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I have a good friend I've known for years and we'll go out for dinner now and then, but I always make a point of not sitting directly across the table from him so we're not "looking into each other's eyes" the whole time. We take turns picking up the check though, no big deal.

I had a couple guy friends over recently and cooked for them, but I would never do that for just one guy.

 

[ManDudeChild]

I have a good friend I've known for years and we'll go out for dinner now and then, but I always make a point of not sitting directly across the table from him so we're not "looking into each other's eyes" the whole time. We take turns picking up the check though, no big deal.

I had a couple guy friends over recently and cooked for them, but I would never do that for just one guy.

Why do you need to make a production out of it? What with the direct sitting and not cooking for one guy. I mean you're not going to get "the gay" from that or anything.

 

[darscot]

I can't believe some of you guys think about this shit. I go to movies, dinner, shit I even go on short holidays with buddies and never think about it for a second. How homophobic do you have to be when yor worried about sitting across from a buddy while you eat. And as far as cooking for another guy, the rule is pretty cut and dry in my circle if its my food your ass is cooking it.

 

[aoi tsuki]

i have the weirdest luck sometimes. While i was on my lunchbreak at work, i ended up at EB. The two associates (one male, one female), a regular who had just dropped by my work earlier, and myself were chatting about various topics. We get on the subject of coffee, and the male associate mentions a place and we both talk about how good the coffee is. So he's like "we should go there sometime" and i agree.

As i was driving back to work, somehow the word "man date" literally popped into my head, and i instantly thought of this thread. "Wait... did i just agree to a date with a guy?" i asked myself. Seriously, i've worked harder getting women to join me for coffee, and this guy up and offers, like i might offer to a woman. i do intend to take him up on the offer, i mean he might end up to be cool and i try to take people at face value except when i pretty much know the outcome will be unfavorable, but it was just really, really odd. On one hand i'm thinking "what guy offers to go with another guy to a coffeeshop when they knowingly have nothing in common but videogames?" and on the other hand i'm thinking "you're really looking to deep into this."

i guess i'll see on Monday. :|

And yeah, i know replies of "teh gay", "...buttsecks...", and the purple wave smilie are mandatory, but i'm interested in hearing GAF's opinion on this.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

he's probably going to slip something into your coffee then videotape himself giving it to you hard.

 

[capslock]

he's probably going to slip something into your coffee then videotape himself giving it to you hard.

:lol

 

[Mama Smurf]

I ate dinner with a friend at a restaurant on fucking Davie St.* last week. He also paid for both of us.

It never occured to me (or him, I'm sure) that our sexuality was in danger.

*a notoriously homosexual street

Funny story. My second night in Vancouver, I'm staying in a youth hostel on Granville, right near Davie. Hadn't gone up that way yet though, had no idea there even was a gay area. So me and these couple of girls I'd met decided to go get some dinner. Then a bunch of girls they'd met previously see us just before we go out, so they join us. Fine by me, I'm the only guy with 8 girls maybe, but that sort of situation can be fun, I can take it.

Anyway, as we leave the youth hostel, some bright spark decides we should go right rather than left, as no one seemed to know what was over that way. So as we're walking up the street, and this was in the dark btw, I'm thinking it's a nice area. We come to this pasta place and decide to give it a go, god knows why as it was a nice looking joint and people who stay in youth hostels don't normally have that much money. It was probably because most of us were British and everything seemed cheap when you converted it. We get shown to this table and I look around and think how it'd be the perfect place to bring a date. In fact, lots of people have done that. Lots of...men. Hang on, is this...am I in some sort of gay restaurant? Have I walked into a gay restaurant as the only guy with a bunch of girls? Oh god, they're gonna think I'm some sort of queen and these are all my bitches.

These girls weren't stupid, or some of them weren't, and it didn't take them long to come to the same conclusion. Commence teasing for the rest of the night. You think of a gay joke, I probably heard it. Still everyone's just having fun, I'm not gonna storm out of their or anything. Only...our waiter keeps coming to our table a lot. Why does he keep touching my arm when he asks if everything's ok with the meal, but nobody else's? Oh shit. No, shut up, you're just paranoid. It's almost the end of the meal, you just gotta pay. We get the waiter's attention, and:

"If any of you want to pay by credit card" *pause, looks at me meaningfully* "I'll be just over there."

...*rapid exit*

Anyway, a few days later I'm in the same area only with different people. But it's day now. Rainbow flags? Pink fucking bus stops? From now on, I explore cities before I take my bitches to restaurants.

 

[Socreges]

Pink fucking bus stops?

I refuse to believe that the city is responsible for that. It had to have been homo hooligans marking their territory!