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How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly?
basementman writes "I recently purchased a 10 inch white MSI wind. As you can see it's a small computer and it's good for what I use it for. I get a lot of comments from women saying it is 'cute' or 'adorable.' Not the good kind of cute that will get me the attention I want though, the kind of cute that says they think I have a different presence than I actually want to portray. So how can I make my netbook more manly, or at least have some witty line to respond to the their comments?" Hopefully basementman didn't get a netbook with the hopes of it getting him some action, but what cool mods (or witty one-liners) have others used to salvage their dignity from hardware that is "a good size"?
... you can put the same on your White Wind. Go to a copyshop that also has those cut-plotters and get a set of decal lettering cut out in black saying "I'm his new Netbook and help him pick up chicks." That should fix both the 'manly' and 'whitty reply' part in one stroke. And it's quite funny aswell.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Personally I'd make it pink and give it a Hello Kitty sticker. Keeps people on their toes ;)
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Hmmmm. That might explain why the father at my old Catholic High School (Marian Central) bought a new Trans Am 455HO. Of course, back then, I just thought that he wanted to have a good time.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I was with my Dad and his dog and my Girlfriend at a rugby tournament this weekend. Every single woman that walked pass came up and started petting the dog. I told my girlfriend next year she wasn't invited and I was just going to bring the dog.
You sir are a dick. Mainly because you claim to have a girlfriend and then effectively tell her you're going to cheat on her to her face - unless that was in jest, in which case that was still a dickhead thing to do.
He was obviously kidding, and my girlfriend would laugh too if I said something like that in a scenario like that. If you think joking around is a dickhead thing to do, you must be really fucking boring, or date boring women.
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No joke. A friend of mine is an electrician. He was tired of his yellow or orange extension cables going missing from job sites. What did he do? Started buying purple and pink ones. Instead of 2 or 3 going missing a year, he has had one "walk away" in the last 6.
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You can deny it all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that marriage (among people with with European ancestry, anyway) was essentially a financial transaction for millennia. That didn't start to change until the mid 1500's, when the Catholic church stepped in and demanded that marriages be approved by priests.
If you have women approaching you to admire your laptop they obviously already don't find you repulsive or unapproachable.
That's a damn good start by any measure.
You must also live in a region where having a laptop or a iphone or whatever actually gets you attention, rather being a minimum requirement to not be outright ignored. (hmmm where do you live? what's real estate like there at the momment?)
Most girls do like geeky guys in actual fact. It's an observation of mine that only certain kinds of adolescent females that don't date geeky types, the kind of woman who is at that age rather concerned about her self image and social success (as we all are, infact it's a big measure of self-worth until we grow up a bit). In the real adult world the nice girls will end up with the geeky guys.
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