General Discussion : The best pickup lines you will never use because you're too sexy for "talking" and wouldn't it be great if you weren't so you could use them?
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJuly 3, 2012 - 12:30pm
Sorry. Sometimes I act out.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigJuly 3, 2012 - 1:12pm
Freedom of speech. They can bull shit all they want. It's protected. It doesn't mean they're not going to get a beat down or their asses handed to them for doing so
Right, but fraud is already illegal. And using fraudulent military awards and/or service to gain financial perks is pretty clearly fraud. The Supreme Court didn't argue that. They argued that the law, as it was written, was too vague to guarantee that freedom of speech in the form of "desecrating" the military uniform or awards, or using the uniform or other symbols would be protected.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestJuly 3, 2012 - 5:42pm
1) speaking of video games, have you guys seen The Nines? Fucking head trip. It's on Netflix.
- Absolute fucking head trip. I have to watch it again sometime. Good call, Sparrow! You can watch it on Youtube for free.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestJuly 3, 2012 - 5:45pm
My dad was in Nam. He tells me there's two types of people who talk about it. 1. Those that don't talk about it. They've actually been there. 2. Those that talk about it all the time. They weren't there. He's part of the former.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigJuly 3, 2012 - 9:22pm
I'm close with several Vietnam veterans, and veterans of our current wars, and I'd say that about nails it. I've heard stories, sure, but those are marine-to-marine after many drinks.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelJuly 3, 2012 - 9:31pm
Hi, I'm with the naturalist rapist committee conducting a survey if woman prefer GHB, Rohypnol, or would like to try our newest product, powdered sperm. But while you're thinking about it, let me get you a drink.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestJuly 3, 2012 - 9:39pm
@Sparrow: The most my dad's ever told me was: "I've seen shit you never want to see." Within the last 12 years he goes down to the wall each year. He gave me a card on New Years, after we'd been drinking, with the name of a guy and where his name is on the wall. He told me to look him up at least once before I die and say thank you. He has not told me why, and he has never told my mom either.
@Joesph: LOL! Is that like a typical protein shake? Mix with water, or for a thicker, frothier drink, mix with water.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelJuly 3, 2012 - 9:45pm
You know what, I'm not exactly sure, but while I'm thinking about it...have a drink. lol
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigJuly 3, 2012 - 9:59pm
@Moon--yeah, I've been at The Wall with guys who couldn't bring themselves to walk to it and touch it. I'll never forget when I was a kid, maybe 9 or 10. My dad and one of his buddies were out on the back patio working on something. My mom, step mom, and his buddy's wife were in the backroom. She excused herself to go to the bathroom and we didn't see her for a half an hour. She came back into the room near hysterics. She had sat on the toilet and listened to her husband talk to my dad for that whole time--it was the first time in all the years they had been together she had EVER heard him talk about Vietnam.
So...yeah, the vets talk. But they talk quietly and they choose who they talk to carefully. I don't why or how, but they do. My husband told me some awful stuff about his first deployment, and I think maybe the only reason he did is because he knew I had served as well, but most of the time I could tell he was worried that it would either make me feel differently about him, or make me worry the next time he went. I think a lot of vets stay quiet in public and those they are closest to, because there are so many complex emotions and it is so tough.
I know one thing though--you just don't ask. You just don't.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigJuly 3, 2012 - 10:00pm
But go to the Wall and say thank you. For sure.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestJuly 3, 2012 - 10:06pm
^ Absolutely. I'll get there one day.
I know one thing though--you just don't ask. You just don't.
- No. No you don't.
I've been meaning to get a book about Nam. Maybe it would help me better understand some of things my dad went through.
underpurplemoon
from PDX
July 4, 2012 - 12:59am
I've been meaning to get a book about Nam. Maybe it would help me better understand some of things my dad went through.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is a good start. Read it in college years ago.
