I know a girl who broke up with a guy and she told him she wanted to “still be friends.” He said, “No thanks.” She wondered why he couldn’t fall back to being just friends after they had a romantic relationship. I came up with the “McDonalds Analogy” to try and explain it in a simple way that would help all women understand this tough question.

Imagine if you went to McDonalds a lot and ordered a Big Mac Combo meal. A Big Mac, Large Fries and a Coke. You really like this meal. One day, you pull up to the drivethrough and order the Big Mac Combo meal and the girl tells you, “I’m sorry – you can have the Big Mac and the Coke, but you can’t get fries with that anymore.” You think about this for a moment, and sure – the Big Mac is the centerpiece of the meal, but McDonalds has some really good fries and you like their fries with your meal. So you say, “I’ve been able to get fries with that before, why can’t I have fries with my Big Mac combo anymore?” The girls says, “Well, I just think it is better if you only have the Big Mac and the Coke from here on out.”

At this point, a lot of guys are going to go to Wendy’s or BK and see if they can get fries with their combo at that drivethrough window. But there are some guys who REALLY like McDonalds Big Macs and they might think, “If I keep coming here and ordering the Big Mac and Coke, maybe she’ll change her mind and give me some fries with that later.” So they will keep on getting the combo without the fries until the deal breaker happens: One day that guy is going to order the Big Mac and Coke and then he’s going to pull up a little bit to pay, and someone else is going to pull up to the drivethrough speaker and order the “Big Mac Combo” and he is going to hear the girl say, “Would you like fries with that?”

That’s why guys don’t like to be friends with a girl who breaks up with them.

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alemosie:

Kurt Vonnegut on the shape of stories.

thedailywhat:

Banksy TV of the Day: The Antics Roadshow, Banksy’s hour-long television special exploring “the history of behaving badly in public,” aired this past Saturday on Channel 4.

Narrated by Kathy Burke and produced by Jamie D’cruz, The Antics Roadshow examines the stories behind some of the most audacious stunts of recent times and what motivates the perpetrators, from mindless boredom to heartfelt political beliefs.

If you happened to have been living outside the UK at the time, you can check out the punny exposé above (for now, at least).

See Also: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

[urbanshit / thanks jimmy!]

updated link to full show here

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happiness sometimes is a nice view

[Video Link]. In this video, The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC) co-founder Michael Fishbach describes his encounter with a young humpback whale entangled in local fishing nets off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.

Spoiler: the whale is freed, and she survives. After she is freed, she breaches again and again in a way that suggests she is thrilled to be free and alive (yes, there could be more dull explanations for her behavior, but she sure looks like one overjoyed whale to me).

Even in the rare cases where humans are able to intervene to try and free whales trapped in fishing nets, this kind of happy ending is rare. I know people here in Southern California who have been involved in emergency rescue efforts, and the sad truth is: even with the best of efforts, they often fail. Knowing that makes this video all the more sweet.

If you would like to donate to The Great Whale Conservancy‘s efforts, or get involved to help save more whales like this, you can contact Mr. Fishbach at fishdeya@gmail.com, or contribute here.

(via Reddit, thanks Susannah Breslin)

thedailywhat:

Lights Out: In a provocative spoken-word piece entitled “The God Or The Man,” Jamie DeWolf, great-grandson of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, excoriates his great-grandfather for the “legacy of lies I still carries in my last name.”

Posting on Reddit, DeWolf writes:

i knew this story would die with me as no one else in my family will go on the record anymore about it. it’s a Scientology symbol on my right arm, the Zodiac Killer on my left, they both represent to me reminders of what happens when artists go wrong and all of us have gods and killers inside us. plus I’m a fan of irony. and it’s an awesome thing to expose to a Scientologist when they try to sell me a dianetics book.

[reddit.]

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fixty six ads. fixty six arguments that less is more. the remainders found here.

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