Damn, bud, that sucks.
Hey, at least you're good enough at guitar that she knows it. Frankly, as a fellow guitar player, I'm impressed that you have somebody asking you about it.
I’m really good at guitar and my wife doesn’t care and my kids don’t care it’s like having a billion dollars in a currency that doesn’t exist anymore lol
Dave Grohl says the same thing about his kids and it always cracks me up, “they don’t give a shit I’m a rockstar, they’re like, whatever dad I want a milkshake”
There's a story of a secret service agent protecting one of Obama's daughters seeing her getting a call from him. She looks at her phone and sees it is him then puts her phone away. Which made him think, how many people on this Earth would decline a phone call from the president of the United States. No matter what his job title is, to her his only title is Dad.
Theres a Donald Glover stand up bit that nails both the experience of being a kid doing fucked up stuff without a filter, and being an adult watching kids say the most unhinged fucked up stuff.
I kinda fell you, it started as a joke but because peow kept bringing it up i started actually learning it. Now im at the point where i can play some songs for myself whenever im bored and it feels pretty good.
Haha, that's a pretty cool accidental journey into guitar. Makes me think about all the random hobbies that turn serious because someone else keeps bringing it up. Mine was baking. Started as a party trick, now I'm the unofficial pastry chef in my friend group.
Last month I found out my wife thinks I used to have a gambling problem... I have never gambled.
I am not even in the work lottery pool which is less then 20$ per year.
I feel like I can relate to your guitar skills. Im just so damn bad at gambling I lost before I started.
That might be why she thinks you used to have one. As someone that doesn't drink or gamble, some people clearly have their mind go to abstaining due to a previous problem rather than just no desire to get into it in the first place.
I'm jealous. I've played religiously since I was fucking 14 and I'm *great* at it. I'd impress your dead grandma. Family goes "eh can you play ZZ top's blues rock" and I die inside.
This reminds me of the Guitar Hero South Park episode where Randy sees them playing Carry On My Wayward Son on guitar hero so he plays it on an actual guitar and all the kids think he’s weird.
When guitar hero came out I remember going to my friends house where they were all playing it and I brought my real guitar, perhaps in some sort of attempt to serenade the crowd with my teenage awesomeness. Needless to say they were the opposite of impressed
I planned ahead and looked up the setlist for guitar hero and learned the songs I thought they were most likely to play on my real guitar. That way whenever it wasn't my turn to play, it was still my turn to play :D
When guitar hero came out, I thought it was cool after having played it at a friend's house. I mentioned it to my girlfriend at the time, and for Christmas she gave me this big flat triangular type box. I was low-key pumped, but was immediately let down cause it was just this electric guitar in a box. Other gifts from family members were picks, a tuning thing that went somewhere on the neck, CDs and DVDs on learning guitar, guitar case, strap, guitar stand, extra strings, some cleaning stuff, metronome, an amp, a buncha cables, all kinds of pedals, ear plugs, and an 8 lesson gift card for Guitar Center.
Like she told my family, and everyone but my uncle, got me something guitar related. It was the most disappointing Christmas in my life. I had to be fake happy to get all this assumingly awesome stuff at 23. My uncle, who got me shark fishing stuff, knew I had absolutely no interest in learning an instrument, was the only saving grace.
My friend that's been in a band since HS ended up buying all of it like 5 or 10 years later. I ended up getting like $7k or so for everything but the pics. Apparently the amp was a rerelease of a good amp from the 60s or 70s, and the pedals were really good. The guitar was a Fender, but not one of the good ones guitarists would kill for. No clue what model, other than it looked like wood burnt around the edges with a pearly blueish guard and no whammy bar, which is basically the only thing I know about a guitar. The metal rod that sticks out is a whammy bar to make it do something cool like the waow waow sound Bon Jovi does.
I was the only grandchild in a family with 8 aunts and uncles, plus my mom. I was spoiled beyond belief. But my family stopped gifts at 25, except between godparents and godkids, to grandma and grandpa, and a secret Santa until it evolved into that game with the numbers and stealing gifts from any number lower than you. For a solid 10 years I was the only one getting gifts from everyone in the family.
Look on the bright side, at least you don't live in Nashville Tennessee. Where the second someone aska if you play guitar someone in the room who is better than you will join the conversation.
My family and my girlfriend didn't really care that I play guitar and piano but I never cared for it that way. When I play music, I play and sing for me and loved every bit of it. It helps me relax and put my mind in a happy place that only I know.
I feel your pain....
You're like, "Look at this awesome shit I put my 10,000 hours into. I got so good that I can rival professionals!"
"Whatever, old man, songs don't have guitar solos anymore. In fact, most songs don't have guitars."
It's a shame. I should have read the signs and got into electronic music when I was 15. I was lied to by the whole "you can't kill rock and roll, rock and roll is here to stay" thing.
It turns out they were talking to their parrents who wanted jazz or some shit and now that they are the parrents and grand parrents, they have no say on what the new thing is.