We also discussed it in the writing seminar I was in last December. I couldn't remember the exact location of the pages read, but I found a summary of it online:
The narrator, Tim O’Brien, describes the things all the men of the company carry. They are things in the most physical sense—mosquito repellent and marijuana, pocket knives and chewing gum. The things they carry depend on several factors, including the men’s priorities and their constitutions. Because the machine gunner Henry Dobbins is exceptionally large, for example, he carries extra rations; because he is superstitious, he carries his girlfriend’s pantyhose around his neck. Nervous Ted Lavender carries marijuana and tranquilizers to calm himself down, and the religious Kiowa carries an illustrated New Testament, a gift from his father.
Some things the men carry are universal, like a compress in case of fatal injuries and a two-pound poncho that can be used as a raincoat, groundsheet, or tent. Most of the men are common, low-rank-ing soldiers and carry a standard M-16 assault rifle and several magazines of ammunition. Several men carry grenade launchers. All men carry the figurative weight of memory and the literal weight of one another. They carry Vietnam itself, in the heavy weather and the dusty soil. The things they carry are also determined by their rank or specialty. As leader, for example, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries the maps, the compasses, and the responsibility for his men’s lives. The medic, Rat Kiley, carries morphine, malaria tablets, and supplies for serious wounds.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerJuly 4, 2012 - 5:18am
Diaz! Welcome back sir.
razorsharp
from Ohio is reading Atlas ShruggedJuly 4, 2012 - 7:11am
I've got two questions for you. Since I already know the answer to the first, I'll just go ahead and ask the second: Can the crew hit it, too?
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJuly 4, 2012 - 7:54am
^Ha!
Jane Wiseman
from living outside of Albuquerque/in Minneapolis is reading Look to Windward by Iain M. BanksJuly 5, 2012 - 11:16pm
"The Things They Carried" is great literature, really wonderful.
This book is very touching, though--harrowing, even, though it's not "literary": "We Were Soldiers Once. . . and Young: Ia Drang and the Battle That Changed the Viet Nam War." It's by Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway. I think Moore is the soldier who lived through the experience and Galloway is a journalist who helped him write the book.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestJuly 6, 2012 - 6:38am
Welcome to LR, Kyle. This how we roll.
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedJuly 6, 2012 - 11:58am
He lies Kyle. This is us on a better then average behavior.
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War July 6, 2012 - 4:38pm
Yeah do it and take it like a man, video it, if and only if, all of you are reasonably good looking.
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War July 6, 2012 - 4:44pm
Throw in a Cillian Murphy look alike and email me the evidence. Haha
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War July 6, 2012 - 4:51pm
Nope! Not gay. I've done research, you can trust me.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJuly 6, 2012 - 5:44pm
Well. There you go. Just because you bone a dude doesn't mean you're into boning dudes. You're off the hook. Stacy will vouch for you.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJuly 6, 2012 - 6:38pm
You've reached a level of openness here on the internet that is...I'm going to say admirable, although that might not be the word I mean.
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War July 6, 2012 - 6:47pm
Shhhhhh Avery I'm trying to get some gay, I mean not gay porn. Very admirable indeed.
Mike Mckay
is reading God's AshtrayJuly 7, 2012 - 12:06pm
Heard from friends:
F1: "You're a fag"
F2: "Hey, just because I love the taste of cock doesn't mean I'm gay."
Stacy you may be on to something here...
underpurplemoon
from PDX
July 7, 2012 - 12:34pm
One of my ex-lovers was into gay men having sex. I never knew a fetish like that until I met her. Because of other reasons, our relations didn't last long. It would be nice to have someone with the same fetish as me. But I shouldn't complain, I have a dominatrix writing to me. I should be happy right?
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJuly 7, 2012 - 12:54pm
And Roaring Jen has inspired for me a new pickup line:
So, you're a sub?
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedJuly 7, 2012 - 1:55pm
Utah that isn't new, just so potentially awkward as to be rare.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJuly 7, 2012 - 2:06pm
Ah! Allow me to clarify: "new to me".
If I were a single man, I'd use that line on every girl who allowed herself to be picked on. Probability is that some of them allow it because they enjoy it.
Stacy Kear
from Bucyrus, Ohio lives in New Jersey is reading The Art of War July 7, 2012 - 10:17pm
Why does everything I like have to be a fetish? Can't a girl like to watch to men fucking or want her boyfriend to dress in drag without being labeled. Don't judge me.
