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

I sometimes wonder if the beautiful ones don't have any self-esteem either, because nobody will talk to them because they're all too scared or think they (the beautiful) have an attitude problem. There's a really good Kurt Vonnegut short story about that, actually.

The no self-esteem section could have serotonin vapour in the air.

I have a nasty feeling that what would actually happen is that people would not go to the no self-esteem section because they wanted to seem cool, which is actually the same problem we have now. Anyone so low in self-esteem as to actually go there would be unable to lift their heads sufficiently to speak to anyone. Anyone who went there to buck the crowds in the other sections would of necessity have too much self-esteem to be there.

I just realised I'm definitely in low phase this morning, so you should probably just ignore me.

I will talk to beautiful girls that will talk to me. But some of them just have an idea that they belong to some sort of elite. That they only have to talk to other good-looking people.

Cheer up Xan, I took a look at the Dutch meet pictures yesterday and I thought you were quite good-looking!

k who waited 3 years (count'em) in singleton hell for her prince to come and found him hiding inside a

3 years isn't that much.

Another girl That's 3 in all now

The 'too good looking to pull' does happen. One of my female friends is a very good looking (and cute!) lass who bemoans the fact that she cannot pull! Spoecially now she is in her mid twenties for some reason. Guess too many people just think 'there's no way she'd be interested in me' and those that don;t think that tend to be d*ckheads so she only ever meets the d*ckheads. Maybe there should be paper bags for the good looking as well

So yeah, its not just us Xan !

BTW some girls say they like hands. So what do girls look for in hands? I was once told I had nice hands. They're as bony as the rest of me so I don't know why.

Perhaps you're right; I've just seen too many people hurt by other people's assumptions about what they are thinking, including me (I'm not beautiful, but people do make assumptions).

This geezer at a party once said "you have beautiful hands" and it took me about ten seconds to realise he meant me. THAT was a scary evening.

Just give me her adress and all her problems will be over

How come the arrogant people are always the ones that don't have a reason for it?

I've tried scarier things here in Amsterdam

Arrogance is, by definition, something you cannot have a reason for.

By the way, I'd make the same "problems over" offer as Xan, except I have a feeling I wouldn't solve any problems at all. But solidarity to the girl in question. Hope she finds someone great.

Me first!

I know what you mean about the confidence thing. One of those things that took me a while to realise, especially with other blokes. Those who are loudmouthed and always trying to pick a fight, you'll notice they always pick someone who you could look at and go 'yep, he's not going to win'. Whereas some of the nicest friendliest people I've met have been the ones you find out 2 years down the line are the county boxing champ, or martial arts expert or, in one memorable case, had nearly killed someone, barehanded in self defence. And yet are complete pussycats!

And you know the worst bit? It's the loadmouths and show offs that get the women.

So here's the question, women I know seem to always complain about how all blokes are d*ckheads and treat them badly. So why do you keep going for these yobs? Brain the size of a peanut + ben sherman shirt seems to equate to irresistable allure? Anyone care to enlighten me?

(icky, off for a frontal lobotomy and ben sherman shirt)

Ben Sherman is cool. Viva Mod.

Mind you I've been hanging out for a sixties mod revival since 1988, pretty much, and had to endure being called sad all that time.

I don't know why girls go for loudmouths ... I think there are mechanisms which get short-circuited. Basically finding the right person is hard work, and if one of your friends goes for someone then they're more likely to pass your tests too ... so you tend to be less stringent in applying them. This is where the "girlfriend == chick magnet" thing comes from, odious though it is. Anyway, that's where fashion and strange courting behaviour comes from, and the trouble is we are all fooled.

And conversely, when someone genuinely nice comes along, having been screwed up already by the above, we won't give them a fair chance.

Sometimes.

I want to be a piece of music.

Which piece of music do you want to be?

I think people can be arrogant for a reason. There are some people that are better than everyone else but don't think so. And then there are some that are morons, which tend to think they are better than everyone else.

Yeah, women love b*****ds. I wonder what the world will be like if they are the ones that get to breed.

I want to be all of the pieces of music.

People can look good (or be intelligent or whatever) and be aware of it but that isn't arrogance. Arrogance is thinking that possession of such qualities makes you a better or more important person, which is untrue and therefore always unjustified.

Of course, arrogance founded on nothing is largely just bluster, which seems to appeal -- at least in the short-term.

Opening parenthetical mark. I don't know who women love. Saying they love b*****ds is, as always, too easy. Closing parenthetical mark.

Yeah, you should never, ever, EVER, make sweeping generalisations.

All generalisations are totally untrue.

Call me Epimenides, or perhaps Buster would be friendlier.

I'm personally of the 'hands are very important' line of thinking. I really, really like me boys to have a good amount of angularity - sculpted hands, deeply set eyes, defined jaw..that whole 'aquiline' thing. And oddly, huge guys don't do it for me, whether the bulk comes from fat or muscle. But I'm a weirdo..I'm the chick that salivates over that dark-eyed, tall, trenchcoat wearing academic.
*shrug*

That doesn't sound too weird. Well, not a plump, blue-eyed, short, fleece-wearing slacker it doesn't, anyway.

I've spent my life being fancied by weirdoes, psychos and their like. That could probably tell me something. Great sex, terrible conversations tends to be the practical upshot.

B