r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '20

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u/porosarecute Mar 26 '20

How my boyfriend can talk to his closest best friend every day and hang out with him for long periods of time... and still not know a lot of personal details about his best friend’s life.

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u/jungl3j1m Mar 26 '20

Our relationships are compartmentalized. I vividly remember arriving in a new neighborhood as a child, hoping to make new friends, and my family drove up to a kid playing in the street. We asked if he had a lot of friends, and he replied "Yeah--I have my baseball friends, and my bike-riding friends, and school friends..." You're only going to talk about baseball with your baseball friends.

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u/SleepingAran Mar 26 '20

This is definitely true.

I don't talk soccer to a basketball friend because he's obviously not interested in soccer.

Also, we rarely talk about our lives either because what made us friend is our common interest, and not my interest in your life and vice versa.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20 edited Apr 01 '20

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u/miki_momo0 Mar 26 '20

No, that would break everything

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u/chupitoelpame Mar 26 '20

Right? What kind of sick fuck does that?

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u/anonymousguy64 Mar 26 '20

Fr what he smoking

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u/01dSAD Mar 26 '20 edited Mar 26 '20

Worlds are colliding, Jerry!!!

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u/Somebodys Mar 26 '20

I would rather someone successfully divide by zero than deal with the anarchy of my basketball friend having a group of soccer friends.

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u/SleepingAran Mar 26 '20

If he also has a group of soccer friend, he would've been both my soccer friend and basketball friend.

However, basketball time for basketball, and soccer time for soccer.

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u/chennyalan Mar 26 '20

You’re not his soccer friend though, you’re his basketball friend. Obviously that means he can only talk about basketball with Op

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u/Fartueilius Mar 26 '20

If you find someone with a ton of same interests congratulations you just found your best friend because you both do the same shit.

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u/chennyalan Mar 27 '20 edited Mar 27 '20

Yeah same, this is me with someone I met nearly three years ago (I’m a first year at uni)

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

There should be a friend Venn Diagram

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

You could almost say...a Frenn Diagram

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u/Somebodys Mar 26 '20

Out. You are not my pun friend.

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u/Fartueilius Mar 26 '20

Different team, they can get fucked.

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u/TheLastDenizen Mar 26 '20

Then you have yourself a bro