Kyle you're at least bi, guys don't let guys suck their dicks as favors. They let them because it's enjoyable to have your dick sucked. Or so I'm told. Haha Wanting to pimp out your girl points to aggression towards females. Maybe a passive aggressive defense mechanism to cover your latent homosexuality.
Just kidding Kyle you are a perfectly average frat boy.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigJuly 7, 2012 - 11:29pm
Lonely Island did a song about this with Justin Timberlake. If I recall correctly, the rule is: its not gay if it's a three way.
Dorian Grey
from Transexual, Transylvania is reading "East of Eden" by John SteinbeckJuly 7, 2012 - 11:38pm
Hey, does this smell like chloroform to you?
Species84
from Fluidic space is reading UNIX a standard operating system (1985) by Austen & Thomassen July 8, 2012 - 5:51pm
Going Dutch
Most of you here are known to it. In normal situations a man pays for a date/drinks/dinner. When going Dutch you split the costs in half. Everone pays for his or her share. Equality you know. In my country, netherlands, this is a rather normal thing you can decide for. It's accepted by the other sex. Some women even get interested because they feel accepted, treatened as a person, feel understood etc etc. I am Dutch so i go Dutch.
Let's get further on this. I used to think of myself as some feminist-male. As i pointed out before going Dutch is kinda normal here in my country. And being on a date you dont want things to be to normal, you want to give extra spice to it, to make it a special night. right? right!
So going all macho and pay for all the expenses is a big no because the women is felt like a toy and not a person and is so 19th century... Going dutch could be interesting but in my case not because I am Dutch. so thats kind of normal and even boring, so nono to the second option. In this scenario there is only one option left...kindly let the woman pay for all, she will feel accepted and respected.
In short:
Normal or macho approach: man pays
Dutch approach: bill is split, man and woman pay equally
Dutch&feminist approach: woman pays
Dwayne
from Cincinnati, Ohio (suburbs) is reading books that rotate to often to keep this updatedJuly 8, 2012 - 6:43pm
What?
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJuly 8, 2012 - 9:02pm
I went Dutch one time and got a nasty case of crabs.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJuly 9, 2012 - 4:46am
I learned the term "going Dutch" from an old Archie comic of my mom's from the 70's when I was probably around 7 or 8. The joke was, Archie was on a date with Veronica and the bill came and he looked at it with exaggerated disbelief and then claimed he thought they were going Dutch. She folder her arms and looked annoyed.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerJuly 9, 2012 - 6:51am
I want to know where going Dutch originated? Do the Dutch guy's really not pick up the tab on dates? I'm moving to the Netherlands.
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJuly 9, 2012 - 6:59am
But that would mean having to date Dutch people.
I keed, I keed.
Jack Campbell Jr.
from Lawrence, KS is reading American Rust by Phillipp MeyerJuly 9, 2012 - 7:43am
Yes, save me from the tall blonde chicks. :p
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJuly 9, 2012 - 7:53am
Gordon Highland
from Kansas City is reading Secondhand Souls by Christopher MooreJuly 9, 2012 - 9:25am
"If it floats, flies, or fucks, rent it." hahaha Oh, Dawson . . .
I wonder if there are a bunch of 12-year-olds running around these days named Dawson.
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigJuly 9, 2012 - 10:16am
Haha that was great. I've caught the TV show he is on now a couple of times and he plays "himself", it's pretty funny too.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeJuly 9, 2012 - 10:37am
I learned how to lie to girls and shirk responsibility from Archie.
I learned how to pretend to not be better than everyone else from Superman.
I learned how to compartmentalize my feelings, then sublimate them into outward insanity from Batman.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJuly 9, 2012 - 10:47am
You know, Archie was a total bastard.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeJuly 9, 2012 - 10:51am
Nah, he was just young and "figuring things out"
for fifty years.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJuly 9, 2012 - 10:55am
No! Don't make excuses for him! He was in a committed relationship with Betty the entire time, but all along he was fucking around and trying to make time with Veronica. And do you think Veronica had any idea he was insincere? I doubt it! When he was with her he was all about Veronica, but as soon as she was out the door...
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeJuly 9, 2012 - 10:57am
lol?
