Rules for Dating Meredith

[maradydd]

As it happens, I've been planning on making a post like this for a long time. The original plan was to do an illustrated version, and there are still pencil roughs in my sketchbook. They're still quite rough, and I'm busy enough that they'll stay rough for a while. But, since tall_man has provided us with a set of Rules for Dating Tyler, I feel compelled

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[slithytove]

No. 10 should be taught on Sesame Street, in children's textbooks, worked into Barney episodes, ABC After School Specials, preached from the pulpit, and so on. It is universal wisdom, that everyone must understand if they are not to make a godawful mess of their lives and their relationships. It is one of the basic Rules for Right Living, right up there with 'Never bait a paranoid'.

That having been said...

One of my favorite factoids is this: Males with the 'anti-social' personality disorder ('criminals', in ordinary language) are impossible to treat. Psychiatry does not know how to cure them. The criminal justice system does not know how to cure them. The most we can do is lock them up for a while. However, it is known that about 1% of them reform themselves every year, and become law-abiding, responsible, trustworthy citizens. It's not exactly clear why, but it seems that there's usually a woman involved.

[pandorasfox]

*dies* i so love you mer. this makes me want to make a list of my own. do you mind if i borrow/adapt a few that i find applicable?

[maradydd]

Feel free.

[writerpo]

I understand the thought behind keeping #11 negotiable, but would you really want to date an undergrad? Seems to me that one needs its own number just to keep that particular loophole sealed, buried, and lost for all time...

...Okay, yeah, I'd date one if she was really frickin exceptional in that lacks only in units what she makes up for in brilliance kind of way, but we're talking lightning-striking-a-lotto-winner kind of rare here.

Okay, enough ragging on undergrads (there's never enough ragging on undergrads!).

---Peter

[maradydd]

I'd marry ti94 if I ever wanted to get married again and if he weren't gay, and he's an undergrad.

[bigby]

I have an undergrad as a sweetie.. but only because we are finally getting her to go back to school after a long long break.

[writerpo]

I do too, but that's because she fits the exceptionally brilliant proviso I added to my original comment. A woman who is smarter than I will ever be, and a physicist to boot getting ready to apply to grad school can easily make me forget that she's still just an undergrad. She does make me forget.

---Peter

[maradydd]

Of course, you already have a girlfriend, and you are also in Belgium. (Pardon my strong language.) But I'll take the compliment anyway. ;)

[maradydd]

I started a PhD in computer science with a technical background that consisted of half a year doing super-entry-level sysadmin work for SGI, a year of tech writing for Compaq (*puke*), and about three months of doing tech support and intrusion/fraud detection for the scummiest ISP on the face of the planet. Practicality often fails to enter into the equation.

(I like to think I've caught up a lot in the recent past, though. Necessity is the mother of hacking!)

[misterpriapus]

Hmm...

These are fabulous really.

'cept for #3. Sorry, no dancing unless it's pit or a folk dance sorta thing like Hula lessons or the SCA dance practice I used to go to. Ok, I must ammend that further in that I secretly long to learn ballroom dance and swing dancing. But the whole going to a club and just dancing just doesn't work for me, even if I can fake it.

I will, of course, accept any and all chemical saturation offered in an attempt to get me to dance. Martini, dry with a splash of vermouth and two olives will probably get you the best results.

Oh, and the holding hands in public is a no go. It's not that I'm ashamed of you, it's just that I don't go for public displays of affection in general. I'll more than make up for it in private.

*looks around* Um, this is all hypothetical, of course. But on the other hand I wouldn't kick you out of bed for eating crumbly crackers.

*wink* How're you doin'?

[misterpriapus]

Oh, and I've been thinking about a similar post but my rules would be much more scathing so I'm relunctant. What a truly excellent meme, though.