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Up Front: The Up Front Guide: Dressing for "Success"

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  • Russell Brown,

    Baudrillard, Bathes and Derrida are for real men.

    Without wishing to re-start the po-mo wars, none of that has ever seemed shaggable to me.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    I am a synner! I field your pain...

    Second use of a 'hose' pun in one day.

    What's with the add homonym attack?
    But, I thought ya got one per meaning, Ref...
    oh well, off to the synonym bin...
    ;- )


    tempting fate dept...

    he-whores

    or, we could be he-hoes...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    Without wishing to re-start the po-mo wars, none of that has ever seemed shaggable to me.

    Luckily I'm 18 years married with three children, so it hardly seems to matter. Apparently 'A' waited long enough for me to grow out of my 'I'm really deep and here's my bookcase to prove it' period. Did I wear stripped shirts? Don't think there are any photos.

    Anyhoo, I was being nostalgic. I could probably pull Mythologies off the shelf though, if nothing else.

    Wheatgrass still tastes awful.

    he-whores

    Hey!

    This is my vote for a Kim Deal archetype.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Did I wear stripped shirts? Don't think there are any photos.

    And even if there were, you wouldn't just take them willy-nilly to correlate to an outside, objective reality, now, would you? So you're in the clear either way.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    Are we able to in some way distinguish the above guy, who is totally admirable

    On the dancefloor. Otherwise, what Danielle said and Emma's test, and other stuff

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    So you're in the clear either way.

    Are you completely mad? I may have to discipline and punish you for such presumptions of the order of things.

    'It's not knowledge bro, until you use it.' Or something.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Emma, I have to contradict you there. Boring girls to death talking about one's specialty is not the mark of a sensitive man. It is, however, the mark of a genuine man.

    Soo, what if the girl is trying to get his attention precisely because of his expertise, and he wont discuss, because he's feeling used. Seriously, trying to design a house (to scale) and all I get is. "when I'm good and ready"
    Not sensitive at all :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • andin,

    What you mean this doesn't work anymore!

    It has even been theorised that bipedalism evolved in humans to allow the fashionably new, larger, flexible penis to be displayed to discerning females.

    I dont get out much, as someone elsewhere noted.

    raglan • Since Mar 2007 • 1891 posts Report Reply

  • BenWilson,

    Soo, what if the girl is trying to get his attention precisely because of his expertise, and he wont discuss, because he's feeling used.

    Tough one. I've been in this situation many a time. Sometimes "when I'm good and ready" is the only way to avoid a lie.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    Marino? I knew they were trying to make a silk out of mussel byses but - They've managed it?
    Waua!

    That erm penis observation is kinda ancient history: bonobo penes would make the average H. sap. sap. cry-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    trying to get his attention precisely because of his expertise

    am yet to notice that experience

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Isabel Hitchings,

    Boring girls to death talking about one's specialty is not the mark of a sensitive man. It is, however, the mark of a genuine man.

    A man who is passionate about something and articulate about sharing that passion is remarkably sexy though. I don't have to share his passion (yet) so long as I can see how one might get to love that thing.

    Christchurch • Since Jul 2007 • 719 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    am yet to notice that experience

    And you yet have to come over and get your present. :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    Wheatgrass tastes green. And fiberous. I understand why people in the deep throes of veganism might resort to it but - y'know, go for carrots good folk-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • BenWilson,

    A man who is passionate about something and articulate about sharing that passion is remarkably sexy though.

    Don't ever ask me to talk about algorithm design methodologies then ... I wouldn't want to lead you on.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report Reply

  • Lucy Stewart,

    A man who is passionate about something and articulate about sharing that passion is remarkably sexy though. I don't have to share his passion (yet) so long as I can see how one might get to love that thing.

    It does depend somewhat on the thing. As demonstrated ably by a good-looking young man of my acquaintance whose passionate speeches are largely based around the finer details of power supplies. Other engineers' eyes glaze over, let alone the rest of us.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2105 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    - y'know, go for carrots good folk-

    Or cucumbers. Now that does sound dirty but seriously not intended. Yeah right says some of yous :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    Sofie - you *never* want to know about the cucumber/gourd/marrow conversation that took place here in Big O - me, plaintively offering among the humungous giggling heap, cucurbits dont *do* it that way....

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    O, and I was speaking from the realm of tastiness...

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Baudrillard, Bathes and Derrida are for real men.

    As in regular bathing maketh the man? I think you mean Barthes. But such an ignoble end--being run over by a laundry van (the kind of connection that Ian Dalziel would relish?)

    As for philosophers, give me Raymond Williams any day. Very generous in spirit, and he became more radical as he grew older (as we all should).

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Re Emma's Dark and Brooding category: it is probably best to recall Woody Allen's caution that It is very difficult to appear Byronic without appearing to be moronic

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Megan Wegan,

    Man, I go away for a couple of hours, and you people are all interesting...

    A man who is passionate about something and articulate about sharing that passion is remarkably sexy though. I don't have to share his passion (yet) so long as I can see how one might get to love that thing.

    There is nothing I love more than someone who cares about something. Could be beer, could be, like, rally car driving.

    (it's probably not rally car driving)

    But yeah, people who are passionate about things, and enthuse: Hot.

    Welly • Since Jul 2008 • 1275 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    It does depend somewhat on the thing.

    That is actually true. Cause you know what I've always hated? Post-modernism. I'd love to argue against the theory here, but I have seen post-modernism get a guy laid. Well, I say 'seen'...

    Slash!

    You're a bad man, Brown. Also,

    Bollocks to that. I was much better with the Jung. Quote that shit when you're high, and it's deep.

    Yeah, see, I'm calling 'actual sensitive pretending to be fake-sensitive to get laid'.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    yet have to come over and get your present

    Eh? I'll be in touch

    I'm calling 'actual sensitive pretending to be fake-sensitive to get laid'

    Oh cmon, I was having enough trouble keeping up as it was

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    I have seen post-modernism get a guy laid

    I've only seen that work for the visiting lecturer - and I suspect it was all about the power of his role and the exotic accent rather than his corduroy jacket or the subject matter

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

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