# It just goes to show, don't trust your friends. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 14, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-just-goes-to-show-dont-trust-your-friends/103604 "2002-04-14T19:48:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monocracy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monocracy/32/4493_2.png) [@Monocracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monocracy)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-just-goes-to-show-dont-trust-your-friends/103604/21 "2002-04-17T03:21:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LaurAnge \* > **Monocracy** , I think you’re reading into this story a lot that just isn’t there. How can he take responsibility for his actions if **they were not his actions**? Thank you for building up a good strawman then burning it down. I said no such thing so please do not put words into my mouth. I said **problems** , not **actions**. If you don’t believe me, maybe you can go back and actually read my post. Mistrust and guilt are obviously problems with this relationship and shouldn’t be blamed on a third party. This is something between him and his girlfriend. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Bedrosian Bixby_ > As for my backstabbing friend, every attempt to contact him, by me and by mutual friends, have failed. I’m willing to go out on a limb and assume he’s avoiding me and I would further conjecture that he is avoiding because he said some bad shit about me. What the hell? Is he in the Witness Protection Program or something? Let me guess, you left him a message on his answering machine that goes something like this, “Hey cocksucker, you’ve been telling lies to my girlfriend, i’m going to kick your ass when i see you!” If that was the first i heard from a friend in four months, i wouldn’t bother to respond either. > [@](#): > > Thanks to the rest of you for sharing your feelings. Only because they agreed with you that Mark was scum even though they’re deducing this from 3rd hand information. Hell, 2nd hand information is called “hearsay”, 3rd hand information is a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-just-goes-to-show-dont-trust-your-friends/103604/22 "2002-04-17T03:55:10Z")
:rolleyes: I’m wondering how exactly you know what it is I said, in my attempts to reach him. Feel free to continue putting words in my mouth. You seem a little too bent out of shape about this. I appreciate your response as well, sorry if I made you feel left out. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-just-goes-to-show-dont-trust-your-friends/103604/23 "2002-04-17T04:06:40Z")
**Bedrosian Bixby** , it’s a great sign that your girlfriend was able to calm down and realise that the guy was a lying jerk. I wish you two all the best in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-just-goes-to-show-dont-trust-your-friends/103604/24 "2002-04-17T06:02:44Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Monocracy_ > I said no such thing so please do not put words into my mouth… > > …Let me guess, you left him a message on his answering machine that goes something like this, “Hey cocksucker, you’ve been telling lies to my girlfriend, i’m going to kick your ass when i see you!” I’m thinking of another word right now, sounds a lot like **Monocracy** … ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-just-goes-to-show-dont-trust-your-friends/103604/25 "2002-04-17T12:04:20Z")
I dunno…I think the Pit is the perfect place for Monocracy to throw in his opinion, strong as it may be. I think it’s been established that if you want your feet rubbed, back scratched, and cock sucked, you post in MPSIMS; if you really want to get the bile flowing, you post in here. I also find it hard to understand (as Geobabe did) the warm, trusting, caring girlfriend immediately believing a guy no one’s heard from in four months, and agree that perhaps there are trust issues that go beyond “Did you bone some random girl back when you were drinking heavily?” While Monocracy was not particularly even-handed on his/her comments, on more than one occasion I’ve seen shit like this go, down, and I’ve SEEN the person in the OP’s position tell everyone, “I’m going to KILL that lying motherfucker,” then express shock and amazement when said lying motherfucker doesn’t resurface. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-just-goes-to-show-dont-trust-your-friends/103604.md?page=1)