A lovely afternoon spent in a hammock in the sunshine reading The Color Purple.
I chillaxed :smug:
Out on my own here it would seem...I don't do it. Very, very rarely I'll meet someone with whom the chemistry just clicks. But on the whole, any "assesment" I undertake of people is purely on a platonic basis.
The first person to do that in me will be fast tracked through Triage.
Belching/breaking wind. Gross. And pretty much all of the aforementioned.
I knew I'd omitted something.
It was wit. :doh:
Kenty, you're missing many things.
The ability to reason, to see sense, to think outside your red-topped box. The ability to remember your stance. Compassion, rationale, empathy. Perhaps a link or too. A mind of your own- without looking like the jaded hand puppet of a second rate bigoted shock jock. The intellect to argue without doing so "ad hominem"- accusing anyone who disagrees with you of being a politically correct, loony lefty, sandal wearing, tree hugging yoghurt knitter. Mental capacity enough to grasp the logic of a given theory, and expand it to relate to other things. Vision in anything other than black and white. I could go on.
In fact, after listing all that, I've come to realise you must quite simply be one big vacuum.
*Yes, it was worth it.
I give less than a shit what "people" in general think of me. There are a handful of folks who's opinions matter to me. A small number of them reside here- and I think they know who they are.
The thing is, somewhere along the way if you try to be Pauline Popular you're likely to end up compromising your own principles- and then would you like yourself?
Kent, you're a swinger arguing the case for the "norm."
Somewhere in Cyberwebspace there's a forum, and people are typing stuff like this:
"...as for those wife swapping sorts, bloody perverts! What about their kids? Can you imagine the damage it does to them not being bought up in a normal environment?"
Before you vote for Norman Normal- think carefully. If he gets into power, he may well outlaw you.