As I wait to hear if anything will come from my trip to New York, it seems like a good time to catch up with my Friends™
First up it’s “Sex Tips With Joey”.
Apparently you’re supposed to look deep in their eyes and lightly touch their leg? Who knew. I’ve always found it requires a real conscious effort to look someone in the eye. Hrrm. This might explain why so few of my partners stuck around after the first time…
I’ve tried lightly touching my wife’s leg but she complains it’s too tickly.
But Chandler seems to love it when Joey demonstrates on him. Could this be the start of yet another inter-Friends™ relationship?
It seems not, as it mostly fills them with a desire to play Table Football™ and drink beer.
I’ve never known beer to cool things down in a sexy situation. So this seems a little risky to me…
“The One Where My Friends™ Copy Me”
Monica and Phoebe are discussing cutting out an old friend they haven’t seen in years. Who apparently lived in Chandler & Joey’s apartment before they did?
CAN you really cut someone out if you haven’t seen them for ten years? Seems more like a long term drifting apart than cutting off. The quiet-quitting of ending a friendship. But this “Amanda” is coming back to the US from England and trying to reconnect.
Wait, am I Amanda?!
No, there she is. The main issue with her (apart from her newly acquired “English” accent) is she makes EVERYTHING about herself. And what, exactly, is wrong with that?! God, I hope they don’t cut ME out.
I better renew my efforts to pretend I’m interested in their lives…
I should probably take this moment to reassure the people I haven’t seen for a few years, and those abroad. I will NEVER cut you off. Feel free to get in touch whenever you’re about. Please don’t leave me… God, don’t leave me. It’s so cold in here… with only Americans for company. 50% of whom, I’m pretty sure I don’t like.
From outside it definitely seems like a bad time to be an American. But I’m reasonably sure my middle class, white, New York dwelling Friends™ will be OK. Although Phoebe did just randomly refer to being tortured in the past. I really hope that’s a past life thing and not that she’s had a stretch in Guantanamo.
On a lighter note, Joey and Rachel are finally having their first proper date! (Once she gets him away from Chandler’s leg). Turns out (a bit like my wife) she’s not a huge fan of having her leg lightly touched. And keeps slapping his hand away.
Then he struggles to get her bra off. Oh no, this isn’t going how they’d hoped… Step aside Joe, let me show you how it’s done.
But hang on, if THEY’RE on a date, the others are in the room opposite with Stiflers Mom, and Ross is off getting a fake tan:
First up it’s “Sex Tips With Joey”.
Apparently you’re supposed to look deep in their eyes and lightly touch their leg? Who knew. I’ve always found it requires a real conscious effort to look someone in the eye. Hrrm. This might explain why so few of my partners stuck around after the first time…
I’ve tried lightly touching my wife’s leg but she complains it’s too tickly.
But Chandler seems to love it when Joey demonstrates on him. Could this be the start of yet another inter-Friends™ relationship?
It seems not, as it mostly fills them with a desire to play Table Football™ and drink beer.
I’ve never known beer to cool things down in a sexy situation. So this seems a little risky to me…
“The One Where My Friends™ Copy Me”
Monica and Phoebe are discussing cutting out an old friend they haven’t seen in years. Who apparently lived in Chandler & Joey’s apartment before they did?
CAN you really cut someone out if you haven’t seen them for ten years? Seems more like a long term drifting apart than cutting off. The quiet-quitting of ending a friendship. But this “Amanda” is coming back to the US from England and trying to reconnect.
Wait, am I Amanda?!
No, there she is. The main issue with her (apart from her newly acquired “English” accent) is she makes EVERYTHING about herself. And what, exactly, is wrong with that?! God, I hope they don’t cut ME out.
I better renew my efforts to pretend I’m interested in their lives…
I should probably take this moment to reassure the people I haven’t seen for a few years, and those abroad. I will NEVER cut you off. Feel free to get in touch whenever you’re about. Please don’t leave me… God, don’t leave me. It’s so cold in here… with only Americans for company. 50% of whom, I’m pretty sure I don’t like.
From outside it definitely seems like a bad time to be an American. But I’m reasonably sure my middle class, white, New York dwelling Friends™ will be OK. Although Phoebe did just randomly refer to being tortured in the past. I really hope that’s a past life thing and not that she’s had a stretch in Guantanamo.
On a lighter note, Joey and Rachel are finally having their first proper date! (Once she gets him away from Chandler’s leg). Turns out (a bit like my wife) she’s not a huge fan of having her leg lightly touched. And keeps slapping his hand away.
Then he struggles to get her bra off. Oh no, this isn’t going how they’d hoped… Step aside Joe, let me show you how it’s done.
But hang on, if THEY’RE on a date, the others are in the room opposite with Stiflers Mom, and Ross is off getting a fake tan:
Who has the baby??
