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 I didn’t say that’s impossible.

If I could strike one word from the collective human lexicon, it would be ‘cope’ and any variation thereof - it’s widely abused and in the most inappropriate of contexts to boot. Thrown around all willy-nilly to the point of meaninglessness.

I said sure, that may happen but the annoying thing in and of itself wouldn’t be part of their core personality. Why did I say this? Because if it was, they would be an annoying person, and I do not like annoying people. 
 Sure 
But when he annoys you, you'll want to express to him that he's done something annoying, to deter him from doing it again. 
That's when you'll call him cringe 
 I just leave when people do annoying things. 
 Have you abandoned every man you were interested in because of petty annoyances? 
 

Have you abandoned every man you were interested in

The who?

Are you so preoccupied with being different from the other girls that you sabotage yourself?

This slays me, this dishonest preoccupation with the idea anyone who asserts that they see things differently is automatically “teehee not like the other girls.” If you cannot refrain from Manichean kinds of thinking, are you thinking at all?

I said, and I need you to address because this is critically important if you would like me to continue this conversation in earnest - that if someone has a central personality trait centered around something that annoys me, that I am going to avoid them altogether in the first place. That is it. This does not require some “I’m totally different” levels of thinking that you insist that I have. 
 >the who
Owl I hate to break it to you but Pete Townshend remarried in 2016