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[stray]

That's called lying, and it means you're just going to end-up divorced and/ or separated in the end.

You're a geek, be a geek. Yes, the women aren't classically hot (as a rule) but they're so much more interesting and don't make you do stupid shit like buy a small dog that you have to put sweaters on so it'll live.  Besides, beauty fades and then you're left with a shallow, high-maintenance bitch who can't stand your hobbies and whose nagging drives you to an early grave.

What color is comedy rhetoric again?

True dat.

@Salamok - That's good enough too.

[Nebu]

You're a geek, be a geek. Yes, the women aren't classically hot (as a rule) but they're so much more interesting and don't make you do stupid shit like buy a small dog that you have to put sweaters on so it'll live.  Besides, beauty fades and then you're left with a shallow, high-maintenance bitch who can't stand your hobbies and whose nagging drives you to an early grave.

You are wise beyond your years. 

I'm with a woman that loves me for me and it's the most amazing experience I've ever had.  Oddly, I still find myself attracted to the pretty, but bitchy high-maintenence types.  I think men are just fundamentally broken.

[stray]

I guess there is one other route: Be such an overbearing level of cool geekiness, on the level of Peter Venkman or Real Genius, that you transform the hot high maintenance type into a geek herself. 

[Engels]

That's just not going to happen. Its one of those things; guy or gal, if you ain't a geek by 20, its over for you. You are doomed to mainstream banality.

[IainC]

You are wise beyond your years. 

I'm with a woman that loves me for me and it's the most amazing experience I've ever had.  Oddly, I still find myself attracted to the pretty, but bitchy high-maintenence types.  I think men are just fundamentally broken.

I guess it's the corollary to 'chicks dig jerks'.

[MrHat]

You're a geek, be a geek. Yes, the women aren't classically hot (as a rule) but they're so much more interesting and don't make you do stupid shit like buy a small dog that you have to put sweaters on so it'll live.  Besides, beauty fades and then you're left with a shallow, high-maintenance bitch who can't stand your hobbies and whose nagging drives you to an early grave.

You are wise beyond your years. 

I'm with a woman that loves me for me and it's the most amazing experience I've ever had.  Oddly, I still find myself attracted to the pretty, but bitchy high-maintenence types.  I think men are just fundamentally broken.

Takes age to figure out the "for me" part, otherwise we're all just pretending to be different people until we're not.

[DraconianOne]

I have to stay out of this conversation. Especially after four cans of beer and a bottle of wine.

[Strazos]

Wow, for once I have to agree with Stray....I'm a damn nerd and a geek...anything else I find to be extremely mentally exhausting. Going to to bars or clubs, getting drunk...that shit was tired before I was even 21.

Sorry, I'd rather play DnD twice a week like I do now, or go skiing, or yell at the TV while I am watching a hockey game and one particular players keeps doing stupid shit but isn't traded. I guess I am broken.

[Righ]

What color is comedy rhetoric again?

White.

[schild]

I think men are just fundamentally broken.

It's not men.

Wow, for once I have to agree with Stray....I'm a damn nerd and a geek...anything else I find to be extremely mentally exhausting. Going to to bars or clubs, getting drunk...that shit was tired before I was even 21.

Sorry, I'd rather play DnD twice a week like I do now, or go skiing, or yell at the TV while I am watching a hockey game and one particular players keeps doing stupid shit but isn't traded. I guess I am broken.

Livejournal cutter's group.

Edit: Point being, no one digs self-pity. But hey, just keep thinking you're broken.

[stray]

Personally, I'm not going to give up on bars  . Nothing non-geeky or geeky about that. Depends on the bar. But yeah, it's best to just do what you want.


I don't think there's much self-pity in this thread.. By fundamentally broken, I think Neb just means we have a switch when it comes to physically attractive women, and that it's tempting to compromise with them. That said though, all relationships are a matter of compromises, I guess. Just as long as I don't compromise on my very identity, I can do it a bit.

