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 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
No i hate elves for multiple reasons but that's just one.

I cannot really help you with that one, but I guess you need to do something about it and start to find a way to accept it better. Maybe someone else in the thread can help you with that?

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
racist (believe their race to be the best)

In Warcraft, actually, they go from High Elves to Blood Elves because of an extremely racist (specist, actually, I guess) human.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
and finally the girly nature.

Please take the time to deconstruct those kind of gender stereotypes. Stop and consider what you think is girly about them, like I did a few post above, and then use the adjectives that directly qualifies what they are that annoy you rather than diss on girls .

It's mostly just their flamboyant nature and more the fact they look feminine in features.

This is a fantasy race we're talking about. It's not that bad to hate a made up race of people that are always written the same way rather than a species or race that has many different types and they all act differently given time and cultural change.

Girls are cool and i'm not dissing on them. I'm more just weirded out when guys look kind of like girls. It's more in line with the pretty boy hate that everybody used to do when leonardo di caprio was younger or 'The Beatles' in the 60's. Do i prefer macho men to an extent? Yes. That said a lot of them i do not like as well. I suppose it's a matter of how far they go with it. On one hand some overly masculine guys can be jerks whereas pretty metrosexual boys just make me feel a little weird (not attracted).

At least i get why 'twilight' girls like what they like. It's basically about an average girl getting her man hunk that loves her unquestioningly for some reason even though he could have anybody. It's no different than plenty of shows with a male as the protagonist. I mean why would a pretty perfect girl want them.

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Anyway we're probably going mostly off-topic here so somebody get things back on point.

 Ashiraya wrote:
Now that I am taken, I think that means I am free to mention something without it risking becoming awkward. (Especially since it is, in essence, praise). Someone may find it useful or interesting.

Peregrine might have gathered himself a mixed reputation due to his strong opinions and complete lack of fear for displaying them, but if you want to appear attractive in the way you behave and word yourself online, he is doing basically everything right. Having very firm and logical opinions, incredibly no-nonsense (even if almost a bit too blunt sometimes) and never far from the action but, as displayed in certain... less pleasant threads, also having a good heart! Quite mysterious as well (I know very little about him outside of Dakka). In essence, the way he is behaving hits all the right buttons to draw attention like a fire alarm without appearing as though he's even remotely trying to do so. The way he gets smackdowned in various threads for his opinions almost makes you feel sorry for him, and simultaneously he acts like he has the willpower of a stone wall. 10/10.

Yes, I am a Peregrine fangirl. Bite me. Hopefully I won't get banned for talking about another poster.

So abrasive is attractive? That's 1-up for bullockist... now to go train my inner donkey-cave

He is not abrasive! He is just determined.

This topic took a weird turn

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I can give recipes

That's okay Hybrid, no need to go to any trouble for me. I'm actually quite a good cook as it happens although, if I go to any great trouble ordinarily it will be to make a cake or some such thing (not sure if I'll be bothering with the filo pastry again, very laborious and still ended up full of holes).

I mostly do main dishes. I do not think I even know how to make a good cake. I will usually buy ice-cream.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
This topic took a weird turn

I feel a bit responsible here for that. I mean i mentioned elves and then bam.

Anyway i think my revelation with the ladies i should go for has helped. I should focus on the good ones first rather than the gamers. It's best to be treated well first i should think.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I mostly do main dishes. I do not think I even know how to make a good cake. I will usually buy ice-cream.

Cake is hard, it's cooking where you have to have the chemistry part right and i hate it, it's just so unintuitive. Which is what i like about cooking.

and ash, your determined is my abrasive, not saying i Mind peregrine just that well he can come off as quite abrasive. My fave peregrine quote "I only post when I'm right...." just like the rest of us buddy. Well cept maybe me , i usually post when i have something stupid to say.

'I only post when I know I am right'.

Nothing wrong in only making statements when you know that you have something backing them up.

 Bullockist wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
I mostly do main dishes. I do not think I even know how to make a good cake. I will usually buy ice-cream.

Cake is hard, it's cooking where you have to have the chemistry part right and i hate it, it's just so unintuitive. Which is what i like about cooking.

and ash, your determined is my abrasive, not saying i Mind peregrine just that well he can come off as quite abrasive. My fave peregrine quote "I only post when I'm right...." just like the rest of us buddy. Well cept maybe me , i usually post when i have something stupid to say.

Yes well some other people are abrasive too on this forum. Not sure if i can say who due to mods. I have been temp banned just for talking too much about a specific person even though for once i agreed with them in most respects and didn't insult except maybe once with a very mild insult.

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For me all the cooking i know is usually pasta based (spaghetti, lasagna and not much else) as well as using a slow cooker. Everything else is prepared food usually.

If you guys would like to go for a cooking thread or throw up some suggestions then go ahead.

I also can't help but laugh at the idea of think of Hybrid as a French cook that's very snobbish or something. I almost wonder how he'd take it if i used steak sauce on his food. I hear some cooks consider that a big insult when done on their steaks. That said something tells me he is more of a vegetarian but i am unsure.

