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Friday Fun Thread for January 23, 2026

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I once dated someone who I'm pretty sure had BPD. She was constantly worried that I was secretly into her best friend (also a doctor) and that the feeling was mutual. For the record: not true, at least on my side.

So imagine my surprise when the best friend got engaged after a whirlwind courtship, and I looked at the wedding photos on Instagram to discover that her new husband:

  • Looked more like me than my actual brother does
  • Had the exact same last name as me

This could absolutely be coincidence. But here's the really funny part: if my ex and I had actually gotten married, she and her best friend would have ended up as Dr. or Mrs. [Same Name], married to what are essentially the same guy. I'm trying to imagine how my ex would have felt about this situation and I'm going to go with "not great" right now, but she might well have found it charming had things gone not gone to shit between us.

(I'm also at that magical age where most of my peers decide to give up on their dissolute lifestyles and marry off. I feel a tad bit left out, not that I'm in any real hurry.)

Four years ago I passed my ex in the street, who was walking with her current boyfriend. She was my first serious girlfriend, and we lost our virginities to each other. Her current boyfriend looked, not to put to fine a point on it, pretty much exactly like I did when we started going out: hairstyle (significant as I wore my hair quite long at the time), fashion sense, skin tone, eye colour, the whole lot.

My immediate thought was "wow, either she has a very specific type, or I imprinted on her real good".

Dollars to donuts you both look like her father.

I actually met him while we were going out. As a middle-aged man he bore an uncanny resemblance to Séamus Heaney. When he was my age at the time we were going out, he did wear his hair long, but looked more like Rory Gallagher.

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