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I personally try to treat girls watching like I would anyone else. If its someone who doesn't play the game, I'll ask them if they want to know more about what's going on, and just basically chat them up. It seems to have been working quite well ...of course, I don't stop paying attention to the game, I just try to explain to them what I/my opponent am/is doing. Most of the time they actually are interested....

Soorry I gotta ask. Does punching metal miniatures hurt? I mean all these kids do it, and I swear it'd sting like buggery to punch a mini as spiky as say, abaddon.

ghosty wrote:Soorry I gotta ask. Does punching metal miniatures hurt? I mean all these kids do it, and I swear it'd sting like buggery to punch a mini as spiky as say, abaddon.

I assume it hurts like a son without married parents if you get a corner.

Although it is something to try, just not on my Dark Eldar.

ChaosGalvatron wrote:I was playing a very fat man who had his big gut poking out from under his shirt, and it was about level with the table so as we played i was constantly looking at it. Eventually i snapped and told him if he didnt cover up i would go get an ice pick, scale his mountainous gut and stab him in the face.
This was a local gaming club so they just told me to relax outside till he left.

Does seeing a bit of skin really deserve that much of an overreaction?

Yeah really, if some belly bothers you that much I hope you never start a Nurgle army...

While that's a little bit of an overreaction, I can at least see his point. If you're gonna go out in public, you gotta show up clean, and with an appearance that suggests you still give a feth about yourself. If you're a heavy person, wear a bigger shirt.

Agrinja wrote:While that's a little bit of an overreaction, I can at least see his point. If you're gonna go out in public, you gotta show up clean, and with an appearance that suggests you still give a feth about yourself. If you're a heavy person, wear a bigger shirt.

I don't know, seeing a bit of flesh doesn't bother me then again someone could come in completely nude and I wouldn't care, I think people should be proud of there bodies and be

allowed to show them off if they want too. Feth the only reasons I'm not a nudist is because it's way too taboo of a subject for people, plus it's too cold in the winter (I really hate

clothes shopping can never find anything in my size or style). Also people sometimes come across as if the person is more disgusted by the person being fat than there actual dressing.

Cheesecat wrote:
clothes shopping can never find anything in my size or style). Also people sometimes come across as if the person is more disgusted by the person being fat than there actual dressing.

Turn that fat man into a Chesty blonde wearing a low cut top that always bends over at 90 or more degree angles just to measure stuff and I swear he would be wanting to stab something else in her instead.

syanticraven wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:
clothes shopping can never find anything in my size or style). Also people sometimes come across as if the person is more disgusted by the person being fat than there actual dressing.

Turn that fat man into a Chesty blonde wearing a low cut top that always bends over at 90 or more degree angles just to measure stuff and I swear he would be wanting to stab something else in her instead.

Except for the blonde part, that sounds like my art class. But yeah it does sound like he's grossed out by obesity, I could understand if the guy reeked of BO or if he had a

horrid personality but a bit of belly showing is nothing to fret over. I have several overweight friends who have the hanging gut problem, but it honestly doesn't bother or sicken me.

It's not necessarily sickening as something that's easily correctable. Then again, I was always raised to have a set of standards of how to dress in public, so I find a lot of fashions and people a bit weird when I go out and see people in a social situation where they're not wearing a belt and letting their pants hang below their ass, or they don't seem to realize that they grew out of a t-shirt a thousand burgers ago, or they don't understand that a baby blue leisure suit and work boots aren't appropriate funeral attire.

Agrinja wrote:It's not necessarily sickening as something that's easily correctable. Then again, I was always raised to have a set of standards of how to dress in public, so I find a lot of fashions and people a bit weird when I go out and see people in a social situation where they're not wearing a belt and letting their pants hang below their ass, or they don't seem to realize that they grew out of a t-shirt a thousand burgers ago, or they don't understand that a baby blue leisure suit and work boots aren't appropriate funeral attire.

You're right, a blue leisure suit and work boots are FAR too formal for a funeral; it's unacceptable to attend a funeral in anything less than full-on clown gear: face paint, red rubber squeaky-nose and all!

That last example actually happened sad to say at my Gramma's funeral. Cousin Jimmy ain't right. Even stranger, he brought a native american. Not like, a guy who is native american...I mean, this guy was -really- native american, to the point that in my head before I found out his name, I was thinking of him as "Chief." I mean, we're talking full traditional regalia. The entire time everybody is wondering who the hell this guy is. Best we could tell was that Jimmy had brought him. Was a nice guy. Apparently served in Vietnam. Upon seeing those little octopus things at a cheap chinese buffet's sushi bar, he commented to me "I ate some weird things in 'nam but never anything like that..."

That was a really weird funeral.

speaking of belts and pants below asses....
one of the members of our club hass the plumber problem
we want to all pitch in and give him a belt (or at least a length of rope) it is that bad
AND IT IS ALWAYS THERE!!

