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Post by roofless on Jul 28, 2006 18:00:55 GMT
I meant people I've "met" at football, not all the people I've ever seen at football games... and I think you knew that you're just being pedantic...
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Post by roofless on Jul 28, 2006 18:01:51 GMT
Also I am loving the post there Sal, it's exactly what I was thinking!
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 28, 2006 22:32:00 GMT
Not a winding you up at all. I'm just questioning Roofless' use of the term "emotionally dead" when clearly it doesn't apply to a lot of people who watch football. I wouldn't doubt that the priorities of football fans don't lie where you'd like them to, but that's a debate I don't want to be involved in. I'm sure I replied to this post yesterday but it seems to have spontaneously disappeared (I think that's happened to other people on this forum before  ) It's definitely not about priorities- anyone who knows me well knows that supporting Sutton comes before ANYTHING else for me and I would never hesitate to choose going to a match over a romantic assignation  It's just that some guys- and they are in a very small minority- think that showing emotion to a partner vicariously, if that's the right word, by showing it towards something else, is a satisfactory substitute for showing it to the person herself (I do apologise; it's been an incredibly long day). "You can't complain that I never show emotion- watch me at a match" is actually most likely to upset a woman if she wishes her man would show her more emotion. Because he's only proving that he CAN show emotion, but not to her- and it's only herself that she really needs him to show emotion towards. I'm guessing a lot of this; I never had a problem with that in itself, just with the guy thinking that saying that would please me, because that showed real thoughtlessness. The emotion thing was fine. I would never have expected the same level of emotion as for football because as we all know it's a completely different thing and completely different types of emotions. Which is a key point here, because "emotionally dead" presumably refers to the types of emotions associated with relationships, not football, and some people have a lot of trouble expressing the former but not the latter. Anyone who understands this post in its entirety, first time read, without re-reading any of it, gets a prize. |
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Post by medibot on Jul 30, 2006 22:11:38 GMT
I did but i think we've had this converstion before so i'll forgo the prize.
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