Actually it's what women themselves have told me about their kind. Who am I to question?
In my experience they don't fish for compliments a lot because I have a rule to always reply with an uncompliment when someone is being silly like that.
Because women fish for compliments. It's their thing and I have yet to find a woman who wouldn't do it. Usually it's best to just pay them the compliment and be done with it.
Ah yes, but the question "Does this make me look fat" is in a whole other ballpark than "What do you think of this outfit"
The point of the former is to corner you and force a compliment out of you because the lass is feeling a bit unsure of herself. Whereas the latter is an honest request for an opinion and honesty is expected.
Of course they should tell you the sex should be improved, just you know... timing is everything.
Then again, telling your partner the sex is bad because their penis is too small is probably less than productive in creating a better sexual experience for anyone.
I'm sure they don't tell you the sex sucked right after you're done... just as you probably don't tell them it's the arse that makes them look fat not the jeans.
While I agree there can be a time and a place for the honesty. Nothing has improved my sex life with my wife more than being honest when it's boring, bad, or good. It's how you learn what the other person likes. If you're not honest when it's crap, you keep getting the same crap sex over and over. (At least until you get no sex)
I concur, but I sure don't like such a slap in the face as having an orgasm and then hearing "You know honey, that really sucked. I hope you do better next time"
Intelligent people do not need the kind of rubberstamp advice you find in self-help books. As long you remain honest, open and calm, you are very well off. Not doing stupid thing like playing WoW (ATTN! compare to watching football with you buddies and sipping beer) through your anniversary helps, too.
I can't second this enough. In the 4.5 years I've been married, the ONLY time we ever ran into any real trouble was when I tried to "manage" information. The excuse you'll typically tell yourself if tempted to do this is that it's to "spare her feelings", "you couldn't cope with it then", or "spare us an unnecessary fight". Those are excuses...the real reason is you don't want to deal with her reaction and the fallout. Don't give in to that temptation. Be honest, and demand honesty from your partner. That, and a good dose of compatabiltiy and love, will take you through just about anything).
What's so bad about not wanting to deal with someone's reaction? I'm sure they don't tell you the sex sucked right after you're done... just as you probably don't tell them it's the arse that makes them look fat not the jeans.
Small lies, it's what holds relationships together.
Kinda ruins the game, already knowing the ending and major plot-devices, doesn't it?
Anyway, it'd be great to see games dominate the popular iconographic imagery of literary classics in the same way that films have. Will Frankenstein be perceived as a beautiful artifice once again, I wonder...?
Why would it ruin the game? Were the LOTR films ruined by the previous publication of the book? And many other examples. If the game is made well and interesting, knowing hte story won't ruin it, knowing the story will make you more immersed and will let you experience the story in a whole new perspective.
I think it's brilliant, just imagine what fun it'd be to experience the chilling effect of The Pit And The Pendulum in something as immersive as a game, or, I dunno, fighting lobstrosities on a forgotten beach yourself instead of just reading about it.
This patently false: not only is space unfathomably vast, but so is _TIME_. A civilization could have been born, grown, flurished and _died_ right next door 1 million years ago and we would _never_ know about it.
No need even to go next door, could've happened right here on earth. I still find it hard to believe that something such as dinosaurs, which we know occupied most of the planet, weren't some sort of civilised life. By now all anthropologic data about their civilisation would be lost anyway, we can hardly find the Mayan pyramids and that was only a few thousand years ago.
However, not only is it not obvious that they would use radio to communicate, or that we could recognize such signals, but it's not even obvious they would bother to colonize the galaxy or communicate between planets.
Exactly, why would you want to communicate between planets when in a few thousand years after having populated one everybody you left there will forget they're still the aliens? Even their technology would probably start diverging from what you left them with and eventually they'd become a group of organisms looking into the sky to find aliens and wondering why there aren't any...
... maybe that's why we're so adamant about finding them. Deep down somewhere we know we're aliens and would like to go home now to visit mum.
