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[Xantalos]

The Canadians are one of the few countries who can say they not only defeated the USA in a way, but marched to their capital and burned it down.

Well they burned down our capital first. It's only fair after all.

Retaliation and all.

[IronTomato]

I heard some more "Why are the hot girls always lesbians BOO FRICKITY HOO" crap today. All I can say is it's annoying, especially when the girl they're talking about isn't actually lesbian, just rumored to be.

[10ebbor10]

That probably partially works around the other way too. Something you can't get seems all that much more alluring.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've definitely heard women lamenting that the guys they were attracted to were gay.

[kaijyuu]

Mostly it's because people will look for any reason for a rejection other than themselves not being the other person's type. Same reason the "friendzone" term exists despite not being an actual thing.

[kaijyuu]

Well if you assert that anything that exists as a concept exists as a thing, then everything ever "exists."

[GlyphGryph]

I particularly like dragons existing. I made good money selling dragons in high school, and it's good to known the detractors were completely wrong about them not existing the whole time.

[Descan]

On the other hand, having a gender your target is not interested in -is- a bit of a stumbling block, and not one that you can fix.

[Darvi]

Naturally, the only winning move is not to play.

[PanH]

It probably would have, but in another shape or form. The Versaille treaty pretty much ensured a war in Germany, but even without that the situation was dangerous in many countries.

Foch said that the Versailles treaty was a 20 year armistice, which is oddly accurate. And while the Versailles treaty certainly played a role, it's not said that it wouldn't have happened anyway. There has been a extremist right wing movement even in countries that were the winner of the WWI (France, UK, Italy), though they did not necessarily get to power.

[Helgoland]

Mostly it's because people will look for any reason for a rejection other than themselves not being the other person's type. Same reason the "friendzone" term exists despite not being an actual thing.

"Friendzone" is a thing. It only exists in TV/books/comics, but it exists.

I thought it just meant "one-sided romantic attraction with two-sided platonic attraction" - and that definitely exists, I can attest to that...

[Dutchling]

Mostly it's because people will look for any reason for a rejection other than themselves not being the other person's type. Same reason the "friendzone" term exists despite not being an actual thing.

"Friendzone" is a thing. It only exists in TV/books/comics, but it exists.

I thought it just meant "one-sided romantic attraction with two-sided platonic attraction" - and that definitely exists, I can attest to that...

No. It usually seems to mean befriending someone and expecting sex in return.

[Graknorke]

From what I've heard I thought it was basically synonymous with "humans are not good at subtle".

[Putnam]

Yeah, pretty much.

What the friendzone implies is that the only reason you're not in a romantic relationship is because of the friendship you share when the actual reason is more likely... s/he doesn't want a romantic relationship with you. People can't deal with the idea that they're not a goddamn perfect lover who interests everyone, like the kind of guy who hears a lady is a lesbian and says something like "well you ever got some dick in you" as if... actually, I can't come up with any logical reason why someone would say that, so I'm not going to bother

[kaijyuu]

Mostly it's because people will look for any reason for a rejection other than themselves not being the other person's type. Same reason the "friendzone" term exists despite not being an actual thing.

"Friendzone" is a thing. It only exists in TV/books/comics, but it exists.

I thought it just meant "one-sided romantic attraction with two-sided platonic attraction" - and that definitely exists, I can attest to that...

Yeah, as others have said, "friendzone" is supposed to mean that friendship precludes romantic attraction (or at least gets in the way of it). In reality, people just look for any excuse other than the other person not being romantically attracted, and assuming friendship got in the way seems to be a common fallacious excuse.

One sided romantic attraction with two sided platonic attraction does exist, but "friendzoning" states that the platonic attraction is what made the romantic attraction impossible. It's especially dumb when you look at it like this, since the person romantically attracted wasn't deterred because the other person was a friend.