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andyfalls
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28 Nov 2008, 8:00 am

Hmm. For the ladies

1) Understanding
2) Intimate
3) Tolerant
4) Level-headed
5) Similar age
6) Doesn't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much. Healthy and trim.
7) Can kick me in the shins under the table to stop me talking too much about rugby in social situations, but at times can indulge my conversational oddities when we're alone
8 ) Appreciates when I do listen, and when I can't she knows I'm trying.
9) Knows that I care about her and feels the same way...

Aww now I feel lonely! :roll: There ain't no-one like that in my life that's for sure!

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28 Nov 2008, 2:45 pm

Who_Am_I wrote:

sunshower wrote:

Who_Am_I wrote:

sunshower wrote:

Who_Am_I wrote:

sunshower wrote:

Who_Am_I wrote:

The library is at one end of it, too.

Yes, except they suck cause they wouldn't let me become a member unless I had proof I lived in Brisbane such as a bank slip or something. Of course, all my bank details have my home address on the coast (I live in college during the year while I'm at uni).

It's very depressing, not being a member of a nearby massive library. I have certainly frequented a LOT of second hand book stores this last year...

There's probably some other way I could get around it... but I have to get around my supreme disorganization first...

That does suck. I go there a lot of the time just because it's somewhere quiet to read.

I wanted to, and I actually had some free time wandering the city after exams and was heading there, but then I met this really interesting busker at the underground corner leading to the train station, and spent several hours discussing philosophical ideas with him.

I've mostly read in my college room this year - it's very peaceful and quiet mostly during the day, and was high up - so it felt like I was suspended in the tree tops.

Philosophical discussions are good.

What are you studying?

Arts - music, writing and drama mostly. How about you? Are you at uni?

I graduated from uni at the end of last year. I studied music at the QLD Conservatorium, majoring in composition.

Another composer - 'allo!

M.

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Silva20contraorder
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28 Nov 2008, 2:53 pm

Ideal guy

* Romantic soul there
*True/honest
*Shares interests
*Physically attractive enough for me
*Mature by both out standards
*realistic
* of good nature

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LILI
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28 Nov 2008, 6:11 pm

anna-banana wrote:

LILI wrote:

open-minded
likes to travel
active
attractive (to me, I have weird taste)
nice
smart
respectful
faithful
honest
non-religious
not conservative (politically)

whoa, reading this I thought "hell, I'm someone's perfect woman!" why did you have to be a girl...? LOL
:wink:

maybe our issue is that we like a woman's mind in a man's body. :wink:

I will keep on looking for my perfect partner....but i am almost giving up. I am starting to get used to the idea of being single and spending time with my pets. sad....

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28 Nov 2008, 6:18 pm

My perfect partner is my wife. For what makes her perfect, read the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 31, Verses 10 through 31.

(I'm not religious, but it is an accurate description!)

King Solomon wrote:

A Woman of Valor, who can find? She is more precious than corals.
Her husband places his trust in her and profits only thereby.
She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
She seeks out wool and flax and cheerfully does the work of her hands.
She is like the trading ships, bringing food from afar.
She gets up while it is still night to provide food for her household, and a fair share for her staff.
She considers a field and purchases it, and plants a vineyard with the fruit of her labors.
She invests herself with strength and makes her arms powerful.
She senses that her trade is profitable; her light does not go out at night.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff and her palms hold the spindle.
She opens her hands to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.
She has no fear of the snow for her household, for all her household is dressed in fine clothing.
She makes her own bedspreads; her clothing is of fine linen and luxurious cloth.
Her husband is known at the gates, where he sits with the elders of the land.
She makes and sells linens; she supplies the merchants with sashes.
She is robed in strength and dignity, and she smiles at the future.
She opens her mouth with wisdom and a lesson of kindness is on her tongue.
She looks after the conduct of her household and never tastes the bread of laziness.
Her children rise up and make her happy; her husband praises her:
"Many women have excelled, but you excell them all!"
Grace is elusive and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears God -- she shall be praised.
Give her credit for the fruit of her labors, and let her achievements praise her at the gates.

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28 Nov 2008, 6:22 pm

I never seem to meet all the criteria in these lists...

But I never said I was "perfect."

ImTheGuyThatDidThat
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28 Nov 2008, 7:02 pm

Assuming you meet someone and things click..
Have been thinking it through and reading posts, criteria for
a partner...honest comes to mind, since things can get so
difficult and sad if one are not honest - but besides that i`m
kinda drawing a blank... when it comes to the outside i dont
set any special criteria since i tend to fall for whats inside
and outside, but inside first. Dont have any tall/short or
those kind of criteria. Religion and those kind of things are
not important to me, so its not a problem as long as that
person dont care too much that i dont belive in the same
things, obviously. So kinda short list, a person who is
honest that you can trust, those are the big things, but
guess they`re kinda obvious also - no point in mentioning
things like attractive (to me) since people usually are
together with people they are attracted to. And that
she likes to hang around with me is also obvious...

