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Emeritus Professor of LOLology (snoball), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link

Oh, there's more that I could say on this subject, but, um, it was stuff he's told me about his life. And this thread is for documenting my super-crepey and inappropriate crush, not for recording the minute details of his life, which would be creepier than I could stomach.

Dear super-weedy dudes of the UK: please don't feel obliged to bulk up. There are lots of ladies who like your body just fine the way it is. I wish I could say this to OfficeBoy but that would kind of give the game away about how attractive I think he is.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link

Hear hear and also lol @ the modelling mix-up

kinder, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link

lol I too read the 'modelling' bit as 'male modelling' and was starting to go into full Michael-Elphick-in-Withnail-"you-want-working-on-boy" mode when I realised 'oh he meant data modelling'.

Emeritus Professor of LOLology (snoball), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link

We work in Finance, we both deal with data analysis, so modelling in that context *always* means data modelling and mathematical projections. There was no reason for me to think "male model" except for the fact that he has the looks of one.

(Well, except for the height. He is actually shorter than me, which I am finding curiously adorable.)

God would this crush just go away already. It is warping my brain.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link

just to return to something upthread, let's not forget that a lot of people (nobody in particular) actually enjoy talking about how fucked up their lives are, and giving them unsolicited advice on how to fix things kinda fucks up that hobby

the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link

That was inflammatory and unnecessary.

purveyor of generations (in orbit), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link

Yes, agreed, and also I think it's more likely that some people have accepted their lives and the imperfections inherent in those lives, and the assumptions that random strangers have that 1) they understand those lives and imperfections better than the advisee and 2) have any right to comment on them or attempt to change them, are just really fucking arrogant, and can get tae fuck.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link

Let's not forget that a lot of people (nobody in particular) actually enjoy pissing on other people's chips, and people telling them "actually, we don't want you pissing on our chips" kinda fucks up that hobby, too.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link

nah it wasn't my intent to be inflammatory, i just think it's necessary to understanding the dynamic of threads like this

the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link

and why i generally stay off them nowadays

the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link

You are completely wrong, with regards to other people's motivations, and if you want to totally misunderstand the dynamic of this thread, that's your right. But it doesn't give you any special insight into what is going on here, and you're being a massive tit.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link

like some people might come on this thread and go "oh hey i should give some helpful advises" without actually realizing that's not the point, took me years to figure that out, incredibly dense as i am

so i thought i'd point it out to the n00bs

the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

well, i am incredibly dense

the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

"Threads like this" = what? Crush threads? Threads I'm posting on? Just fuck off with your condescending chip-pissing attitude. No one wants you here, least of all yourself, clearly.

Douche.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

wow that was inflammatory

the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link

FUCK, OFF.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

misplaced comma!

the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

srsly i'll fuck off now, you're right this is not really my scene but i was just trying to be helpful in addressing your screed of Friday, September 7, 2012 1:29 AM

the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link

Thread really needed the DNRIYHM warning ;_;

Randy Carol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link

haha

goole, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link

meanwhile, back at the office: crushes worsen, imaginations run away, work does not get done

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link

I just imagine f.Hazel working in an office filled with delightfully attractive young women in scanty outfits all trying to tempt him away from his spreadsheets. "No, you hussies, leave me be! I have Important Business!" he cries, until a hot chocolate appears at his desk. "Oh alright, just the once then..."

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link

i usually go out of my way to be as boring as possible around co-workers in an effort to not develop any kind of relationship other than professional.

that said, the closest thing i have to a workplace crush is a Chinese national about the same age as me who speaks 4 languages and is charmingly awkward and cute and is always wearing something really smart and attractive. despite never really having "a thing" for Asian women, her accent kind of makes me melt.

she's married and is also a new mom so is obviously way off-limits but we have a kind of casual & sheepish mutual flirtation that is kept in check.

she's very good at her job-- which is a stressful one-- something i also find attractive. but at various points she's kind of let on that her current situation is the result of kind of getting cornered in to an unwanted marriage after finding out she was unexpectedly pregnant about this time last year, and that she might be content but probably isn't happy or fulfilled. this makes me a little sad when i think about it and causes me to daydream a little longer than i should some days.

