A true cinephile

Listen up, woman. I didn't spend all this money on speakers to watch shit on a postage stamp.

Now hold still while I fire up Jellyfin.

I was this dumb when I was a teenager.

I like to think that I'm not that dumb anymore, but I'm definitely still afraid of misinterpreting something as romantic/sexual that was meant in a friendly way.
i still am
Same. I like to think I've gotten older/wiser, but in reality, I do not believe I have.

Once i had a girl sleep over, because she missed the last Train. When i asked what Music she would like to hear, she said "let's go to bed" by the Cure. The next 4 times i asked her, she said the same thing. I remember thinking "gee she must really love that song". #autism

Y'all out here being handsome oblivious motherfuckers women hit on, meanwhile I'm just ugly.

It's all relative man. Sure you might be ugly on a scale of 1-10 but a subset of that scale like 1-3 you might be still be ugly but if you expand the scale, say from -3-1 you the too dog man! Just find yourself a -3 and she'll want to watch movies on a laptop on your bed, just make sure you reinforce the bed frame.
- Lol great advice. I did actually reinforce my bed frame. Not because of the weight of my partners so much as the uh... force in play sometimes.
  My main problem when I'm single is that I get very few matches on the apps, and I'm shy about approaching women in person unless they make the first move. Once I'm actually talking to someone, the chances are pretty decent and not just with "-3s". Same thing with job interviews. As soon as I'm in person, I'll talk pretty much anyone into hiring me - but getting to that point is difficult. Actually the job interview success rate is even better, it's like 80-90%.
- isnt -3 like a 7. Like you get so ugly you become pretty again

I had a somewhat similar situation but involving 3D modelling on a laptop. However, I was very aware I was being hit-on, but I just didn't care. I was in "the zone" making something for my project and didn't want to stop.

be silent wench, I need to finish this first

Coffee’s not coffee; coffee is sex! People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live

Coffee is horrid disgusting bean soup that exists to get workers with too much overtime addicted to a stimulant to keep them working.
Drink tea instead. We didn't do two opium wars and a spot of good old fashioned imperialism just to supplant the tasty fermented leaf for a bitter jungle bean. Much more civilised.

Way back when I was a student, I was at a girl's place for some project we had to do together, and she (and this is going to date me) showed off her stereo setup that she had hooked up to her PC to play Wolfenstein 3D. Later we also ended up watching TV on her couch together.

It took a decade before that quarter finally dropped.

Me? Is that you?

When I was in college, I was pretty into a girl, but was too nervous to ask her out. I'm also famously oblivious.

A few months into this, she texts me saying she needs someone to peer review a paper, and wants me to come over to her place the next night around 10. She also specifically says her roommate will he out and she knows neither of us are seeing anyone, so we'll both be free to meet up.

So I go over there, and she comes out wearing yoga pants and a sports bra. I figure she's wanting to go to bed pretty soon.

She asks if I want a drink, and I ask for some water..She grabs it for me and sits next to me on the couch, and I lean in and.... ask for the paper.

She's like, "Oh, yeah." And she goes and prints it out and brings it to me.

It was pretty rough, and I peer-reviewed the shit out of it. I show her a bunch of mistakes and stuff, tell her she has some work to do, and leave.

I didn't realize how much of a seemingly-cruel dumbass I was for like a year.

The year after i graduated college i went back to visit for some alumni thing. I ran into this guy i had been flirty with the year before and he invited me over to his room to "hang out". When I got there, he had just done laundry and had clean sheets he needed to put on his bed. I offered to help. I offered by sprawling my whole body, ass up, across his bed so I could tuck the corner in.
And then...
I helped him make his bed and clean the rest of his room. And we had a really nice chat and catch up. A couple of hours later, we hugged goodbye and I left.
tell me this has a good end and you guys are together now
Oh god, this is painful.
Oh man, I can feel the pain of that realization hitting in the middle of the night a year later.
- Once at a music festival I was chatting with a girl while standing in line. We talked for about an hour, did our shopping together and when we were returning to our camps, she said "I'm over there, under that banner if You would like to find me later and hang out". I said "I doubt that I will find You in this crowd" and went to my camp. I realized what I have done even before reaching my tent. Is it worse to realize a year later or 12min later but still not be able to take it back?
Not cruel, not a dumbass. She got what she asked for. If she wanted intimacy she should have communicated better.
- Not cruel, kinda a dumbass. But we all are at times, part of growing up. Oh well
- So go text your crush right now that you want to go on a date with her this weekend. Putting yourself out there is scary. OPhad a crush on the girl but was too afraid to saw anything. The girl clearly had a crush on him to, and did her best and (from her perspective) got rejected. OP also wanted intimacy and didn't communicate that
This is on her. If she was interested she would have suggested a make-out break before getting started.
I have been so depressed this week and you just made me laugh so hard and for so long my cat came into the room to check on me. I can totally relate to the obliviousness. I wouldn't recognize flirting if you wrote it on a sign and held it in front of my face
- The funny thing is I'm generally excellent at reading people, except when it comes to romantic stuff involving me. Reading people is a huge part of my job, and I'm excellent at what I do.
while yeah hindsight is clear.. that's the right way to play that. it's on her to make the move in that position, not for you to make her uncomfortable
Aaaaand? What happened after that year?
- A lot of carrot waxing.
Fuck bro. I feel pain for you after reading that.

I mean yeah she did come over to watch a movie.

Kudos for staying true to your values.

You should have put on some erotica, just to rub it in.

"Those two sure look like they're having a good time, huh?"
- Playboy comic from my youth

Yeah we all got one of these stories, I think I might have three. At least

- Sometimes decades later I suddenly realise I was being flirted on in some random party circa 2004. I used to think exactly like you!
Three? What are you, a virgin? It took 20 to lose mine.

I left a bag at a house party one time, went to pickup the bag the next days and completely missed all the clues from the girl who I'd been flirting with on and off in the lead up to the party. I kick myself when I think back to it.

I’ve gotten plenty of hand jobs on the couch. Nothing wrong with the living room.

Me too. My wife tells me to cut it out while she's trying to watch her shows though.
That's gonna be difficult with the separate recliners, but I promise it's worth it. They're placed exactly right for the best visuals. Here are your headphones.

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