Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I was gonna say 'Stop! It'll go to his head', but it probably wouldn't. Damn and blast you LDR, you absurdly likeable fellow.
Why don't we like to look excited/enthusiastic/impressed?
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Vixen said:I saw this couple snogging on the tube today. Or rather the girl was snogging the guy. I wanted to throw up in their FACES
I know. I fucking hate it. The noise of snogging is like cheese graters in my ears
I'm pretty sure I get excited and childlike even though I pretty much fit in the "teenager" catergory (or do I?)
I'm always bouncing around and squealing about things, cos it's fun innit. I get what you mean though so like, whatever.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Isn't he? Absurdly likeable, I mean
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I don't think I could manage getting through a week without finding the bestest thing ever at least twice 
I did do the "Eh, don't really care" thing as an experiment in my teens though. It just got people pissed off with me
I did do the "Eh, don't really care" thing as an experiment in my teens though. It just got people pissed off with me
Orang Utan said:
Living with him was fun, he's had me in stitches (mainly with his dancing and the bollocks he talks when he's drunk
) countless times...subversplat said:I don't think I could manage getting through a week without finding the bestest thing ever at least twice
I love doing that! Everytime me and Pika meet a cat in the street I have a little chat and cuddle with the cat and I tell Pika that this cat is my new best friend and squeal a bit
I also do it with food. And occasionally with items of clothing.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Genuinely retarded
Maybe the people you think don't want to look excited, infact don't want to look anxious. That and they're annoyed that your making them anxious.
Tbh I 've never really worried about looking over enhusiastic, within reason obviously. Not sure I could express myself well enough to show that I'm impressed, anyway.
Tbh I 've never really worried about looking over enhusiastic, within reason obviously. Not sure I could express myself well enough to show that I'm impressed, anyway.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Flapping my hands about in an enthusiastic fashion works for me.........
PieEye said:There's often a lack of confidence I reckon. I'm talking about stuff that you'd enthuse about - not thinking you know it all about nuclear weapons or politics and then soapboxing - more about showing excitement about music, books, poems, art or something and not being too sure it was the "right thing".
Or showing excitement about something too simple perhaps - like a beautiful day or a nice cloud
('m a bit confused now as well actually....)
Well, being in my 30's I'm wracked with doubt and assailed by uncertainty about how to answer you, but I'll give it a go...
Not all teenagers are the same, but teenagers have the tendency to think that what they're into is the best thing, and what others like is complete rubbish. I seem to recall that I went thorugh a phase of complete certainty that Adam and the Ants were the best group ever, and anyone who didn't like them was ill in some way. I was very enthusiatstic about my propagation of Adam Ant's genius. Now I would find it difficult to say with complete certainty that any music I like is definitively the best, because I know my taste is mutable, new things come along, and other influences develop.
Clouds and stuff are things you learn to appreciate - normally through reading poetry. Would anyone really eulogise about sunsets, flowers and clouds if the Romantic poets hadn't? It is doubtful.
Oh I dunno... reading this... it's not really what I meant at all. I wasn't talking about getting enthusiastic about music you LOVE or amazingly beautiful scenery, etc. Of course people will always enthuse about these things. I mean, whilst not the same kind of dancing as LDR, I do get ridiculously excited when a tune comes on that I love, or if I'm watching a band that I really really love. And heaps of other stuff too. Plane food makes me go completely crazy. Like a big happy kid.
But I wasn't talking about things that we love. It was more a general attitude, a general way of being, in response to everyday stuff. But I can't really explain what I mean very well. I would say though, that none of you strike me as particularly enthusiastic people by trait. Most of you are exactly like the typical English sarcastic, dry, yeah whatever types that I was referring to originally. I mean Tank Girl & Dub... prime examples, myself too! And that's good. I like that. It amuses me. I think a lot of people on here come across like moody teenagers a whole lot of the time! (Important NB: I don't really know any of you well, save SZC & Bluestreak - who too are dry, sarcastic and unimpressed a lot of the time - so I can only really talk from a reading of posts perspective).
