# Flirtrooms:Iceland politely requesteth **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 26, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070 "2005-02-26T23:54:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/21 "2005-02-28T22:32:25Z")
I’m sorry to inform you that the SDMB is not your own private personal ad. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/22 "2005-02-28T23:37:55Z")
_feels up **Iceland** _ I’m such a dick 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/23 "2005-02-28T23:40:41Z")
Just consider it practice for the real deal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/24 "2005-02-28T23:48:56Z")
Not for nothing, **IcelandBlue** , but perhaps it would just be simpler to stay out of “flirt threads” if same-sex flirting distresses you, and if a thread on a _different_ subject _evolves_ (or devolves) into a flirt thread, you can either gently point the flirters back at the OP or quietly take your leave. However, since your objection seems to be GENDER of the flirtatious posters rather than the digression itself, you probably would be best served to just take your leave of such threads rather than try to control the behavior of other posters whose posts are not inherently offensive. S’all I’m sayin. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/25 "2005-03-01T00:45:30Z")
> [@Tenar](#): > > Not for nothing, **IcelandBlue** , but perhaps it would just be simpler to stay out of “flirt threads” if same-sex flirting distresses you Have you met **Iceland\_Blue**? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/26 "2005-03-01T01:19:13Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I’d be flattered if any of the gorgeous girls round here flirted with me. I’m straight and I’m probably staying that way (how boring! ;)) but with all the loveliness at the SDMB, how can one resist? 🙂 > > Of course I’d be flattered with guys, too, naturally–even you, **Iceland Blue** , he who looks smashing in a skir–kilt. _cough_ 😉 Well, I’m another straight female, and how _you_ doin’? 😉 As for the OP-perhaps the guys will stop “flirting” with you when you stop intimating that you like 12 year olds attractive. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/27 "2005-03-01T02:16:33Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > As for the OP-perhaps the guys will stop “flirting” with you when you stop intimating that you like 12 year olds attractive. :rolleyes: Cite?I presume you can provide evidence… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![WilhelmGefallen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@WilhelmGefallen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilhelmGefallen)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/28 "2005-03-01T02:26:21Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Cite?I presume you can provide evidence… :rolleyes: I can, I can [Citey goodness](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5891162&postcount=53) However this one happens to be a joke, does it still count? ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/29 "2005-03-01T02:33:27Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > Your user name does sound girly. Maybe change it to **Iceland\_Blue\_(DUDE!)** would help you with this serious problem. > > Not flirtin’ with you, mind; just tryin’ to help. 😛 **Iceland\_Blueballs** , on account of the apparent lack of wimmins taking an internet shine to him? ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/30 "2005-03-01T02:58:52Z")
> [@WilhelmGefallen](#): > > I can, I can [Citey goodness](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5891162&postcount=53) > > However this one happens to be a joke, does it still count? I realize that was what she was refering to,which is quite worrying if people are doing this-taking what is written in that thread which is quite clearly not meant to be taken seriously and quoting it in other parts of the boards as actual fact… > [@Casey1505](#): > > Iceland\_Blueballs, on account of the apparent lack of wimmins taking an internet shine to him? I call upon the female Dopers- **monica** , **Kythereia** et al to prove this gentleman wrong 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/31 "2005-03-01T03:09:30Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > I call upon the female Dopers- **monica** , **Kythereia** et al to prove this gentleman wrong 🙂 Sorry, handsome, I didn’t mean to imply that _ **no** _ doper-ettes were hitting on you, just maybe not as many as you would like, which I’m sure could get a little, uh, frustrating. 😃 Check out the line of women looking to chat me up…It’ll form, soon.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/32 "2005-03-01T03:09:46Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > And when do we see YOUR pic in a short skirt? 😃 Oh god, its started. [husky voice] uh Hi, Iceland\_Blue, I’m a extremely hot 20 year-old girl, who has an aversion to clothes, and who is currently homeless. Would you happen to know anywhere I could stay? I can’t help playing with my body, and that gets me lots of weird looks in the mall… [/end flirt] 😃 - Note: What scares me is how easily that was for me to write :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/33 "2005-03-01T03:12:07Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > Cite?I presume you can provide evidence… :rolleyes: Luckily for you, the “Ask the Pedophile” thread from January’s no longer accessible to regular members so there’s no cite but that doesn’t mean **Guin** ’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/34 "2005-03-01T05:18:30Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Luckily for you, the “Ask the Pedophile” thread from January’s no longer accessible to regular members so there’s no cite but that doesn’t mean **Guin** ’s wrong. That’s the one. I don’t want him thinking I was talking about the “let’s confess” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/35 "2005-03-01T14:52:13Z")
