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"Orchid XP v3" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:46fbe480$1@news.povray.org...
> andrel wrote:
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>>> Well, I hope to stay in touch. But it seems highly doubtful that we will
>>> ever be anything more than friends - which makes me very sad.
>>
>> Possibly one of your worst observations in the last weeks. And I was
>> thinking that indeed you made some good progress. If I was a girl I would
>> be highly offended by this.
>
> What - the fact that what might have been a beautiful relationship will
> now never be is "insulting"?
What YOU want, and what THEY want, are two *totally* seperate things.
~Steve~
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>
>>> Well, I hope to stay in touch. But it seems highly doubtful that we
>>> will ever be anything more than friends - which makes me very sad.
>>
>> Possibly one of your worst observations in the last weeks. And I was
>> thinking that indeed you made some good progress. If I was a girl I
>> would be highly offended by this.
>
> What - the fact that what might have been a beautiful relationship will
> now never be is "insulting"?
>
What the others said, plus that essentially you imply that the only
reason you are only interested in girls is when they want to go to bed
with you. Any person, which includes women, which includes this girl,,
is a human being.
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andrel wrote:
>> What - the fact that what might have been a beautiful relationship
>> will now never be is "insulting"?
>>
> What the others said, plus that essentially you imply that the only
> reason you are only interested in girls is when they want to go to bed
> with you. Any person, which includes women, which includes this girl,,
> is a human being.
*sigh*
Even on povray.off-topic I am misunderstood...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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Gail Shaw wrote:
>> What - the fact that what might have been a beautiful relationship will
>> now never be is "insulting"?
>
> No, the fact that possibly making a new friend makes you very sad.
That's not what makes me sad. What makes me sad is that I am never going
to SEE this person. I'll never even know what she looks like.
> How often do you complain that you don't know anyone who like you. Now
> you've got a good chance to change that and, it appears, you're not really
> interested.
There are lots of people I vaguely know over the Internet who I
communicate with. What I'd really like is to have somebody I can
physically BE with - lots of the time. This girl may or may not become
my "friend", but I'm never going to be able to hang out with her. And I
was so looking forward to it...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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"Orchid XP v3" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:46fc11ac$1@news.povray.org...
> That's not what makes me sad. What makes me sad is that I am never going
> to SEE this person. I'll never even know what she looks like.
Ask her to send you a photo
> There are lots of people I vaguely know over the Internet who I
> communicate with. What I'd really like is to have somebody I can
> physically BE with - lots of the time. This girl may or may not become
> my "friend", but I'm never going to be able to hang out with her. And I
> was so looking forward to it...
You have her phone number. That puts her well ahead of most of your internet
acquaintances. Maybe in a year or 2 she'll be back in your area, or maybe
she'll visit the area from time to time. If you let this slip away, you'll
never know.
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:25:38 +0100, Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> I am never going
> to SEE this person. I'll never even know what she looks like.
You don't know what the future holds, so don't count it out.
"Trying to predict the future is a mug's game. But increasingly it's a
game we all have to play because the world is changing so fast and we
need to have some sort of idea of what the future's actually going to be
like because we are going to have to live there, probably next week."
-- Douglas Adams
Jim
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Warp wrote:
> John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
>>> I have never understood why people are so obsessed with moving.
>>>Sometimes it feels that not a month goes by without a friend or someone
>>>I know moving. I know some people who have moved at least 4 times in
>>>one single year!
>
>
>>Well, when the rent's due and you can't pay it...
>
>
> The solution is to spend the rent money in moving your stuff to
> another place?
For people not given to long-term thinking, that may seem like the
better solution. I didn't say it made sense...
Regards,
John
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> Yeah. Inbetween her having to finish her PhD in the next 17 days and her
> employer who might be sending her to Japan on Thursday and she's going on
> holiday to somewhere else in a few weeks' time and...
