Geeks make least selfish lovers: Official It's offical: Geeks make the most considerate lovers, with four in five declaring that sex should be more about their partner than satisfying their own filthy needs. That's according to a survey of 2,084 Brits (56 per cent male, 44 per cent female) carried out by www.PS3PriceCompare.co.uk, which also discovered just 41 per …
"Obviously, were the poll to kick off with the question "Do you have, or have you ever had a partner?", we suspect that geekdom's bid for sexual glory would be dead before it started."
Ugly geek with high standards, doomed to fail.
Ugly geek with low standards, you're in for a treat.
That's why you always see skinny guys going out with right heifers.
You never gun a cold engine, be it a car, bike or computer!
A machine needs care, attention, the occasional update of firmware and time to get going when it's first started. All those drivers need to be loaded and settle out first before you get cracking on starting the main app. Once the main app has started, run through some stuff, it crashes and it's all over in a flash before you had time to work out what happened!
( I'm gonna slaughtered by my missus for this! )
Do you mean like this?
>with four in five declaring that sex should be more about their partner than satisfying their own filthy needs.
Or at least that's what they've read in books.
Also, what was the definition of a relationship? Left handed knuckle shuffle?
The breakdown REALLY should have been done by gender as well as vocation: how much of this is just down to gender bias?
@AC
I don't think that IT's "Universal Fix" works very well in most relationships: try "Press and hold the power button" with your other half tonight and see how far it gets you...
A lot of sexually orientated items this week. Not that I'm complaining mind, it's been very amusing to witness some of the more esoteric sentence constructions:
Monorchic European dictators.... one of his Italian plums.
Craic'd one off while following women...."beat off stiff opposition"...."working himself to the bone"
German cavemen carved jubtabulous mammoth-tusk lady...ladies well-furnished in the tophamper department.
Chinese screw sex theme park
Just thought I'd mention it...
So does t6hat mean if I work 50/50 IT and office based I have all bases covered...
@ So much for statistics
Just because they care more about their partners needs than theirs doesn't mean they enjoy it any less surely??? I think what was omitted is that they get their satisfaction but care that their partner is pleasured, rather than the WHAM BAM thank you Ma'am approach.
> Geeks make the most considerate lovers
Just what do the geeks make these lovers out of?
possible answers include:
- Sticky-back plastic and foam rubber
- Their imagination
- Other geeks
- FOSS code
As for the rest of the article, it's a survey. People tells lies in surveys. Believe it at your peril
>> It's offical: Geeks make the most considerate lovers, with four in five declaring that sex should be more about their partner than satisfying their own filthy needs ... In further encouraging news for Reg readers, the survey found that 80 per cent of those slogging away at the IT coalface regularly whip out sex toys
After going to all the embarassment and expense of getting a fleshlight, you're gonna take good care of it aren't you.
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
-- Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
sed -i 's/food/wine/g'
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PH: She can be my admin anytime
If we can coax a dead server back to life after a hard drive crash, where the owner hasn't been doing backups, or find a bug in 1,000,000 lines of code, what's taking the time to warm up a clitoris in comparison to that methodical tedium? With sports/fitness buffs, it's probably 12 reps and you're done for the day so as not to strain something.
When geeks DO get their end away, they do it right, and make sure the job is done proper.
But Fitness tards still get all the girls.
So when it comes to Looks Vs Brains, the girls are as deep as a toddlers pool.
They can have mind blowing satisifying sex with a geek, or a sad assed, pathetic shag with a hotbod. It seems that most of the time they choose the hotbod.
So really the study is a backhanded way of calling most women shallow, looks obsessed tarts?
Awesome, someone got paid for that :D
Paris, she is about as deep as most girls get.
If you don't get much sex, you'll try to be good when you do get it. Braindead fitness studs get so many girls, they don't care if they don't come back. They'll just get another one.
Anyway, I do remember hearing a girl saying that in her experience, the ones that actually have been best lovers have been either scientist-oriented dudes, or IT folks. It seems that the "Hmm, what if we tweak this thing over here" associated with these areas also applies to sex...
