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Title: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 11, 2008, 12:01:58 PM: Many lie over books 'to impress'
Could the right reading matter make all the difference?

Nearly half of all men and one-third of women have lied about what they have read to try to impress friends or potential partners, a survey suggests.

Men were most likely to do this to appear intellectual or romantic, found the poll of 1,500 people by Populus for the National Year of Reading campaign.

The men polled said they would be most impressed by women who read news websites, Shakespeare or song lyrics.

Women said men should have read Nelson Mandela's biography or Shakespeare.

Among the 1,500 who took part in the research were 864 teenagers.

About four in 10 of the 1,500 said they had lied about what they had read to impress friends or potential partners - 46% of men and 33% of women.

Among teenagers, the figure rose to 74%, with most saying they would pretend to have read social networking pages or song lyrics.
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One in five adults said they would read their chosen material whilst waiting for their date to arrive in the hope of making a good first impression.

Honor Wilson-Fletcher, director of the National Year of Reading campaign, said: "Reading is a brilliant tool for self-expression.

"I love the fact that every generation seems to know that it can help us all increase our potential appeal in the search for love and romance.

"For all the talk of our superficial obsession with beauty, it looks like underneath it all we know that brains contribute to sex appeal too."

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Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: demi on December 11, 2008, 12:02:44 PM: Dumb thread. You lose! Back to stuffing cocks in tubes!
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 11, 2008, 12:03:53 PM: up your stink tube. :punch
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 11, 2008, 12:09:00 PM: I was really impressed by the shakespearian elements of Nelson Mandela's biography.
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 12:28:15 PM: Quote
The men polled said they would be most impressed by women who read news websites, Shakespeare or song lyrics.

seriously?

i read the lyrics to all the albums i own, but no one's breaking down the door to blow me for knowing Minor Threat lyrics.

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Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 11, 2008, 12:30:22 PM: I read song lyrics too. Girls flock to me. Then I try and sing along to the song. They flock away again :'(

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Eric: MEN where the ones who said they were impressed with song lyric reading BTW. You putting deadbolts on your backdoor now?
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Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 12:54:27 PM: i live in chelsea
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 11, 2008, 04:48:45 PM: brains never helped my limited sex appeal, but being an asshole sure did
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 04:51:30 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on December 11, 2008, 04:48:45 PM
brains never helped my limited sex appeal, but being an asshole sure did

truth

but if you're an asshole with brains then you can fuck with people in all kinds of new and exciting ways
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 11, 2008, 04:52:33 PM: also, any "book" related cross-gender convo was sure to play out like

her: "oh, you read 'infidel' too? i loved that book <3 <3 <3"

me: "yeah, it teetered between maudlin appeals to western sensibilities and a fractured, poorly-translated narrative. i'd take a dragonlance novel over that trash if i'm gonna pointlessly squander four hours i could spend masturbating or playing pc games."

her: "</3"

me: "...yup. what?!"
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 11, 2008, 04:52:47 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on December 11, 2008, 04:48:45 PM
brains never helped my limited sex appeal, but being an asshole sure did

I'm sure many a girl was impresses by your command of language whilst being an asshole.
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 11, 2008, 04:53:24 PM: Quote from: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 04:51:30 PM
Quote from: Professor Prole on December 11, 2008, 04:48:45 PM
brains never helped my limited sex appeal, but being an asshole sure did

truth

but if you're an asshole with brains then you can fuck with people in all kinds of new and exciting ways

