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post #1 of 97
5/16/11 at 10:50am
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I was chatting about my early impressions of this forum to some bffs this weekend and the conversation meandered to the relationship between style and comportment. in the opinion of myself and my posse, no matter how elegantly a man is dressed, if he behaves like a boor he has no true style. why spend thousands on the right pair of shoes but then ruin it all by acting like an asshole?
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post #2 of 97
5/16/11 at 10:52am
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Originally Posted by hannahmontana View Post
I was chatting about my early impressions of this forum to some bffs this weekend and the conversation meandered to the relationship between style and comportment. in the opinion of myself and my posse, no matter how elegantly a man is dressed, if he behaves like a boor he has no true style. why spend thousands on the right pair of shoes but then ruin it all by acting like an asshole?

Because chix luv assholes?

Amirite guys? Amirite?
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post #3 of 97
5/16/11 at 10:59am
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Originally Posted by hannahmontana View Post
I was chatting about my early impressions of this forum to some bffs this weekend and the conversation meandered to the relationship between style and comportment. in the opinion of myself and my posse, no matter how elegantly a man is dressed, if he behaves like a boor he has no true style. why spend thousands on the right pair of shoes but then ruin it all by acting like an asshole?

Whoa, you have a posse? Are you a late-80s gangsta rapper? 'Cause it would be pretty cool if you were. You would bring SF some sorely-needed street cred.
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post #4 of 97
5/16/11 at 11:07am
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Because chix luv assholes?

Amirite guys? Amirite?

Indeed, you are. Being a gentleman gets you nowhere. And in the words of the inimitable edmorel, "every woman needs to be at least a little scared of your penis."
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post #5 of 97
5/16/11 at 11:17am
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Indeed, you are. Being a gentleman gets you nowhere. And in the words of the inimitable edmorel, "every woman needs to be at least a little scared of your penis."

and if there is anyone who knows ALL about what women like, it is a male asshole.
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post #6 of 97
5/16/11 at 11:17am
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Originally Posted by hannahmontana View Post
I was chatting about my early impressions of this forum to some bffs this weekend and the conversation meandered to the relationship between style and comportment. in the opinion of myself and my posse, no matter how elegantly a man is dressed, if he behaves like a boor he has no true style. why spend thousands on the right pair of shoes but then ruin it all by acting like an asshole?
If you guys truly believe that you must be past your 20s...
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Because chix luv assholes? Amirite guys? Amirite?
Yup, nice guys finish last, etc.
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post #7 of 97
5/16/11 at 11:22am
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and if there is anyone who knows ALL about what women like, it is a male asshole.

edmorel knows all about assholes. See? You're learning.
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post #8 of 97
5/16/11 at 11:29am
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If you guys truly believe that you must be past your 20s...



Yup, nice guys finish last, etc.

or we have been around too many assholes?
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post #9 of 97
5/16/11 at 11:45am
i must say, HM starts a hell of a thread. 2 for 2 i think
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post #10 of 97
5/16/11 at 11:57am
^^ truth. ...anyway, in honest response to the OP and a tip of the cap to a few previous poasters who pointed the way - behavior is more or less shaped by the responses we get from our peers, both on-line and IRL. In our younger years, we (the Universal We) want attention, so guys become jerks and women coquettes, whether it reflects our values or not...it reinforces our need for attention/validation, and when we get that, we keep it up until it grows stale. For some of us, it never does (see: Donald Trump) and that also is reflected in some business mileaus where arrogance is considered a primary survival trait (see: consulting, IB, etc). Anyway, the tl;dr version is best summed up by Oscar Wilde, when he said "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about".
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post #11 of 97
5/16/11 at 12:02pm
sprezz!
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post #12 of 97
5/16/11 at 12:04pm
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^^ truth.

...anyway, in honest response to the OP and a tip of the cap to a few previous poasters who pointed the way - behavior is more or less shaped by the responses we get from our peers, both on-line and IRL. In our younger years, we (the Universal We) want attention, so guys become jerks and women coquettes, whether it reflects our values or not...it reinforces our need for attention/validation, and when we get that, we keep it up until it grows stale. For some of us, it never does (see: Donald Trump) and that also is reflected in some business mileaus where arrogance is considered a primary survival trait (see: consulting, IB, etc).

Anyway, the tl;dr version is best summed up by Oscar Wilde, when he said "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about".

Shit, Thomas dropping some mad wisdom today.
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post #13 of 97
5/16/11 at 12:07pm
I'm generally a nice guy, and the ladies have seemed to respond to that pretty well my entire life.

Then again I'm not stylish in any possible definition of the word, so I don't know why I replied to this thread.
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post #14 of 97
5/16/11 at 12:10pm
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I'm generally a nice guy, and the ladies have seemed to respond to that pretty well my entire life.

Then again I'm not stylish in any possible definition of the word, so I don't know why I replied to this thread.

Let's not take too many liberties here.
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post #15 of 97
5/16/11 at 12:10pm
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I'm generally a nice guy, and the ladies have seemed to respond to that pretty well my entire life.

Then again I'm not stylish in any possible definition of the word, so I don't know why I replied to this thread.

The fact is, one doesn't have much to do with the other.
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