school three years ago.

You don't. You don't form romantic connections either. It's over

That's why you cultivate wealth and power and become leader.

Have to start over again in grade 10

Not too bad. I went to 13 schools over a period of 12 years of primary schooling.

>married

>kids

>full time job

>multiple mortgages

These are all "you" problems. Nobody put a gun to your head.

These are all "you" problems. Nobody put a gun to your head.

yeah, nobody programmed your body to want to reproduce/find a spouse, you should've just died in a cave

Grim, unless you’re a social genius that’s basically dooming you to be foreveralone

stop being fat and he might respect you

a wedding is where most friendships die

I felt this recently
My cousin, who was the only friend I hung out with in irl life, got married last year. I was happy for him. Since then, I've seen him like four times total. Just recently he moved to hawaii for work. I only saw him once this year in january. He said we were going to hang out the week before he moved, but one day I woke up and he was already there. He only texts me once every couple weeks and has done so for months. I've been neet the past two years so my schedule was clear and it was always up to him when we would hang out since he worked two jobs. Ironically when we were both working and he was in hawaii years ago on a different project (commercial masonry) we "hung out" more as we would watch shows at the same time multiple times a week. The truth is, I don't think he's coming back. He has a two year project there but has been wanting to move permanently for years. He works with his brother and his parents live there half the year anyways. It's owari da, bros

This, I also hit around 25 and cut off all my friends who I could see were going nowhere. Some of them, I was just sick of their constant whining and pity parties, some just became irritating and too immature. No, I can't come have a few beers with you retard, it's Tuesday evening and I have to sleep and look presentable tomorrow morning you NEET loser

You burden other people. You're awkward and people get annoyed when they try talking to you. You think about yourself too much and everyone can tell. You're ugly and too short. I can't believe you go outside looking like that. You want things that you can't have and which would inconvenience or burden others if you had them. You say you don't use dating apps because you're not looking for the same things as most people on them but it's a cope, you're just scared of replacing the faint hope of meeting someone someday with the cold reality of rejection. The people who you thought were your friends didn't really want you around, they just thought it was funny to laugh at you a couple times and were too nice, too genuinely kind, to tell you to fuck off and stop hanging out with them like they had all rights to. The people who cut you out of their lives were right to do it even if you couldn't see why. I know you're still broken up about your best friend from high school because he completely stopped speaking to you right after graduation and I hope you spend the rest of your life wondering why it happened and beating yourself up over it. Your parents were secretly relieved when you moved out because they didn't have to deal with your puerile jeremiads 24/7 anymore. Your siblings hate it when you visit but you wonder why they never return your texts or want to talk to you. You shine at work and put in an admittedly impressive amount of effort but we both know it's not because you're doing anything important, it's because you have nothing to come home to

2) It is literally all your fault, all of it, the villain in the story of your life is YOU, and YOU can't admit it to yourself because you want to believe that you can be better, or at least functional, even though you've shown time and time again that you can't. I hope the realisation doesn't hit you until it's too late, until you're like 67 and living in a shitty tiny studio apartment eating cup ramen alone while your ceiling leaks and vermin scurry in the walls and it's too late to change anything and all you can do is stare down the barrel of the remaining decades of your anhedonic life. I hope Hell is real and that you end up there. I hope that if you don't finally summon some fucking balls and stick a 9mm in your mouth, the end of your life is as slow and painful as possible. I hope no one is there with you at the end. I hope the last thing you see as the world dims around you are the faces of everyone who had enough of you while you were still able to pester them.

Well it's fiction. In real life Jerry and his friends' antics would have gotten them in deep shit. Plus the world has changed, it's a very different society we live in now. You just gotta make the best of your life while trying new things whenever you have the time/energy. Go check out a new restaurant. Get up early and go for a morning jog. Try making a dish you saw in a movie or TV show. Be the protagonist of your own life. I'm rooting for you

A man over 30 with friends is weird.

Why

I still hang with my best friend and we've known eachother since we were 6 years old.

I know what you mean; I have two older brothers (one 12 years older, the other 7 years older) that I didn't actually get to know properly until I was 18 years old since we were all at such different stages in life while I was growing up. I asked my mother why she had such big gaps between kids but she made it out like its not her problem.