Would you really want to be with a girl who was going off to some foreign
country for 5 days every 2 weeks? And then the rest of the time spending
long hours at work?
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> I did actually go to the trouble of going to see a finance advisor to
> see what the story really is. I was expecting him to say that something
> could be done (after all, that way he gets to sell me a product). But
> no. Apparently I simply don't earn enough money.
Haha you don't want a girlfriend then, they are quite expensive...
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>> Housing prices in the UK are currently astronomical.
>
> Renting an apartment is not an option then? What do other young people
> your age in the UK do?
1) Rent
2) Lower your expectations of what you can afford to buy. You haven't been
working for 20 years like your parents have - you can't get a house like
theirs.
3) Get a job in a cheaper area so you can get a bigger/nicer house.
Seriously - look at house prices in other parts of the country - you will be
surprised. For what I was paying to rent 1/3 of a house in Oxford, my
sister was paying for a 3-bedroom house!
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>> What the others said, plus that essentially you imply that the only
>> reason you are only interested in girls is when they want to go to bed
>> with you. Any person, which includes women, which includes this girl,, is
>> a human being.
>
> *sigh*
>
> Even on povray.off-topic I am misunderstood...
OK, well what you mean is "if you don't want to be my girlfriend then i
don't want to be friends with you". You're never going to find a girlfriend
if you act like that. Just make friends with her and get to know her. You
never know what will come of it. Maybe after 6 months she will like you so
much she'll want to move back to be near you. Or you'll go to a party at
one of her places and meet this great girl who is one of her best friends.
Why waste all those opportunities simply because she won't be your
girlfriend right now?
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scott wrote:
>>> What the others said, plus that essentially you imply that the only
>>> reason you are only interested in girls is when they want to go to
>>> bed with you. Any person, which includes women, which includes this
>>> girl,, is a human being.
>>
>> *sigh*
>>
>> Even on povray.off-topic I am misunderstood...
>
> OK, well what you mean is "if you don't want to be my girlfriend then i
> don't want to be friends with you". You're never going to find a
> girlfriend if you act like that. Just make friends with her and get to
> know her. You never know what will come of it. Maybe after 6 months
> she will like you so much she'll want to move back to be near you. Or
> you'll go to a party at one of her places and meet this great girl who
> is one of her best friends. Why waste all those opportunities simply
> because she won't be your girlfriend right now?
>
>
Sound a lot like networking for a job ;-)
I've never looked at it as networking for a girl, but it makes sense.
Tom
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scott wrote:
>> *sigh*
>>
>> Even on povray.off-topic I am misunderstood...
>
> OK, well what you mean is "if you don't want to be my girlfriend then i
> don't want to be friends with you".
No, that's not what I mean.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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scott wrote:
>> I did actually go to the trouble of going to see a finance advisor to
>> see what the story really is. I was expecting him to say that
>> something could be done (after all, that way he gets to sell me a
>> product). But no. Apparently I simply don't earn enough money.
>
> Haha you don't want a girlfriend then, they are quite expensive...
To quote that character I really hate, "do I look bothered?"
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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scott wrote:
> Would you really want to be with a girl who was going off to some
> foreign country for 5 days every 2 weeks? And then the rest of the time
> spending long hours at work?
This is also a very valid and rather worrying question...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> I'm a firm believer that if you don't start as
> friends, anything more is doomed...
>
He's absolutely right, you know. People sometimes don't realize that
"not dying young" implies "getting old." In any long-lasting
relationship, the day will come when some parts are wrinkled and some
parts sag and some parts just don't work anymore--but if that
relationship is based on deep, secure friendship, those things don't matter.
--Sherry Shaw
--
#macro T(E,N)sphere{x,.4rotate z*E*60translate y*N pigment{wrinkles scale
.3}finish{ambient 1}}#end#local I=0;#while(I<5)T(I,1)T(1-I,-1)#local I=I+
1;#end camera{location-5*z}plane{z,37 pigment{granite color_map{[.7rgb 0]
[1rgb 1]}}finish{ambient 2}}// TenMoons
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Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> scott wrote:
>
>>> *sigh*
>>>
>>> Even on povray.off-topic I am misunderstood...
