1921

Trust me, if I had the option, I’d delete all my posts, in retrospect is was a bunch of gratuitous drek.

1922

You won’t get stood up, and at the very least it will give you a life experience to learn from. These things are always stressful to a certain extent, but given enough tries, something good is bound to come out of it. Failure only breeds knowledge and strength.

1923

Make a good impression and get caught reading a book that would greatly appeal to/impress a woman just in case she shows up.

1924

Oh, great, now I have to stress about the book I read too? I was just going to take the book I’m currently reading, which is Spin by Robert C Wilson.

1925

Wow, that would be a total mood-killer. You don’t own a good Twilight book or Oprah non-fiction?

Remember, if there’s one prevailing theme in this thread: Dating is supposed to be so overly complicated that you still can’t tell if things went well even when she’s going down on you on the ride home.

If the rest of the world looked at all the seemingly innocuous facets of dating the same way people in this thread do we’d go extinct as a species.

1926

I won’t go out with a woman who likes Twilight. I think I even said so in my profile.

1927

Word

EDIT: Oh, I see Griddle recanted. Carry on then!

1928

Just because you don’t sparkle in the sunlight doesn’t mean you can’t compete against her ideal dream guy.

1929

I’ll forgive the pre-teens, but any 30-something woman who reads Twilight has serious issues.

Except Angie, who gets an exemption for providing a service to humanity.

1930

Angie is pretty though, so I’m willing to let it slide. I’m that superficial.

1931

I did not get stood up. Not a horror-story date, just incredibly strained and awkward as we’re both introverts and there were lots of long pauses while we tried to come up with something to talk about. We had coffee and then walked around the nearby lake looking at birds and whatnot. I knew going in there probably wouldn’t be much chemistry because she really likes kids and is doing a degree to become a school counsellor or art therapist and I’m, well, me. But she’s not a Republican.

So, now I’ve dated. And I have a headache that neither vitamin I nor shop-therapy has diminished. I don’t think I’ll be rushing out on more dates anytime soon.

1932

Geez, listen to some of you. “But she’s not a Republican.” It’s as if, rather than use a relationship as an opportunity to grow and expand beyond yourself, you just want someone you can engage in intellectual circle-jerks with. Lame: “I think Representative Bedfellow is such a tool!” “Oh, God, me too!” Lame, lame, lame. Restricting yourself based on politics and religion is lame.

I’m a free-market capitalist Christian and she’s a communist atheist. Our son thinks he’s Jewish. THIS is a proper family life. Hell, we barely speak each other’s language properly. (And I’m only learning hers.) This is called “growing.” And by growing I mean, “Not dying.” Because the moment you choose to surround yourself only with people who agree with you is the moment you become a fucking undead zombie.

That’s why I no longer worry about the zombie apocalypse: It’s already occurred.

1933

Guys can be republicans and they’ll still be guys. But republican females don’t insert lude sexual act here.

1934

I’m a free-market capitalist Christian and she’s a communist atheist. Our son thinks he’s Jewish. THIS is a proper family life. Hell, we barely speak each other’s language properly. (And I’m only learning hers.) This is called “growing.” And by growing I mean, “Not dying.” Because the moment you choose to surround yourself only with people who agree with you is the moment you become a fucking undead zombie.

Might want to slow down there with the preaching. My wife and I agree on pretty much everything and we’re happy as can be. So fuck off.

1935

Says who? I’m a member of the San Francisco Young Republicans, and teledyne is a member of MoveOn, as well as other very liberal organizations.

Instead of sitting around commiserating about [insert whatever is pissing off either one of us here], we have an actual discussion about the issue. Bipartisan relationships can and do work.

1936

Did you reply to the right quote?

1937

Yes, I did. ;)

1938

Good lord.

1939

Hey. Dumbass. Welcome to 95% of the world.

EVERYBODY thinks like you do: That people who agree with each other can be happy. In fact, most people go as far as to say that you MUST agree with each other to be happy.

My point is that it’s entirely unnecessary – and boring as fuck.

1940

Dibs! As soon as teledyne is out of the picture, that is…

(Joking of course.)