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Speaker 2: I feel like I personally have stucked the Internet dry
Speaker 2: of am I the asshole submissions? So if you are
Speaker 2: listening and you know someone who knows someone who is
Speaker 2: potentially almost always an asshole, get them to DM me
Speaker 2: flex stop Famy on Instagram so we can discuss it
Speaker 2: on it. It's very important. Work does civil duty. Everybody
Speaker 2: has a role in society. This is mine. This person
Speaker 2: is asked, am I the asshole for wanting my friend
Speaker 2: to stop sending me memes off the dome? Yes or no?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying yes, but not for the reasons you think. Okay, listen,
Speaker 2: my friend sends me memes almost every day, sometimes twice
Speaker 2: a day on Instagram and Facebook. They're always about how
Speaker 2: men suck. This is why I'm single, single forever. A
Speaker 2: little bit lame, that's all right. I've got to the
Speaker 2: point I don't find them funny as it's been an
Speaker 2: overplayed narrative and responding has become a chore. It's been
Speaker 2: going on for months and months, and I've now started
Speaker 2: to become less engaged and my responses with just a
Speaker 2: laughing emoji or hearting it, hoping that she gets the hint.
Speaker 2: Whereas before I would type of reply more enthusiastically. I've
Speaker 2: recently muted her on both Instagram and Facebook. Let's get
Speaker 2: straight to the point, boys, this person says, because getting
Speaker 2: a notification from this person would shift their mood and
Speaker 2: put them in like a bad energy, which I get.
Speaker 2: So now they're responding after work when they're in a
Speaker 2: better headspace. However, this is driven the friend to keep
Speaker 2: sending memes throughout the day to like bank them up
Speaker 2: so when you're off work you can now look at them,
Speaker 2: you know, in your own time. So this person wants
Speaker 2: to know how do I tell her to stop sending
Speaker 2: me memes? And how can I do this without offending her?
Speaker 2: Because I'm really hitting a breaking point. I want to
Speaker 2: conserve my energy and not put too much time into it.
Speaker 1: You know what we should do? What crack this one
Speaker 1: open and get right down to it. Listen, this person
Speaker 1: feels like they want their friend to stop sending them memes.
Speaker 1: To be fair, the friend is sending the memes that
Speaker 1: aren't really funny. They're about being single, dating forever, single life,
Speaker 1: which very dated that's at least ten years old. I
Speaker 1: personally believe me listin difference.
Speaker 2: Price, comedian, writer, presenter.
Speaker 1: Correct personality actually Petray Yeah sorry, yeah, media personality. That
Speaker 1: you should just be lucky that you have a friend
Speaker 1: that's texting you. Okay, you need to maintain the relationship.
Speaker 1: Don't ever say stop texting me memes because it hurts
Speaker 1: because they're taking their time out of their day to think,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this reminds me of flex. Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: going to send it to her. So I think if
Speaker 1: I was in your position, I would say, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed. Like, oh no, not that, I would say, like,
Speaker 1: I think you need to be on the offense and
Speaker 1: start sending them memes that you find funnier to kind
Speaker 1: of like change their algorithm in their mind about what
Speaker 1: you like. Like for example, I always tag my friend
Speaker 1: in staff and she's like, this is me, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: well it is because every time I see it, I
Speaker 1: think of you. So it's also about, like.
Speaker 2: Me, define who you are, Yeah, a person.
Speaker 1: Let's align your expectations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. I definitely think we need to
Speaker 2: start thinking about what is the fundamental purpose of a meme?
Speaker 2: And that is to express that we as friends have
Speaker 2: similar humor. If your friend is missing the mark and
Speaker 2: the humor is not hitting, I do think it's your
Speaker 2: duty to let them know that. Like babes, we've stopped
Speaker 2: laughing about this. Now it's getting a bit sad. It's
Speaker 2: it's actually unfunny that I think is necessary. But I
Speaker 2: will say I learned about this thing called emotional bids
Speaker 2: for connection, and children do it and adults do it.
Speaker 2: And it's these things we say or do to get
Speaker 2: acknowledgment or acceptance or just to be noticed by the
Speaker 2: people that we deemed to be important to us. And
Speaker 2: when you're a child, you're like, oh mommy, look at
Speaker 2: me play with my toy. But when you're an adult,
Speaker 2: you don't know how to be as vocal about needing
Speaker 2: attention until you start to do these things meme signing
Speaker 2: and signing out being like can we hang out or
Speaker 2: you know, double texting or whatever. And I think when
Speaker 2: you're on the receiving end it can be a bit
Speaker 2: like a bit too much. But if you break it down,
Speaker 2: this person is crying out for some acknowledgment and if
Speaker 2: you can't give it to them in the way that
Speaker 2: makes you comfortable, find another way and let them know.
Speaker 2: Your friend needs you. Your friend is crying. What's the song?
Speaker 2: I can hear.
Speaker 1: It's crying. And just like that, a thousand listeners dropped
Speaker 1: off our show. But it's been great.
Speaker 2: It was like, wait a second, was that? Yes? It
Speaker 2: was give me a name, any name.
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston.
Speaker 2: Okay, she's not with us currently. Is it a was
Speaker 2: it Adele? It was.
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