How to be a good friend...

You ever look at someone and go "doesn't s/he have friends?"
or do you ever see someone out with 'friends' and think that is just a group of douches. I know you want to look good by letting your friend act/look a fool, but be a good friend. Tell your friend when they look terrible.
Now you don't have to be blunt like me, but maybe say: "hey, playa - uh wanna hit up the mall?" then when s/he picks out clothes, tell them what would look really good on them.

Example: Dude is wearing white sneakers while trying pick up women (not shelltoes or anything relevant , white reeboks)
You: "Hey I'm going sneaker/shoe shopping, want to come with?
Friend: "Yeah, my old pair were getting ratty"
You: "I noticed"
Friend: "What?"
You:"What?!?"
[later at the store - friend gravitates toward a terrible yet expected pair of white nike's]

You: "Those are nice but you need a going out sneaker"
Friend: "These are my going out sneakers"
You: "Uhhhhhh, let's try these"
Friend: OMG I am totally getting girls it must be the shoes! (well he probably won't say this but he will think it!)



also, if you have a friend who wears ed hardy... it is time for an intervention...


I mean this is why we humans group... to correct inappropriate behavior...

Yes, it is always funny to talk about people behind their backs and make fun of people because you - yourself - are of course perfect... 

but when a friend walks out of the house with her cottage cheese thighs flapping in the breeze like a cooter, you should let a bitch know

and that is how to be a good friend.

~Brother

Addition from sister

I was sitting in Cheers when I recieved a text from brother saying I had to repost this and I have two things to say about it.

A. DO NOT TELL YOUR FRIEND IT IS A GOOD PICTURE WHEN IT IS HORRENDOUS.  Sometimes people are like oh! thats a nice picture! and I am pretty sure I have 754095729457 chins in it.  Fuck you.  Just say its a bad picture.

B. Seriously, though I agree with what brother said, though at some point you will have to be stern, whether you like it or not.  I am going to share an experience with you where I utterly failed at life, and hopefully from this experience you will never fail as a friend again.

I used to work with this girl, and lets just call her a hot mess.  She always OVER TRIED to dress up- ill fitting skirts, the whole deal.  Also, everything she had was at least one size too small.  Seriously, in pictures I looked skinnier than her solely because of my clothes when I was probably 2 sizes bigger.

When we started working together, I did not like hot mess.  So when she wore asymmetrical skirts that were too tight but went down to her shin in a funny line, printed tights, and strappy high sandals that had the sole popping out, I would just take pictures with my camera on my cell and send them to my friends.  Then hot mess started growing on me.

So I did like brother suggested and took her shopping.  And I did GOOD.  And luckily, hot mess is cheap cheap cheap so she lasted in those clothes for quite some time!

We stopped working together, but I was confident I made my mark with her... that she finally got what looked good and what did not.  I was so proud.  But I did not do the follow up work.  I went to her house after we hadn't worked together and I saw them.   high strappy sandals, sole ripped to the side.  She never threw them away.  and she CLEARLY wore them, they were with all her other ridiculously high shoes that were her "work shoes"

The moral of this story is when trying to change friends for the better, you have to be more aggressive.  Throw it away yourself, and never, ever let them shop for themselves again.