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Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Oh my! I thought rabbits were meant to be pets, not game! Besides, they're adorable!Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
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Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Oh my! I thought rabbits were meant to be pets, not game! Besides, they're adorable!Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
Ooooh, this may sound strange, but I've always been interested in bows and arrows and weaponry similar to it.:D Swords and shields too.:) Especially those ancient ones with intricate designs and seals.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
Well...isn't your meal something to adore?Quote:
Originally Posted by LostPrincess13
I've read somewhere that men are generally smarter than women.:alien:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
hahaha! great minds think alike, even if wrong! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
It's not the overall size, but the development of the particular parts of the brain. The area of the brain that controls the logical and analytical processes are typically larger and more developed in males. Make whatever conclusion from this that you wish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
All I know is that whichever gender I have had a conversation with last... that seems to be the one I think is less intelligent.... so, as you can imagine, my opinion switches throughout the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by LostPrincess13
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Originally Posted by LostPrincess13
I've read that men have the more extremes, blathering idiots and super genius and women are more consistent in the average. I don't know about super genius, but I know we have some blathering idots around. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
Women also have that scary ability to multitask...
Shame they can't drive well, mind...;)
:lol: uh Oh. Now here's another subject to ponder. The differences in driving. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Nah, I don;t buy a bar of that - they pretend to multitask knowing nobody will ever pull them up on it, because they'll resort to PMS mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lokasenna
You wrote that in the right place! Lucky no women are here to dispute it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lokasenna
While this thread is testing the waters of misogyny;
How many blonde girls does it take to change a light bulb?
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Just one, she holds the bulb and the world revolves around her.
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Originally Posted by The Atheist
I would think the opposite - women to me seem smarter than men - surely today at any rate, but either way, I bet it is all sociological rather than biological. Sciencey people like to pretend neurology or whatever can explain everything, but lets be honest, when it comes down to it, who would one rather trust for an opinion on both the commonplace, and the demanding? I know myself, I'd probably trust a woman over a man, and I think women would trust women over men too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
OK guys, here's another one for you.Tonight I was on a train and a guy and a girl got on at a busy station along the line and sat opposite me. They were both in their twenties, I would say, and were discussing a concert they had attended.The girl was not what you would call good looking but she had a striking personality. She was, well, just incredibly nice, with a constant smile and very relaxed disposition. I felt quite envious of the guy, who seemed a bit morose in contrast.
Now the question is, do you consider that looks, for all their pulling power, are more important than a lively personality?
Looks fade, personalities change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
It's a conundrum, and I don't think there's an easy or single answer. Because you have to get to know them to know whether the personality is really that good, I think it's quite often hard to tell until it's too late.
That is built on the assumption that someone cannot be a lively personality while good looking. Quite simply though, as long as they aren't detestable looking, probably the latter, but if they are hideous, like all people, I wouldn't go there, even if she were Santa Maria herself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
But beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What is hideous to one is not so hideous to another. If physical beauty is important to the individual, then that individual shouldn't ignore that fact.
The question though, was not what is beauty, but whether you value beauty or not. For someone who has some weird fetish or whatever, if that fetish is not satisfied, perhaps they will not find the person beautiful, and then choose them over the girl who doesn't have a huge wart, but happens to be the nicest person in the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
I doubt my aesthetic matches many people, but that makes no difference. The truth is, one needs to sleep with/beside said person over a period of time - if one is engaging in a relationship, perhaps over a large period of time - if one does not find them physically attractive, it could have dire consequences on their relationship. Try having sex with someone you find repulsive - then try doing that regularly.
But of course, the binary goes both ways. Try having dinner with someone you cannot stand, or waking up beside them. Not much fun. One needs to ask themselves what they truly want, and go for it. It is all a matter of preference, but lets be honest, there are two halves of the body, and both need to be satisfied to some extent.
Now this is a topic I'm extremely interested to hear about.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
...and that is why I said that if it is important...then they shouldn't ignore it...Quote:
Originally Posted by JBI
Absolutely true.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
Haha! We've been here before.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBI
In the early stages, I think that applies, but the old expression "love is blind" is often true and attraction to the person can outweigh physical beauty/repulsiveness.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBI
I would say personality. But then in the body, the main thing I find attractive is good health...
But personality is definitely... trumping... for instance, physicality can only be so much, but the personality can be so much more. Of course I know some people here don't believe in the soul (*chuckles*...heh, heh :D), and I am using the term personality, but for me also it is the soul which is more attractive.
Even the Bible mentions body, soul, and spirit, which implies that there is something else on the physical side of it. The physical body, the physical life force/or personality, and the eternal soul. So if you don't believe in the eternal soul, there's still a personality...
Oh I know that. But I was saying, personality is not all of it for me, as the soul is more than just personality.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
re beauty
Unless you've had a few too many drinks, then beauty is directly proportionate to how much alcohol you've consumed, and whether she keeps laughing at your jokes. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
My wife and I have learned a lot about how much we don't know about the human body when our daughter was born with Down Syndrome...not that you can't learn the same from any child, but I think that we just opened our eyes a little wider. Beauty, personality, intelligence, and so on...it all became redefined. I understand what you are saying...and I couldn't agree more, but I just wasn't very good at explaining that in the last post.Quote:
Originally Posted by NikolaiI
Is the amount of alcohol that SHE has consumed directly proportionate to how much she laughs at your jokes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Silas Thorne
Ah yes, that too! :D
Personality all the way - I made the mistake of dating a good-looking girl simply because she was good-looking; turned out to be a right psycho...
That said, if a woman can have a lovely personality and a face to match it, then so much the better!
Bit like blokes in the outback in Australia. After six months, even the sheep start to look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silas Thorne
Hell yeah! How many relationships would remain unconsummated without the lubrication of alcohol is approaching a subset of infinity.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
While we're on the subject of women, another thing has struck me that might be relevant to the discussion i.e. Do you get turned off by a female's accent. I guess we have all seen the gorgeous looking girl who is a complete turn off as soon as she opens her mouth. Like Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalian for example or some of those classy American blondes who speak with a Bronx accent. Of course, one doesn't tend to notice it in women from non- English speaking countries unless one is very familiar with the spoken language. I guess that the same applies for women with regard to men's accents but I don't know to what degree.
One that would shut me down in a heartbeat...Fran Drescher who played The Nanny. I believe that is the Bronx accent that you are speaking of...it's a tell tale sign of the level of class. (for me, that is)
*takes down notes in clipboard*
Ok, first up: looks vs personality depends on how I see the relationship going. If I think it is going to be a more long term thing personality. If it may end up some drunken fumbling looks generally win - I'm a pig but an honest one
Accents: the worst have to be the scouse & cockney accents
I''ve got to go along with that, and for good measure I'll throw in Birmingham.Quote:
Originally Posted by kilted exile
I once worked with a guy from the deep south of Ireland, I think it was Connemara, and for most of the time I just couldn't understand a word he was saying.
I can't say that accents really bother me. For me it expands the personality. It's what's being said that can be a turn off, not the manner. Sure one might be taken a back at first with an accent. But that's just a short term thing.
Yes but Virg you should hear some London girls speaking in cockney tones. Dropped aithches, strangulated vowels and glottal stops galore it's the verbal equivalent of Godzilla.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
More than a bad accent, a hideous laugh puts me off...
Remember Sybil Fawlty? Sounds like "someone machine-gunning a seal"? That kinda thing...
ah yes the laugh is improtant
whilst we're on the subject of fawlty towers my favourite bit was the scene where polly is trying to guess the name of the horse