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Has anyone else thrown in the towel?

I feel like there are too many social pressures to meet most of the expectations driven by popular culture... besides, my lousy job and other factors make it nearly impossible to find, much less maintain, any meaningful relationships.

Anybody else find themselves in the same situation, or am I the only ape here left grooming themselves in the corner?

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Permalink Reply by Orson_Zedd on August 11, 2010 at 12:33am

No. Not yet, and not really ever. This isn't something I need. It's something I want, and my really huge string of spectacular failures shouldn't deter me from this.

Permalink Reply by Apeman Jim on August 11, 2010 at 12:37am

Its been like grabbing a fist full of wind for me...

Permalink Reply by Orson_Zedd on September 10, 2010 at 12:44pm

It's like escaping from jail via the sewer: You've got to go through a lot of shit before you get where you're going.

Permalink Reply by Jason Spicer on September 10, 2010 at 6:06pm

"It's like escaping from jail via the sewer: You've got to go through a lot of shit before you get where you're going."

Just one of the many brilliant scenes in Raising Arizona. Of course, at the end of the film, the escapees return to prison the same way. Not sure they really thought that thru. And I have no idea what it means in terms of your metaphor. A messy divorce, maybe?

Permalink Reply by TByte on February 8, 2011 at 11:23pm

I was thinking "Shawshank Redemption"...

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on February 9, 2011 at 3:49am

Wow, I so need to pop in that DVD again. That movie's going to be one of the ones they look back at, in 30 or 40 years, how we look back at Casablanca now.

Permalink Reply by Craigart14 on May 14, 2011 at 10:46am

You can probably catch it right now on the Shawshank Redemption channel . . . .

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on May 14, 2011 at 2:30pm

???

Hallmark? W.E.? Not sure which channel you mean. Anyway, don't they edit the hell out of it?

Permalink Reply by Craigart14 on May 28, 2011 at 10:33am

Is joke. For a couple of years, it seemed to be on about eight times per week.

Permalink Reply by Joseph P on May 29, 2011 at 3:46am

Ah. Probably had something to do with all of the awards it won, and the fact that it's one of the most beautiful movies ever made.

Permalink Reply by TByte on May 30, 2011 at 1:24am

It was filmed at the Mansfield State Prison, about an hour's drive from my house.
http://www.mrps.org/
Every October they put on a haunted house inside the old prison, and I took my daughter to it once. The haunted house players were a little cheesy, but being inside the building was enough to creep one out.

Permalink Reply by Secular Forces 2013 on March 20, 2011 at 10:43pm