Apathetic Echidna

ha ha, yeah! go speed dating and the first question you ask is what size clothing the other person wears so you have a better chance of stealing clothes that fit!

Explain aromantic to your friend then prep them for rejection, because the way I see it the aro object of affection is quite likely to flat out reject or be repulsed by romantic advances. If the aro also decided to get into the relationship I would then drill my friend on consent. Just because you are in a relationship doesn't mean you can hold hands, hug, kiss or snuggle freely, and one time consent does not make it a free for all. So yes, I guess I would be grudgingly supportive, but vocally pessimistic.

I used to want to date lots of boys from the surrounding private schools so I could have a collection of school blazers in my wardrobe......but I don't think that is the same thing....maybe I got caught up in the trope fandom in my own aro way....

This. So much this. And knowing how messed up romantic relationships can get they might not even like you as a person without those involuntary romantic urges.

Penelope Cruz

You won't be shunned, no shunning allowed. But light-heartedly post something that you did or think that might be making the #noromo tag work a bit extra-hard. or maybe just hang around and judge me for mine, which is I watched Twilight last night and enjoyed it

it worked as a lens and set everything on fire, the oxygen in the air, the sand, the glass! fire! flames! kablwey!

I would rather be in charge of a fast food deep fryer than get married

People are shocked when I say I didn't bother going. I had a dress and a date, but I couldn't bring myself to cough up $60 to pay for a night of finger food, Michael Jackson music (it was the year he died) and seeing the hetero couple with the rhyming names be awarded the sash for 'Best Highschool Couple'. No one I have talked to had particularly good memories of their formal, religious school or otherwise, it was all about the burnouts in the carpark drinking beer at the afterparties. I knew a girl like that. I asked her 'why?' because she had dark hair, I asked her 'why?' because it looks better she said, I asked 'to who?' her mother she said. And she was the shiest person I have ever met. Some messed up stuff going on in that fam. this is so funny! All of my friends see this sentence in a sexual way after one girl went on a rant email to a guy from a dating website. A basic translation is "Seeking female who can supply all her own pleasure as I can't" I like wearing dresses in the house, but outside doing things pants are just so much more useful. Especially pants with pockets that actually fit stuff. I find my armpits slimy if I shave, it just feels wrong, that may have to do with the deodorant I use. But I would prefer to not shave than change my deodorant. My grandmother hates armpit hair, but she doesn't discriminate, man, woman, whatever, they are all 'under jungles' and hideous. I occasionally wax my legs because I am weird and actually find it a mix of fascinating and pleasurable, and maybe there is some social pressure too. I have been publicly judged and shamed before about not shaving my legs, and the thought of it happening again makes me sad rather than angry or ambivalent. Shaving is prickly, I don't get why anyone would do it. Waxing is fun, getting the angles right by yourself can be hard though I don't really get where all this pink for girls blue for boys came from. It only started in the 1920s or something, as historically pink was seen as light red, which red was a man's colour and blue was associated with serenity and the Virgin Mary. A colour that wouldn't stir the blood of little girls. Due to anatomy bras are a constant companion, but seriously most were designed by men. Who else would have thought to put the adjusting buckles right at the back of the straps, so you would have to take the whole thing off to fix the straps. Most of the time the buckles are somewhere on your shoulderblade so they are visible unless you are wearing heavy material. Is it just to be able to spot at a distance from the back who is or isn't bra-less when wearing thin fabrics?! also, why do only smaller sized bras seem to have cute fabrics? oh, a bra with bees and beehives pattern! and only $1 on sale! I wonder what the largest size.......oh......00A cup using a gross generalisation from an observation of a very small number of people it seems the larger breasts a young adult cisfemale has, the more classical stereotyped feminine she is, at least for first impressions and acquaintance-ship.

not The Mighty Boosh......

I emailed one of my oldest friends and came out to her as kinda an afterthought in one of the paragraphs (she is currently overseas). I hear nothing for a week. Then I get a reply: I didn't know those words so I researched, It makes so much sense! The flags are cool. I am soo giving her a huge hug when I see her at the airport.

I guess I don't talk about it with friends and I have said pretty much all I have to say on it to my family already. So I guess it is isolating. I don't drag the conversation out so I don't know which of my friends might agree and which might not, but the same can be said of religion. I don't think it is particularly lonely, and is it dark to expect the world to work in cycles? I have read about plagues in history books all my life so when the SARS outbreak happened my reaction was 'oh, that makes sense'. I believe a lot more people are worrying about it or in denial, if they are thinking about it at all, because of the news and publications talking about the end of the effectiveness of antibiotics. It was over 5 years ago I found out there are several strains of resistant tuberculosis (my own personal horror disease phobia) in PNG, some afflicted individuals are brought to Australia for isolation and treatment. That was the point in time I decided to support voluntary euthanasia, because if I get untreatable TB I am offing myself quick smart. I don't know if my attitude to all of this is considered healthy...probably not. Which may also be the reason why I don't tend to bring it up. I guess I would be the downer in a conversation as most of the people I am around are the live largely for today and give little thought for tomorrow-people, but then I kinda fit in with them, they don't care beyond our generation, I think we are all doomed. Yay, friend group high-5 for the now! saying that, we are quite protectionist about the environment for several different reasons. Yup. I watched a documentary about the bushfires in Tasmania a few years (maybe not quite 2 years?) ago and one of the scientists basically stated something along the lines of "people have been waiting for sure signs of global warming, well it has happened. Fires like this have NEVER happened here before. Global warming is upon us" yet governments still aren't taking it seriously. Simple changes could change so much! soz for the wall of text, I'll stop myself before I start a rant, though if you ask I will happily continue the rant....and try to tie it to the topic.

