March 9th, 2011
The System 475: Bad News Flares
Posted without comment, but feel free to leave yours with your own experiences.
Leaving for SXSW tomorrow. Check out the post I wrote about it, especially if you’re going to be there.
Rosscott, Inc.
Comics will be posted until morale improves.
March 9th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Why is email better then a phone call? Should be the other way around.
March 9th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
best is version of rodeo sex http://su.pr/2eJEGY breaking up is always hazardous, might as well make it interesting
March 9th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Good point! Fixed.
March 10th, 2011 at 1:27 am
My husband's comment: "Someday, I'm going to serve you divorce papers via semaphore." Ha!
March 10th, 2011 at 1:29 am
Also, I'm not sure why "snail mail" doesn't rank right alongside email. If someone broke up with me by mail, I'd be just as likely to kill him as if he did it by email. IMO.
March 11th, 2011 at 10:23 am
How come semaphore is better than in person? Well, I guess if you break up with someone in person, they've got more chance to kill you.
Actually, all long-distance breakup methods are less likely to kill you than in person, as long as your ex doesn't know where you are.
March 11th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Totally agree.
March 11th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
“When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best” (Hallmark).
It shows you do care because you did "send the very best".
It is personal because it isn't just a plain e-mail, twitter, semaphore (or any other non-in-person method). The card can show sentimentality but yet you still write the message.
The disadvantage of in-person is you deal w/the crying, the guilt and the "can't we give it one more try."
But, remember one thing: How would you like someone to break up w/you. That would probably be the best method. Just remember that in this day and age, that person has the power to destroy you using all the media available. So, you might want to think carefully about the method you choose.
March 11th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
Ahha… my ex broke up with me via text. Even though he was planning to (and still did) visit me the next day. If I weren't me, I probably would've killed him.
Also: breaking up via facebook relationship status should be a hanging offense.
March 14th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
One of my friends was dumped via away message. This was in high school, but still…
"Blahblah, going out to the movies, and if this is Griffin I'm breaking up with you".
Cold.
March 19th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Murphy, that's a new low. Rosscott should include it in the graphic in between text message/FB/Twitter and email.
March 22nd, 2011 at 1:52 pm
Personally, I care more about the honesty itself then the choice of medium used to move it.
I'd much rather have someone tell me ONCE though a phone call, text, email, or even semaphore (if I understand semaphore) that its over; than repeatedly tell me to my face that things are still on while being cold, aloof, and possible cheating on me.
For the record: I did dispatch an ex once via text message and I make no apologies for it. I was that fed up with her and felt that she wasn't worth more of an effort than a text message.
March 26th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
So if you break up with someone via semaphore, and then have awesome makeup sex… would that be semaphoreplay?
April 3rd, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Timing of a breakup can also be a big factor the breakup process.
Once had a boyfriend in college who broke up with me over instant messenger the night before an 8am final. He'd known he was going to do it for a couple of weeks, and I'd even seen him a couple days prior. He said I was "one of the most considerate people" he'd ever met – apparently I didn't deserve the same treatment. I laugh at his cowardice and rudeness now, but at the time I was really upset.
April 21st, 2011 at 9:42 pm
If you've never heard of "Kelly" go to YouTube and look up the video for "Text Message Breakup". Kelly is a teenage girl character played by a comedy actor – and he also plays her father, grandmother, and brother. "Shoes" is his/her most famous video.
April 22nd, 2011 at 7:57 am
Seen it, love it.
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