Is this like monopoly? I tend to lose not long after I have to start mortgaging my properties to the bank.
The way to win monopoly is to gobble things up early, even mortgaging if you have to. Then later in the game everything is yours and people can't make a move anymore without paying you huge amounts of money. Makes the game very frustrating... but not for you.
Possession for personal use isn't illegal though. If you have one shot, or perhaps a few shots, nobody is going to bug you over it. Not the cops who will have more trouble than it's worth doing the paperwork, nor the justice system who doesn't really care about minor crimes like "Possessed half a gram of marihuana, an unsellable amount"
On the other hand, I've heard of people who have gotten away with a possession-for-personal-use defence when having 30 grams of marihuana on them. That must've been a glorious moment.
You can't train a cat with rewards though. If you try you'll only make them fat.
See, the thing with cats is that they're too clever. If you try to train with treats they won't learn to obey. They'll learn to get up on the table, then get off, so they get a treat. And they'll keep doing it ad nauseum. However if you show them dominance by biting them on the neck, they not only obey, they don't repeat the action out of spite.
My cat thinks of me as her lord and master, the toughest cat in the street, the big lion of the pack, whatever. The way I make her realise this is by NOT treating her as I would a child. She is by no means human, which means I am freely allowed to bite her, push her off the table, or thwap her on the nose when she misbehaves.
Try teaching a human child the meaning of the phrase "Get off the table!" with pavlovian principles and you'll see how long it takes you to get a visit from social services.
We still have a fulfilling relationship my cat and I, just unlike a spoilt human, she actually obeys orders.
" assure you, idiots breed in larger numbers than smart people in every country."
But america seems to be special in that it prides itself on it's ignorance, try having an intelligent discussion about ideology with many Americans to see what I mean. It often times seems even the most educated there are also as dumb as rocks in that they will never allow other points of view to penetrate their enormous ideological pride.
I mean seriously, most Americans still fail to realise the difference between it's and its even though most of us nonnative speakers are quite fluent with it. We can even tell the difference between you're and your, often even their, there and they're!
It just bugs me that there are so few Americans out there today who can actually use their native tongue. Horrible isn't it?
30 minutes a day. That's it. If you can't do that, then yes, it's a self control issue
Dude if 30 minutes a day worked for me, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
There are only two ways 30 minutes a day wouldn't work for a person:
1. They are already doing 30 minutes a day, and would need to up the ante to 60 minutes a day to make a... you know... difference
2. They aren't waiting long enough. For fuck's sake, you won't lose massive amounts of weight after three days of 30 minutes a day. If you want that then you need to slave your arse off for 5 hours a day for three days and even that won't be permanent weight loss. Work out moderately, or even very leisourly, for 30 minutes a day for a month and if you don't lose at least two kilo you're an idiot who eats far far far far far far far too much food.
That's an interesting question actually. When does a culture stop being stone-age? When colonizers share some of their technology, or when they can actually get to it on their own or through international trade agreements?
Far as I know, a lot of africa still uses spears and houses made out of excrement... and there's an odd beat-up car here and there that looks like it's been forgotten by a rich plantation owner in the 1950's.
They live in tribes and use stone-age technology. That makes them stoneage tribesmen, no matter the cause. It doesn't matter why they live in such conditions, but if nobody would recognise them as such, nobody would help them improve their technological savvy.
If the connection between the intercom and the operator is good enough for voice, that is good enough of a bit rate for googling things. Then just putting a computer there will make things much more efficient. (you won't have to hire a operator, for one thing)
And it still won't solve the other requirement, which is making it useful to people who can't read, let alone use a computer.
Just how DO you teach a (practically) stone-age tribesman to use a computer?
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Actually it's what women themselves have told me about their kind. Who am I to question?
In my experience they don't fish for compliments a lot because I have a rule to always reply with an uncompliment when someone is being silly like that.
Because women fish for compliments. It's their thing and I have yet to find a woman who wouldn't do it. Usually it's best to just pay them the compliment and be done with it.