Well, I’m female and I will no longer flirt with you, I’m afraid. What’s the harm in flirting with a guy? Eventually one of you is going to pick it up, and at that point you cna just say, “I’m sorry, dude, I don’t go that way.” ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/36 "2005-03-01T16:46:46Z")
iceland\_blue’s worst nightmare: [http://www.littlemidgets.com/downloadsnew/sub\_1672.jpg](http://www.littlemidgets.com/downloadsnew/sub_1672.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Iceland\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@Iceland\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceland_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/37 "2005-03-01T17:36:52Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Well, I’m female and I will no longer flirt with you, I’m afraid. > > What’s the harm in flirting with a guy? Eventually one of you is going to pick it up, and at that point you cna just say, “I’m sorry, dude, I don’t go that way.” And what’s the difference between saying that at that point and saying at the beginning ‘I’m sorry dudes,I don’t go this way’ before anything happens… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/38 "2005-03-01T17:39:59Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > And what’s the difference between saying that at that point and saying at the beginning ‘I’m sorry dudes,I don’t go this way’ before anything happens… Nothing’s wrong with it, I just agree with **Cisco** : > [@](#): > > Either take it as a compliment or don’t even give it a second thought. Making a thread specifically to say, “I’m a guy, don’t even think about hitting on me” kind of turns me off, is all I’m saying. ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/39 "2005-03-01T19:14:44Z")
Hijack? Not sure…I’m new, and don’t understand relevance vs. hijack Makes me remember when I first moved down into Chicago-proper (as opposed to the 'burbs)… My apartment-finder was showing me studio apartments around the North Side, near Wrigley Field (which was a strong interest of mine at the time). We pulled up to one place, a very nice 20’s apartment building. I liked it, it was cheap, and it was right across the street from a supermarket (I should mention here that I’m a very lazy man)! After I had moved in (first day), I noticed that the streetlights were somewhat reminiscent of large, rainbow-colored phallusses (sic?). Hmm…weird! Then , as I was walking around the block (Halsted and Brompton, for anyone who knows/cares), I saw one man leading another on a leash, clad only in a leather harness (which one? Both!). I was somewhat shocked. After about a week, I didn’t even notice what I had previously thought of as “ick”. Harnesses didn’t faze me, men kissing in public was…blah, and even “furries” were rather staid. The reason I mention this is that prior to living down on Brompton, I probably shared a similar apprehension. I really didn’t want to get “hit on” by a guy, in person or otherwise. I suspect I thought it would lessen my own heterosexuality. Three years ago (my 7th living down in the area…I LOVE having the Jewel across the street, I’m since married and suburban again), after the Pride Parade, some guy that was so amazingly drunk that was actively weaving on the sidewalk grabbed my ass. He was so drunk that I didn’t give it a second thought, moved out of the way, and kept walking. Oddly, this irritated him. He called me a “bitch”, and started harrassing me (walking close, yelling, etc.). This kept on for about 1/2 block, until we (he, almost physically) ran into two truly monstrous guys walking hand-in-hand. The bigger, more hirsute of the two looked at me, looked at him (I was wearing khaki shorts and a t-shirt; he was wearing a g-string and a rainbow-colored feather boa), and said to him (while grabbing his shoulder): “Honey…he’s not your type!”. If that was a hijack, my apologies. Last thought…as far as all-day parties go, it’s tought o beat the Pride Parade. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070/40 "2005-03-01T20:59:58Z")
> [@Iceland\_Blue](#): > > And what’s the difference between saying that at that point and saying at the beginning ‘I’m sorry dudes,I don’t go this way’ before anything happens… Because it is considered the height of arrogance to assume that all homosexuals are just dying to get into your pants. No, you didn’t say that, but it’s in the same vein. One guy accidentally flirting with you won’t give you TEH GAY!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flirtrooms-iceland-politely-requesteth/292070.md?page=3)