Why does it matter what job your friend has? Do you go over to your friends workplaces a lot? I really don't understand your "rationalisation".

Yeah most guys don’t have friends at all once they get out of the school system, they only socialize due to work and family. I honestly envy women sometimes, yeah periods probably suck but life as a male is ridiculously lonely and empty once your teenage years are over.

Based pseud-dunker

This thread is making me realize how lucky I was to have the friends I did for 20 years, and fucking horrible and lonely my future will be since I've lost them all because of my own actions. I hate my life.

The median age of the people in that photo is 28.

because of my own actions.

What did you do?

I keep in touch with one but since he had kids its like texting once a month, maybe catch a movie every six months or so

Became an insufferable hardcore (drunk 24/7) alcoholic for years, went sober cold turkey and had a prolonged manic episode as a result of my brain readjusting to sobriety, told a loved member of our friend groups wife how sexy she was and how special she was to me while in a manic state crying, told another friend that his daughter is going to fuck nigs cuz he's a horrible father. My other friends were just scared to be around me because my behavior was so erratic so they've all distanced themselves. I'm not a good person.

That all sounds based, thoughbeit

That's why you're the only friends I have left

33

kissless virgin

no friends, barely any in my life

wageslave with a pathetic worthless job

love with mommy and daddy still

don’t even drive a car

have a few hobbies I do that keeps me active and I meet some people but never open up to anyone, still avoid everyone and everything

no positive memories to look back on

don’t even smile, laugh or make eye contact anymore, just stay silent, stare at the ground frowning

Then I look at my parents who have “retired” and they have no friends, no hobbies, do nothing. My father retired then just became an independent contractor doing his same work, because did he didn’t work, literally all he would do is sit on the couch watching YouTube on his phone all day every day. And I won’t even have an existence as good as theirs, because they at least managed to buy a house, recently bought one to rent out and probably eventually move to, and save a ton of money, but they still have no real life anyway.

I hope I get the courage to kill myself as soon as I can. I doubt it though, considering my cowardice has led me to this point. I’m too cowardly to do basic life things, let alone the bravest thing you can do, suicide

HS friend 1

died after minor surgery in his early 30s

HS friend 2

kept in touch for aboit 5 years after HS. We met our future spouses around the same time and never saw him again after that. He messages me on Fab every few years to check in, but hasn’t for about 4 years now

HS friend 3

became a cop right after graduation, haven’t spoken to him in 20 years

HS friend 4

literal homeless drug addict now. I’m not even sure if he’s still alive

No one I know keeps in touch with HS friends. I think it’s more common than not to lose all connection with people you knew back then.

told another friend that his daughter is going to fuck nigs cuz he's a horrible father.

Sorry bro, I can't stop laughing

dude just go to the other Anon Babble alternatives.

its not the sameee

nigga it is the same, just slower

ok

Dis nigga 30 and he’s on Anon Babble lmao gramps go get married

What is that supposed to mean?

Dis nigga 30 and he’s on Anon Babble lmao gramps go get married

It'll happen to (YOU)

get married

No retard.

Ive met up with a small group of 5ish dudes and some girls since highschool everyone is different but I see them a few times a year and many of us play video games together. I was a groomsman at 2 of their weddings, we've been in street fights together. It's not necessary but it's nice to have old friends.

I still live in the town I grew up in and went to school in while being in my early 30s, still live with my parents even. I’ve never even seen anyone I went to high school with since I wasted my time in college. And thank Christ for that because that would be so horrible if someone actually recognized me, which I doubt anyone would be use there would be no reason to. I would definitely just completely deny who they think I am though. I would just say “no, sorry, my name is [insert random name]” and would completely deny everything

There's no excuse for that. Somehow the modern world has excused that kind of bullshit. It's dishonorable.

You should also try actually calling instead of assuming he has the same number and is getting your messages. Then if it's still his number leave a voicemail telling him what he's done is shitty and if there's some issue you'd be happy to talk about it.

People are fucking chickenshits these days and don't ever want to be "uncomfortable" with something they now consider a "confrontation". Really fucking pathetic. No way to be towards other people.

