Cantankerous Underestimated Neurotic Twat

I'm 25 and feel incredibly lonely. I grew up in a normal sized town, went to university in another county and now that I'm back I don't fit in with my friends that stayed here. I got a job here with people that are older than me and so don't really socialise with them because they have family's etc. So what can I do? I've tried getting back in with the old group, but am tired of trying, I have looked at starting night classes to meet new people, but some are very expensive and the actual course doesn't interest me. I can't go to a bar and chat to people because that is "Weird" and "creepy" by today's standards, so what can i do? Advice and comments are appreciated. I've decided to join a running club, as exercise is good for the body and mind and hopefully running with others will bring new social groups for me. Only one way to find out I guess? I am terrified by this, but need to push myself to get out of the comfort box ...

So, here is the thing - Online dating sucks. And I know that sounds insanely negative and that's because it is. I have tried it, both the free versions (POF, Tinder etc - if you can call them dating apps) and the paid ones (Match, Eharmony etc) and the reason that these are all shit is to do with the fact that people want money without doing anything. But I mean who can blame them? I'd love money without doing anything, everyone would, it would be great right? Well from a male perspective, all dating apps are full of money craving cons, like bots which are always obvious to spot due to the fact that they never look at your profile. These nearly always immediately send you a message saying "Hey Sexy, want to see more of me?" - I mean classy right? Every guy is going to want to seriously date a woman that offers that on the first message, but it gets better as "She/it" then proceeds to send you a most likely virus ridden hyperlink to input your card deta...

Today I got an email from tripadvisor with the headline “Top 10 most instagramable restaurants”.   And what’s sad is that I can guarantee that it was probably their best piece of marketing as it appealed to the millennials who don’t care about the taste of food anymore. They don’t care about anything unless they can Instagram it to show people that they have experienced it. But I just don’t get it. I recently went to watch Northampton Saints vs The Saracens in the rugby Cup Final, and more people were viewing the game and award ceremony at the end through their phones with filters and shit then people who weren’t. How many people are going to watch the shit footage they took? Photos are nice, but shitty video footage which is shaky and has someone hysterically screaming in the background is fucking redundant. I feel the same about concerts, it’s all about z-rate footage of people dancing and singing badly, during which some guy is maybe singing on stage and they are so far ...

I don’t like Michael Jackson. Why do people need to pretend to like famous singers? Michael Jackson was the key one for me, when I was at school, he was only known for bad things, no one actually liked him in school, he was a “pedo” or whatever the kids say these days. But when he died, everyone became his greatest fan, writing long posts about how his music “touched them”. Now I can interpret this in one of two ways, either they lied about not liking him at school, just to be “Cool” and they actually enjoyed his music. Or the more plausible alternative which is that they need to have an opinion to keep up their social status. As we all know, it’s impossible for something to happen in life and not post something about it, so that everybody you know on social media can witness how truly magnificent you are. I like to think that this can be extrapolated to most other big events. Now, before I go off on one I should say that people are entitled to their own opinions, I don’t speak to e...

I am old. And when I say old I don’t mean wise for my age or my body feels old, I mean that I’m an old man in a 24 year olds body. Everything about today’s generation baffles me, I know that I’m a millennial and that according to previous generations we have it easy (Questionable really, speak to anyone my age about owning a house and then see how easy it is being a millennial and buying a house with no deposit and it only costing £10,000). I am a millennial with a problem, I don’t fit into today’s bizarre generation, I went to a coffee shop at the weekend and I bought a coffee and I read a book, it was great. But I didn’t conform to social standards: the coffee shop spelt my name correctly. I didn’t “Snap” or “Gram” it (god knows why people can’t say the word correctly anymore, like seriously!? is Snapchat or Instagram too fucking difficult to say?), I didn’t tweet or Face it (I’m assuming that’s what hipsters call Facebook these days) and I didn’t Bebo or Myspace it. So basically ...