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Steffanie Saissore
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#41 - 2013-06-06 19:57:58 UTC
Shintoko Akahoshi wrote:


Likewise for foreigners who set their eyes on dating ethnic Gallente: Despite sometimes being called "Garoun Gallentean", it's not Garoun. You will not sound "charmingly classy and traditional" if you learn it.

Not that you should let that stop you from demonstrating your cunning linguistic ability.


Cunning linguist? *smirks*

We travel in the dark of the new moon,

A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
Anslo
Scope Works
#42 - 2013-06-06 19:59:14 UTC
Why do I feel a lot of this seems overly complex...

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Steffanie Saissore
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#43 - 2013-06-06 20:08:35 UTC
Because we seem to prefer things to be complicated. We, both male and female, try to make potential mates guess and work at figuring out what interests us instead of simply stating things plainly. I am just as guilty of this behavior myself.

I think it comes from a fear of opening up and being honest with a stranger. Instead, we play our little games and reward those who manage to get lucky and find that thing that we like with our affection. This does not always make a very good pairing in the long run as the facade that is put in place during the wooing fades away to another persona.

Still, there is something charming and touching about the whole romancing your potential lover.

We travel in the dark of the new moon,

A starry highway traced on the map of the sky
Anslo
Scope Works
#44 - 2013-06-06 20:10:48 UTC
Steffanie Saissore wrote:
Because we seem to prefer things to be complicated. We, both male and female, try to make potential mates guess and work at figuring out what interests us instead of simply stating things plainly. I am just as guilty of this behavior myself.

I think it comes from a fear of opening up and being honest with a stranger. Instead, we play our little games and reward those who manage to get lucky and find that thing that we like with our affection. This does not always make a very good pairing in the long run as the facade that is put in place during the wooing fades away to another persona.

Still, there is something charming and touching about the whole romancing your potential lover.


Honestly...it annoys me. Some people take it too far. The chasing, the stringing along, the teasing, then the release. Bleh...

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Shintoko Akahoshi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#45 - 2013-06-06 20:16:22 UTC
Anslo wrote:
Why do I feel a lot of this seems overly complex...


Almost artificially so, don't you think?

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Anslo
Scope Works
#46 - 2013-06-06 20:17:40 UTC
Shintoko Akahoshi wrote:
Anslo wrote:
Why do I feel a lot of this seems overly complex...


Almost artificially so, don't you think?

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Makkal Hanaya
Revenent Defence Corperation
#47 - 2013-06-06 20:17:59 UTC
Anslo wrote:
Why do I feel a lot of this seems overly complex...

Language is complex. Spaceships are complex. Culture is complex.

Humans are complex creatures who excel at making complex things. That's a good thing.

If you want uncomplicated and simple, pay someone to provide for your desires. If you want a relationship, learn to appreciate human complexity.

Render unto Khanid the things which are Khanid's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Anslo
Scope Works
#48 - 2013-06-06 20:19:40 UTC
Makkal Hanaya wrote:
Anslo wrote:
Why do I feel a lot of this seems overly complex...

Language is complex. Spaceships are complex. Culture is complex.

Humans are complex creatures who excel at making complex things. That's a good thing.

If you want uncomplicated and simple, pay someone to provide for your desires. If you want a relationship, learn to appreciate human complexity.


Sorry if I think a relationship or actual love shouldn't need to be complex as opposed to natural. Clearly I just want a hooker to lay with like a typical Gallentean. Clearly.

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Andreus Ixiris
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#49 - 2013-06-06 20:23:53 UTC
Anslo wrote:
Why do I feel a lot of this seems overly complex...

Welcome to romance.

Andreus Ixiris > A Civire without a chin is barely a Civire at all.

Pieter Tuulinen > He'd be Civirely disadvantaged, Andreus.

Andreus Ixiris > ...

Andreus Ixiris > This is why we're at war.
Anslo
Scope Works
#50 - 2013-06-06 20:37:26 UTC
Andreus Ixiris wrote:
Anslo wrote:
Why do I feel a lot of this seems overly complex...

Welcome to romance.


Indeed...

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Shintoko Akahoshi
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2013-06-06 20:56:58 UTC
Anslo wrote:
Makkal Hanaya wrote:
Anslo wrote:
Why do I feel a lot of this seems overly complex...

Language is complex. Spaceships are complex. Culture is complex.

Humans are complex creatures who excel at making complex things. That's a good thing.

If you want uncomplicated and simple, pay someone to provide for your desires. If you want a relationship, learn to appreciate human complexity.


Sorry if I think a relationship or actual love shouldn't need to be complex as opposed to natural. Clearly I just want a hooker to lay with like a typical Gallentean. Clearly.


Taking this part of this decidedly non-serious thread completely seriously: I think you and Makkal just have different things you're attracted to. My own tastes run more towards Makkal's side: I love clever, flirtatious conversation. It's stimulating, in every meaning of the word. Other people (and it sounds like you're one of these) are more of the "eyes locking across a crowded room" type. I don't think either is better (or more "natural") than the other, but there you go. Human chemistry is a strange and wonderful thing.

