People Watching

[aggienaut]

   We do get about half a dozen days here a year that actually feel like summer, and last Tuesday was one of them! Since then it has been raining heavily but hey.

   Here's just kind of a random picture I took of the view from a place near work where I went for after work drinks with my friends Mick and Tessa on Tuesday. I hadn't particularly intended to or put much thought into the random people caught in the picture, but after I posted the photo to my whatsup "story" (the funciton where a picture is visible to everyone for 24 hours, funny how facebook and insta also both have this feature of their own), there was some funny discussion about it among my friends. The first thing people noticed was the striking difference in demeanor between the two women who appear to be intensely engaged in their conversation together, and the two guys who are just playing with their phones. I mentioned that I think these guys were just waiting for an opportunity to talk to some women (I actually noticed like eight or nine guys sitting around the periphery seemingly engaged in a similar stance of boredly waiting for an opportunity like vultures), and that in fact later on those two guys were talking to those two women -- I didn't see what happened in the end but they seemed to have fully merged their two groups at one point. And then an eagle eyed friend pointed out that one of the guys appears to have a wedding ring on. Such sauce!

   Also several friends had some lively discussion about that one woman's choice of sweater.



   The second photo I took just because I finally saw an opportunity to get the view without people in the way, though friends then began wondering why the hell there were about six half consumed drinks on the shelf. We decided surely the most plausible explanation is that a group of six was sitting there drinking when a rival gang of six suddenly turned up, struck dramatic poses and challenged them to an immediate dance off via breaking out wild dance moves, which challange the first group was of course honor bound to immediately rise up to meet. Clearly this is what must have happened, despite we not noticing ;)

Comments

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

LOL "vultures" was the word that came to my head even as I was reading this. Being a not particularly sexual person, the predatory nature of so many guys is grimly fascinating. So many life choices seem driven by the probability of the next lay.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I have this theory that people often look at life like a game, where they want to get the high score. Often they equate money as the scoring system and try to rack up as much of it as they possibly can, well beyond what they have any use for and without regard to morality ... and sometimes they equate having sex with as many people as possible as the score board (no pun intended). I've known guys like this, who will sleep with the most attractive girl they can but in a pinch will settle for someone not attractive in any way just because all they really care about is getting their numbers up. Obviously some people have a compulsion and that may be different, but I think a lot of the guys like the ones that hang out in bars like flies around a roadkill are doing so because of the vague feeling that getting laid will add to their scoreboard in life.

[wantedonvoyage.livejournal.com]

... as evidenced as they literally use the word "score" to describe hooking up.

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[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Pretty.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I rather thought so (: I miss summer now :-/

[waitingman.livejournal.com]

Clearly, as a result of the dance-off, only one group got 'served'!!

That is an interesting pullover/jumper/sweater...

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah it really was!

[estelle.livejournal.com]

"I posted the photo to my whatsup "story" (the funciton where a picture is visible to everyone for 24 hours, funny how facebook and insta also both have this feature of their own)"
Why is that funny? It's all one company.


Melbourne does not have a real summer? That is disappointing.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

It all being one company makes it seem even more funny that they've found this one function so indispensible that each of their apps must have its own in-built version of it. I suppose part of what makes this seem odd to me is that I've always felt like it seemed like a pretty frivolous function for any one app much less all of them. ::shrug::