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Peet:
My mum and dad were killed by an escaped rhino when I was a baby, so for the first ten or so years of my life I was raised by two thoroughly mean aunts, one very thin and one very fat. Then, for a time, I was adopted by a small group of enlarged insects, with whom I sailed to America inside an engorged fruit. I now live in New York, in the stone of said fruit, and smoke an awful lot of crack.

Patrick:
I thought your name was Pete, Pete.

blaha 41:

--- Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 01 Apr 2008, 03:00 ---
--- Quote from: blaha 41 on 31 Mar 2008, 23:52 ---A few things that my parents taught me:
- If a girl has to ask a guy out first, then the guy really isn't all that into the girl.
- The guy should be older than the girl.

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I don't know if you consider that to be truth, or just something your parents told you, because I have to disagree.  My mom is two years older than my dad, and my parents have one of the most successful relationships I've ever observed.  They obviously still love each other and are a great pair.  I have no idea how I wound up so cynical about relationships, because it certainly wasn't from their example.

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--- Quote from: öde on 01 Apr 2008, 16:11 ---
--- Quote from: blaha 41 on 31 Mar 2008, 23:52 ---- If a girl has to ask a guy out first, then the guy really isn't all that into the girl.
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I wish parents would stop teaching their kids this. If I'm going to have relations with a girl she is going to be wearing the strap-ontrousers.

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I know a few people who have parents where the woman is older in the relationship and the marriage is still going great after 20+ years so I can't say my aphorisms ring absolutely true. I don't know anyone where the girl asked the guy out though, but there must be thousands of examples where it's worked out.

It's probably only good advice if you know yourself to be relatively superficial... A big reason I'm attracted to be people still (I'm 27) is physical... possibly as much as 70/30 or 80/20. If they're older already then I know i'm going to get bored much faster than if they're young. Also, women (generalization) are just more mature and ready to settle down in life than guys are. A 27 yr. old woman is going to have to start to think about having kids in the next few years and I'm not going to be ready to think about that for nearly ten years.


+10 for Cartilage Head's reply "lolz" and all that. (true story, my former roommate went to work at a place with a 90% "urban" workforce where every friday they did a quick camaraderie sing a long thing, and the only song that everyone knew was the fresh prince of bel air song... i think that speaks to will smith's lasting legacy as a hallowed and revered cultural icon of the 90s may he RIP)

redglasscurls:
Dang man, Will Smith is still alive! Dude's not even 40 yet.

My parents are aging hippies. They let us choose our own views on politics and religion, but still taught us manners and useful things. I think I know more about how to keep house than many of my friends who had more traditional stay-at-home mother types, and I really appreciate it now that I'm living more on my own.
Even though my Dad can be a bit of a pompous ass, and my Mom can be maddeningly unpredictable in terms of what she will/will not approve of, I think both my sisters and I turned out well.
I give them a B+!

imonfire:
My parents spilt when I was 7 and my mother moved out, shortly afterwards my dad spiraled way way down. Lost his job and started drinking a lot. Being the kid that I was I always blamed my dad for the split even though it was my mom who had the midlifecrises and took off. At 13 we moved in with my mom, all three of us kids into her two bedroom apartment because my dads drinking had gotten out of control. I really distanced myself from my dad, the only one of us who really is in touch with him other than holidays anymore is my little sister who was too young to remember what he was like when he was drinking. Since then to the extent of my knowledge though he's stopped, and I would like to get to know him again, its just hard to cross back over that line. Other than the alcohol I really love my dad a lot. He's very smart and full of good advice.

My mom is super... kooky. All my friends love her, she is definently the token "cool mom". When I got the ambulance bill in the mail and had to explain to her how I thought I was dying when I did too much mushrooms she laughed it off (I was 17 so our health plan covered it), I even caught her smoking a joint once. She had a bit of a traumatic childhood so she used to just kind of snap sometimes, not in the mean way but in the crazy way... like walking half way across town with no shoes on from my grandma's to my dad's house.. but all thats stopped since she stated therapy.

I get a lot of my traits from my parents like my cynicism and temper from my dad, and my acceptance and liberalism from my mom. In the end I love them lots, even though they both kind of ruined my childhood.

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