Random Rants LXXII - What is wrong with us?

[warpus]

Don't be a wimp.
You're basically saying that they should muster the courage, while you cannot...or do not want to.

It is definitely not my idea to initiate contact with these people! This is 100% on them.

They are like "Hey I think it would be cool to talk to this guy who's on his phone right here checking for the bus every once in a while, I think I will just walk around in his field of vision for a bit"

Meanwhile I'm looking at my phone reading about football trying to focus on the story of a juicy transfer rumour when all of a sudden I realize this person exists and is initiating some sort of a mating ritual from another species

So now not only do I need to pay attention to the football story and my bus, but also this potential new social and/or romantic storyline that involves me. Just to be clear this is a really juicy transfer rumour and the bus is due to arrive in a couple minutes

If you want to talk to me, just talk to me. I'm a busy guy, if I'm out in public I'm usually out on a mission from A to B. Yeah, every once in a while I will see a cute girl I will approach her and talk to her, when I have the time and inclination to do so. It happens from time to time.

But if you're throwing all this on my face, don't presume for me to play by your stupid rules. Either talk to me or just stand off to the side and wait for the bus like everyone else. Yeah I can see half your arse hanging out of your shorts, that's great, good for you, now I've got a bus to catch so you missed your window of opportunity for human contact. I'm more than content to continue doing what I was doing, it's not like any of this was my idea in the first place

It could be not so much that she's a dullard, as that many people just don't really know how to meet people that they are interested in. You might be missing out, not because she's not worth knowing, but because she doesn't know how to approach you.

Yeah I know that, but the best way to get my romantic attention is to make me think you're attractive. And doing that does the opposite, so I'm almost never interested as a result.

I can totally appreciate that it's not easy to approach people. I almost never approach people myself, because it's just not a fun activity for me. I can do it well enough, but it's sort of like eating grapefruit. I can do it, but it's not something I seek out

The way my personality is wired what I would do is just eventually walk up to one of these girls, introduce myself, then get in real close, put my hand around her shoulder, and gently whisper "Excuse me miss, but your butt is hanging out", then just walk away into the night

But that would make me a jerk so I'll never do that again

 

[Takhisis]

They are like "Hey I think it would be cool to talk to this guy who's on his phone right here checking for the bus every once in a while, I think I will just walk around in his field of vision for a bit"

Meanwhile I'm looking at my phone reading about football trying to focus on the story of a juicy transfer rumour when all of a sudden I realize this person exists and is initiating some sort of a mating ritual from another species

Actually, it is a mating ritual appropriate to the human species as well. It's just that you're like me and ‘nice ass’ or the more polite ‘women this lovely aren't usual in bus stops, what brings you here?’ aren't viable conversation starters.

 

[warpus]

Actually, it is a mating ritual appropriate to the human species as well.

Hey that's true I guess. Maybe I should try to be more human. I just don't like pretending I'm attracted to somebody when they're already unattractive with the first action I see from them

 

[Lemon Merchant]

It's a mating ritual. It's how we flirt, and we flirt to get your attention if we're interested. Women are conditioned not to make the first move, although this archaic standard is changing, albeit slowly. If a girl is interested, she is using this technique to signal to you that she's interested in you, but social mores prevent her from making the first move. Who knows why? Maybe she was brought up that way. I know I was.

FWIW, men have similar modes of "display behaviour" to attract the opposite sex, and one of them is feigning disinterest. The flirting girl might be taking your disinterest for display behaviour and trying all that much harder to attract you, thus aggravating you more.

A simple hello might be all that is needed to get her to stop this behaviour and talk to you. She's waiting for you to break the ice. And look at it this way... You might be missing out on a really excellent human being by being dismissive. Does it really hurt to just smile at her?

I could go on, but I think you get where I'm going with this.

 

[Hygro]

Warpus I have a similar problem but J is right we gotta get to it and stop observing it like it isn’t going to happen.

 

[Takhisis]

I think the problem is that warpus doesn't want to observe those women… is there such a thing as double/mutual wingmen?

 

[Hygro]

I'm very forgiving of the laziness of the modern man in pursuing women but an ideal I hold outside my own actions (ya ik) is we gotta spread the love to those who want/need it. It's a bit harder for the 20 somethings but us 30 somethings can bite our tongues that the girl in question isn't the future wife being met in the expected venue as our youthful narratives request.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You must have a really cool phone. I've never seen anything on my phone that was more interesting than a live human being...potential mate or not.

 

[Takhisis]

He was reading up on football transfers. Football is one of the few things that can outbid women for men's interest.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I have gotten about a total of like 3 hours sleep since sunday....stupid humid heat.

 

[Hygro]

So that is whom my extra sleep came from.

 

[Takhisis]

+1 grammar love for Hygro
+1 recommendation for Erika to move into warpus' until the heatwave is over

 

[Cutlass]

Last night eating pizza I somehow managed to bite my tongue hard enough that I know have a flap of it hanging loose.

 

[Arakhor]

+1 grammar love for Hygro

He ended his sentence with a preposition!

 

[Zkribbler]

He ended his sentence with a preposition!

Oooooh, that is something up with which I shall not put!

 

[MagisterCultuum]

He ended his sentence with a preposition!

No, he ended it with an adposition. An adposition only becomes a preposition when placed before something.

 

[Arakhor]

I didn't do formal grammar at school, I'm afraid.

 

[Broken_Erika]

He ended his sentence with a preposition!

There's a better way of saying that.

Spoiler :

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Last night eating pizza I somehow managed to bite my tongue hard enough that I know have a flap of it hanging loose.

 

[warpus]

It's a mating ritual.

Then I must be broken because I find it unattractive (lol ?)

Or maybe I'm breaking off into a new species. We'll have our own mating rituals, with blackjack, and hookers