Getting to know you

[karter]

Nice thread, a question to all forumites and apologies if it's been asked before here and i haven't seen it, now, can a man and a woman that have chemistry just be friends with no sex coming into the equation??

[KalamityKel]

Yes of course!

I often find people get confused with their feelings - u can have strong feelings for someone that often is just a strong feeling of friendship, nothing sexual in it at all but makes you think you like them more than just as a friend.

[karter]

and then the trouble starts lol

[KalamityKel]

I guess it depends on the level of maturity you both can manage. I have had many male friends, mainly from school days or who I have grown up with, where "chemistry" has become an issue on both sides... I'm really good mates with them nowadays so it is possible :p

Staying friends with the ex tho is always something I can never understand although currently giving it good go! lol

[karter]

Hey DM, whats your opinion on this?

[SteveT]

When I have strong feelings for a woman I want to tear her clothes off, throw her to the ground, and have my wicked way until we were both spent.

Would that be constituted as having too strong-er feelings?

Being friends with someone whom you carry such feelings for and being unable to express it to her, feels like unfinished business!

Twenty something years ago I had such an encounter with a lady I had fancied for months, she was in a relationship with a straight decent guy, this particular evening he was seeing his ex whilst I shared the back seat of someones car with her. I gave her a kiss and then stopped. I felt that to go any further I would have to make a take over bid and take her home and be prepared to marry her. I believed at that time her guy would have made a better life partner for her, than myself so I let her go.

In retrospect I regretted my decision, so the moral of this story don't be like me, grab it with both hands and give it a go, before you turn round you will have 'if only's' cluttering up your old age.

[KalamityKel]

*makes notes*

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I've never managed it - if the chemistry is sexual that is, and not ingested.

I became friends with my ex again recently and as soon as I'd had a drink or two, it was all over for me.

Sad really, absolutely no self control.

[MrBen]

I was Marie Clare Man of the Month, August 2003. And in Dentist's waiting rooms all over the UK until about 2005.

And I'm not even that good looking.

She rated me a big fat 9/10 for humour after the date.

And I'm not even very funny either.

[Annasfield]

MrBen Wrote:

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> I was Marie Clare Man of the Month, August 2003.

> And in Dentist's waiting rooms all over the UK

> until about 2005.

>

> And I'm not even that good looking.

>

> She rated me a big fat 9/10 for humour after the

> date.

>

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Get you ;-)

> And I'm not even very funny either.

[MrBen]

I know.... I think they were struggling to fill that tricky "quiet" summer edition.

[karter]

I think i saw that edition Mrben, were you the guy with the shaved head and big teeth

[MrBen]

Takes a real man to admit reading Marie Claire Karter - but that was Junes edition!

I had a weird fish eye effect on my pic that enlarged everything, similar to Foxtons interior pictures. This was due to me being so embarassed, I had to take the picture myself at arms length.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I did some work for the Queens Flight a few years ago. Went on a flight on one of their business jets - it was all surprisingly ordinary. More tea and coffee in standard RAF china than G&T.

They had some interesting observations on the best and the worst of the VIPs that they transported. The best were Tony and Cherie Blair as they always made a point of knowing the names of the crew and always said thank-you. The two worst are both now sadly dead and I would not speak ill of them.

That day I walked through the Operations Room and there was a white board with that morning's sorties:

1 - The Princess Royal

2- Mr M Palaeologus

Somebody recognised my true status.

[dulwichmum]

Michael - you stand head and shoulders above most other men (apart from my darling husband ... clearly), indeed Mr Karter, there is undeniable chemistry between myself and Mr Batdog, and myself and Michael (you are a scamp) and I have an undeniable crush on Sean MacGabhann - but some things are best left unsaid - don't you think (sigh...).

Mr Keef and Mr Mockney are shockingly handsome too actually,...OHMYGOD! What am I saying???

[KalamityKel]

I just wuv everyone! :))

[wee quinnie]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> Do you have something really

> interesting/different/odd/something that's not

> commonly known about you you are willing to

> share?

>

> I'm allergic to photocopier ink... suffering red

> hands and a bad case of the sneezes as I type?!!

> :-(

Just posted the original message, to get back on track.

Anyway, I think it says a lot about me that I am

1. Forever trying to find hidden messages in car number plates. (I think this is a mark of Open University - search for coded messages, and refusal to accept that anything "meaningless" is not a coincidence).

2. I am absolutely entranced by typefaces - and believe that each says something. (You are probably aware of my hatred for the ghastly comic sans ms - as I bring it up at every available opportunity).

[SeanMacGabhann]

wee quinnie - I share both of those traits.

[annaj]

I?m completely with you on comic sans.

It?s the typeface of Bubbly and Wacky people, of bosses who want to be Mates and of signs saying You don?t have to be mad to work here, but it helps!*

Hate it.

*spent some time trying to make the coloured text be in the dreaded font, but couldn't do it. Any of the IT people out there want to change it feel free!

[david_carnell]

How about this:

http://www.geofffox.com/MT/images/comic-sans.gif

[Bellenden Belle]

annaj Wrote:

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> I?m completely with you on comic sans.

> It?s the typeface of Bubbly and Wacky people,

Oh dear AnnaJ - I am often described as Bubbly - is it so bad? :'(

But I am very particular about typefaces. I always remember the look on a funeral director's face when I requested that the words on a floral tribute (where the flowers made the words) be in italic rather than BLOCK PRINT... apparently in thirty years she had never come across such a request!

[Brendan]

Bloody hell you sound like a bunch of school teachers going on about messy handwriting. ;-)

I remember those fascist well, trying to constrain a young boy?s creativity with their rules and HB pencils.

[citizenED]

Spent the whole of last summer designing a website using Comic Sans................oh, well, back to the drawing board.

[bignumber5]

Oh dear AnnaJ - I am often described as Bubbly - is it so bad?

Not so - it's people who would describe themself on first meeting as "a bit wacky, kooky, bubbly, always up for a laugh, me!"

[KalamityKel]

BN5 does one need to say that waving arms around too?

It is always good to know for future meetings with said ppl who/what we are dealing with...