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I think the problem may just be someone posting something regards women (well grounded in reality and fact or not), then Melissa just quotes it and puts "Men do this too" at the bottom.

It is just unnecessary and, to be quite frank, quite annoying.

I happily concede that she is correct; many people of both sexes mess up, behave strangely, etc.

Hey, I like it when Melissa posts; it adds some nice variety to the mix.

da boss wrote:I am depressed that for the whole thread, guys have been making comments about women. Melissa comes in and makes some comments about men (sure, using other people's posts, but obviously she'd (? Assuming here) read the thread and wanted to reply) and suddenly we get defensive?

What was that about women being more emotional than men?

Wow, I think I have the only sane GF in the world.

That said, my previous ex is fething nuts. She cried and went mental when someone put carrots with her peas.

Oh, and something about other men I don't understand. What's with the utter disgust towards the color pink? (I'm never gonna wear it or anything though) I mean... ITS A COLOR! I have a friend who gets pissed off when he see's someone running around in all pink. I just think it's gay and keep it at that. XD

Soladrin wrote:Wow, I think I have the only sane GF in the world.

That said, my previous ex is fething nuts. She cried and went mental when someone put carrots with her peas.

Oh, and something about other men I don't understand. What's with the utter disgust towards the color pink? (I'm never gonna wear it or anything though) I mean... ITS A COLOR! I have a friend who gets pissed off when he see's someone running around in all pink. I just think it's gay and keep it at that. XD

Its a great color!
I just don't like wearing.

Soladrin wrote:Wow, I think I have the only sane GF in the world.

That said, my previous ex is fething nuts. She cried and went mental when someone put carrots with her peas.

Oh, and something about other men I don't understand. What's with the utter disgust towards the color pink? (I'm never gonna wear it or anything though) I mean... ITS A COLOR! I have a friend who gets pissed off when he see's someone running around in all pink. I just think it's gay and keep it at that. XD

It's a wonderful colour. I don't wear it, since it wouldn't look good on me, my features are much too light. I find it looks better on people with darker hair or skin.

I've tried to balance the "guyness" around here out before, but there's no point in a male dominated forum. Feel free to try. If the guys were going to one extreme I felt Mel was jumping to the opposite. All I'm doing is trying to center it back out, which will lead to everyone noticing and being more centered. Basically, Mel was worth my time trying to convince and nobody else was She's a smart one.

Da Boss wrote:I am depressed that for the whole thread, guys have been making comments about women. Melissa comes in and makes some comments about men (sure, using other people's posts, but obviously she'd (? Assuming here) read the thread and wanted to reply) and suddenly we get defensive?

Indeed, that makes me a sad panda.

As everyone knows, real men wear pink. IT takes a manly man, a man's man, a man who does not give a flying rat's ass about what people think about his sexuality, to wear pink.

Actually I jest. It used to be light blue that was a girly color (relating to the Virgin Mary) while pink was for boys, because pink was representative of blood, and therefor was manlier.

It's only the more modern fethed up culture that assigns pink to girls and blue to boys. Personally I prefer blue anyway, which probably shows up on my 40k color schemes.

micahaphone wrote:Also Melissia, unless you are more up-to-date on biological research (which is easily possible), I thought that while both genders have estrogen and testosterone, we currently do not understand why men have estrogen, or women testosterone, it appears that they have little to no use.

Women need testosterone for our sex drives. Similarly, women need testosterone more as we age, and a great deal of the problems in menopause is because of greatly lowered testosterone levels. Testosterone also effects one's judgment when it comes to risk taking activities, with lowered testosterone typically leading to people doing more safe things.

Amongst other things, estrogen in males helps develop sperm cells and helps regulate sexual activity. Estrogen helps increase the rate of metabolism, too, as well as increasing skin maintenance (keeping the skin healthy, repairing after scars, etc) and blood coagulation when bleeding.

Mind you, BOTH of them have a very long list of effects, as hormones are not simple things with merely one or two effects-- the body is a complex system thrown together from a long, uncoordinated development of over billions of years of evolution.

Melissia wrote:As everyone knows, real men wear pink. IT takes a manly man, a man's man, a man who does not give a flying rat's ass about what people think about his sexuality, to wear pink.

You see a man walking down the street wearing that, and you know he's not afraid of ANYTHING!

Melissia wrote:As everyone knows, real men wear pink. IT takes a manly man, a man's man, a man who does not give a flying rat's ass about what people think about his sexuality, to wear pink.

Actually I jest. It used to be light blue that was a girly color (relating to the Virgin Mary) while pink was for boys, because pink was representative of blood, and therefor was manlier.

It's only the more modern fethed up culture that assigns pink to girls and blue to boys. Personally I prefer blue anyway, which probably shows up on my 40k color schemes.

I cannot agree more with this bolded statement our culture is Fethed up.

