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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1060 on: September 21, 2011, 05:58:02 AM »
Why the fuck has this gone on for so long?

Because new(ish) people come to the forum, decide to make a Nice Guy thread, and do not notice or do not go looking for an existing thread with the topic they are about to post. This thread exists in order to be the place all those new threads with the old topic get merged into.
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1061 on: September 21, 2011, 11:11:39 AM »
And sometimes I resurrect it to offend and oppress Tamsin.
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1062 on: September 21, 2011, 11:17:07 AM »
Sounds like someone wants his title changed to Nice Guy. :P
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1063 on: September 21, 2011, 11:19:53 AM »
O_O

I'll be good!
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1064 on: September 21, 2011, 11:20:56 AM »
That's what mama likes to hear. ;)
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1065 on: September 21, 2011, 08:59:52 PM »
Okaaaay... So if I let you slap my ass with wet celery, does...
Does that make me a Beta Male? Possibly a vegan?
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1066 on: March 27, 2012, 12:48:51 PM »
http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html

The first one made me think of this thread.

I think it also explains things in a new way (to me at least), and makes the whole thing that much clearer.
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1067 on: March 27, 2012, 02:20:06 PM »
Cracked is supposed to be a humor site, yet they sometimes hit a little too close to the mark for comfort.  Wow.

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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1068 on: March 27, 2012, 02:34:01 PM »
Yeah, they've actually got a fair few distressingly un-funny too-close-to-home articles.

I enjoy that site.
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1069 on: March 27, 2012, 04:04:43 PM »
Melissa McCarthy is not not attractive...  :|
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1070 on: March 27, 2012, 04:13:17 PM »
Ugh. The comments
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1071 on: March 28, 2012, 09:14:01 AM »
I know; I know; we're sick of this thread.  But the cracked article, and the convo in Venting about stewardship, and my own experiences made me want to write about the problem with nice guys and white knights. I've even linked to comments from K and Tamsin. 

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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1072 on: March 28, 2012, 09:51:18 AM »
*sets thread on fire*

*again*

*because it needs it*

Was wondering if I should merge the white knight posts into this thread/make a new thread, but now that would mess up your links.   ;)
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1073 on: March 28, 2012, 10:32:40 AM »
*sets thread on fire*

*again*

*because it needs it*

Was wondering if I should merge the white knight posts into this thread/make a new thread, but now that would mess up your links.   ;)

If its not here, how are some poor fools going to stumble into here and maybe learn something and get their AHA moment.

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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1074 on: March 28, 2012, 11:16:22 AM »
The links could always be edited...
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1075 on: March 28, 2012, 11:34:26 AM »
I can easily relink. 

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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1076 on: March 28, 2012, 12:00:09 PM »
We consider this thread a sort of quarantine.

Because it'll keep coming up. We can send folks here, and if they read throguh and still want to discuss, it won't mess up, say, "venting" or the rest of SLI.

Yeah, white-knightiness belongs here, IMHO.
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1077 on: March 28, 2012, 05:43:40 PM »
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire...
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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1078 on: March 28, 2012, 07:44:46 PM »
Yeah, white-knightiness belongs here, IMHO.

Sure, always discriminating against the black knightiness....

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Re: Nice guys - why don't girls like them?
« Reply #1079 on: March 28, 2012, 08:37:11 PM »
'tis only a fleshwound.
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