Guilt someone into buying it for you. When's your birthday?
You take your top off to see who bites? You must make a lot of friends!
That's a good idea, Kat. I have a suggestion for both Sappho and Kit. But I'm not sure they'll like it (I know, I know. Stop being so insecure, John!)
No, it's not that. Go and wash your dirty minds. (Although if they insisted...)
I have promised both of them a picture of me in a rabbit costume. I further promised Sappho that she'd see it in March. So my proposal - make it to the end of the month, and you shall be rewarded. Or punished. Whichever way you want to see it.
I said it wasn't me! Oooh, you're in trouble, Kat. Taking advantage of my slightly tipsy state, thinking I wouldn't remember. I don't even know how to turn Jags' camera on.
What would be a suitable punishment, do you think?
It goes without saying (meaning I forgot to say it - oops) that the offer of whatever support I can give goes to Kit and Kat too.
I think my AV340 (fancy mp3 player) is the only gadget I've bought this year, so it's the best by default. If it was since January 2002, it'd be getting some strong competion from the laptop and wireless network. But it'd probably still win.
That's great news, Sappho, and I wish you every success in it.
I've never been a smoker, so I haven't experienced quitting myself. But I know people who have tried. It's hard. One friend stopped dead - no slow wind-down (does that work?), no patch, no nothing. It lasted about six months, then work got stressful and she started again.
Get all the help you can. I don't know what practical use I could be, but if there's anything at all I can do, I'm here. Anything you need. I care, and I know I'm not alone in that.
Tell them that they sound like a lovely guy/girl/whatever, but they're really not what you're looking for. And wish them luck in finding what they're after.
I don't think it's possible to say "no" without causing a little bit of hurt (it is a rejection, however you word it). I think the gentlest way is to let them know that it's not that there's something wrong with them, and that you recognise that they're looking for something as much as you are. That leaves them with some hope.
That's the sort of thing I'd want to hear.
I'll just add the male perspective to Sappho's excellent advice: she's right, you know. All of my best experiences have been a result of getting to know people, and letting them get to know me.
(looks at Avatar)
Sarge! I need that "weak at the knees" smiley more than ever!
oooh! The lovely Kit kissed me! Sarge, have you got a "going weak at the knees" smiley handy?
Someone asked me recently "What do you want?", and the best I could manage at the time was "I don't know". You deserve a better answer than that, so here it is:
I still don't know.
A few people here have said that one of the best things about joining in on the forum is the real friendships they have made. They weren't expecting it, and that wasn't their goal in coming here, but they recognised a good thing and grabbed it.
That's pretty much how I live my life. I don't have well-defined goals. I watch for opportunities, and when I good one comes along I take it (actually, I'm usually too much of a wimp to take it, but that's the theory). I also manipulate my world to encourage the appearance of good opportunities. That's why I'm here. I had a feeling that if I joined in, good things would happen, even though I didn't have any idea what they might be. I haven't been disappointed so far.
So what opportunities would I grasp if they got near enough? That's about the closest I'll get to "what do I want?"
In no particular order:
I want good conversations with good people. Intelligent conversations, silly conversations, outrageous flirting... all the things that are in plentiful supply right here.
I want to meet new friends.
I want to be happy, and to make other people happy.
I want to broaden my sexual horizons. You can't know if you like something or not until you try it. I've learned some things that I like (foreplay is much more fun that sex itself) and some that I don't (being tied up does nothing for me). There are still lots of things that I'd like to try, and a few that I'm sufficiently sure I wouldn't like that I won't try, such as anything involving pain.
I want to broaded my horizons in general. I'm fascinated by people. Somehow I got the idea that understanding how other people think would make me better able to interact with them, and would make me a better person.
I want all the other things that I can't think of in advance.
If I find any of that here, then I'm a happy man. If I can't (and it's too late for that, because I've already found some of it), that's OK. No one owes me anything.
While I'm here - if we were at that pub (you know who you are) and I was reasonably sure the answer would be "yes", then I would be very tempted to ask. My shyness and fear of rejection would probably get in first and I'd spend the next six months kicking myself, but I'd be extremely tempted.
You were warned that I'm much more articulate online than in person.
Is oxymoron the right word? Are you implying that the girlies aren't free?
I still have a lot to learn, but I've managed to work it out this far: there's more to swinging than sex, and more to sex than a cock.
Yes, some women do think the size and shape of a cock is important. They're the ones with the ads that ask for a picture of it. In my limited experience, most women don't mind (or were they just being kind to me? :-)