Ah yes, but the question "Does this make me look fat" is in a whole other ballpark than "What do you think of this outfit"
The point of the former is to corner you and force a compliment out of you because the lass is feeling a bit unsure of herself. Whereas the latter is an honest request for an opinion and honesty is expected.
See the thing is, I do want to talk about such things. Just you know, at an appropriate time ;)
Of course they should tell you the sex should be improved, just you know ... timing is everything.
Then again, telling your partner the sex is bad because their penis is too small is probably less than productive in creating a better sexual experience for anyone.
I'm sure they don't tell you the sex sucked right after you're done ... just as you probably don't tell them it's the arse that makes them look fat not the jeans.
While I agree there can be a time and a place for the honesty. Nothing has improved my sex life with my wife more than being honest when it's boring, bad, or good. It's how you learn what the other person likes. If you're not honest when it's crap, you keep getting the same crap sex over and over. (At least until you get no sex)
I concur, but I sure don't like such a slap in the face as having an orgasm and then hearing "You know honey, that really sucked. I hope you do better next time"
Intelligent people do not need the kind of rubberstamp advice you find in self-help books. As long you remain honest, open and calm, you are very well off. Not doing stupid thing like playing WoW (ATTN! compare to watching football with you buddies and sipping beer) through your anniversary helps, too.
I can't second this enough. In the 4.5 years I've been married, the ONLY time we ever ran into any real trouble was when I tried to "manage" information. The excuse you'll typically tell yourself if tempted to do this is that it's to "spare her feelings", "you couldn't cope with it then", or "spare us an unnecessary fight". Those are excuses...the real reason is you don't want to deal with her reaction and the fallout. Don't give in to that temptation. Be honest, and demand honesty from your partner. That, and a good dose of compatabiltiy and love, will take you through just about anything).
What's so bad about not wanting to deal with someone's reaction? I'm sure they don't tell you the sex sucked right after you're done ... just as you probably don't tell them it's the arse that makes them look fat not the jeans.
Small lies, it's what holds relationships together.
Kinda ruins the game, already knowing the ending and major plot-devices, doesn't it?
Anyway, it'd be great to see games dominate the popular iconographic imagery of literary classics in the same way that films have. Will Frankenstein be perceived as a beautiful artifice once again, I wonder...?
Why would it ruin the game? Were the LOTR films ruined by the previous publication of the book? And many other examples. If the game is made well and interesting, knowing hte story won't ruin it, knowing the story will make you more immersed and will let you experience the story in a whole new perspective.
I think it's brilliant, just imagine what fun it'd be to experience the chilling effect of The Pit And The Pendulum in something as immersive as a game, or, I dunno, fighting lobstrosities on a forgotten beach yourself instead of just reading about it.
This patently false: not only is space unfathomably vast, but so is _TIME_. A civilization could have been born, grown, flurished and _died_ right next door 1 million years ago and we would _never_ know about it.
No need even to go next door, could've happened right here on earth. I still find it hard to believe that something such as dinosaurs, which we know occupied most of the planet, weren't some sort of civilised life. By now all anthropologic data about their civilisation would be lost anyway, we can hardly find the Mayan pyramids and that was only a few thousand years ago.
However, not only is it not obvious that they would use radio to communicate, or that we could recognize such signals, but it's not even obvious they would bother to colonize the galaxy or communicate between planets.
Exactly, why would you want to communicate between planets when in a few thousand years after having populated one everybody you left there will forget they're still the aliens? Even their technology would probably start diverging from what you left them with and eventually they'd become a group of organisms looking into the sky to find aliens and wondering why there aren't any ...
... maybe that's why we're so adamant about finding them. Deep down somewhere we know we're aliens and would like to go home now to visit mum.
Many Europeans actually get 5 weeks paid vacation ... just sayin'
Is this like monopoly? I tend to lose not long after I have to start mortgaging my properties to the bank.
The way to win monopoly is to gobble things up early, even mortgaging if you have to. Then later in the game everything is yours and people can't make a move anymore without paying you huge amounts of money. Makes the game very frustrating ... but not for you.
