COCK! (tease)

Sorry for infringing on lj's territory.

Suggestion:
Ibram, you often post single words posts, consisting simply of "no."
It is often funny, depending on context.
But I wonder if it is creating a negative/rejection/denial theme in your state of mind.
Therefore, I suggest you say "yes" to everything for a while and see what happens. I mean say yes to every single suggestion or request that comes your way. Hell it will get you doing things.
Post "YES!" too.

you're just waiting for him to agree so that you can ask some ridiculous questions where an affirmative answer will make us all laugh. hey... that sounds fun, can i join?

Only if your work for the day is done, mister!

Lookout, don't give it away!!!!
Sheesh. Now you've blown it (as the bishop said to the actress).

Okay, Ibram, say yes to everything suggested to you by anyone who doesn't know that you're following the say yes rule.

No.

Should have seen THAT coming.

Okay then, tell me in one word ... are you refusing my suggestion?

Really, I want to keep my one-word absolutes for drax. I just couldn't resist saying it just then.

No....not talking about them. And Prick-tease is still a term used by the kids in school.

Not by mine, thankfully... (yet) :lol:

I do hope I don't get overly excited at the very obvious chance this gives me...

Don't go boasting to your buddies on the 'net.
1. If she finds out she will be gone faster than a fart in a typhoon.
2. Don't, ever, count your eggs before they are *cough* laid.

Spoken like a pro.

okay so TAPS (international theatre arts synopsium thing) is here right, and turns out... this girl i knew in like sixth grade in beijing is here, and its like, holy shit, i know you!
and turns out she's reasonably attractive and from what i've heard, of rather... free moral standards.... and knowing her before is definitely a big talking/hitting on her point, so i think i may try to pursue that.
Worst case scenario, i hit on her and she doesnt pay attention.
Likely scenario, I hit on her and she gets to be a good friend but nothing happens in the two days that she'll actually be here
Best case... I think we know what that one is.

Shot down!
I thought chloe was pretty receptive to my flirting, like, a lot, but I guess I misread that. At the end of the TAPS events for today I asked her what she was going afterwards, and she said probably just going home. I nodded and kinda wandered off, and then as everyone was leaving, I asked her if she wanted to go grab some dinner down the street, since i noticed she didn't really eat dinner with the rest of us. She says "maybe, um, it depends on mumblemumblemumblewalkaway".
Later on the way out she passes me in the hall, and I ask, "so that's no on the dinner then?" and i get more or less the same answer, with a little more positive and a little less mumble and a little less walk away.
I go down to the lobby with the two guys rooming at my house, and ask one more time what everyone's doing just to make sure, and my friend robert asks vivian (the girl whose house chloe's staying at) what's going on. Grant, the other guy staying at my house, wants to go home, so we decide we'll run him home real quick then me and robert will come back. We work out that we're all gonna go down to Coldstone together and chill there for a bit - not a date, but, well, still okay.
Then, vivian says stuff isn't gonna work cause chloe wants to go get pancakes down the street, and it'll be hard to meet up. Okay, we decide, we'll put grant in a cab and send him home like that, and me and rob'll tag along with the girls.
We go with that for a bit, we're walking down the street, and i flag down a cab for grant... then robert says he just talked to vivian again and, prettymuch, the verdict is chloe's just looking for ways to get out of ending up in the same place as me in a not-quite date.

So yeah, we just said fuck it and went home.

Hey, you did it, good on you.

Trust me, Ibram if I had a dollar for every time I was turned down... Mmm, well, I wouldn't be posting here telling you about it, I'd be jumping into my Duck Tales sized vault of cash.

Seriously, way proud of ya, dog. After that initial leap it gets tons easier.

Hey, yeah, i know, this one's totally no harm no foul. It doesnt really bother me much at all, a little bit of disappointment, a little bit of 'ouch' factor, but, hey, i'm coo'.

Well. I'm impressed. Way to go Ibby. Her loss.

Mmm, im not exactly convinced it is her loss but i mean, its no big thing at all y'know.

I've at least made a new friend in her out of this i hope.

I'm internally debating putting a picture of her on here for y'all to see. Bad idea?

A lot harder for a teenager to find sex? -Good.

A lot harder for a teenager to find love? -Don't believe it.

"the love you take is equal to the love you make"

very bad idea ibby:P

Yeah, bad idea. It's not a good habit to put photos of people on the internet without their knowledge or permission (says the woman who posted half-naked pictures of her five college roommates, but A.) they weren't minors, B.) our friendship was not in the fledgling-development stage, and C.) I made sure to blank out their faces just in case.)

