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The Apple-Picker
14:56 / 06.10.03
I hear you, Praying Mantis. Frankly, I don't care that my body isn't to everyone's tastes. That makes sense. But "ugly"? That's needlessly cruel.

Besides my preference for people who have most of their teeth or at least the appearance that they have most of their teeth, I don't think I'd want to date anyone who was particular about breast size one way or the other. Someone who liked smaller ones better would make me feel bad, and someone who liked bigger ones better would make me feel bad. I just want you to like me.

But then I can't say that I think that belongs in this thread. That preference isn't petty to me.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
14:58 / 06.10.03
I should qualify that. Having a preference doesn't necessarily make me feel bad. It's having one that rules you that does.
 
 
Olulabelle
15:03 / 06.10.03
I think we should start a new club, Large-Breasted Yet Defiant Lithers. I don't dislike them Praying Mantis, I've got them too - maybe that's why I prefer to look at little ones!
 
 
Bear
15:06 / 06.10.03
people who put their change in size order I thought I was the only person that did that....

I'm also kinda going bald too, why didn't anyone tell me?
 
 
Papess
15:18 / 06.10.03
but it does push my general low-self-esteem buttons to be reminded of my inadequecies in such a casual way~Flux


Yes, agreed. Thank you for your senstive touch around here, Flux. Really, I have large breasts and having had someone say they are "ugly" (well, no, not mine per se), it does make me a little self conscious.

Sorry I retaliated in the same petty way. That is me, sometimes petty....my apologies.
Really, scrotum can be quite fascinating.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:27 / 06.10.03
Hmmph. If you're starting a large breasted club than I'm starting a small breasted one. Or how about just an I've got breasts club... wait, that's the Women's Institute thread.
 
 
Papess
15:40 / 06.10.03
Please! No body part clubs!! I mean really, can you just imagine? Gawd, then someone will start a PICS thread for them and all heck 'll break loose...right here! On Barbe! It will just be some crazy orgy of body parts and bruised egos and pick-up lines!

No, no, no...don't let it happen! Do we need a tripleX Barbelith?

Wait, I am really confused now...I like orgies.
 
 
Baz Auckland
15:52 / 06.10.03
I never knew height was an issue with anyone until I started browsing the online personals. A LOT of the girls had a minimum height (usually 5ft 10 or 6ft) specified. Odd.

I think the only petty thing that can annoy me is someone who watches a lot of TV, and doesn't do much else.. or is overly affectionate in public...but a sexy brain can overcome all pettiness, really...
 
 
Papess
16:27 / 06.10.03
Aw, Baz...thanx for that. Makes interesting imagery...

She has very "sexy brains". She kept flashing me her frontal lobe all night!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
17:05 / 06.10.03
little crap cars with giant spoilers on the back

I have to say, this annoys me too. I know that Flux is very sensitive about the sticker on the back of his Mini Cooper that bears a picture of a certain character from New X-Men, and the words SECRETLY ******* ALL ALONG!!! (and the word is NOT asterixed, kids), but I think that's the car of an asshole. It's ruined any possibility of us ever hooking up, no matter what the trolls in the Music forum may think.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
17:17 / 06.10.03
Dude, if he actually had a car of that description, I'd totally hook up with him.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
17:21 / 06.10.03
Yeah, but I wouldn't hook up with you because you're too tall, your breath stinks of booze and shellfish, and you walk with a crutch.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
17:27 / 06.10.03
And cigarettes. Don't forget the cigarettes.

Dude, let me speak frankly - you're a shitty life coach. I've been waiting all day for you to post a few more replies over there so I can tear you a new one, but you're not even doing that. Who wants a procrastinator as a life coach? You suck.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
17:39 / 06.10.03
Todd, at least Flux, for all his atrocious tastes in cars, music, films, TV and comics, appreciates the sanctity of the institution of marriage, and the importance of the family as the fundamental building block of society. You don't even do that. What woman in their right mind is going to want to get with you?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
17:43 / 06.10.03
Another thing I can't stand: people who flirt with their significant other and make cutesy little in-jokes online. They sicken me.
 
 
Cheap. Easy. Cruel.
17:48 / 06.10.03
Thick ankles. I can meet a perfectly lovely girl, but if she has thick ankles, I am gone. That and oddly shaped thumbs.

On the breast debate: I prefer the smaller variety. However, I have never complained about any of them when they were pressed against my face.
 
