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OK, I think I get it. MaxTheVool is asking what traits or behaviors we find attractive in spite of the fact that those same traits pretty much guarantee no relationship is going to happen.
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Well forget that! Let’s stick with the highjacked topic instead!
Suits. Men in suits make me weak in the knees, especially a well-cut suit with a great tie. Oh, my.
Men in jeans wearing a white, button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up…shirt tucked in.
Irish/Scottish/English accents. The convention of electricians who came through town last month had no idea how well they could have scored…even the quirky-looking guy with the broken teeth had a chance. The whole mall was just swooning, so I’m not alone in this.
Guys who play the piano. Guys who can sing. Guys who know how to use tools.
Jugglers. Damn.
I’m going to stop now…I feel a bit faint…I’ll be in my bunk…
I am a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl. I like wearing lots of color. I have long red hair and freckles. It is rare that you will ever see me in make-up, eyeliner or otherwise. I am, in fact, the opposite of goth.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
OK, I think I get it. MaxTheVool is asking what traits or behaviors we find attractive in spite of the fact that those same traits pretty much guarantee no relationship is going to happen.
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Um… like getting huge crushes on cute, sporty, lesbians or something?
I’ve had a couple crushes on a few of my sister’s friends, but it hasn’t been really consistent in that respect. But that’s as close as I can come to the OP.
Ah. Like the fact that I love really stereotypically, flamboyantly gay guys (I am a girl). I’ve realized that they don’t even have to be cute (although it helps. I would love to get Rufus Wainwright…just once…mmmmmm).
There is absolutely no good reason for that.
I suppose this is actually somewhat common, innit?
[QUOTE=Kneepants Erasmus, the Humanist]
Ah. Like the fact that I love really stereotypically, flamboyantly gay guys (I am a girl). I’ve realized that they don’t even have to be cute (although it helps. I would love to get Rufus Wainwright…just once…mmmmmm).
There is absolutely no good reason for that.
I suppose this is actually somewhat common, innit?
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Oh god, yes.
I have a thing for guys with an overactive domestic side. Does he cook? Clean? Mend his own clothing when needed? Does he harbor a desire to be a stay-at-home dad? I love that, despite the fact that I would never be serious with a guy who doesn’t have serious life goals.
I mean, geez, it’s not like I don’t have a plethora of experiences to pick from proving to me that glasses do not automatically equate to intelligence (which I know I find attractive). I’ve known, and currently work with, way to many bespectacled bimbos to assume that.
But it doesn’t matter. Glasses == The Hawt.
Stockings, too. Same deal there. Plenty of fugly women wear 'em, plenty of hotties don’t, why the hell should they make a difference? But they do.
And combine the two? Oh, hell, forget it. I’m a drooling cave-man at that point.
Glasses? And stockings? WUH-MAN! OOK! OOOK! WUH-MAN!
I’m pathetic.
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Gah. I just realised that you just described my every day work attire (well components of!)
Case in point- today: black framed glasses, conservative pony tail, conservative knit shirt, knee length skirt, fish net stockings and high heels!
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool]
I tend to find somewhat “gothy-y” woman hot. Piercings (within reason), oddly colored hair, wearing black… I find myself wanting to flirt with these women. Which makes no sense whatsoever. Not that there’s anything wrong with being goth-y, but I’m intellectually almost certain that gothiness is NOT a trait that correlates with being-a-good-mate-for-Max.
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I like rough hands. Yum yum yum. Carpenters, construction workers, bike mechanics, guitar players, anything that produces scars and callouses. Divine.
As I make my living with my brain, I find I often don’t have much to talk about with people who make their living with their hands. I tend to date nerds with soft silky white hands more accustomed to computer keyboards than power tools - in fact my own (cyclist) hands are usually rougher than theirs are. Sigh.
[QUOTE=cowgirl]
I like rough hands. Yum yum yum. Carpenters, construction workers, bike mechanics, guitar players, anything that produces scars and callouses. Divine.
As I make my living with my brain, I find I often don’t have much to talk about with people who make their living with their hands. I tend to date nerds with soft silky white hands more accustomed to computer keyboards than power tools - in fact my own (cyclist) hands are usually rougher than theirs are. Sigh.
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Could you stand a keyboard jockey who also volunteers on house-building projects?
Keeping to the ones really for no good reason, I’d have to say, guys riding motorcycles with their helmets/jackets/thick pants on so you have no idea what their face/hair/build looks like. They’re great till they take the helmets off. I have no particular interest in motorcycle culture - just make me think of death.
Also, guys wearing a Bhuddaesque loop in each ear (or, the ones who pull it off well). Tragus piercings are also nice. Just regular holes, though, not stretched. Those guys tend to be assholes, though (ignores SO’s tragus bar).
Also, scarily hardfaced/stern/totalitarian looking tall men with very light/no eyebrows and close cropped hair, although I wouldn’t want to go out with one and they could be totally ugly.
Asian guys with colored contacts. Wha??
I’d say second on geniuses, talent prodigies, magic tricks and UK accents, but those ones do make sense.
In answer to the OP, any sort of risk-taking. Things like extreme sports (although it’s so five years ago now) or driving too fast. Because I bet THOSE boys really want to hang out with dull old me…
[QUOTE=cowgirl]
I like rough hands. Yum yum yum. Carpenters, construction workers, bike mechanics, guitar players, anything that produces scars and callouses. Divine.
As I make my living with my brain, I find I often don’t have much to talk about with people who make their living with their hands. I tend to date nerds with soft silky white hands more accustomed to computer keyboards than power tools - in fact my own (cyclist) hands are usually rougher than theirs are. Sigh.
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If I may, my credentials:
Biked everywhere in my youth (sadly, not as much anymore. I want to get back into it, but I need money to get a bike.)
Seven summers spent working with my uncle doing construction, roofing, etc…
Currently working in a kitchen, where many sharp and hot things have produced many scars and callouses.
Also have a BS in biomedical engineering, working towards a masters, and enjoy reading, video games, science-y things, etc…
[QUOTE=Sunshine and Smiles]
For me, a girl smoking is incredibly hot.
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Oooh, yeah! And if she has yellowed fingers, brown teeth, and a hacking, phlegmy cough? Bonus!
[QUOTE=Viridiana]
Tragus piercings are also nice. Just regular holes, though, not stretched. Those guys tend to be assholes, though (ignores SO’s tragus bar)
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OOOH. I have a tragus piercing. I am not an asshole (well I don’t think I am).
