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Why do the Irish make such a big deal out of approaching members of the opposite sex?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    genuinely about 50% of young guys out together on the pull...would be discussing scores. but you can be very hit and miss due to the beer goggles. you might score a 4, a 9 depending on how drunk you are.

    The Princess I'm married thinks that's one of the funniest posts she's ever read.

    She has a question , if she were a 9 and married a man who was a 4 would their child ,when it becomes an adult, be considered a 13 or would it be 6 and half ?.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭Boofle


    Other contributing factors are the lighting and her level or orangness.

    Nothing wrong with being slightly tangoed :P better than being pasty I think


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    oh hows disgusting darlett im truly offended lol. im off to watch that on putlocker.

    people need to lighten up if you listen to a group of women in the pub you will be surprised by the amount of ''oh hes got a nice ass'' talk going on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    mattjack wrote: »
    The Princess I'm married thinks that's one of the funniest posts she's ever read.

    She has a question , if she were a 9 and married a man who was a 4 would their child ,when it becomes an adult, be considered a 13 or would it be 6 and half ?.

    At least give a realistic scenario man! Ain't no way a 9 would marry a 4 anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    See that's why it helps to talk from an individual perspective and not try to extrapolate and generalise based on your own individual opinion.

    The chances are you'd lose that bet too btw. Angelina was gorgeous about ohh 15 years ago in Tomb Raider, but her constant yoyo dieting and of course time haven't been kind to her. I never saw the fascination with Julia Roberts either, certainly wouldn't give her a bite of my apple. You're doing it again though where just because you think a certain way, you think "most people" would think the same way.





    I'm not telling you there are different levels of attractiveness at all, I'm saying it's useless trying to come up with a metric to measure an intangible and individual quantity. What's more attractive to you might be less attractive to me.

    As for any assertion that I might be any way politically correct, I hadn't meant to give you that impression as I've worked hard on my reputation as the most incorrigibly perverted bastard on Boards, so to hear I might have any politically correct leanings is terribly disappointing tbh as I'm quite proud of my reputation and have no time for that overindulging self-sanctimonious politically correct nonsense whatsoever.





    Yes actually, I do, but then I'd be slightly biased because the guys would have to form an orderly queue behind me in vying for the attentions of the chubbier girl, horses for courses and all that, as in I could still say the slimmer girl was attractive, just not as attractive to me personally than her chubbier friend.





    I know you'll think I'm blowing smoke up your tailpipe, but honestly Joe in my opinion, and based on my experience, it's a hard one to call as they'd be pretty even in terms of the attention they get from guys. And, very much the same as some guys, they too sometimes tend to ignore the attention of those guys they're not interested in and then go on that no guys ever approach them! :D

    could it be at all possible that guys would go for the chubby girl as perhaps its an easier route to getting a ride? i dont mean to sound cynical. All depends on the guy i suppose..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    At least give a realistic scenario man! Ain't no way a 9 would marry a 4 anyway.

    And where do you think ugly people come from ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    mattjack wrote: »
    And where do you think ugly people come from ?

    Lietrim?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭eireannBEAR


    mattjack wrote: »
    And where do you think ugly people come from ?

    two 4's :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Kniaz Andrei Bolkonski asks Poruchik Rzhevsky: "Tell me, Poruchik, how did you come to be so good with the ladies? What is your secret?" - "It's quite simplement, mon Prince, quite simplement. I just come over and say: 'Madame, would you like to f`ck?'" - "But Poruchik, you'll get slapped in the face for that!" - "Oui, some of them slap, but some of them f`ck!"

    :D That approach would probably make things a lot clearer and quicker for both parties, you would need to have a brass neck for it though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,134 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    mattjack wrote: »
    And where do you think ugly people come from ?

    Two 3s having a kid. (3+3)/2=3 :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Lietrim?

    No , the gene pool might be just shallow there .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Good Jesus......would be interesting what women would say to this,i have **** to do and this feels very circular, I don't agree with you at all....but its been fun anyway Mr Czarcasm ,see you later on for more nonsense maybe *tips hat*


    Ohh trust me Joe, it's caused it's own set of issues in the past, two examples, actually three, four, now I think about it (there's been a lot! :D), of the "model" as we'll call her, having been very put out by the fact that I was more attracted to their chubbier friend, but I'll just give you two -

    One occasion was when I was first approached by the "model" friend in the club, we were chatting away, then we were joined by her chubby friend. Her chubby friend was fairly shy (or so I thought! :D), and as the week went on and I was regularly out in their house (they were also housemates), I figured the model girl just wasn't for me. Lovely girl and all, just not for me.

