Men of Canberra are unfunny, horny, egotistical commitment-phobes

Sleaz274 said :

The problem I’ve always found with Canberra and had lots of people comment on it is how cliquey it is everyone goes out in their little groups of work,school,uni,sport whatever friends and sits in their little huddles and talks to no one else all night and seem to think that anyone trying to start a conversation or even say gday is somehow intruding on the group who are always very sharp at cutting down anyone else.

You’ll observe this everywhere in Canberra.

Might have something to do with the attempted interaction of the ‘intruder’. My all time favourite example of this was just a few weeks ago at King O’s in the city. Group of girls sitting having a drink and a laugh. Bloke comes up and joins the group with the introduction “I was on my way to the toilet to chuck up but then i saw yoose and decided to join ya… *burp/hiccup*”

Sleaz274 said :

I was funny…once

Hahahahahahaha Granny will love that one

*lol*

I’m sure it was more than once!

I was funny…once

Hahahahahahaha Granny will love that one

The problem I’ve always found with Canberra and had lots of people comment on it is how cliquey it is everyone goes out in their little groups of work,school,uni,sport whatever friends and sits in their little huddles and talks to no one else all night and seem to think that anyone trying to start a conversation or even say gday is somehow intruding on the group who are always very sharp at cutting down anyone else.

You’ll observe this everywhere in Canberra.

ummm No!

I don’t know why Canberra men are branded ‘committment-phobes’. I know lot’s of single guys who are quite happy to commit to sex on the first date. Maybe not freaky, dirty, try-something-I-wouldn’t-do-with-a-chick-I-wanted-to-be-friends-with sex, but sex nontheless.

C’mon girls, can I get an AMEN?

Maybe they are all on riotact. Time to branch out into Canberra-only dating guys!

deezagood said :

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

deezagood said :

I find the born-here, bred-here and have-never-left Canberra blokes to primarily be wimpy, chinless, grey, self-important and with an institutionalised APS mentality.

Only kidding. Sort of.

Quite a lot like the born-here, bred-here and have-never-left Canberra women.

Amen to that!

DeAmen to that!

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

deezagood said :

I find the born-here, bred-here and have-never-left Canberra blokes to primarily be wimpy, chinless, grey, self-important and with an institutionalised APS mentality.

Only kidding. Sort of.

Quite a lot like the born-here, bred-here and have-never-left Canberra women.

Amen to that!

deezagood said :

I find the born-here, bred-here and have-never-left Canberra blokes to primarily be wimpy, chinless, grey, self-important and with an institutionalised APS mentality.

Only kidding. Sort of.

Quite a lot like the born-here, bred-here and have-never-left Canberra women.

Thumper strikes me more as the portrait of a modern major-general, than a pirate.

Luckily I was born in Cornwall.

Identifying yourself as a porrdge wog is by no means lucky my friend

I know plenty of really attractive, funny, intelligent men in Canberra … and almost without exception, they originated from somewhere else. I find the born-here, bred-here and have-never-left Canberra blokes to primarily be wimpy, chinless, grey, self-important and with an institutionalised APS mentality.

Only kidding. Sort of.

What am I, Henny Youngman?

I thought I was funny? Maybe I was wrong…

Canberra men … Are what Canberra women deserve (48%, 86 Votes)

“Hell is other people.” – No Exit

prhhcd said :

This still does not answer Feathergirl’s and my question though: Where are the nice guys in Canberra?

I don’t think you’ll find them on redhotpie.com. Maybe they’re all here on the the RiotACT 😉

p1 said :

Do you have one in every port Granny? 🙂

You would think, p1. I guess I’m just too nice!

*chuckle*

The nice guys are at home, cooking a fabulous meal and wishing they had someone to discuss their feelings with. Break into enough houses and you’ll find one!

Bring back Dexter, he’d have these women matched up in no time.

33% sour APS wet fish, 33% boguns. No wonder Canberra men are scared of commitment.

Deadmandrinking said :

Feathergirl said :

I already have the nicest guy in Canberra, but for all those nice blokes out there where are the best places to pick you up? Just curious…

Lying on the floor of pubs ranting about finishing last…

Just pick one and lie down on top of them. They’ll get the idea…

Mike and Jim, you’re not doing much for the argument that men in Canberra aren’t egotistical.

Feathergirl said :

I already have the nicest guy in Canberra, but for all those nice blokes out there where are the best places to pick you up? Just curious…

Lying on the floor of pubs ranting about finishing last…

Jim Jones said :

Mike Bessenger said :

Jim Jones said :

The funny guy thinks that everyone around him is ‘sad’ and ‘lacking a sense of humour’.

I wonder what this could mean.

