Could you date someone who doesn't read?
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Re: Could you date someone who doesn't read?
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Betcha that 99% of the readers would be female!Denise60 wrote:... Mmmm...maybe someone should write a book about compatible reading mates and/or how to meet people of the same reading persuasion?
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Oh please, don't give ideas to the "self help" gurus.C0ldf1re wrote:Betcha that 99% of the readers would be female!Denise60 wrote:... Mmmm...maybe someone should write a book about compatible reading mates and/or how to meet people of the same reading persuasion?
It is a well know fact of nature that opposites attract so why would you want a partner who was a clone of yourself? No, give me the guy who fecks off doing his boy things and leaves me space and peace to do my reading.
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No more help to anybody else for free! It's now my idea. (Thank you, Denise. I'll mention you in my acknowledgements section.) My working title is, "How the reading girls capture their men." Brilliant marketing, of course, seeing it is aimed at reading girls, and they are the ones buying books. Chapter One: Lurking around the military history section of a public library wearing a short skirt and a big smile. Chapter Two: Memorizing the scores for your local football team for the last century, while wearing a tight sweater. Chapter Three: Where to find wealthy single men who like cats, while wearing Chanel No. 5. The book almost writes itself! Now... Shall I write as a man, or under my female nom de plume?Fran wrote:Oh please, don't give ideas to the "self help" gurus.C0ldf1re wrote:Betcha that 99% of the readers would be female!Denise60 wrote:... Mmmm...maybe someone should write a book about compatible reading mates and/or how to meet people of the same reading persuasion?
It is a well know fact of nature that opposites attract so why would you want a partner who was a clone of yourself? No, give me the guy who fecks off doing his boy things and leaves me space and peace to do my reading.
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The court wouldn't proceed(or not proceed) based on her analysis of the body would they? That would be the job
of the County Coroner or Pathologist wouldn't it? And he would have to have dental records or some corroborating
medical documentation that could positively identify the corpse as Emmit Till. As it turns out, the whole affair
was a charade. A couple of months after they were acquitted, the two Klansmen confessed to Look Magazine that
they had murdered Till. They got $4000 for their story. They showed reporters the workshop where they tortured
him, and where they shot him in the head(the coupe de gras). The body was returned to Mrs Till in Chicago, where
he is buried. Mrs Till insisted on an open casket for the viewing. She wanted the world to see what her son's
murderers had done to her boy. The round from the gun that killed him had left a gaping hole between his forehead
where it entered and a corresponding spot in the back of his head. The undertaker left the hole untouched. I'm
sure none of the mourners who filed past his body will ever forget what they saw. The avatar is a reproduction of that image.
Why not: Because crazy people don't think they're crazy.
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The court wouldn't proceed(or not proceed) based on her analysis of the body would they? That would be the job
of the County Coroner or Pathologist wouldn't it? And he would have to have dental records or some corroborating
medical documentation that could positively identify the corpse as Emmit Till. As it turns out, the whole affair
was a charade. A couple of months after they were acquitted, the two Klansmen confessed to Look Magazine that
they had murdered Till. They got $4000 for their story. They showed reporters the workshop where they tortured
him, and where they shot him in the head(the coupe de gras). The body was returned to Mrs Till in Chicago, where
he is buried. Mrs Till insisted on an open casket for the viewing. She wanted the world to see what her son's
murderers had done to her boy. The round from the gun that killed him had left a gaping hole between his forehead
where it entered and a corresponding spot in the back of his head. The undertaker left the hole untouched. I'm
sure none of the mourners who filed past his body will ever forget what they saw.
Why not: Because crazy people don't think they're crazy.
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that measure intelligence with metrics that are functions of reading. You're not going to do well on the Stanford-
Binet IQ Test if you have limited reading skills. But the same person, when asked to create a system that can
load bags of cement on railroad cars may have no problem at all because of his grasp of spatial relationships.
I've read some of these comments dismissing "non-readers" because they aren't interested or aren't conversant
in subjects that a reader is. You're judging them based on how they function in your environment. What if the
situation is reversed? That's the situation I found myself in for almost 20 years. I wasn't uncomfortable, but I
did have to adapt. I was a weldor/fitter. The welding was relatively easy. Fitting? Not so much. I was
working with guys who could rebuild the engine in the car they drove when they were 15. Whereas my solution to
a problem was always mathematical, they could look at the space the parts were going to occupy, cut the parts
so they were close, then dial them in as they needed to. I was still measuring dimensions(alot of them were unnecessary)and wasting time. Eventually I learned to look at problems the way they did, but it took a while.
They were willing to help me because I was genuinely interested in what they had to say. What I learned from them
has carried over to my favorite hobby: vintage cars. I never dated any of them mostly because they had limited dancing
skills and they drank too much. That's alway a problem among the proletariat.
Why not: Because crazy people don't think they're crazy.
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He is amazing and my polar opposite and takes excellent care of me.
Another bookworm like me might be interesting, but at 8:30 on a cold wet night when I have 6.5 pounds of tire pressure and not the foggiest notion what to do next. or when I hit a deer or back into someone in a parking lot, who do I call first?
My knight in shining armor.
BTW he thinks it is funny that he can beat me at Scrabble and Scattergories sometimes.
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I could however date someone who reads say...3 times a year? But they'd have to be knowledgable and tolerable with my rants and referrals to books I would be currently reading
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He is what you may call a "geek", he plays video games, he is often on the PC (for forum discussion, or the news) even when he comes to bed he needs to read stuffs on the computer and sometimes he falls alseep.
Fortunately he doesn't do that all day long. He works at a geriatic hospital so he needs to evacuate tensions. For him trivial things is a way exorcize Death.
The truth in masquerade."
Lord Byron, Don Juan
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It isn't of a subject matter that interests me, but what the hey? most of my fellow members here don't read what interests me.
Maybe I have a convert.