[firefeng]

The fun threshold for alliteration starts at three words. So sayeth Sir Firefeng.

[Kay]

I fuckin' lol'd. Though, I'm still trying to decide if your writing style is so profoundly disjointed because the words themselves feel awkward in your sentences or because Microsoft Sam was your speech therapist.

It's not my intention to offend you, by the way. Quite the opposite, in fact (this time ) - I find it quite endearing that you can go from sounding like a pissed off nerd to sounding like a fucking Delta Force sniper calling out insurgents at, like, McDonalds or whatever...

[Click!] 'This is Delta, targets have repositioned themselves five yards east of the register. Assets are at risk. Proceeding to neutralize the Alpha Male...'

It was a KenTacoHut.

But, yes, I find that I oft write in different styles depending on my mood. Most of you probably find my word choices unnatural at times because of the style in which I was taught. I was in a private school throughout middle school, and had the same teacher for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. I have always been exceptional at memorization, in fact it's the easiest way for me to learn anything, and she was very fond of drilling the class on flash cards/memorization. So in middle school I memorized 1x1 to 21x21 (It's not even something I have to think about anymore, somebody can say what's 14x19 and I can answer in less than a second. A rather useless skill, I know.) and like 20 definitions from the dictionary a week. So while I have quite a vocabulary, I never properly learned how to use it. It really doesn't bother me too much when people criticize my idiolect, I never considered myself a syntactician and don't intend to.

Perhaps, as Pathwriter noted, I will eventually mature into a style of writing that I am comfortable with.

[treelo]

18x12

[treelo]

Less than a second my arse.

[DERFtheGalka]

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[firefeng]

[kangaroo]

This thread just got a whole lot sexier.

[Serataru]

There's no complexity here, ask Kay to take off her shirt and post a picture of it. The fun is in the asking, the bonus is if she complies.

Spoken like a straight man, you continue to shock me, Path

[pathwriter]

You're assuming there is a fundamental difference between gay and straight men. There really isn't, we're still just males.

[Serataru]

i figured the difference was that you didn't like naked girls

[pathwriter]

Titties are fine. They're not particularly titillating (yes, I had to use that word), but there's nothing wrong with them. I've never seen the appeal, but since I enjoy art that is themed on fantasy or science fiction video games, I've become quite indifferent to the appearance of naked female breasts because they're incorporated into such art obligatorily.

[Kay]

Yes... art. Such an idiosyncratic thing...

Though I won't go so far as to say that I find myself offended by nudity, I certainly have never quite grasped the necessity of it. I find that it seldom plays an essential part of any exposition of ideas and was, instead, of such tenuous social value as a step to truth (or whatever it had hoped to imply) that any benefit that could be derived from it is usually outweighed.

[Seigrith]

I think that makes it unanimous, Kay. I wouldn't be offended by your nudity either.

[Agena]

Okay, incoming story & bitching:

I'd had a long day so I decided to go to the bar not far from my house and knock back a few. I went on my own 'cause I wasn't really planning on making a night of it, I just wanted to have a few drinks and walk home before the place got too busy.

So anyway, I'm sitting at the bar and this guy walks up, a little skinny guy, looks a few years older than me, and he asks if he can buy me my next drink. I figure he's gay and looking for some company, so I say, as politely as possible, that I'm flattered and everything (and to be honest I was flattered) but I don't swing that way. Now, the guy looks positively unhappy, and I figure he's probably not had the best day either if he's skulking around a bar alone and asking a random guy out in the late afternoon, so I say "How 'bout I buy you one instead, call it a consolation prize" and we laugh and he sits down with me and starts talking.

So he chats on and on about every trouble in the world that ever occurred to him and I do my best to seem interested and sympathetic, and to be honest I did sympathise with the fellow, 'cause it didn't seem he'd been having the best time recently.

But after a while, he starts putting his hand on my leg, and/or leaning in closer to me to whisper and stuff like that. Now, I'm not exactly used to that from either gender, especially not in a public place, and I had made it quite clear that I'm straight, and it was getting kind of uncomfortable. First few times I just push him back a little and let him go on talking, but after a while I stop him and tell him, again as politely as I can, that it's making me a little uncomfortable, and while I'm quite happy to sit there and chat with him, I don't want him groping me.

But apparently, I was wearing a pointed white hood displaying anti-gay propaganda when I said it, because he freaked the hell out. He starts screeching about how I'm a bigot, a homophobe, stuff like that. So I stand up and try to calm him down, I repeat that I have no problem chatting with him, I have nothing against gay people, I would just rather he kept his hands to himself, but he just keeps screeching and yelling at me, so I just say drop it and leave.

So, gay population of FW, can anyone tell me what the fuck I did wrong here? I was nice to the guy, I bought him drinks and I listened to him for the better part of an hour. And those of you who've seen my pics will know, I'm not exactly Brad Pitt, so it's not like I shattered his hopes and dreams or anything. What the fuck was this guy's problem?

If you did something wrong o.o Wtf is right? For one thing though, I would have immediately stood up after he started touching my leg, and said something like "Whoa buddy you are barking up the wrong tree, besides I could get a way better gay guys then you, also you probably have aids because you are so skinny"

He would then go home and kill himself, but I'd be doing God's work

[firefeng]

Though I won't go so far as to say that I find myself offended by nudity, I certainly have never quite grasped the necessity of it.

Pray tell what is necessary when it comes to art.

[Kay]

Pray tell what is necessary when it comes to art.

Well according to the artist(s) it is a necessity. I don't care to argue about what defines art, though.

I think that makes it unanimous, Kay. I wouldn't be offended by your nudity either.

Alright then, let me get a camera... oh wait, icwutudidthere.

[Icerat]

Well according to the artist(s) it is a necessity. I don't care to argue about what defines art, though.

Didn't we have a thread like that?

Art is a personal expression of the artist, much like a book is for an author.

There have been countless studies done about the left brain vs. right brain dominance theories. The creative people(not sure which brain half is controlling) are those also good with subjects like history and english and of course art while the opposite side of the brain controlled group are good with science and math and mechanical things. I was always good in math and science and can work on anything but I can't even draw a stick figure or make up a simle story.

[pathwriter]

That right brain/left brain thing is a load of nonsense.

Simple example, my field of study is largely language. I specialize in my mother tongue, but I speak several others and study linguistics in my spare time. Learning to use language and then actually using it is neither left-brained (logical, sequential, and bottom-up) nor right-brained (amorphous, spontaneous, and top-down), it's both. Pedagogical techniques often favor the structured approach because it can be standardized more readily, but actual fluency is a direct result of commingling both aspects.

Real art (yes, yes, No True Scotsman fallacy) relies on both sides of the brain, too. It's convenient to suggest that Jackson Pollack was working entirely at his whim and I suppose there's a chance that he was, but more likely he was applying a deliberately methodical approach or his work would not be internally consistent.

An engineer or mathematician with no creative capacity is hindered. It takes leaps of the imagination and non-traditional thinking to excel. Similarly, a dancer or painter with no logic is generally mediocre at best.

If you really cannot draw, by the way, it's probably because you've never really tried. It is not difficult at all to render an acceptable impression of a given object, even if it is a long way from photo-realistic. As a caveat, though, I consistently test as someone who uses both creative and logical aspects of my brain simultaneously, so I may be incorrectly applying my own experiences as universal.

[Seigrith]

Alright then, let me get a camera... oh wait, icwutudidthere.

Damn it, I was this close...