Possibly The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert? one character's partner just died, and the other two have issues but are single. At the end of the movie they have begun healing because of friendship and understanding. Most of the pain in the movie is based on failed romantic relationships. John Tucker Must Die? maybe that is less anti-romance and more anti-heteronormative dating and cheating reactions?

Using the info framework provided by the OP: I'm from Australia (often mixed up with Austria and/or New Zealand) which is located in the south of the world. A stereotypical Australian is athletic and sun-bleached-blonde with a tan, but that's a bullshit stereotype. We are most famous for Kangaroos and being 'Down Under', and a lot of famous rock bands come from Australia (AC/DC, INXS, Crowded House, Cold Chisel etc)(also Savage Garden. SAVAGE GARDEN!!! 90s pop is the best pop IMO). So what is it like to live in Australia? I am on the south coast so we have seasons and our temperatures can go between like 0 Degrees Celsius in the winter and +45 in the summer depending on where you live. With hybrid plants we are able to grow most fruit, grains and vegetables. Banana, avocado and custard apples grow only a few kilometres away from apple orchards and berry farms, with grapes and olives growing everywhere in between. Australia is considered home to the oldest continuous culture in the world and because of that many people think that Aboriginal cultures were 'stuck' in a 'primitive' form, and don't think that is offensive. Australia is seen as either a multicultural melting pot or a racist backwater. Also we seem to change our political leaders twice as fast as we elect them. Bonus Safety Tip: Bring bottles of water everywhere.

Resurrecting old threads!!!! I don't remember my dreams most of the time. The most recent one I remember is I was trying to cook and I was making a dough, bread or pasta or something, but the flour wouldn't mix! it just stayed dry and powdery like that magic dry sand. I got more and more frustrated then everything caught fire.

sorry to be a downer on this thread but I pick number 2 as I actually did that for about 2 years. You just bring a cane and look sad and no one judges you, they pity you, which makes it much easier to get what you want!!! muahahahaha. Plus roller blading everywhere is a viable alternative if I want to become a speed freak. I didn't go through all the pages so this might be a repeat (forgive me!) Would you rather only hear music from a genre you dislike for the rest of your life OR be stuck in a groundhog single day loop for the rest of your life (you age all the days you re-live)?

(see if you can spot the connection in my choices) Man makes un-dead pies and solves crimes ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Girl killed by toilet seat finds a job ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Man seeks elegance and distraction

Resurrected washing

I have a bit of trouble separating aesthetic, sensual and sexual attraction, and as they are sort of tied together for me I have started using the term aesthetic appreciation where most people use aesthetic attraction as I feel it fits my experience better. Whatever it is, it is very instantaneous. When I meet someone for the first time it is either there or it is not (I have only had it happen 3 times in my life so far out of the hundreds of people I have met). I don't really notice a sexual component at first, maybe because the other attractions overwhelm it for awhile or I experience responsive sexual attraction. Don't know, there are so few instances of it happening it is kindof insufficient data to produce conclusions.

still no luck?

The problem with that is that food and water are commercially and politically controlled. Global society would have to drastically change for the resources to be free flowing enough to support that many people. Anyone else remember that Indonesian (?) leader who stockpiled tons of rice to drive up costs then let it sit rotting in sheds? or the massive amounts of wheat (enough to feed 200 million people if I remember correctly) that was left to rot in India? actually how about all of India's export bans! (though India is not alone) Companies want open markets so they can make maximum profit from primary producers, then when stopped they tend to keep prices high selling to domestic markets so the poor remain poor and there are many more people hungry than needs to be. After WWII my grandfather predicted most of the wars of the future would be over water, and it seems we may be heading straight for those conflicts. @James it is generally argued that the largest freshwater source in N. America is actually the ice cover you get over winter, allowing a slow drain into water courses. Global warming is already messing that up. Most places are get a month or more less good snow every winter compared to 20 years ago, and storms are dumping snow in areas that normally would not see that amount and so much of it is naturally wasted, and winter rain can mess up the snow you get. You can only use water that fills your storage, and they can only hold so much at once. Not to mention that with global warming areas of tundra are melting like never before and scientists are finding viable bacteria from long ago diseases so I think it is only a matter of time until another epidemic starts. Good thing viruses aren't viable for years because there was a recent discovery of a mass grave of Spanish Flu victims recently defrosted. As you can probably tell from my rant I think most of our offspring will be doomed and I don't want to subject my bloodline to the horror of the future. Plus there are plenty of children already existing who have been abandoned or neglected that I would much prefer to spend time with rather than trying to make my own.

Hufflepuff!!! Erudite and Amity tied for first on the quiz, and the Percy Jackson quiz link from page 1 took all my answers and gave me a blank answer, so unknown? or I am the child of no one!

Cis Female Aro Heterogray-a here and my fingers are about the same, I don't think the science is worth me getting a ruler from across the room to get mm specific. One interesting study being done in India about fingers which seems amazingly awesome is identifying fingerprints of small children as they can help identify individuals who will have tooth issues. pretty much how most (biological) science is done.

eeGads! the Vashta Nerada and the Weeping Angels are the only things I found scary on Doctor Who, but they massively scared me! Sometimes I still check to see I only have one shadow. This movie traumatised me. I can't deal with it even now. I am generally not scared by movies much but every now and then something will get me. Like the movie Ravenous (1999), the compound fracture scene gets me every time. Into the Mirror (2003) (not to be confused with the American remake), the elevator mirror scene! and the car window!! I covered up all the mirrors in the house the night I watched that one. The Invisible (2002) worst situation to be in ever. More terrifyingly sad than scary, but still a nightmare inducing concept.