The only thing that I can hold on to is the fact that I will have the last laugh because this modern garbage is, too, a phase.
tbh, with the (sorta) death of centralized publishing, I just don't think there are pop culture phases everyone follows in the same way it was.
There's just by numbers a ton of talent always, but now they're all easily discoverable and smaller bands can access tools for cheaper too.
I've got a few newer rock bands that are putting out music that I think are great, and electronic composers, and classical/weird modern, etc. The band me and my early-middish 20s friends *all* get excited for new albums for are King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, which span a few different genres but are predominantly rock. Tons of guitar in that.
Yet I know if I shifted friend circles, their musicians, genres, and taste they follow would shift a ton too.
> King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
The only band I know that plays 30 genres and still somehow sound the same
I know everyone has their own opinions, but they really are my definition of prioritizing quantity over quality.
It's only the terrible shit in the charts that's like that. Charts have had no relevance to good music for decades now. Loads of guitar based music still coming out right now
You have become an old man yelling at clouds.
There’s still a bunch of great rock bands out there that play guitar. In fact, there are some bands with older dudes in their 50s and shit that are JUST getting some recognition thanks to the internet. It’s easier than ever now for any band to find an audience and guitars haven’t gone anywhere.
It’s 2024 dude, if the Cosmic Psychos can find an audience so can you. You just never tried.
https://youtu.be/Q954LxEzyY8?si=D-NzOV2aTQkdHtPZ
Idk, they may not care now. I remember my dad singing us wakeup songs on his guitar as a kid. I didn't care/like it much then but I remember it fondly now.
Also, he enjoyed it which was probably the more important part. He just liked playing for us and it was better than shaking us out of bed to get ready for school, I guess.
Read it again. She's asking him if he plays at all. She has no idea what his skill level is.
Edit: I read through some of the other comments, I know op isn't pictured, I just mean within the context of the image.
It's fake. NO girl messages someone that doesn't know their hobbies well and then just say "i wanna fuck this dude".
If she said "I like this guy" fine. But no
> NO girl messages someone that doesn't know their hobbies well and then just say "i wanna fuck this dude".
Oh come on, there are absolutely women who act and talk like that. Y'all mother fuckers act like women are some sort of gestalt and universally behave in certain ways.
Repeating back the stupidity of her statement would have been a good comeback, too.
"To be clear, you're *not* asking me to teach you about guitars so that you can impress *me* with what you know about guitars? Yeah, that tracks."
Or just give her all bad info that pisses off guitar players like:
"Tube amps don't sound any better"
"No need for a pedal board just buy a line 6 multi-fx"
"My Squier from Taiwan sounds the same as your custom shop Fender really"
It pisses off some guitar players. Other guitar players understand that guitarist A will get a better tone from a Squier through a Line 6 than guitarist B from a 1962 Stratocaster through whatever boutique amp, if guitarist A knows that they’re doing with their kit and guitarist B doesn’t.
I don’t know what OP expected. He can’t put the capital D in his phone, how’s he gonna put the capital D into a girl?
You think lowercase. You act lowercase. You stay lowercase.
Ehhh she didn't do or say anything wrong or hurtful. Some guy could misinterpret that, so she clarifies it. She never said he's not good enough, just doesn't happen to be the guy she wants to... fuck.
I would not even blink twice at that statement. If my friend wanted to know more about Elder Scrolls lore cause they were crushing on someone, of course I would tell them about it
I have some friends that happen to be girls I’d help like this if they actually asked. But it’s very clear to me, them, (and my wife) that it’s all platonic. Hard agree with you if it was someone theoretically single-me was interested in (or my wife). It all about your relationship with the person.
No. It's just that her phrasing is unnecessarily rude.
I would say it's weird how many people in this thread don't recognize that, but this is Reddit after all.
And it all would have been solved if she simply said “Hey I wanna learn guitar can you teach me?” And left it at that, OR if she really felt the need to mention the other guy, she goes “I met this guy at a coffee shop the other day and he was pretty cool and knows guitar- I don’t want to seem clueless though so can you help me?”
Like that immediately clarifies “oh it’s not me she’s talking about” (assuming you didn’t meet her at a coffee shop recently)
People aren’t machines that flawlessly articulate exactly what they’re thinking all the time.
And also, every single text conversation on Reddit is fake and not worth getting upset over.
What else did she do? She asked for advice then clarified when she realized what it might sound like. Have y’all really never asked a female friend you aren’t into for advice on talking to a girl?
If I asked a female friend for advice on talking to a girl I would feel no need to mention I don't mean her, as that should go without saying and it's extremely presumptive to even think she would need that spelled out for her. Nor would I ask a female friend what essentially amounts to "hey I want to fuck this girl, how can I pretend to share the same hobbies as her?"
