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To: raloxk
I agree :) I've seen it on TV and read about it, but I could not do it myself. It's too much like a meat market. It looks like the floor of the Stock Exchange to me.
73 posted on 02/14/2004 2:22:21 PM PST by cyborg
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To: cyborg
It's too much like a meat market. It looks like the floor of the Stock Exchange to me.

So true that its creepy. I've never done it, but I know people who have and many places around here have that kind of atmosphere as the defacto norm.

You can feel yourself being measured in a dozen different ways for things that have nothing to do with who you really are. It kind of freaks me out to the extent that I see myself get evaluated like a tuna at the Tokyo fish market when I have a few drinks with some friends at a local bar. Most of the women really truly could not care less about me unless my "statistics" are good (which unfortunately they are), so I've learned to lie to make myself seem less interesting from a purely statistical standpoint. The smart girls can see through it though (i.e. they usually extrapolate from personality or something), so it is a reasonably good filter.

94 posted on 02/14/2004 7:20:24 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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