Many moons ago, I used to frequent a gaming store on the other side of the globe. Now, I am a WFB player, 40K be damned (especially after the extermination of the Squats - which was my 40K army back in the Rogue Trader days, and first two or three weeks of 2nd ed.), and every other Saturday I would bring out the Khornate Army of Dark Glory and liberally dish out punishment to all those foolish enough to set up their childishly painted armies of the week. The locale not being a 'GW' offered many gamers a place to partake in their own vein of nerdom from Warhammer to Yu-gi-Oh. On one Saturday there was some card tournament related to anime and I remember that amongst the 440 lb neckbearded virgins there was one small asian girl. She was somewhat attractive and seemed really out of place at the gaming store, but she was there for this card game tourney and I am sure all of my fellow nerds noticed her.

Whilst spraying my opponents with my 23 chromosomes of righteous khornate victory, I noticed the out of place female tourney player wander into the 'toilet of doom'. Now, this is a toilet frequented by overweight processed meat silo type gaming males. Basically, it was a toilet from a horror movie that if there was any type of toilet paper present that was a miracle. I really felt sad for her for the time she actually had to spend in there (my wife wouldn't actually go into the store), but she emerged in the true spirit of the words of Nietzsche about that which doesn't kill, only makes one stronger.

None of this is inappropriate, but I just thought I'd drop this nugget out there.

Khornholio wrote:None of this is inappropriate, but I just thought I'd drop this nugget out there.

just like she dropped a nugget in there


i think every gamestore has that bathroom that looks like it's the one from Fight Club

Agrinja wrote:It's not necessarily sickening as something that's easily correctable. Then again, I was always raised to have a set of standards of how to dress in public, so I find a lot of fashions and people a bit weird when I go out and see people in a social situation where they're not wearing a belt and letting their pants hang below their ass, or they don't seem to realize that they grew out of a t-shirt a thousand burgers ago, or they don't understand that a baby blue leisure suit and work boots aren't appropriate funeral attire.

I try not to judge people by there unsightly appearance but instead by there personality, mind you if I have to go somewhere formal I dress appropriately and expect others to do so as well. I'll admit the low-rider jeans thing does look ridiculous.

NoToTheMan wrote:[
i think every gamestore has that bathroom that looks like it's the one from Fight Club

The store I ran didn't I made the grunts actually clean it. Luckily all the nasty shops around have closed down.

I once showed up to an open tourney at my FLGS juuuust hammered. Now, sometimes, depending on what got me drunk, I can hide it well. This was one of those times. I actually managed to narrowly beat my first opponent, more due to luck and the fact that this was his first 'real' game. However, about 10 minutes into my second game, I guess I fell asleep in my chair, because when I woke up, my minis were packed up for me, my opponent had moved on, and the tourney was almost over.

Thanks in large part to the fact that I'm a very clean and friendly drunk, the store owner (who thankfully is also a buddy of mine) took this in good humour. I'm more humiliated about the part where I apparently started snoring (loudly), but other than that I'd say things weren't too bad

rubiksnoob wrote:I think a big problem of it is awkward gamers confusing being polite with flirting. when a girl walks in, to try and prove they "don't like her" they'll either act like an donkey-cave or ignore her in a super awkward and obvious manner. And again, these are grown men. I thought people stopped acting like that in like 5th grade?

But the absolute worse is a gamer trying to be funny in front of a girl. . . it's painful.

Oh god isnt it though. But I think that makes for some of the best stories.

KingCracker wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:I think a big problem of it is awkward gamers confusing being polite with flirting. when a girl walks in, to try and prove they "don't like her" they'll either act like an donkey-cave or ignore her in a super awkward and obvious manner. And again, these are grown men. I thought people stopped acting like that in like 5th grade?

But the absolute worse is a gamer trying to be funny in front of a girl. . . it's painful.

Oh god isnt it though. But I think that makes for some of the best stories.

Its Fething hilarious when they fail XD

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:I think a big problem of it is awkward gamers confusing being polite with flirting. when a girl walks in, to try and prove they "don't like her" they'll either act like an donkey-cave or ignore her in a super awkward and obvious manner. And again, these are grown men. I thought people stopped acting like that in like 5th grade?

But the absolute worse is a gamer trying to be funny in front of a girl. . . it's painful.

Oh god isnt it though. But I think that makes for some of the best stories.

Its Fething hilarious when they fail XD

NOT IF IT WAS YOU

KingCracker wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:I think a big problem of it is awkward gamers confusing being polite with flirting. when a girl walks in, to try and prove they "don't like her" they'll either act like an donkey-cave or ignore her in a super awkward and obvious manner. And again, these are grown men. I thought people stopped acting like that in like 5th grade?

But the absolute worse is a gamer trying to be funny in front of a girl. . . it's painful.

Oh god isnt it though. But I think that makes for some of the best stories.

Its Fething hilarious when they fail XD

NOT IF IT WAS YOU

Thats true.

KingCracker wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:I think a big problem of it is awkward gamers confusing being polite with flirting. when a girl walks in, to try and prove they "don't like her" they'll either act like an donkey-cave or ignore her in a super awkward and obvious manner. And again, these are grown men. I thought people stopped acting like that in like 5th grade?