    A week later anyway I was out in the club again and the two girls were out, and model girl was chatting to some guy, so I started chatting to chubby girl, and there was this undeniable chemistry between us, ended up finding what we figured was a quiet corner of the club where we were busy eating the faces off each other, when I got a tap on the shoulder and there was model girl standing there -


    "You're some prick!"

    "Eh? You were chatting to that guy so I was hardly gonna interrupt?"

    "I was trying to make you jealous you daft..." and she stormed off. Her friend felt terrible, so I had to insist that she go after her, because I knew being flatmates and friends there's no guy worth coming between that!

    Met them since and both girls are still single, but I haven't shat on my own doorstep like that since, so there's none of that awkward ****e between us! :D


    The other example I'll give you, a shorter one-

    Model girl, chubby friend, the chubby friend was far more outgoing than the model who was far more shy. After being seeing her for a while, she told me that her friend was raging with her the night we met because the model friend had designs on me and her chubby friend was only supposed to ask me did I want to kiss her model friend for her birthday and I made a balls of it! :pac:


    Still friends with both of them too, and I could go on all day with more examples, but like you Joe, I too have things to be doing! :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    If you go out Looking for a woman you'll never find one.Women are just men who smell nice,once fellas grow up and learn that women aren't this amazing race of people from a far off land,here to make rules and regulations about the custom of courting the better chance they'll have.Act normal and have a laugh like you would with any other person you meet.

    Basically,look after yourself and women will appreciate it.Don't be needy either.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    Weathering wrote: »
    Another classic case of a hyped up stuck up over opinionated dumb woman. If anyone needs a seeing to it's you say hi to your drawer full of plastic. I've been going out with my gf for over 3years and I've never attempted to cheat once but the majority of girls I would talk to on a night always assume you're after them and it gets quite tedious. Get off your dumb high horse in future


    Hit a sore spot, did I? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Conas


    "Why do the Irish make such a big deal out of approaching members of the opposite sex?

    We don't when were drunk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,597 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Boofle wrote: »
    Did you ever consider that it's not that Irish girls are stuck up and self-important but rather the the issue lies within yourself and your dreadful misogynistic attitude?

    Put your knickers on and make us a cup of tea.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Singularity 1


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Surely by that same token then with regard to your question in the OP, I could say the very same thing - you too, are only seeing what you want to see.

    Well if that's the case then your opinion wouldn't be anymore valid than mine or anyone elses. Our experiences are anecdotal, so they're neither wright nor wrong.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Weathering


    Hit a sore spot, did I? ;)

    No but I'm sure your drawer of plastic will hit yours. Its the only thing that will. You're a vile women. I wish u all the worst luck in the world have a nice night with mr.plastic babes xxx

    Mod: Banned


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    Weathering wrote: »
    No but I'm sure your drawer of plastic will hit yours. Its the only thing that will. You're a vile women. I wish u all the worst luck in the world have a nice night with mr.plastic babes xxx

    Ignore that pathetic $hit man. At least be thankful your not with the likes of 'legs.eleven' and rejoice in that actual reality :)

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Table Top Joe


    Anywho....bit of f***ing levity here


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Weathering


    buried wrote: »
    Ignore that pathetic $hit man. At least be thankful your not with the likes of 'legs.eleven' and rejoice in that actual reality :)

    Yeah you're right. She's probably a sleezy old cougar anyway


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    The vibe I get from the depressing, woman-hating posts to these threads (and I agree with KyussBishop who said it's a pity any genuine concerns from guys who haven't much luck with women get drowned out by the borderline misogyny) is that a woman who won't have sex with a man whom she isn't attracted to (never the other way around btw - it's fine for a few guys here to talk about women being munters and whatever out of 10) is being unreasonable and uppity and demanding. It's baffling and actually scares me - it basically says "Those bitches should fulfil my physical needs" and we all know what that kind of attitude led to in ye olden days...

    Being pissed off about women being rude is fair enough of course - I completely get that, and I know it happens. But that's not what appears to be the main concern here; it's a lack of interest at all, no matter how politely expressed, that causes such frightening resentment among a few. The fact they think women should force themselves to have sex with men they don't fancy is, as I said, scary.
    Seanafitz wrote: »
    don't chat us up at all!! How many people do you know who met in a bar and became a couple ?? My own experience ... I know two couples who met in the same bar and then coincidentally broke up in said same bar about six months seven months later a couple of weeks apart ... And all there relationship consisted of was sitting in watching tv caus the girls wer usually to paronoid there man only wanted to go out so they could crawl around the pub looking at woman like he was the night he met her and 'swooned' her ... Think about it ... Your a woman ... Your hormones are naturally all over the place so your unstable as is .... And you meet a man in a bar ... He buys you a drink chats you up the works ... An while you don't usually you go along and have a laugh with him .... You start seeing him and two weeks\six months later he suggests you go back to the bar you met on a night out... You think heyy why not ...