>>
>> OK, well what you mean is "if you don't want to be my girlfriend then
>> i don't want to be friends with you".
>
> No, that's not what I mean.
>
Of course not, so don't say it.
And remember: here on p.o-t you can depend on it that there will always
be one that will deliberately misunderstand you either for humorous
effect or because they want to point out that you should be a bit more
careful with what you say. Any could-be girlfriend might interpreted it
the same way.
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"Sherry Shaw" <ten### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:46fd5681@news.povray.org...
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I'm a firm believer that if you don't start as friends, anything more is
>> doomed...
>>
>
> He's absolutely right, you know. People sometimes don't realize that "not
> dying young" implies "getting old." In any long-lasting relationship, the
> day will come when some parts are wrinkled and some parts sag and some
> parts just don't work anymore--
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :(
~Steve~ ;)
>
> --Sherry Shaw
>
>
> --
> #macro T(E,N)sphere{x,.4rotate z*E*60translate y*N pigment{wrinkles scale
> .3}finish{ambient 1}}#end#local I=0;#while(I<5)T(I,1)T(1-I,-1)#local I=I+
> 1;#end camera{location-5*z}plane{z,37 pigment{granite color_map{[.7rgb 0]
> [1rgb 1]}}finish{ambient 2}}// TenMoons
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St. wrote:
>
> NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :(
>
[Puts arm around Steve] There, there, it's all right.....Someday you'll
look back on this and, erm, not remember it at all.....
;)
--Sherry Shaw
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Sherry Shaw wrote:
> St. wrote:
>
>>
>> NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :(
>>
>
> [Puts arm around Steve] There, there, it's all right.....Someday you'll
> look back on this and, erm, not remember it at all.....
>
> ;)
>
> --Sherry Shaw
>
>
You can put your arm around me too.
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Orchid XP v3 wrote:
> Well, I finally managed to get back in contact. My joy was short-lived
> though. Apparently in "the next month or so" she's moving house to a
> place many hours' drive from here.
OK, so I just sent her a rather confrontational email telling her how I
feel about the whole thing. We'll see what that does.
(I truly *wanted* to do this thing by phone. It sounds so stroppy and
aggressive in text. But since she *will not* answer my calls or call me
back or text me or...)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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Jim Charter wrote:
> Sherry Shaw wrote:
>> St. wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :(
>>>
>>
>> [Puts arm around Steve] There, there, it's all right.....Someday
>> you'll look back on this and, erm, not remember it at all.....
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> --Sherry Shaw
>>
>>
> You can put your arm around me too.
[Puts arm around Jim] There, there....Someday we'll all be in the Old
POVers home together playing Slow-Mo Wheelchair Bumper Cars and drooling
on our bibs....
;)
--Sherry Shaw
--
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.3}finish{ambient 1}}#end#local I=0;#while(I<5)T(I,1)T(1-I,-1)#local I=I+
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Sherry Shaw wrote:
> Jim Charter wrote:
>> Sherry Shaw wrote:
>>> St. wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! :(
>>>>
>>>
>>> [Puts arm around Steve] There, there, it's all right.....Someday
>>> you'll look back on this and, erm, not remember it at all.....
>>>
>>> ;)
>>>
>>> --Sherry Shaw
>>>
>>>
>> You can put your arm around me too.
>
> [Puts arm around Jim] There, there....Someday we'll all be in the Old
> POVers home together playing Slow-Mo Wheelchair Bumper Cars and drooling
> on our bibs....
I don't know if this will ring any bells, but I'm put in mind of the
over-80s wheelchair five-a-side soccer game featured in an episode of
Father Ted...
"...he's sent the keeper the wrong way...!"
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