I’m so goddamn sick of seing couples every freakin where I turn. Every idiot can seem to get a girlfriend but me. Why is it a guy can be a total jerk and girls will be like he is so cute, but if I’m nice I get jack shit. God forbid the girl I like go out with a guy who actually cares about her and doesn’t think of her as some sort of sex object. Note the sarcasm. I feel like punching something or someone. God couples make me sick 
Yeah, they’re always going around smiting people, laying waste to large tracts of land, inflicting plagues on non-believers. And that’s usually just the first date!
No offense dude, I used to be a member of the nice-guy crowd. Then I developed a really wicked scowl. Now I’ve got a wife, kid, mortgage, perpetual backache, two horses, two dogs, and a lame cat.
Be careful what you wish for…
Next time you see a girl you like, smack her around a bit, that will make her hot for you!
Trion’s unsolicited advice for the day:
Whining about it won’t make you any more attractive.
Hehe… good stuff. 
Can I have that printed up as a t-shirt? 
Dude calm down. I don’t know how old you are (but you sound young) but give it time. Unless you look like a trench beast or have the personality of a rock, someone will come along soon. She may not be a knockout, but there’s someone for everyone. But, as it was pointed out earlier, whining doesn’t help your cause.
Are you leading an alternate life of mine?
I had exactly the same thing, but then my lame cat wandered off, and another one without a limp showed up.
I’m not kidding.
Xan -
Guys like us, we may be lousy at starting relationships, but we’re terrific at keeping them going. Case in point: the second girl I slept with, I married. Just give it time.
And don’t act desperate. They can smell it a mile away.
Sorry, I forgot to add Biff the Wonder Pony to the list. But the cat is doing better…
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The other guy being an asshole dosen’t mean you’re not (maybe even a bigger) one yourself.
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The girl saying your “too nice” doesen’t mean that’s the real problem. She was letting you down easy.
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(Manda JO’s golden rule) Quit fucking worrying about “girls” in the abstract and start worrying about individuals in the concrete! “Girls” is not a catagory that has any meaning when you are lonely. Trying to figure out “girls” as a catagory will lead you to a lifetime of misery and dispair.
Xan–I thought I’d chime in and cop to being the female half of more than one of your “stupid couples” in my time. I fell for bad-boy types, and then married the king of them. He treated me shabbily at times, lied to me constantly, and needed me desperately. That was what got to me–being needed, I think. I’m just going to claim issues, and not get too far into it. The point is, I woke up one mornng and realized that being needed was a poor excuse for being respected and loved. I’m now with a guy who’s not nearly so dramatic or intense–more of a nice, stable, regular-guy-joe type I wouldn’t have necessarily considered in my pre-enlightened days–and I’ve never been more content. So I’ll parrot LiquidLobotomy here, and advise being patient. I’m also assuming you’re relatively young, and want to point out that young girls are confused just as often and insecure about just as much stupid stuff as young guys are, if not more so. If you’re not young, well–misjudgements aren’t reserved for those under twenty.
I think I’d try to worry about making sure that you’re an interesting and worthy partner, and a relationship will come. And–very important!-- be sure you’re not setting the bar so high that you couldn’t jump it yourself. Enjoy your friendships with the females in your life. Listen and learn, and maybe someday you’ll make some woman who’s finally realized that bad boys are called bad for a reason very, very lucky.
bella
The trick to girls is being as mean as possible without driving them away.
But seriously folks, if you are the insecure, nice, maybe not so attractive type (as I am,) the best advice I can give you is to wait to find a girl that you like and that likes you enough to talk to you. Become friends with her and maybe see if it can go any further than that. Unfortunately, it is much harder for us to get girls as easily as those other guys do, but as Alessan said, we really are better at keeping up relationships.
I still haven’t found a girlfriend though I’ve tried a lot so can you help me please it’s tougher than I thought. The odds are pretty good but the goods are pretty odd still at this point I’d take anything you’ve got. You see this all the time nice girls in love with jerks what could they be thinking tell me how it works. If I’ve got some problems well I wouldn’t be the first but the ones I have in mind are even worse and even Hitler had a girlfriend who he could always call who’d always be there for him in spite of all his faults. He was the worst guy ever reviled and despised even Hitler had a girlfriend so why can’t I? Life is full of contradictions hard to understand and for every happy woman there’s a lonely man. Nixon had his puppy Charles Manson had his clan but God forbid that I get a girlfriend. Even Hitler had a girlfriend who he could call his own to sweeten days of bitterness and feeling all alone. I’m not as bad as Hitler but it doesn’t mean a thing since they’d rather be with Hitler more than me I don’t see why they’d rather be with Hitler more than me.
Thank you Dr. Frank.
Ho hum. Why is it whenever I see a guy complain that he can’t get a g/f because he’s “too nice”, I think “Yeah, right!”?
Nice guys get the girl too. If you find all the girls go for bad boys, then I think you’re chasing after the wrong girls. Go for the ones who aren’t self destructive, and who are mature enough to know a good thing when they see it. No offence intended, Belladonna, but the way you talk about your bad old days kinda backs up what I’m saying - when you were younger, you chased the tough exciting guys, now that you’re older and wiser, you’ve found your nice guy and you’re happy. It takes maturity to see that being “exciting” isn’t enough, your partner needs to be “kind” and “caring” and “stable” first and foremost.
%^&^%&^%&^##% board glitches ate my post…it was much better than this one…
Anyways, gentlemen, here is a link to some essays on the ‘nice guy’ phenomenon by women who don’t mince words. If you can handle it.
If you can’t…here’s a hint : “Eau de Desperation” is one of the most unattractive auras known. One of the key things that many (both genders!) should learn is the difference between ‘want’ and ‘need’.
I want my man to want me, not need me. He has to be capable of functioning at a high level without me. I wish to be an ENHANCEMENT TO his life, not a REASON FOR it. And I wish for him to feel the same way about me.
Difficult, but not impossible, I swear it.
Careful now, Scylla. The Nazi groundhogs probably kidnapped the old lame cat and replaced it with a Nazi groundhog spy in a cleverly designed cat costume. The sheep are probably in with the plan, too.
Trust nothing on four legs!
jayjay
No shit, brother. You hit it on the head with that one. Fuck them. And then I have to put up with the god damn womens magazines in the supermarket every single fucking month an article about how meet a good man. I tell you what… look a-fucking-round… we are here… we are right in front of your asses.
I came across an informal study relating to this topic… The Deacon Effect
Summary: Acting like an asshole is an effective way to pick up random girls.
YMMV, of course… I have a tendency to show up late and not mince words, but I’m still a pretty “nice” guy (occasionally a pretty desperate, insecure guy), and it hasn’t stopped me from having my share of girlfriends.
Oh suck it up, princess. It’s called a dry spell. Life goes on. . .
I’m single, and therefore first in line for all the cool jobs and missions that we get tasked for. Basically, I’m the coolest kid on the block. And ya know what? I like it!
Tripler
My expendability gives me more power than you know.