[QUOTE=Gary Kumquat]
Oh come on, you know he’s got a point. The vast majority of people of both genders are shallow and would find someone more attractive if they have an expensive car as it hints that they have money.
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I’d dispute ‘vast majority’ but even if so, what’s the big deal? Are you guys seriously looking for ‘shallow’? Of course, this assumes this thread is about finding a partner (which I also assumed the OP might be thinking about) rather than just a warm body to squirm around with.
Granted, if you’re about quantity rather than quality, that may be the case. But how dull.
[QUOTE=hawksgirl]
But would you discuss your plans to buy a car to get chicks with a potential date? If I wanted to impress someone, I’d talk about charity and investments myself.
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Yeah, fair enough. If his first words to you on the date were about scoring “pussy” with his car, frankly he deserves all the upbraiding he can get. TokyoPlayer is right on the money about that.
But if a guy mentioned his plans to buy an expensive car without the kind of crude attitude the OP talked about, and was told that he should spend his money in other ways instead, I’d think it was preachy. Sure, charity and investments are worthy things to talk about, but not as a rebuttal to someone’s perceived skewed priorities.
But I like the fact that the OP put this shmuck in his place.
Okay, I jumped around heifer.org for a bit. Still don’t know what an ark of livestock is. Which seems to indicate that you have to be pretty deep into this thing to think of arks of livestock when you have 50K to spend.
I’m a nice guy, polite, strong work ethic, funny, safety conscious, honest, I rarely drink, don’t smoke, hold my farts whenever possible, and I own a $30,000 car which has been restored with no intent (or ability) to attract women. Still…
[QUOTE=phouka]
The trouble with Joe? Even though he has an adorably big nose, muscles, and a fun-fun, laidback demeanor?
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…makes me think it is my normal-sized nose which is my curse.
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
I’d dispute ‘vast majority’ but even if so, what’s the big deal? Are you guys seriously looking for ‘shallow’? Of course, this assumes this thread is about finding a partner (which I also assumed the OP might be thinking about) rather than just a warm body to squirm around with.
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I’ve got bad news for you, but yes many, many young men are purely looking to get laid as often as possible. We tend to grow out of it, but really don’t pretend that this is somehow a revelation. And it’s not just men who are that shallow, as frankly I managed to get laid on many an occasion, and mostly that was because I wore fashionable clothes, drove a nice car, worked out and basically relied on many other silly little factors that a lot of women seemed to go for.
Yes it’s shallow, but there you go. I have no idea why men like to do this, but judging by how many of us go through a stage like that either there’s something in the water, or the media makes us desire it, or it’s genetic, or we’re all terribly insecure and trying to validate ourselves, or god knows what - but rolling your eyes at Deth just because he states the obvious is just kidding yourself.
Nope, quite often gratuitous sex was anything but dull. I know that we’d like to think that people who get laid a lot all have a deep hollowness inside that mere copulation with as many attractive people as you can get your paws on, but frankly from ages 17 - 27 I found it all incredibly satisfying and interesting. Seriously, why would you find lots of sex dull?
[QUOTE=phouka]
I begged off, citing an upset stomach, checked my watch to make sure enough time had passed that my own alcoholic drink had been metabolized, went home, and looked at online porn. Well, not that much porn, but I did have to exorcize my mother’s spirit.
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[QUOTE=Gary Kumquat]
Nope, quite often gratuitous sex was anything but dull. I know that we’d like to think that people who get laid a lot all have a deep hollowness inside that mere copulation with as many attractive people as you can get your paws on, but frankly from ages 17 - 27 I found it all incredibly satisfying and interesting. Seriously, why would you find lots of sex dull?
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Didn’t you get the memo? People with nothing better to do with their time than post to the Dope a hundred times a week are in the perfect position to lecture other people about quality of life.
phouka, if the guy had used the word ‘pillock’ in any context, would you have jumped his bones?
And, can you really buy a house of any kind in Plano for $150K? I bought a house in Plano (1705 Judy Lane IIRC) for $14.5K back in 1962; back in the 80s and 90s, customers of mine from the Plano area threw around figures in the $300 to $500K range for that specific address.
[QUOTE=Rilchiam]
Okay, I jumped around heifer.org for a bit. Still don’t know what an ark of livestock is. Which seems to indicate that you have to be pretty deep into this thing to think of arks of livestock when you have 50K to spend.
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Actually, you just have to look in the catalog, although I note there aren’t as many details in the online one. Basically, you give Heifer.org five grand, and they send a metric shitload of farm animals to someplace poor.
(there are smaller donation amount for smaller things, too, starting with the $40 for a flock of geese/ducks)
[QUOTE=Charger]
I’m a nice guy, polite, strong work ethic, funny, safety conscious, honest, I rarely drink, don’t smoke, hold my farts whenever possible, and I own a $30,000 car which has been restored with no intent (or ability) to attract women. Still…
Zeriel: Yeah, I figured that much out. But how many animals in an ark? What’s the benefit to the recipient? And all like that. Seems a bit presumptuous to list arks of livestock along with houses and retirement funds, as if they’re all equally obvious choices.
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfusters]
Granted, if you’re about quantity rather than quality, that may be the case. But how dull.
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[QUOTE=Gary Kumquat]
Nope, quite often gratuitous sex was anything but dull. I know that we’d like to think that people who get laid a lot all have a deep hollowness inside that mere copulation with as many attractive people as you can get your paws on, but frankly from ages 17 - 27 I found it all incredibly satisfying and interesting. Seriously, why would you find lots of sex dull?
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Naw, Quiddity Glomfusters right. Theres a level of maturity where sex with a dull person IS dull.
