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Re:There's still something that separates us
A girl asked me out over HotorNot to meet her at a dance. To say the least I blew a ton of loot (well large sum of my equity) getting there then she just disappeared on me. So two days later I get this in my inbox
hey sorry about friday night , I saw you met charity and her friends.
I`ve realized i`m not attracted to you and i`m being a funny girl and I
don`t mean to hurt you but I don`t think we`d go above the internet
friends
level. i hope i`m not being mean it just I don`t think i could see myself
dating you. you seem like a really nice guy but i don`t think I could be a
really good girlfriend because I need a guy who knows how to " dirty"
dance.
Well maybe i`ll meet a guy in England
well write back i`d like to here how you night went with charity and her
friends
jaz
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Then I'm also plagued by the parent posters platonic female friend
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Re:There's still something that separates us
You forgot one:
5) You have a platonic female friend
You're desprately in love with your "friend" of 10 years, only she doesn't know it. It tears you up inside but you can rest assured that you will never, ever work up the balls to say anything. You will just continue to listen to her complaints about how her boyfriend is a jerk and how she can't seem to find "a nice guy like you". -
Re:WOMEN ARE EVIL!
I am a big pussy and will most likely not say anything to either one of them so I expect this to go on for a while.
No, you won't say anything because you're that guy. I bet when this chick breaks up with your roommate she'll spend 4 hours crying on your shoulder about how she wishes she could "meet a nice guy just like you". -
Re:We can only hope
Well they could post all the numerous guides they missed. I had a bunch on my website, which I'll cut and paste here for Geek Dating Guide pleasure: Why Geeks Make the Best Boyfriends
"I just Want To Be Friends"
There is also the Geek Dating Flowchart
Why Girls Actually Want Geeks
Why it usually doesn't happen
and the pitfalls of dating a nerd
15+ reasons why geek guys are "not so bad at all".
How To Lose A Geek in 10 Seconds.
And cause Slashdot loves Futurama, quotes here for your reading pleasure (both said by Fry):
"What? Valentine's Day is coming up?!?! Crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again"
"Well she was in love with the part of me that's a slob. I was in love with her with the part of me that's desperate."
And finally, have a date for Valentine's but don't know what to do? Never fear, let old 50's educational movies guide you. From what do to on a date, Do's and Don't of Dating and Beginning Dating to Going Steady and How do you Know It's Love, cheesy acting and horrible plots can show you the way.
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writing to my congressman
I definitely want to write to my congressman (whos the US Rep for Austin?) - what kinds of things should I say? The first letter on here was a little harsh, i don't think threatening the representative to not vote for him is going to bother him too much. obviously to convince a congressman you have to show some of the far-reaching effects of the bills under consideration to show them why they should or shouldn't be against a piece of law. should i even write to him now? or wait until the bill actually goes to commitee? suggestions? - "I Just Want To Be Friends."
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Re:bloody mary recipe
At some places here in Baltimore and around the Bay we use Old Bay Seasoning in our Bloody Marys. YUM! Butcha gotta get McCormick, that's the Balmur native's choice. If you really can't find McCormick, try making it yourself.
Last time I was in the Big Easy I got a Bloody Mary with some okra in it.
Seems everywhere I go, I get a regional Bloody Mary variant. That's why I love this drink! -
Re:I have linux running on my thinkpadRyan, Have you seen this? Be patient, this page takes a long time to load (like 5 minutes for me).
Cheers.............
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Biological Terror FUDMax Perutz, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work in discovering the molecular structure of proteins, wroke an incisive commentary on the overstatement of the threat of biological terrorism in The New York Review of Books last April (Vol. XLVII, No. 6, 13 April 2000, pp. 44-9) while reviewing Ken Alibek's book Biohazard on his work in the Russian biological warfare program.
Perutz's conclusion is that many people previously involved in bio-warfare projects are now sowing FUD to enhance their own prestige and to generate opportunities in spurious counterterrorism (as Henry Sokolski notes below, fears of terrorism have generated $10 billion annually in spending by the U.S. government alone).
