Interactions with your friends

[walrus]

I was thinking about this as I was fortunate to hook up with two friends I haven’t seen in a while. One is my boxing buddy with whom I get together for all the big ppv fights. The other is my Puerto Rican buddy and favorite coworker who got fired a month ago as they watched the surveillance tapes of me doing dangerous jobs alone which led to my injuries. I covered for him because I knew he had some family issues but he would sleep sometimes for 10 hours of a twelve hour shift. I told him he may want to stop that but he didn’t. All my other buddies are good and we go hiking and help each other do cars and houses. Anyway we all treat us other decently. My buddy gezim from albiania is Muslim but we never argue about it but he tells me how Catholics and Muslims live together in peace. Anyway, we never argue, even with my never trump friends I don’t argue, if we do we will chill and agree to get back to it later when we are calm. Religion is interesting to talk on, especially with a Muslim. We just have to be adults and have respect each other. He gave me a pocket Koran which I’ve read a bit of. One of my black friends loves to argue about slavery. I always tell him I got something to do or just runaway which he finds very funny. When I was younger I’d argue religion, politics or anything else, I find the trump haters got nothing more than he is racist. How do you interact? Do you think it’s cool to keep things cool and respect your buddies. There is so much to talk about and I’m sick of drama I just want to enjoy my buddies company

[walrus]

Let me say I do love arguing here but I think u see most of it is sarcasm master can attest if I go overboard I will apologize as I did one time to him

[Batman]

Me and all of my friends are white, there is quite a contrast of views amongst us though.

Being that we are all from the same area it's easy to see each others point of view.

We tend to just complain and bitch about everyone and anything regardless of race colour or creed, we are quite a hateful bunch in general I suppose.

[Master]

I have no real friends now the last were when I played football but the best were in school, college and university.

I would not consider work colleagues as friends more associates.

My cousins are my friends now as we meet up on family occasions.

[El Kabong]

I've got different groups of friends all who have different views on life they are a very diverse set of people, diverse in who they are and diverse in what they think. I typically don't tend to argue with my friends as we're friends and unless we have an actual disagreement there's no need to argue. I've got PLENTY of friends who are the political opposite of me...typically we don't talk politics we'll talk family or soccer or football or hockey or baseball or movies or music or food or booze or cigars or business or ponder hypothetical questions.

I'm really quite easy to get along with in the day to day life as I am sure many on here are.

[brocktonblockbust]

All my friends are either Indians or Guyanese Indians and a few Libyans and Armenians. I don't have any white friends at all. Over the years I tried to have white friends but it just didn't work out for some reason it's a different vibe and I can't really understand it. I'm not being sarcastic. the white people who I tried to be friends with tended to just talk about pets and cats and dogs all the time and talk about their cars and talk about other kinds of dilly dallying and kinds of busy body tinkering about the garage or tinkering about the house. I just can't relate to it as I have never owned a house and I don't really think I want to. there is no hidden meaning to any of this in case anyone here is thinking that. I literally mean this and it has happened at least 20 or 30 times with different people over the past let's say 20 years or so.

The friends I have now are 90% Indians from India. Hindus from Guyana probably make up the other 10%. The number of Armenians and Libyans though they are very close friends for a long time now really only totals about six or seven people from that group.

Our conversations are 100% consisting of India and Indian politics and Hinduism and Islam and how the United States and the UK over the past three or four hundred years let's see has really destroy the world with its colonialism and slavery. and even though colonialism and slavery have now been outlawed it is still taking place but on a more subtle level like on the financial level or on the global banking level.

Listening to conversations about new kitchen cabinets being put in or new lawn mowers or how the suspension on people's cars needed to be adjusted just doesn't do anything for me. Our conversations are largely about gastronomy and exercise and theology.

[walrus]

I guess I thought of this as this week I ran into two people I lost touch with, made me think