Fashion Board 1-08-04 through 02-03-04

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Thesis: A person who attended private or Catholic K-12 is likely to identify a person they met there as their closest friend. A person who attended public K-12 is more likely to identify a person they met in college as their closest friend, except if they still live in the town where they grew up.

Related premise: Men generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Women generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Conclusion: women make better friends, probably because they usually smell better.

I haven't found any of this to be true. Not even a little bit.

(Except the second half of your conclusion.)

TM

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Same here. Also, don't live near my grade school or high school friends (most never left my hometown).

Since I only get "home" a couple of times a year (if that), I only keep in touch with a few people there.

I live 800 miles from "home" but they have this thing.
It's called a telephone.
And my bestest friends use it to call me, usually every day, sometimes 3 and 4 times a day. So I don't get your point.
Yes, I can't go out to dinner with them more than once or twice a year but that doesn't make them not my bestest friends.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen

Now, clearly the men here on the FB are superior men, and each and every one of you (except Coltrane) loves a woman smarter than you or desires to love a woman smarter than you.

Are you saying this b/c she can't be intelligent if she's dating me? If so...well...I'm having trouble defeating your logic. I'll bring this up with her. She's pretty smart, so hopefully she can figure it out.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by mmm3587
I almost married a devestatingly intelligent woman, and the fact that we didn't get married didn't have anything to do with how her intelligence made me feel.

Yeah. But how did her mentor make you feel?

TM

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Thesis: A person who attended private or Catholic K-12 is likely to identify a person they met there as their closest friend. A person who attended public K-12 is more likely to identify a person they met in college as their closest friend, except if they still live in the town where they grew up.

Related premise: Men generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Women generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Conclusion: women make better friends, probably because they usually smell better.

Your thesis sucks. It's based on 0 facts - except that you were Catholic and your best friend is a girl.

Not Catholic
Not a man
Not a sock
Best friend is a woman.
(I would use the word whiff except that I am of the opinion that it is currently overused by people who never played baseball and don't fully grasp its meaning.)

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Mine. Did you really have to ask?

Until confirmation, yez.

TM

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Your thesis sucks. It's based on 0 facts - except that you were Catholic and your best friend is a girl.

Not Catholic
Not a man
Not a sock
Best friend is a woman.
(I would use the word whiff except that I am of the opinion that it is currently overused by people who never played baseball and don't fully grasp its meaning.)

People from Catholic school might tend to stay better friends for the same reason people who did a tour of Nam together may stay close.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
One of us is whiffing. Not entirely sure which.

I think at this point we're just talking past each other and are making 2 entirely different points.

It happens. Let's just say I may be talking out of my ass like Atticus.
Where's Less when I need him?

[Dualit]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
So you're saying that you have no contact with any childhood friends at all? 2 of my closest friends I met in 3rd grade.

I don't think that is unusual. Although I have lots of friends, I have no regular contact with any of my childhood or college friends and have limited contact with my law school classmates. I don't socialize with my present co-workers, although I keep up with some of the people from my old lawfirm. NONE of my close friends are lawyers -- they are people that I have met socially over the years. I've even dated a couple of them.

Dua(perhaps I broke with my past when I came out, in an attempt to forget a lot of unpleasantness)lit

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
People from Catholic school might tend to stay better friends for the same reason people who did a tour of Nam together may stay close.

Why do you think fraternity hazing works(ed) so well?

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
bestest friends

Bestest friends?

Are you, like, you know, serious?

I have some very good friends, I have some medium level friends, and I have some friends I just like to hang out with from time to time. None of them would qualify as a bestest friend. That position is reserved for whomever I am having sex with at any given time.

And she had best be the bestest.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by mmm3587
My best friend in the world never went to college, and he's made some really stupid life decisions.

Have you taken it upon yourself to help him through these decisions now, as say...a de facto mentor?

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by leagleaze
Bestest friends?

Are you, like, you know, serious?

I have some very good friends, I have some medium level friends, and I have some friends I just like to hang out with from time to time. None of them would qualify as a bestest friend. That position is reserved for whomever I am having sex with at any given time.

And she had best be the bestest.

You have a caste system of friendship?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
[more stuff on men and smart chicks]

I actually have to say that I've found more women concerned with a man being smarter (in some way or another) than them than men. I think women, more often than men, feel they to some extent take on the status of their mate, and women more frequently consider "smart" to be a status-enhancing feature in a mate (while men might more usually think "great tits" to reflect well on their mate-attracting abilities and thus status).

Caveat: there is a common breed of alpha-male (for example, that "asshole in law school" guy) who feels he has to be the smartest person in the room. Some alpha guys will see a "smart/superior" woman as an excellent status enhancing trophy, but many that I've known definitely feel their alpha status threatened by the presence of people with superior qualities - be they male or female.

Perhaps you are mostly noting the selection habits of alpha males, which would make sense given whom you are likely to come into more contact with in our [sarcasm = dripping] rarefied upper middle class "professional" circles [/sarcasm].

Second caveat: blah blah, we are all on this board obviously far too enlightened to be subject to any of this, blah, blah.

BR(I, too, married someone far more IQ/intellecutally intelligent than me, but I probably have more "real world" smarts through simple experience outside of the ivory tower. Then again, he isn't the one who thinks it's rational to blow $350 on a pair of shoes, so I may not be the street-smart one, either.)C

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Why do you think fraternity hazing works(ed) so well?

Its different. Hazing is pure silliness. Catholicism as practiced by the parochial idiots who run those schools is geared toward warping the mind and fostering blind obedience.

Trust me, I've dealt with brainwashed Catholics in my day. There is no breed stupider walking planet Earth, except maybe those fire and brimstone Southern Baptists. In a perfect world, vehement Catholics and the Southern Baptists fight to the death on Greenland with portable nuclear weapons.