OkTrends. Getting Over Girl Hate. This page from a Bikini Kill zine gets it. 1.
Separate girl hate from real hate. It’s probably someone you don’t know too well—maybe you have mutual friends, or she’s in one of your classes. When you see her or she’s mentioned in conversation, you panic a little on the inside as your mind immediately goes to anything about her that could be at all negative. Find it! Girl hate is not hating someone who happens to be a girl, it’s hating someone because we’re told that, as girls, we should hate other girls who are as awesome as or more awesome than ourselves. This, along with the myth that other girls are obstacles in your Life Goal of Finding a Man (but that’s a WHOLE other chicken-scratch chart), is why girls compete with one another. Fun Questions! The cost of love: Leaving an impact without emptying your wallet - Chicago interpersonal relationships.
As Valentine’s Day approaches you tend to not only stress out about what to get your significant other or interest, but how much it’s costing.
Overspending on gifts and dates, can leave you feeling stressed and unappreciated, as well as make the other person uncomfortable. It’s Just Lunch, a dating service for busy professionals surveyed 3,968 singles on their dating spending habits: 51% of men in the U.S. spend more than $100 a month on dates, and 29% spend more than $150 (figures were higher for bigger cities)66.7% of women in the U.S spend less than $50 a month on dates$600-1,200 per year spent on dates (not including preparation or gifts)$419 per year on average for gifts and flowers Jennifer Lopez got it right when she wrote her hit single, “Love don’t cost a thing.”
A poll done by ING Direct, found men on average overestimated how much was expected of them. It’s also a good rule of thumb on initial dates, to take care of the bill (another reason to focus on inexpensive activities). 30 Ways to become the Most Interesting Person You Know. How much money is being boring costing you?
ANSWER: Too much. Boring ideas lose.Boring people fade.Boring organizations fizzle. LESSON LEARNED: There is inverse relationship between how successful you are and how boring you are. Seth Godin talked about this at length in a recent podcast with Ductape John: "If the marketplace isn't talking about you, there's a reason," Seth says. This reminds me of the movie American Beauty. “You're boring. Devastated, Angela storms out of the room. Ouch. What about you? Are YOU normal? Hope not. Today we’re going to explore a list of thirty ways to become the most interesting person you know. First Impressions Count: How people judge your intelligence and social skills based on your looks. INTRODUCTION Okay, so this is Take #2.
Our earlier post on snap judgments was a little too “unrefined” and not as thorough as we would have liked, so we decided to take another harder, deeper stab at the subject. Fasten your seat-belts, because this is going to be a long ride read. We tend to make snap judgments about people’s personalities and capabilities based on superficial details of their physical appearance.
It is human nature, after all, and we are all guilty of it. This analysis aims to assess this tendency through a variety of methods: hypothesis testing, statistical analysis, and an objective – as far as it is possible to be objective – assessment of the findings. PS: If you want to cut to the chase and get to the juicy bits, go to the “Conclusions” section below. METHODOLOGY To determine the effect of the different variables, a set of a little over 1000 random, unique photos (uploaded by judg.me users) was analyzed (Figure 1). Alone? Social Engineering 101 - Unprotocols. Pieterh wrote on 8 Feb, 20:23 (1534 days ago) Social architecture is the discipline of designing and building large-scale, successful on-line communities.
An underlying toolkit is the more focused skill of social engineering, or making friends and influencing people. It's often confused with social hacking but is quite different. In this article I'll explain the basics. As a case study I'll tell the story of how I talked myself into seat 2A in first class on United UA 973, Brussels to Chicago. Prelude Making friends quickly may not seem relevant for a blog on software engineering, but to quote my favorite author (me, in case you doubted it), software is all about people. There are only three kinds of relationship. What's remarkable about social engineering is how broadly it applies. It strikes me as ironic that I'm using social engineering to sit alone in a larger space, as far from my fellow passengers as possible without climbing into the pilot's lap.
The Basics.