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Bachelor Contest Winner Chooses PS2, Not Girl
techstar25 writes "IGN is reporting that last night was singles night at a San Francisco Giants baseball game, and a 'The Bachelorette' type contest was held. The winning bachelor was given a choice to either take the beautiful, young, brunette bachelorette out on an all expenses paid date, or receive a Playstation 2. Naturally, the bachelor took the PS2, and 'The men in the audience cheered.'" The article notes: "Looks like when it comes down to a choice between video games and female attention, these days, videogames are winning out."
Enjoy your PS2, dude, you've earned it.
FP!
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"Pay to play" doesnt appeal to some gamers...
Or maybe he thought that the PS2 would stick around a lot longer that the little hottie that they rranged for him. I've gone out with a few models, and yes I would have preferred a PS2 to a few of them (looks*Intelligence=constant).
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Um, of course, it was San Francisco? While I'm sure the breeders still out number the non-breeders, there's a pretty good chance the guy "wasn't interested."
Or, at least that's what the gal will be telling herself for some time to come, no doubt...
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a similiar contest was held across town, and this time the female contestant picked a Whitman's Sampler box over of her young suitors...
which just goes to show that sex is overrated because i'm not getting any
The Ideal woman: ;)
1. smart
2. Doesn't know she is hot
3. Is my fiancee (neener neener
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Sure the date could turn into a relationship, but with a contest situation it most likely would not. Heck, she may not even put out, making the one night just an ordeal!
The Playstation 2 on the other hand is guaranteed fun for a years. So many games, so little time.
You can lose something that is loose, so tighten the loose item so you don't lose it.
1. A PS2 can pleasure you 4 weeks a month.
2. The only part of a PS2 that whines is the fan.
3. A PS2 doesn't leave the toilet seat up.
4. A PS2 doesn't complain about other PS2's
I've got to get back to work...
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
Hee must uv been uh bad speller two.
The word is "have", nitwit. He must have been gay.
Did anybody look at the pictures?
She didn't look hot, and she didn't look smart. (Although not dumb either.) "Buxom and brunette" are qualities that are irrelevant to desireability, imho.
I'm guessing that after hearing her talk for a few minutes, I'd have taken the PS2. Kudos for him, though, for figuring the right buttons to push. Too bad this all implies a weird kind of misogyny.
Whatever. Maybe he wasn't single anyway. I'm not, but if I heard the way the contest worked ahead of time, I'd have lied.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
If it were, who knows, a Hi-Saturn with all the accessories and an original copy of Radiant Silvergun, I would understand. But choosing the Playstinky2 over a date with a hot babe?! I just have to say: OMFG LOL FAG!!!
Circumcision is child abuse.
Cheating isn't smart even if it's never discovered. You'll always know. "We come to hate those we have wronged" [Plutarch?]
To be completely anal and pedantic, he really intended to say: "He must've been gay."
I know some of you guys are none too knowledgeable about women, but -- that is not a brunette. She is what is known as a "blonde". Lara Croft is a brunette, as are most of the women in Asian pr0n.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Whoever says LOL is gay.
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I can't help but think that the majority of Slashdot readers would end up doing the same thing if they were put in that situation...
Goo goo g'joob.
ROFL
What? This was a Bachelorette style competition? Have we completely forgotten about original, non-reality television programming? This is a Dating Game style competition.
I hate television so much.
--Stephen
no TV, I didn't mean it, really! I'm sorry...
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
LOL Uh, I mean ROF... oh never mind!
Take the one that comes with a manual!!
Well, I have to admit. If they threw in the Linux kit, I beleive I would have gone for Playstation too.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
I would have taken the PS2 and then invite the ch1x0r over to play Rez on the new PS2, with the vibrator accessory ofcourse ;)
^_^
There's no guarantee the Brunette is backwards compatible.
This doesn't prove anything about "games being more valued than female attention," and besides maybe the whole thing was a Sony publicity stunt for their aging game platform...
All the creatures will die, And all the things will be broken. That's the law of samurai. (Jubai, 1605)
Finally ! A man with balls, who is not afraid to show he's a nerd on National TV !
The truth is: Good human beings are few and far in between, (unless you count slashdot) but playstations are backed by warranty.
--I gots 99 problems but a new machine ain't one!
AMD! Asus! Whoot! 6 years!
there's a better way to get a date.
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
He won a date, not sex.
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and did i ever say i wasn't gay!
My girlfriend actually got me a PS2!
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Maybe he just doesn't swing that way.
This did happen in San Francisco, after all.
Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachtani?
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hahaha!! so true!
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He'd have to REALLY be desperate to grab for one night spending someone else's money (which ALWAYS impresses the chicks...hey wait...) as some kind of silver bullet to happiness. Take the PS2, and wait for someone real to come along.
Unless you already had a PS2 of course, and all expenses paid REALLY MEANS all expenses paid... There are some DAMN find sushi restaurants in San Francisco that I'd love to patronize on someone else's dime. If she wants to come along and just have some good food, some drinks, and shoot the shit, sure whatever. Matter of fact, that'd probably be the most likely situation for something starting up. Someone who's secure and not worrying about starting a relationship is far more attractive than someone desperate not to fuck up and is walking on eggshells. Can't have fun at all with someone like that.