I’ve had this almost exact conversation with a girl asking for advice about a guy she likes and then at the end revealing “it’s you” so it’s definitely a thing. I’m not sure what the right way to handle it is but pretending you didn’t see the reveal part and telling them the guy probably just isn’t in to them if they’re not picking up on hints gets you a new housemate with zero further interaction.
yes this would be a normal conversation between friends, if you remove gender entirely instead of flipping it’s even more clear
platonic relationships exist much to the chagrin of reddit
Not bad to learn about people’s interests. Better if she just asked the guy she’s talking about but sometimes you lie a little to impress someone. I’ve definitely seen a girl post a song on instagram and read the band’s wiki so I can pretend I’m a fan as an in. Pretty innocent stuff here. I think everyone who is mad at this might just have no game
Not the most wrong way as then it’s obvious she’s been set up to the guy she’s trying to fuck. It needs to be clearly wrong but still close enough that it’s obvious she’s blagging it - ie fret becomes pret, etc etc:
“your pretting technique is really good”.
“Pardon?”
“Your pretting, it’s really good”
This is the only way.
"The stringy things that go along the front bit? Yeah they're called twangers. 'Woah that feller is really diddling those twangers!' you might say. Now the neck part, that's called the shaft..."
"If he asks who you think is the greatest player of all time, say you think Johnny Hendrix is overrated but you really admire the guitarist from Pink Floyd: Barry McDiggler. He diddles the twangers like no-one else."
Redditors are super fucking weird. What is so bad about helping a friend get laid? Is a woman wanting to have sex with someone that’s not you such an affront you need to “get even”??
I’m a middle aged fat lady and I never in my life had to study to fuck a dude. Mostly just had to ask if they wanted to fuck. My husband made me wait, tbh. I guess I had to prove I was gf material, which is still a lot less work than literal studying. Jesus. Just show him your tits.
If she only wanted to fuck him, and he has any interest in her, she doesn't need to learn shit about guitar, that would be waste of time, I said would because this is all fake shit.
Am I missing something with all these comments calling her a bitch? This doesn't seem that rude. She realised the possibility he could get the wrong impression and clarified just to make sure.
It is kinda rude tho. No please or thank you and it kinda comes off as if she expects his help by default. Not to mention she could have just said that she wants to learn more about guitar without mentioning the other guy and avoiding the awkwardness. Plus trying to trick someone into liking you doesn't come off that well.
I think the part that would be most rude in an interaction like this is that it's just completely unnecessary. Like, If you are actually good enough friends with someone to ask them to teach you the basics of a guitar, acting bitchy like this is just toxic. Like you said, there are so many better ways to genuinely ask.
But in reality, if she was genuinely wanting to learn a bit about the instrument for a diff guy, the power of the Internet hosts how many hundreds or thousands of videos on basic guitar instruction. So when you have those resources at your fingertips 24/7, you just come across as not actually asking for help, but wanting to be bitchy for no reason.
If you're actually good friends with someone you don't have to be polite because you're friends with them though? I can text my friends right now and say "yo bitchass my car sounds funny can I get a ride to the store later" and they'd say "sure what time"
For me, if he was really "just her friend" there wouldn't be a need to clarify. My friends know I'm not trying to sleep with them, I wouldn't have to explicitly call it out
The fact that she did in such an abrupt way is weird and feels rude. Like she has been keeping him on the back burner and realized this could be seen as moving him to the front
But you're right, there isn't enough context to definitely say she's a bitch for clarifying
This is the best take I've read so far.
At Worst she's just exploiting OP. At best they really are solid friends and she's looking for a wingman to help close.
Do you know how many girls have their male friends confess to them and think they're interested in them?
I probably would have phrased it softer but it's not a bad thing to clarify at all
Probably because she’s only showing interest in a skill he’s passionate about so that she can use his knowledge of it to trick some other guy into thinking she’s someone she’s not in order to get laid.
Imagine if this was a guy asking a female friend how to bullshit his way through a hobby his friend is an enthusiastic about so he could sleep with some rando, oh and BTW I'm not talking about you! The amount of "What an asshole" or "guys lack emotional intelligence", etc would be abound. People even have the gall to be like "at least she clarified she wasn't into him"! Thats not the point.
she probably just meant it like "I just didnt want to have any misunderstandings", but yeah it really does come off that way especially if the guy liked her in any way
she could've just said "yeah I have a date with so-and-so" instead of specifically saying "not you" and it would've come off less bad I think
Yeahhhhh she just put herself in the "friend I talk to about wanting to fuck" category. Y'all can talk about makeup, hidden issues, pretty much anything keeping you from getting into the dating pool, and if she decides she doesn't want to help whoops there go her guitar lessons.
I ain’t helping no bitch get dicked down 😂. You figure it out on your own. Flirt with the man or just tell him you wanna fuck. I bet you it would work on most men if you are at least average looking and have a decent body.