I hope the Eurofighter kicks your arses some day ... but it probably won't ever happen unless we start selling them to Korea.
Don't piss off the judge when you're getting a divorce because you don't have boobs and will NOT be forgiven. It's valuable advice.
So the cat has trained me not to give her the cat version of cocaine very often? How brilliant of her ...
Possession for personal use isn't illegal though. If you have one shot, or perhaps a few shots, nobody is going to bug you over it. Not the cops who will have more trouble than it's worth doing the paperwork, nor the justice system who doesn't really care about minor crimes like "Possessed half a gram of marihuana, an unsellable amount"
On the other hand, I've heard of people who have gotten away with a possession-for-personal-use defence when having 30 grams of marihuana on them. That must've been a glorious moment.
You can't train a cat with rewards though. If you try you'll only make them fat.
See, the thing with cats is that they're too clever. If you try to train with treats they won't learn to obey. They'll learn to get up on the table, then get off, so they get a treat. And they'll keep doing it ad nauseum. However if you show them dominance by biting them on the neck, they not only obey, they don't repeat the action out of spite.
It's called proof reading. Learn it, that's why the "preview" button is there instead of a "submit" button :)
My cat thinks of me as her lord and master, the toughest cat in the street, the big lion of the pack, whatever. The way I make her realise this is by NOT treating her as I would a child. She is by no means human, which means I am freely allowed to bite her, push her off the table, or thwap her on the nose when she misbehaves.
Try teaching a human child the meaning of the phrase "Get off the table!" with pavlovian principles and you'll see how long it takes you to get a visit from social services.
We still have a fulfilling relationship my cat and I, just unlike a spoilt human, she actually obeys orders.
" assure you, idiots breed in larger numbers than smart people in every country."
But america seems to be special in that it prides itself on it's ignorance, try having an intelligent discussion about ideology with many Americans to see what I mean. It often times seems even the most educated there are also as dumb as rocks in that they will never allow other points of view to penetrate their enormous ideological pride.
I mean seriously, most Americans still fail to realise the difference between it's and its even though most of us nonnative speakers are quite fluent with it. We can even tell the difference between you're and your, often even their, there and they're!
It just bugs me that there are so few Americans out there today who can actually use their native tongue. Horrible isn't it?
30 minutes a day. That's it. If you can't do that, then yes, it's a self control issue
Dude if 30 minutes a day worked for me, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
There are only two ways 30 minutes a day wouldn't work for a person:
... you know ... difference
1. They are already doing 30 minutes a day, and would need to up the ante to 60 minutes a day to make a
2. They aren't waiting long enough. For fuck's sake, you won't lose massive amounts of weight after three days of 30 minutes a day. If you want that then you need to slave your arse off for 5 hours a day for three days and even that won't be permanent weight loss. Work out moderately, or even very leisourly, for 30 minutes a day for a month and if you don't lose at least two kilo you're an idiot who eats far far far far far far far too much food.
I wholeheartedly agree. This is the best cinematic trailer I've seen since the 1990's. They should totally hire this guy
That's an interesting question actually. When does a culture stop being stone-age? When colonizers share some of their technology, or when they can actually get to it on their own or through international trade agreements?
... and there's an odd beat-up car here and there that looks like it's been forgotten by a rich plantation owner in the 1950's.
Far as I know, a lot of africa still uses spears and houses made out of excrement
They live in tribes and use stone-age technology. That makes them stoneage tribesmen, no matter the cause. It doesn't matter why they live in such conditions, but if nobody would recognise them as such, nobody would help them improve their technological savvy.
If the connection between the intercom and the operator is good enough for voice, that is good enough of a bit rate for googling things. Then just putting a computer there will make things much more efficient. (you won't have to hire a operator, for one thing)
And it still won't solve the other requirement, which is making it useful to people who can't read, let alone use a computer.
Just how DO you teach a (practically) stone-age tribesman to use a computer?