I’m sorry. The thought of borking someone just makes me think of this guy. sob
Influential Panda, do you live in Tampa?
Because just last night, at a karaoke bar, I met and flirted with a tall sexy redhead dressed as Jessica Rabbit. Got her phone number.
…and slipped her a Mickey Finn?
Slipped her nothing. 
Bought her a light beer, chatted, got her number, sang “Zoot Suit Riot,” went home alone. But none of her friends interfered at all.
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:eek: I still can’t get over the way females on this planet just casually accept gifts of food and drink from male strangers, with no offer or attempt at repayment. (No, I don’t mean that they’re obligated to offer “repayment” in the form of sexual favors: I mean they’re obligated to offer repayment in the form of giving back the fucking money, or else buying the guy a drink in return.)
I mean, I know men buying unreciprocated drinks for women is just a social custom, no more important to many people than the custom of having men open doors for women, but it bugs me. Especially because sometimes when I refuse to follow that custom, guys seem to think that it’s a rejection, which is not how I mean it.
What’s an appropriate response that would get that point across? “Sure, if you’ll let me buy you one”? “I always buy my own, but I’d be happy to drink it with you”? “No thanks, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t do you if I felt like it”? “No thanks, I only let ugly guys pay for my drinks”?
It’s just so unfair. We’re not talking a ten-cent stick of candy here, after all; if you buy a beer for four different chicks in the course of an evening, you’re out an extra twenty bucks or thereabouts, and each of them is up a free beer. If you’re fine with that, then that’s very nice of you, but you couldn’t call it fair, could you?
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Not for you but appearently you fucked things up for the Swedish Chef that came after you! 
I’ve noticed that gender equality usually only works in one direction.
:rolleyes: Thank you for your support. If only all guys were like you, I would have no trouble figuring out how to turn down their offers of free beer in an appropriate manner.
I’ve personally noticed there’s no foul if I don’t do that stuff. Women who expect you to do that stuff “because you’re the guy” aren’t worth the trouble.
As you say, there’s no other way to do it without risking pissing off the donor. You refuse it, and you risk pissing off the drunk, horny guy at the bar. If you buy him a drink in return, you risk falsely leading him on. So you accept it with a smile and a raising of your glass in his direction, and then you ignore him. Thanks, but no thanks. No harm, no foul.
You’re acting as if men had no choice but to dole out free drinks all night. That’s ridiculous. If he chooses to send free drinks to strange women (and we all know why he’s doing it, don’t we?), then he’s fully aware of the downside of his tactic. If $20 is too dear to him, he could always get off his ass and try to strike up a conversation. It’s a less awkward, less expensive, and less lazy way of trying to pick up women.
[continuance of hijack]A guy I know yesterday claimed to have gone out this Halloween and sat at a bar between two women, both of whom bought him drinks the whole night and competed to be the one to take him home…[/hijack]
I second this. I’m actually less likely to buy someone a drink if I’m trying to pick her up. A guy shouldn’t give the appearance of needing to buy a woman a drink, that’s for sure. And I wouldn’t buy somebody more than one without (alcoholic) reciprocation. What am I, trying to get her drunk? I can do better and so can most guys.
What was he dressed as?
Jessica Rabbit.
Did that with a friend once (sorta, he was cute and we wanted his number so we both bought him a drink)… until he became an asshole about it and we dropped him and both went home alone.
That’s a pretty dickish thing to do Panda. I would have been so pissed at my guy friends if they tried anything like that. Maybe she’d had more than they thought? Or who knows what really. But I thought roofies made the person slipped one pass out… not sick.
You just made me spit Rohypnol all over my monitor.
That’s what I thought. But then, showing your great knowledge of roofies by explaining this is not a good way to get out of the situation.
Very true.
Your welcome. Isn’t it great that we can bridge the gender gap and agree on something?
Oh, but wait, you rolled your eyes at me! Perhaps you do lament the death of chivalry? I have no problem doing all the “guy” things around the house, and I do all household tasks regardless of their historical gender assignments- but I’m not allowed to do laundry, for fear that I may ruin something. I also hold doors, drop off at front doors and go park, etc., without complaint, except when my wife and her girlfriends bitch about being treated like guys. Take the good with the bad, ladies, is my point.
FTW! This brought tears of laughter to my eyes.