Life Advice #1

Well, for a lighter moment I thought I'd start dispensing lifestyle advice to all you lovely people. I should admit at the outset that this first lot is not, in fact, mine.

Now let me ask a question of all of you. When you were young, mid teens, dealing with guys or girls (as appropriate) how many of you came across the conundrum of varying degrees of relationships? "We're just friends" "We're seeing each other" "No, no, we're not going out, we're just together." Now all this appropriately complicated; until now! Those of you familiar with the show How I met Your Mother will know of Barney and his blog. Well the good people at CBS have set up this blog up and it is from that source that I'll draw this first lot of advice - definitions to help you with pubescent relationships with the opposite sex.

hook·ing up [hoo-k-ing up] - When two people do it, consistently, but aren’t hanging out during daylight hours – unless it’s for the express purpose of getting it on.

hang·ing out [hang – ing – owt] – The process of participating in an organized activity together – such as a movie or dinner - followed shortly thereafter by furious banging.

see·ing where things are go·ing [see-ing wair things ahr going] – The process in which two people hang out, hook up, and do everything they can not to think about what it means.

da·ting – [day-ting] 1) The first time seeing where things are going fails. 2) Hanging out without the guarantee of sex.
hook·ing up [hoo-k-ing up] - When two people do it, consistently, but aren’t hanging out during daylight hours – unless it’s for the express purpose of getting it on.

hang·ing out [hang – ing – owt] – The process of participating in an organized activity together – such as a movie or dinner - followed shortly thereafter by furious banging.

see·ing where things are go·ing [see-ing wair things ahr going] – The process in which two people hang out, hook up, and do everything they can not to think about what it means.
da·ting – [day-ting] 1) The first time seeing where things are going fails. 2) Hanging out without the guarantee of sex.

[source: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/community/barney_blog/index.php]

So there you go, read it well, commit it to memory, and try to be less confused next time the issue of 'hooking up' or 'getting together' comes up.

It does actually make it's point quite well. Of course it's written in a humourous vein, and with a hugely sexual focus, but it does at least try to define this conundrum for us. How many times has this issue been confused by different definitions? Well now you have a printed group of definitions to work by - just don't take it all too seriously.

I'll be back with more for you soon, but until then...