posted January 14, 2016 10:58 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by charlie:
Word pet peeve: talking during sex!! I'll punch a man for that. Let the bodies to the talking..

---

posted January 14, 2016 11:04 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by Violets:
The "ers" also make everything sound terribly unappealing.

---

"Er....."

^ That means you are about to condescendingly correct someone.

"Errrr!!!!!"

^ Would be a grrrrr but the person is not the "grr" type.

Either way, the syllable has baggage and shouldn't be overused. I honestly wonder if the marketing companies employ linguists. I thought they did, but then I see things like this and wonder.

PS

posted January 15, 2016 01:40 AM            

quote:

---

Strange to me - pretty much anyone I know with Virgo placements does the pet name thing. My Virgo girls all say "Honey" "Chickie" etc.

(Cap sun) Virgo moon bf calles me Bebe pretty consistently, is all about the gorgeous, beautiful, etc. - I'm almost never called just my name unless he's mad at me :-p

Virgo ex was the same - called me Baby, sweetie, babydoll, and so on.

---

Was it when you guys were alone, or in front of other people?

I've dated guys who used pet names when it was just the two of us. That doesn't bother me. It doesn't really bother me if they use them occasionally in public, either.

posted January 15, 2016 02:09 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by Faith:
Those poor Gemini Mars men who loved you....

---

posted January 15, 2016 04:55 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by charlie:
Word pet peeve: talking during sex!! I'll punch a man for that. Let the bodies to the talking..

---

I'm not a guy but...

I always think I feel that way (or at least the Virgo in me feels that way) but then my Gemini Moon/Mars cannot shut the hell up. I start wondering what he's thinking, or why he's not talking too. Do I smell funny? He smells funny. How did I not notice that smell before now? This bed is really soft. Why is it so damn dark? Hey imagination, you know what else lives in the dark? Bugs. I wonder if he checks his room for bugs every night before he goes to sleep, like I do. Probably not, because he's a dude...oh god, I hope he cleans more than my brother did. He was always bringing bugs in from being outside... Would he kill bugs for me? Does he even know how to kill bugs? Or does he do that thing where he only maims them and they disappear, to crawl off and spawn children and grandchildren in my shoes? I really don't want to search for half-dead bugs all night long. Maybe we should do this in a bug-free zone, after all.

Then I end up blurting out, "Do you know how to kill bugs?" And then he's confused, and the mood is ruined...unless he is a Gemini Mars (the last guy I dated was) in which case he plays along. Because the alternative is that I eye the room suspiciously on my way out...and then never return. Also, he would probably be dubbed The Bug Guy in my mind because hey, you can never be too careful.

posted January 15, 2016 11:19 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by charlie:
Thank God there was only one Wait, two! :-/

---

LOL

posted January 16, 2016 01:31 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by Faith:
^^

My Mars is Rx, and I don't want to talk this too explicitly but...yeah I can relate. My husband and I both have Gemini Ceres so talking = caring. Silence is good in moderation, but too much of it would creep me out. I'd be like, "Hello, are you still there???"

---

posted January 16, 2016 01:33 AM            

That's the spirit lol. It's always easier to just play along...

posted January 16, 2016 09:59 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by StubbornVirgo:
Was it when you guys were alone, or in front of other people?

I've dated guys who used pet names when it was just the two of us. That doesn't bother me. It doesn't really bother me if they use them occasionally in public, either.

What bothers me is when people do it all the time. When the end or beginning of every other sentence is a pet name. Then it seems like less of an affectionate/romantic gesture, and more of a showing off type of behavior, which is annoying.

---

I think pet names are almost always in private for most people - but yeah I guess off and on he calls me a pet name whether we are in private or in public.

Meh, I don't really see the problem with it? Lol.It's kind of cracking me up that there's any analysis about pet names.

But that's maybe my total lack of virgo in my chart

posted January 16, 2016 11:03 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by Cappi112:

To me, we all tend to assign nicknames to our loved ones.

---

Nope.

I used to use moderate terms with guys I dated, to a fairly minimal degree. But not any favored nicknames. I don't make them up for other friends or family members, either.

My husband, on the other hand. Good lord, that man never calls ANYONE by their actual name.

It used to really irritate me, but I got used to it. And now I've adopted his pet name thing, at least with him and my son (who I also have a nickname for).

posted January 17, 2016 12:38 AM            

I was being tutored by an English major back when I was 17 who preached (that's the best word for it) that proper grammar was even more important online as readers couldn't pick up visual and auditory cues to gain proper context for what was posted. But I found people online were so intimidated by my exceedingly proper English that I toned it down. (I even remember the exact moment I decided to, it was when someone online was shocked that I wasn't a college professor! )

I doubt I'll ever reach that level of English mastery again. Even so, that English major shared some fun (she'd say scandalous) stories of when she was a professional editor for professors and other instructors, and told me that I could never be worse than them. (That said, I don't recall any Virgo in her chart.)

posted January 17, 2016 02:37 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by PixieJane:
Every Virgo ever:

---