Since Druff doesn't want trolling in his other thread.. ..
What women's rights items have we advocated for?
Since Druff doesn't want trolling in his other thread.. ..
What women's rights items have we advocated for?
Their inability to detect tongue in cheek. We've been fighting for more female seats in college tongue in cheek programs for ages now.
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Chaps' 2017-18 NFL $$ Thread
Probably 18 months ago I was on a second outing with an acceptably attractive woman.
Early in the day we passed a church that had an adjacent billboard that read, “The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions.” She asked me what it meant. I just kind of looked at her for a second and then explained it to her.
Early evening, I made some kind of harmless joke at her expense. It was greeted with a blank stare. I explained my comment was clearly made tongue in cheek, and certainly without malice. It was greeted with another blank stare. I came to realize she had never heard the expression tongue in cheek.
An hour or so later she mentioned either two restaurants, or two entrees at a restaurant, I can’t recall, and I told her I was ambivalent on the selection. Blank stare yet again. She had no idea what ambivalent meant.
I could not abide that trifecta of ignorance from a woman of nearly 40. I didn’t understand how it was even possible. I begged off any further escalation towards coitus and took my leave after dropping her off and never called her again.
I’m still entirely comfortable in my decision.
In America it should be illegal for a woman to not own a gun.
Save a Cow - Eat a Vegetarian, they're grass-fed.
I consider myself to be an accomplished chess and backgammon player, and have spent way to much time studying game theory. My wife plays both games with the same amount of effort as she would playing yahtzee, yet still manages to beat me on a regular basis. If I really want to feel stupid, I will challenge her to a game of gin.
My only saving grace is that I have a sick read on her, so I kick her ass at poker.
Last edited by The_Lurker; 04-03-2018 at 05:22 AM.
Like BCR’s post
Introspection rarely ends well but... let’s see where this goes
My wife is very nearly deaf. Born prematurely, she was put in an incubator that was filled with too much oxygen and somehow that shot her hearing... or so the story goes.
Met her when I was 19 or so at a party and she was stunning. For some reason she thought I was good looking and it was off to the races.
The relationship was mostly physical and there was a perk to showing up with a beautiful woman socially. That created the early momentum.
Back in the day, the approach with deaf kids was that you lived in a hearing world so you better learn to speak and lip read. Sign language and other assistance was not in the cards. She ended up with near perfect speech.
However, she scores a zero.zero on the subtleties of speech. Inuendo, double entendres, frankly most jokes. References to nursery rhymes, song lyrics and things aural are a waste of time.
Email, texting, the internet and closed captioning have been miraculous for her.
I’m a word guy. Maybe because of her but I always scored high on things like the verbal SAT. It’s the only reason I like Sonatine on this board (wink). So she & I are a weird pairing.
Just being the smartass I am, the kids grew up challenged by me verbally. Debates and verbal sparring were a constant in the house. Some part of their dealing with me was that I just needed to flex my language skills on the nearest target. I think they benefitted verbally but were certainly scarred emotionally (lol). My wife was on the sidelines and would ask for a recap if I brought a kid to tears or something seemed interesting.
Kids initially were embarrassed by their mother and later thought she was dumb. They weren’t above ridiculing her and it was tough sledding as they learned the difference between verbal skills and intelligence.
Like a lot of guys I listened to the Fraud Show as I fell asleep. My wife has been blessed to never have heard Druff’s voice. She is absolutely clueless as to the existence of PFA. So there have been advantages for her.
She is absolutely first level in her approach to life. Absolutely the nicest most genuine person I have ever met. I have never caught her in a lie. She never fears the truth and it’s consequences. She is brutally forthright. She is not above using her looks to get her way which is fun to watch. I skew toward dark and cynical Left to my own devices (without her influence) I can only imagine what dark path I might have perused for my own pleasure.
My kids would prolly be pretty dreadful people if they had just their father’s influence.
If I met her now would my reaction have been the same as BCR’s? I dunno. His post struck home a little bit. Life is strange and random.
As usual, I got no point. Just rambling
This thread is an oxymoron for this site.
The subtlety between acceptably attractive and exceptionally attractive isn’t all that subtle.
Clearly Chaps post about the notion of teaching tongue in cheek classes sparked the memory. I had a few drinks in me and just kind of wrote the post in a Kryptesque elitist style for giggles. I knew this girl a little and she was just willfully ignorant. She’s still around, and the type who posts something to Facebook that’s just clearly fake and then doubles down and argues with the people who point out she got suckered by a photoshop. I found the first two instances just astounding in a how do you live 40 years and not hear such a common adage or figure of speech sort of way, but would have gladly ignored all of it if I was into her.
The Facebook thing drives me insane.
I am intensely private. You’re the psychologist BCR, so immediately you recognize I am hiding something. I dunno. I see that trait through family history so honestly I am just wired that way - I hope.
My wife is unfiltered. I don’t even want to know what she posts. Frightens me.
She works with me. The place is 70% women. She socializes with them and they share their lives. She talks about me with people I hired. They hit me up with the most random shit I have done. No matter how hard and often I explain your personal life and your work life has to have a Chinese wall she just likes everyone and can’t intuitively grasp that this shit doesn’t end well.
We have cleaners who clean the building. She is gonna have the supervisor clean our house Saturday. Now I have employees picking up my dirty skivvies and nosing around my life at home.
I explained to the Cleaner she doesn’t have to do my house. Ignore my wife. She and my wife just laugh and get a kick out of how annoyed I am.
A little piece of my privacy dies every day.
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I would like to say that Steve Wynn is a Sexual Predator. Towelists do not endorse Steve Wynn or any of his gimmick properties.
In 100 years, people like Steve Wynn will not be viewed as Visionaries or Intellectuals. They will be viewed as the Filth that was cleaned up by average people using Paper Towels.
LPT
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