ok, can HUMOUR compensate for a man's not entirely babe-ness?

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obv this depends on the girl whos judging but apparently it generally can. im not so sure. thinking a guy is funny does not = thinking you want to jump his bones. regrettably.

― um, Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Well as I girl I say no.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Can the *chemistry* compensate? Yes! For anything!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

The quality that trumps everything is resolve.

― work, Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

the quality that trumps everything reamins my secret

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

so orbit, its perceived babeness or nothing?!

― um, Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

i realize that this makes me kind of wrong, like, as a person, but the moment i read "reamins" i imagined that "they" were like a pervier variety of moomin.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

you know, i kind of HATE it when people say being funny is the most important quality. makes me feel like i have to be a goddamn stand-up comedian around them to be liked. fucking obnoxious!

― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Well, um, it's like a clicks or it doesn't, regardless of looks, height, or anything else. But I'm prob not a representative sample of females. That's just how it is in my world.

xpost

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

xpost - yeah, and then when you ARE funny, they just dont think of you in any other way except That Funny Guy and then you stop making jokes to be taken seriously and then you still get no ass and then youre doubly fucked cos no longer are you funny and youre still not getting ass.

― ppp, Sunday, 26 June 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I Would say to um: Don't worry what your "babe factor" is, just be yourself.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

sure

― dahlin (dahlin), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Anyway when you say "babe" do you mean the objective physical appeal? Because being "good-looking" has as many pitfalls as being ugly. It's as hard--maybe even harder--to have honest relations with people when you're excessively handsome. Neutral is where it's at.

― work, Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

If someone doesn't make me laugh, a full-on relationship with them wouldn't appeal to me. I love funny people. If that makes me fucking obnoxious then SHOCKER.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

"chemistry" is the most overhyped meaningless relationship term ever. saying "our relationship works because we have chemistry" is like saying "our relationship works because our relationship works." it's so nebulous that it's meaningless for describing anything.

― mu@mu.com, Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I think that when people say that they like a sense of humor, it usually means "I want someone who isn't humorless and has the ability to appreciate comedy as well as be funny themselves" and not "I want someone who makes jokes nonstop because they have stunted social skills."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

http://members.shaw.ca/celebritywash/Photos/carrottoppic2.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Um, you should stop obsessing over every tiny detail that may or may not help you get laid, get off the internet, and go out and make a spaz of yourself.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

Don't listen to him. The internet leads to healthier relationships. KEEP TYPING

― work, Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

"stunted social skills."

the fear of suffering from this might be the cause of many posts like this.

― ppp, Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

i.e., the fear of suffering this might be the cause of stunted social skills.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 26 June 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

humor as in having good & funny ideas, great. humor as in making everything a gigantic joke as a flirtation style....aaargh.

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 26 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

sense of humor = being able to see the funny in things

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 June 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

i mean there are some pretty humorless people out there, you gotta admit

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 26 June 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

or people whose sense of humor is entirely different than yours, just as bad.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 26 June 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

humor as in having good & funny ideas, great. humor as in making everything a gigantic joke as a flirtation style....aaargh.
-- Maria (silyl_ari...), June 26th, 2005. (later)

OTM. One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from an ex of mine, who said: "You're not a fucking stand-up comedian - you don't need to try and make me laugh every ten seconds." Not everything needs a wisecrack or a 'funny' observation.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 26 June 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

mu mu don't downplay the pheromones--you can't see them but they are mad powerful.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 27 June 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

humor is my greatest asset when it comes to winning a girls heart, i dont see why it wouldnt work for anyone (unless you resemble a very unnattractive member of the opposite sex). the sad thing is that i just don't feel funny recently, more like profoundly lonely and depressed

― Hamlet Sandwich, Monday, 27 June 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Dave Barry once said that when a woman says she's looking for a guy with a great sense of humour, she actually means she's looking for Hugh Grant.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 27 June 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

It can, it doesn't always.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 27 June 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

hugh grant fucks hookers and probably has herpes. i'll take the sense of humor, thanks.

― monsanto and yanni (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 27 June 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― MIS Information (kate), Monday, 27 June 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.btinternet.com/~phil_johnson/roxanne.jpg

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 27 June 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

not

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 27 June 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

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