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29 June 2007

Ugh ugh ugh!!! →[More:]An asshole I dated in high school was linked to on Metafilter today. The internet has officially become too small for me. I'm leaving!

No, I'm not going to tell which post it was, because I've no doubt he obsessively checks referrer logs, and will find Metafilter if he hasn't already, and then he could find Metachat, and then I'd have to kill myself.

post by: mudpuppie at: 14:46 | 16 comments

Any chance he grew out of assholedom?

posted by danostuporstar 29 June | 15:04

Pup dated Duane Cheney!

posted by Capn 29 June | 15:06

OMG! You used to go out with a GIANT PENGUIN?!!!

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 29 June | 15:07

J.R.?

posted by acro 29 June | 15:07

Is it a hippopotamus?
I'll thrash him from top to bottomus.

Is it an elephant?
I'll knot him up in cellophant.

Maybe it's a brontosaurus?
I'll show him who's king of the forest.

posted by iconomy 29 June | 15:10

Oh, that sucks! BOO!

posted by occhiblu 29 June | 15:11

Ex's are such uncomfortable things, I wish there was a separate universe where they could exist comfortably without ever having to worry about running into them.

As an aside, I had an "internet too small" issue last week. A friend sent me a video to watch (which I posted here and no one watched - boo-urns to that) which turns out was done by my ex-ex-bf and his comedy troupe. They do not move in similar circles at all and I have no idea how she found it. At least he's putting the crazy to good use.

posted by LunaticFringe 29 June | 15:23

eeeeek! I can't even imagine any bit of my past BAD DATES hooking up with any bit of my present online life, and it would freak me out, too, for sure.

But after the freaking, I would probably think, "yeah, okay, we're all here (on the internet), buh. What did I think? It's not all mine any more.

Unfortunately it's not all mine any more. It wouldn't be totally crazy if I came across my ex-husband or some of his family or friends... even though they would be, like, the last people on the internet. Ever. Except maybe my ex, who might be on all the dating sites. ugh. *retreats to shell*

posted by taz 29 June | 15:33

Mudpuppie, I feel your pain. I don't know if I would want my actual friends to find my internet life, let alone an asshole ex-boyfriend. I've had plenty.

posted by LoriFLA 29 June | 16:02

I have two exes with blogs, and both have written a bit about me. Much fun.

posted by mrmoonpie 29 June | 16:29

Ugh, so sorry, mudpup! I totally know how that feels.

posted by small_ruminant 29 June | 16:33

it wasn't the penguin, was it?

posted by small_ruminant 29 June | 16:34

I'll never tell!

posted by mudpuppie 29 June | 16:35

It was the iphone.

posted by puke & cry 29 June | 16:38

Eh, we've all dated assholes.

posted by jonmc 29 June | 17:49

(by which I mean, I've had relationships with people who are, by any rational standard, insane, but on some level I cared for them and they cared for me, so I can't write them off entirely, which is what makes situations like this so...awkward and kind of painful, so that's my clumsy way of saying I kind of understand, maybe)

posted by jonmc 29 June | 17:59

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