Rocky 4 proves you wrong. Truth in movies people, I'm telling you it works.

"Movies have shown their simplified picture of reality for so long that reality is now modeled after movies."

Some bitter old man said that.

I think you'd have liked him Smarty.

Also why is that picture signed White Power?

Uh... wait. How did this topic get onto World War 2 from the title? Is someone going to invoke Godwin's Lair and Invisible Queen becomes one of Those Wacky Nazis, speaking in pseudo-German and constantly berating the lower rank officers in entertaining and slightly kinky ways? *walks off babbling*

I think the tipping point was when I said "Don't mention the war". It's the surest way to initiate a conversation about the war. :)

Anyway as another sub-topic of attraction, because I happened to see a thread at the Escapist but I'm actually loath to post there, I've concieved of this:

Are you attracted to people by skin color? Like, say, do you think dirty thoughts about people of your own color or otherwise? Any particular ethnic preference? Do you not care at all? That's probably the politically correct answer.

Me, I've lived most my life among white people and I identify with them although technically my skin color is close to #888888. Persons of color are actually quite rare around here. And I think that's what makes them attractive to me. Nine times out of ten they make my heart ache and my fingers tingle in a way that less than one in ten whiteys can. I guess I just like those who are different. Is that weird?

Most people are conditioned to like the unusual to some degree and some really prefer the unusual, that's why people with lots of blondes and brunettes in their family will like redheads, or in reverse, the women in my family are all redheads and blondes, and I have a thing for dark to black brunettes.


If you're lucky. Otherwise it descends into rehashing Mony Python jokes after people run out Fawlty Towers ones(which is easy as there's only like 8 admittedly spectacular epsiodes, you can go through every good joke pretty quickly).

I hate bitter old men. Bitter young men are the way of the future.

I'm not the only one whose mind snapped to Fawlty Towers. Awesome. My girlfriend and I have coined the term "Fawlty" to refer to a situation where one has not only failed, but taken fail up like a battering ram and driven it deep into the heart of self-inflicted injury.