    You only catch it once ... But its that scan of the room he does as you walk in the door tells you their could possibly be some close to us now that has been with him before ... Or else ... He's usuing me to make other woman jelous for what ever god damned reason we could possibly make up in our heads ... And that's it ... The seed is planted ... The relationship is doomed :)

    See woman are crazy ... We wana meet a man in a place that reflects what that man is about and his personality ... Bars just don't do it. .. Try the library she might think your educated :)
    Sweet suffering Jesus. Eh... speak for yourself.
    Self-loathing women are gas.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    Well if that's the case then your opinion wouldn't be anymore valid than mine or anyone elses. Our experiences are anecdotal, so they're neither wright nor wrong.


    But I'm not the one generalising and saying things like they're gold nuggets of wisdom, you're trying to generalise a whole gender of a nation and comparing it to other nations that have distinct cultures of their own where women are more obviously treated as second class citizens in comparison to men.

    You were the one who started off your OP with the whole "It's 2013" as if the culture in Ireland is still stuck back in the 50's where girls lined one wall of the dance hall and guys the other side, and ne'er the twain shall meet.

    According to women I've talked to of that generation, that still didn't stop them meeting guys they were interested in, so Irish attitude and culture hasn't changed as much as you might have hoped for "in 2013", but rather the means and the methods used to meet up and interact with the opposite sex, is all that's changed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    I'd rather ride George Clooney than Angelina, and I'm straight!

    you're not totally straight tbh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Ohh trust me Joe, it's caused it's own set of issues in the past, two examples, actually three, four, now I think about it (there's been a lot! :D), of the "model" as we'll call her, having been very put out by the fact that I was more attracted to their chubbier friend, but I'll just give you two -

    One occasion was when I was first approached by the "model" friend in the club, we were chatting away, then we were joined by her chubby friend. Her chubby friend was fairly shy (or so I thought! :D), and as the week went on and I was regularly out in their house (they were also housemates), I figured the model girl just wasn't for me. Lovely girl and all, just not for me.

    A week later anyway I was out in the club again and the two girls were out, and model girl was chatting to some guy, so I started chatting to chubby girl, and there was this undeniable chemistry between us, ended up finding what we figured was a quiet corner of the club where we were busy eating the faces off each other, when I got a tap on the shoulder and there was model girl standing there -


    "You're some prick!"

    "Eh? You were chatting to that guy so I was hardly gonna interrupt?"

    "I was trying to make you jealous you daft..." and she stormed off. Her friend felt terrible, so I had to insist that she go after her, because I knew being flatmates and friends there's no guy worth coming between that!

    Met them since and both girls are still single, but I haven't shat on my own doorstep like that since, so there's none of that awkward ****e between us! :D


    The other example I'll give you, a shorter one-

    Model girl, chubby friend, the chubby friend was far more outgoing than the model who was far more shy. After being seeing her for a while, she told me that her friend was raging with her the night we met because the model friend had designs on me and her chubby friend was only supposed to ask me did I want to kiss her model friend for her birthday and I made a balls of it! :pac:


    Still friends with both of them too, and I could go on all day with more examples, but like you Joe, I too have things to be doing! :D

    sounds like a thinly veiled 'attractive women dig me' lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Singularity 1


    Czarcasm wrote: »
    But I'm not the one generalising and saying things like they're gold nuggets of wisdom, you're trying to generalise a whole gender of a nation and comparing it to other nations that have distinct cultures of their own where women are more obviously treated as second class citizens in comparison to men.

    You were the one who started off your OP with the whole "It's 2013" as if the culture in Ireland is still stuck back in the 50's where girls lined one wall of the dance hall and guys the other side, and ne'er the twain shall meet.

    According to women I've talked to of that generation, that still didn't stop them meeting guys they were interested in, so Irish attitude and culture hasn't changed as much as you might have hoped for "in 2013", but rather the means and the methods used to meet up and interact with the opposite sex, is all that's changed.