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Sheesh ashiraya why didn't you just go for peregrine if that was the case. Also keep in mind you're a grand total of 18 years old. Even if the age gap and massive distance between the two of you didn't get in the way then i'm sure your inexperience probably would. Not saying i have experience either but i have probably talked to a bunch of women and found out some things.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I also can't help but laugh at the idea of think of Hybrid as a French cook that's very snobbish or something. I almost wonder how he'd take it if i used steak sauce on his food. I hear some cooks consider that a big insult when done on their steaks. That said something tells me he is more of a vegetarian but i am unsure.

I am indeed a vegetarian. I would just go out buy myself a veggie burger .
But I am not a snobbish cook, I go for simple, filling dishes. Just do not put ketchup on pasta and we will be alright .

 flamingkillamajig wrote:


Yes well some other people are abrasive too on this forum. Not sure if i can say who due to mods. I have been temp banned just for talking too much about a specific person even though for once i agreed with them in most respects and didn't insult except maybe once with a very mild insult.


Sheesh ashiraya why didn't you just go for peregrine if that was the case. Also keep in mind you're a grand total of 18 years old. Even if the age gap and massive distance between the two of you didn't get in the way then i'm sure your inexperience probably would. Not saying i have experience either but i have probably talked to a bunch of women and found out some things.

I once got temp banned for inferring that Americans are fat

I don't think ash should have gone for peregrine, i mean sheesh, imagine the arguments

This thread... wtf is going on in this thread... O_O

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You better delete that post (has swearing in it not that I care as I have a potty mouth, but the mods would) I would hate for this thread to get banned.

 Cheesecat wrote:
You better delete that post (has swearing in it not that I care as I have a potty mouth, but the mods would) I would hate for this thread to get banned.

chaos0xomega wrote:
This thread... wtf is going on in this thread... O_O

I think it's called divergence or perhaps straying from the topic, fear not we shall get back to topic soon enough. In regard to the peregrine/ash thing, i think we are allowed a little fun now that ash has declared her unrequited(?) love for peregrine

how the hell did I miss that?
I, the mighty pontixex, have muissed a point of discussion? stimpy.

I asked my rookie climber who cannot peel bananas anymore if she wanted to come to the cinema bis double feature at the Cinémathèque (movies about Chuck Norris and Van Damme being macho men, but since it is as the Cinémathèque, I can pretend it is a high-class social activity, right ?) but she was too busy with her biology study.
It has been told time and time again in this thread that movie dates are bad, but how bad exactly would you rate a date for a double-feature of Black Eagle (Van Damme) and Silent rage (Chuck Norris) at the Cinémathèque ?
This is completely random, but it is mostly a desperate attempt to get this thread back on topic.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
You can't like Peregrine! I don't like Peregrine therefore you are wrong!!!!!!!!

Don't feel too jealous, you can always become the president of the "I Hate Peregrine" club. But maybe you should move the discussion to a different thread so that it doesn't keep hijacking this one. You could even start a poll!

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
It has been told time and time again in this thread that movie dates are bad, but how bad exactly would you rate a date for a double-feature of Black Eagle (Van Damme) and Silent rage (Chuck Norris) at the Cinémathèque ?

The choice of movie doesn't matter, what matters is what you do around the movie. A movie is 2-3 hours of sitting silently and ignoring each other, so you want to make sure you follow it with something more interactive. The conventional "dinner and then a movie" idea is really bad because once the sitting in silence is over you split up and that's the end of it.

That's not quite what i said peregrine. To an extent i don't like you but it's more the curious things you sometimes stand for. I'm just more puzzled a girl can 10 out of 10 you. I mean 7 or 8 out of 10 but barely knows you on the internet and basically wants to build a statue of you is quite a bit.

@Hybrid: Just remember how it happens. If she shows interest by looking excited then you have a better chance than if she looks very bored. Of course i figure this would be more obvious to some but i figure we're not the most sociable group.

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Anyway i can't remember who it was but whoever told me not to look for a gamer girl helped. I didn't read the article and came to a somewhat different conclusion but yeah i'd just rather be with somebody that treats me well. Anyway we'll see how things go when i get back to school. At the very least due to a web-comic i had the realization that the previous girl i really liked wasn't so great. I'm sure there are a lot more worthwhile women out there who don't game.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I'm just more puzzled a girl can 10 out of 10 you. I mean 7 or 8 out of 10 but barely knows you on the internet and basically wants to build a statue of you is quite a bit.

I'm only going to reply to this because there's a general point to be made: these things are incredibly subjective. One person's 7/10 is another person's 10/10 and a third person's 0/10, and none of them are objectively correct. Some people put a lot of weight on stubbornly defending the right ideas and are willing to form a strong opinion of a person without ever meeting them*. Some people have much less flattering things to say about internet arguments and/or refuse to hand out 0/10 or 10/10 opinions based only on a person's writing. But trying to say things like "you shouldn't rate people 10/10 until you meet them" or "you should be more attracted to {insert attribute I like}" is rarely going to accomplish something, just like trying to convince someone of the superiority of your preferred hair color rarely ends in anything but agreeing to disagree. Just accept that lots of people are attracted to the "wrong" things and put your effort into finding the people who are attracted to things you have.

