Talk Hearts Daily News Thread

[Mr A]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/...g_share_tw

"Donal Billings, 66, who uses the internet alias 'Alan Partridge', planted a bomb on a bus and made a number of bomb hoaxes to blow up Dublin Castle during the Queen's visit telling detectives "this one is for the Queen"."

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Neggy in the post for AP. And Mhorph.

[Zizou]

[Roger H. Sterling]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...ebook-post

One for Mak.

[PHOODLE-OUt]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...ebook-post

One for Mak.

That article is spot on. "Nice guy" = ugly creepy weed

[Zizou]

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/t...-1-4319578

[Roger H. Sterling]

Pretty shitty handwriting for a 12 year old.

[PHOODLE-OUt]

[Big Physical Acey]

That's genuinely quite sad that he wants "peace and quiet" when his family/Celtic are shoving him into the spotlight every five seconds.

[Shuto Makino]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...ebook-post

One for Mak.

The so-called 'Nice Guy', the often physically unattractive man who overcompensates with clingy and over-the-top behaviour to women

Not relevant to me, I'm afraid - I never talk to women.

[Roger H. Sterling]

The so-called 'Nice Guy', the often physically unattractive man who overcompensates with clingy and over-the-top behaviour to women

Not relevant to me, I'm afraid - I never talk to women.

One for Shaun?

[Fire Doinks]

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...ebook-post

One for Mak.

That's a good article.

I've got a friend who is really like this, posts daily on facebook about how unlucky he is in love and how he doesn't understand why women never go for him etc. A couple of years back we had a sort of intervention for him He'd done it a few times where he just latches on to a girl that's either already got a boyfriend or is clearly not interested and does shit like driving across the city to pick them up when they're going up town, picking them up after the night and driving her and her mates home. Few other things like that, just really clingy and self-pitying thinking he can get into someone's pants from sympathy and feeling sorry for himself.


For me, friendship with women can only go so far before it has to lead to more. That's not including two people that are interested in each other, but can't do anything about it because of relationships etc. But having someone of the opposite sex as your best friend doesn't really make sense to me.

[shaun.lawson]

One for Shaun?

Nah, not me either. I'm in 95% agreement with that article; my only issue with it is I think it's quite mean spirited and seriously lacks empathy. 'Needy' people only become needy in the first place because of lack of love. Then they're continually punished and ridiculed for it, meaning it becomes a vicious circle. The more they're ridiculed, the lonelier they get; the lonelier they get, the less attractive they are; the less attractive they are, the more they ridicule themselves.

But I'm 95% in agreement because, well... are men attracted to women because they're 'sweet' or 'nice' (the two most beige, bland words in the English language)? Nope. So why should women be either? Plenty of sweet, nice people find love - but they're not only sweet and nice. And being only sweet, nice and nothing else isn't authentic. It isn't believable. It's covering up for something (usually, lack of self-confidence, which takes me back to my first point).

I happily admit that during my teenage years and early 20s, I found the idea of any woman being attracted to me completely and utterly ridiculous. So much so that I openly laughed at the very thought. That was a legacy of my past - which I didn't understand half as well at the time as I do now. Back then, I didn't even think I could make friends, meaning I was shocked if anyone liked me cordially - and balancing that self-esteem of minus 10,000 was a complete inability to see anything bad in anyone else, an endless capacity to make excuses for everyone else, and above all, putting women on a pedestal.

Since then, I've changed gradually. And when I'm attracted to someone, my behaviour is just... different. People get together as a result of flirting, winding each other up, communicating in code, having a laugh. It almost always happens pretty quickly, and we almost always instinctively know if we have that connection/chemistry/spark/whatever with someone. We can feel it. In cases where men are 'friendzoned' (actually, those men effectively friendzone themselves), that feeling is never there - and if those men are honest, they know it.

Human beings are complex creatures. Light and dark, good and bad, serious and naughty, rational and emotional, mental and physical. Sexual attraction is about passion, about oomph - you have to feel it. How can any form of animal magnetism be reduced to "he's so nice! He never stops telling me how wonderful I am! I have to sleep with him right now!" It's ludicrous - above all, because it's not treating the woman as an equal, but idolising her instead. Treating her like some sort of princess sprinkled in sugardust instead of being interested in the complex human being she is.

There are, incidentally, many long term relationships where the sex more or less vanishes. Those aren't relationships any longer; they're friendships. For a couple to maintain the same attraction to each other for decades might, maybe, be the most difficult challenge facing any two humans - but those who fail to do so yet stay together anyway are, for the most part, kidding themselves.

[Del-icious]

Pissing myself at the thought of Shaun sitting in on his own with his wee Norwich teddy bear guffawing at the thought of a woman loving him

[CritchSmile]

I feel like us online cretins taught Shaun how to be an (almost) functioning member of society. You're welcome my friend.

Now to get the girl and our story will be complete.

[Patrick Bateman]

There is an idea of a Shaun Lawson, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

[PHOODLE-OUt]

Is the 5% you disagree with the 786,942 female best friends you have?

[Pete Seeger]

Didn't you meet marry your wife once she realised nothing better was coming up after years in the friend zone?

[shaun.lawson]

Pissing myself at the thought of Shaun sitting in on his own with his wee Norwich teddy bear guffawing at the thought of a woman loving him

It happened twice. First on the phone with my then best friend. "Shaun, what would you do if a woman tried to seduce you?" Me: "I'd laugh". Best friend: "Hmm, that wouldn't be the ideal response to be honest".

Second, at a party. I was all set to share a cab back to my nightbus stop with a very cute French girl who most guys on the course had the hots for. My friend Kari: "Shaun - you're going back with Benedicte? I approve!" There was something about Kari; he had this Blackadder style of delivery. But I creased up, and went into a full-on laughing fit which lasted ages. Even he interjected "it's not that funny!" in the end.

Then when I got out of the taxi, I realised why I'd been laughing so much, and felt sad. Then some bint on the nightbus went "cheer up love, you won't be alone all your life", and I felt worse. Fucking bitch.

Precious memories.

[Picards Forehead]

I feel like us online cretins taught Shaun how to be an (almost) functioning member of society. You're welcome my friend.

Now to get the girl and our story will be complete.

Maybe time to make another pass at Jenna?