Just because I have made a comment to you on the internet don’t get your hopes up in thinking your(you’re) of some importance to me to be classified as ‘everyone around’ me. Did I actually say everyone is sad, NO. I think your(you’re) sad. Don’t take it to heart it’s just some spelling, or is there more to it then that?
Oh hang on is this Mr Jones my english teacher? If so you should already know I failed.

You sound angry.

Tell me about your mother.

Again a great response. Just give in before you make yourself (if you have not already) look like a right twat.

prhhcd said :

Correct spelling and grammar are good qualities to have though, especially if you are in the APS. So I’m sorry but I’m with Jim. This still does not answer Feathergirl’s and my question though: Where are the nice guys in Canberra?

i’m taken, sadly…

agree with fc, canberra’s incestuous social networks usually do the trick rather than any specific ‘market’, so tactics logically become: get friends, hang out, meet theirs, score… or leave a share house and meet your replacement! ; )

Mike Bessenger said :

Jim Jones said :

The funny guy thinks that everyone around him is ‘sad’ and ‘lacking a sense of humour’.

I wonder what this could mean.

Just because I have made a comment to you on the internet don’t get your hopes up in thinking your(you’re) of some importance to me to be classified as ‘everyone around’ me. Did I actually say everyone is sad, NO. I think your(you’re) sad. Don’t take it to heart it’s just some spelling, or is there more to it then that?
Oh hang on is this Mr Jones my english teacher? If so you should already know I failed.

You sound angry.

Tell me about your mother.

Jim Jones said :

The funny guy thinks that everyone around him is ‘sad’ and ‘lacking a sense of humour’.

I wonder what this could mean.

Just because I have made a comment to you on the internet don’t get your hopes up in thinking your(you’re) of some importance to me to be classified as ‘everyone around’ me. Did I actually say everyone is sad, NO. I think your(you’re) sad. Don’t take it to heart it’s just some spelling, or is there more to it then that?
Oh hang on is this Mr Jones my english teacher? If so you should already know I failed.

My experience of people, male and female, who describe their main attribute as
being a “nice guy/girl” is that they are dead boring and lacking in anything else to market themselves with. So, where are the “nice” people? At home, watching telly, because they simply aren’t interesting enough for everyone else to want to out with. Which is not to say those out and about aren’t also nice people, just that they have other more interesting things to focus on than their ability to not offend anyone and help lost kittens find their way home.

I think prhhcd, the nice guys in canberra are generally met through their nice friends. They say like attracts like, so I suggest socialising with people who exhibit the qualities you are after in a man. So its not really easy! I definitly don’t think the place to meet them is at clubs etc. I know lots of nice guys.. but they are happily married or related to me!

The funny guy thinks that everyone around him is ‘sad’ and ‘lacking a sense of humour’.

I wonder what this could mean.

Correct spelling and grammar are good qualities to have though, especially if you are in the APS. So I’m sorry but I’m with Jim. This still does not answer Feathergirl’s and my question though: Where are the nice guys in Canberra?

Jim Jones said :

Mike Bessenger said :

I think your confused FC. I’m not looking. Maybe I’m unfunny, or maybe your lacking a sense of humour.

My money is on ‘unfunny’.

Also: you’re you’re you’re you’re you’re you’re you’re you’re. There are a few spares for you, I suggest you use them when appropriate.

So I can’t spell and my grammer is not up to scratch, but I make up for that with my sense of humour. My money is on the fact that your sad and have nothing on me other that the fact I can’t spell.

Mike Bessenger said :

I think your confused FC. I’m not looking. Maybe I’m unfunny, or maybe your lacking a sense of humour.

My money is on ‘unfunny’.

Also: you’re you’re you’re you’re you’re you’re you’re you’re. There are a few spares for you, I suggest you use them when appropriate.

I think your confused FC. I’m not looking. Maybe I’m unfunny, or maybe your lacking a sense of humour.

thank you FC!

I think you’re confused Mike. She ISN’T looking for unfunny, egotistical men.

prhhcd said :

I think this is spot on. Someone tell me of a place in Canberra where you can find all these great guys you speak of.
🙁
Mid 20s,APS, single!

Picture might help

Nice girls tend to not hang out in the traditional meat markets either – so there is an issue here. Nice girls and nice guys don’t easily meet. So there is the issue.

Feathergirl said :

I already have the nicest guy in Canberra, but for all those nice blokes out there where are the best places to pick you up? Just curious…

Where do the ‘nice’ girls hide?

lol – and right down the bottom of this page, an advert – You can’t buy love. Apparently all we need to do is to rent a movie instead of searching for the innocuous Canberra man.

I think the “nice guys” tend to avoid the traditional meat markets.