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Anslo
Scope Works
#52 - 2013-06-06 21:01:56 UTC
Shintoko Akahoshi wrote:
Taking this part of this decidedly non-serious thread completely seriously: I think you and Makkal just have different things you're attracted to. My own tastes run more towards Makkal's side: I love clever, flirtatious conversation. It's stimulating, in every meaning of the word. Other people (and it sounds like you're one of these) are more of the "eyes locking across a crowded room" type. I don't think either is better (or more "natural") than the other, but there you go. Human chemistry is a strange and wonderful thing.


No that's not what I meant. I like conversations. All I do is sit on a beach, fish, and talk to anyone who comes to visit. I like it a lot. What I DON'T like is the games some people play, men and women. Teasing, stringing along, toying, side piece setting, friend zoning for the laughs of it, THAT'S what I don't like.

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Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#53 - 2013-06-06 21:23:10 UTC
Anslo wrote:
Shintoko Akahoshi wrote:
Taking this part of this decidedly non-serious thread completely seriously: I think you and Makkal just have different things you're attracted to. My own tastes run more towards Makkal's side: I love clever, flirtatious conversation. It's stimulating, in every meaning of the word. Other people (and it sounds like you're one of these) are more of the "eyes locking across a crowded room" type. I don't think either is better (or more "natural") than the other, but there you go. Human chemistry is a strange and wonderful thing.


No that's not what I meant. I like conversations. All I do is sit on a beach, fish, and talk to anyone who comes to visit. I like it a lot. What I DON'T like is the games some people play, men and women. Teasing, stringing along, toying, side piece setting, friend zoning for the laughs of it, THAT'S what I don't like.


She was trying to say some do.

Katrina Oniseki
Derek Quaid
Doomheim
#54 - 2013-06-06 22:04:48 UTC
Romance is for people who can't afford to buy what they want. Even companionship is available for a price.

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Makkal Hanaya
Revenent Defence Corperation
#55 - 2013-06-06 22:59:43 UTC
Anslo wrote:
Sorry if I think a relationship or actual love shouldn't need to be complex as opposed to natural. Clearly I just want a hooker to lay with like a typical Gallentean. Clearly.

Nature is complex and complexity is natural.

I wasn't aware that only Gallente hired companions.


Anslo wrote:
All I do is sit on a beach, fish, and talk to anyone who comes to visit. I like it a lot.

Please remember that there are people who've interacted with you outside of this board.

You bemoaning the complexity of relationships is like my bemoaning all those uptight prudes.

Render unto Khanid the things which are Khanid's; and unto God the things that are God's.
Sid Afraldir
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#56 - 2013-06-06 23:54:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Sid Afraldir
Derek Quaid wrote:
Romance is for people who can't afford to buy what they want. Even companionship is available for a price.



God gave us two great pleasures in life. Killing a man who doesn't want you to kill him, and ******* a woman who wants to be ******.

It's no fun if she doesn't want it.
Laurienne 'Quafegirl' Cherbourg
Like Oh My Gosh I Totally Have A Corp Now
#57 - 2013-06-07 07:28:40 UTC
Sid Afraldir wrote:

God gave us two great pleasures in life. Killing a man who doesn't want you to kill him, and ******* a woman who wants to be ******.


So, wait, the other great pleasure is sleeping with a woman?

As a man yourself, not exactly winning confidence here!

If you're having problems pleasuring a woman, might I point out that many products of Quafe have been known to have an aphrodisiac effect?

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Andrea Okazon
Laurentson INC
#58 - 2013-06-07 12:06:15 UTC
Sid Afraldir wrote:
Derek Quaid wrote:
Romance is for people who can't afford to buy what they want. Even companionship is available for a price.



God gave us two great pleasures in life. Killing a man who doesn't want you to kill him, and ******* a woman who wants to be ******.

It's no fun if she doesn't want it.


I feel like this is trying to respond to something that's sort of creepy, and greatly upping the ante on being creepy.
Laurienne 'Quafegirl' Cherbourg
Like Oh My Gosh I Totally Have A Corp Now
#59 - 2013-06-07 12:34:37 UTC
Nobody does romance anymore anyway.

At the Uni most guys' ideas of romance are anything that involve the girl still being conscious before they start - ... you know.

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Anatole Madullier
Alexylva Paradox
#60 - 2013-06-07 12:59:15 UTC
Laurienne 'Quafegirl' Cherbourg wrote:
Nobody does romance anymore anyway.

At the Uni most guys' ideas of romance are anything that involve the girl still being conscious before they start - ... you know.


Ah I am sorry to hear that has been the case for you. I assure you, we're not all savages. Sadly most men don't care about feelings any more, apparently it isn't "tough enough".

Sad state of affairs, pun intended.

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