RedNeko

Bullet time

They managed to pull off the 'ask out in front of others', 'have someone else involved in asking you out so you're out numbered' and 'what do you mean no?' all at the same time, what a hat-trick. I'm very glad I've never been asked out in front of others myself, but I've been involved in a long-game version of not finding 'no' an acceptable answer for over a year now. You're right, you've given a clear answer, maybe you'll get lucky and it won't be brought up again

This is a thing from tumblr so maybe you don't want to count it in this, but there was a big thing about how if you're a man and heterosexual, aromantic then you are automatically a misogynist. I suppose the whole thing of there being some 'ways' of being aromantic that are more 'acceptable' than others would be the generalised version of this.

I shall remember this quote. Your lecturer is very wise

I would love to raise kids, although I don't mind if they're my kids or if I'm helping someone else raise their's. However, if I had kids of my own I would need to not be their sole carer.

Alan Rickman

Ah I see, it's only a problem in chat

But I'm saying the raised eyebrow emoticon isn't working, it's bringing up the one.

Sure, find me a good royalty-free emoticon and I will add it to the list. Source code button I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding something, do we not have use of all the emoticons in the emoticon menu?

WOW IS THAT ACTUALLY FOOD??? IT LOOKS FREAKIN' AMAZING

WE SHOULD DRINK TO CELEBRATE AND ICE CREAM OF COURSE

I HAVE OVER 100 POSTS! IS THIS FORUM EVEN A WEEK OLD YET?

Not be able to speak. I kind of experienced that in Japan because I'm much better at reading Japanese than speaking it and I managed fine. Would you rather run 100 miles or swim 100 miles?

When you use emoticons, o. O and O. o both come up with but one of them is meant to be the emoticon with the raised eyebrow.

I'm not really in the mood for thinking about my more negative experiences today, but I'll share some with a more positive outcome On two occasions I've had people 'flirt' with me, and they've ended up actually telling me that they're trying to flirt because they figured out that I wasn't on the same page, so to speak. It was always very disappointing because I thought we were having a good conversation, but at least in these cases they were very nice about it and politely went on their way.

MAYBE WE COULD OFFER THEM MARS?

You might be aromantic if when you think about marriage you don't imagen who you will get married to, but other things instead e.g. getting to wear nice clothes, how nice the food will be, having the opportunity for a big family get together You might be aromantic if when people look down on marrying for visas, marrying for tax breaks, etc. you wonder why they do because those sound like very practical reasons to get married

WHALE SHARKS ARE THE CUTEST GIANT THINGS

Ah, but if you were ace you still might have that problem, not all aces have no sex drive But yeah, I get you. I used to get so confused when I explained to someone how I felt about those sorts of things, only to have them behave in the ways I had said made me uncomfortable, do and say things they said they wouldn't, etc. But now I feel like I've gone to far the other way and assume everyone is lying to me. Hopefully I'll be able to rebalance myself and find some middle ground to it all.

I'm in my 20s

Ben Affleck

A sloth! Sloths are amazing WYR eat salt or black pepper?

I get where you're coming from, but I would say this would be a description of some peoples romantic relationship rather than all of them. Particularly to the 'committed' bit: ideally you would wish for you partner(s) in a relationship to stay within the boundries that are agreed upon, but the reality is that some people cheat in their relationships. However, I wouldn't think that the relationship is not 'romantic' due to that, nor does it always indicate an end to the feelings of romantic attraction, it is just no longer an 'ideal' romantic relationship.