Ghosting is wrong. You need to give a reason and announce you're bowing out. Everyone hates not knowing what happened.

told another friend his daughter is gonna fuck nigs

Lmao. I can relate to this. You guys know the drunk uncle or grandpa that gets drunk at thanksgiving and starts going off about the damn Chinese or those gypsies down the street, shit like that. That’s been me since I was like, well born I think. Always been like that. I don’t get invited to things much anymore. No regrets

nah its not funny

I hope there isn’t really young people that think this way. Life doesn’t get better. I was actually dating girls and had friends when I was young, if you are here at 20, I have bad news for you. You are fucked.

I wish you wouldn't do that here. Ignorant bigot.

I'm 46. You're here forever.

I said that shit sober though. My mind is not well.

I did this to my high school friend, mostly because he was the type to whinge about everything whenever we hung out and it became exhausting. It was also annoying me cause I had to drive an hour everytime to hang out and do nothing in his room while he refused to come to my place or go out because he was anxious. I did my best to try and help him but it felt like hanging out was a drag as opposed to something I could look forward to like with my other friends.

Having said that, it's a good possibility that you and your friend just grew apart and it wasn't anything personal, it happens quite often in your early 20s

>no job despite constantly applying

How? If you're 31 then surely you would have at least gotten A JOB by now. I didn't get my first job until 2-weeks before I turned 24 and felt like a huge NEET compared to my peers even back then. Between 18-24 I literally just fucked around at university, with friends, etc. People were making fun of me for not having a job even back in my early 20s.

yeah, nobody programmed your body to want to reproduce/find a spouse, you should've just died in a cave

Bizarre cope.

*adorable

I'm 32 and never had a real job

no shit

somebody did this to me (not my best friend, but somebody I talked to regularly), and I ran into him in the grocery store ten years later all trooned out and calling themselves "josephine"

I feel like I'm about to do this to one of my close friends that I've known since I was 9. Whenever we meet up we don't have any conversations about interesting subjects anymore and she just drones on about some perceived slight towards her by some coworker or how much she hates her dad or how she's going to go on a diet for the 5th time (she's completely fine btw). I've already called her out on using me as emotional labor twice and told her to get a therapist or go to church or whatever. It's making me think she's actually kinda dumb and doesn't know shit about anything despite going to an Ivy League. Problem with just ghosting her is we are both in the same circle of old friends and I would have to ghost our group chat too.

Also before you think I'm a cuck or a faggot for being lifelong friends with a girl and putting up with her, we have no life goals in common, she's the direct opposite of my type, and has had a failed love life that puts me off that notion entirely even though she has long joked about marrying me.

You can save her

"Joked"

It's charisma to be able to just play off those subtle indiscretions, which makes you more likable, as you can get away with more and more things and people will just let you. That's power.

Goddamn, I'm 33 myself and have been coming here since 2008. I just can't bring myself to leave.

I'm 40 and my best friend since 8th grade still text multiple times a day and hang out twice a year or so (different states now). We also have constant and unending work on music, film and art projects in our spare time collaboratively with our computers outside of our jobs for fun that we work on throughout the week and send each other updates. The only other people I still regularly (single conversation a week) talk to are another dude I've known since HS and a dude my best friend and I met together in community college. The person I talk to the least is the dude who lives in my own city that I've known for 15 years, outside of school. For me, it is my OG niggas.

oldest friend I have, met when we were like 8

went to the same school up to college, always inseparable

we went to different colleges and started to drift apart, got jobs, life moved on

I still reach out every once in a while and do get friendly replies

but I'm always the one who has to start the conversation and I'm always the one with the last reply

Honestly, I feel like I should just quit trying. It feels like I'm holding on to a friendship that's no longer there.

I still talk to and occasionally play games with an online friend I made while in high school. but as for people I actually went to HS with, nope. Aside from one encounter where I ran into an old HS friend after I had graduated college and had a brief conversation with him, I literally haven't exchanged a single word with anyone from HS since the day of graduation

I'm 30 and still friends with one of my highschool friends, other friends I have are ones I met more recently

Could be worse. I looked up some people I knew in HS on Facebook some months ago and was shocked to discover one guy had gay married a year or two ago. I didn't have even the slightest inkling that he was a fag

you are a gay man
cheers xxx

My best friends are either from childhood or high school.
T: my 35th birthday is tomorrow :)

Happy early birthday Adam

probably realized they had to drop you because you wouldn't humor their mental illness, lmao