Thread: Why is there always shortage of women

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    Note: Most of the other building has more women that men; but, my building is the Computer, Technology, and Engineering building.
    I had the same experience at my school. Practically all males in the Engineering building. Funny aside - our school also had nursing and dentristry programs. The dentistry students had to recruit other students on campus to "practice" on, so it was a fairly common sight at one point in the semester to see attractive females using their wiley charms to get guys on board for this practice. Quite fun to watch. I happen to be immune to the colloquial "attractive female" style, so I never had to worry about falling into that trap - my teeth were safe from such amateur poking and prodding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matticus View Post
    I had the same experience at my school. Practically all males in the Engineering building. Funny aside - our school also had nursing and dentristry programs. The dentistry students had to recruit other students on campus to "practice" on, so it was a fairly common sight at one point in the semester to see attractive females using their wiley charms to get guys on board for this practice. Quite fun to watch. I happen to be immune to the colloquial "attractive female" style, so I never had to worry about falling into that trap - my teeth were safe from such amateur poking and prodding.
    I dont mean to be rude, but let me guess... Forever alone?

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    I dont mean to be rude, but let me guess... Forever alone?
    I thought so for about eight years, but then I happened to find someone as non-standard as myself about 10 months ago. It's practically impossible for me to to meet the kind of person I wanted by "going out," but I managed to find a way around this obstacle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gordon
    Forever alone?
    Quote Originally Posted by Matticus
    about eight years
    Well, if you express eight as 8, then rotate the symbol appropriately, you get what looks like a symbol for infinity, so I guess that's "forever"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matticus View Post
    I happened to find someone as non-standard as myself
    Beware of Undefined Behaviour !

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    Well, if you express eight as 8, then rotate the symbol appropriately, you get what looks like a symbol for infinity, so I guess that's "forever"
    This just goes to show how everything in my life is 90 degrees out of phase from the norm =)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matticus View Post
    It's practically impossible for me to to meet the kind of person I wanted by "going out,"
    Well of course it is possible but still I have to say: "Tell me about it... Know exactly what you mean..." Then you are lucky, good for you mate.

    Quote Originally Posted by laserlight View Post
    Well, if you express eight as 8, then rotate the symbol appropriately, you get what looks like a symbol for infinity, so I guess that's "forever"
    I am not sure that "eight" was meant to be expressed as an integer. I would keep it as a CHAR[5] to avoid stack overflow, not even considering what would happen if you rotated the integer by ((1/2 PI) RAD).

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    Well of course it is possible but still I have to say: "Tell me about it... Know exactly what you mean..." Then you are lucky, good for you mate.
    Thank you very much! Yes I am =)

    I would keep it as a CHAR[5]
    Don't forget to leave room for the null terminator

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matticus View Post
    Thank you very much! Yes I am =)


    Don't forget to leave room for the null terminator
    Damn I was wrong. I was considering the null terminator but I thought that CHAR[5] is a string of 6 characters CHAR[0] --> CHAR[5]. Now I realized I was wrong.

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    Well, it looks like you make mistakes both with the opposite sex and with programming.
    Right 98% of the time, and don't care about the other 3%.

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    Quote Originally Posted by grumpy View Post
    Well, it looks like you make mistakes both with the opposite sex and with programming.
    You might almost say I am human

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gordon View Post
    You might almost say I am human
    Indeed
    Right 98% of the time, and don't care about the other 3%.

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    move to UK - altrincham in cheshire, go to the pub = totty galore
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    Quote Originally Posted by rogster001 View Post
    move to UK - altrincham in cheshire, go to the pub = totty galore
    I would like to move (at least temporarily) to the UK. I believe people are much friendlier there.

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    everyone believes that the people are friendlier in some other part of the world. I'm sure people in England feel that there's a place where people are friendlier - Canada maybe?

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