There's a major, oh I've seen it all before attitude on these boards IMHO. Getting excited about something you really love is different I think. Of course then there are people who are naturally overly enthusiastic about life in general, and who always seem to be happy, there are people like this and they are the opposite to what I was referring to originally, by trait. But I really don't think these people post here. (What I mean is, their posts don't come across this way).
Maybe I should go away and find some actual theory about this - I know I've read it somewhere, at some point - cos I'm perhaps not making much sense at all.
But I wasn't talking about things that we love. It was more a general attitude, a general way of being, in response to everyday stuff. But I can't really explain what I mean very well. I would say though, that none of you strike me as particularly enthusiastic people by trait. Most of you are exactly like the typical English sarcastic, dry, yeah whatever types that I was referring to originally. I mean Tank Girl & Dub... prime examples, myself too!
And that's good. I like that. It amuses me. I think a lot of people on here come across like moody teenagers a whole lot of the time! (Important NB: I don't really know any of you well, save SZC & Bluestreak - who too are dry, sarcastic and unimpressed a lot of the time - so I can only really talk from a reading of posts perspective).There's a major, oh I've seen it all before attitude on these boards IMHO. Getting excited about something you really love is different I think. Of course then there are people who are naturally overly enthusiastic about life in general, and who always seem to be happy, there are people like this and they are the opposite to what I was referring to originally, by trait. But I really don't think these people post here. (What I mean is, their posts don't come across this way).
Maybe I should go away and find some actual theory about this - I know I've read it somewhere, at some point - cos I'm perhaps not making much sense at all.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I got excited about my breakfast this morning cos it was so over the top - the girl behind me in the queue caught my excitement and ditched her yogurt and fruit and came back with a full English like mine.
Vixen said:I would say though, that none of you strike me as particularly enthusiastic people by trait. Most of you are exactly like the typical English sarcastic, dry, yeah whatever types that I was referring to originally. I mean Tank Girl & Dub... prime examples, myself too!
but being sarcastic / dry about something is not the same as being unenthusiastic. It just doesn't correlate. If i like or enjoy something, I'll be enthusiastic. If I don't, I'll possibly be sarcastic or 'yeh, whatever'. But that's about a reaction / decision based on taste / opinion, NOT an unwillingness to allow yourself to enjoy / enthuse about something. If you were enthusiastic and excited by things we didn't even like, we'd probably need to be sectioned.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Have you never been enthusiastic sarcastically though?Dubversion said:
"U2 have made a record with the Pope"
"OMG! That's so awesome!
"Orang Utan said:Have you never been enthusiastic sarcastically though?
"U2 have made a record with the Pope"
"OMG! That's so awesome!
sure, but that's just a form of sarcasm - same argument applies
People are so random. In a matter of minutes, someone I spoke to on the phone was ridiculously unenthusiastic when I told her about an event we're having - that she received an invite to. Rudely unenthusiastic in fact! She thought it was uncool to enthuse I reckon. Then a minute later I ordered a courier and the lady was scarily enthusiastic about that!
A prime example of the different traits I was referring to. I just wish y'all coulda been there.
unenthusiastic in fact! She thought it was uncool to enthuse I reckon. Then a minute later I ordered a courier and the lady was scarily enthusiastic about that!A prime example of the different traits I was referring to. I just wish y'all coulda been there.
Vixen said:People are so random. In a matter of minutes, someone I spoke to on the phone was ridiculously unenthusiastic when I told her about an event we're having - that she received an invite to. Rudely
but maybe they were genuinely unenthusiastic about the event?
you seem to be assuming you know what people's motivations are - perhaps a failure to be enthusiastic is because there is no enthusiasm, rather than because it's a stance. .
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
People who are overly enthusiastic annoy me cos they seem so insincere - there's a woman at work (posh of course) who says 'HIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!' everytime I see her, even when I'm just walking down the corridor. I want to kill her.
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