[Nebu]

I don't think there's much self-pity in this thread.. By fundamentally broken, I think Neb just means we have a switch when it comes to physically attractive women, and that it's tempting to compromise with them. That said though, all relationships are a matter of compromises, I guess. Just as long as I don't compromise on my very identity, I can do it a bit.

It's like a comedian once said: The more attractive a woman is, the more shit men will put up with to be with them.  My comment was just the observation that many/most men will stay with a woman that is a horrible personality match just because she looks good on their arm.  I don't know why (other than the obvious biological/breeding purposes), but we do. 

As for bars, that's fine in your 20's.  After that it starts to look creepy.  Bars aren't the place for anyone over 30 unless they work there or there's live music playing. 

[Yegolev]

There are "old people" bars.  Trust me.  Even during my recent descent into idiocy I both fit in and was hit on hard by a cute woman.  Fortunately, my idiocy has a floor and it is apparently above adultery with strangers.  Look for places named like "Rocko's Tavern", "Anthony's Pub", and "Bar and Grill" without the "e' on the end.  Finding a good bar is kinda hard.

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[stray]

I've yet to drink vitamin water of any brand. Maybe I should try it.


Bars creepy past 30? Nah, I'll have to disagree on that. Even if it's a college type of atmosphere, I see older people that are welcomed and well liked. Most of the bartenders I know in these places, guys or gals, are around my age too. Now if you're a drunk old geezer or some shit, then I understand.

[MrHat]

I've yet to drink vitamin water of any brand. Maybe I should try it.


Bars creepy past 30? Nah, I'll have to disagree on that. Even if it's a college type of atmosphere, I see older people that are welcomed and well liked. Most of the bartenders I know in these places, guys or gals, are around my age too. Now if you're a drunk old geezer or some shit, then I understand.

Those aren't bars, they're pubs.

Nebu: Did you miss the memo? 32 is the new 25.  We're all way less mature this time around than last time around than last time around...

[Nebu]

Vitamin water?  What happened to good old tap water?  We have the best water in the world coming from our plumbing and people still feel a need to buy water in pretty plastic bottles. You kids and your crazy water. 

As for the bar thing: I stopped going to bars (other than martini bars) after I quit being a musician.  I figured the only way I'd ever meet a woman of quality was at work, at the library, or by doing volunteer work.  I guess it's good to know that if I ever want to get laid that there are places I can still go. 

[stray]

I've yet to drink vitamin water of any brand. Maybe I should try it.


Bars creepy past 30? Nah, I'll have to disagree on that. Even if it's a college type of atmosphere, I see older people that are welcomed and well liked. Most of the bartenders I know in these places, guys or gals, are around my age too. Now if you're a drunk old geezer or some shit, then I understand.

Those aren't bars, they're pubs.

Nebu: Did you miss the memo? 32 is the new 25.  We're all way less mature this time around than last time around than last time around...

Not at all. My old man goes to pubs. Dank, peanut shell filled holes in walls with mostly cheap beer drinkers sitting alone at those poker machines. While most of the bars around here I might go to seem to just bundle college age to 30 somethings all together, I guess. And even if it were true, I probably don't have to worry about looking old anytime soon.

Note: This has nothing to do with women. Bars are just meeting spots for friends.

[Signe]

Tap water around here tastes terrible.  Bottled water is cheap even if it's someone else's better tasting tap water.  It comes in it's own carrying case that doesn't fill up your dishwasher.  I drink a lot of water and I tried getting used to the taste of our tap water but just couldn't.  I think maybe bugs pee in it.

[Nebu]

Tap water around here tastes terrible.  Bottled water is cheap even if it's someone else's better tasting tap water.  It comes in it's own carrying case that doesn't fill up your dishwasher.  I drink a lot of water and I tried getting used to the taste of our tap water but just couldn't.  I think maybe bugs pee in it.

Get yourself a PUR or Britta filter.  A water softener will help as well if you don't mind lugging big bags of salt home from the grocery store. 

[Yegolev]

It comes in it's own carrying case that doesn't fill up your dishwasher.

