Date idea... need advice?

[robbins.photo]

So, where are we now? he's come to his senses and realized this was not the best place to ask for this kind of advice and is never coming back? or he should give up on the entire Brazilian night of gourmet food and fun and just offer her a choice of peanuts or pistachios and bore her to death with a movie about Steven Hawking's evil twin?

Thanks Otherprof but explaining it didn't really help either in making it sound palatable! lol

At this stage I'll consider it a win as long as he doesn't come back and ask for legal advice, visa vie a restraining order.

 

[vintagesnaps]

The date can only go better than this thread.

 

[astroNikon]

So, where are we now? he's come to his senses and realized this was not the best place to ask for this kind of advice and is never coming back? or he should give up on the entire Brazilian night of gourmet food and fun and just offer her a choice of peanuts or pistachios and bore her to death with a movie about Steven Hawking's evil twin?

Thanks Otherprof but explaining it didn't really help either in making it sound palatable! lol

Maybe they ended up just getting married ?

 

[astroNikon]

The date can only go better than this thread.

This thread is just nuts,
or more specifically .. pistachio nuts.

 

[table1349]

 

[JacaRanda]

So, where are we now? he's come to his senses and realized this was not the best place to ask for this kind of advice and is never coming back? or he should give up on the entire Brazilian night of gourmet food and fun and just offer her a choice of peanuts or pistachios and bore her to death with a movie about Steven Hawking's evil twin?

Thanks Otherprof but explaining it didn't really help either in making it sound palatable! lol

Maybe they ended up just getting married ?

How romantic. Nuptials while stargazing. Hey baby, if you ask me for a star and I give you the moon; at least you reach the sky. And they lived happily and ever after. The end!

 

[jcdeboever]

So, where are we now? he's come to his senses and realized this was not the best place to ask for this kind of advice and is never coming back? or he should give up on the entire Brazilian night of gourmet food and fun and just offer her a choice of peanuts or pistachios and bore her to death with a movie about Steven Hawking's evil twin?

Thanks Otherprof but explaining it didn't really help either in making it sound palatable! lol

Maybe they ended up just getting married ?

No reason they should be any happier than the rest of us.

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[waday]

How romantic. Nuptials while stargazing. Hey baby, if you ask me for a star and I give you the moon; at least you reach the sky. And they lived happily and ever after. The end!

If someone gives you either the moon or a star, it would be the end.

Of civilization as we know it.

 

[astroNikon]

So, where are we now? he's come to his senses and realized this was not the best place to ask for this kind of advice and is never coming back? or he should give up on the entire Brazilian night of gourmet food and fun and just offer her a choice of peanuts or pistachios and bore her to death with a movie about Steven Hawking's evil twin?

Thanks Otherprof but explaining it didn't really help either in making it sound palatable! lol

Maybe they ended up just getting married ?

No reason they should be any happier than the rest of us.

I wonder if they had a Photographer at the ceremony ?
and what kinda of equipment s/he had?

 

[limr]

You're both making heavy assumptions about what movie or food she will like. And that's my problem with the OP's date plan as well.

How much of this was planned because of conversations with her in which she has expressed interest in Brazilian food, or photography, or star-gazing? Or how much of it is planned because it "seems" romantic and what a woman wants?

The biggest mistakes are made by assuming. If you're unsure? Simple. ASK HER.

Not so much really. I like Steven Hawking. I think the guy is probably the smartest guy on the planet. I cannot for the life of me imagine being able to watch a movie featuring him and then feeling amorous at the end. The stargazing thing.. ok, sure. 2 hours of Steve explaining the nature of the universe? Ya.. sorry, no, not romantic.

I'm not saying that a Steven Hawking movie would make someone amorous. What I'm saying is that a chick flick might also not do the trick because maybe she's a woman who hates chick flicks. Plus, I'm not really fond of the idea that the whole purpose of the movie is to make the woman feel "amorous." It's a FIRST date. It should be about getting to know each other, not getting lucky.

(And just speaking personally, I'd be more likely to feel romantic towards someone if they appeal to my intellectual side, so yes, a documentary or Stephen Hawking movie just might work better than a chick flick for me. If someone showed me one of the gajillion Meg-Ryan-gets-the-guy film from the 90s, I'm more likely to be annoyed that he thinks I'm a stereotype instead of a real, actual person.)

A movie about Hawking, who divorced his long suffering wife (who did have an outside "relationship" while she was married to Stephen) to marry his nurse - and announced "I have finally married the woman I love" - and then divorced the nurse and returned to the first wife, who took him back and who updated her book about their life to include a happy ending . . . Sounds more like a soap opera than an intellectually challenging flick. The only thing missing is amnesia or the unexpected twin. I'm sorry about his tragic illness, but find him morally flawed for reasons beyond his marriages.

Well then I would have been quite disappointed, wouldn't I? I know nothing about the movie other than it was about Stephen Hawking. If it's truly that focused on his relationships rather than his life and work as a whole, then I've just lost any interest I had in seeing it.

 

[robbins.photo]

Well then I would have been quite disappointed, wouldn't I? I know nothing about the movie other than it was about Stephen Hawking. If it's truly that focused on his relationships rather than his life and work as a whole, then I've just lost any interest I had in seeing it.

Really? Our sweet, innocent little football fan in the clutches of some she devil, and this is what your worried about. Sheesh.

Lol


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[astroNikon]

hey, he liked my post 12 minutes ago so he's around and reading this thread ...

 

[footballfan993]

Update/Results:

Well the date happened and the date went well! I'll tell you what happened:

In the morning, I work up, made the Pao do Quejio, and did some touch up cleaning.

Brianna came over around 2, and we left for a walk through Schmeeckle nature reserve that lasted for about 45 minutes to an hour. We talked a lot during the walk.
After the walk, we went back to my place, and I told her that I have a selection of DVDs and Netflix to choose from, and she wanted to watch "The Theory of Everything". It was actually a really good movie.

About halfway through the movie, we decided to make dinner.
I opted to not make all the food be Brazilian, but we still had the Pao do Quejio, Brigaderios, and Guarana. For the main course we had spaghetti pasta with garlic and my homegrown spinach. All the food was great.

After eating, we continued watching the movie, we even cuddled too. And then she had to leave, which was alright with me.

I walked her out to her car, and we hugged, and kissed. However while hugging, I did notice a pack of cigarettes in her car, while it might not seem like a big deal to some, smoking to me is a huge turn off.

But overall, we both had a good time together, and this morning, I even woke up to a "Good morning!" text from her.

 

[astroNikon]

WooHoo !!

I know what you mean about cigarettes though

 

[limr]

Excellent! Sounds like timing and activities were just right.

I understand that smoking is a turn-off for you, but if it gets to a point that you end up talking to her about it, just be careful not to sound judgmental. I am not saying that you would be - I'm just suggesting that you be extra aware of how you bring up the topic or discuss your distaste of it because with a topic like that, it's easy to sound judgmental even if you don't intend it that way. Just choose your wording carefully, is all I'm saying.

Let us know if there's a second date!