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american_arcane

What to Do On a Date

Sep 16, 2009 07:10

Originally published at How to Crush Without Being Crushed. You can comment here or there.

With my current schedule getting in the way of all sorts of things, I have yet to write what I planned on for this space.

Luckily, friends in other places stumble across interesting things.

For example, here’s a little vintage educational film about dating…

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video, dating, open mic

Comments 11

weenie roast? cchan8 September 16 2009, 13:46:22 UTC

I just wanted to say thanks for sharing that video. It was highly amusing.

Re: weenie roast? american_arcane September 16 2009, 15:22:00 UTC

I absolutely love all the old educational videos. I could watch them for hours and hours (and almost did... when I should have been sleeping the other night... oops).

The world truly was a different place back then. At least on the surface. Society as a whole was really good at hiding all the nastiness when it came to most things...

kittenofwrath September 16 2009, 14:05:26 UTC

Ah, you found the non-MST3K version!

american_arcane September 16 2009, 15:23:35 UTC

Yes I did. And a whole storehouse of the color versions of all sorts of old educational videos. :)

have_inner_lady September 16 2009, 14:46:11 UTC

I'm really digging on the downright square and tame stuff. This looks like the nicest approach to dating I've witnessed. I guess I'm old fashioned. :-)

Thing is, in the roughly 3.2 seconds of my life that I dated, I mostly thought I was "supposed" to just be attentive to the person who'd asked me out. Doing things I would have enjoyed seemed like it should have been a secondary priority. To his credit, though, I did go on at least three teenage dates with a guy who, all three times, found activities I enjoyed.

american_arcane September 16 2009, 15:26:43 UTC

Nothing at all wrong with being old-fashioned.

I think we all know I've got a bit of that going on myself. Mostly because I kind of grew up watching shows filled with characters who were a whole lot like the characters in these educational videos...

Oh right, the dating thing kittenofwrath September 16 2009, 15:13:44 UTC

As cliched as it may sound, one of the best 'dates' I ever had was Prom night, when I was a senior in high school (I had been dating my boyfriend for about 5 months by that point ( ... )

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cellimachine September 17 2009, 14:35:12 UTC

Ahh, one of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for posting this... it made me smile.