"Stuff", again, for lack of a better title.
It's spring break? Oh yeah, it is.
(This illustrates my policy about school scheduled breaks/holidays: I care nothing to foresee them, unless I have a shiteload of work that I need to do and I desperately need a bit of extra time. Generally, I prefer to keep on trucking with my usual non-routine, and if a break comes, all the more pleasant. I generally have absolutely no plans to do anything "cool" over break, and I am SO not ashamed to say that. Plus, Halloween isn't an official holiday, while it should be. On the other hand, as highlighted by the most recent Prairie Home Companion show, Columbus came around to the Americas just to end up causing trouble.)
In the news: two things. First, I found my both-sides-plug-end audio cable--the one that lets me connect my speaker socket to my microphone socket on my laptop. This morning (yesterday morning, technically), for the first time, I recorded an mp3 from an SPC file on my computer--proving that I am now able to bring the best of uncommon-format music (such as videogame emulator music format music) to all my friends, since I have the capability of transforming them into the (near-universal these days) mp3 format. Second, my parents and I visited the Groton submarine base museum as well as a neighbor's maple-syrup-producing "sugar house" (in northern Massachusetts) today, effectively ending my ability to say that I didn't go anywhere cool over break. (Damnit!) Car rides were of course punctuated (or one might say "worded" instead) with the usual petty arguments and directional confusion, but everything turned out fine, kinda, yeah, whatever.
Time for ranting about my thoughts.
So, I happened to be trying to find the definition of "petite" in describing body types of human females. Unfortunately, while Wikipedia has some of the more obscure aspects of strange things*, it is not (yet) an English usage encyclopedia: things like idiots--I mean idioms (damn, I'm way too used to typing "idiot") and common specialized terms aren't there. An example of the first is "keep on trucking" (the meaning of which I was trying confirm before I used it 3 paragraphs ago); an example of the second is what "petite" means when describing female body types.
It was a little discussion in chat one day, about what kinds of body types guys prefer in girls, that someone mentioned the term "petite", and I wondered what that meant (he didn't quite explain it very well). In my search for such a definition, I found this site: http://www.freebeautytips.org/bathing-suit-tips.html. That site included the following text: Slender, athletic bodies have shoulders, waist and hips that are the similar in width. One-piece or two-piece [swim]suits with detailing around the waist will help create a more hourglass shape.
Why an hourglass shape?
Hence, the next most logical question, why do guys seem to prefer girls with the stereotypical larger breasts (hence the stereotypical "OMGZ B00B13S!") and "small waist-to-hip ratio"?
I suppose I could Google my queries and get some kind of answer, and I kinda did for the first one. I was doing research on something else (coughcelldisruptionbyfluidflowcough) but I kinda spent some of my time researching the first of my two queries, and came up with this: http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/breasts.htm. I haven't read all of it, but while I might or might not agree with it, it's an interesting read.
These questions are kinda rather relevant considering how big of a deal society (at least our 21st-century American culture) makes of these two things (as parodied in something like The Complete History of Jack Schitt), and the fact that I seem to be "out of touch" with at least one such taste. However, while some people might make fun of me (and I don't care if they do) for generally preferring smaller breasts on a girl, for example, I end up asking myself, am I, in a different sense, blessed by nature to favor more "practical" genes in my mate? (I haven't observed the second point much yet.)
As I mentioned above, anyone can use Google (or even Wikipedia, for something like this) to fish out various research articles and other miscellany to answer these kinds questions. I've probably read some such answers before as well, but I want people to weigh in on this voluntarily: Why do many guys prefer girls with larger breasts, and small (or a certain) waist-to-hip ratios, and "prominent [cheekbones]", and "ovoid face" (as opposed to circular?), etc. ...or do they really, at all?
(For a more comprehensive list, see Wikipedia's article on physical attractiveness in humans, which conveniently includes a portrait of Angelina "Please Stop With The Ooh I'm So Sexah" Jolie beside a list of such traits.)
I also mean this little commentary as a message to all those girls out there who think their appearance isn't good enough just because of stuff like their breasts being that little bit smaller than average. Don't bother with it. Someone out there will like you for who you are--including your physical features. And read my next paragraph.
In any case, I still know that, when evaluating the visual attractiveness of a girl, her face is the first thing that strikes me anyway, and hence is more influential than body shape; and when evaluating overall attractiveness, I put a good deal more emphasis on personality than looks anyway. Really. Because being able to date a hawt ch1ck is much much less satisfying than finding a soulmate.
Okay, it's getting late; I'm starting to feel seriously inept at expressing my opinions accurately here. Talk to y'all later.
* Such as the "Greased Up Deaf Guy" from Family Guy, who was one of the characters that people on my floor made our graduate resident advisor/tutor applicants try to identify, and with whom I was acquainted during this process while mishearing his name as "Greased-up Death Guy".
