Wearing these shoes.
I am not sure exactly what he meant by telling me he was a climate change denier.
His theory was that Julian Simon debunked climate change and that if I wanted to understand, I should read Simon myself (but as Simon died in the last century, I confess that I dismissed his arguments against climate change without reading them. Perhaps he has thoroughly debunked the science of climate change, in advance, and we’ve all missed it - in which case, I’ll eat a lot of crow.) He didn’t like Al Gore, or the policies and tactics of some climate change activists.
The main reason it bugged me was that he told me this because I am an environmentalist by inclination and employment. Some people find this threatening and try to challenge it at every turn (in the same way people find vegetarians threatening and try to engage them in arguments all the time). He assumed that “environmentalist = Al Gore devotee = advocate of bizarre and short-sighted theories that will cost the world economy too much,” and preemptively went on the attack to make sure I knew that my (presumably) crazy theories weren’t going to fly with him.
As it happens, climate change mitigation is not my area, I’ve never seen The Inconvenient Truth, and I am not remotely interested in arguing the point with anyone.
Leaving aside questions about his open-mindedness and approach to complex issues, I found it highly presumptive and unnecessarily confrontational for him to say it.
I feel bad bitching because he really is a good guy. But we did not belong together and I should have known from the get-go, because of clues like this one.
Cool! Ninja shoes!!!
I dont think that swearing is particulary female just as I dont fancy women with big muscles, fine moustaches,cauliflower ears and broken noses.
But thats just me.
Ref upthread about farting,yes I know that all women have to fart just as I know that all women have to go for a dump but I still find it a turnoff if they choose to do either overtly in front of me.
Not being a hypocrite here as I practise what I preach.
Well, this thread is a bit depressing. Looks like the only thing I have going for me is that I’m not a smoker.
Tattoos and body piercings are my contributions to this thread. They both annoy me way more than they probably should.
I hear you say something like this, “() Hi there. (__) Wanna go get () a drink? () now.”
Blue & orange Mohawk hair do.
Now, if you have passed those (before I even meet or talk to you) conditions and I ask you on a date:
Super picky eater, mirror user, crankbutt, asshat, arrogant, dismissive of lesser mortals, use the copy of ‘National Enquirer’ that you produce from your purse as a cite for your opinions, hate the color green, black, blue, insist that what I call purple is never purple, can not drive a stick shift, spaz out if a cat kills a bird, think jazz is music, will not go in a thrift store, and … Well nuff for now.
What the hell? Jazz is most definitely music, and has been for about seventy years. Rap, now that’s not music.
Wuzzat?
Phew - thought it was just me failing to understand that!
Jazz is not music to the ear that can only keep 4/4 time! I had to be taught to listen to jazz and then fell out of love with Black Oak Arkansas and later, was completely able to ignore A Flock of Seagulls!
Just chiming in to say that BOA was my first concert. High on the Hog and Mutants of the Monster were among my first albums.
My love of Miles and 'Trane came a decade later.
Of course. As long as they don’t make a production out of it. If you don’t like veal, fine. Order the chicken. But don’t give me a speech about why you hate veal. I have never in my life set foot in a restaurant that didn’t serve at least one thing I would eat.
Sorry, but “fuck” is NOT the most versatile and expressive word in the English language. It has just about lost its meaning through overuse. It has its place, certainly. When Morgan Freeman said it in the movie “Wanted” as the last word (right before the bullet entered his head),it was perfect. But the vast majority of the time I hear the word, it’s just a lazy speech habit or a device to add “humor” while offending people around you. I’m more likely to say “grow up, already” to all the people without enough maturity to figure out when not to use it than to the people offended by it.
Are those pauses, or noise words, or obscenities, or what?
I fucking love the word fuck! It is the single greatest fucking word uttered! It’s a verb, a noun, an adjective… Fuck you you fucking fuck. My fave t-shirt of all time… That and “I fucked the Olsen Twins before they were famous” cuz it’s just so fuckin’ sick!
“It don’t matter” is grammatically correct in some dialects. As is “I don’t got no money”. As is “She ain’t pretty.” If they weren’t grammatically correct, then they wouldn’t be an established part of some people’s speech patterns. That’s what a dialect is. It’s not just accent, as you falsely imply. Dialect includes a lot of things like accent, word choice, and grammatical structures.
You are within reason to dislike people who are stuck in their dialect and can’t speak Standard English. That’s not an issue. Where you go wrong is when you falsely claim that people who speak these (nonstandard) dialects are speaking incorrectly. They aren’t. They’re speaking non-prestige dialects, which is understandably a turn-off for you. But the fact that their speech is different does not make their speech incorrect. Your favored speech patterns are not any kind of arbiter of correctness.
Anyone else think it’s ironic that Sarah Jessica Parker is wearing hoofed shoes?
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
I certainly don’t. Can you explain?
Also, I’ll teleport you a crate of grapefruit if you can reply without signing your post “Valete, Vox Imperatoris.”
It has often been suggested (not really by me; I think she’s fairly attractive) that she has a horsey face.
Where’s my grapefruit?
Vox Imperatoris
Absolutely! I can’t date a man who doesn’t like the odd swear word.
Phone offenders:
Me answering the phone: Hi
Him: Hi
Me: Hi
Him: What’s up?
Me: I’m good. Who’s speaking?
Him: Don’t you recognise my voice?
Me: Who is this?
Him: Don’t you know my voice?
Me: No, I’m not good at that
Him: Are you sure?
Me: 
Phone offenders II
Me answering the phone: Hi:D
Him: I’ve been trying to get through to you all day.
Me: So what’s up?
Him: It’s been hard to get a signal
Me: So what’s up?
Him: I’ve been getting that “all circuits are buzy thing”
Me: So what’s up?:dubious:
Him: It’s hard to get hold of you
Me: So what’s up?
Him: I got through to the office around 12 so it was working around midday
Me: So what’s up?:smack:
Drink offenders:
Him: What are you having?
Me: Soda water with a piece of lime, please.
Him: I can’t buy that - have a proper drink
Me: Soda water with a piece of lime, please.
Him; Ok. :rolleyes:
Rinse and repeat throughout the evening.
Yeah, but horses don’t have cloven hooves. So there.
I actually think your observation is pretty funny, fabulous as I think SJP is. 
I actually know a few people who own those (inculding two models! Of course, I think they stole them form a Margiela show). They’re odd but I respect creativity when it comes to fashion.
Guys who expect the women they date to go by one set of rules while they go by another (e.g. swearing, smoking, hygiene). Same for women who look down on guys who go for manicures or like certain genres of movie or music that they are fans of themselves.