If you could make the rules, what would they be?

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10 Feb 2023, 8:29 am

Rosemary Kennedy tried to be a "group thinker": she was lobotomized. The results weren't good.



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10 Feb 2023, 9:32 am

i wish more of the working class would vote its group interest rather than for some clown who fools 'em into believing they'll keep the undeserving punished.



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10 Feb 2023, 9:44 am

Invent your own culture? Corporate culture, or tribal, or national culture, and describe how they would do courtship?

Maybe we should go back to how tribal people do it. American Indians and African tribes. The young men go on display showing of their warrior prowess by throwing spears or whatever. And the maidens pick their husbands from the male 'objects' on display. Kinda like a Miss America pageant in reverse.

I dunno. Will hafta ponder this and get back to it later.

In the meantime here is a suggestion by Richard Jeni.


https://youtu.be/SsxQLYjwN2g



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10 Feb 2023, 10:27 pm

^ I’d prefer suitors to puff up their hair as much as possible, adorn themselves with big showy costumes, and perform a mating dance like this bird of paradise (at 2 minutes in).


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10 Feb 2023, 10:32 pm

When you dress up as a frigid b***h, try not to look so constipated.

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10 Feb 2023, 10:57 pm

Democrats will be forced to implement "Universal Health Care" when they are in government...

...whether they want to or not... 8)



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11 Feb 2023, 2:51 am

Don't wait till the last minute to tell me you need or like me to do something because you didn't want to bother me. I like knowing plans & having routeine & predictability. It's less frustrating for me when I can plan to do things instead of having to do em rite after you tell me about them.


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11 Feb 2023, 3:05 am

No snoring or touching people with cold toes in bed.


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11 Feb 2023, 4:05 am

no rubberband tires, big tacky wheels and no leather and no sunroofs on any of my automobiles.



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11 Feb 2023, 4:30 am

Gang stalkers will be gutted and roasted over an open pit fire. 8)



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13 Feb 2023, 12:45 am

Ohhhh this is good, the rules would be simple.

You get up the courage to tell someone you like them.

Me: Hey, do you want to go to the movies with me?

Them: Do you mean romantically?

Me: Yes

Them: Then yes I would love to, I'm glad we feel the same way about each other

Or alternatively

Me: Hey, do you want to go to the movies with me?

Them: Do you mean romantically?

Me: Yes

Them: Then, no sorry, I don't feel that way about you and am not interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with you.

Me: Thank you for the honesty, I will move on

(NO MIND GAMES, NO PLAYING HARD-TO-GET, NO AGONY OF WONDERING IF YOU'RE BEING TOO PUSHY, JUST PLAIN CLARITY [Though maybe not as stale as this example])



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13 Feb 2023, 6:46 pm

Smiley123 wrote:
Ohhhh this is good, the rules would be simple.

You get up the courage to tell someone you like them.

Me: Hey, do you want to go to the movies with me?

Them: Do you mean romantically?

Me: Yes

Them: Then yes I would love to, I'm glad we feel the same way about each other

Or alternatively

Me: Hey, do you want to go to the movies with me?

Them: Do you mean romantically?

Me: Yes

Them: Then, no sorry, I don't feel that way about you and am not interested in pursuing a romantic relationship with you.

Me: Thank you for the honesty, I will move on

(NO MIND GAMES, NO PLAYING HARD-TO-GET, NO AGONY OF WONDERING IF YOU'RE BEING TOO PUSHY, JUST PLAIN CLARITY [Though maybe not as stale as this example])
I like this. I harassed women because they told me they were busy that day/week & I later asked for a different day/week a few more times. I was actually too dense to realize it was a common brush-off till I joined this forum when I was 27 :wall: I really am that ret*d sometimes :oops: It woulda went a lot better for the both of us if they woulda been more direct & told me they were not interested. Sure I woulda been embarrassed but I woulda got over it very fast & not continued to waste my time making a d@mn fool of myself or acting like a desperate creep. I woulda moved on. What's even more confusing is when one told me she just wanted to be friends & then she got mad a couple weeks later when I made a comment about joining a different dating site :huh: This is a major way I'm not compatible with NT women, they are too indirect & don't say what they mean or mean what they say.


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14 Feb 2023, 4:03 am

it would be illegal for any used/previously owned item to cost more than it did new.



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17 Feb 2023, 6:14 am

If you want to use my computer to download literally hundreds of movies & TV shows you saved on the cloud & now want to put on an external hardrive of yours so you can save money not paying for cloud storage, make sure that program is not set to automatically download things onto my computer in the background so I can still have a couple gigs of available hardrive space if I want to use my computer. Also do not spend literally thousands of dollars buying digital movies & TV shows & then complain about how you need to download all them before the month ends because you cant afford to pay the cloud storage. We coulda both bought new computers & I coulda downloaded a lot of the shows onto them for free.


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17 Feb 2023, 6:20 am

Id want to instate socialism but with so many people preferring to run around like angry chickens with their heads cut off it may just be best to flee. And leave them to the chickens.


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17 Feb 2023, 6:31 am

Everyone will be neutered. OUCH! 8O