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Post by J'st-Peat on Mar 3, 2005 18:13:33 GMT -5
Ok so I dont get it. Chicks present company excluded dont get the star wars thing. I just told this girl I was kind of interested in about stuff I got for my new costume and she just totally blew me out of the water. I never said anything about the prada or kate spade stuff. I mean 300 on a purse is nuts but hey thats her thing.
Oh well another bites the dust.
She is just gonna be missin it when I am wearing the new pimpin robes.
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Post by Kyrel-Dak on Mar 3, 2005 18:43:29 GMT -5
It is very simple.........
I could be out drinking beer at the Nudie Bar.......come home and beat the wife and kick the dog
or instead
I am home drinking a Pepsi, making props, watching Star Wars movies, playing with action figures and lightsabers oh, and occasionally drinking Pepsi while eating popcorn and playing with a lightsaber while watching Star Wars (can you believe I can do all that at once)
Call me weird but there are worse men out there
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Post by Emerita on Mar 3, 2005 19:17:34 GMT -5
;D LOl...where were you when I was 20 and looking....
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Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Mar 3, 2005 19:51:49 GMT -5
It's true. Most people in general don't understand. I get all sorts of looks when I mention SW. The people at church think I'm nuts but they are getting used to it. I get all sorts of comments now on my email address and they have started to call my husband "Jedi Dad." LOL. Now some of them are even giving me things as I walk down the halls. One lady gave me an old ANH soundtrack on vinyl. I thought it was cool. Too bad I don't have a turntable anymore.
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Post by Perrin Khalon on Mar 3, 2005 20:43:41 GMT -5
At first my wife did not understand my obsession with prop making but the more time she spends in the forum the more excited she gets and the more she wants me to build. I guess I am lucky.
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Post by J'st-Peat on Mar 3, 2005 22:41:04 GMT -5
Its sooo frustrating. Its exactly that I am totally, just enjoying something that is a legit hobby, minus playing with the light saber but thats a different forum.
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Post by JediKai on Mar 4, 2005 0:58:06 GMT -5
As I advised a young woman who was thinking about dating a "kinda geeky" guy: Geeks are the best. I went on to extoll the virtues of a geeky guy and she began to see the light.
My husband of 25 years is an uber-geek. He may stay up until 6am on Saturday morning (as in up all night) playing online games with a pal from SoCal, but I know where he is and he's not doing anything self destructive!
One friend shared that his SO complained about his computer game playing and I advised him to tell the SO (they're a gay couple) that at least said geeky guy was not out cruising the bars!
As you've said, there are FAR worse things!
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Mar 4, 2005 11:24:25 GMT -5
Yeah, my hubby wants to know if he can start a support group for the spouses and SO's of obsessed SW fans! LOL Its funny, but his career is in information technology but he's been working in the fashion industry for a very long time. Armani, Dior, Coach, Gucci... and now he's trying to get into Prada... He loves the industry... and working in NYC. He's the only guy I know that watches fashion shows on TV... for the clothes! And he can talk high fashion with any chick... except for me!!!! Forget the ugly purse... I'll save the 300 bucks for pouches and Obi-Wan boots! Somehow I sense irony in that.
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Post by Calaveylon Angavel on Mar 4, 2005 14:39:53 GMT -5
Yea, Leda!! Save the money for SW props! ;D I have noticed that many people who are....ahem...."geeks".....happen to quite intelligent and talented. My gaming club in college were the least trouble for the administration and the most liked by the townies.......and the other clubs thought that we were "geeks". I can talk about the behaviour of other social organizations at my college, but that wouldn't be proper! I agree what Kyrel-Dak said, I could be out drinking and be a nasty person, or I can be doing something constructive and not destructive. I met some REAL characters in college that are sure candidates for lifetime bachelorhood!
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Post by jaiven on Mar 4, 2005 16:18:40 GMT -5
Besides Pret, If a Gal can not except you for who are, and what you like, do you really want to be with her anyway? So what if she is smoking hot. Been there done that myself. They don't want to accept the fact that you are a huge SW fan, yet they want you to accept them for there wierd quirks and strange obssessions. They are really shallow people when they act like that. I use to date this one girl, whom most guys would definately consider a banging 10 on the scale. She couldn't get use to the fact that I was a Sci-Fi Geek. She would say, "You ride a Motorcycle, and look like a Biker, yet you like that stupid stuff like Star Trek and Star Wars. That's really lame!" Well she broke up with me because of the Sci-Fi stuff, and ended up hooking up with some "Gorgeous guy" as she put it, who didn't bother with the nerdy stuff I do. He was in a band, and way cooler than me. Her words. Well, guess what, he cheated on her left and right, he got her hooked on coke, not the drink mind you, got her pregnant, and would hit on her. Well she tried to come crawling back to me, after she was all haggered out, and said she was sorry and wanted to get back with a guy who kind and treated her nice. I said, What even with all my "STUPID SCI-FI GEEKY STUFF", and she said yes she really didn't mind it. Well, I promptly told he to take a flying leap and go back to her "Gorgeous Band Guy" Cause I didn't want a Lame loser like her anymore. So in summary, if they con't like or can atleast tolerate what you are into. Forget them, they aren't worth it. You are definately better off my Fellow Jedi. Hope I didn't sound like a parent lecturing, just trying to help
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Post by J'st-Peat on Mar 4, 2005 17:54:40 GMT -5
No its all good. So its going to be a big friday night here,sanz signifigant other. I am starting to make my jedi food capsuls tonight HAHA.
HAHAHA. (quiet) I said HAHHAHAHAHA (more quiet)
oh well at least theres personal amusement involved happy friday everyone!
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Post by Shatir Lavan on Mar 4, 2005 18:17:33 GMT -5
My GF isn't a fan of SW, but she knows how important it is to me and doesn't try to change that about me. She'll watch the movies with me (If I give her a back massage for the whole battle of Endor, that is), but she enjoys spending that time with me. That's the important thing. Find someone who wants to spend time with you regardless, for the most part, of what that time is spent doing. I don't enjoy most reality TV (survivor excluded), but I watch it with her because I enjoy her company. If a girl won't spend time with you because of your interests, that's entirely her fault and loss (unless your activities involve drugs and gangs, in which case she is absolutely right in leaving you, but we're Jedi, we don't need that stuff).
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Post by Jaren Valnor on Apr 17, 2005 17:18:09 GMT -5
The thread is old, I know, but I thought I'd share this. Last week, a girl asked me out on a date...to go see Revenge of the Sith at midnight :-D. Just goes to show you, Pret-Jon, just keep looking.
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Post by Schph Gochi on Apr 18, 2005 8:45:57 GMT -5
as a "girl"....and an old one at that...
ya either get it.. or ya don't....
I get it! ;D so...some chicks understand...
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Post by JediMistressDragon on Apr 18, 2005 16:23:18 GMT -5
You want to meet women who like what you like? Right? Well, you're heading for a convention full of Star Wars/scifi fans, so that is where you will find the kind of female you seek. I was lucky, in that I met Bill when i volunteered at Armed Forces YMCA back in '76 as wasn't sure he was into scifi. One day i was leaving for a club meeting and he asked me where I was going. So I quietly told him and discovered he's a big scifi fan. So that's the best way to date--make sure they like what you like. JMD
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