Posted on 12/06/2004 9:12:18 AM PST by MississippiMasterpiece
I think you're probably right...typically the guy does the asking and the woman has the right to turn him down.
To be honest, though, I'm not sure which is easier. It can be excrutiatingly difficult and painful to turn someone down nicely and without going into great detail as to why you don't think it would work, particularly when it's someone you really do like a lot as a friend.
Not that you're not welcome to join us!
It's not easy being greens...
Even a little boys when they lost they gathered up their toys and went home sulking.
Desperation. The libbies are desperate.
Wait a minute....He SHAVED??? No way. Did he iron a shirt?
I personally like frog legs.... but pistachio ice cream? Oh, no contest. Pistachio ice cream with hershey's SYRUP... ooooooooo.....
Ifn someone should give me some reasons to get more practice I guess I would have to give it a go.
It'll only get worse as he grows, trust me on this...it'll only get worse.
nah.... hiding under the table whimpering....
Just don't use that 'I don't want to spoil the friendship we have' nonsense. It would be nicer to just kick them in the junk and walk away.
It's a HER. That's what boggles my mind. Slim, pretty, eats 4.5 tons of food per day, washes it all down with a truckload of twinkies.....
Stop that!! I am getting huuuunrrrggy
Wow
Good site
And BTW, women most definitelty have the upper hand..and I write from the perspective of one who, over the last 5 years, has watched my daughters set their caps for two guys, and then "allow" the men to woo, win, and marry them. I'm crazy about my two sons-in-law, they're great guys, but they never had a chance..never saw it coming..
That would be culture, which is a general thing.
Oh, come on now, Fatalis. I feel like we're playing merry-go-round word games. I said you made it more specific by adding the word "phenomenon," and you reply by using the word "culture" alone, without the very word that I said made what you wished to discuss specific.
Make three statements regarding cultural phenomena and I will show at least three times why they are generalizations.
Will one do? I'm supposed to be working here. :-) How about this: "In 2002, 1.5% of all native-born Japanese women between the ages of 18 and 25 married a native-born American man, an increase of 87% over the previous year."
No word games. Play nice. And remember two things: first, you said generalizations were "necessary" in discussing cultural phenomena, and second, your post, the one to which most people responded, talked about American women "on the whole."
It just ain't fair I tell ya!
If you really like him a lot as a friend -- I mean a close friend, not just a "hiya" friend -- and as the kind of friend you trust and respect, you shouldn't turn him down. You should marry him.
Marriages based on strong friendships are the kind that last.
Yep. Desperation, pure and simple.
Clean shaven and in a suit. What a sight to behold.
Gotta run. Wonderful talking to all of you. Lots of fun... and don't forget
HERSHEY'S SYRUP... It's not just for breakfast anymore.
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