Comments on: Of rings and bonds http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/ Frequently pretentious since 1971. Clearly ambiguous since 2000. Completely and utterly incomprehensible since 2006. Warning: may contain synonyms. Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: looby http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-485 looby Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:02:07 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-485 I find it very difficult to explain to my (something...ex?) partner, who has not the slightest interest in computers, how I "know" people on the internet, and that's in the ideal circumstances of having time to correct myself and choose the correct words. Doing it at a wedding would be pretty difficult I'd have thought, with a load of strangers, and I know that however I phrased it about "my friend" I'd end up sounding pervy. I also can't stand weddings. I go out of my way to wangle out of them. It's so conventional, so Hallmark-y. Most of them, anyway. I find it very difficult to explain to my (something…ex?) partner, who has not the slightest interest in computers, how I “know” people on the internet, and that’s in the ideal circumstances of having time to correct myself and choose the correct words. Doing it at a wedding would be pretty difficult I’d have thought, with a load of strangers, and I know that however I phrased it about “my friend” I’d end up sounding pervy.

I also can’t stand weddings. I go out of my way to wangle out of them. It’s so conventional, so Hallmark-y. Most of them, anyway.

]]> By: An Unreliable Witness http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-484 An Unreliable Witness Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:37:54 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-484 Thank you, poppycock, for your very kind words. Thank you, poppycock, for your very kind words.

]]> By: poppycock http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-483 poppycock Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:39:51 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-483 well, this whole post makes for one hell of a good delayed rsvp, so the unnamed bride must be appeased. oh, best wishes, for the bloggies, by the way! i'll be pulling hair and gnashing teeth and cry 'nofair!' if you don't make it because i think you deserve it. well, this whole post makes for one hell of a good delayed rsvp, so the unnamed bride must be appeased.

oh, best wishes, for the bloggies, by the way! i’ll be pulling hair and gnashing teeth and cry ‘nofair!’ if you don’t make it because i think you deserve it.

]]> By: andre http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-482 andre Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:15:38 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-482 You should try to be less shy Mr Unreliable. You are the most interesting person I have ever met. You should try to be less shy Mr Unreliable. You are the most interesting person I have ever met.

]]> By: An Unreliable Witness http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-481 An Unreliable Witness Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:12:07 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-481 Imogen - I'm sure we're agreeing with the same thing, most agreeably in fact. Andre - I will just have to vote for you some more. I have 157 Gmail addresses the last time I looked. Lady Miss Marquise - If I wasn't so shy and private, I'm sure I could bore an entire pub full of drinkers on the subject of internet friendships. Imogen — I’m sure we’re agreeing with the same thing, most agreeably in fact.

Andre — I will just have to vote for you some more. I have 157 Gmail addresses the last time I looked.

Lady Miss Marquise — If I wasn’t so shy and private, I’m sure I could bore an entire pub full of drinkers on the subject of internet friendships.

]]> By: Lady Miss Marquise http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-480 Lady Miss Marquise Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:27:14 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-480 I love trying to explain the complexities of internet relationships... I once went to stay with an "internet friend", we'd talked on the phone, and emailed and read and reread each other's blogs so it felt as if we knew each other. Trying to explain that yes, I knew her but not in person took some telling to friends who do not blog and are wary of the whole internet debacle. Beautiful post x I love trying to explain the complexities of internet relationships… I once went to stay with an “internet friend”, we’d talked on the phone, and emailed and read and reread each other’s blogs so it felt as if we knew each other. Trying to explain that yes, I knew her but not in person took some telling to friends who do not blog and are wary of the whole internet debacle.

Beautiful post
x

]]> By: andre http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-479 andre Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:02:27 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-479 oh and I have voted for you to. Twice!! oh and I have voted for you to. Twice!!

]]> By: imogen http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-478 imogen Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:11:46 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-478 agreed. agreed.

]]> By: An Unreliable Witness http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-477 An Unreliable Witness Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:06:59 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-477 Katy - whether it's a lot of times or none, thank you. Katy — whether it’s a lot of times or none, thank you.

]]> By: Katy Newton http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-476 Katy Newton Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:59:45 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-476 I am just dropping in to say that I tried to vote for you on the Bloggies but it all went a bit strange. I think I have voted for you either lots of times or none times but it is difficult to tell. I am just dropping in to say that I tried to vote for you on the Bloggies but it all went a bit strange. I think I have voted for you either lots of times or none times but it is difficult to tell.

]]> By: Fussy Bitch http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-475 Fussy Bitch Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:13:39 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-475 The last wedding I went to was as an internet friend of the groom. I introduced myself to him in the receiving line at the reception and came home with an ugly mans phone number in my bag. The last wedding I went to was as an internet friend of the groom. I introduced myself to him in the receiving line at the reception and came home with an ugly mans phone number in my bag.

]]> By: Morgan http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Morgan Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:39:11 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-474 As long as you buy them a present it's alright. That's the only reason people get married, anyway. Unless you get married for immigration purposes and the hope of presents, of course, but nobody I know has any money. As long as you buy them a present it’s alright. That’s the only reason people get married, anyway. Unless you get married for immigration purposes and the hope of presents, of course, but nobody I know has any money.

]]> By: seahorse http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-473 seahorse Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:20:02 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-473 Since becoming disabled I have missed three weddings that I really wanted to be at, and your post captures beautifully the wistful thoughts that wander in the direction of the happy couple. Missing a wedding is a unique experience, but if anything it brings you closer to your friend because you realise how much they mean to you. And that feeling can be felt with more clarity than the blurry memories of a boozy reception. Oh all right then, I'd rather have been there too but there is something beautiful in what you wrote, so something beautiful has been created by you not being there. Since becoming disabled I have missed three weddings that I really wanted to be at, and your post captures beautifully the wistful thoughts that wander in the direction of the happy couple. Missing a wedding is a unique experience, but if anything it brings you closer to your friend because you realise how much they mean to you. And that feeling can be felt with more clarity than the blurry memories of a boozy reception. Oh all right then, I’d rather have been there too but there is something beautiful in what you wrote, so something beautiful has been created by you not being there.

]]> By: blatherskite http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-472 blatherskite Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:29:08 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-472 I'm also feeling touched by the stars - I think it's too much tea. I’m also feeling touched by the stars — I think it’s too much tea.

]]> By: blatherskite http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-471 blatherskite Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:27:31 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-471 Were I the pretty bride here alluded to, I should be delighted that the wedding was unfolded here before us and attended in the way only you and she know how... upon these convoluted pages. Your dear readers were there, so where were you ? Lovely cake, by the way. Were I the pretty bride here alluded to, I should be delighted that the wedding was unfolded here before us and attended in the way only you and she know how… upon these convoluted pages.

Your dear readers were there, so where were you ?

Lovely cake, by the way.

]]> By: andre http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-470 andre Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:54:48 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-470 'to the bride and groom' And I echo the words above. ‘to the bride and groom’

And I echo the words above.

]]> By: Agog Reader http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Agog Reader Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:46:29 +0000 http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2007/01/27/of-rings-and-bonds/#comment-469 I discovered this site via the Bloggies and have just spent the last couple of hours reading through it. Your writing is magical, emotional and thought provoking. Touched by stars. There is nothing unreliable about it. Congratulations on your nomination and I hope you emerge victorious. Beauty warrants reward. I discovered this site via the Bloggies and have just spent the last couple of hours reading through it. Your writing is magical, emotional and thought provoking. Touched by stars. There is nothing unreliable about it.

Congratulations on your nomination and I hope you emerge victorious. Beauty warrants reward.

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