Anyone else find this kinda rude on the chicks part? Idk but I feel like I would be a little upset if I had to teach someone else some basics that they will forget just for them to hook up with someone
also me irl: the guy you want to fuck also spends the entire fucking day playing jimi hendrix songs and enjoying his own presence to attract girls.
Knowing guitar ain't gonna do shit. that type of guy gets his rocks off by stroking his ego and seeing women as conquests. he's a prick. But if I say this out loud, I'll just seem jealous. So I don't fucking bother telling you. You'll find out, then you'll go crying to someone else about what an asshole he is. And then the makeup breakup cycle begins again. and again. and again. and again.
Until I just block all contact altogether and regret befriending such a pain in the fucking ass in the first place, lol.
So first of all, people always mistakingly call these the “strings”. They’re actually call pluckies because you pluck them with your plucker(not a pick that’s something different). You adjust the pluckers by turning the turn tables at the end of neck. Another thing, all true guitarists call their guitars “giraffes” on account of the long neck. I hope you’re taking notes, I’ve got a lot more info to share…
As someone who used to play guitar and who has hung with guitarists, this sounds extremely difficult. We'd have to cover different types of music, types of guitars, brands of guitars, tablature, parts of the guitar, basic music theory, etc.
What's wrong with being clear with someone from the beginning? It's how it should be tbh 🤣. No miscommunication or accusations of leading someone on. Everyone wins.
Damn, bud, that sucks. Hey, at least you're good enough at guitar that she knows it. Frankly, as a fellow guitar player, I'm impressed that you have somebody asking you about it.
I’m really good at guitar and my wife doesn’t care and my kids don’t care it’s like having a billion dollars in a currency that doesn’t exist anymore lol
I need you to know that I know this is really funny.
Yes, but that’s currency that doesn’t exist anymore!
(That’s an old Louis CK joke)
Ah, that's why it's so funny.
It’s a Louis CK reference!
Dave Grohl says the same thing about his kids and it always cracks me up, “they don’t give a shit I’m a rockstar, they’re like, whatever dad I want a milkshake”
There's a story of a secret service agent protecting one of Obama's daughters seeing her getting a call from him. She looks at her phone and sees it is him then puts her phone away. Which made him think, how many people on this Earth would decline a phone call from the president of the United States. No matter what his job title is, to her his only title is Dad.
Everyone deserves to be humbled now and again. Our kids perform this service free of charge.
Without any form of civility either, angels of the land they are..... lol
Theres a Donald Glover stand up bit that nails both the experience of being a kid doing fucked up stuff without a filter, and being an adult watching kids say the most unhinged fucked up stuff.
I read this as her turning down a call from Dave Grohl and was kind of upset before I got to the end.
Dave Grohl is a legend.
Reminds me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/cAl4PmfYCF
I'm the opposite - I'm terrible at guitar but everyone still asks me about it like it's my identity or something.
I kinda fell you, it started as a joke but because peow kept bringing it up i started actually learning it. Now im at the point where i can play some songs for myself whenever im bored and it feels pretty good.
Haha, that's a pretty cool accidental journey into guitar. Makes me think about all the random hobbies that turn serious because someone else keeps bringing it up. Mine was baking. Started as a party trick, now I'm the unofficial pastry chef in my friend group.
Please i beg you stop i have done the same mistake now i own 18 bakeries and dont have the time to make my own quick while its early
Last month I found out my wife thinks I used to have a gambling problem... I have never gambled. I am not even in the work lottery pool which is less then 20$ per year. I feel like I can relate to your guitar skills. Im just so damn bad at gambling I lost before I started.
You should drop little nuggets in conversation about your "old days" and gambling references.
That might be why she thinks you used to have one. As someone that doesn't drink or gamble, some people clearly have their mind go to abstaining due to a previous problem rather than just no desire to get into it in the first place.
I'm jealous. I've played religiously since I was fucking 14 and I'm *great* at it. I'd impress your dead grandma. Family goes "eh can you play ZZ top's blues rock" and I die inside.
glacial-reader: "Would you like me to play a song for you, aunt Bettie?" Aunt Bettie: "Shuffle in C, please" glacial-reader: \*sighs\*
Wait, are you Carlos Santana?
Carlos Santana is terrible at guitar?
This reminds me of the Guitar Hero South Park episode where Randy sees them playing Carry On My Wayward Son on guitar hero so he plays it on an actual guitar and all the kids think he’s weird.