Clod, where are those pictures??? Quick, dammit!:) :) :)

Oh, somewhere in the "Why aren't there more pictures of LabRat's ass?" thread. You'll just have to browse the whole thing, I guess. :)

: big sigh : O geee if I must.

Bad idea for all the reasons stated, plus why do we care what she looks like? It's who she is that counts.

what does it mean if a girl asks if youre going to frolic (winter formal dance), and you say no, then she cajoles you into going, and you say you have nothing to wear, and you agree that you'll go to frolic if she'll take you shopping and she agrees gladly... does it mean nothing, as i assume?

Well.... you've got a possible. It might develop, or it might not.
Go shopping. Before the shopping trip, observe what other "cool" looking people in your society wear, so you've got an idea of what you're aiming at.
Go shopping. Dress fairly nicely - this is a proto-date. Take money. Don't be stingy (but keep your head, of course). Listen to her advice. As a general rule, at that age females have much better dress sense that males. Don't spend too long deciding. That is irritating for her. Keep an eye out for things she might be interested in. Understand that she will probably "just pop in for a minute" to a few shops of her style. Wait patiently.
Then once you've bought your new glad rags, be sure to insist on buying her a coffee (and cake) to "thank her" for her advice. Then, be sure to arrange that you're going to the dance with her.

In other words, do the exact bloody opposite of everything I ever did when I was a stupid inept teenager without a bloody clue.

The path above does not ensure success, but the alternative pretty much promises failure.

If nothing else, you'll have (a) a nice new outfit and (b) probably someone will notice you out with a girl .. which subtly improves your overall social standing.

I agree with Zen except for one part.

At what point was I supposed to have better fashion sense than a woman? Cuz I'm still waitin :right:

Yep. Ding. Point to Classicman.

I noticed this after I posted ... why specify that age???

run. screaming. away.

Can I offer a stupid piece of advice? Might want to make sure she actually knows you're into girls (too.) I mean, she suggested you wear a pink tux, and didn't bat an eye at the suggestion to go shopping with you... You may spend the whole time workin' it, and she may be thinking, "Hooray, a new gay best friend!"

Clod: She knows I'm bi, not gay
UT: Yeah, not the greatest taste in music. But she likes a lot of obscurish classic rock that other people here dont even know about, like steely dan and warren zevon... and liking too much music, good and bad, is at least better than liking just bad music.
Zen: That's more or less exactly what I was thinking... except I have no idea what to wear to frolic, at all, so I'm mostly going to let her dress me, let her pick out the stuff. 'Specially since that's one of the biggest ways girls lay claim to their property....

What I really want to figure out, and don't know how to even begin to bring up, is whether or not this is a, 'we're going to frolic together' or a 'we're going to frolic at the same time and probably in some kind of proximity to eachother'. Did she ask me to frolic? or did she ask if i was going to frolic? I'm really not sure...

Looks to me like she asked if you are going, but not specifically to go with her. I think I was in a similar situation several dozen times, and for me it was always "are you going?" not "will you go with me?"

Attractive Male: "Are you going to prom?"
Choco: "Um, I wasn't planning to..."
Attractive/Dense Male: "Oh, you should! I'm going with [beautiful popular girl]. Hope to see you there!"
Choco: ::angst::

lol, poor choco

I was in the reverse of that situation last December...

Shy boy: So...we should hang out sometime...
Razz: mmk
Shy boy: What do you work this week?
Razz: *tells schedule*
Shy boy: Oh..wanna hang out tomorrow after work?
Razz: sure
Shy boy: ok, we can go to Denny's
Razz: kay

several hours later
Razz: shit, I've just agreed to a date! *angst*

Ibram, I wouldn't read too much into it. Teenage girls test their manipulation skills on friends, male relatives and fast food employees. Most women grow out of it, but teenagers still see it as a game and will push harder if they encounter resistance.

I'm not saying she isn't interested, just that you can't tell just from this.

Personally I enjoy male company enormously, especially if the man in question is intelligent, funny and on my wavelength. I'd even take them shopping - even though that's not my thing. Play it by ear.

XD *pats* atleast you wheren't asked by an unattrative druggy... I think it'd have been better if no one had asked me to prom... T_T
.... I went with my friend; and the druggy dude came up to me anyway saying he requested a song and he said to me that it was for me... It was "I like big butts" I almost decked him. And he actually expected me to dance with him to it. Makes you wonder just how many braincells where killed off. -_-'