Evilbore challenge: Get a date for Valentine's Day (and be amesome!)

[Flannel Boy]

Let the invisible hand do its thing for the dating markets

The invisible hand has done me no favors in the dating market and has forced me to take matters into my own hands.

[recursivelyenumerable]

Well, in general, stereotypical "drama queen games" = sophisticated financial products.

[Flannel Boy]

but i think i've fallen into a liquidity trap  :'(

[recursivelyenumerable]

Then again, government intervention may have been what caused this crisis in the first place.  In a truly free market, folks like TVC who are granted opportunities they're not capable of truly appreciating could sell them off to others at a nice profit, for a net benefit to both parties.

[Flannel Boy]

Then again, government intervention may have been what caused this crisis in the first place.  In a truly free market, folks like TVC who are granted opportunities they're not capable of truly appreciating could sell them in a mutually beneficial exchange.

I don't think I'd be comfortable with what I'd have to give him in return.

[recursivelyenumerable]

No such thing as a free lunch.  Only a borrowed lunch, one you'll be returning one way or another.

[Flannel Boy]

No such thing as a free lunch.

I think White Man would let you eat his lunch meat for free.

[Himu]

I had the best Valentines Day of my life. Universal Studios. Coraline. Firkin & Kegler. And a passionate night together.

[Madrun Badrun]

I'm drinking Chartruse out of a coffee mug.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I had the best Valentines Day of my life. Universal Studios. Coraline. Firkin & Kegler. And a passionate night together.

But the night is young!

[Madrun Badrun]

Hey guys, would it be stupid to call her right after I got back?

yes.   What happened by the way?

[Himu]

I had the best Valentines Day of my life. Universal Studios. Coraline. Firkin & Kegler. And a passionate night together.

But the night is young!

I'm fucking tired.

[recursivelyenumerable]

You're setting the idea of getting with a girl on this unreachable pedestal, and, as the man says, making it out to be this impossible feat. It's actually a metaphor within a metaphor; I'm sure engineering has the equivalent somewhere.

ok, but where does the freaky disembodied genitalia imagery fit in?

[Madrun Badrun]

You're setting the idea of getting with a girl on this unreachable pedestal, and, as the man says, making it out to be this impossible feat. It's actually a metaphor within a metaphor; I'm sure engineering has the equivalent somewhere.

ok, but where does the freaky disembodied genitalia imagery fit in?

It's not literal pussy.  He's calling women pussy as a form of degradation to examplify the the different views of women ie The greatest thing ever VS a piece of funnel meat.   

[recursivelyenumerable]

But that makes the metaphor incoherent.  The whole point of metaphors like this is the concrete imagery, and for that to work, it needs to actually be consistent.  There's a CS metaphor for you: it doesn't typecheck.  not to mention just being plain dumb.

[Madrun Badrun]

what your saying is rhetoric doesn't meet the constraints of logic?   

[recursivelyenumerable]

By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. This is the significance of mixed metaphors. The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image. When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.

the problems with my looks don't really have anything to do with being in shape or whatever, I can probably fix that.  it's bad skin, bad undereye area, bloodshot eyes etc.  not really correctable (acne scar treatments don't really work as far as I can tell, and are too expensive anyway)  and I'm not especially bad looking, I'm just not attractive enough to attract women.  yes, other average-looking men do ok, but the point is that even when I was quite attractive and in shape, I didn't have any success so clearly, for whatever reason the threshold is higher for me.  Other people have some mitigating X factor I don't, I guess.

anyway my personality is a much bigger problem, and that is not correctable either.

[Madrun Badrun]

visual imagery is a narrow definition of metaphor. 

[recursivelyenumerable]

yeah, i think "The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image." is an overly sweeping statement, but clearly in this particular case, it is the aim.

[Madrun Badrun]

No the aim in this case is to convince someone that they have a disposition of seeing women as above them.  If one is trying to make this argument then anything that convinces the other person of this argument is valid, even if it breaks the literary standards of what a metaphor is. 

[recursivelyenumerable]

Yeah, women who just turned 30 hit on me fairly often* already, actually.

