What do you assign to Orthanc?

[Lindale]

that our college has almost no straight guys, and if there are, they're either ugly or taken.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Lindale

that our college has almost no straight guys, and if there are, they're either ugly or taken.

Sorry that I'm laughing at your problem, Lin, but that sounds exactly like our school , (except that we don't actually have that much any kind of guys at all because we are a school into which mostly come people who are interested in arts and good at school...) Not that it's too bad anyway - my experiences and the stories I've heard suggest that fewer boys = quieter and more motivated classes... and also, it seems that in general gay guys are less noisy and disturb lessons less, so maybe you should be happy with your situation?

[Lindale]

Oh I forgot. Don't let Nilp read that... he comes from my college too, although I think he's neither and, he's older and he belongs to the Department of European Languages, whereas I come from the Department of Comparative Lit. I don't know about the DEL, but in DECL and the Institute of Creative Writing I know only two straight men. Both... pangit. Most of my crushes in school are attractive-by-default.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

(except that we don't actually have that much any kind of guys at all because we are a school into which mostly come people who are interested in arts and good at school...)

Now now now. If this wasn't quite nassty chauvinism.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Now now now. If this wasn't quite nassty chauvinism.

Aiaiai, I swear you're watching me extra closely when it comes to gender stereotypes. But, anyway, it's a pure fact that girls do generally better in school (at least in this country) and most of the people who have drama, dance or writing as a hobby are girls, so it's really no wonder. And also, I guess many boys don't apply to our school because they think it's such a "girly" school full of girls... (or then some of the guys apply just because of that... )

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Aiaiai, I swear you're watching me extra closely when it comes to gender stereotypes. But, anyway, it's a pure fact that girls do generally better in school (at least in this country) and most of the people who have drama, dance or writing as a hobby are girls, so it's really no wonder. And also, I guess many boys don't apply to our school because they think it's such a "girly" school full of girls... (or then some of the guys apply just because of that...)

Okay, okay, well... but the way you formulated it before was quite bad.

But let's leave this and let the thread get back to its topic

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

But let's leave this and let the thread get back to its topic

Hey, it was you who got side-tracked in the first place...

Ahem, anyway, since we're speaking of it, I would assign getting side-tracked. Mostly it's just fun and often even more interesting than the original topic, but some people (mostly teachers) are horribly bad at it and if the subject they're supposed to be talking about is more interesting than the one they start rambling about, it can be rather frustrating... (I assure you I find the history of ancient Egypt far more interesting than the German translations of the guides in my history teacher's Egypt-trip sometime back in the 80s, for example... )

[Lindale]

I assign the Epica Road to Paradiso photo sound book thing my dad got me as his pasalubong from the Netherlands. While I consider myself a very happy symphonic metal girl, all the text in the book are Dutch, and unfortunately I can't read it. Oh well, at least the album is in English! Yay!