Do you recycle all that?  Also get a filter.  You can get one that sits at the beginning of your plumbing so you don't have a faucet that looks like it wants to eat you.  I actually drink tap water all the time.

[Merusk]

I've yet to drink vitamin water of any brand. Maybe I should try it.

"water" shouldn't have 130 calories per bottle.

It's sugar water with addatives that you can get in better quantaties by eating right.  It's designed to be sold to stupid people who think that a $1.75 per bottle drink will make them thin, or give them energy or replace actual fucking vegetables.  It also tastes like shit.

[Signe]

I would absolutely have a good water filter if I owned this plumbing!

[stray]

The water here is good, I drink it all the time. Apparently, it's ranked "7th" in quality around the nation. Umm yay.

[Merusk]

I would absolutely have a good water filter if I owned this plumbing!

Get one of the filters that attach at the aireator, rather than one you have to futz with the plumbing for.  It's just unscrewing the aireator then screwing-in the filter.

[schild]

I thought water in DC tasted bad until I moved to Arizona. Austin is somewhere between the two. Richmond had decent water. Florida had better water.

[Salamok]

Vegas was like the worst water I've had in the US (and many other countries too), it is so bombarded with chemicals the filters can't handle it.  I swear showering in that shit for 5 years permanently damaged my skin.  Austin after a bit of filtering (like the 1 built into my fridge) is at least drinkable.

[Nebu]

Get one of the filters that attach at the aireator, rather than one you have to futz with the plumbing for.  It's just unscrewing the aireator then screwing-in the filter.

That's the PUR filter I mentioned above.  Brita requires purchasing a pitcher and a replaceable filter every 2-3 months.

[Cheddar]

Get one of the filters that attach at the aireator, rather than one you have to futz with the plumbing for.  It's just unscrewing the aireator then screwing-in the filter.

That's the PUR filter I mentioned above.  Brita requires purchasing a pitcher and a replaceable filter every 2-3 months.

This.  Our water had a wierd taste so I got one of these; its like night and day!  Easy to install and makes a HUGE difference in taste.

[Signe]

Get one of the filters that attach at the aireator, rather than one you have to futz with the plumbing for.  It's just unscrewing the aireator then screwing-in the filter.

That's the PUR filter I mentioned above.  Brita requires purchasing a pitcher and a replaceable filter every 2-3 months.

I'll try one of these then.  They're cheap, too.  Uh - WITHOUT the flavour, though.  I've never found a flavoured water I like.  I can squeeze a bit of lemon or lime in myself and throw the bits I don't use in the disposal with some baking soda to deodourise it.  I never bothered with pitchers because of how much water I drink and thought anything decent would take messing with rented plumbing.  Duh.  Maybe I AM a Luddite!  I should have got Righ to check things out but he seems fine with tap water when he drinks water at all so I never bothered him with it.  I never minded the taste of water in the UK, either.  I guess I was used to it.

[Murgos]

I use a Brita pitcher.  It works great but you do need to refill it fairly often.

[Yegolev]

I can squeeze a bit of lemon or lime in myself

wat

[Signe]

 

[MrHat]

I laughed.  Thanks.

[Righ]

Get one of the filters that attach at the aireator, rather than one you have to futz with the plumbing for.  It's just unscrewing the aireator then screwing-in the filter.

That's the PUR filter I mentioned above.  Brita requires purchasing a pitcher and a replaceable filter every 2-3 months.

This.  Our water had a wierd taste so I got one of these; its like night and day!  Easy to install and makes a HUGE difference in taste.

I'm going to buy one. Why do more than half the reviews of these PUR faucet filters say that they develop cracks and leaks after one or two filter cycles? Its only $30 for one, so I suppose I could just keep buying them instead of replacing the filters. It will still be cheaper and America has plenty of room for landfill.

[Merusk]

It may depend on the type.  My parents had one (it wasn't Pur, it was another brand) back in the 1980s and it was metal.  We used that thing for a good 15 years before one of us snapped the handle off by forcing it.  If all you can find is plastic, then I'll wager lots of ham-fisted American users snap the damn thing by applying too much torque.