The Technical Guide to Flirting

This blog is not dead! i shall add some intellectual input.

It's very interesting that stickfigure and i often start off some random chat, and then go on on a tangent and discuss some totally unrelated stuff. But sometimes good stuff comes out. I would like to think of it as cool intellectual/pointed observations on life really, but of cos i lave too much praise on us. But i shall blog about these conversations anyway: firstly to show we have brains, and secondly to convince ourselves that we are not wasting time.

So today's weird chat, at 2.45am... started off on my essay topic, and then went on to the hows and whys of flirting and bad boys.

On the topic of bad boys and nice guys...

Yulong says:
cool my essay topic is to defend this nice gentleman in a novel
i must hoard and save money like a miser says:
if hes a nice gentleman, whats there to defend
Yulong says:
1—Somebody once said, “I pray that the bad will be made good, the good will be made nice, and the nice will be made interesting.” Lord Orville is certainly good, and maybe he’s even nice, but most readers of Evelina have not found him a very interesting or believable character. Do you think Orville is an unsatisfactory character, and, if so, why? Is it because masculinity as culturally constructed in European thought usually involves aggression, rather than the sort of nurturance Orville practices? Is it because a character who has both virtue and social power has no challenges to overcome? Is it because he’s just too perfect to be human? Or something else? If you find Orville a satisfactory character, defend your position
Yulong says:
orville is this nice thoughtful aristocrat that this chio country girl Evelina has this biggest crush on.
Yulong says:
but he is not pushy n flamboyant like the other guys who wanna jio her.
Yulong says:
in fact he just be ard for her. n when or if other ppl push her ard he fights for her, but then when mixing with her he just be nice lor
i must hoard and save money like a miser says:
thats an intersting topic
i must hoard and save money like a miser says:
i wld like to read an essay on taht haha
Yulong says:
ya i am writing on tat
Yulong says:
i will argue the pt tat bad boys are always sexier, even has those prudish 18th ladies dun admit so.
Yulong says:
the nice guy always kena slam for being too nice. but ppl still wanna get them.
Yulong says:
but being 18th century chiobus... they cannot be too froward n go jio the good guy
Yulong says:
so alot is left unsaid, but alot of time is spent agonising over the guy on e girl's part

On the theory of flirting...

Yulong says:
5—Let’s define a “rake” as a young man of upper-class origin who devotes himself to seducing young women. Lord Robert in Millenium Hall and Sir Clement Willoughby in Evelina are both rakes. Through their portrayal of these characters, Scott and Burney try to dispel the cloud of glamour the surrounded the figure of the rake in mid-eighteenth-century England, where it was often said that “a reformed rake makes the best husband.” Discuss the ways the two authors undermine the rake’s claims to admiration and acceptance. You may want to look at what is implied about the self-serving way the rakes use language. (You can discuss only one novel, if you wish.)
Yulong says:
see... all that cultural similarities between then and now.
Yulong says:
often girls nowadays also fantasize about "reforming the bad boy" n making him "a good husband".
Yulong says:
is that why sweet-talking is always surfacially frowned on but emotionally welcomed?
i must hoard and save money like a miser says:
sweet talking is frowned on surfacially meh?
i must hoard and save money like a miser says:
dont think so at all
i must hoard and save money like a miser says:
all my friends love sweet talkers haha
Yulong says:
YES
Yulong says:
but that is always spoken of "aside" u see.
Yulong says:
but the technicalities of flirting always go like this...
Yulong says:
"sweet talk sweet talk"
Yulong says:
"frown frown u sweet talker u."
Yulong says:
and then in the guys heart, the more disavowed the girl pretends to treat the sweet talk the better the flirting score.
Yulong says:
and for the girl the more she disavows it, she is actually encouraging him to flirt more cos she feels good.
Yulong says:
n the banter goes on n on...
i must hoard and save money like a miser says:
yeah i know haha
i must hoard and save money like a miser says:
thats true

Well there stickfigure. next post is YOURS!
Our baby is not growing well... hahaha

Pop Culture and Its Life Lessons

They like to say pop culture teaches kids all the wrong things. I say, not always! Believe it or not, they teach life skills too.

Situation 1:

Dealing with husbands/boyfriends who cheat on you with a mutual friend:

Strategy to remember: an eye for an eye.

"You won't know who and you won't know when. But I am gonna pick one person that we both know and I'll have a ravaging good time with him. Then, I'll end it and you and me can start all over."

And that, is what I learnt watching Cashmere Mafia.

Talk about messing with his head and putting him on edge every time he sees you dolling up before going out and every time he meets your mutual friends!


Situation 2:

Dealing with the disabled and unreasonable, who use their disability as a reason to lord it over you and see it as their right to cut queues/steal your parking space etc:

Strategy to remember: be ruthless.

"I walk around in heels all day and you get to roll (in your wheelchair)."

Said Gabby in Desperate Housewives.

So politically incorrect, so mean, so true and so unapologetic. She says things we wish we dare to say.


Something that an English major like me really appreciates about bitch-shows is that besides life lessons, they teach English too.

Xiaomei (Gabby's help from China): "You the meanest person I know."

Gabby: "You are THE meanest person. You've been in the country a year. Modify you nouns, damn it."

Xiaomei: "What. A. Bitch."


If you've always wondered why some people seem to get drawn to brainless TV, now you have 2 examples that give you your answer. It isn't that brainless. It takes quite a bit of wit on the part of the writers to come up with lines like these. And bitch-shows (Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle and the like) addicts really appreciate the brilliant script-writing.

And that, Long, is my long overdue response to your call for some action here.

First!

Yo stickfigure, this place has been desolate for so long! Can you do something about it? It's our brainchild ok!

Anyway I guess introductions are in order. One day a English Literature major and a English Language major decided to start a blog for them to write in about things perfectly idiosyncratic, but somewhat synthesised for common consumption. In layman terms, we make talking cock sound like it came from Plato. So there you go.

Well I should think that this blog should not be totally random and all... There must be a Vision. Aspirations... That sort of thing.

So yea we'll be using this site as an exhibition(ist) space to showcase our writing prowess and hire ourselves out to whoever needs our writing. I'll leave it to stickfigure to elaborate and paste her resume on the blog. I'll do the same too.

So viola. First post, done...