(This illustrates my policy about school scheduled breaks/holidays: I care nothing to foresee them, unless I have a shiteload of work that I need to do and I desperately need a bit of extra time. Generally, I prefer to keep on trucking with my usual non-routine, and if a break comes, all the more pleasant. I generally have absolutely no plans to do anything "cool" over break, and I am SO not ashamed to say that. Plus, Halloween isn't an official holiday, while it should be. On the other hand, as highlighted by the most recent Prairie Home Companion show, Columbus came around to the Americas just to end up causing trouble.)
In the news: two things. First, I found my both-sides-plug-end audio cable--the one that lets me connect my speaker socket to my microphone socket on my laptop. This morning (yesterday morning, technically), for the first time, I recorded an mp3 from an SPC file on my computer--proving that I am now able to bring the best of uncommon-format music (such as videogame emulator music format music) to all my friends, since I have the capability of transforming them into the (near-universal these days) mp3 format. Second, my parents and I visited the Groton submarine base museum as well as a neighbor's maple-syrup-producing "sugar house" (in northern Massachusetts) today, effectively ending my ability to say that I didn't go anywhere cool over break. (Damnit!) Car rides were of course punctuated (or one might say "worded" instead) with the usual petty arguments and directional confusion, but everything turned out fine, kinda, yeah, whatever.
Time for ranting about my thoughts.
So, I happened to be trying to find the definition of "petite" in describing body types of human females. Unfortunately, while Wikipedia has some of the more obscure aspects of strange things*, it is not (yet) an English usage encyclopedia: things like idiots--I mean idioms (damn, I'm way too used to typing "idiot") and common specialized terms aren't there. An example of the first is "keep on trucking" (the meaning of which I was trying confirm before I used it 3 paragraphs ago); an example of the second is what "petite" means when describing female body types.
It was a little discussion in chat one day, about what kinds of body types guys prefer in girls, that someone mentioned the term "petite", and I wondered what that meant (he didn't quite explain it very well). In my search for such a definition, I found this site: http://www.freebeautytips.org/bathing-suit-tips.html. That site included the following text: Slender, athletic bodies have shoulders, waist and hips that are the similar in width. One-piece or two-piece [swim]suits with detailing around the waist will help create a more hourglass shape.
Why an hourglass shape?
Hence, the next most logical question, why do guys seem to prefer girls with the stereotypical larger breasts (hence the stereotypical "OMGZ B00B13S!") and "small waist-to-hip ratio"?
I suppose I could Google my queries and get some kind of answer, and I kinda did for the first one. I was doing research on something else (coughcelldisruptionbyfluidflowcough) but I kinda spent some of my time researching the first of my two queries, and came up with this: http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/breasts.htm. I haven't read all of it, but while I might or might not agree with it, it's an interesting read.
These questions are kinda rather relevant considering how big of a deal society (at least our 21st-century American culture) makes of these two things (as parodied in something like The Complete History of Jack Schitt), and the fact that I seem to be "out of touch" with at least one such taste. However, while some people might make fun of me (and I don't care if they do) for generally preferring smaller breasts on a girl, for example, I end up asking myself, am I, in a different sense, blessed by nature to favor more "practical" genes in my mate? (I haven't observed the second point much yet.)
As I mentioned above, anyone can use Google (or even Wikipedia, for something like this) to fish out various research articles and other miscellany to answer these kinds questions. I've probably read some such answers before as well, but I want people to weigh in on this voluntarily: Why do many guys prefer girls with larger breasts, and small (or a certain) waist-to-hip ratios, and "prominent [cheekbones]", and "ovoid face" (as opposed to circular?), etc. ...or do they really, at all?
(For a more comprehensive list, see Wikipedia's article on physical attractiveness in humans, which conveniently includes a portrait of Angelina "Please Stop With The Ooh I'm So Sexah" Jolie beside a list of such traits.)
I also mean this little commentary as a message to all those girls out there who think their appearance isn't good enough just because of stuff like their breasts being that little bit smaller than average. Don't bother with it. Someone out there will like you for who you are--including your physical features. And read my next paragraph.
In any case, I still know that, when evaluating the visual attractiveness of a girl, her face is the first thing that strikes me anyway, and hence is more influential than body shape; and when evaluating overall attractiveness, I put a good deal more emphasis on personality than looks anyway. Really. Because being able to date a hawt ch1ck is much much less satisfying than finding a soulmate.
Okay, it's getting late; I'm starting to feel seriously inept at expressing my opinions accurately here. Talk to y'all later.
* Such as the "Greased Up Deaf Guy" from Family Guy, who was one of the characters that people on my floor made our graduate resident advisor/tutor applicants try to identify, and with whom I was acquainted during this process while mishearing his name as "Greased-up Death Guy".