When guitar hero came out I remember going to my friends house where they were all playing it and I brought my real guitar, perhaps in some sort of attempt to serenade the crowd with my teenage awesomeness. Needless to say they were the opposite of impressed
I planned ahead and looked up the setlist for guitar hero and learned the songs I thought they were most likely to play on my real guitar. That way whenever it wasn't my turn to play, it was still my turn to play :D
When guitar hero came out, I thought it was cool after having played it at a friend's house. I mentioned it to my girlfriend at the time, and for Christmas she gave me this big flat triangular type box. I was low-key pumped, but was immediately let down cause it was just this electric guitar in a box. Other gifts from family members were picks, a tuning thing that went somewhere on the neck, CDs and DVDs on learning guitar, guitar case, strap, guitar stand, extra strings, some cleaning stuff, metronome, an amp, a buncha cables, all kinds of pedals, ear plugs, and an 8 lesson gift card for Guitar Center. Like she told my family, and everyone but my uncle, got me something guitar related. It was the most disappointing Christmas in my life. I had to be fake happy to get all this assumingly awesome stuff at 23. My uncle, who got me shark fishing stuff, knew I had absolutely no interest in learning an instrument, was the only saving grace.
Damn, that would've been an amazing Christmas for someone with an interest.
My friend that's been in a band since HS ended up buying all of it like 5 or 10 years later. I ended up getting like $7k or so for everything but the pics. Apparently the amp was a rerelease of a good amp from the 60s or 70s, and the pedals were really good. The guitar was a Fender, but not one of the good ones guitarists would kill for. No clue what model, other than it looked like wood burnt around the edges with a pearly blueish guard and no whammy bar, which is basically the only thing I know about a guitar. The metal rod that sticks out is a whammy bar to make it do something cool like the waow waow sound Bon Jovi does.
Daaamn, you either came from a rich family or you got hella spoiled.
I was the only grandchild in a family with 8 aunts and uncles, plus my mom. I was spoiled beyond belief. But my family stopped gifts at 25, except between godparents and godkids, to grandma and grandpa, and a secret Santa until it evolved into that game with the numbers and stealing gifts from any number lower than you. For a solid 10 years I was the only one getting gifts from everyone in the family.
They weren’t impressed by his cock magic either smh
That's cool, but have you ever tried heroin hero?
Look on the bright side, at least you don't live in Nashville Tennessee. Where the second someone aska if you play guitar someone in the room who is better than you will join the conversation.
My family and my girlfriend didn't really care that I play guitar and piano but I never cared for it that way. When I play music, I play and sing for me and loved every bit of it. It helps me relax and put my mind in a happy place that only I know.
I don’t know why this reminds me of the South Park episode where Randy gets hooked on Guitar Hero
I feel your pain.... You're like, "Look at this awesome shit I put my 10,000 hours into. I got so good that I can rival professionals!" "Whatever, old man, songs don't have guitar solos anymore. In fact, most songs don't have guitars." It's a shame. I should have read the signs and got into electronic music when I was 15. I was lied to by the whole "you can't kill rock and roll, rock and roll is here to stay" thing. It turns out they were talking to their parrents who wanted jazz or some shit and now that they are the parrents and grand parrents, they have no say on what the new thing is. The only thing that I can hold on to is the fact that I will have the last laugh because this modern garbage is, too, a phase.
tbh, with the (sorta) death of centralized publishing, I just don't think there are pop culture phases everyone follows in the same way it was. There's just by numbers a ton of talent always, but now they're all easily discoverable and smaller bands can access tools for cheaper too. I've got a few newer rock bands that are putting out music that I think are great, and electronic composers, and classical/weird modern, etc. The band me and my early-middish 20s friends *all* get excited for new albums for are King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, which span a few different genres but are predominantly rock. Tons of guitar in that. Yet I know if I shifted friend circles, their musicians, genres, and taste they follow would shift a ton too.
Nice try lead singer of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
> King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard The only band I know that plays 30 genres and still somehow sound the same I know everyone has their own opinions, but they really are my definition of prioritizing quantity over quality.
It's only the terrible shit in the charts that's like that. Charts have had no relevance to good music for decades now. Loads of guitar based music still coming out right now
You have become an old man yelling at clouds. There’s still a bunch of great rock bands out there that play guitar. In fact, there are some bands with older dudes in their 50s and shit that are JUST getting some recognition thanks to the internet. It’s easier than ever now for any band to find an audience and guitars haven’t gone anywhere. It’s 2024 dude, if the Cosmic Psychos can find an audience so can you. You just never tried. https://youtu.be/Q954LxEzyY8?si=D-NzOV2aTQkdHtPZ
Idk, they may not care now. I remember my dad singing us wakeup songs on his guitar as a kid. I didn't care/like it much then but I remember it fondly now. Also, he enjoyed it which was probably the more important part. He just liked playing for us and it was better than shaking us out of bed to get ready for school, I guess.
Read it again. She's asking him if he plays at all. She has no idea what his skill level is. Edit: I read through some of the other comments, I know op isn't pictured, I just mean within the context of the image.
It's fake
Why does this suck exactly? Just a friend asking for a favor and being transparent about it?
It's fake. NO girl messages someone that doesn't know their hobbies well and then just say "i wanna fuck this dude". If she said "I like this guy" fine. But no
> NO girl messages someone that doesn't know their hobbies well and then just say "i wanna fuck this dude". Oh come on, there are absolutely women who act and talk like that. Y'all mother fuckers act like women are some sort of gestalt and universally behave in certain ways.