But the absolute worse is a gamer trying to be funny in front of a girl. . . it's painful.

Oh god isnt it though. But I think that makes for some of the best stories.

Its Fething hilarious when they fail XD

NOT IF IT WAS YOU

3 days ago, I had a girlfriend. Note Had. She found the box of Orks and Space Marines under my bed. The rest is very awkward. She said it was best if we stayed friends. We were dating less than 72 hours. Alright!

I was just kidding, Im a goofball, I dont have those moments. The best I remember is a guy trying to joke about rowing a boat (Ive no idea why, dont even TRY to ask) and it started trailing off saying "stroke......stroke.........stroke.......*small chuckle + sigh* oooookaaay" I literally started to piss myself I was laughing so hard. It was great


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chowderhead13 wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:I think a big problem of it is awkward gamers confusing being polite with flirting. when a girl walks in, to try and prove they "don't like her" they'll either act like an donkey-cave or ignore her in a super awkward and obvious manner. And again, these are grown men. I thought people stopped acting like that in like 5th grade?

But the absolute worse is a gamer trying to be funny in front of a girl. . . it's painful.

Oh god isnt it though. But I think that makes for some of the best stories.

Its Fething hilarious when they fail XD

NOT IF IT WAS YOU

3 days ago, I had a girlfriend. Note Had. She found the box of Orks and Space Marines under my bed. The rest is very awkward. She said it was best if we stayed friends. We were dating less than 72 hours. Alright!

HEY! Thats a good thing. Not enough time to catch an STD amirite?

KingCracker wrote:I was just kidding, Im a goofball, I dont have those moments. The best I remember is a guy trying to joke about rowing a boat (Ive no idea why, dont even TRY to ask) and it started trailing off saying "stroke......stroke.........stroke.......*small chuckle + sigh* oooookaaay" I literally started to piss myself I was laughing so hard. It was great

I started laughing so freaking hard at that. My eyes are watering.

chowderhead13 wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:I think a big problem of it is awkward gamers confusing being polite with flirting. when a girl walks in, to try and prove they "don't like her" they'll either act like an donkey-cave or ignore her in a super awkward and obvious manner. And again, these are grown men. I thought people stopped acting like that in like 5th grade?

But the absolute worse is a gamer trying to be funny in front of a girl. . . it's painful.

Oh god isnt it though. But I think that makes for some of the best stories.

Its Fething hilarious when they fail XD

NOT IF IT WAS YOU

3 days ago, I had a girlfriend. Note Had. She found the box of Orks and Space Marines under my bed. The rest is very awkward. She said it was best if we stayed friends. We were dating less than 72 hours. Alright!

Wow, when my husband and I started to date, I made it very clear that he had to START gaming. He still sucks at RPG's (my fav) but he loves minis... dork

loritheladybug7 wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:I think a big problem of it is awkward gamers confusing being polite with flirting. when a girl walks in, to try and prove they "don't like her" they'll either act like an donkey-cave or ignore her in a super awkward and obvious manner. And again, these are grown men. I thought people stopped acting like that in like 5th grade?

But the absolute worse is a gamer trying to be funny in front of a girl. . . it's painful.

Oh god isnt it though. But I think that makes for some of the best stories.

Its Fething hilarious when they fail XD

NOT IF IT WAS YOU

3 days ago, I had a girlfriend. Note Had. She found the box of Orks and Space Marines under my bed. The rest is very awkward. She said it was best if we stayed friends. We were dating less than 72 hours. Alright!

Wow, when my husband and I started to date, I made it very clear that he had to START gaming. He still sucks at RPG's (my fav) but he loves minis... dork

This is a woman here folks.

Seriously if they are really into you, playing with miniatures wont scare them away. My wife saw mine and said "oh those are cool, what are they?"

Gaming girls are so rare these days especially where I live. *sigh*

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:I was just kidding, Im a goofball, I dont have those moments. The best I remember is a guy trying to joke about rowing a boat (Ive no idea why, dont even TRY to ask) and it started trailing off saying "stroke......stroke.........stroke.......*small chuckle + sigh* oooookaaay" I literally started to piss myself I was laughing so hard. It was great

I started laughing so freaking hard at that. My eyes are watering.

The best part was he was joking with a woman. I mean the look on her face was why I peed myself. Yea my son wants these little soldier guys? and then the boat story

KingCracker wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

KingCracker wrote:I was just kidding, Im a goofball, I dont have those moments. The best I remember is a guy trying to joke about rowing a boat (Ive no idea why, dont even TRY to ask) and it started trailing off saying "stroke......stroke.........stroke.......*small chuckle + sigh* oooookaaay" I literally started to piss myself I was laughing so hard. It was great

I started laughing so freaking hard at that. My eyes are watering.

The best part was he was joking with a woman. I mean the look on her face was why I peed myself. Yea my son wants these little soldier guys? and then the boat story

That makes even Funnier LOL!
Just what I need before i'm going to a party XD