Intergalactic Summit

Doesn't sound like you've ever dated the sort of Gallente that I have, Cherbourg.

It was a bit of a joke.

Some Fed Navy guy (Sorjat, maybe) tried to make a joke about how he'd rather date a computer than a Caldari, so I replied "Doesn't sound like you've ever dated the sort of Caldari that I have"...

I've dated a Caldari guy before. Deteis.

He was gorgeous and the perfect gentleman, but the Civire waiter at the restaurant we went to was giving us filthy looks.

Garoun is overrun by Matari these days anyway, or so I hear, unless one is in Caille, and if one is unfortunate enough to be visiting Caille, one will find that almost no one else is originally from there either.

Fortunately, I do believe blank stares are still free in Caille, so by all means, the adventurous should try to chat up passersby. Confuse or outrage enough people, and they may find themselves the lucky recipients of a UoC research grant.

I find Caille frenetic, tedious and believe it is a self-considered social engineered center of the cluster that has precious genuine in common with even much of the Federation. Sadly, I do have to admire how its disposable norms are conveniently packaged for export. One has to travel quite a distance to get wholly away from its influence.

Which brings me to your second question, my dear. I equate Caille's influence to ant bait. It draws in tourists eager to see if the reality of Caille is anything like the fantasy they've been sold. Those who groom and tend and feed those ants have been pushed into the shadows or out of the city entirely, which is why I remarked that Garoun proper seems more Matari these days than Garounix.

Anslo, dear

I must admit, the thought of the sheer amusement you must have provided my dear sister-in-law in implying she would be popular with Gallente nationalists was enough to elicit no small degree of laughter from myself. Perhaps you meant Caldari nationalists? Which, if so, has amusements and irony all its own. Ah, my poor dear Mr. Anslo, I now must wipe the tears of laughter from my eyes at such incidental humour such as yours. I sometimes wonder to myself if Celeste-suuolo had motives other than the purely romantic in marrying my brother -- such as the fact that bearing the name, "Fauconnier-Gesakaarin" can provide so much potential hilarity in both the State and Federation.

As for Caille, well it's much like anything in the Federation: There exists the reality and there is the Caille of mass-consumerism, of vapid, empty advertising that seeks to sell the, "Gallentean Dream," where it comes to be like a beacon of hope and prosperity to countless Matari suffering under supposed injustice and prosperity to buy into it, only to end up in a city where they end up in some dead-end menial job forever hoping they achieve the dream where men and women put pants on their heads in the latest fashion and sport tribal tattoos translated to, "I'm with stupid."

No, you wonder why the Caldari left the Federation? In part, it was because it was a rejection of the particular brand of Caille liberalism that promotes the exploitation and replacement of actual culture and tradition for nothing more than the selling of goods - and anyone with a modicum of self-respect and pride for who they are and where they came from would find that nothing more than pure anathema.

Oh, and Anslo dear, please don't make demands or threats against my family again, ever.

Maybe you're right... but I dunno that I want to know what you got paid for at a club.

The body is a temple.

Mmm'kay? ♥

How else would I keep such a radiant complexion? ♥

I think there's an entire subset of capsuleers for whom romantic overtures begin by sniping at one another on the IGS.