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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
Posted:
Ok, the rules for this thread are - no one gushes about how happy they are with their girlfriend or boyfriend or fiancee or whatever.
We are here because we are single - by choice or happenstance.
I personally am single right now for a variety of reasons, but mainly because I live in South Africa. AIDS is truely epidemic here, plus South African women have way more issues than I care to deal with with, so I just can't be bothered, thank you very much.
I sort had a long distance relationship going till about last June, but that got too... long distancy, I suppose. I still thinks she totally rocks, but I need to be closer to someone than an 8 hour (now 23 hour) plane ride away from them (plus she had no internet or phone where she used to live).
I've been pretty happy being single the last few months though, it is amazing how much simpler life is. It's been quality "me" time, and I needed the break I think.
Ok, that is my testamony... anyone else?
Ok, the rules for this thread are - no one gushes about how happy they are with their girlfriend or boyfriend or fiancee or whatever.
We are here because we are single - by choice or happenstance.
I personally am single right now for a variety of reasons, but mainly because I live in South Africa. AIDS is truely epidemic here, plus South African women have way more issues than I care to deal with with, so I just can't be bothered, thank you very much.
I sort had a long distance relationship going till about last June, but that got too... long distancy, I suppose. I still thinks she totally rocks, but I need to be closer to someone than an 8 hour (now 23 hour) plane ride away from them (plus she had no internet or phone where she used to live).
I've been pretty happy being single the last few months though, it is amazing how much simpler life is. It's been quality "me" time, and I needed the break I think.
Ok, that is my testamony... anyone else?
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
I don't want a title.
940 posts
940 posts
Posted:
Ugh, The Rules... nasty entity, that, promulgated by the sort of stereotypical-Cosmo-reading women who are shocked by the Vagina Monologues.
Ugh, The Rules... nasty entity, that, promulgated by the sort of stereotypical-Cosmo-reading women who are shocked by the Vagina Monologues.
E pluribus unum, baby.
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All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
Posted:
the vagina monologues rocked! i have it on DVD. my ex-girlfriend is in them actually. ooooh, such a hottie. i miss her
the vagina monologues rocked! i have it on DVD. my ex-girlfriend is in them actually. ooooh, such a hottie. i miss her
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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Lemon-Aware Devilstick-wielding Operative
605 posts
Location: East London Wilds
605 posts
Location: East London Wilds
Posted:
Note: I consider many of the people on this board to be poi or juggling geeks. I still ask, what is wrong with being a geek?
Note: I consider many of the people on this board to be poi or juggling geeks. I still ask, what is wrong with being a geek?
Luv 'n' Lemons
purity :: clarity :: balance
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Ghostbuster
455 posts
Location: York, UK
Ghostbuster
455 posts
Location: York, UK
Posted:
I wonder what proportion of couples are only really together just for the sake of being a couple, possibly because they think everyone else is a couple and so should they just to be like everyone else.
I wonder what proportion of couples are only really together just for the sake of being a couple, possibly because they think everyone else is a couple and so should they just to be like everyone else.
member
34 posts
Location: Wageningen, NL
34 posts
Location: Wageningen, NL
Posted:
Couples for being couples and then make kids to fill up the emotional emptiness.
Couples for being couples and then make kids to fill up the emotional emptiness.
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Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Keeper of the Spitfire
2,317 posts
Location: Calgary Canada
Posted:
Well i've just arrived home after a few days away, and found that this is a thread i should definitely be in on!
I also seem to be living in a VERY cheesy soap opera!
I was going out with a girl at the start of this year, and we'd planned to make a go of things whilst working in France. Then the night before we left she slept with my ex!
Got back from France in September and met a girl i really liked, and we started going out. Then when i had to take a kid to the hospital one night at work, she slept with my ex (yep, that would be my ex who slept with my ex before that!!!)
Oh my god, us girls are complicated!
I've decided now that i need to be single for a while, flirt a lot, and have some fun.
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It used to seem to me that my life ran on too fast, and i had to take it slowly just to make the good parts last. But when you're born to run its so hard to just slow down.
Well i've just arrived home after a few days away, and found that this is a thread i should definitely be in on!
I also seem to be living in a VERY cheesy soap opera!
I was going out with a girl at the start of this year, and we'd planned to make a go of things whilst working in France. Then the night before we left she slept with my ex!
Got back from France in September and met a girl i really liked, and we started going out. Then when i had to take a kid to the hospital one night at work, she slept with my ex (yep, that would be my ex who slept with my ex before that!!!)
Oh my god, us girls are complicated!