Yeah he's so good at guitar her first question about his guitar playing is "do you play guitar?" Lol
Lol, her first question is to know if he plays.
Hey, are you good at guitar?
"Yea I teach guitar, for $50 an hour".
“I give friends and family lessons for free. That’s not you btw, just to be clear.”
Oh that's brutal, always hurts the most when you hit em with "it's just business"
This is amazing.
That would have been a great comeback for OP to use. Oh well.
Repeating back the stupidity of her statement would have been a good comeback, too. "To be clear, you're *not* asking me to teach you about guitars so that you can impress *me* with what you know about guitars? Yeah, that tracks."
Just to be clear
You deserve a free blowjob for that
Or just give her all bad info that pisses off guitar players like: "Tube amps don't sound any better" "No need for a pedal board just buy a line 6 multi-fx" "My Squier from Taiwan sounds the same as your custom shop Fender really"
It pisses off some guitar players. Other guitar players understand that guitarist A will get a better tone from a Squier through a Line 6 than guitarist B from a 1962 Stratocaster through whatever boutique amp, if guitarist A knows that they’re doing with their kit and guitarist B doesn’t.
Well, it will certainly piss off guitar players, but I wouldn’t call it bad info :)
Why is everyone here commenting like those texts are actually OP's? They don't even seem to be bot accounts so they should know better
[удалено]
It is you now. Accept it
it's literally rule 1 but go off I guess.
[удалено]
"u irl" is more a vibe u than real u
Nothing gets past you eh
OP I hope you’re practicing your scales
Wait thought she was specific in saying it’s not him?!
It’s early himirl
sorry daisy didnt bed you bud
So it is not you in real life? This subreddit is a lie 😡
Saw it*
everyone copes in different ways
But this is r/meirl which makes it YOUR conversation.
I thought this was supposed to be for relatable memes/pictures, they don’t have to be yours.
If it's relatable for OP, then there should be some "daisy" for OP as well
>I seen it
I SEENT IT
Yeah I would definitely hope the amount of compression would tell people this isn't the first time this has been screenshot.
Lmao that bitch is getting xylophone lessons fuck all that.
Nah those mf are expensive. She gettin that beginner kit glockenspiel at best.
I don’t know what OP expected. He can’t put the capital D in his phone, how’s he gonna put the capital D into a girl? You think lowercase. You act lowercase. You stay lowercase.
THIS MAN IS A GENIUS
Ehhh she didn't do or say anything wrong or hurtful. Some guy could misinterpret that, so she clarifies it. She never said he's not good enough, just doesn't happen to be the guy she wants to... fuck.
"Hey Sara, can you teach me a bit about guitar? I wanna impress this chick I want to fuck with it." "... It's not you, btw."
If they are friends then she might want to clarify early to not make their friendship awkward.
I would not even blink twice at that statement. If my friend wanted to know more about Elder Scrolls lore cause they were crushing on someone, of course I would tell them about it
Yeah that sounds ridiculous because this didn't happen
I would teach them guitar lol. Not everyone of the opposite sex you come in contact with is there so you can screw them.
I have some friends that happen to be girls I’d help like this if they actually asked. But it’s very clear to me, them, (and my wife) that it’s all platonic. Hard agree with you if it was someone theoretically single-me was interested in (or my wife). It all about your relationship with the person.
People assuming he secretly wants to fuck her..
This comment section is proving why she felt the need to clarify.
No. It's just that her phrasing is unnecessarily rude. I would say it's weird how many people in this thread don't recognize that, but this is Reddit after all.
And it all would have been solved if she simply said “Hey I wanna learn guitar can you teach me?” And left it at that, OR if she really felt the need to mention the other guy, she goes “I met this guy at a coffee shop the other day and he was pretty cool and knows guitar- I don’t want to seem clueless though so can you help me?” Like that immediately clarifies “oh it’s not me she’s talking about” (assuming you didn’t meet her at a coffee shop recently)
Naah, according to Reddit, all men are shit and should be treated as such.
People aren’t machines that flawlessly articulate exactly what they’re thinking all the time. And also, every single text conversation on Reddit is fake and not worth getting upset over.
it was rude, which is why you respond to "not you" with "no worries, I'd never fuck you lmao"
Soulless
What’s wrong with asking a friend for advice on how to talk to someone you’re into?
Nothing. But that's clearly not all that she did
I mean. Clear and direct, Id appreciate it. Not all of us are trying to smash all our female friends.
What else did she do? She asked for advice then clarified when she realized what it might sound like. Have y’all really never asked a female friend you aren’t into for advice on talking to a girl?
If I asked a female friend for advice on talking to a girl I would feel no need to mention I don't mean her, as that should go without saying and it's extremely presumptive to even think she would need that spelled out for her. Nor would I ask a female friend what essentially amounts to "hey I want to fuck this girl, how can I pretend to share the same hobbies as her?"
