OK, so where'd Rosie get to NOW?
Sozobe, I respectfully disagree that these are different.
ohmygod...I felt the same way!!!!!
the tongue sticking thing up there that is
Soz, I think you're right about that. I did check out the hiking groups, there is a fee, a small one, but a fee all the same - it'll have to wait. I've joined back up with some college friends, they're both married, but I enjoy hiking and visiting with them.
And, there's the abuzz/A2K groups. I stuck with abuzz to make friends and friends I've made - thanks all.
And how, pray tell, am I supposed to differentiate?
This is soo difficult!
I know wimmens who say they were flirting but had come across as cold as leftover turkey. Tis hard.
I'm always very clear. I puff up my chest and put my hands on my hips, then I strut back and forth with my chin up in the air. I follow this with some weight lifter posing and a mating dance. I then start collecting twigs to make a nest....
It's never worked thus far but at least it's a clear signal.
Deb said flashing my bum was flirting, I disagree, mooning is a great sport, nothing sexual is implied.
The rules to the game continue to elude me!
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Just kiddin' it's pretty easy to tell and there are no clear indicators of what consitutes it. But I think fun flirting doesn't have to be sexual. Sometimes it's just for fun.
<Goes off to practice strut.>
which way quinn? That the tongue-in-ear is a vague indicator, or that the emoticon is dull?
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tried to be clear, failure
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I can flirt just for fun. But, it's with safe friends.
Lola wrote:Letting it show, that you're interested in getting interested brings the men out of the wood work
Amen! I never show any interest (well I do, but I don't like to chase, I'd rather be chased, or if it came to it chaste, than to chase) so if it weren't for the girls who do so I'd never get to make woopie.
craven - good thing you're cute.
The tongue in the ear is sooo unclear! It could just be because she thinks my ears are dirty! And they sooo aren't!
<goes to check>
lil'k,
Cute means nothing, I gotta be rich.
<the wimmins are gonna kill me for that one>
Craven dear, you are flirting right now
but....... are you? And they're still chasing you, unchaste one.
Craven, give um what they want and they'll pay, I have no doubt
Lola, what I'm getting at is that flirting comes naturally to some, not to others. For those that it's NOT natural for, the UNnatural, taught flirting doesn't work. For those who do like to flirt, more power to 'em.
I have a good friend who was woefully single, owned a used bookstore, had a steady stream of nice young ladies come in, and he REFUSED to flirt with them. I'd say, "she was gorgeous! she smiled at you! what's wrong with you??" And he'd say "I'm not interested in the kind of woman who would be receptive to being 'picked up'." (I actually got it.)
After a couple of years of much kvetching and me saying "dude, take a class! join a club! DO something instead of kvetching to me!", he ran into another bookseller at some kind of bookseller's convention and they've been blissfully happy for several years now. The last thing she would ever do is "flirt" in any conventional sense, and the last thing she would be interested in is having a guy "pick her up" in any conventional sense. But they're perfect for each other. Took some doing for them to be thrown together in the right circumstances, but it happened.
see, that's nice. It's the common interest.
I know this happens Sozobe.........and when it does, it's very fortunate for the two.
Lola wrote:Craven dear, you are flirting right now
So amn't! I haven't even puffed up my chest yet! And I haven't even thought of an appropriate manly display!
lil'k I'm only rich if pride counts.
Lola,
I can't stand letting anyone (guys or gals) pay for me. It's a personal quirk but I don't like it at all. And getting drunk is always a good idea (cept when operating machinery), even if you aren't flirting.
I have to paint my apartment and drinking makes the bad paint job look good, maybe even arty.
