14-01-14 How to be suave

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Re: 14-01-14 How to be suave

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'J' wrote:you know, i've really never understood that particular stereotype. why exactly are gay men presumed to have some sort of special insight into women? logically, shouldn't they know less about how to romance/seduce a lady, since they have no incentive to develop those skills?

do straight women ever ask lesbians how to pick up men?
This is why I think jerzy might be sarcastically agreeing with him there. Either way it's still pretty funny.

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rpr wrote:Being a bit dense? Remember http://www.stickydillybuns.com/strips-s ... ou_measure?
That's possible, I guess. He has to be very dense, though -- which in turn doesn't make him much of a match for Ruby, who's a nerd and thus prioritises intelligence. And if he's as appealing to women as has been alleged, you'd think that one typical female denizen of the Ma3 universe or another would have grabbed him by the shirt front and dragged him out on a few dates by now.

Actually, it occurs to me that he may be a bit of a serious amateur athlete. The lifeguard/instructor job would suit someone who is really serious about swimming or diving, after all, and that's one class of obsession that could crash his social life.

That or comedy, I suppose.
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Mr. Bee wrote::| Even a black hole would look at Andy and say "God damn, he's dense."
=)) =)) =)) I think you nailed it Mr. Bee

Andy is so clueless it makes my head hurt. I hope the reason(s) he is like this gets explained at some point.
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Which does leave the question of whether someone that dim is really Ruby's type. I mean, we mostly have to take the script's word for it that she's intelligent, but she has that university degree, and she sometimes seems to have Amber intellectually intimidated; does she actually want a boyfriend who's dumb as a rock?
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I would assume that Andy's lack of dating experience has to do with his dense nature. He doesn't seem to pick up on other people's attempts to flirt with him "no matter how shameless." Since he doesn't reciprocate, these people then assume that he must not be interested.

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Spidrift wrote:It's a hideous double stereotype, of both women and gay men. But all the "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" stuff is built on the fact that, like most horrible clichés, it has a fragment of truth to it sometimes.
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Andy is so dense he has initiated gravitational collapse!! Soon, he will become opaque even to neutrinos! :-o
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