* twice

[Diunx]

No goodnight kiss? 

[Phoenix Dark]

Just turned down a  valentines party invite, mere minutes from my house - so I could continue playing WoW

FML

[demi]

Just turned down a  valentines party invite, mere minutes from my house - so I could continue playing WoW

FML

Fake

[Diunx]

Just turned down a  valentines party invite, mere minutes from my house - so I could continue playing WoW

FML

So you turn down a valentines party invitation (probably full of desperate single girls) to continue playing wow but then you stop playing wow to post on EB? FYL.

[Madrun Badrun]

I doubt he stopped playing to post. 

   PR

[Yeti]

No goodnight kiss? 

Nope. I was trying to play it safe.

When she wants to be just friends can I have a crack at her?

[dammitmattt]

Hey guys, would it be stupid to call her right after I got back?

yes.   What happened by the way?

Magic is what happened.

Left early to avoid traffic, still got there late. Movie started at 8:10 we got in about five or so minutes late, so I missed any good trailers. Movie was surprisingly good and everything went well minus a very poorly placed phone call by my friend(I was sure I turned my phones ringer off).

She said she was kinda hungry so we went over to the mall and got something to eat. Talked for awhile then she had to call it a night because she has church tomorrow. Told her I had a really great time and that I'd like to do this again sometime.  Walked he to her car, got in mine and then drove my ass back home.

...and here I am. Hopefully I don't get a phone call telling me that while I'm a great guy it just wouldn't work out, like my last encounter with the opposite sex.

THAT was not what I was expecting when you said you had the best night of your life.  If you want things to continue to progress, don't you dare call her tonight.

[Diunx]

Hey PR you better kiss her on the next date or you may run the risk of getting friendzoned.

[FatalT]

Damn PR, no kiss or hug or ANYTHING? You should have made an actual move sometime during the night. Dinner and a movie just doesn't cut it and it can lead to the girl thinking you're not into her. Believe me, I made the same mistake and I've been trying to correct it ever since.

PD I passed up a Valentine's Day party too but not to play a video game. I passed up the party because the girl who invited me is known to be a huge slut and I'd rather not get VD on VD.

[Madrun Badrun]

VD on VD lol

[Barry Egan]

pr's young, and he should be excited that he had a date go by without any hiccups on valentine's day.  Good work man. 

next time though you take a crack at that ass. 

[CajoleJuice]

Shit, even I kissed girls goodnight on the first date at his age.

And by girls, I mean girl. And by first date, I mean only date.

[Madrun Badrun]

Shit, even I kissed girls goodnight on the first date at his age.

And by girls, I mean girl. And by first date, I mean only date.

Tell me CJ, what do you mean by 'kissed'?

edit:  I'm tired and half drunk and I thought what I said was funny before thinking about it. 

[CajoleJuice]

a peck on the lips

[TakingBackSunday]

Kissing on the first date, in my experience, hasn't usually been the best course of action.  With some of the girls I've been on dates with, its a sign of the guy trying to take things a bit too fast for them.  Second or third if necessary.

[FatalT]

Kissing on the first date, in my experience, hasn't usually been the best course of action.  With some of the girls I've been on dates with, its a sign of the guy trying to take things a bit too fast for them.  Second or third if necessary.

You've gotta at least get a really intimate hug or some sort of hand holding in there though to let her know where you stand. Otherwise it's just like going to dinner and a movie with a really nice friend who pays your way.

[recursivelyenumerable]

i've never kissed on a date, only from drunken makeout sessions.

[CajoleJuice]

Kissing on the first date, in my experience, hasn't usually been the best course of action.  With some of the girls I've been on dates with, its a sign of the guy trying to take things a bit too fast for them.  Second or third if necessary.

You've gotta at least get a really intimate hug or some sort of hand holding in there though to let her know where you stand. Otherwise it's just like going to dinner and a movie with a really nice friend who pays your way.

