The Big Relationship Thread
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It's a terrible, unfunny show filled with terrible, unfunny, and frankly at times offensive characters.
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I like that it has a main character who is asexual, because they're pretty rare. Lots of people on AVEN seem to like the show for that reason.
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Oh thank God, I thought I was the only one who felt that way.
I'm not saying it's the worst show ever made, because It definitely has a few good jokes or clever references, but when I did watch it, I found myself laughing aout 15% of the time, and rolling my eyes the other 85%. Though I must say, I love the theme song.
I'm not saying it's the worst show ever made, because It definitely has a few good jokes or clever references, but when I did watch it, I found myself laughing aout 15% of the time, and rolling my eyes the other 85%. Though I must say, I love the theme song.
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I readily accept that the theme song is awesome.
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The Jester wrote:Not right now. I'm applying to Emily Carr for next September, but I don't know if I'll get in. If I don't, I'll probably apply the following year.
Wait, so you're not doing any socialising outside a small group just because you might be moving away in 10 months time?
That right there is crazy talk. I have a fairly big network of friends and associates, most of whom I generally don't see for months at a time for one reason or another, doesn't mean either of us get offended and won't still chat over a pint the next time we bump into each other. Plus with social networking these days it's even less of an issue as people still feel "connected" even if they don't actually converse online at all.
My advice is go to the pub with friends, that way you meet friends-of-friends(-of-friends) and expand your social horizons.
I guess I have the slight bias of living in a small-medium town where there's a lot of cross-over of who knows who already, but I think my point still stands.
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Big Bang Theory turned into something my dad refers to as "The Sheldon Cooper Show" a while back.
Also it's kind of sexist. I wrote an essay about the women in that show once - at the time of my writing, essentially every female character introduced (I guess with the exception of Penny) was either a love interest or their mother. The love interests were objects they sought after (even Penny), and their mothers were consistently cast in a negative light: Sheldon's mother's religiosity infuriates him, Leonard's mother is cold and therefore is the reason he's screwed up, Howard blames his mother for his stunted social development... Note how their fathers are rarely of concern.
But I might just be bitter that someone once compared my manner of speaking to Amy Farrah Fowler.
Also it's kind of sexist. I wrote an essay about the women in that show once - at the time of my writing, essentially every female character introduced (I guess with the exception of Penny) was either a love interest or their mother. The love interests were objects they sought after (even Penny), and their mothers were consistently cast in a negative light: Sheldon's mother's religiosity infuriates him, Leonard's mother is cold and therefore is the reason he's screwed up, Howard blames his mother for his stunted social development... Note how their fathers are rarely of concern.
But I might just be bitter that someone once compared my manner of speaking to Amy Farrah Fowler.
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Not forgetting that every other male outside the main four are dumb jocks or villains-of-the-week (insomuch as that applies to a show like this). Maybe a lot of it is caricatures of how stereotypical geeks are seen be so-called "normal" people? After all it's not like the show goes for absolute realism.
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Hahaha, oh dear. Oh well.
So I was talking on Facebook to that girl I mentioned. We were chatting, getting along fine, then I said I needed to head off and before I left I asked if she wanted to meet up and chat some more.
After a little while of no response, she goes offline.
Maybe there's some other circumstance behind that, but my guess is she didn't want to have to say "no".
Oh well. If she doesn't start any conversations sooner, I may ask her what's up and how she's doing in a few weeks, but otherwise I'll leave her alone for a while.
So I was talking on Facebook to that girl I mentioned. We were chatting, getting along fine, then I said I needed to head off and before I left I asked if she wanted to meet up and chat some more.
After a little while of no response, she goes offline.
Maybe there's some other circumstance behind that, but my guess is she didn't want to have to say "no".
Oh well. If she doesn't start any conversations sooner, I may ask her what's up and how she's doing in a few weeks, but otherwise I'll leave her alone for a while.
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I've learned not to try and read anything into someone going offline like that, there's too many unknown variables to make a reasonable guess.
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Yeah, I know. It's entirely possible that she went offline for any number of reasons. But my instinct is telling me that that is why she went off on this occasion. But who knows? I may well find a message from her shortly saying she's like to, or is thinking about it, or something. vOv
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Oh ok, haha. Seems I was wrong. That's pretty awesome.
Turns out she's free to meet up and have a cuppa and talk sometime next week.
Turns out she's free to meet up and have a cuppa and talk sometime next week.
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We've both been a bit busy the last couple of weekends, but second date is planned for Monday night, dinner and a film...
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Depressing self pity post! Because damn if we don't have enough of them...
I'll just be a moment so move along.
Gen Y comprises 20% of the US pop. (I'm placing gen y as "my age group" roughly.)
Or around 76 million people.
Athiest and various non belief systems, while growing, is still at a dismal 12%. For sake of argument we will also include vague belief in a higher power increasing it to 35%
Redheads make up about 2% of the USA population, or about 7mil-9mil
Depending on the survey.
Lets put that together. 35% of my generation Of 76mil is nonbelief. This is probably higher considering age, but whatever. That's about 26 million people. Of those half are female, 13mil.
Of those 2% are redheaded. Or about 260,000.
Two hundred and sixty thousand.
