noladreams30

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Post subject: What puts you off?
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:01 pm
I have just chatted to someone on the phone for the first time after chatting online for a while. Unfortunately, they sound nothing like I imagined them to. This has kinda put me off meeting them...
Is that silly? Can a voice be a turn-off?
Have you been in a similar situation with a potential meet only to be turned off by something?
Nola x
Firelizard

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:06 pm
Oh yes
and likewise I can be severely turned ON by a voice too 
flower411

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Post subject: Re: What puts you off?
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:06 pm
noladreams30 wrote:
I have just chatted to someone on the phone for the first time after chatting online for a while. Unfortunately, they sound nothing like I imagined them to. This has kinda put me off meeting them...
Is that silly? Can a voice be a turn-off?
Have you been in a similar situation with a potential meet only to be turned off by something?
Nola x
Absolutely
But then we`re a funny pair !!
noladreams30

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:34 pm
firelizard wrote:Oh yes

and likewise I can be severely turned ON by a voice too

Me too

Voices can be a real turn on for me.... and turn off, or so it would seem!
Steve

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:36 pm
I hate talking to people on the phone as the Midlands accent can be very off putting 
Freckledbird

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:40 pm
I sound horrible on the 'phone 
Whipsnspurs

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:43 pm
there was a guy i fancied at school for years but never got to speak to. one night there he was in a nightclub so told friend that if there was a chance he was mine. within minutes of talking to him i wondered why i had liked him so much
i think the voice can be one of the sexiest things about a person.
whips
noladreams30

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:43 pm
Just for the record, it wasn't actually his accent. It was more the fact that in my head I had imagined he would have quite a deep, gruff, sexy voice....
He doesn't.
And so my mental picture is kinda shattered... and now I'm put off.
I am horribly fickle aren't I???
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Freckledbird

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:46 pm
flower411 wrote:Freckledbird wrote:I sound horrible on the 'phone

And your point ??

Anyway, just been told I don't sound horrible!
winchwench

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:51 pm
You're in there Stevie boy! FB want's to

you!
hisandhers

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:55 pm
I sound all sweat n innocent 
Steve

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:56 pm
winchwench wrote:
You're in there Stevie boy! FB want's to

you!
I always said I was no good at reading signals....
I read it as she was gonna give me a jolly good

for saying she sounds fluffy
But a

will do nicely.....
Where can I book some lessons in signal deciphering(sp) ??
HJ

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:57 pm
A few lines of text in a chatroom, the wording on a profile or an ad, a few pictures which may or may not show the persons face -- and your mind races off and makes a "complete" person despite the fact that you have never met !!!
And when the reality turns out to be different from the "construct" you tend to reject it !!!
My advice would be to persevere Nola -- whatever turned you on to this person in the first place will probably shine through ..
winchwench

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:03 pm
People stating the bleedin obvious, as I found out last week......
Having been for a walk along the beach, we were walking the home stretch through a small seaside town. I had a 6' long piece of driftwood over my shoulder.
A very hunky guy came out of the gift shop we paused outside of, and remarked "Nice wood"
Methinks >"You show me yours...."<
Then he says "Did you find it on the beach?"
Methinks >"Fuck off, you're boring me now"<
Okay, so I have a very short attention span! 
flower411

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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:09 pm
winchwench wrote:People stating the bleedin obvious, as I found out last week......
Having been for a walk along the beach, we were walking the home stretch through a small seaside town. I had a 6' long piece of
driftwood over my shoulder.
A very hunky guy came out of the gift shop we paused outside of, and remarked "Nice wood"
Methinks >"You show me yours...."<
Then he says "Did you find it on the beach?"
Methinks >"Fuck off, you're boring me now"<
Okay, so I have a very short attention span!

You mean you missed the opportunity to say
" Yeah, I often pop down to the beach looking for wood"