How different life must be, living opposite your friends, having them to babysit whenever you want to go on a date. (Even if they never seem to).
On the subject of Ross’s tan, it’s a little embarrassing that poorly applied fake tan has already happened to my wife. Embarrassing for them to take things from my life. They must be running out of ideas.
Looking back at that time, Joey was first grappling with his feelings for Rachel (has it been that long?), and I was trying to read the Velveteen Rabbit™ to my daughter.
It makes me sad to realise that, almost two years later, we still haven’t moved onto it. Though my wife has kicked her terribly applied fake tan addiction.
Having two children at the moment is something I’m struggling with. Even as they both get nicer (the eldest is an absolute sweety now), you’re still constantly being batted between the two of them. It often feels like the second one of them stops being unpleasant, the other one starts up. And, as much as I love being right, it’s deeply disappointing to find that my prediction they’d fight all the time is a lot truer than my wifes prediction that they’d make things easier by playing together.
The mornings when you do wake up and hear them chatting away quite happily is lovely. Rather than the nights no-one sleeps because the new one has decided he’d rather spend a few hours screaming for no reason than sleep.
Aside from the day to day difficulties, lately my mind has been brought down by feeling sad for how much my relationship with my eldest has suffered through all the attention being brought on the little one.
We’ve started addressing this by setting out more one on one time for her. But it does little to alleviate my sadness for how little we’ve progressed the books we’ve been reading to her. It’s just easier to meet them in the middle by reading something they can both get into.
Likewise, a HUGE source of argument now is which TV shows to watch, invariably ending with the youngest having little say, but my daughter being stuck on the same baby crap that has some appeal to him. And the whole time I’m there, getting frustrated that actually, I’d quite like to watch something on my day off please, rather than continuing my existence as a human remote control.
Real Live Sitcom Moment:
Back to my Friends™
Joey and Rachel are discussing their issue. And ask Chandler what it was like with him and Monica.
He replies that it was like “I can’t believe we haven’t been doing this the whole time”.
Which makes me smile. That was how I felt with my wife. Just over a decade ago now. Back when Amanda was still our friend.
But it’s bad news for Joey and Rachel. They decide, maybe, their friendship is just too close for them to feel comfortable fucking.
I feel like Joey gives up quite easily here. Given he’s been into her for two years! AND all they’ve been through with Ross.
But then, she did kneel on his nuts.
Maybe, he decides it’s just not worth the risk.
How different life must be, living opposite your friends, having them to babysit whenever you want to go on a date. (Even if they never seem to).
On the subject of Ross’s tan, it’s a little embarrassing that poorly applied fake tan has already happened to my wife. Embarrassing for them to take things from my life. They must be running out of ideas.
Looking back at that time, Joey was first grappling with his feelings for Rachel (has it been that long?), and I was trying to read the Velveteen Rabbit™ to my daughter.
It makes me sad to realise that, almost two years later, we still haven’t moved onto it. Though my wife has kicked her terribly applied fake tan addiction.
Having two children at the moment is something I’m struggling with. Even as they both get nicer (the eldest is an absolute sweety now), you’re still constantly being batted between the two of them. It often feels like the second one of them stops being unpleasant, the other one starts up. And, as much as I love being right, it’s deeply disappointing to find that my prediction they’d fight all the time is a lot truer than my wifes prediction that they’d make things easier by playing together.
The mornings when you do wake up and hear them chatting away quite happily is lovely. Rather than the nights no-one sleeps because the new one has decided he’d rather spend a few hours screaming for no reason than sleep.
Aside from the day to day difficulties, lately my mind has been brought down by feeling sad for how much my relationship with my eldest has suffered through all the attention being brought on the little one.
We’ve started addressing this by setting out more one on one time for her. But it does little to alleviate my sadness for how little we’ve progressed the books we’ve been reading to her. It’s just easier to meet them in the middle by reading something they can both get into.
Likewise, a HUGE source of argument now is which TV shows to watch, invariably ending with the youngest having little say, but my daughter being stuck on the same baby crap that has some appeal to him. And the whole time I’m there, getting frustrated that actually, I’d quite like to watch something on my day off please, rather than continuing my existence as a human remote control.
Real Live Sitcom Moment:
Back to my Friends™
Joey and Rachel are discussing their issue. And ask Chandler what it was like with him and Monica.
He replies that it was like “I can’t believe we haven’t been doing this the whole time”.
Which makes me smile. That was how I felt with my wife. Just over a decade ago now. Back when Amanda was still our friend.
But it’s bad news for Joey and Rachel. They decide, maybe, their friendship is just too close for them to feel comfortable fucking.
I feel like Joey gives up quite easily here. Given he’s been into her for two years! AND all they’ve been through with Ross.
But then, she did kneel on his nuts.
Maybe, he decides it’s just not worth the risk.
