The rules of attraction (warning: Mini-rant!)

[ina]

So there you go Fee, got any trees that need pruning?

If she doesn't - I have a couple that need taking down! Send them along!

[the.fee.fairy]

I tried coppicing a few years ago...i think i was too young for the blokes there...

I did get chatted up in casualty once! I'd broken my ankle, and so i hopped in bright red and crying (i do cry occasionally..), and this bloke commandeered a wheelchair for me. He was sitting near meand trying to talk to me about going drinking. I'm not a big drinker...i have my drinking buddies and when we get together with Mr Jack Daniels, we get a bit merry but that's it. Anyway, this bloke was not attractive...an he was throwing up regularly!! As he left he asked if i wanted to go for a drink at the weekend...In casualty...chatted up in casualty...

I guess i was a bit ranty because we were talking about attraction at work, and when i said that i quite liked the gaden gnome look, they looked at me as if i was mad! Then, one of the blokes (i wish there was talent at work...) said that he couldn't think of anything worse. So that set me into a grump!

[Millymollymandy]

PS As for being a gay magnet, look up bears. Better watch out, Wombat!!!

I just did!

[oldfella]

I used to wear black leather trousers with laced seams, cuban-heeled boots, big white shirts with lace-up fronts, and a frock coat. And had a ponytail and goatee. ( I still wore boiler suits when no one was looking, though!)

OOH I remember you Sweety

[Gytrash]

I used to wear black leather trousers with laced seams, cuban-heeled boots, big white shirts with lace-up fronts, and a frock coat. And had a ponytail and goatee.

So did I! (But that was in the Eighties!)



I've never been chatted up whilst gardening. But have been chatted up several times whilst working both in a garden centre and a plant nursery...
(Maybe it's something to do with spending money - makes women more horny?! )

[Wombat]

I'm having a really hard time imagining Stoney as a gay magnet!? I do presume though that when you worked in London you washed and brushed up a bit better than these days - I don't imagine you were dressed in boilersuit with pig poo aftershave back then? Or have some of these experiences been in Scotland - maybe they fancy the 'earthy' types?

(I really hope you don't take any offence in what I wrote. I have just been in fits laughing over your posts!)

Ooh, now I'm miffed and flouncing off.

I used to wear black leather trousers with laced seams, cuban-heeled boots, big white shirts with lace-up fronts, and a frock coat. And had a ponytail and goatee. ( I still wore boiler suits when no one was looking, though!)

As for recent experiences, here's one from T***o, Inverurie.

The Other Half and I had dropped in there with the boys to get a couple of odds and ends while in the area getting stuff for the croft. The boys decided it was time for a loo break so the OH disappeared with them.

I was meandering my way around when a woman with a little girl in her trolley asked me if I'd mind getting something down from the top shelf for her. I obliged and smiled at them.

In the next aisle, the same thing happened but this time the little girl piped up, "But Mummy, we don't get that one, we get the cheap one" and pointed to a lower shelf.

Mummy went a bit red, then the little girl loudly confided "Mummy's desperate for a man!".

The poor woman went beet red as I grinned and a couple of other shoppers laughed.

I was then rescued by the Other Half, with the boys in tow and a huge grin on her face, too.

And yes, I was wearing a boilersuit (clean, I'll have you know), wellies, and my old green jacket.


PS As for being a gay magnet, look up bears. Better watch out, Wombat!!!

I got a good laugh out of the sheila and the little girl though!

Nev

[Wombat]

I tried coppicing a few years ago...i think i was too young for the blokes there...

I did get chatted up in casualty once! I'd broken my ankle, and so i hopped in bright red and crying (i do cry occasionally..), and this bloke commandeered a wheelchair for me. He was sitting near meand trying to talk to me about going drinking. I'm not a big drinker...i have my drinking buddies and when we get together with Mr Jack Daniels, we get a bit merry but that's it. Anyway, this bloke was not attractive...an he was throwing up regularly!! As he left he asked if i wanted to go for a drink at the weekend...In casualty...chatted up in casualty...

I guess i was a bit ranty because we were talking about attraction at work, and when i said that i quite liked the gaden gnome look, they looked at me as if i was mad! Then, one of the blokes (i wish there was talent at work...) said that he couldn't think of anything worse. So that set me into a grump!

Poor Fee!

[Stonehead]

The same issue is being discussed on the River Cottage forums, although there it appears to have been started by a bloke.

http://forum.rivercottage.net/viewtopic.php?t=28452

[circlecross]

The same issue is being discussed on the River Cottage forums, although there it appears to have been started by a bloke.

Maybe you should get it on with this chap Fee! (has to bring own fishing rod though) Get yer puddlebusters on!

[hamster]

And there's now a singles bar over at INEBG too!

http://www.itsnoteasybeinggreen.org/for ... highlight=

[Andy Hamilton]

Me and Dave were talking about this same issue a little while back. The other way around though, were are all the girls that like digging??? I think it is more down to the fact that it is getting harder to meet people these days not the fact that men who like gnome like digging women are not out there.

The BTCV idea is a good one, also go along to local transition groups (if you have one), Friends of the Earth meetings in fact anything like that should have a load of digging friendly men.

Hmm gay magnet stuff, I had a bit of that when I was younger. Don't seem to get chatted up by anyone now. I remember when I used to work in a cafe in the center of Northampton when I was 17. I had quite a following of men perhaps up about 7 or 8 at one point. I would mind but there did not seem to be any women who liked me at that time.

[the.fee.fairy]

I've had a look on that Muddy matches...and joined it.

Maybe there's be a male mud caked gnome on there...

The problem is that i work stupid hours, so i don't get to socialise a lot, and i don't get to join local clubs. Maybe when we move, it'll be different! When i do go out, i tend to gravitate towards London because its cheaper than any of the local areas, and there's more places that i really enjoy there. However, sporadic visits do not make for lasting relationships!

So...i like the idea of muddy mathces, we'll see what happens!!

[QuakerBear]

I've had this conversation at work, and was told 'its because men want to think of you as a lovely clean, attractive female, not a mudcaked garden gnome!'.

What an outragous over simplification of men. I suspect that's appearance obsessed women telling you that. Well, let me tell them, (finger wagging) men are people to. Yes, there are the celebrity and grooming obsessed ones, just as there are women. But most men, like most women are just normal people who are primarily attactracted to a happy, enthusiastic person not a model for the latest fashions/fads and gener stereotypes.

So don't get clean just to try and attract a man, you're far more attractive and beautful as yourself, honest, confident and happy.

[Stonehead]

So don't get clean just to try and attract a man, you're far more attractive and beautful as yourself, honest, confident and happy.

And muddy!

[Millymollymandy]

I would like to know how many men did not find Felicity Kendall attractive in The Good Life as a mud caked garden gnome. I suspect none!