nerdperson777 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Might be more of an aro moment but I think it's okay. I just remembered that before I started identifying as trans* and going crazy, I had a male friend online. We played many games together so many people in our group kept thinking we were together. So we used to play Team Fortress 2 a lot. He always acted defensive when one guy in our group made fun and insulted me while I just sat there being mellow and took them. He was the one who took offensive to the comments even though they were directed at me. I can't recall if I spoke out or stayed quiet when that guy called him out for defending "his girlfriend". I didn't take the hint that he was really into me when he gave me a strange beanie with swirling hearts called "A Crazy Thing to Do". Then later during the week before finals, he tried to ask me out but I wasn't into relationships, not knowing I was aromantic. I sadly turned him down. He was okay with it, but sometimes he got whiny and ragequitted for different reasons. He almost completely cut me off when I wrote on my blog that I was transgender. We went from talking everyday to once every few months, but I think we're okay. At least we're talking to each other. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dodecahedron314 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 One I just recently remembered from a few months ago: It was Christmas break, and my mom's friend had flown into town and was hanging out at our house. She and my mom are both into the same sort of music, so when my mom started playing "Faster Than Light" by Duran Duran because it was relevant to a tachyon article she'd found, it devolved into the two of them fangirling over Duran Duran (as I awkwardly sat in the corner trying to wrap my head around either of them ever finding anyone "hot"), at which point my mom remembered that somewhere we had an old movie with the lead singer in it. I wasn't out to her as ace at this point, but I think she probably suspected something of the sort, because she warned me that if I was going to watch the movie, it was pretty inappropriate. I was just like "eh, whatever," and stayed and watched it anyway...or rather, ostensibly watched it. You see, whenever this particular friend of hers comes over, said friend always makes this amazing cheese dip served with Ruffles, and so that's how the entirety of the movie consisted of my mom warning me that things were going to be inappropriate, and me not even registering the existence of the movie because I was too busy stuffing my face with that glorious, glorious cheese dip. Added bonus: everyone else was too engrossed in the movie to pay much attention to the food (heresy, I say!), and so that's how I ended up getting the better part of an entire bag of Ruffles and batch of cheese dip all to myself. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Quickhands Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 so when my mom started playing "Faster Than Light" by Duran Duran because it was relevant to a neutrino article she'd found Ugh, that measurement was due to a loose fiberoptic cable and really should have been checked a lot more thoroughly before being released. Neutrinos do not violate relativity, and the notion that anything does is ridiculous. They're not even photons, if they had a non-positive rest mass you'd think we'd have measured a beta particle from tritium decay that's closer to 18.6 KeV than what we've seen already but not even that has happened. The abundance of "Einstein Disproven?!?!" click bait articles after that measurement made me want to scream. Sorry, please ignore; very entertaining story, thank you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dodecahedron314 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 so when my mom started playing "Faster Than Light" by Duran Duran because it was relevant to a neutrino article she'd found Ugh, that measurement was due to a loose fiberoptic cable and really should have been checked a lot more thoroughly before being released. Neutrinos do not violate relativity, and the notion that anything does is ridiculous. They're not even photons, if they had a non-positive rest mass you'd think we'd have measured a beta particle from tritium decay that's closer to 18.6 KeV than what we've seen already but not even that has happened. The abundance of "Einstein Disproven?!?!" click bait articles after that measurement made me want to scream. Sorry, please ignore; very entertaining story, thank you. *facepalm* Argh, not neutrino, tachyon! My bad. I've been reading too much about neutrino experiments lately, it seems. Fixing the original post. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Quickhands Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 *facepalm* Argh, not neutrino, tachyon! My bad. I've been reading too much about neutrino experiments lately, it seems. Fixing the original post. Phew, no problem, I thought you were referring to the bad "neutrinos faster than light" measurement that got released in error a while back. There were a bunch of articles and people were freaking out about it, but it turned out that a grad student left a cable loose in the experiment. Just had to vent about how wacky and frustrating that whole thing was. Recent neutrino experiments are absolutely fascinating, though -- I'm right there with you in following that stuff. There's so much rich physics there right now and theory keeps hinting at even more future issues to look into. We're still not sure if neutrinos are their own antiparticle, we still don't know the rest mass, we're still trying to consolidate reactor neutrino output with theory, and then there's all the out-there ideas about sterile neutrinos down the road. Really cool stuff. