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Yet Another Label to Add to the Ever Increasing List of Sexual Orientations

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  • #32
    dirtyden
    Registered Users Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    Candie wrote: »
    It's up there with people telling you they're members of Mensa or how well read they are and how all their friends think they're the most intelligent person they've ever met. At least it warns people in advance what you're about and that's a good thing.

    You are dead right Candie, and I should know, I read a book a week.


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    dirtyden wrote: »
    You are dead right Candie, and I should know, I read a book a week.

    Is it fiction? It only counts if it's non-fiction!


  • #34
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users Posts: 11,170 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Never heard of it till now. But I can see why a*sholes would use it as it makes them sound like their educated.
    People do like to blow themselves out.


  • #35
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    What's courageous about it? I identify as a wardrobe.


  • #36
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    I identify as a wardrobe.
    So you've had a lion and a witch inside you at the same time?


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  • #37
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    What's courageous about it? I identify as a wardrobe.
    Also do you want to know what I identify as? Well I won't say because it's Narnia your business.


  • #38
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    What's courageous about it? I identify as a wardrobe.

    Aslan as you're happy who cares


  • #39
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I just think, like many words, it’s a handy shortcut.



    Absolutely. But I don’t think that has anything to do with the word itself but rather the precious and highly politicised times we live in.

    Handier than “Intelligence is attractive”?

    “I’m sapiosexual” - probably needs explaining.

    “Intelligence is attractive to me.” - doesn’t need explaining.


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Handier than “Intelligence is attractive”?

    “I’m sapiosexual” - probably needs explaining.

    “Intelligence is attractive to me.” - doesn’t need explaining.



    I think anyone putting it down on a dating profile is likely to put off a lot of the people they want to attract. Lots of interesting and engaging people might find it hard to respond to a suggestion, however slight, that they have to be especially intelligent or capable of lots of high-brow discussion.

    Luckily my nicer half has low standards and poor eyesight. :D


  • #41
    Glass fused light
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Glass fused light


    Candie wrote: »
    I think anyone putting it down on a dating profile is likely to put off a lot of the people they want to attract. Lots of interesting and engaging people might find it hard to respond to a suggestion, however slight, that they have to be especially intelligent or capable of lots of high-brow discussion.

    Luckily my nicer half has low standards and poor eyesight. :D

    I suspect your other half wanted a person to share their life with not, just be in the same book club with :D

    I think most normal people would look as it as a kink. :D ( Its not a sexual orientation) And lets face facts it would be as beneficial as putting "bodybuilder" or "me, me, me" down when trying to encourage interest with a dating profile. But there is always someone out there for everyone, so I am sure that it would meet the aspirations of a special type of snowflake


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  • #42
    Bejubby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Bejubby


    How about who gives a damn about who or what your called.


  • #43
    touts
    Registered Users Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭touts


    Most of them are a "Look at me! Look at me! LOOK AT MEEEEE! Sexual"


  • #44
    beejee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee




    Popeye knows the score


  • #45
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Handier than “Intelligence is attractive”?

    “I’m sapiosexual” - probably needs explaining.

    “Intelligence is attractive to me.” - doesn’t need explaining.

    Until the word enters common parlance, I agree.

    Don’t see what the fuss is over really, it’s just a word. I don’t use it myself but I have seen people on OKCupid! using it.

    I wouldn’t rule them out because of it. Some of us can’t afford to be that picky. ;)


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