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryJuly 9, 2012 - 11:04am
Betty was cuter because she was blond.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersJuly 9, 2012 - 11:11am
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeJuly 9, 2012 - 11:13am
"Would you yell for help?" Archie the friendly rapist. I'm stealing it.
Sorry. Sometimes I act out.
Right, but fraud is already illegal. And using fraudulent military awards and/or service to gain financial perks is pretty clearly fraud. The Supreme Court didn't argue that. They argued that the law, as it was written, was too vague to guarantee that freedom of speech in the form of "desecrating" the military uniform or awards, or using the uniform or other symbols would be protected.
1) speaking of video games, have you guys seen The Nines? Fucking head trip. It's on Netflix.
- Absolute fucking head trip. I have to watch it again sometime. Good call, Sparrow! You can watch it on Youtube for free.
My dad was in Nam. He tells me there's two types of people who talk about it. 1. Those that don't talk about it. They've actually been there. 2. Those that talk about it all the time. They weren't there. He's part of the former.
I'm close with several Vietnam veterans, and veterans of our current wars, and I'd say that about nails it. I've heard stories, sure, but those are marine-to-marine after many drinks.
Hi, I'm with the naturalist rapist committee conducting a survey if woman prefer GHB, Rohypnol, or would like to try our newest product, powdered sperm. But while you're thinking about it, let me get you a drink.
@Sparrow: The most my dad's ever told me was: "I've seen shit you never want to see." Within the last 12 years he goes down to the wall each year. He gave me a card on New Years, after we'd been drinking, with the name of a guy and where his name is on the wall. He told me to look him up at least once before I die and say thank you. He has not told me why, and he has never told my mom either.
@Joesph: LOL! Is that like a typical protein shake? Mix with water, or for a thicker, frothier drink, mix with water.
You know what, I'm not exactly sure, but while I'm thinking about it...have a drink. lol
@Moon--yeah, I've been at The Wall with guys who couldn't bring themselves to walk to it and touch it. I'll never forget when I was a kid, maybe 9 or 10. My dad and one of his buddies were out on the back patio working on something. My mom, step mom, and his buddy's wife were in the backroom. She excused herself to go to the bathroom and we didn't see her for a half an hour. She came back into the room near hysterics. She had sat on the toilet and listened to her husband talk to my dad for that whole time--it was the first time in all the years they had been together she had EVER heard him talk about Vietnam.
So...yeah, the vets talk. But they talk quietly and they choose who they talk to carefully. I don't why or how, but they do. My husband told me some awful stuff about his first deployment, and I think maybe the only reason he did is because he knew I had served as well, but most of the time I could tell he was worried that it would either make me feel differently about him, or make me worry the next time he went. I think a lot of vets stay quiet in public and those they are closest to, because there are so many complex emotions and it is so tough.
I know one thing though--you just don't ask. You just don't.
But go to the Wall and say thank you. For sure.
^ Absolutely. I'll get there one day.
I've been meaning to get a book about Nam. Maybe it would help me better understand some of things my dad went through.
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is a good start. Read it in college years ago.
We also discussed it in the writing seminar I was in last December. I couldn't remember the exact location of the pages read, but I found a summary of it online:
Diaz! Welcome back sir.
I've got two questions for you. Since I already know the answer to the first, I'll just go ahead and ask the second: Can the crew hit it, too?
^Ha!
"The Things They Carried" is great literature, really wonderful.
This book is very touching, though--harrowing, even, though it's not "literary": "We Were Soldiers Once. . . and Young: Ia Drang and the Battle That Changed the Viet Nam War." It's by Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway. I think Moore is the soldier who lived through the experience and Galloway is a journalist who helped him write the book.
Welcome to LR, Kyle. This how we roll.
He lies Kyle. This is us on a better then average behavior.
Yeah do it and take it like a man, video it, if and only if, all of you are reasonably good looking.
Throw in a Cillian Murphy look alike and email me the evidence. Haha
Nope! Not gay. I've done research, you can trust me.
Well. There you go. Just because you bone a dude doesn't mean you're into boning dudes. You're off the hook. Stacy will vouch for you.
You've reached a level of openness here on the internet that is...I'm going to say admirable, although that might not be the word I mean.