But our culture does do alot of WTF?s like Fetishes and such. Of course It came to my mind why would girls like a vampire because they cannot do anything to have a little bit of well a good time with a lady because their body is dead.... So you want to basically have sex with a dead body? Ewww.

Sorry but its like saying that Zombies bodies aren't alive, and Zombies and Vampires are basically the same thing, caused by a bite and stupid. Vampires < Zombies.

But one thing girls do not know about are Reavers from Firefly.... And holy crap that scares everyone, one girl was like "Reavers would be better than zombies Cal!"

I didn't want to tell her that Reavers are worse and they do more than just kill you.

Another thing that i don't really understand is the ignorance that both genders have for each other, and don't care what the other thinks sometimes. Its a very common thing in society.

Slarg232 wrote:

Melissia wrote:As everyone knows, real men wear pink. IT takes a manly man, a man's man, a man who does not give a flying rat's ass about what people think about his sexuality, to wear pink.

You see a man walking down the street wearing that, and you know he's not afraid of ANYTHING!

I love Jane and I am man. He is too awesome of a person, And I also nickname guns with girl's names.
And I want that hat.

Asherian Command wrote:I cannot agree more with this bolded statement our culture is Fethed up.

But our culture does do alot of WTF?s like Fetishes and such. Of course It came to my mind why would girls like a vampire because they cannot do anything to have a little bit of well a good time with a lady because their body is dead.... So you want to basically have sex with a dead body? Ewww.

Sorry but its like saying that Zombies bodies aren't alive, and Zombies and Vampires are basically the same thing, caused by a bite and stupid. Vampires < Zombies.

But one thing girls do not know about are Reavers from Firefly.... And holy crap that scares everyone, one girl was like "Reavers would be better than zombies Cal!"

I didn't want to tell her that Reavers are worse and they do more than just kill you.

Another thing that i don't really understand is the ignorance that both genders have for each other, and don't care what the other thinks sometimes. Its a very common thing in society.

Fetishes are often not the person who has them's fault. I am doing a numbers grab, but I wouldn't doubt that 80% of people have some sort of a Fetish, be it Foot Fetish, Dominatrix Fetish, Pain Fetish, Furry, what have you. Often, the only thing the person with the Fetish can control is if they act on it.

Now, those people who throw their fetishes into everyone elses faces, those bastards are annoying.

Also, Reavers will rape you to death, eat your flesh, and sew your skin into their cloths. And if your very, very lucky, they will do it in that order.

Slarg232 wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:I cannot agree more with this bolded statement our culture is Fethed up.

But our culture does do alot of WTF?s like Fetishes and such. Of course It came to my mind why would girls like a vampire because they cannot do anything to have a little bit of well a good time with a lady because their body is dead.... So you want to basically have sex with a dead body? Ewww.

Sorry but its like saying that Zombies bodies aren't alive, and Zombies and Vampires are basically the same thing, caused by a bite and stupid. Vampires < Zombies.

But one thing girls do not know about are Reavers from Firefly.... And holy crap that scares everyone, one girl was like "Reavers would be better than zombies Cal!"

I didn't want to tell her that Reavers are worse and they do more than just kill you.

Another thing that i don't really understand is the ignorance that both genders have for each other, and don't care what the other thinks sometimes. Its a very common thing in society.

Fetishes are often not the person who has them's fault. I am doing a numbers grab, but I wouldn't doubt that 80% of people have some sort of a Fetish, be it Foot Fetish, Dominatrix Fetish, Pain Fetish, Furry, what have you. Often, the only thing the person with the Fetish can control is if they act on it.

Now, those people who throw their fetishes into everyone elses faces, those bastards are annoying.

Also, Reavers will rape you to death, eat your flesh, and sew your skin into their cloths. And if your very, very lucky, they will do it in that order.

Yeah I know its usually something Pyschological, I don't know my fetish, apparent from me getting attracted to women that are intelliegent, and are duo-citizens XD

Yeah. I want to tell her that.... But I don't think the school will let me.. Reavers scare the crap out of me. I miss firefly.....

I'd say my problem is the feeling that I understand them too much; to the point where I am more concerned with psychology (or the notion that perhaps I'd be better off as one of them) than actually "getting along" as it were...

Thats weird mate.

It skips hand-in-hand with frigidicity, inexperience and a low self-esteem

Why I don't like pink: It screams 'hey you look at me!' kinda like neon orange or sunburst yellow. No thanks, dark colors for me.

Luco wrote:Why I don't like pink: It screams 'hey you look at me!' kinda like neon orange or sunburst yellow. No thanks, dark colors for me.

I wear green most of the time, and I swear in chinese. Then I nickname weapons half the time. When I picked up a knife I said. "I think I'll Call you Sir Bobby."

Slarg232 wrote:

Melissia wrote:As everyone knows, real men wear pink. IT takes a manly man, a man's man, a man who does not give a flying rat's ass about what people think about his sexuality, to wear pink.