I already have the nicest guy in Canberra, but for all those nice blokes out there where are the best places to pick you up? Just curious…

eyeLikeCarrots said :

Canberra Women 33% 20 year old grads, 33% sour APS wet fish, 33% boguns

Where is the last 1% of non-insane, mid 30’s ?

Strutting around in private sector IT firms being followed around by desperate, single nerds.

Pseudo Nym said :

Not just a dating site, but a “Adult Dating Site for Singles and Swingers”.

What a load of self selective crap.

Thats a beer to you my friend. I have never heard the words swinger or selective in the same sentence before.

Not just a dating site, but a “Adult Dating Site for Singles and Swingers”.

What a load of self selective crap.

Also, “redhotpie” is an anagram of (amongst other things):
“Hired poet”
“I do her pet”
“He Reptoid”

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

A survey commissioned by a dating site. Why would anyone take this seriously?

More to the point:
A survey, commissioned by a dating site, report^H^H^H^Hgurgitated by the Canberra Times. Why would anyone take this seriously ?

astrojax = canberra man!

this survey is clearly devoid of programmatic specificity and as such i cannot agree to settle on any particular attachment to it, or otherwise, in any forseeable future and despair at the lack of serious discussion of the matters it raises.

right then, bed?

BLAST!

Mid 20’s, APS, male, look nice in a suit and getting paid to study, taken. 😛

My Canberra man is terribly sweet!

Do you have one in every port Granny? 🙂

So what’s wrong with being unfunny?

I think this is spot on. Someone tell me of a place in Canberra where you can find all these great guys you speak of.
🙁
Mid 20s,APS, single!

eyeLikeCarrots said :

Canberra Women 33% 20 year old grads, 33% sour APS wet fish, 33% boguns

Where is the last 1% of non-insane, mid 30’s ?

I don’t fit anywhere here… *sigh*

I’m married, my wife thinks I am funny ………..looking

commissioned by adult dating site Redhotpie.com.au

Is it actually possible to take something serious from a website called redhotpie.com.au?

That is really not very nice, eyeLikeCarrots!

Canberra Women 33% 20 year old grads, 33% sour APS wet fish, 33% boguns

Where is the last 1% of non-insane, mid 30’s ?

“men that are happy to wait until the 20th date”?!?!

No matter what they tell you, no-one is ever ‘happy’ about this.

I don’t really think that the voting options suffice.
I put my vote under, “This survey sounds like a load of crap, and we can’t stereotype 150 000 men like that”

there are funny men here, unfunny men, men that want sex on the first date, and men that are happy to wait until the 20th date! the same as their are cranky women, easy going women, and sex crazed women!
People with a vast array of differences that makes up a diverse and interesting place to live.

threeze said :

I don’t know how this can be true, women always burst into laughter when I undress in front of them.

🙂

Well, that’s what happens when you take a survey at Charnwood shops!

Hey, I’m happily married.

The rest is spot on though.

threeze said :

I don’t know how this can be true, women always burst into laughter when I undress in front of them.

HEHEHEHEHE see we are funny

I don’t know how this can be true, women always burst into laughter when I undress in front of them.

My wife, finds this Canberra man pretty funny, good looking etc… my daughter thinks it’s funny people are actually paying attention to a survey from a dating website…

Also, Redhotpie is a niche site for people who are susceptible to late-night advertising, with its main competitor being adultmatchmaker.com.au .
(ie: self-selecting societal dregs)

The good ones are all taken.

Canberra Times, you fail statistics (and cynicism) forever.

“Study of the men of Canberra finds they are men…”

Hold the front pages…

I think the issue here is that people who are using “redhotpie.com.au”, men and women, probably have no sense of humour or social skills to begin with, hence trying to find a partner on that site!

So don’t worry ladies, I’m sure the ‘REAL’ men of Canberra have a great sense of humour, just don’t go looking for them on that website. 😉

Canberran males have the “best dress sense”.
Victorians males are “the best dressed”.

So it has been identified that Canberra males -know- how to dress themselves well but they just choose not to?

that doesn’t sound like me at all……the only reason i am single is that i am an arsehole……oh and sheilas piss me off…….

Tassie blokes smart. pfft.

Granny said :

I actually deserve a lot worse.

That’s why I’m here, baby.

I’ve always found them very attractive.

I like that they are smart, and that often does go hand in hand with a genuinely clever and funny sense of humour. I also think they’re more sensitive and new age than in other parts of the country … more likely to be interested in cooking and reading and that sort of stuff.

My Canberra man is terribly sweet! I actually deserve a lot worse.

: )

But same survey says we’re rich, have sexy bodies, and look snappy in a suit. So I am at peace with the survey.

A survey commissioned by a dating site. Why would anyone take this seriously?

I only believe in marriage when both wifes are hot.