Shhhhhh Avery I'm trying to get some gay, I mean not gay porn. Very admirable indeed.
Heard from friends:
F1: "You're a fag"
F2: "Hey, just because I love the taste of cock doesn't mean I'm gay."
Stacy you may be on to something here...
One of my ex-lovers was into gay men having sex. I never knew a fetish like that until I met her. Because of other reasons, our relations didn't last long. It would be nice to have someone with the same fetish as me. But I shouldn't complain, I have a dominatrix writing to me. I should be happy right?
And Roaring Jen has inspired for me a new pickup line:
So, you're a sub?
Utah that isn't new, just so potentially awkward as to be rare.
Ah! Allow me to clarify: "new to me".
If I were a single man, I'd use that line on every girl who allowed herself to be picked on. Probability is that some of them allow it because they enjoy it.
Why does everything I like have to be a fetish? Can't a girl like to watch to men fucking or want her boyfriend to dress in drag without being labeled. Don't judge me.
Kyle you're at least bi, guys don't let guys suck their dicks as favors. They let them because it's enjoyable to have your dick sucked. Or so I'm told. Haha Wanting to pimp out your girl points to aggression towards females. Maybe a passive aggressive defense mechanism to cover your latent homosexuality.
Just kidding Kyle you are a perfectly average frat boy.
Lonely Island did a song about this with Justin Timberlake. If I recall correctly, the rule is: its not gay if it's a three way.
Hey, does this smell like chloroform to you?
Going Dutch
Most of you here are known to it. In normal situations a man pays for a date/drinks/dinner. When going Dutch you split the costs in half. Everone pays for his or her share. Equality you know. In my country, netherlands, this is a rather normal thing you can decide for. It's accepted by the other sex. Some women even get interested because they feel accepted, treatened as a person, feel understood etc etc. I am Dutch so i go Dutch.
Let's get further on this. I used to think of myself as some feminist-male. As i pointed out before going Dutch is kinda normal here in my country. And being on a date you dont want things to be to normal, you want to give extra spice to it, to make it a special night. right? right!
So going all macho and pay for all the expenses is a big no because the women is felt like a toy and not a person and is so 19th century... Going dutch could be interesting but in my case not because I am Dutch. so thats kind of normal and even boring, so nono to the second option. In this scenario there is only one option left...kindly let the woman pay for all, she will feel accepted and respected.
In short:
Normal or macho approach: man pays
Dutch approach: bill is split, man and woman pay equally
Dutch&feminist approach: woman pays
What?
I went Dutch one time and got a nasty case of crabs.
I learned the term "going Dutch" from an old Archie comic of my mom's from the 70's when I was probably around 7 or 8. The joke was, Archie was on a date with Veronica and the bill came and he looked at it with exaggerated disbelief and then claimed he thought they were going Dutch. She folder her arms and looked annoyed.
I want to know where going Dutch originated? Do the Dutch guy's really not pick up the tab on dates? I'm moving to the Netherlands.
But that would mean having to date Dutch people.
I keed, I keed.
Yes, save me from the tall blonde chicks. :p
I found this and I liked it. I put it here.
"If it floats, flies, or fucks, rent it." hahaha Oh, Dawson . . .
I wonder if there are a bunch of 12-year-olds running around these days named Dawson.
Haha that was great. I've caught the TV show he is on now a couple of times and he plays "himself", it's pretty funny too.
I learned how to lie to girls and shirk responsibility from Archie.
I learned how to pretend to not be better than everyone else from Superman.
I learned how to compartmentalize my feelings, then sublimate them into outward insanity from Batman.
You know, Archie was a total bastard.
Nah, he was just young and "figuring things out"
for fifty years.
No! Don't make excuses for him! He was in a committed relationship with Betty the entire time, but all along he was fucking around and trying to make time with Veronica. And do you think Veronica had any idea he was insincere? I doubt it! When he was with her he was all about Veronica, but as soon as she was out the door...
lol?
Betty was cuter because she was blond.
"Would you yell for help?" Archie the friendly rapist. I'm stealing it.
When they say yes, it means, "Yes, kiss me."