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It seems that all you ever talk about is that naked guy. Really had an impact on you, eh?

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Gus, I for one would love to trade you for HM#3.

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I think I've talked about Naked Lady more.

There were a few of 'em in that general category.

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Egads, Soz. Little-boy-pants are bad enough, I can't imagine having to see this guy naked.

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littlek wrote:

Well, we'd interviewed just a few people. We waited too late, came to crunch time. We thought for sure the Italian would move in and he let us know that he wouldn't be several days later. Dasha had gone to India for 2 months by then. It came down to the Portuguese guy or little miss perky. I thought it might tire me to live with little miss perky.

Plus, I seem to remember you were mightily impressed with his education or/and the like..

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Yeah, I thought I'd learn something about string theory - turns out I was wrong.

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nimh wrote:

littlek wrote:
Well, we'd interviewed just a few people. We waited too late, came to crunch time. We thought for sure the Italian would move in and he let us know that he wouldn't be several days later. Dasha had gone to India for 2 months by then. It came down to the Portuguese guy or little miss perky. I thought it might tire me to live with little miss perky.

Plus, I seem to remember you were mightily impressed with his education or/and the like..

Yeah, this was the exchange I remember.. isnt this still "the portuegese-born aussi-phile math whiz working at MIT on string theory"?

I remember I got mighty annoyed at how you two were talking about these guys. Found it depressing, the shallowness of it. So if it is still the same guy I'm gonna have a hell of a time not saying "I told you so."

Also, if it is still him I guess you shoulda taken Margo's advice and asked the wabbit to check him out beforehand :wink:

littlek wrote:

Slappy, we just got two very attractive and interesting men ask about our apartment.

littlek wrote:

<egads> soz, you're not helping! The Italian born guy working at MIT on fusion (who paints) is coming by to see the place tomorrow. The portuegese-born aussi-phile math whiz working at MIT on string theory is coming on tuesday. <swoon>

sozobe wrote:

OOoh, they sound promising!

Green Witch wrote:

They all sound like husband material. Maybe you could borrow ehBeth's belly dancing outfit to answer the door in and Dag could put on her pasties.

nimh wrote:

Well, there you go.

Money + intelligence + ambition + creative talent + exotic background = husband material.

(Sorry, I'm at a cynical low ebb when it comes to the men+women thing. Seems so much like its all just about survival of the fittest. Like addition formulas.)

dagmaraka wrote:

Decisions decisions.The Italian fusion physicist or the Portuguese string theory expert?
We saw the former today and he's alright alright. We should have them wrestle in a tub of oil and take the winner (and keep the loser for playtime). ha.

littlek wrote:

Oil? What kind? Olive? hmmm....

The Italian was definitely a good fit (teehee). No, seriously, I think he would be great...... I think the portugeuse hottie may not get the chance to see the place.

Etc et cetera.. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

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well nimh, some of us have to be shallow, so that the rest of the world can shine better. i bow humbly in front of you.. :wink: or what's our reaction supposed to be?

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Oh, look, they show up arguing now... (yes, acknowledging original retorts).

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Oh, come on Nimh. Surely you aren't suggesting that men would be any more practical in this matter. I think men checking out a potential female roommate would only look to see if she has her front teeth and that her boobs are larger than strawberries. At least Dag and littlek gave some thought to the guys' intellect and goals. We were flip about the marriage thing, but I don't see any harm in it. I also don't think it's easy to predict if a person is going to be annoying until you actually live with him.

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Ohbutwait, nimh, I mean to reread your quote, suspecting you have a point.

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littlek wrote:

The French chick isn't moving in! Dangit!

Back to Craigslist?

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yep, slappy, i'm afraid it is. We always post on Harvard website as well, but less and less people look there. In fact, I don't think we got anybody through it this last time.

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Green Witch wrote:

Oh, come on Nimh. Surely you aren't suggesting that men would be any more practical in this matter. I think men checking out a potential female roommate would only look to see if she has her front teeth and that her boobs are larger than strawberries. At least Dag and littlek gave some thought to the guys' intellect and goals. We were flip about the marriage thing, but I don't see any harm in it. I also don't think it's easy to predict if a person is going to be annoying until you actually live with him.

Attractiveness of potential female roommates never was a thing for me. It's not like I was going to have sex with them. More important was ability to tolerate living with slobbish men.

And hot friends. Hot friends was a bonus.

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sozobe wrote:

Yeah, I totally get that after a certain amount of bad will has built up, anything he does is irritating, and it's not necessarily about the objective irritatingness of what he's done, in and of itself.