2 anecdotes, regardless:

  • a few weeks ago i changed into casual clothes in my office before grabbing my weekender bag and catching a ride to the airport. on my way out she stopped me in the hallway,grabbed my arm, and looked me up and down for a second or two before going "you look like.... Brad Pitt....or a movie star..." i said "thanks, i think" then we both had an awkward laugh and i left
  • (tmi content) last week i heard her from around the corner exclaim "SHIT! I forgot to pump!!!" then run in to her office and slam the door. this caused a strange potpourri of reactions w/ me
:-\

anyway, thankfully i have IRL girl probs that keep this one nicely compartmentalized right where it belongs :)

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link

that is an a++ workplace crush

mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link

literally right after posting that, another co-worker (who just found out his 2nd baby will be a boy) came by. the two of them got in to a discussion right outside my door about breastfeeding, conception, and the Chinese zodiac. at one point it turned to how old each of us were and she told me i look young "for a haole". *^_^*

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link

new job finds me surrounded by bewildering arrays of beautiful bright young things temping, but it won't get even to crushing stage as we're all just hyperaware that permanent staff are so far above them that it could never be.

Randy Carol (darraghmac), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link

that just makes it sexier

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link

oh man. i keep having embarrassing flashbacks to my last inappropriate workplace attachment.

and my new one looks v good today

rayuela, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link

he appears perfectly capable of having normal conversations/interactions with other people despite the fact that *our* encounters are always weird and awkward. ugh.

rayuela, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link

Maybe that means he ~likes~ you if he bumbles when he speaks to you.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link

otm

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link

no, it's not that. i'm not the only one who's recognized that he is kind of weird, but no one else is inappropriately attracted to him, so they are capable of acting normally around him, which i think eases him into acting normally. I, however, seem to be incapable of smooth behavior when lust clouds my brain, so we just make each other act weirder by our own weirdness.

rayuela, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link

also he is married w/children, so even if it were mutual (which there is no way to know since we never actually talk), it's gotta stay an admiration thing

rayuela, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link

Ah, I see. Even more super highly inappropriate that way. (And probably more deliciously fun.)

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link

ps am making a sign to post on my office door with this:

"No, you hussies, leave me be! I have Important Business!"

just need to find the right cat picture to use.

the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link

Whenever I try to be funny, it just comes out like I'm being rude.

Whenever I try to be friendly, it comes out accusatory in some way.

I basically fail at life. Woe.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:13 (eleven years ago) link

(I am not actually sad before anyone jumps on me and tells me I shouldn't be posting things like this. Just full of PMT and self pity. And feeling sorry for myself because as I was leaving for lunch, OfficeBoy was reading XKCD and I went over and said "haha, you're not working, you're reading XKCD!" expecting him to go haha and tell me a funny physics joke. But instead he got slightly defensive and then OfficeGossip butted in on our conversation and started trying to talk to him about the work he was doing, even though we were both on our lunch, and now I feel miffed, and also, no physics joke. And I really want a funny physics joke because am feeling rub with PMT.)

BLAH.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link

And OfficeGossip keeps trying to drag him into conversations now, and it's just like... FFS. I am experiencing actual jealousy and annoyance and this is stupid.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:25 (eleven years ago) link

Just going to put my headphones on and avoid fucking office chatter for the rest of time. I can't play these games, I hate them, and resent the fact that I've become even vaguely involved in them because of this inability to not pay attention to this idiot boy. :-(

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link

new job finds me surrounded by bewildering arrays of beautiful bright young things temping, but it won't get even to crushing stage as we're all just hyperaware that permanent staff are so far above them that it could never be

But temp staff are like the work crushes it's socially acceptable to have.

Matt DC, Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link

seriously? ALL THESE MONTHS I'VE WASTED ;_;

Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 September 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link

Glasses. He is wearing glasses today. Ladyboner overdrive.

(Also, I gave him coded proof that he was right and OfficeGossip was wrong, in his argument with her, so we are friends again. I think.)

((God I am so fucking pathetic. But mostly bored.))

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 14 September 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link

Physics makes us all its bitches.

Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 14 September 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link

i just read the "will be nice to have another lady around" (paraphrasing) incident - i read it like he thought you were saying you were only one around and when he said "dont let x hear you say that" he was implying that you didnt think SHE was a lady - i might be crazy tho

the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Friday, 14 September 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link

crush came in my office yesterday to talk about a client and i innocently and casually pointed out that she had some food crumbs on her lapel. i know that's negging 101 but i swear it wasn't my intent but holy shit that made her blush and get all self-conscious and act funny and i kind of had fun with it after that, telling her "don't come back in my office with food all over you ever again" as she was leaving.

:-]

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 15 September 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link

haha oh grady bless your heart

the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Saturday, 15 September 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link

have you considered 200 level negging, it sounds like you have what it takes

boxall, Saturday, 15 September 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link

i was asking her about a meeting i wasn't in attendance at but my boss was. she kept saying that my boss had another colleague with him but she forgot the guy's name. i tried describing what my regional manager looks like, thinking it might have been him, but she said "i don't remember what he looked like... all i remember is he was not handsome."

:-]

❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 15 September 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link


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