I’d tend to agree with that. I do change my mind often (it’s a woman’s privilege, after all) but not in small time frames. If I’m repelled or annoyed by someone, it may change in a few months/a year. And if I want to jump your bones…it’ll take a while for that feeling to go away. 
If I’m hanging out with a guy on a regular basis and I don’t know, it’s probably because I don’t really like him that way. My juices are…well, either they flow or they don’t.
Bah! I had a cute neighbor I was trying to get to go out and she made dinner for me, but all she wanted was a friend.
Bah, I say!
As a guy who just went through a similar situation make sure you actually use the word date the next time you talk about going out it makes things perfectly clear. For instance “Hey, I got an idea for our next date.” to which you either get “date?” or hopefully “Sure what ya got?”. It makes life simple and you have an easy out in the case of the first one with “Oh, I’m sorry I meant: next time we hang out”. Trust me all will be clear though probably not to your liking if your not already sure.
Yeah, I totally disagree with this, too. I like to cook, so I’m sure I’ve given food to male friends I had no romantic interest in. The grooming thing, maybe. But that’s a pretty passive way to try and figure things out.
I’ve had one co-worker play with my hair today and another feed me and I assure you that neither is the least bit interested in me.
I’m just glad I’m not the only one who is completely clueless with regards to dating and the mixed (false, non-existent, misleading) “signals” women give (or not).
Yeah, I’m talking at you, S.
Meh. Four friends of mine were plucking hairs out of a guy’s back by the pool last weekend. They were either not/no longer interested in jumping his bones. Grooming is more of the comfortable girlfriend (or evolutionary) phase, not the ‘let’s screw’ phase of a relationship.
It doesn’t apply to guinea pigs.
I think that’s also known as the “improvement” phase. This is where you attempt to maximize the value of the investment that you have made, up to a point. The process continues until resale value is equal to or slightly higher than your resources on hand.
Occasionally time will be spent improving a property investment that does not end in a sale, but this is generally tolerated as it improves the economy as a whole.
Women often groom me after intercourse. Are they sprucing me up in preparation of putting me on the market, in hopes of trading up to something better? “flipping” me?
Because I like to think that they’re nesting.
What you’re referring to is microgrooming, I was speaking more in a macro sense.
This metaphor was in Abu Ghraib as of the last post, don’t make me stretch it any more…