Never Surrender

Although I resent the fact that you have basically just slammed me and my viewpoints pretty badly, I'm going to ignore that for the most part. I find it amusing that you would assume me to be judgemental and pretentious - I come from a modest upbringing, the lower end of the middle class. I am not cultured or refined, I went to a school where many of my classmates have now been stabbed, or have popped out a handful of babies, or have ended up dead through other means. I can also confirm that I am one of the least judgemental people that you will ever meet ' I don't care whether you talk constantly or not at all, what words you use or whether they are in the wrong orders, what you look like, your weight, height, gender, skin colour, disabilities, etc. That said, this topic was about picking up women. I am a woman who is regularly 'picked up' (my god I do sound easy!) so I feel like perhaps I may have a certain amount of experience with this topic. I have swung between men who are lords and landowners, to men who haven't had two pennies to their name. Not once did I care about anything like that, but I did care whether I could hold a conversation with them. If you had read my previous post properly, i say that I don't need somebody to be massively highly educated, but somebody who 'aint doing owt like that bro init' would be a step too far for me, purely because it is highly likely that due to the class divides in Britain today we would have been brought up with differing religious views, political views, work ethics, moral views, etc. and this is something that would likely cause a clash if brought up in a relationship. That, and I generally associate that type of speech with my teenage years, which are best left forgotten to me. It is primarily that type of speech I have a problem with - as far as I'm concerned you can use 'very' 5 times a sentence, as long as the sentence itself makes sense. At the end of the day Ghost, if good speech and language didn't matter, why is it that the majority of people in very well paid jobs, or positions of power, of even in your average middle class office workplace, all speak in similar ways? I'm not talking accents here, I'm talking literal sentence formation and word use. I was bought up believing that language and its use is very important as it really helps portray you as a person and the image you want to put across, and although I'm not perfect (I don't think anybody is), I would also unlikely be interested in somebody who did not care about that image, as to me PERSONALLY that's pretty unattractive. There is a reason that phrases such as 'phone voic'' exist, and the transition between chatting and serving customers in shops and stores as well. You don't have to speak as if you are addressing the queen all the time, but I do need to know that you can use words containing more than two syllables, just because the level of society and the group that I am in at the moment expects it, requires it, and it would be difficult to integrate a potential partner into my family and friendship groups otherwise, and I would want to share my life with him. If this makes me a snob then so be it.

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you just summed up and posted my childhood... i actually got a little emotional! was there more than one singing hedgehog video produced?

i think this is fairly tongue in cheek on something that is probably true for most people, not just women. i take it to mean that as a general rule, women like intelligent men. I am a woman and i can guarantee that although my man doesn't have to have a PhD from Oxford, i would also struggle to co-exist with somebody who made Forrest Gump look like Einstein. I don't want to discuss the finer points of politics and philosophy, but i would like to talk to somebody who understands the basic concepts of grammar (if you mix up their, there and they're, or then and than, i will be pretty stressed) and sentence structure. Its also worth noting that men who work harder on 'flowery language' MAY be more romantic, and the flowery language guy i was with at one point was also a very caring and considerate lover (do i sound like a bit of an easy street on this topic?) rather than a 'hump-and-dump' type... On that note, i actually do use the word 'morose' on a fairly regular basis.

well i havent haha but if i had, im sure that if i did, it would be delicious, perilous, vivacious and scalding (very tasty, very risky, very lively and very hot ) ...i feel like we have totally crashed off topic!

make that a few times, and remove the 'may'.... that said, im not known for my moral standards

i dunno, id probably do him i like creativity and imagination, and an unwillingness to stick to social 'sheep-like' behaviour in a parter

i know which PSA youre talking about, but i wont post it because it may be distressing to watch for some people! but it sure did the job on a few of my friends who texted and drove at one point, a lot of them havent picked up a phone whilst behind the wheel since. There was also a very good australian one about drink driving that was released years ago but still makes me cry when i watch it, it was called something like 'the 12 day of christmas', and was one of the most moving ones i have seen, even though it wasnt the best made or even aimed at my age group!

i genuinely just learnt so much about computers, like AOL, and .com... and i still dont know what a Modem is? so glad i was born into my generation!

as you all probably know, i go to a university on a beach that has dangerous and notorious rip tides and undercurrents my personal tutor genuinely showed me that video on our freshers week induction ive had a small fear of the sea (and open water) ever since, but alas its never stopped me wading in. oops.

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Thanks Mark for another great chapter Setting this one in England has made me very happy haha its nice to fully understand the small comments, eg. The feat of london driving, instead of having to run to google or to skype to find an american Looking forward to seeing where this story is going to go!

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Any time that you cant chew quietly, cant chew with your mouth closed, or need to look respectable But mostly when you cant chew quietly with your mouth closed - it makes me wish their jaw was broken and wired shut! Rawr!

I'm also another one incredibly guilty of this. Im a 90's kid, I only just turned 20. My complaining about being old stems from my friends around me and those in my peer group at school, now I'm one of a minority who isn't married, having children, engaged, etc. It sets off feelings of terror that I will be forever alone, which clash beautifully with my feelings of terror at the prospect of committing to someone I think its because everybody around is getting on with their life, and making 'adult' moves, whereas I'm just here melting plastic spatulas to saucepans and playing with ponies...

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thanks guys had a really good time yesterday and last night now just time for recovery ive run out of likes, but i really do appreciate all the messages

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