I've decided now that i need to be single for a while, flirt a lot, and have some fun.
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It used to seem to me that my life ran on too fast, and i had to take it slowly just to make the good parts last. But when you're born to run its so hard to just slow down.
Lets steal a spaceship and head for the sun, and shoot the stars with a lemonade ray gun.
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Sweet talented nutter
2,615 posts
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
Sweet talented nutter
2,615 posts
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
Posted:
I don't know about carbears but how about dropbear's we're wonderful and sweet
DROPBEAR
I don't know about carbears but how about dropbear's we're wonderful and sweet
DROPBEAR that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Good Fellow ; are you not he that is frighten of the maidens of the villagery - fairy
I am the merry wander of the night -puk
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Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Posted:
nah, they tend to piss me off.....a bit like hoop snakes really
nah, they tend to piss me off.....a bit like hoop snakes really
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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Sweet talented nutter
2,615 posts
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
Sweet talented nutter
2,615 posts
Location: Brisbane Oz, Australia
Posted:
Omg you know about hoop snakes as well scary buggers hey 
what about knights in white shineing armour ?.
Omg you know about hoop snakes as well
scary buggers hey what about knights in white shineing armour ?. that shrewd and knavish sprite
Called Robin Good Fellow ; are you not he that is frighten of the maidens of the villagery - fairy
I am the merry wander of the night -puk
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Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Posted:
woah! ive never heard of them!
woah! ive never heard of them!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
old hand
1,107 posts
Location: In a test pit, Mackay, Australia
Posted:
haha. GEOTECHNICAL engineer. I play with explosives and big machinery, and comics are a valid twentieth century art form where the artist has to be able to draw anything and visually tell a story to a tight deadline. Usually I don't tell that to people either as they then seem obliged to tell me all about the Beanos they had as a kid. Not trying to justify it, really, just a fanboy....
There's a difference between having a love for poi or whatever (not geekiness in my book) and getting all over-exited and drooling because the object of your attention looks vaguely like Lara Croft in the right light, which is, apparently, why I get them all the time.
In short, if you're a sweaty palmed freak with few social skills then that's pure geek. If you just happen to have a deep passion for something, and more importantly, don't continually go on about it all the time to people who couldn't give a toss, that's not.
And yes, it is difficult to find anything halfway decent in Portsmouth. Students and sailors just don't do it for me either.
New thread; What's wrong with students and sailors?
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anyway, perhaps that problem of yours has to do with the fact that you are an engineer (geek!) and want to pencil comics (geek!)
haha. GEOTECHNICAL engineer. I play with explosives and big machinery, and comics are a valid twentieth century art form where the artist has to be able to draw anything and visually tell a story to a tight deadline. Usually I don't tell that to people either as they then seem obliged to tell me all about the Beanos they had as a kid. Not trying to justify it, really, just a fanboy....
There's a difference between having a love for poi or whatever (not geekiness in my book) and getting all over-exited and drooling because the object of your attention looks vaguely like Lara Croft in the right light, which is, apparently, why I get them all the time.
In short, if you're a sweaty palmed freak with few social skills then that's pure geek. If you just happen to have a deep passion for something, and more importantly, don't continually go on about it all the time to people who couldn't give a toss, that's not.
And yes, it is difficult to find anything halfway decent in Portsmouth. Students and sailors just don't do it for me either.
New thread; What's wrong with students and sailors?
There is a slight possibility that I am not actually right all of the time.
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Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Posted:
my friends and i came up with some definitions for terms:
square - good at skool. has social skills. doesnt necessarily like skool tho.
nerd - good at skool. no social skills. likes skool
geek - good at computers. limited social skills (usually with other geeks). may or may not like skool.
i think thats what we came up with
Quote:
In short, if you're a sweaty palmed freak with few social skills then that's pure geek.
my friends and i came up with some definitions for terms:
square - good at skool. has social skills. doesnt necessarily like skool tho.
nerd - good at skool. no social skills. likes skool
geek - good at computers. limited social skills (usually with other geeks). may or may not like skool.
i think thats what we came up with
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
Lemon-Aware Devilstick-wielding Operative
605 posts
Location: East London Wilds
605 posts
Location: East London Wilds
Posted:
Among people that I tend to hang around with (mostly computer geeks), I'd say your last definition was useless. I'd say that anyone who gets excited about any particular thing (in this case, poi, computers, comics, etc (yes, I've seen geeks of all of those and more)) and can give you random facts, will discuss ins and outs of various aspects at the slightest provocation (often getting quite technical). Poi (see the which are your favourite moves thread, coleman is a real poi geek in this case...