*You might find this post very informative as well.

 Peregrine wrote:
The choice of movie doesn't matter, what matters is what you do around the movie. A movie is 2-3 hours of sitting silently and ignoring each other, so you want to make sure you follow it with something more interactive.

Well, there is the 30 minutes between the movies . The big problem is that it ends slightly before midnight and the last train to go back home is slightly after midnight, and it is a bit late to do stuff, but if I can sleep in Paris and therefore am not in a rush to go back home, just discuss in a bar.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
@Hybrid: Just remember how it happens. If she shows interest by looking excited then you have a better chance than if she looks very bored.

Yeah, that is indeed pretty obvious .

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
This topic took a weird turn

Again? How many times is that now?

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Anyway i can't remember who it was but whoever told me not to look for a gamer girl helped. I didn't read the article and came to a somewhat different conclusion but yeah i'd just rather be with somebody that treats me well. Anyway we'll see how things go when i get back to school. At the very least due to a web-comic i had the realization that the previous girl i really liked wasn't so great. I'm sure there are a lot more worthwhile women out there who don't game.

The point is not to look for someone who's not your idea of ideal, but to be more broad about it so you don't have to settle with someone unsuited to you. Focusing in too much on the gamergirls just narrowed the pool you had to work with, so you would have overlooked good matches just on that one point.

 Peregrine wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
I'm just more puzzled a girl can 10 out of 10 you. I mean 7 or 8 out of 10 but barely knows you on the internet and basically wants to build a statue of you is quite a bit.

I'm only going to reply to this because there's a general point to be made: these things are incredibly subjective. One person's 7/10 is another person's 10/10 and a third person's 0/10, and none of them are objectively correct. Some people put a lot of weight on stubbornly defending the right ideas and are willing to form a strong opinion of a person without ever meeting them*. Some people have much less flattering things to say about internet arguments and/or refuse to hand out 0/10 or 10/10 opinions based only on a person's writing. But trying to say things like "you shouldn't rate people 10/10 until you meet them" or "you should be more attracted to {insert attribute I like}" is rarely going to accomplish something, just like trying to convince someone of the superiority of your preferred hair color rarely ends in anything but agreeing to disagree. Just accept that lots of people are attracted to the "wrong" things and put your effort into finding the people who are attracted to things you have.

*You might find this post very informative as well.

I give Peregrine a 6/10 as even though i admire his determination his head looks vaguely birdlike and just doesn't fire up my loins

In regard to the convincing others of your favourite hair colour, yep, nah don't do it. I think last time I tried to do this on dakka i ended up being called a racialist. This has also happened IRL. I still feel it's my personal choice what i find attractive physically, but apparently i should find every one attractive. *shrug*

I also agree on the movie thing, I never get watching movies with people, as it's a solo activity.Watching tv is also a solo activity but at least you can t5alk without being glared at.


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 n0t_u wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
This topic took a weird turn

Again? How many times is that now?
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My favourite moment so far has to be hybrid and his 50% lesbian thing

 Bullockist wrote:
In regard to the convincing others of your favourite hair colour, yep, nah don't do it.

I do not even understand how one could have a favorite hair color. I mean, you cannot just consider the hair color without taking everything else into account . Some people will look better with one hair color, other with another hair color.

 Bullockist wrote:
My favourite moment so far has to be hybrid and his 50% lesbian thing

I really have no idea what you are talking about. What was that?

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
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 Bullockist wrote:
My favourite moment so far has to be hybrid and his 50% lesbian thing

I really have no idea what you are talking about. What was that?

Few pages ago with the "statistics" stuff.

Oh, that? It was logic 101 .

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Bullockist wrote:
In regard to the convincing others of your favourite hair colour, yep, nah don't do it.

I do not even understand how one could have a favorite hair color. I mean, you cannot just consider the hair color without taking everything else into account . Some people will look better with one hair color, other with another hair color.

Well put it this way i'm not a fan of blonde hair,all other hair i love and the longer and straighter the better- red heads get a bonus for wavy though . I dunno hair is just important for me. If i get married and my wife cuts her hair I swear I'm going to the hair dresser, getting her discarded tresses and taking them home and having a wake. I have been attracted to women with blonde hair but i can count them on 2 hands. All other hair colours i couldn't count.

Don't you all have some physical attribute you find adds attractiveness? Please don't give me this guff about the whole person or personality. We are talking attraction here, pure physical attraction, you know when you first meet some one and you thing wow, (s)he's (<--- goddamn i'm politically correct right there and inclusive) hot. What i mean is if you put someone there with a boy cut hair as compared to long tresses, the boy cut will feature far lower in attractiveness for me even if it was the same person. Although that said I was very strongly attracted to a girl with a shaved head and a fringe once.

 Bullockist wrote:
Don't you all have some physical attribute you find adds attractiveness?

Head. I find headless women (and men, actually) way less attractive .
I have been attracted to very different women and I could really not pinpoint one thing and say “Women with this are more attractive than women with this”.