Never feigned interest in some of what a romantic interest was telling you, even if in fact you couldn’t care less?
Huh, no I haven’t—my romantic interests have tended to tell me things that I was genuinely interested in, or at least to be able to shortly realize when I wasn’t and change the topic consequently. Which is probably a large part of the difference between a romantic interest and someone I’d like to have a one-night stand with.
Now that I remember about it, I did that until I was about 17 -- towards people of the gender I’m not attracted to; for example, I would force myself to watch soccer matches even though I found them boring as hell.
Then I started hanging around people who didn’t give a damn either (mainly females, the kind of people whom Paul Graham here calls freaks, etc.).
Huh, no I haven’t—my romantic interests have tended to tell me things that I was genuinely interested in, or at least to be able to shortly realize when I wasn’t and change the topic consequently. Which is probably a large part of the difference between a romantic interest and someone I’d like to have a one-night stand with.
Not even as a teenager?
Now that I remember about it, I did that until I was about 17 -- towards people of the gender I’m not attracted to; for example, I would force myself to watch soccer matches even though I found them boring as hell.
Then I started hanging around people who didn’t give a damn either (mainly females, the kind of people whom Paul Graham here calls freaks, etc.).
Not that I can remember of, but then again I was a helluva dork back then.