Somehow I got this history of dating computer scientists. I don't know how this happens but they somehow tend to fall for me and always come up my way. What have I done?
@IntegralDuChemin LOL.... 😺
Are you into tech, computers, IT?
Geeky guys tend to dream of a girl who's got the same interests they do. I know. I found out a new penpal was right along those areas and couldn't believe it. Great fun to wait for her letter, and we got along well.
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@freemo @design_RG Good luck. Sounds great. So what do you think about me and the way I write - guy or girl?
@freemo don't answer it, you know my real name and identity. please no spoilers 🙂 @design_RG
@freemo @design_RG I think I told you once. And for the guessing of my gender I meant @design_RG
I am not good with names. Unless your name happens to be a number, then I'd remember :)
@freemo nope, sorry to disappoint you @design_RG
@IntegralDuChemin
I had thought a female but I think I found a clue once on your profile, that it was a male user, if I am not mistaken.
@design_RG I am a woman, yes :-) @freemo
But what clue are you talking about? 🙂
@IntegralDuChemin
Ah, I see -- you never left clues either way, but I thought I had seen a snippet somewhere, that made me think male at that point.
an expensive ballpoint is largely all about just being jewelry in a sense. Its some expensive metal, looks nice, and makes you happy to write with as anything of value wold. But in the end the actual ballpoint refill on the inside is likely no better than cheaper pens. So the writing expiernces wont be too different. With that said I can still understand the appreciation of having a nice pen, even a ballpoint.
But for us fountain pen users it is often uch the opposite. All we care about is the nip and the feel on paper and the look of the pen for many isnt important.
I have a 1000$ pen where the body itself is mostly plastic (though it does have solid white gold trimmings and the nib is solid white gold too).
The feeling of a ballpoint is, as the ink would suggest, sticky, its like walking through mollases, the ink in a fountain pen is very different and it glides.
But I also loe flex pens, so many of my nibs flex and can give all sorts of fancy writing you cant do with a standard nib either.
@freemo ?
I think you switched the band frequency on us, wrong channel?
[we were not talking pens, were we?]
@IntegralDuChemin
@freemo
Agreed - I have a lot of female pen pals, specifically because I felt the need to listen (read) the female view point and reasoning, prose. I have enjoyed it a lot.
I have lots of female friends myself. But thats mostly just cause I like to be surrounded by the best, especially people :)
It's specially comforting when you get tired of how many males are such jerks. And the politicians, control is with males in most cases.
I'd really be curious to see the statistics on how many women loose elections vs men once normalizing for the disparity
Obviously its male dominated but just how much of that is it due to fewer women running vs the voting public themselves not voting fo rthem I wonder.
Unequal opportunities, to start with. The old boys club is mostly male, and they control a lot of things.
Progressives, minorities, etc, low chance to get in.
Reasonable speculation, but id still like to see some numbers.. how many women apply to work in politics but get rejected then maybe?
@design_RG
Nice, we need some of the charm a lady would bring around this place :)
@IntegralDuChemin