Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Orange Wizard]

Bird?

[Xantalos]

I've heard people say ladyfriend, which seems like a bit of a copout but it works.

[Egan_BW]

I see no problem with "girlfriend".
It would be amusing to attempt to coin the term "gentlemanfriend" though.

[Orange Wizard]

Manfriend

[Egan_BW]

Dudebrofriend

[Teneb]

Having one of my "feeling lonely" moments. Usually I'd get over it quite quickly, but it's harder to do that when everyone around me is talking about dating and sex. Can't even get matches in them dating apps. I swear, it's like I'm better at celibacy than most priests and I'm trying for the opposite of that.

[TheBiggerFish]

*applies (very definitely platonic) hugs*

Dating apps are kind of weird to begin with.  I'm sure there's somebody out there.

[Yoink]

Pretty sure I had at least one cool dream last night, but I can only remember a boring part.
Also it's cold this morning and I'm sniffling, as well as feeling tired despite having what should have been plenty of sleep.

[TD1]

I've got an exam tomorrow and a rather bad headache. Information is going in one ear and out the other, heh. At least I'm already fairly well prepared for it - the exam isn't until half three, so I can at least get a full night's sleep and still have time to prepare before hand.

[Tawa]

Having one of my "feeling lonely" moments. Usually I'd get over it quite quickly, but it's harder to do that when everyone around me is talking about dating and sex. Can't even get matches in them dating apps. I swear, it's like I'm better at celibacy than most priests and I'm trying for the opposite of that.

I feel ya, man.

Which reminds me, I still haven't talked to that girl :c

she got a new haircut today and I couldn't bring myself to use it as an excuse to start a conversation aaa

At the very least, I have a hunch she's interested in me based on the uncanny number of glances I catch from her, but still aaargh, why am I so shyyyyy?

[Teneb]

Having one of my "feeling lonely" moments. Usually I'd get over it quite quickly, but it's harder to do that when everyone around me is talking about dating and sex. Can't even get matches in them dating apps. I swear, it's like I'm better at celibacy than most priests and I'm trying for the opposite of that.

I feel ya, man.

Which reminds me, I still haven't talked to that girl :c

she got a new haircut today and I couldn't bring myself to use it as an excuse to start a conversation aaa

At the very least, I have a hunch she's interested in me based on the uncanny number of glances I catch from her, but still aaargh, why am I so shyyyyy?

Then you are already in a better position than me. Walk up to her and ask. Sure, it feels daunting as it comes, but take too long and you may not get another chance, with her at least.

[spümpkin]

Having one of my "feeling lonely" moments. Usually I'd get over it quite quickly, but it's harder to do that when everyone around me is talking about dating and sex. Can't even get matches in them dating apps. I swear, it's like I'm better at celibacy than most priests and I'm trying for the opposite of that.

I feel ya, man.

Which reminds me, I still haven't talked to that girl :c

she got a new haircut today and I couldn't bring myself to use it as an excuse to start a conversation aaa

At the very least, I have a hunch she's interested in me based on the uncanny number of glances I catch from her, but still aaargh, why am I so shyyyyy?

Just be careful, glances can be misleading. The same happened to me.

[DeKaFu]

Need to buy a cable.

Once again find myself with the options of either driving to the store and spending $16 on a $1.50 cable or going online and paying $8.50 shipping on a $1.50 cable.

I know which one works out better mathematically, but they both make me feel like I'm mismanaging my money. :/

(Obviously the optimal solution is to just add more cables to my online order and ship them together, but I can't think of any other cables I'd need to buy...)

[Tawa]

-snip-
Just be careful, glances can be misleading. The same happened to me.

Ehh, it's not just glances. The other thing I can think of off the top of my head is this one time a little while back, she (and she is, from what I understand, almost as shy as I am,) seemingly very deliberately sat a couple seats away from me in an almost-empty auditorium.

That said, I'm not acting like my suspicions are confirmed, but at the very least I don't think she harbors any dislike toward me.

[Devastator]

I'm a bit miffed that I'm going to have to vote in some kind of proportional or runoff-voting system next election, because it's 'better'.

Better is a subjective term, and you can construct any scenario to support whatever you like as being 'better'.  It's just a whole pile of unspoken assumptions, like you are supposed to be contented with whoever is second or third best, missing that second or third is just as conditional upon who is running as is first.  Put two people on one side and one on another, and one of the two will very likely win.  Add or remove someone and everything swaps about heavily.

I liked the mix of supporting centerists while allowing for some extremists of FPTP.  Here it didn't seem to keep people from changing parties, and if you don't rig the election by rigging districts, allowed for change.  You can damn well rig districts under IRV systems, and I'm not convinced that pure porportional systems would result in functioning government.  Complicated hybrid systems designed to please everyone could work better, but at some point it just strikes me as being too arbritrary.

And yes, I do want to see a return of the per-vote subsidy, to support the broad-base extremists like the greens more.

Enough of that.  I just don't believe that my voice is better heard being told that my third-choice was elected, than it was with my vote counting as a +1 for a losing candidate.