I read the new London newspaper last night, and enjoyed the story about straight girls dating gay girls for the first time. Particularly the advice to straight girls to cut out the preening, pouting and coy girly voice stuff. It just don’t impress. This makes me jealous. Why? Because for a variety of reasons I’ve ended up in a rare minority of guys who generally (though there are some pleasant exceptions) don’t dig that behaviour either. But there’s no way you can say that to a girl. If only for the reason that this behaviour is presumably based on the commonsense assumption that all straight men are the same! (Except for those straight men who have sex with other men, and who don’t think of themselves as gay for example?!). Don’t ask me. I’m just an amateur social scientist.
Category Archives: Brain teasers
Rules of thumb
A few rules of thumb which may work for you?
1. If you want someone to move out of your way quickly and smoothly, first move out of their way – thay way they thank you for doing what you want them to do.
2. By the natural laws of distribution/variation/probability there’s always someone who’s worse/better; happier/sadder; richer/poorer than oneself. Helps sometimes, doesn’t other times!
3. Approach ticket barriers with an eye to the human in front of you; you’ll be surprised how many times they’ll cause a bottleneck just when you’re in a rush/looking like a million dollars. But they really don’t need a ‘reason’.