You see a man walking down the street wearing that, and you know he's not afraid of ANYTHING!

People that wear beanies or those "Sherpa" hats, especially indoors, really irritate me for some reason...

Especially if I then hear them say something alone the lines of "I was soooo wasted last night, I only got to sleep like 30 minutes ago".

I leave the thread for a few days and all this... why didn't anybody tell me!?

Asherian Command wrote:Both genders are weird. Of course I am insane when it comes to competetion and I know that is the main complaints about guys they get too into things. But girls are kinda worse when it comes to competitions one time there was a girl that beat everyone in a class and yelled "Gak you all!"

Whats the problem? Thats just good sportsmanship.
"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser." Vince Lombardi
"Win or you're out of the family." Homer Simpson (adopted by the Frazzled household).

Why do men think pickup lines are a good idea?

I mean, saying something like.... "You're like a pretty car, babe... I just want to get inside you and drive all night." isn't going to get the machine oiled, so to speak.

Melissia wrote:Why do men think pickup lines are a good idea?

I mean, saying something like.... "You're like a pretty car, babe... I just want to get inside you and drive all night." isn't going to get the machine oiled, so to speak.

In all honesty...I've rarely actually heard anyone attempt to use those sorts of ridiculous lines when attempting to talk with/pick up a woman, I'm not saying it doesn't happen,and I've heard my fair share of guys espousing nonsense like " Yo Baby..let me holla at ya."...but I really can't recall any personal example of ever hearing any of the goofy pick up lines I've ever read being used in "real world" situations.

wimmin eh i don't know.ive been with my wife for twelve years and even now she sometimes shoots my head away.for starters lets say the word CUSHIONS,now i always thought they went on sofas not anymore as the ever growing pile of the sodding things on our bed shows.
the talking about stuff i dont care about is up there aswell.i don't want to know about her friends private business after a hard days work i just want to chill at home with my own family.at least she stopped going on that facebook gak.
for the record i can also be a pain in the arse.

FITZZ wrote:

Melissia wrote:Why do men think pickup lines are a good idea?

I mean, saying something like.... "You're like a pretty car, babe... I just want to get inside you and drive all night." isn't going to get the machine oiled, so to speak.

In all honesty...I've rarely actually heard anyone attempt to use those sorts of ridiculous lines when attempting to talk with/pick up a woman, I'm not saying it doesn't happen,and I've heard my fair share of guys espousing nonsense like " Yo Baby..let me holla at ya."...but I really can't recall any personal example of ever hearing any of the goofy pick up lines I've ever read being used in "real world" situations.

Lucky you...

Melissia wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Melissia wrote:Why do men think pickup lines are a good idea?

I mean, saying something like.... "You're like a pretty car, babe... I just want to get inside you and drive all night." isn't going to get the machine oiled, so to speak.

In all honesty...I've rarely actually heard anyone attempt to use those sorts of ridiculous lines when attempting to talk with/pick up a woman, I'm not saying it doesn't happen,and I've heard my fair share of guys espousing nonsense like " Yo Baby..let me holla at ya."...but I really can't recall any personal example of ever hearing any of the goofy pick up lines I've ever read being used in "real world" situations.

Lucky you...

Meh...don't see that it makes me particularly lucky,simply saying that I don't know of any guy...no matter how tragically inept,that would ever believe that a line such as "You're like a pretty car, babe... I just want to get inside you and drive all night" would get them more than a drink tossed in their face by any woman that wasn't wearing a helmet and oven mits.

Now,of course...as a male of the species...I've not been subjected to anywhere near as many "pick up lines" as the average woman, "Want to go back to my place?" was just about all the prompting I ever required.

The one thing I could never understand are "Jeggings". Really? Spandex Jeans? Skinny jeans weren't bad enough?

I have yet to see a man in these monsters of fashion. Hopefully, I won't.

*googles Jeggings*

So wait, Spandex Disco jeans are back, but without the awesome 'neon and metallic' colours.

Fail.


Oh and as to pink, I wear pink hairbands all the time, love the colour.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:*googles Jeggings*

So wait, Spandex Disco jeans are back, but without the awesome 'neon and metallic' colours.

Fail.


Oh and as to pink, I wear pink hairbands all the time, love the colour.

Oh...I don't know..I sort of like them..



....And yes...real men wear pink...I had a great pair of pink "pleather" jeans I used to absolutely love.

Oh, and one other thing: Yoga Pants.

"Really? Do you really want to do this, Chowderhead?" Yes, I do, voice in my head, yes I do.

Yoga pants have become less of a comfortable way to do yoga, and more of a way for women to flaunt their derrieres. They do nothing in the way of warmth, and look so damned bland. But for some reason, the women in my school love them, probably because it shows their "booties" to the world. For those who do not know what I'm ranting about, it's these: