i can't even get my head around the prospect of using a numeric scale it seems so absurd not to mention dehumanizing
― marcos, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
also tricky yknow
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
yeah i'm much more partial to a five-star system myself
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:42 (six years ago) link
generally it is unconscious/subconscious but there are occasions when i keep a conversation going for long enough and we seem to get on well enough, and my unconscious/subconscious mind hasn't told me wld/wldnt i consciously think wld/wldnt then i start balancing out all the good and bad in her
it all happens fairly fast
not a 1-10 scale exactly, but a quick imaginary pros/cons list
i'm only into women tho (none of the other trans/lgbtqiapk/etc. stuff)
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
"Yes, it's fun and what's the harm?" would be most accurate, but it's more like, "at some point I have weighed the pros and cons of having sex with any and everyone", and usually only once. This line of thought rarely, but sometimes, produces a "yes, sex with that person would be a good idea" result
― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
that's a good addendum flan
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
I've certainly done the related offshoot "Imagine what it would be like to have sex with literally any woman I know/meet regardless of attractiveness" but that was more of an adolescent thing.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
would
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
Shame on anyone who posts on this board and doesn't use the proper Pitchfork decimal point scale for sizing up all things in life.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
I work at a bank
― Sufjan in Worst Shithole of a Major American City (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
O rly? I bet your constantly sizing up those old men on the currency, which is a 1, which is a 5, a 10, a 20???
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
for me it's "No, doesn't occur to me to do so/don't see what the appeal is." but with maybe a little of all the other options sprinkled in
― had (crüt), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
Occasionally when I'm feeling crappy i'll walk down some random street and look at each person i pass (regardless of gender, age, etc.) and decide, being my most brutally honest, whether that person is less or more attractive than me and keep a mental tally. I'm always surprised to find the former group is usually much larger than the latter. Anyone else do this?
― Lee626, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
submit to the Reproducibility Project imo
― Sufjan in Worst Shithole of a Major American City (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
I remember some thread almost 10 years or so ago where I mentioned that I did this and got a negative reaction. Can't find the thread though.
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
controversy was that you did it aloud iirc
― Sufjan in Worst Shithole of a Major American City (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
i don't do this. looking at the mind from the sort of david hume lense i would say that the attractiveness of a person is something i perceive as an impression, but i don't really make an idea out of that impression unless there's some reason to - i.e. person being a viable possible sexual/romantic partner
― Louis Jägermeister (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link