, or any of the stuff under the Technical forum here). Computers, well, this is the kind of standard thing. Comics - intricate discussions of which character is better, who would beat who in a fight and why.
This doesn't imply a lack of social skills, though geeks tend to cluster with other similar geeks in my experience.
I'd like to introduce another term at this point: NARG (acr. Not A Real Gentle(man, woman)). This refers to "talking shop" in the pub. example usage: Stop narging (about computers, about poi)!
The "sweaty palm" stuff is complete rubbish as is the "lack of social skills" thing. I self-identify (in as much as I self-identify at all) as a geek in lots of ways, and hopefully people who I have met in the last 6 months or so (due to posting here and going to spitalfields etc) won't think that I have no social skills whatsoever. Feel free to contradict me, all of you!
Among people that I tend to hang around with (mostly computer geeks), I'd say your last definition was useless. I'd say that anyone who gets excited about any particular thing (in this case, poi, computers, comics, etc (yes, I've seen geeks of all of those and more)) and can give you random facts, will discuss ins and outs of various aspects at the slightest provocation (often getting quite technical). Poi (see the which are your favourite moves thread, coleman is a real poi geek in this case...
, or any of the stuff under the Technical forum here). Computers, well, this is the kind of standard thing. Comics - intricate discussions of which character is better, who would beat who in a fight and why.This doesn't imply a lack of social skills, though geeks tend to cluster with other similar geeks in my experience.
I'd like to introduce another term at this point: NARG (acr. Not A Real Gentle(man, woman)). This refers to "talking shop" in the pub. example usage: Stop narging (about computers, about poi)!
The "sweaty palm" stuff is complete rubbish as is the "lack of social skills" thing. I self-identify (in as much as I self-identify at all) as a geek in lots of ways, and hopefully people who I have met in the last 6 months or so (due to posting here and going to spitalfields etc) won't think that I have no social skills whatsoever. Feel free to contradict me, all of you!
Luv 'n' Lemons
purity :: clarity :: balance
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2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
Posted:
whats wrong with students and sailors part one!
well from my experience male students in pompey are a good laugh but generally quite skanky, smell of vomit and only nice to you if they think they can get in you pants ... which they dont!
sailor on the other hand need to be hung drawn an quatered! no other male on the planet is as chauvinistic!! bunch of bastards if you ask me!! but then the ironic thing is that they dont know how to look after themselves if theres no one there to tell thenm what to do!! losers!!
whats wrong with students and sailors part one!
well from my experience male students in pompey are a good laugh but generally quite skanky, smell of vomit and only nice to you if they think they can get in you pants ... which they dont!
sailor on the other hand need to be hung drawn an quatered! no other male on the planet is as chauvinistic!! bunch of bastards if you ask me!! but then the ironic thing is that they dont know how to look after themselves if theres no one there to tell thenm what to do!!
losers!! she who sees from up high smiles
Patrick badger king: *they better hope there's never a jihad on stupidity*
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member
89 posts
Location: Plymouth, UK
member
89 posts
Location: Plymouth, UK
Posted:
You really dislike sailors and students dontcha lol
You really dislike sailors and students dontcha
lol Burn !
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Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia
Posted:
i dont intend to be mean to geeks - in fact most of my friends are geeks! its just the definition me and two other guys came up with - one of whom is a self confessed geek! but i know what u mean about other things geek - but they are usually specified, generally straigh geek implies computer, at least at my skool it does!
i dont intend to be mean to geeks - in fact most of my friends are geeks! its just the definition me and two other guys came up with - one of whom is a self confessed geek! but i know what u mean about other things geek - but they are usually specified, generally straigh geek implies computer, at least at my skool it does!
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...
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member
89 posts
Location: Plymouth, UK
member
89 posts
Location: Plymouth, UK
Posted:
Now this is where the culture clash comes in anyone heard of a uber-geek? my friend just told me i am one.
Now this is where the culture clash comes in anyone heard of a uber-geek? my friend just told me i am one.
Burn !
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Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
Posted:
yeah, ive seenuber geeks, but youll knwo if you are one, cos you send all day at a pc, and do thing slike order the whole of teh James bond collection on pirate DVD! never go out of teh house for anight out, live for ur comp, and have no common sence, and boring as F!
yeah, ive seenuber geeks, but youll knwo if you are one, cos you send all day at a pc, and do thing slike order the whole of teh James bond collection on pirate DVD! never go out of teh house for anight out, live for ur comp, and have no common sence, and boring as F!