Fungus cream and black circles though... oh dear.

As long as it's not crop circles.

Fungus is a worry, though.

Do you guys clean the bathroom with fungicide liquid?

I caught fungus once......

Fungus among us is a humungous.

The bad will is killing me...god knows what it's doing to all of you guys. All three of you. It makes me tense and ill just READING about it.

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female roomates? they better look good cuz if a female is livin with me im gonna try.

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dagmaraka wrote:

well nimh, some of us have to be shallow, so that the rest of the world can shine better. i bow humbly in front of you.. :wink: or what's our reaction supposed to be?

OK, I'll explain, since I knew there'd be a negative reaction.

I guess that, IMO, the lesson, (informed by my annoyance at the time), would be that if you hadnt been as instinctively dazzled by his (future) titles (oh! an MIT string theorist!) and his looks, you might perhaps have been better able to see his, you know, personality. And might have gotten an inkling of not liking it.

I mean, OK - I remember distinctly finding that whole conversation that y'all were having deeply depressing, so thats where I'm coming from. I mean, here you have two highly intelligent, fiercely independent, strong, smart women. And yet there it was, an, in my eyes, practically Pavlovian reaction to these traditional surface criteria - "oh, he's a scientist, at MIT!, and a hottie too!" Well, that settles it! Hell, they were branded "husband material" by GreenWitch on pretty much that basis alone.

So I must confess that after that whole scene, I'm finding it hard to suppress a tiny bit of satisfaction that he didnt, in fact, even turn out to make for decent housemate material. OK, the sensation isnt as harsh as "serves you right", but yeah, I confess, there's a hint of that...

In my defence, I'll explain where I'm coming from. I guess, you know, here's me, like - in my personal position (and insecurities) in life. No great looks, no MIT diploma to come - but a nice, regular guy, or nice enough. And I gotta say it was very discouraging to see even a bunch of the smartest and most emancipated women I know reduced to, well, reactions that wouldnt have misstood your average fictionalised Indian or Jewish parents looking for a groom for their daughter.. I mean, seriously, reread those quotes and tell me you dont hear that stereotypical Jewish or Indian mother voice ;-)

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Green Witch wrote:

Oh, come on Nimh. Surely you aren't suggesting that men would be any more practical in this matter. I think men checking out a potential female roommate would only look to see if she has her front teeth and that her boobs are larger than strawberries.

Rright..

I knew that one was coming, specifically. And I gotta say, I felt a bit awkward about fessing up to my admittedly unsympathetic feelings above, but for this particular one I have no patience. I mean, "come on" right back atcha!

First off, of course, its just nonsense. "Men would only check out a new roommate's tits, whereas at least them/us women also looked at intelligence" - nice way to claim back a sense of superiority, but its bull, of course. Ive lived in a bunch of students houses, and if anything Patio is closer to it. Tits be damned in a flatmate - cuteness is always good, sure, but who wants a cute-looking flatmate who complains about everything? Or who's too dumb to fix anything?

But hell, forget about that whole part even, let the straw man stand. I mean, you know the answer to this in any case, right? As in: when you encountered men who did act that way ("corr, look at those tits! lets take her!"), I bet you've complained or laughed about their superficiality too, right, at some point or other? But, what, when the roles are reversed and you get that reaction, it's "Oh come on Nimh"? Sauce, goose, gander..

And now I'm outta here again. I really didnt purposely come in to badger you girls, Dag, Little K. But when I was reading along and seeing you go, oh we only ever took this guy because we had no choice, we wouldnt have otherwise, I had to pipe up - cause I did remember that whole conversation back then. And <stubborn face> I still think there's a lesson in there.

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nimh, as kris has mentioned a number of times, we didn't exactly have choices at the end. i was in india and it was either this guy or nobody.

and as far as seriously go? you 'seriously' think we were looking for a 'husband material'? i do see that you found our joking off-color (you HAVE explained that before; our approach and bitching disturbed you to the extent that you informed us that you'll never post here again :wink:). there is plenty of humor that is off-color. Blonde jokes, racist jokes. So yes, of that we are guilty. Though, truth be told, I do find your reaction a litle too forceful. I mean come on, I'm a big girl. I don't need lecturing on my morals. I do understand that it touched some personal nerve in y ou and that perhaps explains the forte of your response. No, i wouldn't like if men were talking about potential female roommates in that light either too much - though it happens all the time, and i don't think i'd take it personally either.

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