A Friendly Chat

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #930 on: January 19, 2013, 08:53:50 AM »
Well you usually have to go on a date to realize you're not interested in an otherwise attractive person. Not everyone's going to fall in love with your personality.

This seems backwards to me. Asking arbitrary eye candy out on a date sounds like it would be a waste of time. I wouldn't want to court someone I didn't already know I got along with.

Physical attraction is an important prerequisite for a relationship. Since physical attraction is much easier to determine than emotional attraction, that's usually where people begin.

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« Reply #931 on: January 19, 2013, 09:06:59 AM »
Well you usually have to go on a date to realize you're not interested in an otherwise attractive person. Not everyone's going to fall in love with your personality.

This seems backwards to me. Asking arbitrary eye candy out on a date sounds like it would be a waste of time. I wouldn't want to court someone I didn't already know I got along with.
So basically you want to date friends. Thork is stepping out into the wide world and is starting from scratch.
People obviously date both ways but it seems like the older you are the more likely you are to just ask an attractive acquaintance on a date rather than your friend.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #932 on: January 19, 2013, 09:54:51 AM »
Yes, but you don't have to get along with them too terribly well for a one-nighter. Those are generally always fun.

I've never had any interest in such things.

Physical attraction is an important prerequisite for a relationship. Since physical attraction is much easier to determine than emotional attraction, that's usually where people begin.

In my experience, physical attraction follows from an attractive personality. It's all about how the person acts. If I wanted a pretty face, I'd invest in a mannequin.

So basically you want to date friends. Thork is stepping out into the wide world and is starting from scratch.
People obviously date both ways but it seems like the older you are the more likely you are to just ask an attractive acquaintance on a date rather than your friend.

Attraction to me is a personality thing. It's not possible for me to be attracted to someone without knowing we get along first.
I'm going to side with the white supremacists.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #933 on: January 19, 2013, 10:16:32 AM »
Yes, but you don't have to get along with them too terribly well for a one-nighter. Those are generally always fun.

I've never had any interest in such things.

Physical attraction is an important prerequisite for a relationship. Since physical attraction is much easier to determine than emotional attraction, that's usually where people begin.

In my experience, physical attraction follows from an attractive personality. It's all about how the person acts. If I wanted a pretty face, I'd invest in a mannequin.

So basically you want to date friends. Thork is stepping out into the wide world and is starting from scratch.
People obviously date both ways but it seems like the older you are the more likely you are to just ask an attractive acquaintance on a date rather than your friend.

Attraction to me is a personality thing. It's not possible for me to be attracted to someone without knowing we get along first.
No one wants just a pretty face, both are important. Physical attraction coming solely from the personality doesn't make sense to me.
Are you telling me there's not one celebrity that you think is objectively attractive?

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #934 on: January 19, 2013, 10:23:27 AM »
No one wants just a pretty face, both are important. Physical attraction coming solely from the personality doesn't make sense to me.
Are you telling me there's not one celebrity that you think is objectively attractive?

That is indeed the case. Celebrities are among the most unattractive people in the world to me. You see only of them what they (or their agents) will you to see.
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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #935 on: January 19, 2013, 10:26:54 AM »
No one wants just a pretty face, both are important. Physical attraction coming solely from the personality doesn't make sense to me.
Are you telling me there's not one celebrity that you think is objectively attractive?

That is indeed the case. Celebrities are among the most unattractive people in the world to me. You see only of them what they (or their agents) will you to see.

Er, yeah, obviously. Do you think you should be privy to all of their personal details just because they're good at acting, or music, or whatever has made them a celebrity?

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« Reply #936 on: January 19, 2013, 10:29:27 AM »
Er, yeah, obviously. Do you think you should be privy to all of their personal details just because they're good at acting, or music, or whatever has made them a celebrity?

I don't see the relevance. I made no such claim or implication; I merely stated a reason for their unattractiveness.
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« Reply #937 on: January 19, 2013, 10:35:50 AM »
So might I then assume Parsifal, that at the opposite end of the scale, there is no one you would rule out because of their looks? Their personality could rescue the situation and make them attractive to you. In effect, no woman is too ugly? Because if that is not the case, then you are also being selective based on looks, albeit having lower standards than a regular human being.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #938 on: January 19, 2013, 10:36:39 AM »
So might I then assume Parsifal, that at the opposite end of the scale, there is no one you would rule out because of their looks? Their personality could rescue the situation and make them attractive to you. In effect, no woman is too ugly? Because if that is not the case, then you are also being selective based on looks, albeit having lower standards than a regular human being.

I honestly do not know the answer to this question. Such a situation has never come up.
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« Reply #939 on: January 19, 2013, 10:37:29 AM »
Er, yeah, obviously. Do you think you should be privy to all of their personal details just because they're good at acting, or music, or whatever has made them a celebrity?

I don't see the relevance. I made no such claim or implication; I merely stated a reason for their unattractiveness.
But I said objectively. Take aside all your personal feelings and biases and then tell me all celebrities are ugly. Don't worry about being rejected or any other irrelevant fear about the opposite sex, just pick out a pretty face.

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« Reply #940 on: January 19, 2013, 10:38:21 AM »
But I said objectively. Take aside all your personal feelings and biases and then tell me all celebrities are ugly. Don't worry about being rejected or any other irrelevant fear about the opposite sex, just pick out a pretty face.

Your enquiry makes no sense. Human attractiveness is a purely subjective judgment. There is no such thing as objective attractiveness.
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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #941 on: January 19, 2013, 10:38:57 AM »
Er, yeah, obviously. Do you think you should be privy to all of their personal details just because they're good at acting, or music, or whatever has made them a celebrity?