Perutz quotes an article by Henry Sokolski, the director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, saying:
Last year President Clinton announced the US would spend $10 billion on countering terrorism, including biological and chemical threats, for fiscal year 2000. Would there be better things to spend such large sums of money on? As for biological attacks worldwide, seventy have occurred in the last century causing nine deaths, but only eighteen of these seventy attacks were made by terrorists. There are risks not only in underestimating the chemical and biological domestic terrorist threat, but in overestimating it as well.
One such risk, which should be of great concern to -
Biological Terror FUDMax Perutz, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work in discovering the molecular structure of proteins, wroke an incisive commentary on the overstatement of the threat of biological terrorism in The New York Review of Books last April (Vol. XLVII, No. 6, 13 April 2000, pp. 44-9) while reviewing Ken Alibek's book Biohazard on his work in the Russian biological warfare program.
Perutz's conclusion is that many people previously involved in bio-warfare projects are now sowing FUD to enhance their own prestige and to generate opportunities in spurious counterterrorism (as Henry Sokolski notes below, fears of terrorism have generated $10 billion annually in spending by the U.S. government alone).
Perutz quotes an article by Henry Sokolski, the director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, saying:
Last year President Clinton announced the US would spend $10 billion on countering terrorism, including biological and chemical threats, for fiscal year 2000. Would there be better things to spend such large sums of money on? As for biological attacks worldwide, seventy have occurred in the last century causing nine deaths, but only eighteen of these seventy attacks were made by terrorists. There are risks not only in underestimating the chemical and biological domestic terrorist threat, but in overestimating it as well.
One such risk, which should be of great concern to -
Biological Terror FUDMax Perutz, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering work in discovering the molecular structure of proteins, wroke an incisive commentary on the overstatement of the threat of biological terrorism in The New York Review of Books last April (Vol. XLVII, No. 6, 13 April 2000, pp. 44-9) while reviewing Ken Alibek's book Biohazard on his work in the Russian biological warfare program.
Perutz's conclusion is that many people previously involved in bio-warfare projects are now sowing FUD to enhance their own prestige and to generate opportunities in spurious counterterrorism (as Henry Sokolski notes below, fears of terrorism have generated $10 billion annually in spending by the U.S. government alone).
Perutz quotes an article by Henry Sokolski, the director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center in Washington, saying:
Last year President Clinton announced the US would spend $10 billion on countering terrorism, including biological and chemical threats, for fiscal year 2000. Would there be better things to spend such large sums of money on? As for biological attacks worldwide, seventy have occurred in the last century causing nine deaths, but only eighteen of these seventy attacks were made by terrorists. There are risks not only in underestimating the chemical and biological domestic terrorist threat, but in overestimating it as well.
One such risk, which should be of great concern to -
I just want to be friends...
On a related note: Joelogon's Foolproof Guide to Making Any Woman Your Platonic Friend
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Better Article!Someone has done her research... Barton you are a godess. Advice (in the form of an online quiz) for men and women on how to cope with love and sex.
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine... -
Better Article!Someone has done her research... Barton you are a godess. Advice (in the form of an online quiz) for men and women on how to cope with love and sex.
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine... -
Alternative SolutionsI'm glad to see this post -
How to date the kind of guy you want to date
How about asking him out yourself?
Ok, so we're at the end of the twentieth century and it still isn't considered acceptable for a girl to ask out a guy?!!!
I'd hoped that feminism had moved us on from there a little.In the meantime, here's a little article that will be sadly familiar to the rest of us sad losers who still can't get that girl to like them.
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Re:Great letter, but publicity would help
Meme-monkeywrenching requires organization and funding like anything else. See Guns Save Lives, Women Against Gun Control and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership for some examples of turning the tables, putting the burden of proof back in the other corner. On somewhat controversial topics (at least for Slashdot), there's I recall a few organizations that were formed to attempt to act as a counter to all the D.A.R.E. misinformation polluting the airwaves, but can't find any URL's among my bookmarks. In any case, such efforts face the same burden as trying to educate people about the distinction between hacker and cracker, and are usually about as successful; you may convince a few individuals, but many factors, including economics and the consolidation of media (see Ben Bagdikian), keep such "subversive" messages from getting any air time, except perhaps on a few isolated cable access channels.