Help with women

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by TheGrimm

If you can't enjoy a bit of sardonic humor... You should probably avoid forums on the internet. :P

My bad. Sounded similar to some of the ones in here that were serious.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by TheGrimm

Oh... Also for anyone who missed the pic, she was a beauty of a brunette, I grabbed the pic and posted it here... ;D

Enjoi!

Katy Perry, or is that Zoe Dashenelle (sp?). Can't tell the @#$@# difference.

[TheGrimm]

Originally Posted by rubecube

My bad. Sounded similar to some of the ones in here that were serious.

Yea, not sure why I ever try to use sarcasm in text... It never seems to relay well..

[Lt.Spears]

Not bad OP, now go get some of her coworkers.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by TheGrimm

Yea, not sure why I ever try to use sarcasm in text... It never seems to relay well..

I think it's just because I've never really seen any of your posts before, so I couldn't tell the difference.

[J pold]

Damnit! I keep missing the pictures!

[Kybosh]

Originally Posted by J pold

Damnit! I keep missing the pictures!

She just looked like the standard Australian you'd meet in Thailand who goes 35% hippy while in SE Asia.

[Ozy_Flame]

She was good looking, but she was breaking the fourth wall in the picture, and looks like two or three steps removed from doing a duck face. Ozy no like. No dice.

[Joborule]

Ozy must bang super models only.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Joborule

Ozy must bang super models only.

Uhh, this is the internet. Who doesn't?

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by Joborule

Ozy must bang super models only.

Almost. I bang super-glued models. Of the assembled variety. This one is my favourite with me in it:

[To Be Quite Honest]

Here is another guy struggling with women... It can lead to a lot of dangers...

Spoiler!

[Dion]

Beauty and the Beast

BY DAVE BARRY

(This classic Dave Barry column was originally published on Feb. 1, 1998.)

If you're a man, at some point a woman will ask you how she looks.

''How do I look?'' she'll ask.

You must be careful how you answer this question. The best technique is to form an honest yet sensitive opinion, then collapse on the floor with some kind of fatal seizure. Trust me, this is the easiest way out. Because you will never come up with the right answer.

The problem is that women generally do not think of their looks in the same way that men do. Most men form an opinion of how they look in seventh grade, and they stick to it for the rest of their lives. Some men form the opinion that they are irresistible stud muffins, and they do not change this opinion even when their faces sag and their noses bloat to the size of eggplants and their eyebrows grow together to form what appears to be a giant forehead-dwelling tropical caterpillar.

Most men, I believe, think of themselves as average-looking. Men will think this even if their faces cause heart failure in cattle at a range of 300 yards. Being average does not bother them; average is fine, for men. This is why men never ask anybody how they look. Their primary form of beauty care is to shave themselves, which is essentially the same form of beauty care that they give to their lawns.

If, at the end of his four-minute daily beauty regimen, a man has managed to wipe most of the shaving cream out of his hair and is not bleeding too badly, he feels that he has done all he can, so he stops thinking about his appearance and devotes his mind to more critical issues, such as the Super Bowl.

Women do not look at themselves this way. If I had to express, in three words, what I believe most women think about their appearance, those words would be: ''not good enough.'' No matter how attractive a woman may appear to be to others, when she looks at herself in the mirror, she thinks: woof.

She thinks that at any moment a municipal animal-control officer is going to throw a net over her and haul her off to the shelter.

Why do women have such low self-esteem? There are many complex psychological and societal reasons, by which I mean Barbie. Girls grow up playing with a doll proportioned such that, if it were a human, it would be seven feet tall and weigh 81 pounds, of which 53 pounds would be bosoms.

This is a difficult appearance standard to live up to, especially when you contrast it with the standard set for little boys by their dolls ... excuse me, by their action figures. Most of the action figures that my son played with when he was little were hideous-looking. For example, he was very fond of an action figure (part of the He-Man series) called ''Buzz-Off,'' who was part human, part flying insect. Buzz-Off was not a looker. But he was extremely self-confident. You could not imagine Buzz-Off saying to the other action figures: ``Do you think these wings make my hips look big?''

But women grow up thinking they need to look like Barbie, which for most women is impossible, although there is a multibillion-dollar beauty industry devoted to convincing women that they must try. I once saw an Oprah show wherein supermodel Cindy Crawford dispensed makeup tips to the studio audience. Cindy had all these middle-aged women applying beauty products to their faces; she stressed how important it was to apply them in a certain way, using the tips of their fingers. All the woman dutifully did this, even though it was obvious to any sane observer that, no matter how carefully they applied these products, they would never look remotely like Cindy Crawford, who is some kind of genetic mutation.

I'm not saying that men are superior. I'm just saying that you're not going to get a group of middle-aged men to sit in a room and apply cosmetics to themselves under the instruction of Brad Pitt, in hopes of looking more like him. Men would realize that this task was pointless and demeaning. They would find some way to bolster their self-esteem that did not require looking like Brad Pitt. They would say to Brad: ``Oh YEAH? Well what do you know about LAWN CARE, pretty boy?''

Of course, many women will argue that the reason they become obsessed with trying to look like Cindy Crawford is that men, being as shallow as a drop of spit, WANT women to look that way. To which I have two responses:

1. Hey, just because WE'RE idiots, that doesn't mean YOU have to be; and

2. Men don't even notice 97 percent of the beauty efforts you make anyway. Take fingernails. The average woman spends 5,000 hours per year worrying about her fingernails; I have never once, in more than 40 years of listening to men talk about women, heard a man say, ''She has a nice set of fingernails!'' Many men would not notice if a woman had upward of four hands.

Anyway, to get back to my original point: If you're a man, and a woman asks you how she looks, you're in big trouble. Obviously, you can't say she looks bad. But you also can't say that she looks great, because she'll think you're lying, because she has spent countless hours, with the help of the multibillion-dollar beauty industry, obsessing about the differences between herself and Cindy Crawford. Also, she suspects that you're not qualified to judge anybody's appearance. This is because you have shaving cream in your hair.

[Weiser Wonder]

Good to see Dave Barry has joined me in the crusade to destroy all humor.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

Good to see Dave Barry has joined me in the crusade to destroy all humor.

Well, at least you have a sense of humor about your lack of a sense of humor.

[wayzeted]

If you can get past rejection and talk to women, like someone else said, you will do fine. The key is to keep going every time you get beaten down. Keep going until something clicks. Even if it takes 100 women brushing you off...keep moving Forward until one doesn't.

[sun]

Dammit I missed the picture both times it was posted.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

Good to see Dave Barry has joined me in the crusade to destroy all humor.

I'm surprised no one has raped him yet.