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How to Get a Girlfriend? I've never had one....

#351 The Journalist

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 01:20 PM

Dozens? That's impressive. And frightening.

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#352 Lektor

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 04:55 PM

Pufer, on Nov 21 2008, 08:23 PM, said:

First off, you're merely killing temporal succession between shopping and purchase in that case. It's like telling someone who wants to buy you an expensive car that you'd like a silver BMW 5-series (or making it known when touring a dealership that you fancy such a vehicle) and then claiming, when you're presented with a silver 528i a couple weeks later, that it came as a complete and utter surprise.

Second, if you've been going ring shopping "all the time," presuming that don't routinely book romantic restaurants as a matter of course, wouldn't you kinda' think that she'd be able to figure out what's up anyway? If I'm a girl in such a position, my man invites me to the most expensive restaurant in town for the first time ever, and he shows up clean shaven with a new haircut and a new suit on, I know what I'm expecting later that night. Now, I have it on good authority that knowing what is up beforehand makes the actual proposal no less exciting, but I think total surprise is a little unreasonable unless you just randomly do it when standing in line at the grocery store one day, or something like that.

We go out to dinner a lot, but I'm not doing anything so predictable! We've discussed and basically planned our wedding in detail, so I could just give her a ring one morning, and ask her over waffles, but I want it to be something special. I won't tell you what i have planned, but I think it's going to be worth the wait.

I also have a friend who was big on the romantic weekends and such, and every time he took his girlfriend somewhere, she'd call all her mates telling them and they'd all be expecting a call to say they were engaged. In the end he asked her on christmas eve.

Pufer, on Nov 21 2008, 08:23 PM, said:

Keeping this in mind, the whole surprise thing is one of those ridiculous ritualistic fabrications that society has come to expect with no particular basis in reality. In most cases, the woman likely knows what's up, or at least generally saw it coming. Any indication to the contrary either demonstrates what I would feel to be an insufficient courtship period or a lie commonly told to propagate the cultural mythology that surrounds the marriage proposal. That said, it is certainly an expectation, but that doesn't mean that we should read too much into supposed factual content surrounding that expectation.

Third, personally, I think the whole thing is a bunch of bullcrap. If I have my druthers, any marriage proposal that I'm ever likely to make will be of the, "Hey, you wanna' get married?" one night in bed variety (maybe over breakfast, I like the idea of suggesting marriage over frozen waffles). That weekend we can go out together and get a ring, or whatever she wants to do. If she's anything like me, then I'll publicly propose to her four or five times in restaurants over the next few weeks - see how many free desserts/bottles of champagne we can cheat various restaurants and/or well-meaning folks at adjacent tables out of.

Well, I'm a bit of a hopeless romantic, and like to think this is the turning point for the start of our life together. So I want it to be something that we can tell our kids, grandkids and remember fondly for the rest of our lives. Not to say if you wanna casually ask over breakfast, get married in a reception place somewhere just the 2 of you, good on you. For me, the wedding and the proposal are both as important as each other. The wedding is about getting all our friends and family together in one room for probably the only time, and the proposal is about possibly the most intimate thing between the two of you. Doesn't need to be a surprise, it's never going to be, but it's important to me to make it a big deal.

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 08:21 PM

The Journalist, on Nov 22 2008, 06:20 PM, said:

Dozens? That's impressive. And frightening.

In one birth aswell...

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Posted 22 November 2008 - 09:15 PM

Lektor, on Nov 22 2008, 02:55 PM, said:

Doesn't need to be a surprise, it's never going to be, but it's important to me to make it a big deal.

A big deal is fine. I only have an issue when it's some elaborately planned big deal and everybody involved is pretending that its some big friggen' surprise when it so clearly isn't, or when it happens without any input from the woman or more than nominal thought put into what she might want. The first one is phony as all hell, and the second is massively inconsiderate. It doesn't sound like you're doing either of those, so have no issue with you and your good lady's plans.

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 12:17 AM

undead_shadow, on Nov 22 2008, 08:21 PM, said:

In one birth aswell...

G-Sparks are born in litters. Oh dear.

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 12:50 PM

Imagine all that stream of conciousness posting...

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 12:58 PM

Shlimazel, on Nov 23 2008, 12:50 PM, said:

Imagine all that stream of conciousness posting...

Might become a collective consciousness, even. G-Spark will subsume the human race and we'll all become a mad singularity.

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Posted 23 November 2008 - 01:00 PM

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Might become a collective consciousness, even.

WE ARE THE SPARK. RESISTANCE IS WHAT AGAIN? WHERE'S OUR CELLPHONE? BLUE IS PRETTY.

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Posted 01 December 2008 - 01:00 PM

Despite the fact that my wife and I are already married, I'm planning on continuing to propose to her in random or embarrassing situations, like when we're at a nice restaurant or something.

Ring-ding-diddle-iddle oh dee oh, ring-ding-diddle ee eye oh,
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#360 Jeremiah

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Posted 01 December 2008 - 03:47 PM

What I like doing, is picking up my wife's wedding rings while she is in the shower, I wait until she goes "Where's my rings!" and then I produce them and put them on her finger for her. She loves it.

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Posted 01 December 2008 - 04:11 PM

^^
this marriage stuff is pretty funny

Have I reached the stupid quota?

#362 Lektor

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Posted 01 December 2008 - 06:07 PM

Which rings are we talking about here?

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Posted 01 December 2008 - 08:00 PM

ephrin, on Dec 1 2008, 06:00 PM, said:

Despite the fact that my wife and I are already married, I'm planning on continuing to propose to her in random or embarrassing situations, like when we're at a nice restaurant or something.

Perfect! So when she dumps you for proposing in the line for McDonalds, you'll already have plans to repropose to her at that Exxon-Mobil on the way home.

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Posted 01 December 2008 - 08:06 PM

It can't fail.

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Posted 01 December 2008 - 11:36 PM

Sundered Angel, on Dec 1 2008, 06:00 PM, said:

Perfect! So when she dumps you for proposing in the line for McDonalds, you'll already have plans to repropose to her at that Exxon-Mobil on the way home.

Unless McDonalds is now serving instant divorces, I should think that'll be rather difficult.

Actually, that's not too bad an idea...

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Posted 02 December 2008 - 02:35 AM

ephrin, on Dec 1 2008, 10:00 AM, said:

Despite the fact that my wife and I are already married, I'm planning on continuing to propose to her in random or embarrassing situations, like when we're at a nice restaurant or something.

I sincerely hope that you do actually do this, and that after the first few times once she's onto you she figures out something clever to say about how she's in love with your brother or something and you improvise a dramatic, soap opera-esque confrontation while all the other people at Sizzler* look on.

*or for extra credit, the NBA game

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Posted 02 December 2008 - 02:39 AM

Lektor, on Dec 2 2008, 12:07 AM, said:

Which rings are we talking about here?

Wouldn't you like to know...

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Posted 02 December 2008 - 04:29 AM

Not as much as she'd like to know...

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Posted 02 December 2008 - 02:08 PM

She knows when she is wearing the correct ring.

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Posted 05 December 2008 - 01:24 AM

Here's a really belated XKCD that goes along with the original theme of this topic:
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Why am I here? Why do I exist, and what is
my purpose in this universe?

(Answers: 'Cause you are. 'Cause you do. 'Cause I got a
shotgun, and you ain't got one.)

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Posted 05 December 2008 - 02:29 AM

Well played, sir. Well played.

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