Topic: Boundaries
longhairbiker's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:04 AM

There are so many things I would never ask a person I know. There are things I would rather not know. I know people who spew information their mouths are like a rancid cesspool. Or they ask me questions I'd never answer... WTH?

How do you put up boundaries to address these issues?
...but yet you go fishing in the cesspool by baiting with a question. That's funny. Irony 101.

lilith401's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:05 AM


There are so many things I would never ask a person I know. There are things I would rather not know. I know people who spew information their mouths are like a rancid cesspool. Or they ask me questions I'd never answer... WTH?

How do you put up boundaries to address these issues?
...but yet you go fishing in the cesspool by baiting with a question. That's funny. Irony 101.


rant Shhhh. rant

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Fri 03/20/09 10:08 AM

There are so many things I would never ask a person I know. There are things I would rather not know. I know people who spew information their mouths are like a rancid cesspool. Or they ask me questions I'd never answer... WTH?

How do you put up boundaries to address these issues?


"I don't think that's an appropriate question."

No, I mean the one you just asked.

Seriously, though, I will just say that. Or "I don't see any reason why that needs to be discussed at this point." Or words to that effect.



7z3r05's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:08 AM


im pretty open. if you ask it, i will probably answer it.


Aww honeybunches....don't do that. Not with us! Save that for our private time...after Vegas!



oh. well... i am a communicator. what can i say?

lilith401's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:11 AM
There is communication and there is verbal diarrhea.

Sunshine1947's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:14 AM
Edited by Sunshine1947 on Fri 03/20/09 10:15 AM
until I personally meet a person my boundaries are that I do not discuss sex, well last night (while I was at Bingo) a guy I have been talking to texted me and said talk sex to me....WTH.....that is not what I am going to do so I have not responded to that text yet. Not quite sure how to handle it. He is trying to cross boundaries that I have in place and I am having a hard time dealing with it, any help??????? I feel it is somewhat like the guy who talked on here about spending the night then gone with the wind...am I wrong or have I missed something along the way?

7z3r05's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:15 AM
this is true. however, when someone asks a more personal question, i like to toss em a curve and actually answer honestly. lol.

then i follow up with an equally psuedopersonal question.

no photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:15 AM

There is communication and there is verbal diarrhea.


For everything else, there's MasterCard.



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Fri 03/20/09 10:16 AM

There is communication and there is verbal diarrhea.



True...I cannot abide a person who just vomits up every personal affect of their life...sometimes a "lil bit" gets on me...ill

longhairbiker's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:16 AM
The answer lilith in my case is to take my happy pills. That's because before the happy pills I used to have a bad habit of beating the sh!t out of people that tormented my soul unrelentlessly. I found that people leave you alone when you beat them badly. Now I just laugh at them and their stupidity.

lilith401's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:16 AM


There is communication and there is verbal diarrhea.


For everything else, there's MasterCard.





Or sex and dating game threads....laugh

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Fri 03/20/09 10:16 AM
I watched a movie with my teenage daughter a few years ago where it was called 'word vomit'.

lilith401's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:20 AM

I watched a movie with my teenage daughter a few years ago where it was called 'word vomit'.


Really? Tell me more?:wink: Seriously though...

longhairbiker's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:23 AM
And lilith, I've even found that it works in my favor as a precursor to conflict. Sometimes my freinds before they ask a stupid question requiring a hardcore beating will ask me "So, did you take your happy pill today"? If the answer is yes, they may or may not proceed with the question. If the answer is no, they just reply "Uh, nevermind".

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Fri 03/20/09 10:25 AM
way past my personal boundaries......

nuff said........

lilith401's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:29 AM

And lilith, I've even found that it works in my favor as a precursor to conflict. Sometimes my freinds before they ask a stupid question requiring a hardcore beating will ask me "So, did you take your happy pill today"? If the answer is yes, they may or may not proceed with the question. If the answer is no, they just reply "Uh, nevermind".


Your friends are well trained. What about the random vomiting though? The ones in the line at the store....

You know....

"Oh I see you're buying toothpaste. I hate that brand though. I always buy Mentadent. It's got baking soda in it so it's supposed to be better. Did your dentist tell you to use that brand? Do you have bad breath? (Insert inappropriate laugh here) My dentist is new because my last one suddenly stopped taking appointments from me, no idea why? <Ring> (Looks at phone) Ohhh... (laughter) that was a text from my brther. He just got a DUI and left court. He was drinking because his daughter's mother got married again and he's still in love wth her. Plus he has E-D... you know where his winky wanky won't work? (inappropriate laughter)....

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Fri 03/20/09 10:30 AM
Depending on the situation, I may pretend I didn't hear the question, create a diversion, turn the question back to them or quickly change the subject.

longhairbiker's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:31 AM
And think about it. My personal boundaries are set at a fairly low level. For me to beat someone up- they have to be really really really stupid. Like wanting to sniff a pretty womans fart thread stupid.

lilith401's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:32 AM

Depending on the situation, I may pretend I didn't hear the question, create a diversion, turn the question back to them or quickly change the subject.


Answering questions with questions....laugh That actually works on some people.

The professor tries it on me then he laughs when I point it out and he admits he forgets I'm smart....:tongue:

lilith401's photo
Fri 03/20/09 10:32 AM

And think about it. My personal boundaries are set at a fairly low level. For me to beat someone up- they have to be really really really stupid. Like wanting to sniff a pretty womans fart thread stupid.


And now you've gone and done it. Thanks to this, it will appear. You know it. I know it...


rant rant rant rant rant rant rant

You're a nice guy, dammit!