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dodecahedron314 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 *facepalm* Argh, not neutrino, tachyon! My bad. I've been reading too much about neutrino experiments lately, it seems. Fixing the original post. Phew, no problem, I thought you were referring to the bad "neutrinos faster than light" measurement that got released in error a while back. There were a bunch of articles and people were freaking out about it, but it turned out that a grad student left a cable loose in the experiment. Just had to vent about how wacky and frustrating that whole thing was. Recent neutrino experiments are absolutely fascinating, though -- I'm right there with you in following that stuff. There's so much rich physics there right now and theory keeps hinting at even more future issues to look into. We're still not sure if neutrinos are their own antiparticle, we still don't know the rest mass, we're still trying to consolidate reactor neutrino output with theory, and then there's all the out-there ideas about sterile neutrinos down the road. Really cool stuff. Yep, I remember the loose cable debacle at Gran Sasso. That was one of the rare times where I was glad my friends don't follow physics too closely, or else I'm pretty sure I would have had to patiently explain the situation to everyone a dozen times over. I can't wait to see what comes of all the interest in neutrinos right now! I should hopefully be able to start doing some research of my own, or at least contributing to some experiments (whichever ones they'll let an undergrad near, anyway), within the next couple of years, so I've been keeping as updated on these sorts of things as I can through the almighty Internet now that my Nature subscription has lapsed. I get the feeling that neutrinos and dark matter are the ones to watch for some pretty huge gaps to be filled soon....and, of course, whatever else comes out of LHC Run 2. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nerdperson777 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Since I said in the Asexual Problems that my friend's partner is coming, she told me tonight about how I shouldn't give up on finding someone (and how I should get away from my family). They said, "I know you're ace but.." *continues talking* Eventually I got to say, "But I'm also aro. I don't even understand the concept" [of love and romance]. I told her that my friend at school did tell me that I needed to find another person who was also aro and ace because all I want are friends. Previously, I never desired anyone. Now I think I'm weak for wanting a friend, even if it's not in a romantic or sexual context. I'm feeling something from writing this. I hate feelings. :( I'm a robot, damn it! 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grumpy Alien Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 (edited) Just a few hours ago, I was telling some work friends about restaurant when I got to the dessert. They couldn't stop laughing at "spotted dick." They asked me why I chose spotted dick and I said I like it. (Not realizing that was a set up!) I started to explain what it was and I Googled it on my phone to show them a Heinz can. I told them I usually make some for Christmas. That's when they asked if it's always that small and I made the unfortunate mistake of telling them you can get it in any size. The tin only made them laugh more, by the way: I just remembered there was another moment earlier in the day. A different coworker showed me a thing on social media where you take the first letter of your name and use it to describe yourself in bed. She came up with multiple things I barely listened to because I too busy trying to think of one word that began with K that wasn't "Kill." (As in... I have a killer sex life. Try to have sex with me and I'll kill you.) Edited March 27, 2015 by Graceful 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dodecahedron314 Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I had Bolero (Maurice Ravel) stuck in my head last night, so like the band geek I am I looked it up on Wikipedia, to see if there was any rhyme or reason to a piece that's literally 15 minutes (give or take) of the same two themes over and over again. Basically, he wrote it because he could, which is more or less what I was expecting. What I was NOT expecting was this review: Philosopher Allan Bloom commented in his 1987 bestseller The Closing of the American Mind, "Young people know that rock has the beat of sexual intercourse. That is why Ravel's "Bolero" is the one piece of classical music that is commonly known and liked by them."[19] A musical analysis of the work from an erotic perspective was published in 2010.[20] Ummmm...excuse me, what? Just...what?? How...where do you even...what??? There are so, so many things here that I completely do not understand. All I can say is that obviously some people have very...different critical perspectives when it comes to music. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ace of Cakes Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I had Bolero (Maurice Ravel) stuck in my head last night, so like the band geek I am I looked it up on Wikipedia, to see if there was any rhyme or reason to a piece that's literally 15 minutes (give or take) of the same two themes over and over again. Basically, he wrote it because he could, which is more or less what I was expecting. What I was NOT expecting was this review: Philosopher Allan Bloom commented in his 1987 bestseller The Closing of the American Mind, "Young people know that rock has the beat of sexual intercourse. That is why Ravel's "Bolero" is the one piece of classical music that is commonly known and liked by them."[19] A musical analysis of the work from an erotic perspective was published in 2010.[20] Ummmm...excuse me, what? Just...what?? How...where do you even...what??? There are so, so many things here that I completely do not understand. All I can say is that obviously some people have very...different critical perspectives when it comes to music. My friend used to go to an extremely conservative and... interesting... church where they thought that any music with a detectable beat was of the devil because it would tempt you to sexual sin. Not even joking. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cosmosredshift7 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 when a woman runs by, and everyone, including me, in the car makes an approving noise, and then everyone else comments on how great her boobs were, and i'm just sitting there like "she's fit af i'm so proud and her running clothes are so nice". 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nerdperson777 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I just remembered there was another moment earlier in the day. A different coworker showed me a thing on social media where you take the first letter of your name and use it to describe yourself in bed. She came up with multiple things I barely listened to because I too busy trying to think of one word that began with K that wasn't "Kill." (As in... I have a killer sex life. Try to have sex with me and I'll kill you.) I'm careful? I feel that that could still be taken the wrong way. I hope my sex-repulsiveness is contagious? Catastrophic! I'm horrible at sex, stay away from me! That sounds so much better. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grumpy Alien Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) I just remembered there was another moment earlier in the day. A different coworker showed me a thing on social media where you take the first letter of your name and use it to describe yourself in bed. She came up with multiple things I barely listened to because I too busy trying to think of one word that began with K that wasn't "Kill." (As in... I have a killer sex life. Try to have sex with me and I'll kill you.) I'm careful? I feel that that could still be taken the wrong way. I hope my sex-repulsiveness is contagious? Catastrophic! I'm horrible at sex, stay away from me! That sounds so much better. What? Edit: I was really tired and just generally confused when I responded... Please ignore this post :D Edited March 29, 2015 by Graceful Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DiEvAl Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I just remembered there was another moment earlier in the day. A different coworker showed me a thing on social media where you take the first letter of your name and use it to describe yourself in bed. She came up with multiple things I barely listened to because I too busy trying to think of one word that began with K that wasn't "Kill." (As in... I have a killer sex life. Try to have sex with me and I'll kill you.)Well, the question was about bed, not sex. A K-complex is an EEG waveform that occurs during stage 2 of NREM sleep. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grumpy Alien Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I just remembered there was another moment earlier in the day. A different coworker showed me a thing on social media where you take the first letter of your name and use it to describe yourself in bed. She came up with multiple things I barely listened to because I too busy trying to think of one word that began with K that wasn't "Kill." (As in... I have a killer sex life. Try to have sex with me and I'll kill you.)Well, the question was about bed, not sex. A K-complex is an EEG waveform that occurs during stage 2 of NREM sleep. Oh! I think it said sex somewhere but I'm not sure :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mor Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I could probably list a few moments, but the one that comes to mind at the moment was when I was finishing a work shift and walking back to get my things so that I could leave - the person I was walking with who finished at the same time was talking about her and somebody flirting with each other - which I hadn't noticed at all. I would have probably been fine, but I must've seemed really surprised at her mentioning of them flirting (even though I had apparently witnessed some of this so-called flirting), because I can remember her being quite surprised as well that I hadn't noticed at all. I had just put it down to them messing about and being silly on a late-ish shift where there was pretty much no customers around... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mak84 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I guess I would identify myself more as gray-a or demi-sexual, so I do not get repulsed by all sex. I just don't always find it fascinating or maybe a little gross, depending on what it is. Anyway, I got so pissed off after watching Grey's Anatomy on Thursday. I can admit that I like the couple or non-couple right now of Callie and Arizona. I just like them and what they had. Seeing them intimate and having sex is and was never extremely important to me. And I can identify when things are not supposed to be sexy. Well, because of something that happened with a different couple on this episode all of their biggest fans are disgusted and keep claiming that the writers treat them like crap and are homophobic. I personally do not see that. I mean, why would we want all couples to be exactly the same as well? So, now I think some of them have given up on the show, and that annoys me. It's like these people can only see them as a couple and not how awesome they can be individually. And I feel these people invalidate who they are just because their romance isn't pornographic. I mean, are all couples like that in the real world? Probably not. Some of them also seem bi-phobic, since they are always saying they never want to see Callie get with a man ever again if she dates someone who is not Arizona. Anyway, while all these people were screaming about equality, I pointed out that at least Arizona will always be gay and Callie will always be bi-sexual, and that I could not name 1 asexual character in anything I saw. Of course, it probably meant nothing since most of these fans expect to see pornographic sex. It has me curious to know what these people are like in real life. But, I definitely do not feel good about this equality some of them say they are for. Like I can respect all kinds of relationships and what people want. But, us who are not really attracted to anything get ignored. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SkyWorld Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Not sure if I have mentioned this before, but for years I thought that "screwed" meant stabbing someone with a screwdriver. Yeah.... nope. 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nerdperson777 Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Im a big gamer but 2000 hours is a bit much, especially dedicated to the same game. Some of us like to get laid once in awhile. I'm on SlickDeals .com and I'm trying to buy a game but the discount code isn't working so I checked the comments. One of the games on sale is Skyrim and that's what the above post is about. At least this person said "some" and not all. EDIT: I found this hilarious reply. :lol: EDIT 2: Okay, I'll just put what I'm looking at here because there's too many things and I can't type after my quote. http://slickdeals.net/f/7758159-pc-download-sale-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-3-90-doom-3-1-95-amp-many-more?page=4&rpid=75105085&rp=3 If you order Skyrim: Legendary Edition now, you too can get laid once in awhile. You can learn to shout like a true dragonborn and conquer all of the fair maidens in the land. As a bonus offer, we'll even include the new Confidence Spray, so you can get off of the slickdeals comments sections and actually go out to seek adventures with real women. I know if I wanted to be named after a muppet, I would definitely pick up on that deal. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Starbogen Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 So there's this actor I really like.. I've liked many before but only been this obssessed with two or three, but this guy takes the cake. He's the sexiest person I've seen, and I've watched and read enough interviews and other videos and personal stuff he's posted and stuff he's written to also really, really like him as a person. I've heard so, so many girls talking about how sexy they find an actor and how much they'd "do him" if they had the chance, and feeling dissapointed if they know he's gay and/or married XD Not everyone is like that though, I have a friend who loves him too but she's the type of person who would never want to actually do anything with a celebrity, even if she does find him attractive and even if she's sexual; still, most people really seem like they would like to have sex with celebrities they find attractive. And lately I've been thinking that if I was ever going to feel sexual attraction it would be to this guy. But nope, what I've noticed is that when I find someone extremely sexy and beautiful inside and out, and it's someone I'd never get to meet, what I really get the urge to do is...to draw them. Like I literally have a desire to draw a portrait of him right now, that's it XD 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
herlo Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 I was walking around a festival in summer and these young attractive 18-20 year old women where in front of me and my friends in bikinis and they all bent over and one of my friends went nice view and i said yeah the building is quite nice. He then noticed i was looking at a stadium and wasent paying attention to them at all. This was before even i knew i was asexual so the looks i got off my friends were quite hilarious. They thought i was gay haha 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winnie_A Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I was cleaning out my closet the other day to get rid of all the clothes I don't like/have had since I was a teenager. I was about to put a sweater on the give away pile, but then I realized it was the colors of the Ace flag, and then I couldn't bear to get rid of it. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Batman's Ace Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I just took a break from AVEN because of a higher priority: I had to go eat a piece of cake. I'm not sure I can get more ace than that. It was chocolate and fudgy. :) 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
*a*rteest Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 In middle school sex ed the teachers had a question box where students could submit questions anonymously. One of the questions was "why is it called a blow job if its done by sucking?" I had no idea at the time what a blow job was so I was really interested, thinking why WOULD you call it by that name if it is really the opposite? What are people sucking anyway? Is it like a french kiss but people sucking on each others tongs for some reason? The teacher completely dodged the question so for years I thought blow jobs were just a form of french kissing. I can field this one, though spoilered for TMI: Basically, ....... I'm 39 and did not put this together. Not sure if living under a rock, or truly and undeniably Ace. O_o 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JCruz Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 I remember once I was making out with a boyfriend (because I thought that what you were supposed to do with a boyfriend. I wasn't too into it to be honest) and he asked me how I was feeling. I think he was expecting an much different answer but I basically said that I was hungry and wanted to go eat already. His face dropped faster than an anchor on dry land. Needless to say, that relationship did not last long. So that is my Ace Moment. 12 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nerdperson777 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Having a tab open on your phone, the Wikipedia article for human sexuality because you don't get how it works. 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NobleHogknight Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 When in school, before going on a one-week-trip to London with my English class, my mom said: "I don't know how your relations are..., but do you want to take condoms with you?"; *baffled look of mine *; she became silent and never mentioned it again... 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CosineTheCat Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Talking to my mother and she tells me she's fine with me dating or not dating anyone, she only has a problem if "we're flopping on each other in front of her" and I had to get her to clarify what she meant my "flopping" 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stonehengegirl Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 This is my most embarrassing Ace moment. While I was in high school, our Spanish class put on some skits for our parents. My group was doing a Smurf parody. (Smurfs were big way back in the olden days when I was in high school.) So we all painted our faces blue and wore white shirts and shorts and blue tights. As we were waiting to do our skit, two of the other performers were smearing blue paint on each other's faces and staring into each other's eyes in a very sensual manner. I didn't realize the sensual aspect of this until much later. At the time I became convinced that I didn't have enough blue paint on my face. I walked up to them and said, "Hey, can you do me next?" 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dodecahedron314 Posted March 31, 2015 Share Posted March 31, 2015 Having a tab open on your phone, the Wikipedia article for human sexuality because you don't get how it works.I first realized that that page existed by reading the Wikipedia article for Bolero, by Maurice Ravel (see my musical ace moment on the previous page). I considered clicking on it to try and figure out what the big deal is, but decided against it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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