And that's not even taking into consideration all of my other tastes and preferences.
This is why the "many fish in the sea" saying doesn't hold water.
Also the Big Bang Theory sucks. Bad.
I'll just be a moment so move along.
Gen Y comprises 20% of the US pop. (I'm placing gen y as "my age group" roughly.)
Or around 76 million people.
Athiest and various non belief systems, while growing, is still at a dismal 12%. For sake of argument we will also include vague belief in a higher power increasing it to 35%
Redheads make up about 2% of the USA population, or about 7mil-9mil
Depending on the survey.
Lets put that together. 35% of my generation Of 76mil is nonbelief. This is probably higher considering age, but whatever. That's about 26 million people. Of those half are female, 13mil.
Of those 2% are redheaded. Or about 260,000.
Two hundred and sixty thousand.
And that's not even taking into consideration all of my other tastes and preferences.
This is why the "many fish in the sea" saying doesn't hold water.
Also the Big Bang Theory sucks. Bad.
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There is also such a thing as being too picky, and judging a book by it's cover ...
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Also, you aren't taking into account that older generations make up more of the percent of believers.Dubious_wolf wrote:Depressing self pity post! Because damn if we don't have enough of them...
I'll just be a moment so move along.
Gen Y comprises 20% of the US pop. (I'm placing gen y as "my age group" roughly.)
Or around 76 million people.
Athiest and various non belief systems, while growing, is still at a dismal 12%. For sake of argument we will also include vague belief in a higher power increasing it to 35%
Redheads make up about 2% of the USA population, or about 7mil-9mil
Depending on the survey.
Lets put that together. 35% of my generation Of 76mil is nonbelief. This is probably higher considering age, but whatever. That's about 26 million people. Of those half are female, 13mil.
Of those 2% are redheaded. Or about 260,000.
Two hundred and sixty thousand.
And that's not even taking into consideration all of my other tastes and preferences.
This is why the "many fish in the sea" saying doesn't hold water.
Also the Big Bang Theory sucks. Bad.
Also, it never hurts to keep an open mind, in belief and as well as other things. I find Atheism to be far too cynical sometimes, as if they think they have all the answers.
"It's a very well kept secret, which they don't teach you at school, that nobody has the faintest notion of what gravity IS. Or consciousness or electricity or viruses. We don't know why there is something and not nothing, and we do not know either how, or why, the universe began. Worse, 96 percent of the universe appears to be missing. The world is not solid; it is made of empty space and energy. But nobody knows what energy is, and they're beginning to suspect there is no such thing as emptiness."
- John Lloyd, The Book of General Ignorance (QI)
Which is to say, we accept a lot of things without knowing how or why they are. So keep an open mind, and judge people not on what they believe, but how open they are to changing that belief as necessary.
Personally, I hold myself to Christian principles, and I believe many if not all of the events in the Bible happened. Outside of that, I have a very open view of who or what GOD is. A current pet theory of mine is that at the end of time and space, humans perfect time travel, and they use it to escape the end of existence of jump to the other side of it. The jump is what ignites the big bang, blaheddy blah blah, they creat life on earth somehow, doody doo do. They decide to nourish the fledgeling human race so that it can reach the same stage of development they did. With the Bible and any knowledge of it having vanished in the future, comletely by accident, they recreate every event and every law in order to keep the human race focused and prosperous.
So, I guess in closing, statistics are dumb and misleading,we don't know anything, keep an open mind, God is a time traveling spaceship with a crew who is just playing it by ear.
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Avoiding the theistic criteria, why so stuck on redheads? I like redheads too, but that's no reason to discount anyone else.
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Especially since they don't have souls. Or maybe that's the appeal?
Also, as to Sieg's quote - we know exactly what viruses are.
Also, as to Sieg's quote - we know exactly what viruses are.
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Well... That was a date. I have been told that next time I am to come back to her place afterwords.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I think it went well.
Feeling pretty damn good.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I think it went well.
Feeling pretty damn good.
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Digital Dolphin wrote:Well... That was a date. I have been told that next time I am to come back to her place afterwords.
I'm going out on a limb here, but I think it went well.
Feeling pretty damn good.
well, I'm glad someone's having some good luck, I guess, because it sure aint me.
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Master Gunner wrote:Avoiding the theistic criteria, why so stuck on redheads? I like redheads too, but that's no reason to discount anyone else.
Eh I was mostly using it for dramatic effect, since the redheaded population is very small.
Mostly someone mentioned to me the ever cliché "there's a lot of people in the world" or some such nonsense.
It's just insane that anyone can find a significant relationship in the world today. There are just too many people.
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metcarfre wrote:Especially since they don't have souls. Or maybe that's the appeal?
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Sieg Reyu wrote:-snip-
The thing is I'm fairly open to new ideas, it's been my experience that theists typically aren't,
In fact, (because stats are fun!)
I'd have to dig up the survey, and I'm at work. But one survey showed that a majority of religious people see athiests and agnostics as inherently bad, amoral people. It would seem it is a learned condition that religion IS morals. without a proper belief system one can't be truly moral.
How well do you think that relationship would go?
Most won't really appreciate the fact that I'm non religious, as a result I basically have to fudge the truth when the topic comes up.
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