Step (el-nombrie)
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Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
Posted:
Excuse me? im a male student, and i dont smell of sick, i aint wobblie, and i can take care of myself, i can cook, clean, iron, wash (both me and the house), and be a generally good guy!
and as for getting into ur pants, i dont think they would fit my hips love!
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well from my experience male students in pompey are a good laugh but generally quite skanky, smell of vomit and only nice to you if they think they can get in you pants ... which they dont!
Excuse me?
im a male student, and i dont smell of sick, i aint wobblie, and i can take care of myself, i can cook, clean, iron, wash (both me and the house), and be a generally good guy!and as for getting into ur pants, i dont think they would fit my hips love!
Step (el-nombrie)
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member
89 posts
Location: Plymouth, UK
member
89 posts
Location: Plymouth, UK
Posted:
well thanks god i am not one - i cant be i am banned from the home computer at the mo lol
well thanks god i am not one - i cant be i am banned from the home computer at the mo lol
Burn !
(*) (*) .. for the gnor ;)
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
Posted:
students no...sailors yes!!
students no...sailors yes!!
she who sees from up high smiles
Patrick badger king: *they better hope there's never a jihad on stupidity*
(*) (*) .. for the gnor ;)
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
Posted:
mech i said sailor boys couldnt look after tehemselves!!silly
and ti was refering to student males back home in portsmouth!:p
..i dunno i think you'd look real pretty in my pants!
mech i said sailor boys couldnt look after tehemselves!!silly
and ti was refering to student males back home in portsmouth!:p
..i dunno i think you'd look real pretty in my pants!
she who sees from up high smiles
Patrick badger king: *they better hope there's never a jihad on stupidity*
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89 posts
Location: Plymouth, UK
member
89 posts
Location: Plymouth, UK
Posted:
Oooooh just the kinda guy i was lookin for lol
Oooooh just the kinda guy i was lookin for lol
Burn !
(*) (*) .. for the gnor ;)
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
Posted:
im sure he would too if you asked him nicely enough
im sure he would too if you asked him nicely enough
she who sees from up high smiles
Patrick badger king: *they better hope there's never a jihad on stupidity*
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Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
Posted:
who me????????
*runs and hides behind narr!*
who me????????
*runs and hides behind narr!*
Step (el-nombrie)
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Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
Posted:
now im just confused narr!
now im just confused narr!
Step (el-nombrie)
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member
26 posts
Location: wollongong,australia
member
26 posts
Location: wollongong,australia
Posted:
oh oh..im in trouble..
i dont have a type!, and i dont think ive ever reduced someone ive dated into a stereotype..
i like ppl for who they are, there are way to many thinsg that attract me to a guy other than, oh hes a sailor, or student
ive met so many amazing ppl that if i had thought, i dont want to know them coz they are whatever, then i would have missed out on meeting some of the most amazing ppl in my life!
oh oh..im in trouble..
i dont have a type!, and i dont think ive ever reduced someone ive dated into a stereotype..
i like ppl for who they are, there are way to many thinsg that attract me to a guy other than, oh hes a sailor, or student
ive met so many amazing ppl that if i had thought, i dont want to know them coz they are whatever, then i would have missed out on meeting some of the most amazing ppl in my life!
did some one say they saw a flying purple people eater??
(*) (*) .. for the gnor ;)
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
Posted:
skixgal found nemo!!!
why you confused mech?? and stop hiding behind me you look reall pretty in me panties
skixgal found nemo!!!
why you confused mech?? and stop hiding behind me you look reall pretty in me panties
she who sees from up high smiles
Patrick badger king: *they better hope there's never a jihad on stupidity*
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Location: wollongong,australia
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26 posts
Location: wollongong,australia
Posted:
hehe, nemo is so cute:)
going for good old futurama now:) got to love nibbler
hehe, nemo is so cute:)
going for good old futurama now:) got to love nibbler
did some one say they saw a flying purple people eater??
(*) (*) .. for the gnor ;)
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step
Posted:
man why'd you get rid of it?!?!??!! (skixgal)
okay thats pretty general of me of course there are some that are exceptions to the 'rule' but i said thats my experience in portsmouth. and of course peoples personalities are important, but for me what they look like is too, as shallow as it may be its true
man why'd you get rid of it?!?!??!!
(skixgal)okay thats pretty general of me of course there are some that are exceptions to the 'rule' but i said thats my experience in portsmouth. and of course peoples personalities are important, but for me what they look like is too, as shallow as it may be its true
she who sees from up high smiles
Patrick badger king: *they better hope there's never a jihad on stupidity*
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