Maybe i can put down independent, as in likes to
do what she does and is not addicted to having me
along everywhere all the time. When it comes to
money and work and house and all that if living
together its easy, she can do what she wants to
do as long as she is happy. If she`s occupied alot
and work much and like that, ok with me. If she
likes to lay on the couch watching tv, thats also
ok, i have no problems with doing everything
as some call it, since i`m used to doing that
anyway, and i kinda like to spoil people i care
for if it makes them happy, it makes me happy,
its nice.

Tried to make a list like some others have but its
hard to set any rules, when i fall for someone
its....hard to explain, its something deeper that
goes beyond any set rules and limits, its affection
and emotions, powerful stuff - so i dont have any
"perfect partner" criteria or dream woman, that
i discover after it happens sort of

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28 Nov 2008, 9:40 pm

LILI wrote:

anna-banana wrote:

LILI wrote:

open-minded
likes to travel
active
attractive (to me, I have weird taste)
nice
smart
respectful
faithful
honest
non-religious
not conservative (politically)

whoa, reading this I thought "hell, I'm someone's perfect woman!" why did you have to be a girl...? LOL
:wink:

maybe our issue is that we like a woman's mind in a man's body. :wink:

I wouldn't really say that your criteria would apply more to a woman than to a man...

then again, I have an extremely male brain...

anyhow, let us not be lead into a dead end of utter perfection... after all, it's all about chemistry :wink:

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28 Nov 2008, 10:20 pm

Fnord wrote:

My perfect partner is my wife. For what makes her perfect, read the Book of Proverbs, Chapter 31, Verses 10 through 31.

(I'm not religious, but it is an accurate description!)

King Solomon wrote:

wow, fnord! That brought me back to my life in my thirties! I lived on an agricultural commune and we were of the 'back to the land' movement here in the Pacific NorthWest of the North American continent. It was a inspiration for me then and I hope I lived it for a bit, anyway.

Merle

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29 Nov 2008, 1:09 am

makuranososhi wrote:

Who_Am_I wrote:

sunshower wrote:

Who_Am_I wrote:

sunshower wrote:

Who_Am_I wrote:

sunshower wrote:

Who_Am_I wrote:

The library is at one end of it, too.

That does suck. I go there a lot of the time just because it's somewhere quiet to read.

I've mostly read in my college room this year - it's very peaceful and quiet mostly during the day, and was high up - so it felt like I was suspended in the tree tops.

Philosophical discussions are good.

What are you studying?

Arts - music, writing and drama mostly. How about you? Are you at uni?

I graduated from uni at the end of last year. I studied music at the QLD Conservatorium, majoring in composition.

Another composer - 'allo!

M.

You compose? What sort of music do you write?

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29 Nov 2008, 1:23 am

Generally, instrumental music... arranging for marching bands help pay the bills. Choral works, percussion ensembles, orchestral pieces, solos and duets - completed a duet for two marimbas and random percussion earlier this year. If there is music involved, it's of interest - have even done some tech-hop work over the years.

Fnord, I like your selection. Moreso, in that I find much of it in the woman I love. Nicely done.

M.

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29 Nov 2008, 3:38 am

makuranososhi wrote:

Cool. I go between writing a lot for orchestra and a lot for smaller ensembles: at the moment I'm in an orchestral phase; working on a violin concerto and an opera. I am working on one smaller piece, though, for violins (and possibly other strings) and percussion. (Percussion is awesome; you can get so many different sounds with it.)

Do you ever write any electroacoustic music?

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29 Nov 2008, 8:27 am

Who_Am_I wrote:

makuranososhi wrote:

I compose too!

Voice and piano, and several part acapella voice.

Generally I'm not particularly rigid on style though, I write whatever feels right.

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29 Nov 2008, 12:56 pm

Who_Am_I wrote:

makuranososhi wrote:

I've been tentatively exploring it; I tend to go exclusively one direction or the other. Did an arrangement of Till Eulenspiegel's Lustige Streiche this past year for marching band; writing an original show and percussion show right now. Next will be a series of vocal works until next season begins again. I love large scale choral writing, but as a percussionist by trade and a bass by range - I'm not nice to the sopranos and those who can't count.

M.

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29 Nov 2008, 10:15 pm

makuranososhi wrote:

I'm not nice to the sopranos and those who can't count.
M.

ut oh, I am one of those sopranos you aren't nice too. I was never trained to read music but I can sing anything given to me by rote. On pitch. Every time.

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countzarroff
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29 Nov 2008, 10:54 pm

big stuff:
1. Talks a lot
2. Good listener at other times
3. Creative
4. Blunt sense of humor
5. Open to new things
6. HAS A CRUSH ON ME

little stuff:
1. Wears a lot of socks

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