Best excuse you’ve had for blanking someone?

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Via e-mail or your personal life, in a pub, in a club.

I mean everyone must have done it at some point in their lives. I’m just wondering about the reasons for it you see.

Maybe a bad hair cut, not an album completist, perhaps they even wore bad trousers or a bad hat?

It could be really confusing for the rest of us.

― Herve Villechaize, Sunday, 27 June 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"blanking" (???)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Sunday, 27 June 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe he meant "spanking".

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 27 June 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

He means sending them to Coventry.

― ..., Sunday, 27 June 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Because you fancy them?

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 27 June 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I meant spanking.

Forget blanking.

― Herve, Sunday, 27 June 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They may have even been a bum.

― Herve, Sunday, 27 June 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

On Saturday night, he had been my waiter.

On Monday night, he was the headlining band's bassist, and was being avidly pursued by all my scene's music geeks.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, Ms J. Lu, my diddums, so this band member dude was your Monday night waiter? Then he was your Monday night friendly restaurant waiter.

Was this a coincidence?

Or did you 'Stalk' him?

― Herve, Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Pure coincidence. But then I started stalking him. ;^}

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's tough cookies, innit?

People can be a bit dull sometimes. It's not our problem, they may have just let one too many a poor book think for them at times.

At one point or another, it all happens to us.

Being dull I mean. Not the cookies, everyone loves cookies.

― Herve, Sunday, 27 June 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think wearing the wrong type of jeans, or even writing for the wrong publication can be just too much of a hindrance.

Sometimes it’s just too bad, and sometimes you should probably let it go.

You know?

― Herve, Sunday, 27 June 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

You know you're a wanker, don't you?

― yesitsme, Sunday, 27 June 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never had cause to blank anyone, I prefer to laugh openly in their face.

― E.S.P (ipsofacto), Sunday, 27 June 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone has to do something pretty yucky to get deliberately blanked by me.

(However, I have the world's poorest memory for faces and names, so I suspect that I quite possibly do it unintentionally more than I would like.)

I got blanked a few weeks ago. It was such a horrible feeling. I wanted to go home and die. I would try not to do that to someone unless they'd really hurt me in some way.

― He wants to be me (kate), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

is that how bruce lee died?

― autovac (autovac), Sunday, 27 June 2004 09:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, this how Bruce Lee Died.

And yesitsme, good, at last we have an understanding now.

― Herve, Monday, 28 June 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still kind of confused; what exactly does blanking mean?

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i'm confused too. is it when you pretend not to recognise someone?

― gem (trisk), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it has to do with british people and their txt msgs

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

is it possible to send a blank text message? imagine how frustrating that would be, getting a blank sms. i might have to try that out.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The awesome power of the blank! Doesnt anyone WATCH Black Books ;P

By the way, how in the eff do you blank someone over email? Not answer it? I do that all the time =)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

(gem is right)

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

SOmoene managed to send me an SMS that told me who they were they other day (ie it had a company name instead of just a number). I'd like to know how the hell they did this when they're not listed in my address book on the phone. I didnt know you could force a name against your caller ID.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

how annoying! so the phone beeps and you think "yay i have friends" and then it's really just advertising propaganda. telstra can do that with the name in the inbox too.

― gem (trisk), Monday, 28 June 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Best excuse you've had for blanking someone?

Originating this thread. (I cannot believe I am the first to have thought this - though I am clearly the first to post it.)

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 28 June 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this slang term on the new Streets album or something?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 28 June 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Blanking someone is walking past them on the street and ignoring them (presumably on purpose), because you are pissed off at them. Or so Black Books has led me to believe anyway.

Gem - heh my txt with a name wasnt spam! It was my real estate agent sending me a nasty SMS to remind me my rent was late :(

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 28 June 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

oooooh even worse! how cheeky!

― gem (trisk), Monday, 28 June 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I was strolling down a high street, wearing shades, nice day, you get the picture. I see a girl coming towards me, I idly think to myself "She looks like that Sophie Lawrence out of Eastenders" (this is a few years ago obv). However, on almost passing, she turns and says "hello, MARK!!!" I nearly climb a tree. But then I recognise her as a friend of a colleague, who had sort of been trying to get her friend to click with me (she had decided against this, and so had I so we stayed cool/friends). "Oh, sorry I can't see anything with these on..."

Did I get away with it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

My glasses were shit, so my vision was impaired. More recently, and more, erm, dangerously: I didn't think the person *was* the person because if it *had* been that person then it would have been too dream-movie-like and the universe/I would have collapsed. Plus my train was about to go. If that person is reading. kthxbye.

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

last time I did it I had a good excuse, I would very rarely blank people though, not cos I wouldn't want to, I'm just bad at holding grudges and better at bitching after the fact.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i blanked my uni's chancellor whilst collecting my degree at the ceremony.. apparently i was meant to bow to him. it was the way the announcer dude couldn't pronounce my name right. and i started laughing really hard whilst walking along the platform, and totally forgotten to look at, let alone bow, to the chancellor dude. oops.

i pretended that it was my way of rebelling against the institution to the girls later.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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