Yeah those guys have been around a while. They're nice enough guys, but LFS' isolationism from other sims means we don't cross paths all that often - but you'll see LFS cropping up from time to time.
Wales is part of Britain but it's not part of England (although English people often get confused by that). And that was exactly my point, that even within Britain there are many bi lingual people - therefore being one of the many to speak a second language makes you about as exceptional as somebody who gets their hair cut and has eaten at a McDonald's once or more times. Ergo, it doesn't drive the ladies crazy - it's just something people do - except English people that is, who remain mostly dumfounded at the concept of there being more than just the English and American languages in the world.
Yes. Bi lingualism is a good guage of a potential breading partner and/or soul mate.
No what it is - in Britain where the majority of the population is unilingual - is an immediate and demonstrable way of showing intellectual prowess, but you'll need to back that up with more than just a few stock phrases by actually being intelligent or you're only wooing the shallowest vixens on the job market. If it was all that's required then the Daily Mail would have been wooed by immigrants a long time ago.
In other countries, like Wales and the rest of the world, where bi lingualism is more common it's a way of acting like a pretentious twit by proving you can do something that 85% of the population can do. It's like saying "Oh look at me mum, I can walk".
There really aren't that many Scandinavian women who can't at least hold a basic conversation in English and/or another language.
Mind you if you want to flatter a girl with your intelligence you could do worse than speaking to her in another language - i've never seen square roots used in a sucessful chat up.
I'm not sure you'll be able to prove that speaking a useless language "does it" for all Scandinavian girls. I suspect most would be more interested either in what you do with that language, or what you do when you stop speaking it.
Because some of us do long drives on dual carriageways. Anything less than 2 litres is going to shatter the Earth's crust from the vibrations of the engine, suck it's oil reserves dry to feed it, and get there at 60mph with an aching back. Having too little power can be a very bad thing.
I take no pride in my car, it's a 2 litre turbo diesel Ford "I work for the man" silver Mondeo. It's average in every sense, it has no flair and does not win any performance races - but I couldn't imagine doing the driving I do with a smaller engine.
Don't get me wrong i'd rather do away with a car altogether if I could - and I did just that a few years back and got myself a bicycle, but I believe in using the right tool for the job.
Little town cars are just that, they're for bobbing about town in.
I don't understand Prius' at all. Save the planet by throwing away a perfectly good old car and then tear the planets resources up to build a shiney new one? I just can't figure out the mentality of anyone who would buy one. Sorry, it just doesn't make sense to me. If the Prius had a redeeming feature other than being marketting as a contientious objector to the car industry, whilst still actually being made by the car industry, then maybe it would make sense as a product - but right now I just dont get it.
Oh just as a side if you wanted to bring the misses when you visit next that's fine, you can take my room i'll have the sofa (or i'll sleep with the misses).
No time to read up on this right now, I just wanted to add that Tristan you're a friend - and you need a program to transpose data into something 3D, without internet connection, that doesnt hit the battery power on your laptop too heavily, and doesn't cost you anything... I'm offended you didn't call already...
If you're still stuck spec up what you need the program to do, send me a sample input file, and i'll knock it out this weekend or next.
I voted because I like your stuff, and FB liked it, yada yada yada etc etc.
Do you have a site I can get more of your stuff? I have half a dozen of your tracks in my iTunes but i'm guessing you've done more since I last found any for download.
I like the girls singing voice, I like the way she subtley croaks. Tonsils like that deserve to be cherrished
Somebody else in the thread suggested a Gibson SG to Tor - so I just thought i'd let him know that it would be pretty much the same as Sally which Tor has played on.
Sally is a Tokai SG35 which is a clone of the Gibson SG1. They're so similar the guy in the music shop actually wrote Gibson SG1 on the receipt when he sold it me, they look identical bar the name. Some people preffer the Gibson, some preffer the Tokai. Personally i'm far too innept to feel the difference anyway so couldn't care, i've only just got to the point where i've bought an amp.
But she is sexy. Oh yes. She can tear up my callousses any time :P Even if she did purr more when in Tor's hands... (I think Sally is straight).
That's the first time you've quoted a figure that is actually close to the truth.
I wouldn't say "men" are necessarily that bad, it's not that all men or even 50% of men go around comitting rape, there are a lot of bad people in the world and some of them are women too - it's just that some of the bad men are predators on women because women are generally less able to defend themselves.