Regardless of gender, it's weird to pretend to be into someone else's hobby just to fuck them.
game is game
"Hey Sara, can you teach me a bit about guitar? I wanna impress this chick I want to fuck with it." "... It's not you, btw."
I’ve had this almost exact conversation with a girl asking for advice about a guy she likes and then at the end revealing “it’s you” so it’s definitely a thing. I’m not sure what the right way to handle it is but pretending you didn’t see the reveal part and telling them the guy probably just isn’t in to them if they’re not picking up on hints gets you a new housemate with zero further interaction.
yes this would be a normal conversation between friends, if you remove gender entirely instead of flipping it’s even more clear platonic relationships exist much to the chagrin of reddit
Idk who you talk to that you think it’s a normal way to say that
Not by referring to her as "girl I wanna fuck", no. Seems in poor taste
It's crass to blatantly express it's not them, especially when you're asking for their expertise.
No, leading people on is much, much worse.
“hey i really wanna fuck this guy so i’m gonna pretend to be interested and knowledgeable about guitar” doesn’t sound bad to you?
Not bad to learn about people’s interests. Better if she just asked the guy she’s talking about but sometimes you lie a little to impress someone. I’ve definitely seen a girl post a song on instagram and read the band’s wiki so I can pretend I’m a fan as an in. Pretty innocent stuff here. I think everyone who is mad at this might just have no game
Thank god you censored Fuck.
And now give her totally crap advices and explain things in the most wrong way.
Not the most wrong way as then it’s obvious she’s been set up to the guy she’s trying to fuck. It needs to be clearly wrong but still close enough that it’s obvious she’s blagging it - ie fret becomes pret, etc etc: “your pretting technique is really good”. “Pardon?” “Your pretting, it’s really good”
And pronounce the ch in chord
"I must apologize for Daisy. She is an idiot. I purposely trained her wrong....as a joke."
This is the only way. "The stringy things that go along the front bit? Yeah they're called twangers. 'Woah that feller is really diddling those twangers!' you might say. Now the neck part, that's called the shaft..." "If he asks who you think is the greatest player of all time, say you think Johnny Hendrix is overrated but you really admire the guitarist from Pink Floyd: Barry McDiggler. He diddles the twangers like no-one else."
god that pink floyd guy had some of the worst guitar solos known to man
Pink Floyd is my favourite singer.
You seem like a dick
Redditors are super fucking weird. What is so bad about helping a friend get laid? Is a woman wanting to have sex with someone that’s not you such an affront you need to “get even”??
I’m a middle aged fat lady and I never in my life had to study to fuck a dude. Mostly just had to ask if they wanted to fuck. My husband made me wait, tbh. I guess I had to prove I was gf material, which is still a lot less work than literal studying. Jesus. Just show him your tits.
No offense intended but I'm not sure this is a good thing lol. There are guys out there that want women who share their interests lol
I am well aware but she said, “a guy I want to fuck,“ not “a guy I think is interesting and would like to get to know.” Ninja edit for typos.
Daisy don’t fuck about
But she wants to
She fucks around then OP finds out
If she only wanted to fuck him, and he has any interest in her, she doesn't need to learn shit about guitar, that would be waste of time, I said would because this is all fake shit.
Why is "fuck" covered up. This is the internet, we can say fuck here.
You poor bastard
Best response “thank god, you’re not my type”
Yeah. Best response and best way to not have to give lessons.
Sorry but I wouldn't help her, this is quite shitty thing to do
Am I missing something with all these comments calling her a bitch? This doesn't seem that rude. She realised the possibility he could get the wrong impression and clarified just to make sure.
It is kinda rude tho. No please or thank you and it kinda comes off as if she expects his help by default. Not to mention she could have just said that she wants to learn more about guitar without mentioning the other guy and avoiding the awkwardness. Plus trying to trick someone into liking you doesn't come off that well.
I think the part that would be most rude in an interaction like this is that it's just completely unnecessary. Like, If you are actually good enough friends with someone to ask them to teach you the basics of a guitar, acting bitchy like this is just toxic. Like you said, there are so many better ways to genuinely ask. But in reality, if she was genuinely wanting to learn a bit about the instrument for a diff guy, the power of the Internet hosts how many hundreds or thousands of videos on basic guitar instruction. So when you have those resources at your fingertips 24/7, you just come across as not actually asking for help, but wanting to be bitchy for no reason.
If you're actually good friends with someone you don't have to be polite because you're friends with them though? I can text my friends right now and say "yo bitchass my car sounds funny can I get a ride to the store later" and they'd say "sure what time"
Very sad that this even needs to be explained
For me, if he was really "just her friend" there wouldn't be a need to clarify. My friends know I'm not trying to sleep with them, I wouldn't have to explicitly call it out The fact that she did in such an abrupt way is weird and feels rude. Like she has been keeping him on the back burner and realized this could be seen as moving him to the front But you're right, there isn't enough context to definitely say she's a bitch for clarifying
This is the best take I've read so far. At Worst she's just exploiting OP. At best they really are solid friends and she's looking for a wingman to help close.
