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WCDT Thread (30 Jan - 4 Feb 2011, 1851-55)
iduguphergrave:
--- Quote from: tbones ---Yeah, but he still, and i quote: "totally touched my boob, too"
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That was Marigold retconning the situation to make herself feel better and/or brag to her buddies. As we can see here and from what Angus says right after, Marigold's the one who initiated the boob-touching.
The Seldom Killer:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 02 Feb 2011, 08:11 ---[
I'm just saying that there's no explicit indication that he is.
Occum's razor (And I can't believe I'm whipping that out over this) states that the most parsimonious explanation for a phenomenon should be preferred. Now which is more parsimonious: That a Mid-to-late twenty something heterosexual male without a stated religious or cultural reservation who turned down drunken shenanigans from an available and willing close female friend is nervous because he's a virgin, or that he's simply nervous because it's the first time with Faye, who he's flirted with for a really long time and he really likes, but after what happened with Sven and Marten and her father and do I even still have those condoms and please God don't let me fuck this up?
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Nor is there an explicit indication that he isn't.
Also it's a poor use of Occam's razor to offer only a binary proposition. To steal from Neal Stephenson, "Don't believe in something simply because you want it to be true" - Diax's Rake.
pwhodges:
Also, using Occam's razor when the alternatives offered are in any case open to interpretation or doubt is probably dubious.
--- Quote from: Odin on 02 Feb 2011, 08:24 ---Mid-to-late 20s =/= super hormone driven teenager, apparently.
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This is generally true, though I have known plenty of teenagers who were not slaves to their hormones, and a few much older people who were. So it's best to be careful with generalisations.
In many parts of society religion has no bearing on this either - which I only mention so that no-one else need bring it up again, please.
StevenC:
--- Quote from: akronnick on 02 Feb 2011, 08:11 ---
--- Quote from: MillionDollar Belt Sander on 02 Feb 2011, 07:48 ---
Wow way to generalize there.
Uh I don't know how to counter such an ignorant remark really... I have quite a few male friends who chose to abstain until later in life. None of them are "freaks" and none of them are gay.
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But he's not choosing to abstain.
He was actively courting a lady he knows has been recently sexually active, and at the point where Marigold makes her move, not very successfully.
I'm not saying that it's impossible that Angus is a virgin, or that people who choose abstinence are flawed or defective.
I'm just saying that there's no explicit indication that he is.
Occum's razor (And I can't believe I'm whipping that out over this) states that the most parsimonious explanation for a phenomenon should be preferred. Now which is more parsimonious: That a Mid-to-late twenty something heterosexual male without a stated religious or cultural reservation who turned down drunken shenanigans from an available and willing close female friend is nervous because he's a virgin, or that he's simply nervous because it's the first time with Faye, who he's flirted with for a really long time and he really likes, but after what happened with Sven and Marten and her father and do I even still have those condoms and please God don't let me fuck this up?
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He was choosing to abstain. At least with anyone who wasn't the one he's interested in. It's called... common sense I believe? If you are VERY interested in a certain person you don't go around having sex with other people.
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Feb 2011, 08:36 ---In many parts of society religion has no bearing on this either - which I only mention so that no-one else need bring it up again, please.
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Amen brother, testify. :evil:
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