That's why i'm tough as nails, because no ****er is taking me again - and yes I actually would not stop at killing to prevent it, i'm prepared to cross the line. In that sense you could say I never got over what happened to me but that's not the case. I'm over any issues I had with it but i'm also evolved as a person, and i've had plenty of other evolving experiences in my life too, it's just part of getting older.
What does more damage, in my view, isn't necessarily the rape itself. In the majority of cases a victim knows their attacker. You'll forgive me for not going into too many details of my own experience when it comes to details and specifics, but from the women I know when we've talked about this stuff - the biggest long term hangups are usually stemmed from that.
You can't put a time limit on recovery, especially when different aspects within each person are dealt with in a different way, in a different order, with different conclusions and so on.
My personal view is that rape is the worst crime in a civilised society, hense the having no qualms about what i'm prepared to do in an effort to try and defend myself.
That being said, i'd have had no problems with sleeping with the girl I was in infatuation with at the time within days of what happened to me. Sadly she wasn't interested in me and I had to wait a damned long time until I wasn't way too whacked out on drugs to be an attractive proposition to anyone.
So I guess in some ways you could say I wasn't ready to sleep with anyone for a few years, but only because I was a useless junkie. It's not that rape drove me to drugs as I took them before but afterwards I took them in quantities that would make your jaw drop. Consequently I wasn't getting any! But that was all more side effect.
I don't connect rape with sex and I didn't back then either: Think of it this way, if you had never had sex but had been raped would you be a virgin? I would argue yes.
Come to think of it i'm not getting much at the moment either, although I did get my ass groped a few times at Cambridge Pride today, which was nice
That's right not one Mexican does drugs. It's all our fault, kill us all.
You stupid bloody radical, get a grip.
Firstly if you really think you can kill and are totally ok with dealing with the emotional hangups then why not kill the people who, as far as I can see, are guilty of annoying you. Rather than people in other countries, sorry, gringos.
Kill the mafia.
What's the big deal? It's only a life to you right, you want to kill the druggies because they bring guys with guns, why not kill the guy holding the gun and leave the druggie alone?
It's stupidity like that which makes your country an ideal grow house prime for gang rule.
I rarely read anything, and I dont really need a manual on picking up girls. I'm hardly the lesbian cassanova but I do ok
*sigh* somebody missed the point of Dustin posting it! He was hardly putting up a pic of his girlfriend was he? I meen, that's one way to confess to being a wanker I guess but that wasn't the case here... *rolls eyes*
Not obviously. You are wrong.
Whilst the emotional baggage can and frequently does take years to get over the act of sex is quite difference to the experience of rape. Sex is a pleasurable past time, it's nothing special, it's not magical, it's just something to do when the telly is crap.
Rape is loss of control & fear beyond the comprehension of anyone who hasnt literally found themselves begging for their life.
The experience is not even remotely similar to sex.
Once all sense of being able to have any influence over your own destiny is lost and you've accepted that you are utterly defeated, that there is nothing you can do to effect the situation - that whatever else happens there is literally nothing that will prevent what is beginning to happen from completing you then start wondering whether you are going to get out of this alive, you wonder what the hell you can do to at least get away from here afterwards and you realise that even then you have no power, no control, no influence. There is nothing you can do to prevent your violation or to prevent them from taking your life, you are not even worthy of being kept informed of what they will do to you - you are completely at the mercy of your attackers.
Eventually, a while after the attack, you reach a point beyond fear and pain. For a while at least all humanity is gone, you can feel nothing. The journey back from that place is one of the longest and hardest things a human being ever has to do, and sex has absolutely nothing at all to do with it.
Sex is passion, sex is hornyness, sex is 80 channels of bloody reality TV and not having the money to go out. Sex is about who you do it with, or what they do to you, or what you do to them, or that wicked new toy arriving in the post.
It has nothing to do with the caracteristics of rape, and anyone who thinks so really doesn't have a bloody clue what rape is and they should damn well shut the foxtrot up about a subject they clearly have no experience of.
Yes. You can get stabbed and robbed anywhere. Walking down the same street does not guarantee a recurrance and neither should you live your life in the paranoia of it happening again: There is prudence, and there is the kind of over cautious zealotry that comes with smoking too much cannabis.