That was good. Didn't like having to read it, but funny story. Like the ending

*love *lies *terrible *fail

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It is amusing, but I can't help but feel that we are either not getting the complete story, or it is fake.

I mean, there are a few things which just don't seem possible.

1. The guy talks to the girl for weeks about his trip and it doesn't sink in AT ALL?
2. He calls her the night before leaving to tell her he's leaving and it STILL doesn't sink in?
3. He goes off to Europe and doesn't call his girlfriend ONCE for 2 weeks? This is Europe, not f'in Antartica. I for one check my personal e-mail at least once every couple of days when traveling.
4. Not one of his other friends seemed to know he was at Europe either? Seems the girlfriend would have heard it while complaining to a mutual acquaintance at some point...

To me, it seems much more likely that it is either made up or possibly, she WAS a clingy girlfriend and he thought it would be funny to not tell her and see what happens.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'europe, backpack, insane girlfriend' to 'europe, backpack, insane girlfriend, i know youre around' - edited by calvados

backpacking for two weeks? through europe? i guess he's another of those ignorants who think of europe as one single country. it's a CONTINENT! what do you expect to see of a whole continent in two weeks? even if he managed to see 4 countries that's nothing. awkward attitude.

Did this fellow go to medieval Europe?

(Oh, and he has awful taste in backing music)

Funny, but I would've rather read it on a website. This moved too slow.

Who else loves the desperate plea at the end? god i can only imagine the anguish

best line

We've all made mistakes while you've been away

I laughed so hard

oooooooohso hard

I've dated women like this my entire life - wouldn't change a thing about 'em. He says 'when the hate you they really hate you', but I say 'when they love you the sex is mind-bending'. It's a totally fair trade.

P.S.
There's no way he couldn't make clear to her that he was going on a trip of a lifetime. Did they just bang each other in silence whenever they got together? Something off there.

I'm guessing the GF doesn't know where Europe is. Hence the confusion.

too long didnt listen!

>> ^conan:
backpacking for two weeks? through europe? i guess he's another of those ignorants who think of europe as one single country. it's a CONTINENT! what do you expect to see of a whole continent in two weeks? even if he managed to see 4 countries that's nothing. awkward attitude.


Why do you have to be a dick about it? If I can easily make a road trip through the U.S. and see all kinds of sights, why couldn't I backpack through Europe in two weeks? What you just said is the equivalent of saying "he must be another of those ignorants that thinks of the U.S. as one single country and not 50 states." WTF does it matter if he said he's going backpacking through Europe? I if go backpacking and visit Paris, London,
Berlin and Barcelona, why am I not allowed to say "Europe"?

To deny this video is to deny your very soul.

I gotta say two dittos here:
1: Ditto to what ponceleon says in all ways. The she AND his friends didn't know he was going smells like a load of shite, or he just does not speak to people.
&
2: Big F*cking ditto to Sir Gunrock above... gee some people get snooty about shit. So how long must someone spend in Europe before they're allowed to say they've been to Europe. What a dick.

Goes to show how little some women listen. Judging by the one message where she confesses that she cheats on him you can see clearly that she was typing the txt message while drunk because many things are misspelled and out of order. My guess is she is a social butterfly and drinks often or "goes out" so she probably heard it from him a few times but was either not paying attention or slightly drunk. I picture her as the type of gal where everything has to be about her or she throws tantrums.

> the one message where she confesses that she cheats on
> him you can see clearly that she was typing the txt message
> while drunk because many things are misspelled and out of order


yes, so realistic

>> ^MarineGunrock:
>> ^conan:
backpacking for two weeks? through europe? i guess he's another of those ignorants who think of europe as one single country. it's a CONTINENT! what do you expect to see of a whole continent in two weeks? even if he managed to see 4 countries that's nothing. awkward attitude.

Why do you have to be a dick about it? If I can easily make a road trip through the U.S. and see all kinds of sights, why couldn't I backpack through Europe in two weeks? What you just said is the equivalent of saying "he must be another of those ignorants that thinks of the U.S. as one single country and not 50 states." WTF does it matter if he said he's going backpacking through Europe? I if go backpacking and visit Paris, London,
Berlin and Barcelona, why am I not allowed to say "Europe"?


So many right things and so many wrong things in 1 paragraph. You're right, his pomposity was bullshit, but so is your comparison of america to europe.

Although you can OF COURSE visit a great section of europe in 2 weeks, i think what many people don't understand is that a lot of people over here have never even consider themselves european. I can barely call on an equivalent for you guys because there's nothing similar for you that i can imagine.

We never really refer to europe exept in terms of the european parliament etc. So for most people, if you were having a conversation and said "yeah i went to europe, i went to spain and portugal" they'd chuckle - not because they're being pompous or anything, but because most of us see it as such a vague term for such an aggregate mass of countries - and we don't feel bound to each other in any way. We'd only say we'd been to "europe" if we'd visited like 90% of the total countries.

I'm having a very hard to explaining that although we have a collection of countries that are associated and the european union and all that jive, to the average european civilian, we could not be further divided from our other european neighbors.

I as a british citizen feel more associated, connected, whatever with the USA than i do with "europe"

/facepalms all round

I think next chance i see i'm going to randomly lash out at someone and make a vaguely pro-american statement and see how many votes i get

But he didn't say "I saw Europe." He said "I'm backpacking through Europe."

Christ, where do all these statements about the guy's comment about going to Europe come from... I detect a lot of internet outrage here...

IT IS A SLAP IN THE FACE!!!!

>> ^ponceleon:

IT IS A SLAP IN THE FACE!!!!




I just saw I Love You Man for the first time and all I can think about when I read that is SLAPPIN DA BASS

The equivalent to the sentiment about europe would be to say that I went to North America. Noone considers themselves a "north american".

I rode my bike through the Western Hemisphere in 72 hours. Made a great scrapbook.

Yeah, either this video is bullshit, or he was dating one stupid, vapid, self-centered bitch. Which isn't totally out of the question I guess, but if that was the choice he made, it's his own fault.

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