 
Char Aina
17:52 / 06.10.03
i had a friend who did a study at university on the spoliers on the back of those cars...

turns out to make a significant difference to your manouvering, you would have to max out the engine and drive of a cliff. a really high cliff.
 
 
Char Aina
17:54 / 06.10.03
i think it might be the same with the breasts, too.
 
 
salix lucida
19:11 / 06.10.03
Really bad spelling. Willfully and consistently unrepentant really bad spelling drives me batty. Pay no attention to my completely arbitrary grammar, however...

...and, because it's been mentioned, boobs. Boobs have to be proportioned in a certain way to the girl in question (because Man Tits are always Right Out). Extra-squishy girls with big boobs are nice. Slender girls with little boobs are nice. Boobless sticks best be male. Etc.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
19:50 / 06.10.03
People who cluck.

We have an admin assistant who comes in one day a week. Lovely girl. Noisy and her ringtones suck but, more than anything, is the poultry impersonation she does when bored, or when concentrating. Vibrating the tip of her (pierced) tongue against her (admirably flexible) bottom lip. Oh no, no, no.

I think I used to do this when I was little but I was broken of it by the ridicule of caring friends.
 
 
The Apple-Picker
21:15 / 06.10.03
Steelwelder, I have yet to read a response of yours that does not in some mysterious way chill my heart into a cold and tiny pebble.
 
 
Seth
22:25 / 06.10.03
Really, scrotum can be quite fascinating.

This had me snorting with laughter over the keyboard. Nicely backtracked, May.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
22:33 / 06.10.03
Scrotum!

Hyuck hyuck!
 
 
Seth
22:38 / 06.10.03
Whereas Flux is just one big undesirable trait.
 
 
gingerbop
22:43 / 06.10.03
May: Really, I have large breasts and having had someone say they are "ugly" (well, no, not mine per se), it does make me a little self conscious.

I do apologise for this- i was more reffering to my own than other people's.

On flux's argument, i think if you click on a topic named "shallow love", then you've gotta cope with the consequences of it being rather shallow and petty as it is.
 
 
Seth
22:49 / 06.10.03
Am I alone in thinking that life is too short to take offense at these comments? I mean, there's plenty of people who could quite reasonably say that they don't find bald men with tons of body hair attractive, but they don't mean it personally against me. What are we, made out of glass?
 
 
bio k9
22:53 / 06.10.03
Well, sure, but there is a difference between saying "I don't find this attractive" and saying "This is gross."
 
 
gingerbop
22:54 / 06.10.03
YYAAY!
Thanku Seth.
 
 
Papess
23:03 / 06.10.03
gingerbop: Thank you for your apology and the insight about what to expect in this thread. Hmm...I guess I was a bit hasty with the cutting off of my right breast and signing up for archery classes.

seth: Thanx! Glad you had a chuckle.

Scrotum is terribly funny. Would someone tell me what's with the perpetual motion?...guys?


Petty Complaint #1274 - Ceaselessly telling one's date/lover/pal how beautiful they look. I mean SHUT_UP ALREADY! Once was enough! (For today, anyway)
 
 
gingerbop
23:24 / 06.10.03
Only the right one? If I were you...
 
 
No star here laces
00:36 / 07.10.03
Conversation, opinions, visible wrinkles, wobbly stuff, hair, fingernails, teeth. I like airbrushed porn where their mouths are closed and you can't see the extremities. Much better than people, thankew.
 
 
Unencumbered
06:32 / 07.10.03
Would someone tell me what's with the perpetual motion?

It's very curious, isn't it? I remember the first time I noticed it (on myself). I sat and stared at my own scrotum, fascinated by the crawling of the skin. I have no idea why it happens but I'm sure someone here will know.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
08:10 / 07.10.03
Jefelaces, I've missed you so.

I don't find any of this thread offensive, exactly - it certainly doesn't make me feel bad about myself, Lord no. It just makes me think lots of bad things about many of YOU: "okay, another fucking obnoxious idiot", "wow, some of these guys really *shouldn't* be allowed near women without supervision!" - that kind of thing.
 
 
William Sack
08:23 / 07.10.03
My turn-offs:- mean-spiritedness, condescension, scornful sarcasm, a willingness to make other people feel bad about themselves - that kind of thing.
 
 
Spaniel
08:50 / 07.10.03
Fly, perhaps you're being a little harsh. When the squelchy messiness of reality comes thlumping down on our heads we don't normally refer to a checklist.

I'm much more worried by people's actual behaviour when faced with a prospective mate - something that we ain't gonna get a handle on in this thread.
 
  

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