"When sex isn't easy to get you try harder when you get the opportunity. Same reason ugly birds give the best blowjobs"
Not to be argumentative or anything, but there's a slight flaw in your reasoning there, at least as applied to the "birds" you mention. Because just about all *females*, regardless of how unattractive they are, can get sex whenever they want it - there is basically *no* lack of "opportunity", thus no reason for them to "try harder". (Whether the sex is any good or not, is probably another topic.) I've seen this in numerous places I've worked - ugly fat chicks consistently having several dates each week, and - to my surprise - not all of the guys were gross disgusting losers either.
Anyway, the only people who have to *work* at finding sex are the males of the species, who presumably become pretty good at dealing with rejection. A sad-but-true fact of life for males.
A good-looking guy I used to know was always trying to get me in the sack by declaring that since he was a programmer, he was "very technically oriented", with further hints that he would take the time to make sure that, um, all the bits and bobs were properly addressed :) as opposed to 10-seconds-and-go-back-to-sleep or whatever.
He was a hot guy, well-mannered too, but I never got around to taking him up on his offer to see what his technical skill level was ;)
I do think programmers are sexy though. Well, some of 'em anyway. Depends on the person, their attitudes, etc.
"...or find a bug in 1,000,000 lines of code, what's taking the time to warm up a clitoris in comparison to that methodical tedium?"
To quote John Cleese from Monty Python's Meaning of Life:
"What's wrong with a kiss, boy? Hmm? Why not start her off with a nice kiss? You don't have to go leaping straight for the clitoris like a bull at a gate. Give her a kiss, boy."
Another sex survey, as performed in front of a live audience...
Presenter: "Right. Let me see some hands How many of you have sex every day?"
A few hands go up.
Presenter: "Well, that's heartening. How many of you do it every week?"
Many more hands go up.
Presenter: "Oh good! Nice to see that we're still practicing the marital arts on a regular basis. Okay, once per month?"
A few hesitant hands go up.
Presenter: "Oh you have my sympathy. Okay. Once per year?"
One man jumps up: "Me, me, ME!"
Presenter: [boggles] "Uhhh... Why are you so happy about doing it only once per year?"
Man: "Cause tonight is the night!"
Isn't the outcome of this "study" just a confirmation of the film Revenge of the Nerds?
I mention this because there's a scene where Lewis (nerd) dresses in a costume identical to Stan (athlete) and makes love to Stan's girlfriend. Said girlfriend realises it's not Stan as Lewis is a much better - and more considerate - lover.
They could have saved themselves the expense of the survey by simply watching the film.
Pirate logo because I am a geek, so you should prepare for boarding.
Advice for Male Geeks:
When things are getting a bit 'interesting' for you, and her cork hasn't popped yet, try thinking about that COBAL program you did at Uni.
You'll last, believe me....
(Moderatrix - why did you allow this article ;-)
-Icon? Just the thought....Another Spontaneous Friday (@21:15) sex night ruined.
Are there no true nerds/geeks here?
gawk, grep, unzip, touch, strip, init, uncompress, finger, find, route, whereis, which, mount, fsck, nice, more, yes, umount, head, expand, renice, restore, touch, whereis, which, route, mount, more, yes, umount, ping, make clean, sleep
Nothing beat rolling a crease out of an old 7 or 9 track tape to give you finger dexterity and touch. Even the old keyboards were better. You just don't get that kind of experience any more. Eh? What were we talking about...
@SuperTim - shame on you ruining my monitor like that.
This is being typed in vi on an IBM type M keyboard attached to a Model 3151 terminal, which in turn is attached to a serial port running a Slackware login prompt via my laptop's docking station. Save to ~, copy & paste into the ElReg comment box & hit send. Easy.
Yes, I know, in this case it's kinda silly & convoluted ... but I do do most of my serious writing on a type M and model 3151. Keyboards never got better than type Ms, IMO, and the 3151 is easier on the eyes than any other so-called dumb terminal I ever used. vi is just because my fingers know it.
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