why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

a sweet boyfriend in other people's misery

bask in his enthusiasm
want it for yourself

Brendan Harris on May 17, 2013 at 1:34 pm said:

Your ‘date a boy that travels’ really hits home as clearly, I am that boy. I write this from a field outside of Stockholm after a month in southern Spain and amidst plans to sail through the Caribbean and across the south pacific on a double masted sailboat. Throughout your article I couldn’t help but wonder, where are these girls that want to date a boy that travels? A girl like this needs some serious gusto. She needs to have no fear of the unknown and a willingness to take risk on a whim. She needs to love her home enough to appreciate its comforts but not be burdened by them. Offers to travel across the world with someone can be interpreted as over zealous an dreamy, but to this ‘boy that travels’ they are absolute reality. A girl (might I say, woman) that can see these plans for reality and not just dream will suit a boy that travels well. If you can tell me the location of this mystic island where they do eachothers hair, make travel bracelets and talk about these boys that travel, I will gladly bring my sailboat there and invite them all on board for a journey none will forget.
Yours Truly
A boy that travels.

oh man I'm dying

sincerely,
a boy that travels
on his tweeship

WHERE THEY DO EACH OTHER'S HAIR

elementary school playground

might i say... woman...

Went to Calais once on a trip with school. There's a shop in the hypermarket there where they sell butterfly knives which was pretty cool. #aboythattravels

nope. if he's wearing a woven bracelet and has a thousand miss you's in broken english on his FB wall then I'll lay even money that he also travels with a guitar and plays hackeysack and has the attention span of a gnat

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, May 17, 2013 4:35 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was in a foreign country recently talking to a friend like why do dudes travel w guitars theyre so cumbersome and she was all to get sex and i go yeah totally worth it

#aboythattravels

exactly. that's why they get the side-eye. troubador=man whore

practice makes perfect

posted by a friend who is on the verge of ending her six or seven-year relationship about four years too late:
http://sentimentsfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/date-a-girl-who-teaches/

You should deal with this shit with alcohol, not Facebook!

(in ALL areas)

in the butt

Date a girl who teaches children. Date a girl who enjoys more in a bookstore for school supplies and children’s books rather than in make-up store.

surely she doesn't teach english?!

personally i'm always enthralled by girls with booklets i can't understand tho.

This one's for sunny.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/945230_596416957045986_327975048_n.jpg

-werner herzog

They're animals and we are pee-puhl, duh

if you look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes won't they take it as an act of aggression and rip your face off?

(in ALL areas)

I just realized that all of these Date an X who Y are because of this thing from thought catalog from two years ago

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/dont-date-a-girl-who-reads/

back when Thought Catalog was relevant for about five minutes

this was apparently blogged "in response" and from there I guess it became a sappy Facebook meme

https://nonamerah.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/869/

hm that second link is clearly copypasta, I see attributions to someone named "Rosemarie Urquico" in lots of places but never a link back

evidence that "Date A Girl Who Reads" dates to shortly after the TC piece's publication http://www.tinamats.com/2011/datea-girl-who-reads/

blog investigation on the copypasta: http://themonicabird.com/post/3582061419/rosemarie-urquico-has-been-found

anyway the point is somehow all of these memes are way way worse than the original Thought Catalog slam-poetry-level emotional wankery, which is mindboggling

a few years ago ilx's own nabisco wrote this in response to some "date a writer" thing and it's my favorite

I will gladly bring my sailboat there and invite them all on board for a journey none will forget.

^^^ plot of the tense 1989 thriller Dead Calm starring Billy Zane, Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill iirc

http://skreened.com/render-product/t/a/p/tapelvnaiykzfazaoiwp/image.w174h200f3.jpg

sorry meant to post this complete thought

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSpLCROTQx01j90Tif8Qhiz3Hq6IAKN7OR4qCY0V4DJSXPZu7qiLLIZ8gzOIQ

Looks like Pac-man missed a pill at the end of that last one.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKnjAtTCQAEia89.jpg

courtesy of holly valance, former something something

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/964176_10151549650952779_1408280431_o.jpg

dalai llama

also i love the binary choice between an atom bomb in a city and just some gorge somewhere

politicians

Actually, is each line meant to be a binary opposition?

thatcher-bob marley
bankers-einstein

that's amazing.

No women on the "love" side, mind you.

there's a third panel that says "THE WASHING UP"

Nice to know Einstein had nothing to do with those dreadful atom-bombs.

history, all of it

Astonished to see JFK as a personification of LOVE and the antithesis of SECURITY.

tbf dude did love to love and did have pretty poor security around him

Is the gorge what happens after the nuke?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oPYd75hJ_8w/UXmpht1xknI/AAAAAAAAAiM/YpXyhYssfFc/s1600/neil.jpg

I sort of feel like Lorrie Moore is unwittingly responsible for the date an x who ys meme.