I don't see the relevance. I made no such claim or implication; I merely stated a reason for their unattractiveness.
But I said objectively. Take aside all your personal feelings and biases and then tell me all celebrities are ugly. Don't worry about being rejected or any other irrelevant fear about the opposite sex, just pick out a pretty face.

But attraction is based on personal feelings and biases.  ???

Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #942 on: January 19, 2013, 10:46:17 AM »
But I said objectively. Take aside all your personal feelings and biases and then tell me all celebrities are ugly. Don't worry about being rejected or any other irrelevant fear about the opposite sex, just pick out a pretty face.

Your enquiry makes no sense. Human attractiveness is a purely subjective judgment. There is no such thing as objective attractiveness.

Not truly objective, but there are features that are nearly universally considered attractive for evolutionary reasons.

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« Reply #943 on: January 19, 2013, 10:47:34 AM »
I'm not talking about attraction as a whole, just physical attraction. Humans respond well to symmetrical faces in general.

I could say George Clooney is attractive, but he's not my cup of tea.
Megan Fox is attractive, but she's a dadrock bitch.

Yes, people still have personal preferences, but you're just lying if you can't pick out a pretty face even if their personality is shit. Tom Hardy is a dumb chav, in a fantasy world I could not even date that dolt, but he's damn fine.
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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #944 on: January 19, 2013, 10:50:49 AM »
Megan Fox is attractive, but she's a dadrock bitch.

what

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« Reply #945 on: January 19, 2013, 10:58:38 AM »
Megan Fox is attractive, but she's a dadrock bitch.

what
What to which part? The first or second half of the sentence?

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #946 on: January 19, 2013, 11:00:06 AM »
Megan Fox is attractive, but she's a dadrock bitch.

what
What to which part? The first or second half of the sentence?

The second.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #947 on: January 19, 2013, 11:02:18 AM »


I assume she likes 70s hair-metal. I may have incorrectly called this dadrock... But either way it's gross.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #948 on: January 19, 2013, 11:08:34 AM »
Yes, people still have personal preferences, but you're just lying if you can't pick out a pretty face even if their personality is shit.

I didn't say I couldn't. However, "a pretty face" and "attractive" are not synonyms, so it isn't relevant.
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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #949 on: January 19, 2013, 11:10:51 AM »
Yes, people still have personal preferences, but you're just lying if you can't pick out a pretty face even if their personality is shit.

I didn't say I couldn't. However, "a pretty face" and "attractive" are not synonyms, so it isn't relevant.
But it is relevant to the initial discussion. When your options are limited and you rather not be a lonely sap anymore, you pick a pretty face, ask them on a date, and see if there's more there.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #950 on: January 19, 2013, 11:17:19 AM »
But it is relevant to the initial discussion. When your options are limited and you rather not be a lonely sap anymore, you pick a pretty face, ask them on a date, and see if there's more there.

We shall see.
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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #951 on: January 19, 2013, 11:21:13 AM »
Yes, but you don't have to get along with them too terribly well for a one-nighter. Those are generally always fun.

I've never had any interest in such things.

It's pretty great. You should give it a whirl sometime.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #952 on: January 19, 2013, 11:23:51 AM »
"Dadrock bitch"?

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #953 on: January 19, 2013, 12:12:28 PM »
"Dadrock bitch"?
Oddly enough, the picture I posted isn't showing up on my iPhone.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #954 on: January 19, 2013, 12:26:37 PM »
That's probably more of a hipster thing, though... hipsters confuse me anyway. Megan Fox doesn't look that way anymore, she's had a bunch of plastic surgery. Her lips are all wacky now.
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #955 on: January 19, 2013, 12:29:08 PM »
Hmm, I must have missed that picture earlier.  I can see it now.  Also, Motley Crüe, along with most other hair metal bands, began in the eighties, not the seventies.

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« Reply #956 on: January 19, 2013, 01:00:57 PM »
Hmm, I must have missed that picture earlier.  I can see it now.  Also, Motley Crüe, along with most other hair metal bands, began in the eighties, not the seventies.
Not even late 70s? Still gross though.

I wouldn't label it hipster but it's definitely some alt fashion thing. Anyway, muh point is she's gross! But I recognize that she has/had (I don't know what she looks like post-op) a pretty face.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #957 on: January 19, 2013, 01:40:17 PM »
She Lindsey Lohan'd her face for some reason.
I'm sorry. Am I to understand that when you have a boner you like to imagine punching the shit out of Tom Bishop? That's disgusting.

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #958 on: January 19, 2013, 01:56:53 PM »
Yes, but you don't have to get along with them too terribly well for a one-nighter. Those are generally always fun.

I've never had any interest in such things.

Physical attraction is an important prerequisite for a relationship. Since physical attraction is much easier to determine than emotional attraction, that's usually where people begin.

In my experience, physical attraction follows from an attractive personality. It's all about how the person acts. If I wanted a pretty face, I'd invest in a mannequin.

So basically you want to date friends. Thork is stepping out into the wide world and is starting from scratch.
People obviously date both ways but it seems like the older you are the more likely you are to just ask an attractive acquaintance on a date rather than your friend.

Attraction to me is a personality thing. It's not possible for me to be attracted to someone without knowing we get along first.

Unless they're on an internet forum

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Re: A Friendly Chat
« Reply #959 on: January 19, 2013, 02:15:19 PM »
PP is a teenager, heheheh.
And probably the most successful person on this site in regards to having a life and such.

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