I''ve got to go along with that, and for good measure I'll throw in Birmingham.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.
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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.
More than a bad accent, a hideous laugh puts me off...
Remember Sybil Fawlty? Sounds like "someone machine-gunning a seal"? That kinda thing...
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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
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I'm bored already! Men just don't talk as much as girls. We use our time for more important things. Take drinking beer for example you don't have to talk all the time it takes away valuable drinking time. A playstation and a good video game and I'm happy for hours, or give me a car, a football or sports on the TV. Talking too much makes me tired. I need something to look at first.
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sure it was connemara and not kerry? connemara being west of Ireland and a kerry or cork accent being hard to understand for most of the rest of the country...
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I'm pretty sure that men don't talk as much as women, I regularly get calls from a woman in New York that never last less than an hour and the converation is largely a monologue, but that doesn't mean that I don't want to talk about the things that interest me. Take politics for example, I could happily talk for hours on the subject but, for obvious reasons, it is banned from the Litnet forums. There are, however, other interesting things to talk about such as women and alchoholic beverages and sports and mens lives in general. Now video games are interesting to a point but ultimately they become the province of the zombie and no matter how often a player might win, at the end of a long session, there is always the feeling that you have been wasting your time in a trivial pursuit. Much the same can be said of TV which, in England at any rate, is mind-bendingly boring. I think that if any member of this thread is caught watching Desperate Housewives he should banned from the club and shot the day after.
I get one look at Fran Drescher's legs and she could speak Martian through a megaphone and I wouldn't notice.
That's far too mild.
Sport is the only really acceptable thing to watch on tv - I tried watching the news a year or so ago and realised that tv news is an outlet for morons. I was waiting for the article to tell us that the sea is wet.
For watching and American serial drama, the punishment needs to be a real deterrent, and a simple death goes nowhere near enough - at least a week in the rack beforehand, I feel.
Parker has been known to have a television set up during Ashes series.
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I guess that duct tape could be applied to the mouth...
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
Now I come to think of it, I asked him why some Irish men wore such tremendously wide trousers and he replied ( mumbled ) something about them being Connemara men which is, apparently, a Mecca for wearer's of wide trousers. So, yes, he could well have come from Cork or Kerry.
Do you think someone can be pretty enough to completely outweigh a vileness of character? The question can be applied to anything - the problem is, that many people contain both qualities, and the divide makes an assumption that nice people are ugly, or ugly people are all nice - there are plenty of repulsive looking, vile people in this world.
The real problem though, is discussing it, since one is always weighing two factors, which really are very intermixed, against each other, while the factors themselves are relative. So one could say this person is nice, but one could say that they aren't looking for a "nice" person, but someone who is somewhat aggressive, or mean. I know enough has been written about the archetype of the "Bitch" in society, and its supposed appeal to men. One needs to really define what one is truly looking for, a very difficult task, before any value judgments or thoughts on judgments can be made.
In that sense, one when speaking on this subject is weighing one abstract undefined, relative thing against another - I don't think personalities are really that divided. I think the way a person sees them self has too big an effect on their personality to really distinguish between them. People seem to different to really come up with an answer to this question. Generally though, I'm of the mind that people don't want to engage in physical relationships with people they find physically repulsive, whatever that can mean. Is that a general rule? Who knows - even that can vary between people.
Yep, and absolute blonde babes with PhDs.
I dunno whether you could say there's a level of beauty which outweighs vileness, but I'd certainly say there's a level of physical attraction which would allow the vileness to be overcome.
Just the opposite of those women we touched on before who are attracted to bad guys.
I wonder if that's just a cultural construct. Take arranged marriages, which also usually occur in cultures where divorce is hard to obtain, so I'd expect those people to be pretty open regarding physical attraction.
Also, there's no doubt that sexual needs rise with frustration. In men's prisons, the vast majority of long-term inmates end up having homosexual sex with other inmates, despite clearly not being "gay" to start with. I'd bet most of those men would swap the most gorgeous young male crim for a pretty ugly female.
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
Is that an oxymoron?
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
I find a beautiful face, and flawless skin, most attractive in a woman. ( not in a Hannibal Lecter kind of way.)
But looks in a woman aren't everything. I know this is true becuase my wife says so.
I have no problem with accents, BUT the tone of voice can be off putting. I once knew a lovely girl who sounded like Mrs Thatcher. That didn't last.
Then there was the one whos voice sounded like someone drawing their finger nails across a blackboard. That never got started.
Billiards anyone?
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