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kleinbl00  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "You're Doing Great Work, It's Just...You Aren't Trying Very Hard."

Precisely: an 8 in Manhattan or Redondo Beach is a 10 anywhere else, but an 8 from Manhattan or Redondo Beach sees all the other 8s as 4s. Where she's going there's nothing but castaways.





b_b  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Point taken. I just want the lad to know that his views of which women are attractive are probably skewed by circumstance, as relativity matters. Back in engineering school I used to drool over girls I wouldn't hold the door for in high school (figuratively speaking). Gotta take advantage of what you can while you can; that's always lost on young men.

Note: Don't get a big head about the Redondo thing, insomniasexx.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Back in engineering school I used to drool over girls I wouldn't hold the door for in high school (figuratively speaking).

As someone currently in engineering school it's the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeest.

galen  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As someone currently in a high school that's 85% male, I feel you. You just have to join up all the clubs and groups you can find relating to your interests and hope to meet someone.

Unfortunately that's far easier said than done, especially when you're my age. But you aren't, so congratulations, I guess.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What kind of a high school is 85% male? That's a bit unusual, no?

My post was a bit sarcastic, I've done quite well considering I mostly avoid my college of study and have been heavily occupied in two organizations plus our center for leadership and community service, and the music scene of the city at large. You are right though, it is all about the extracurriculars. Much easier to find people of common interests while still having them come from a diversity of genders, sexualities, cultures, etc.

galen  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, it's a tiny private school with some pretty serious privilege issues. It's 90% white, 85% male, etc., probably due to a combination of the surrounding area, the high tuition, and the stated mission (school for the gifted - not that white males tend to be more gifted, but I wouldn't be surprised if white males were more often designated gifted).

ButterflyEffect  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ah, we have a high school like that back home and I recently worked about a mile away from Phillips Academy. Talk about privileged. But you know, I'd like to think that while they're not exactly melting pots, that places like those set a person up to go almost wherever they would like, and open up a lot more doors down the road. I'd think a lot of it has to do with socioeconomic standing as well.

galen  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I sure hope so. But at this point I've switched schools so many times I've decided just to make the best of where I am. Senior year!

humanodon  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would say that being born with a silver spoon in one's mouth is something of a gift, but I don't think it indicates intelligence or capability at all.

kleinbl00  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The other nice thing is that composition shifts with the scale. A Seattle 10 is a different kind of beauty than a Los Angeles 10 than a Denver 10 than a Utah 10.

I find women in Los Angeles to be a lot more tan and a lot more put together than women in, say, San Francisco... but also a lot deader behind the eyes.

insomniasexx  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Another thing I've noticed is the disparity between weight in different places - across both genders. You don't often see awfully obese people in NYC or Manhattan Beach. Go to Portland, Maine or Central MA and I'm a fraction of the size. I'm never the skinniest person in NYC or MB though.

kleinbl00  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hie thee to Wisconsin. You'll be anorexic.

humanodon  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You are very tiny.

insomniasexx  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm actually from Manhattan Beach and live in RB now and I think I kept up in NYC. Soooooo. What does that make me?

b_b  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

nowaypablo  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're a 10, insom. You're a 10.

b_b  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Easy, son. She doesn't need her tires pumped that much.

_refugee_  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

u guize

(i know we were referring to insom but for the reocrd)

i'm not a number i'm an anglerfish

nowaypablo  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey there pretty lady, nice gonads.

_refugee_  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretty much exactly what I look like, too.

thenewgreen  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've actually met _ref_ and I can attest to the odd gonad shaped fish protruding from her head. It took some getting used to, but by the third round of rye whisky's, nobody noticed anymore.

nowaypablo  ·  3779 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you're the most beautiful anglerfish there ever was ref. you're a rainbow anglerfish. A golden rainbow anglerfish dolphin shark.