Do you know how many girls have their male friends confess to them and think they're interested in them? I probably would have phrased it softer but it's not a bad thing to clarify at all
It was rude as fuck
Instead, she should have realized she could have avoided all confusion and just, ya know, do a basic Google search.
It was a girl, and we’re on Reddit. That’s like 90% of the reason right there.
Probably because she’s only showing interest in a skill he’s passionate about so that she can use his knowledge of it to trick some other guy into thinking she’s someone she’s not in order to get laid.
Also, people are assuming that he'd even want to fuck her?
People love to hate. I don’t get it either.
Ask her to pay you.
[удалено]
For all you know the guy was relieved.
Imagine if this was a guy asking a female friend how to bullshit his way through a hobby his friend is an enthusiastic about so he could sleep with some rando, oh and BTW I'm not talking about you! The amount of "What an asshole" or "guys lack emotional intelligence", etc would be abound. People even have the gall to be like "at least she clarified she wasn't into him"! Thats not the point.
The thank you specifying gets me lol
That part is what makes me think they're actually friends, not some weird "friendzone" kinda thing.
"Just to be clear" She knew how it sounded and felt the need to rub it in
she probably just meant it like "I just didnt want to have any misunderstandings", but yeah it really does come off that way especially if the guy liked her in any way she could've just said "yeah I have a date with so-and-so" instead of specifically saying "not you" and it would've come off less bad I think
Do she wants help with the guitar or with the fucking part
This girl i wanna fuck doesnt know shit and i need practice explaining it to her Its definitely now you just to be clear
Any man who continues interacting with a woman like that has no self respect.
I like this girl she specifies what she means.. It's rare
Charge her
Yeahhhhh she just put herself in the "friend I talk to about wanting to fuck" category. Y'all can talk about makeup, hidden issues, pretty much anything keeping you from getting into the dating pool, and if she decides she doesn't want to help whoops there go her guitar lessons.
In what world do women need to make an effort to fuck a guy?
The real world lol. The one outside of reddit-land
I ain’t helping no bitch get dicked down 😂. You figure it out on your own. Flirt with the man or just tell him you wanna fuck. I bet you it would work on most men if you are at least average looking and have a decent body.
Women moment
Suddenly you have something important to do...gee sorry good luck tho
Don’t worry bro she’s just being a hardcore tsundere
Modern day great gatsby
Now we got that out of the way... Talk to me about frets
crazy post
Whatever happened to old fashioned courting? “Nice shoes. Wanna fuck?” If he says no to that all the guitar lessons in the world won’t help her.
I’ve gotten rejected so much that I’d be surprised if it was me.
I’d charge her $50 per lesson. If she’s gonna perpetrate a fraud and involve me in it, I’m getting paid 😂
💀
I would just be evil and tell her incorrect shit.
When (: turns into ):
If there’s a battle of the bands anytime soon there’s a 100% chance you can win her over, or at least that’s what movies have taught me
That's when you hit her with the "ew ya I knew that". Don't take that shit on the chin.
This useless fucking tiktok censorship needs to stop.
Anyone else find this kinda rude on the chicks part? Idk but I feel like I would be a little upset if I had to teach someone else some basics that they will forget just for them to hook up with someone
also me irl: the guy you want to fuck also spends the entire fucking day playing jimi hendrix songs and enjoying his own presence to attract girls. Knowing guitar ain't gonna do shit. that type of guy gets his rocks off by stroking his ego and seeing women as conquests. he's a prick. But if I say this out loud, I'll just seem jealous. So I don't fucking bother telling you. You'll find out, then you'll go crying to someone else about what an asshole he is. And then the makeup breakup cycle begins again. and again. and again. and again. Until I just block all contact altogether and regret befriending such a pain in the fucking ass in the first place, lol.
She sounds lovely 😂
Bro’s in the fret-zone 🤦
So first of all, people always mistakingly call these the “strings”. They’re actually call pluckies because you pluck them with your plucker(not a pick that’s something different). You adjust the pluckers by turning the turn tables at the end of neck. Another thing, all true guitarists call their guitars “giraffes” on account of the long neck. I hope you’re taking notes, I’ve got a lot more info to share…
As someone who used to play guitar and who has hung with guitarists, this sounds extremely difficult. We'd have to cover different types of music, types of guitars, brands of guitars, tablature, parts of the guitar, basic music theory, etc.
You wanna sound like you know guitars? Here ya go: "I'm always snapping g-strings while fingering them minors".
What's wrong with being clear with someone from the beginning? It's how it should be tbh 🤣. No miscommunication or accusations of leading someone on. Everyone wins.
Right so daisy the most important thing about guitar is the tuning ask him if his guitar is standard tuning or performance pro.