    Look, there's plenty of people that agree with me and plenty that don't, so how about we just leave it there? As I said, our experiences are anecdotal.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    The vibe I get from the depressing, woman-hating posts to these threads (and I agree with KyussBishop who said it's a pity any genuine concerns from guys who haven't much luck with women get drowned out by the borderline misogyny) is that a woman who won't have sex with a man whom she isn't attracted to (never the other way around btw - it's fine for a few guys here to talk about women being munters and whatever out of 10) is being unreasonable and uppity and demanding. It's baffling and actually scares me - it basically says "Those bitches should fulfil my physical needs" and we all know what that kind of attitude led to in ye olden days...

    Being pissed off about women being rude is fair enough of course - I completely get that, and I know it happens. But that's not what appears to be the main concern here; it's a lack of interest at all, no matter how politely expressed, that causes such frightening resentment among a few. The fact they think women should force themselves to have sex with men they don't fancy is, as I said, scary.

    Sweet suffering Jesus. Eh... speak for yourself.
    Self-loathing women are gas.


    where was that said (thread is too long to read)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    Weathering wrote: »
    No but I'm sure your drawer of plastic will hit yours. Its the only thing that will. You're a vile women. I wish u all the worst luck in the world have a nice night with mr.plastic babes xxx
    Weathering wrote: »
    Yeah you're right. She's probably a sleezy old cougar anyway
    She was out of order saying you can't get a ride, but her annoyance is understandable considering the post you wrote which provoked that response from her. The post you wrote IS the kind of post that guys who can't pull and hate women because of it, would write.
    It's miserable seeing the hostility towards women in some posts here - and kinda worrying tbh. On this thread, the one about promiscuous women ("I'm a man and ride all around me but I think women - even though I ride loads of them - who do it are disgusting" is the general gist of that one), the one about people you disrespect... you can't blame women for getting defensive if you take a few seconds to put yourself in their shoes.
    And as for "Men get it just as bad" etc. NOT on After Hours though; not even close.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    The vibe I get from the depressing, woman-hating posts to these threads (and I agree with KyussBishop who said it's a pity any genuine concerns from guys who haven't much luck with women get drowned out by the borderline misogyny) is that a woman who won't have sex with a man whom she isn't attracted to (never the other way around btw - it's fine for a few guys here to talk about women being munters and whatever out of 10) is being unreasonable and uppity and demanding. It's baffling and actually scares me - it basically says "Those bitches should fulfil my physical needs" and we all know what that kind of attitude led to in ye olden days...

    Being pissed off about women being rude is fair enough of course - I completely get that, and I know it happens. But that's not what appears to be the main concern here; it's a lack of interest at all, no matter how politely expressed, that causes such frightening resentment among a few. The fact they think women should force themselves to have sex with men they don't fancy is, as I said, scary.

    Sweet suffering Jesus. Eh... speak for yourself.
    Self-loathing women are gas.

    this is what is called the male ego, some of us lads can take rejection with a pinch of salt and it doesnt hurt our feelings/make us bitter..i think living in ireland, in some cases,a lad only gets a window of a few hours on a saturday night to interchange with the opposite sex..after that its back to a week's work(if he is lucky to have a job) in a male dominated workplace. normally lads these days make a good effort to look good for a night out, and when rude women shoot them down so easily it can really induce bitterness/anger.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    lufties wrote: »
    sounds like a thinly veiled 'attractive women dig me' lol


    From the "Do good looking people have it easier in life? thread -

    Czarcasm wrote: »
    It's an odd one in my experience really. It started when I was about six and my granny turned to my mother and said -

    "Hasn't he a woeful beggar face on him?", before shoving a fiver into my hand. In the 30 years since, it's been incredibly rare that anyone's ever said "no" to me or turned me down for anything.

    I tend not to think too much about it tbh, because àrse kissers annoy me, "yes people", I prefer a challenge, because it's human nature that when something comes easy to us we tend to take it for granted, and when we have to work for something, we tend to appreciate it more.

    It only took me seven YEARS to get my wife up the aisle, and every day since has indeed been a challenge! :pac:
    Boofle wrote: »
    So your good looks are a bit of a burden really?!
    Czarcasm wrote: »
    Well that's what's odd about it -

    I wouldn't actually consider myself particularly attractive, certainly I've seen ten times better looking guys that a 5'10" shortàrse with sky dishes for ears and a gammy leg, lol, so I usually put it down to my granny having been on to something with her "beggar face" comment :pac:

    At best I'd say I was average looking, not quite Quasimodo, and not quite Dorian Gray :D


    My granny may have been on to something with her "woeful beggar face" comment, whatever floats your boat and all, I'm hardly going to start complaining now! :D


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