You never said anything about hand holding, I held her hand during the movie.

awwww

[TakingBackSunday]

 

With this girl I'm determined on seeing more of, our first date was coffee and a walk around our park.  I held her hand there 

[CajoleJuice]

i held the girl's hand on that aforementioned date too









god what a fucking bitch

[TakingBackSunday]

ahaha

[Madrun Badrun]

lol

[FatalT]

You never said anything about hand holding, I held her hand during the movie.

Yaaaayyyy! Your date sounds better now!

[Phoenix Dark]

VD is over, can we stop with the depressing stuff mmk

[CajoleJuice]

VD is over, can we stop with the depressing stuff mmk

my post was funny, though

[FatalT]

VD is over, can we stop with the depressing stuff mmk

Sorry PD. Once you get VD, you're stuck with VD.

[Phoenix Dark]

VD is over, can we stop with the depressing stuff mmk

my post was funny, though

Sad, not funny

[CajoleJuice]

i saw people laughing

go play WoW

[Phoenix Dark]

Taking a break. Think I'm gonna watch the new episode of 24

[etiolate]

Taking a break. Think I'm gonna watch the new episode of 24

I shook my head when I saw you log onto WoW tonight. 



Saw Coraline tonight.  

[elektrikluv]

By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. This is the significance of mixed metaphors. The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image. When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.

the problems with my looks don't really have anything to do with being in shape or whatever, I can probably fix that.  it's bad skin, bad undereye area, bloodshot eyes etc.  not really correctable (acne scar treatments don't really work as far as I can tell, and are too expensive anyway)  and I'm not especially bad looking, I'm just not attractive enough to attract women.  yes, other average-looking men do ok, but the point is that even when I was quite attractive and in shape, I didn't have any success so clearly, for whatever reason the threshold is higher for me.  Other people have some mitigating X factor I don't, I guess.

anyway my personality is a much bigger problem, and that is not correctable either.

Dude, you don't have to be even remotely attractive to attract women. It is rarely a factor. It seems like to me you're just trying to justify your lack of history with women by blaming it on futile stuff, i.e. acne, dark circles or whatever. I highly doubt the threshold is higher for you, but what you are lacking is self-esteem, I mean your total outlook is completely dismal and for that alone I'm not surprised that you don't succeed with women.
But anyway this 'not attractive enough to attract women' is complete bullshit, I've seen your pictures and there is no way your appearance would be the reason for your luck, not in the slightest. Its just the most obvious way you can try and place blame, but I'm telling you now that its not. I don't really know enough about your personality, but if you're sporting this dismal cynical loss of hope attitude then it is most definitely that.

[The Fake Shemp]

Dude, you don't have to be even remotely attractive to attract women. It is rarely a factor.

Living proof.

But anyway this 'not attractive enough to attract women' is complete bullshit, I've seen your pictures and there is no way your appearance would be the reason for your luck, not in the slightest.

I think elektrikluv is hitting on you, dude.

[Flannel Boy]

I'm going to . . . drink an entire 750 ml bottle of vodka. I haven't done it yet. Kind of weaksauce.

Still managed to fail on Valentine's Day, even with an easy goal.  :'(

LOL @ Kosma

[The Fake Shemp]

Malek is a punk bitch.

Oh, I was dodging this girl's phone calls all day yesterday and the day before.  She told me nonchalantly on Monday or Tuesday night (after incessantly calling me for a week straight), shortly after talking about her iTunes playlist, that she was date raped.  She didn't even go to the police or anything.  I don't even know how to respond to that.  I felt like kind of a dick ignoring her calls as I put up Street Fighter IV posters in my room and playing XBL with some Left Coasters, but really, c'mon.

My gut tells me if you're date raped, there's some kind of sense of urgency - not a "oh and btw the way, i was date raped" conversation bomb shortly after boring me to near sleep about an iTunes playlist.

[tiesto]

I couldn't even get my single friends to go out to a bar last nite in an attempt to pick up desperate chicks, so I sat at home and played Genesis Collection. FML

[Madrun Badrun]

by 'them' do you mean a bunch of dudes?  then yes. 

[BamYouHaveAids]

I spent the entire valentine's day beating off, it was spectacular. Will do again.

[Diunx]

Blow them off.

[Madrun Badrun]

So you went with her?  Didn't go go then?