[creativecoding]

Don't link to Funnyjunk. They don't allow it and you look dumb.

[calvinthedestroyer]

BenignDesign, on 10 August 2012 - 09:49 AM, said:

I love Godiva so much. Especially the chocolate-raspberry truffles. OMG. Orgasmic.

I have to drive at least 90 minutes to find a place that sells them. Or order online... which is a whole new level of sad - ordering my ass-widening, over-priced chocolates on the internet so they can be delivered to my house where I can open the door in my underpants, drag my box of fat into the house, and devour them all behind a locked door. All the while imagining the Forever Alone face in the middle of the wreath outside my door.

I got plenty of girl stories, but there no need to boar you guys with those. I will say this "You have to approach a women the same way a bomb technician approaches a live bomb."

This post has been edited by calvinthedestroyer: 12 August 2012 - 07:11 PM

[BenignDesign]

Which wire do you cut first?

[calvinthedestroyer]

The "Lets be friends" wire. Open her up to being your friend first, that way she can never go back.

[WolfCoder]

I like how you're acting as though they're completely different creatures and ignoring the fact they differ as much from you as does anyone else.

[strawhat89]

Y U NO ALLOW ME TO POST PICS? I can't do attachments or links.

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[strawhat89]

Double post.

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[BenignDesign]

WolfCoder, on 13 August 2012 - 12:58 AM, said:

I like how you're acting as though they're completely different creatures and ignoring the fact they differ as much from you as does anyone else.

They fear what they don't understand.

[modi123_1]

If anything - being a girl on the internet at least doesn't subject you to physical harassment. This blog post on the licking, groping, and tits; show me! at DEFCON made my skin crawl.

It also mentions this blog post as well.

[BenignDesign]

This isn't limited to IT conferences. I've heard very similar stories coming out of higher ed conferences as well.

[calvinthedestroyer]

Has anyone looked into the Ada initiative? :

defcon-why-conference-harassment-matters

Not sure how we could apply it to Dream in Code, but I'm sure there is a way.

You know, to help girls feel welcome and not harassed with rude comments. I'm sure Gabhabe would appreciate it

[modi123_1]

Already scooped you on post 84. Now be a lamb and get me some coffee while I pat you on the ass on the way out.

[no2pencil]

& maybe don't wear a bra next time....

[creativecoding]

That's what happens when you hang around a bunch of sex-deprived geeks who have been on the internet more than outside.

[Choscura]

"virginity" != "Sex Deprived".

It's a good thing I don't come here to get laid. (inserted attempt at relevant commentary:) It seems like being a girl would give you a lot of freedom to tell people making stupid jokes how dumb they are without repercussion.

Spoiler

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Be your gender what it may, you will certainly have heard the following from a female friend who is enumerating the charms of a new (male) squeeze: "He's really quite cute, and he's kind to my friends, and he knows all kinds of stuff, and he's so funny … " (If you yourself are a guy, and you know the man in question, you will often have said to yourself, "Funny? He wouldn't know a joke if it came served on a bed of lettuce with sauce béarnaise.") However, there is something that you absolutely never hear from a male friend who is hymning his latest (female) love interest: "She's a real honey, has a life of her own … [interlude for attributes that are none of your business] … and, man, does she ever make 'em laugh."

Now, why is this? Why is it the case?, I mean. Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny? Please do not pretend not to know what I am talking about.

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This is not to say that women are humorless, or cannot make great wits and comedians. And if they did not operate on the humor wavelength, there would be scant point in half killing oneself in the attempt to make them writhe and scream (uproariously). Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence. Men will laugh at almost anything, often precisely because it is—or they are—extremely stupid. Women aren't like that. And the wits and comics among them are formidable beyond compare: Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, Fran Lebowitz, Ellen DeGeneres. (Though ask yourself, was Dorothy Parker ever really funny?)

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Probe a little deeper, though, and you will see what Nietzsche meant when he described a witticism as an epitaph on the death of a feeling. Male humor prefers the laugh to be at someone's expense, and understands that life is quite possibly a joke to begin with—and often a joke in extremely poor taste. Humor is part of the armor-plate with which to resist what is already farcical enough. (Perhaps not by coincidence, battered as they are by motherfucking nature, men tend to refer to life itself as a bitch.) Whereas women, bless their tender hearts, would prefer that life be fair, and even sweet, rather than the sordid mess it actually is. Jokes about calamitous visits to the doctor or the shrink or the bathroom, or the venting of sexual frustration on furry domestic animals, are a male province. It must have been a man who originated the phrase "funny like a heart attack." In all the millions of cartoons that feature a patient listening glum-faced to a physician ("There's no cure. There isn't even a race for a cure"), do you remember even one where the patient is a woman? I thought as much.

Edit: forgot to put spoiler around tangent, added something almost kind of relevant (see above).

This post has been edited by Choscura: 13 August 2012 - 05:36 PM