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Sign on the side of the road.
Dec. 4th, 2008 05:42 pmThere was a small hand-made-looking sign on the side of the road near my bus stop today that wasn't there yesterday. It consisted solely of the message "I NEED A GIRLFRIEND 206.COM". Visiting 206.com doesn't seem to be very enlightening, as it appears to just be one of those generic placeholder sites, so I don't know what was up with the sign. Strange.
(EDIT 11:25pm)
The site is ineedagirlfriend206.com, which does make a bit more sense (thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yamen), and seems pretty obvious now that I think about it. As far as site content goes, I figured it would have been something kind of like that.
On the one hand, I think it's rather pathetic and sad.
But on the other hand, the more I consider it, it's incredibly freaking scary how close this guy is to potentially being me. I mean, he's even the same age as me. The only main difference, I guess, being that I'm far too lazy, apathetic, and chickenshit about this sort of thing to go to that much effort.
Or any effort at all, for that matter. Did I mention lazy and apathetic? I mean, yeah, a sort of vague and abstract concept of... "desire" I guess you'd call it... is admittedly there, deep down somewhere, but mostly I'm just meh about the whole idea.
I'm sort of like a combination of the characters of Ethan and Amber in the webcomic Shortpacked! (EDIT) before Ethan hooked up withDrewManny and Amber hooked up with Mike, that is (and before both characters got written out of the strip entirely) (/EDIT), at least as far as personality goes. Granted, I'm not gay, have never had an Internet SO, the obsession is with video games instead of Transformers, and I don't work in retail (though I did for a period of a few months prior to moving to Washington to go to DigiPen, and it's not something I'd care to go back to if I can at all avoid it), but I definitely identify with those two in a general sense. Also, the fact that I just compared myself to characters in a webcomic should tell you something, too.
With that said, to bring it full circle and clasp the hands together, I think it's rather pathetic and sad.
TMI, I'm sure. But I'm in a bit of an introspective (but willing to share it with the world, apparently) sort of mood right now, so whatever. *nods sagely*
Anyway, more power and good luck to the dude, I guess. It is a kind of novel approach, I have to agree. Well, the sign and flyer bit is, anyway. The website is just a sort of ghetto version of a craigslist ad or Yahoo! Personals profile or something similar. Then again, I suppose in a way it's more likely to stand out and be noticed than those are, to a limited extent, thanks to those signs and flyers. Surely something like this has been done before now by other people, but if it has been I'm not aware of it.
(/EDIT)
(EDIT 11:25pm)
The site is ineedagirlfriend206.com, which does make a bit more sense (thanks to
yamen), and seems pretty obvious now that I think about it. As far as site content goes, I figured it would have been something kind of like that.On the one hand, I think it's rather pathetic and sad.
But on the other hand, the more I consider it, it's incredibly freaking scary how close this guy is to potentially being me. I mean, he's even the same age as me. The only main difference, I guess, being that I'm far too lazy, apathetic, and chickenshit about this sort of thing to go to that much effort.
Or any effort at all, for that matter. Did I mention lazy and apathetic? I mean, yeah, a sort of vague and abstract concept of... "desire" I guess you'd call it... is admittedly there, deep down somewhere, but mostly I'm just meh about the whole idea.
I'm sort of like a combination of the characters of Ethan and Amber in the webcomic Shortpacked! (EDIT) before Ethan hooked up with
With that said, to bring it full circle and clasp the hands together, I think it's rather pathetic and sad.
TMI, I'm sure. But I'm in a bit of an introspective (but willing to share it with the world, apparently) sort of mood right now, so whatever. *nods sagely*
Anyway, more power and good luck to the dude, I guess. It is a kind of novel approach, I have to agree. Well, the sign and flyer bit is, anyway. The website is just a sort of ghetto version of a craigslist ad or Yahoo! Personals profile or something similar. Then again, I suppose in a way it's more likely to stand out and be noticed than those are, to a limited extent, thanks to those signs and flyers. Surely something like this has been done before now by other people, but if it has been I'm not aware of it.
(/EDIT)
