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Old 09-13-2012, 05:40 AM   #166
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I have absolutely nothing against non-readers. On the other hand, I get easily irritated by readers, meaning those "I'm better than you, because I read old difficult boring books and you read that easy modern best-selling stuff or nothing at all" type of readers.
Now let me I take a wild guess --- those snobby ones usually are not the ones trying to pick up a one-night-stand in a bar. Perhaps you will find them at a wine tasting?
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Old 09-13-2012, 05:47 AM   #167
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Now let me I take a wild guess --- those snobby ones usually are not the ones trying to pick up a one-night-stand in a bar. Perhaps you will find them at a wine tasting?
Haha, I think you're right. I seem to come across them more on the internet. In real life it's actually not that bad.
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Old 09-13-2012, 06:31 AM   #168
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Now let me I take a wild guess --- those snobby ones usually are not the ones trying to pick up a one-night-stand in a bar. Perhaps you will find them at a wine tasting?
i'd think they'd spend their time reading instead
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Fair enough. Without trying to sound like the stereotypical male, I am of the opinion that even boring sex > not having sex.
Let's agree that we disagree here.
If the only effect would be to depressurize, I'm willing to pass. It would be only plainly insulting for both, just to use each other as a masturbation aid.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't as if I'd not like bedroom golf, but collecting scores isn't my thing. If there's no interesting counterpart around... Well, fems might have a wider choice of quality toys, but there are some nice ones for men too.

[/QUOTE] And especially with someone brand spanking new, cause really, you ywon't know before hand with absolute certainty whether it will be boring or not.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. Like I said before, probabilities.
Non-reader isn't an absolute excluding attribute for me, call it a high negative modifier.

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But a one nighter? I'm pretty sure I've never been that picky...I can't afford to be.
From that POV I can't afford either, but I am nevertheless.
Funny thing is, the majority of those guys who can afford to be picky are going after other ends of the spectrum.

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Just a thought, but a woman in a pair of blue jeans, no make-up, and reading glasses on is just about the sexiest thing on God's good earth.
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I still hope the femfolks might come to senses again and realise that all the glossy magazine crap is the very last thing they NEED to be attractive. They are by and thru themselves.
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Old 09-13-2012, 12:23 PM   #170
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Are you saying there is no correlation at all between reading and seeking out information?
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I'm only stating that there is a correlation between seeking out information and reading, and not stating anything about any particular person.
Yes there is a correlation but you got it the wrong way. People seeking out knowledge will use reading as a medium to acquire it, they will also use movies, videos, games, audio books. It is a point I made in my first post.

But a person who reads does not mean nor imply they seek knowledge.

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Are you suggesting that you have no criteria whatsoever to determine who you interact with?
Yes I do, again that was in my first post, they must be ethical and good people. Sometimes it's apparent upfront sometimes it takes a bit.

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Let's agree that we disagree here.
If the only effect would be to depressurize, I'm willing to pass. It would be only plainly insulting for both, just to use each other as a masturbation aid.
Yes. Agree to disagree.

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Old 09-13-2012, 05:08 PM   #172
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When I was younger and in my 20s (and single) I actually brought my knitting to a bar. It instantly weeded out those who thought knitting was idiotic and stupid and/or out of place for a bar, and attracted a guy who came to my table and had a long discussion about knitting and his interest, etc. I had a great time, he bought me a drink and we chatted.

I'm married now and haven't been "in the scene" for nearly 20 years, but some of the best times I've had have been where I've just done my portable hobbies when and where I felt like it. I've never been good at following a preliminary script before getting to the real stuff, and it shows
Poor guys. 20 years ago they were probably sitting in the bar, looking over at you, and racking their brain trying to find something to say about knitting..

Today, they would just look on wikipedia on their smartphone, walk over, and say "Did you know that the earliest known knitted items in Europe were made by Muslim knitters employed by Spanish Christian royal families?"

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Poor guys. 20 years ago they were probably sitting in the bar, looking over at you, and racking their brain trying to find something to say about knitting..

Today, they would just look on wikipedia on their smartphone, walk over, and say "Did you know that the earliest known knitted items in Europe were made by Muslim knitters employed by Spanish Christian royal families?"

Ha! It's funny cause it's true.
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Poor guys. 20 years ago they were probably sitting in the bar, looking over at you, and racking their brain trying to find something to say about knitting..

Today, they would just look on wikipedia on their smartphone, walk over, and say "Did you know that the earliest known knitted items in Europe were made by Muslim knitters employed by Spanish Christian royal families?"



Ha! It's funny cause it's true. .
Sure and after a night of hot steamy passion, guy wakes up to find he has been knit into a giant afghan along with a dozen other hapless knitting want-to-bes.

Hey babe, he says, fetch me my phone so I can sign into facebook.

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Poor guys. 20 years ago they were probably sitting in the bar, looking over at you, and racking their brain trying to find something to say about knitting..
And were they honest they wouldn't need to look up factoids but just walk over and say:
"It plainly amazes how you can keep track on that.
I'd have strangled myself already by just trying to produce a plain piece of cloth bare of any patterns."
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Sure and after a night of hot steamy passion, guy wakes up to find he has been knit into a giant afghan along with a dozen other hapless knitting want-to-bes.

Hey babe, he says, fetch me my phone so I can sign into facebook.

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Well, you know knitting, you just pull at the open thread an the whole thing unravels...
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And were they honest they wouldn't need to look up factoids but just walk over and say:
"It plainly amazes how you can keep track on that.
I'd have strangled myself already by just trying to produce a plain piece of cloth bare of any patterns."
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Don't we just whip out our smartphones and the biggest one wins?
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It's easy to say all this now, but back then I was pretty much asking to get laughed at. Not that it stopped me. The answer to the question "So, will anyone mind if I knit?" often determined my accepting or declining of invitations anywhere

Nowadays I read about people who take their knitting into pubs and it's not all that unusual , even sexy. Trends come and go. We have people like The Yarn Harlot blazing trails and bringing the cool back into knitting.

ETA: and now e-readers have made it a LOT easier to knit and read at the same time. no need to "hold a book open".

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