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The T 
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 Posted: December 09 2009 at 11:27 |
It depends. If you're an atheist, you see women as the ones who didn't develop testes, they are matter of study; if you're an agnostic, you doubt until you see evidence there's nothing behind those pants; if you're catholic priest, women are your impossible dream, psychosis may take hold of you; if you're muslim, they are your servants; if you're an avant-garde prog fan, they're fiction, their existence less relevant than that of the harshest dissonance.
They can be friends if there's no attraction whatsoever. With any hint of attraction, even though a friendship-like relationship can be mantained, it will never, never be like a true 100% interest-free friendship.
I guess... I have a girlfriend but not too many girl-friends.... 
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horsewithteeth11
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 11:33 |
 Pekka wrote:
My class is full of women, I'd like to think we're all just friends. |
I'd hope so, given that you already have a girlfriend. 
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 12:04 |
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Yes. Haven't you ever heard of the FRIEND ZONE? Not that I have experienced the friend zone from either gender, but the internet would not lie to me!
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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A Person
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 12:06 |
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I am just friends with some females.
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Negoba
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 12:18 |
A related item to my previous post, sexual rivalry can insinuate even into the strongest friendships ever. (Thinking of this pack of male teenage "friends" I was watching at a game last night, and how their behavior changed when a female entered.)
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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CPicard
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 12:58 |
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I can be only friend or collegue with women: I offered to co-worker to go at the museum on a saturday (I live in Paris) but she never called back...
And since my favorite woman is lesbian, it might happen that I would be nothing but friend with any woman I could encounter.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 13:17 |
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It's funny, when you throw in the whole heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, marriage thing, as long as people respect one another and are mature and not on the prowl, so to speak, the answer is yes.
Edited by Slartibartfast - December 09 2009 at 13:21
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Negoba
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 13:18 |
As a male, can you honestly ever completely turn off your "on the prowl."
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 13:20 |
Negoba wrote:
As a male, can you honestly ever completely turn off your "on the prowl." |
Speaking as a male, I'm not entirely certain.  I mean, I'm always pretty much horny unless I am really tired.
Edited by Slartibartfast - December 09 2009 at 22:46
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CPicard
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 13:55 |
Negoba wrote:
As a male, can you honestly ever completely turn off your "on the prowl." |
"On the prowl"? That sounds.... disquieting... I still prefer "horny": it doesn't turn women into "preys".
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zappaholic
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 20:04 |
I went with Yepper, since it's not like I have any choice in the matter. (I'm not gay, I'm just 100% undateable.)
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Negoba
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 20:41 |
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My ex-roommate claimed he was allergic to deodorant and yet still managed to find a cute girlfriend that eventually married him. There is no "undateable."
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 22:45 |
zappaholic wrote:
I went with Yepper, since it's not like I have any choice in the matter. (I'm not gay, I'm just 100% undateable.)
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It's the banging on the cowbell thing, isn't it?
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 22:53 |
Negoba wrote:
As a male, can you honestly ever completely turn off your "on the prowl." |
I am never "one the prowl".
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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A Person
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Posted: December 09 2009 at 23:30 |
Henry Plainview wrote:
Negoba wrote:
As a male, can you honestly ever completely turn off your "on the prowl." |
I am never "one the prowl". |
I honestly can't think of a time I was "on the prowl". Maybe I'm not trying hard enough? Or maybe I don't care enough.
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: December 10 2009 at 04:04 |
Negoba wrote:
As a male, can you honestly ever completely turn off your "on the prowl." |
Perceptive post certainly. Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout expressed this best:
But I don't know how to describe the Modern Rose,
When I can't refer to her shape against her clothes.
With the fever of purple prose.
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Negoba
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Posted: December 10 2009 at 06:30 |
Plainview finally reveals an actual self-portrait. 
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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jampa17
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Posted: December 10 2009 at 09:05 |
Negoba wrote:
My ex-roommate claimed he was allergic to deodorant and yet still managed to find a cute girlfriend that eventually married him. There is no "undateable." |
yeah... I met some really ugly and boring persons that always have a different girlfriend, so there's no "undateable", but if you don't let down the cowbell, dang... how can you ask her for her phone number...??? 
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Change the program inside... Stay in silence is a crime.
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UndercoverBoy
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Location: Tulsa, OK, U.S.
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Posted: December 10 2009 at 21:30 |
Depends on who the woman is. I would have a very hard time being "just friends" with this particular person:
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Toaster Mantis
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Location: Denmark
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Posted: December 11 2009 at 03:45 |
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Of course they can. I've never really understood the entire idea that people of different gender can't be friends without anything sexual between them, maybe it's an American thing?
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