For some reason I always fail at this, both on meeting someone, and ever after. Facebook takes the place of a social relationship-cue :) Presumably some combination of:
* For a while, people I know have not been neatly divided into only those married, and those looking * It seems horribly personal thing to find out on first meeting (which doesn't square with the idea it's ok to chat someone up on first meeting, of course) * I don't pay much attention to jewellery in general, and don't have the habit of surreptitiously spotting rings (like remembering which hand the rings are supposed to be on) * I know sufficiently many poly people who would need the full 1024 abacusical[1] possibilities
And for that matter:
I tend to know fetishitically liberal people, where you're supposed to ignore trivial physical differences in our avatars, like missing limbs :)
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Date: 2008-01-10 08:07 pm (UTC)For some reason I always fail at this, both on meeting someone, and ever after. Facebook takes the place of a social relationship-cue :) Presumably some combination of:
* For a while, people I know have not been neatly divided into only those married, and those looking
* It seems horribly personal thing to find out on first meeting (which doesn't square with the idea it's ok to chat someone up on first meeting, of course)
* I don't pay much attention to jewellery in general, and don't have the habit of surreptitiously spotting rings (like remembering which hand the rings are supposed to be on)
* I know sufficiently many poly people who would need the full 1024 abacusical[1] possibilities
And for that matter:
I tend to know fetishitically liberal people, where you're supposed to ignore trivial physical differences in our avatars, like missing limbs :)
[1] Is there an adjective "abacus"?