h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here's another then

There's a kind of locust that spends 17 years underground. Then on one day they all come out of the ground, mate and lay their eggs and die. Then the next generation does the same. Must be so boring.

Depends what they do for the 17 years underground. Might be a mass orgy, it's not like they have telly or anything.

but if they come up above ground to mate, i doubt it's a mass orgy down there.

wow. i wonder what they DO for all that time...

Yes, everyone that tells you something that he/or her/ is interested in sounds in a specific way and then they are interésting to listen to...toads in the desert for example! and panther talk
Many girls are nice and friendly, but there is some snakes....
Most boys can´t see them trough,they fall for the pretty face/body...
and end up having noone to talk to...An h2g2 sign is a good idea!
but not a tatoo, they get ugly when tey are old.......purrrrrrr

*munches some

Very good tread. took some weird turns here and there and haven't completely finished reading it but just had to say something...

Rod

BTW: has anyone sugested looking in a pub for nice friendly girls?

BTW I checked out Corinth, who started this thread, by looking at his personal space. He's not been around for ages. Perhaps he found his dream girl.

A girl with a passion is something I would like to find. Somebody with a great interest in something special. Art, music, animal rights, anything. You'd have something to talk about too.

You won't find her by being bland and ()normal.
Stick with the interesting snippets - they're wonderful

Seriously though - if you try to submerge your personality and pretend to be someone you're not you'll end up attracting people that have nothing in common with you. Or you'll be worrying at some later date about whether to risk showing the real you....

Still seems to be better to be loved for someone you're not than not be loved at all.

If the person being loved is not you, who is it?

I could get very confused if I thought about it too long...

Hmm, my evil twin perhaps?

"- if you try to submerge your personality and pretend to be someone you're not you'll end up attracting people that have nothing in common with you"

Tefkat, that is a very important statement I feel.

I think I share some of the same issues as Xanatic here from reading the thread. I've been single for a long time now, and getting worried about the big three zero this year, left on the shelf, not much time to have kids in, all that stuff. But one thing I have decided on is being me. I know I'm a bit odd (hey, i'm on HooToo, what else is there to say!) but if I changed too much then I wouldn;t be me, and anyone I ended up with wouldn't be with me because of who I am, but because of who I was pretending to be. And i don;t see that as a particularly stable basis for a long term relationship. This has recently been re-inforced by some of these dating programs. The upshot of which seems to be to turn the person in question into a clone of some form of current 'fashionable' person to be seen with 9you know, wear this, say that, use this body language). Which is great for the short term, but what happens when the fashions change, or you have a real conversation and find out that actually you are both completely different people?

No, I think being you is important. If not, then it's just a sham and you might as well go to a 'professional' to have your needs seen to.

I might end up being a bachelor to the end of my days, I hope not. I hope someone will find and like *me*, but if not, I'll be sparing both me and someone else the inevitable pain and disillusionment.

Ictoan, a cynic, living in hope.....

Huzzah, I agree! Here's to cynics living in hope !

I once tried to get a girlfirend by pretending to be someone else, and ended up feeling completely stupid, as well as failing to get the girl ...she left the country shortly afterwards... I've been myself for the past year though, and it may be finally paying off...

I had a female friend who helped me a bit trying to give me advice on what to wear and how to act and such. But I didn't like trying to be like that, and I still had the same personality. So it didn't help. I think I lost hope quite some time ago.

If it was at least just trouble trying to get the girls that I like. But there's not even really any girls I'm interested in.

Did you watch that one yesterday Icky?
I sat, repeatedly saying "Aaah" and ultimately cried for the poppet. He reminded me so much of my hubby when I found him (when he was 39 - so there's hope for you yet ).

Hubby is the perfect man as far as I'm concerned, but if he'd been taught to disguise his shyness and awkwardness and quirky sense of humour under some artificial "hip/trendy/cool" surface veneer I would never have given him a second glance.

There's at least one woman out there desperately searching for someone exactly like you. It would be a dreadful shame to put her off with a "cool" remark wouldn't it?

Ictoan.

Xanatic.

Xan my dear, if you're not interested in them you wouldn't enjoy going out with them would you?

Which is why I've never really asked anyone out. I would just like to meet someone I _was_ interested in.

Cheers Tefkat,

back for you.

I did see some of it, but the bits I saw seemed to be a bit of a freak show. What was the strip show thing about? Just gratuitous telly if you ask me.

The question is, where do you find someone who appreciates a quite, vaguely intelligent person? There all sat in the corner hoping someone will come find them as well! Introverts, what ARE they good for, eh? probably loads of us, all sat in corners of pubs eyeing each other up but not daring to make a move

Dolt, good luck! Don't forget to report back, will ya? Give hope to the rest of us 'cynics in hope' !

oops, forgot to sign it !

Actually I think the stripping worked quite well.

I loved the look on his face when he relaxed and started to enjoy the attention. And the way he actually swaggered out afterwards.

They were trying to give him confidence in himself. They first made him try to sell flowers from a street stall - and then offer to give them away free for a kiss (which he changed to "...for a peck on the cheek" which shows how low his expectations were ).

And they put him behind a bar, serving (which I think helped because he had a role to play - I used to find it much easier to talk to customers in my 'checkout girl' persona) and gave him instructions to compliment the girls and reinforce it by touching their hands.

I did think of Xanatic at that point, actually.

Then they tried to get him to loosen up and move in a sexy way.
They took him to a man that runs a troupe of male strippers for a training session (on the basis that learning to dance in a sexy manner would make him aware of his body) and they claimed they hadn't expected the man to offer him a guest spot.
They certainly didn't expect him to accept!

He almost didn't come out on stage but they were all shouting his name... and then he only took off the jacket and the helmet (?) and he seemed unsure when he first went down into the audience with his bottle of oil but you could see him getting more and more delighted by the moment!
I think it was a stroke of genius.

They didn't really turn him into a clone of anything. They taught him that it was OK to relax and not try to be the person his parents and ex public school expected.
He said at one point that he had learned that it was OK to wear what he wanted to and behave the way he wanted to and whether he found a girl or not he was now a different person and felt much more comfortable.

What you should perhaps do is look for the introverts and approach them.
If they're not interested you've lost nothing.
If they're not interesting you've only lost an hour or so of your life and made them feel good that someone found them approachable.
If they turn out to be like you........

, who remembers sitting in the corner trying to blend into the wallpaper.....