I would have taken an Xbox, a new computer, and maybe even a super nintendo. however, i would not have taken a PS2 over the chance to rack up thousands of dollars in food and drink with a [moderately] attractive woman. besides, chicks are easy when they're drunk! (that was a JOKE!) but really, imagine going to a fancy restuarant's fancy bar and ordering one of every exotic beer/wine/liquor/ whatever you like on someone else's bill! when i first read this, i thought "cool, he took the PS2" but after thinking about it... free a PS2 is $200, but 2 people out to break the bank could have ALOT of fun. i do agree with some people who mentioned that the guy probably become twice as attractive as before for ditching the chick "he said no? oh he must not go for looks, or want easy girls! he's so cute!" and he also showed balls. good on him.
If mind games were any more fun I'm fairly certain they would result in ejaculation - Me (formerly anonymous)
Men often complain that women are too mercenary, yet this reversal seems acceptable.
What goes around, comes around. If guys are nasty to women, women will be mean right back. You want that?
Well, I read the headline and thought, "My god, a guy so antisocial he mated with his computer?! At least use the USB port instead of PS2..." Thank goodness it was a Playstation 2 :P
:) In all fairness, I'm sure most girls would pick a GameCube over a guy.
Hey, this being California, the guy might still legally wed his newfound love!
I hate to make fun of someone who was just rejected in favor of a game console, but think of it this way: The PS2 was probobly new in original packaging, never been opened. The girl, on the other hand...
Okay, that was mean
media hype on the sexual preference of their population...
All your base are belong to Google.
This was more likely the equation he had to weigh up (er, going anonymous for obvious reasons..).
I would have picked the PS2 and then ask for her number.
We're talking a 30 second baseball game stunt - I doubt she was offended.
You can sell a new PS2 for about $180, which you can spend on whatever the hell you want. The date with the bachelorette likely wouldn't have gotten him shit besides a free meal (much less than $180).
Rob
I mean, come on, the crowd cheered when he chose the PS2.
I mean, I'm okay with it cause I'm not sure I want anyone willing to participate in this sort of contest reproducing. But we're not even talking about humiliating yourself for national TV exposure (leading to lucrative endorsements) and a million dollar purse a la Survivor. Maybe the guy was just competitive and really wanted to win and maybe he decided midway through that the girl wasn't a keeper, but let me tell you that *I* wouldn't want to risk every girl I ever try to date in the future finding out via Google that I'd done that for $200 in gaming hardware (not to mention friends, tens of thousands of people at the game, and anyone watching on TV if it was televised)....
some people have a sense of humor...
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It's worse for women because the rejection they suffer is usually more passive than the active "no" that men get.
Yeah, right. You must be talking about those mythical women who actually tell men "no" instead of leading them around by their dicks. A man rejects a woman by ignoring/avoiding her. A woman rejects a man by making him her cuddle bitch.
San Francisco? The dude was gay.
Gay and stupid. Passing up free dinner?
you used the wrong one
Next week, a single woman will choose between a Slashdot reader and a warm piece of toast... Oh, the suspense!
She should have told him to take the PS2, and given him her number...
I bet he's an avid /. reader.. ;)
When you get bored of the PS2, you can just turn it off.
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The clue everybody seems to be missing is 'San Francisco.'
This boy might not swing that way.
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I would have understood.
Hey, HERE'S A THOUGHT..the guy was ALREADY SEEING SOMEONE...possibly.
Could I interest you in a very friendly dog?
Hmm, none of the cheering men were interviewed to find out why...
I wonder if any thought even an all expenses date with an unknown woman was potential "work" instead of pleasure.
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MHO is that it's food for thought, your thought might be starving, you know.
Where's the pics?
a console beats a date
any day
on the possibilities of play...
Ok for the company to set this up the company would need to PAY the girl to go on the date, oh im sure it'd be very good, and she'd laugh at all your jokes etc, but do you really want that?
...It was sponsored by Playstation
- 4) Does not want to break my spirit.
Well, that rules out all women.Amen. What is it with women? Do they life for this? Is it their only goal in life?
My next woman will be a cute refurbished Thai boy.
In soviet russia, brides buy you!!
The moral is: You should always choose video games, because you can cheat on a video game but the video game can't cheat on you in return.
The reason the men cheered is because women are ALREADY nasty and ALREADY in control, and this guy was proving to everyone that the woman was NOT in control.
...He wouldn't mind picking up a little Portuguese.
"Well, I'd like to teach him," she said
Hell, I'd take the PS2 over learning a language too!
Smart man.
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I will cut both your balls off
and make you eat them
Hell hath no fury...
she was a dog anyhoo
Looks like when it comes down to a choice between video games and female attention, these days, videogames are winning out.
Or Bachelor 2 was really damn smart, and knows how to pull women.
A baseball stadium filled with thousands of other women was watching this take place, and wondering why he chose the playstation over an attractive woman. Wonder/mystique is a well known (to non-slashdotters) technique for cultivating attraction.
A lot of other women are going to come running like in the lower portion of the image here. He's not only getting a playstation, but he's going to get a lot of phone numbers being thrown at him by other attractive women who were also at singles night at the giants stadium.
50 dates plus a PS2, now that's a winner.
Heck, he might even land a gamer girl who only wants him for his PS2!