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."

Comments

On romance and video games

[dacarr]

My own experience has it that the girl of your dreams is more likely to be somebody you're not really looking for. Oppose a girl sent to you by competition. I mean, come on, that's forced and shallow.

Enjoy your PS2, dude, you've earned it.

FP!

Re:On romance and video games

[Profane MuthaFucka]

"Better the hand you know than the hand you don't" is what I always say. If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself.

The Playstation here is categorized as excercise equipment, as long as the controllers are manipulated virorously for at least 20 minutes, 3 times a week.

Re:On romance and video games

[Alkaiser]

"I don't know about you, but I wouldn't consider it romantic if a girl only married me because I crushed her father's army and executed all of her male relatives."

Um...what if she wrote a poem, too?

Maybe the guy had a girlfriend?

[spineboy]

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).

Re:Maybe the guy had a girlfriend?

[Tuxinatorium]

I have a revision to your theory that looks*intelligence = constant. Since there are plenty of women who are both stupid AND ugly, such as Rush Limbaugh, this principle does not hold in general. However super-smart hot girls are as rare as top quarks. The few exceptions are rips in the space-time continuum. Therefore I submit that looks*intelligence k*Q^2, where Q is the supermodel-stupidity quotient (SSQ) and k is the Really Fucking Lucky (RFL) parameter, which equals e^(does god like you?).

I left my heart in San Fran

[Johnny Mnemonic]

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...

looks*Intelligenceconstant

[perrinkog]

The Ideal woman:
1. smart
2. Doesn't know she is hot
3. Is my fiancee (neener neener ;)

A date is one night, a PS2 is years of pleasure

[cjmnews]

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.

Re:A date is one night, a PS2 is years of pleasure

[chromatic]

Yeah, but you have to keep spending money on the PS2 to buy new games. Wouldn't that make it more expensive in the long ...

Wait, nevermind.

Reasons why a PS2 is better than a woman

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

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...

Re:Reasons why a PS2 is better than a woman

[schmoli]

3. A PS2 doesn't leave the toilet seat up.

uhhh... what kind of women do you date?

Re:Reasons why a PS2 is better than a woman

[lcde]

3. A PS2 doesn't leave the toilet seat up.

forgot to do the ol'crotch test huh :)

I wouldn't touch her with yours.

[Elwood P Dowd]

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.

Re:I wouldn't touch her with yours.

[nacturation]

But trading an all-expenses paid date for a ~$200 PS2 system? Granted, he might not have thought that the girl is his type, but think of the experience he could have had. Go do some fun things, then eat at a great restaurant, order the best stuff on the menu, have some expensive drinks, and maybe some decent conversation about Portuguese and life in Latin America. You could quite easily rack up $1000 worth of expenses that someone else is paying for, and who knows... the girl might turn out to be rather intelligent and interesting after all.

Bachelor != unattached

[redelm]

It was probably a _very_ smart move if the guy already had a GF.

Cheating isn't smart even if it's never discovered. You'll always know. "We come to hate those we have wronged" [Plutarch?]

Brunette?!?

[Otter]

The winning bachelor was given a choice to either take the beautiful, young, brunette bachelorette out on an all expenses paid date...

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.

The Bachelorette?!

[illuminatedwax]

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...

aww, that's an easy choice!

[Anonymous Coward]

Take the one that comes with a manual!!

Compatibility

[Oriumpor]

There's no guarantee the Brunette is backwards compatible.

A Point

[ronfar]

The guy who won the contest was the guy who was most likely to attract a woman on his own. Therefore, he was least likely to need any help in getting dates. So, provided the prize was valuable to him, he's the person in the contest most likely to toss the girl over the side.

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...

Bow to the master

[Wylfing]

This guy is a fucking genius. As soon as he opted for the PS2, he became extremely desirable in the eyes of that girl.

Re:The Facts:

[Anonymous Coward]

He won a date, not sex.

PS2 advert?

[arcanumas]

Uh, this stinks too much as a PS2 promotional effort. I bet the whole thing was set up.

No realistic chance of a relationship

[analog_line]

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.

Re: Soulstealers

[MachDelta]

4) Does not want to break my spirit.

Well, that rules out all women.

Could I interest you in a very friendly dog?