08-13-2006, 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by TrainingDummy I disagree partly. If you want something, go looking for it. Likelihood of smackage increases that way. Just don't get the attitude where you say... "she looks like the perfect one for me... maybe if I squint really hard..." One can learn alot by being single and lonely. | I suppose I should know a lot then. . .
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08-14-2006, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by TrainingDummy I disagree partly. If you want something, go looking for it. Likelihood of smackage increases that way. Just don't get the attitude where you say... "she looks like the perfect one for me... maybe if I squint really hard..." One can learn alot by being single and lonely. | I wasn't saying don't go for it and approach someone. I'm just saying that if you spend your time feeling lonely and crappy, it's not a surefire method of having a happy life. I was advising Purp to forget about having to find a relationship this very minute and let life unfold around him.
Many perfect women will be within reach at different points of his life... it's like fishing... sometimes you just have to wait. You also have to have the right bait (being lonely and desperate isn't good bait)... and sometimes after catch one, you have a look and throw it back and go looking for another.
And like fishing, there's great joy in finding a beauty but even if you don't you've spent a nice day at it. If you do happen to get lucky... well.... you go home and eat her. Oh... like you weren't already thinking that!
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08-14-2006, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl And like fishing, there's great joy in finding a beauty but even if you don't you've spent a nice day at it. | There's worse ways of spending a day than fishing or looking at beautiful women. Many worse ways, e. g. work and school and almost anything else save fencing.
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08-14-2006, 04:10 PM
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| You know you can sometimes combine work and looking at beautiful people. There are a couple of guys at my office who are just a pleasure to see. I don't leer in an obvious fashion, and it is purely enjoying looking at something nice as they are attached, but they do make me smile. For example, one has these beautiful long-lashed fathomless brown eyes - it's probably a good job he doesn't realise that if he looks at me directly I would do almost anything he wanted! And there's another guy who has this really serious intense face until he smiles and it just lights him up - I always smile at him so he will smile back. And this other one that is really tall and broad shouldered but with the gentlest blue eyes and a lovely quiet calm voice. They brighten my day.
Not sure of my point here but just a reminder of the things that make the world a nice place to live in, I suppose!
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08-14-2006, 05:26 PM
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| Louweasal, my goodness, you're practically drooling! Good to know it's not just us guys who can be suckers for a pretty face  So, have you asked any of them out for a drink, or is this a "no shopping for lurve at the office" policy?
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08-15-2006, 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl And like fishing, there's great joy in finding a beauty but even if you don't you've spent a nice day at it.[/color] | Also it's like fishing because you want to get a really big fat one.
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08-15-2006, 02:41 AM
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Originally Posted by jeff Louweasal, my goodness, you're practically drooling! Good to know it's not just us guys who can be suckers for a pretty face So, have you asked any of them out for a drink, or is this a "no shopping for lurve at the office" policy? | Yup, girls do it too! And yes; no shopping at the office (plus I think they are all in relationships anyway and I am an honourable weasel!
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08-15-2006, 02:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Louweasel honourable weasel! | Zis is how you say oxymoron, No?
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08-15-2006, 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl Many perfect women | Apparently your illusions are not confined to those involving the "glories" of epee. 
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08-15-2006, 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Fencergrl perfect women | Zis is also how you say oxymoron, No? | |
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08-15-2006, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by purpzeyFCLI Zis is how you say oxymoron, No? | Weasels are much maligned. I am simply a (metaphorical) small furry creature, and a fine upstanding honourable lady. Just ask anyone who's anyone here on f-net.
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08-15-2006, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Louweasel Weasels are much maligned. I am simply a (metaphorical) small furry creature, and a fine upstanding honourable lady. Just ask anyone who's anyone here on f-net. | While I don't doubt that you are a fine and upstanding citizen I would hardly ask the members of this forum to testify to that. There's a bunch of briggand's bizarro's and whacko's here -- myself included... 
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