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- From: eperkio@cc.helsinki.fi
- Newsgroups: alt.evil
- Subject: The art of alienation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.224705.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 20:47:05 GMT
- Sender: news@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Uutis Ankka)
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 110
-
- The following started out as a paranoid fantasy and then took a
- life of its own. It does not contain physical torture, guns,
- cats or misrepresented Satanism, and hence is, no doubt, rather
- lame for this newsgroup. "Enjoy."
-
- ---Cut here---
-
- How to Get Rid of Your Friends - A Short Guide to the Art of
- Alienation:
-
- 1. Get a possessive partner
-
- Your chosen mate should, at the very least, act clearly uneasy
- in the presence of your soon-to-be-former friends. If he/she
- can manage a distinctly disapproving, chilly manner, you are
- truly in luck, and your partner's portrayed attitude can
- gradually progress from mild discomfort through contempt to open
- hostility.
-
- 2. "Oh? You called?"
-
- Never ever answer the phone yourself. When someone calls you,
- you are always "away". For some reason, call-requests never
- reach you.
-
- 3. Be forgetful
-
- Forget such trivial matters as invitations, parties and
- promises.
-
- 4. Remember "nice" anecdotes
-
- When you are in a company where the soon-to-be-forgotten
- acquaintance is present, remember to tell embarrassing little
- reminiscenses that will make the person look like the complete,
- utter fool he/she no doubt is. This is especially useful, if the
- person has a girl-/boyfriend present. That being the case, you
- might concentrate on stories that make him/her seem violent and
- unlivable with in general.
-
- 5. Speak in plurals
-
- Whenever your target invites you somewhere, remember to use the
- plural, should you accept the invitation. "Oh, WE'll be
- delighted to come". In languages where the use of a distinct
- second person singular is possible, this makes for very
- amusing conversations. After tolerating your partner a few
- times, the target should tone down the frequency of invitations.
-
- 6. Keep up the visits
-
- As the invitations start becoming scarce, you should start
- calling the victim day after day. You're having such a dull
- time at home, and you really had fun the other day.. is it ok
- that you come by today? Preferrably at an inconvenient time, of
- course. Once you're at it, do bring your friends too. The less
- likely they are to please your host, the better.
-
- 7. Speak of rope in a hanged man's house
-
- If you can't dig up any former unpleasantries, choose the
- subject of discussion with care. Computers in the home of a
- computer-illiterate, cars, model airplanes.. Anything as long as
- it's something you can get into long, detailed talks that have
- no interest whatsoever to a layman, such as the host, who is not
- a devout practitioner like you and your friends.
-
- 8. Spread the word
-
- Speak about the target with your friends, so, once you drag them
- over to the zoo-exhibit, they can say something to effect of
- "So, _this_ is the *suppressed giggle* X, I've been hearing so
- much about." Should the host be so inexcusably rude as to ask
- exactly what is it that entirely unknown people have heard about
- him/her, the answer should be something like "Oh, *giggle*,
- just... stories".
-
- 9. It pays to be polite
-
- You, your mate and your friends should be ever so _thrilled_
- with the charming wit of the host. Yes, your mate too; the
- change has an excellent effect on credibility. When speaking with
- him/her, emulate the target's style of speech, pass little,
- extremely transparent courtesies, find out what the host
- would like to hear about him-/herself, and then overdo it,
- while at the same time emptying the victim's stores of the
- social drinkables of your choice. The danger in this
- technique is the target's personality: should the target
- be of less than average intellect and/or have trouble
- with his/her self-esteem, the excessive "courtesy" might
- accidentally make the victim feel closer to you.
-
- 10. End of operation
-
- Sooner or later your former friend will cease to call you, start
- avoiding you, declare him-/herself tired, or just plain busy
- when you try to invade his/her home. Continue being a bore for
- a short while, and then cut all contact. When the victim has
- not contacted you for a month or so, change your phone number.
- (If you can move away, all the better.)
- Operation concluded.
-
-
- Disclaimer: All similarities with persons alive or dead are
- coincidental.
-
- --
- Esa Perki| "I should honor you? Why?"
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