i was cursed with empathy :'(

and do not doubt this: it is a curse when it comes to the game of fucking
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 11, 2008, 05:01:15 PM: i should add that the number one point of contention in my shocking 11+ year marriage -- an abomination of divine justice e'er there were one -- is my totally assholish reaction to my wife's tastes in music and literature. when i am forced to sleep on the couch, it is because i bashed coldplay or grr martin. she'd probably rather catch me six inches into the cat's ass than hafta endure another snide remark about viva la vida.
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: demi on December 11, 2008, 05:02:39 PM: tell her you cant fit in a cardboard tube.
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 11, 2008, 05:04:28 PM: lol
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 11, 2008, 05:07:03 PM: she'd probably be suicidally ashamed if she caught me fucking arvie. fucking the cat is disgusting, degrading, cruel, and an act of total depravity, but it's still more socially acceptable than sexing poncho mclonely. i think most women would agree.
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 11, 2008, 05:08:06 PM: It's true. Most girls prefer pussy to me :'(
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 11, 2008, 05:10:44 PM: it's okay. tvc will still let you sexwork at his apartment, although your recent spate of forum cockiness might cause him to, ah, reduce your benefits package, as it were.
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 05:13:27 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on December 11, 2008, 05:01:15 PM
i should add that the number one point of contention in my shocking 11+ year marriage -- an abomination of divine justice e'er there were one -- is my totally assholish reaction to my wife's tastes in music and literature. when i am forced to sleep on the couch, it is because i bashed coldplay or grr martin. she'd probably rather catch me six inches into the cat's ass than hafta endure another snide remark about viva la vida.

man i hate that.

"you like what? get the fuck out of my apartment"
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 11, 2008, 05:15:19 PM: i was never much of an asshole, but i was funny, and i knew where to get alcohol, so $$$
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on December 11, 2008, 05:43:20 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on December 11, 2008, 05:01:15 PM
i should add that the number one point of contention in my shocking 11+ year marriage -- an abomination of divine justice e'er there were one -- is my totally assholish reaction to my wife's tastes in music and literature. when i am forced to sleep on the couch, it is because i bashed coldplay or grr martin. she'd probably rather catch me six inches into the cat's ass than hafta endure another snide remark about viva la vida.

I got this girl on OK Cupid seriously mad at me because she listed I Am Charlotte Simmons as a book that greatly influenced her and I said that I hoped she'd grown out of that phase cause the book was a piece of maudlin shit. Oops, that didn't go over well!
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: BlackMage on December 11, 2008, 08:03:54 PM: Quote from: Kranz Fafka on December 11, 2008, 12:09:00 PM
I was really impressed by the shakespearian elements of Nelson Mandela's biography.

ahh shove it up your ass cigarillo
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 11, 2008, 08:06:19 PM: Quote from: BlackMage on December 11, 2008, 08:03:54 PM
Quote from: Kranz Fafka on December 11, 2008, 12:09:00 PM
I was really impressed by the shakespearian elements of Nelson Mandela's biography.

ahh shove it up your ass cigarillo

SOMEONE didn't read Nelson Mandela's biography.
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: BlackMage on December 11, 2008, 08:09:10 PM: i did and now i've turned gay. thanks a lot. what am i to tell my parents? :'(
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Propagandhim on December 11, 2008, 08:15:29 PM: Quote from: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 12:28:15 PM
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The men polled said they would be most impressed by women who read news websites, Shakespeare or song lyrics.

seriously?

i read the lyrics to all the albums i own, but no one's breaking down the door to blow me for knowing Minor Threat lyrics.

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Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Don Flamenco on December 11, 2008, 08:17:27 PM: Quote from: BlackMage on December 11, 2008, 08:09:10 PM
i did and now i've turned gay. thanks a lot. what am i to tell my parents? :'(

You don't have parents!
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 08:24:11 PM: Quote from: Propagandhim on December 11, 2008, 08:15:29 PM
Quote from: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 12:28:15 PM
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The men polled said they would be most impressed by women who read news websites, Shakespeare or song lyrics.

seriously?

i read the lyrics to all the albums i own, but no one's breaking down the door to blow me for knowing Minor Threat lyrics.

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i'm a person just like you but i've got better things to do than sit around and fuck my head hang out with the living dead
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We're just out of step with the world.

i can't keep up
Title: Re: MAF who are you trying to impress with your Fables?
Post by: muckhole on December 11, 2008, 09:47:49 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on December 11, 2008, 05:01:15 PM
she'd probably rather catch me six inches into the cat's ass than hafta endure another snide remark about viva la vida.

Quote from: Professor Prole on December 11, 2008, 05:07:03 PM
she'd probably be suicidally ashamed if she caught me fucking arvie. fucking the cat is disgusting, degrading, cruel, and an act of total depravity, but it's still more socially acceptable than sexing poncho mclonely. i think most women would agree.

:rofl

It's likely the wine, but I'm dying here.