Trying to create fun inexpensive things to do with GF but she wont cooperate

GracieP

heretolearn wrote: »

Blimey, you'll have her painting Warhammer figures next :rotfl:

I used to do that for my first boyfriend. I really disliked all his RPGs, I thought I'd love the idea of the games with strategies and fairly unlimited outcomes. But the first time I tried to play with him and his friends and after 2 hours of measuring, debating and negotiating they had finally set up the board I was heartily sick of it. So instead whenever he played I used to paint his new figures with tiny brushes.

It worked out well for me because a few years later I used to have the best nails ever, painted in tiny intricate details with nail varnish and an eye-liner brush. They were a great ice-breaker with new men. And an even better way to weed out the role players. I like my men nerdy but sitting in a large empty stockroom for entire long weekends, measuring the blast radius of your dice roll and arguing about whether the base of the Tyranid counts as it's body or if it's toe was a milimeter clear of the explosion is just too far for me.

split_second wrote: »

mtg came out a few years back, i remember it coming out and some guys i knew through college got really into it,

Stop trying to pretend you aren't as old as you are. MtG came out in 1993.:D;)

split_second

GracieP wrote: »

Stop trying to pretend you aren't as old as you are. MtG came out in 1993.:D;)

hahaha 30 on saturday, the people i hung out with at the time got into it about 7 years ago, before that it was full metal alchemist, i didnt understand that either :rotfl:

Lotus-eater

GracieP wrote: »

I used to do that for my first boyfriend. I really disliked all his RPGs, I thought I'd love the idea of the games with strategies and fairly unlimited outcomes. But the first time I tried to play with him and his friends and after 2 hours of measuring, debating and negotiating they had finally set up the board I was heartily sick of it. So instead whenever he played I used to paint his new figures with tiny brushes.

It worked out well for me because a few years later I used to have the best nails ever, painted in tiny intricate details with nail varnish and an eye-liner brush. They were a great ice-breaker with new men. And an even better way to weed out the role players. I like my men nerdy but sitting in a large empty stockroom for entire long weekends, measuring the blast radius of your dice roll and arguing about whether the base of the Tyranid counts as it's body or if it's toe was a milimeter clear of the explosion is just too far for me.

Wow, I'm a bit nerdy myself, but that is a little beyond the pale, I remember trying to get into role playing D&D in the 80's, I liked the idea, but the execution was awful, I thought I was really nerdy back then, at least till I met the D&D guys who played it all the time.
I learned about myself, that although I was nerdy, I did actually want to meet women, as many as possible and I wasn't going to do that playing D&D

aloise

euronorris wrote: »

That was rude, nasty and spiteful.

So sorry, didn't mean to sound as bad as that. The op seems to me to be a wind up.:(

giantmutantbroccoli

Magic the Gathering is one of the most boring card/RPG games going and yet for some reason there are many geeky guys out there who think that if they just explain the rules one more time the girl they're talking to will be overcome with passion for it and them. If your GF isn't interested in playing then she isn't interested. Pick another game, there's lots to choose from! If she's intersted in geeky pursuits then there's always Warhammer, D&D and various related pen&paper RPGs. You can get the manuals secondhand on eBay for cheap, and you don't actually need to buy the little figures. Experience has taught me that plasticine works just as well as long as you can tell which blob is an elven archer and which blob is an orc mage.
There's also a whole host of sports and games that are completely free to play and will improve your physical fitness as well as giving you something to do together. What about geocaching? Or you could go for more traditional pursuits like an actual sport, or be creative and try making stuff together. Build a kite and enter it in a competition or something.

Have you tried asking her what she wants to do?

Nara

I've played WoW for 4 years, its brilliant.

I admit to being a little addicted :P but otherwise I'm not sure what I would do in my spare time. I raid 3 nights a week and spend the other nights watching DVD's with my partner, hes fine about it.

I love WoW and being a girl in a heavy male enviroment :P I haven't left my partner for someone on WoW, in fact I did try and persuade him to try it but he got bored after 70 lvls and stopped playing :rotfl:

In fact I have got 2 FREE laptops from a friend on WoW as he loves me so much :-) being a girl has its advantages sometimes :P It may cost £9 a month, but I have tons of friends all round Europe who i adore and I deffo get my money's worth

gratefulforhelp_2

mummyoftwomonkeys wrote: »

Oh bless you, my husband wants us to play chess - I don't know how to play but he wants to teach me and it makes my eyes roll just thinking about it.

lucky you, DH CBA to teach me to play properly.

crazyguy wrote: »

I once fell backwards onto a stick, jeez that bloody hurt, I can still feel it now !:eek:

A and E are full of people with that kind of accidental injury. It's a real hazard, and you'd be amazed how many people fall onto vacuum cleaners too.

Demastras wrote: »

The activities she likes doing is watching eastenders and some others, they always seem to be on, all night in some cases. She insists that we do this together and i can seriously tell you everything about them as i take a really active and entusiastic stance on just knowing whats going on in them.

So when the kids are in bed and ive done my work and of course she is not working there is very little time left, this card thing is portable, cheap and the level of strategy(thinking and tactics) is amazing. I will try and do anything, including taking her to go ape and this roof activity thing where you climb all over the place. This is just a static activity which i stumbled across and is totally new. Seriously. Give it a go. if you have xbox there is a dumbed down version of it on that, otherwise check out you tubes and some of the tourneys . . looks pretty involved.

You are definitely having a little jokey;)

crazyguy

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

lucky you, DH CBA to teach me to play properly.



A and E are full of people with that kind of accidental injury. It's a real hazard, and you'd be amazed how many people fall onto vacuum cleaners too.



You are definitely having a little jokey;)

Funny you should say that Gratefulforhelp,

Upon my visit to A&E that particular night there was a few strange cases before me.

One guy had a hampster stuck somewhere quite unusual.
another guy had a wine bottle stuck to his privates.

Didnt find out what the lady was in for, all I can say was she was walking kind of strange

gratefulforhelp_2

crazyguy wrote: »

Funny you should say that Gratefulforhelp,

Upon my visit to A&E that particular night there was a few strange case before me.

One guy had a hampster stuck somewhere quite unusual.
another guy had a wine bottle stuck to his privates.

Didnt find out what the lady was in for, all I can say was she was walking kind of strange

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

crazyguy

gratefulforhelp wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Now you cannot tell me you have never done anything like this before ?