| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/4/2005 5:37:03 PM | EDIT: I mean to say Profile instead of thread... please edit the title.
You know, I've noticed that Americans basically falls into two catagories -- those that like NASCAR and those that don't. I must say I'm not a big fan and I've also noticed that I click off girl's profiles that have NASCAR as an interest. This is probably unfair and I realize that. Anyone else the same way or the opposite? | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/4/2005 7:15:43 PM | sorry darlin'...can't do a thing about editing titles (don't I WISH) 
I don't have anything against Nascar (I'll watch the last couple of laps of a race if I have money on it, LMAO) but I don't tend to be attracted to the kinds of men who are serious nascar fans (enough to put it on a profile). It would be something that made me pass on a profile.
It's probably a shame I'm not a fan tho' because I live within an hours drive of Darlington, and my hometown is within an hour of the Bristol , TN track. | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/4/2005 7:38:24 PM | It causes me to make a hasty exit.
My ex was one of those fanatics who expects to devote every Sunday (or race day) to NASCAR for the rest of his life and acts like a junkie with the shakes if you ask him to do ANYTHING else instead (including expensive family vacations geared around his other interests such as roller coasters).
Yes, you might have seen him listening to the race on a radio and weeping from frustration due to lack of video as he stood in line to ride his favorite coaster on a couple of fateful Sundays. I had to buy his plane and amusement park tickets and threaten to divorce him if he didn't go. How he begged to be allowed to sit in the hotel room watching the tube instead of being dragged out into the sunshine with the rest of the family on the two weekends of his life he was forced to do something else!
No more Nascar widowhood for me, thanks. Unfair? Depends on whether you are willing to devote the rest of your life catering to their addiction, because that's what it was in that case. | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/4/2005 7:52:37 PM |
I've also noticed that I click off girl's profiles that have NASCAR as an interest.
Too many lefts don't always end up being a right  , unless they use turn signals 
Not a big Nascar fan, know the big names as many do, but don't follow it or care much for it. | |
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Japhus
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Joined: 5/28/2005
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/5/2005 7:56:18 AM | Ok, I'm in the wrong thread here...I'm a Nascar fan.
Remember Fan comes from Fanatic. Just remember there are varieties of fans. I wasn't going to be home last week for the race so I taped it...yeah I got the rain delay on tape too woohoo, exciting...not. Still, if I had been home, I would have thrown a tape in anyways and gone and done something else. Anyone with brains could tell it was going to be a long time before they started and what's the difference between live and tape anyways? The big advantage is you can fast forward through the dang commercials!
I have a hat which I wear most of the summer, but it's as much because I like Nascar as it is to keep my scalp from burning. I have a jacket as well, most of the year it's either too hot or too cold to wear. Mind you it's a very nice jacket and I wouldn't want to get it all scruffy and dirty either. So, I wear it to Nascar themed events usually.
Would I date someone who wasn't a Nascar fan? More than likely, since I live in Northern Ontario not to many women up here are fans.
Would I date someone who watches Pro Wrestling? Not likely. I can't take seriously a "sport" where the outcome is scripted.
Would I date a Trekkie or a Star Wars. As long as she doesn't dress in costume sure.
(I remember one poor sod who supposedly met a blind date and she came dressed as a Klingon, eeeeeeshhh.) | |
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Joined: 4/11/2005
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/5/2005 8:16:29 AM | Okay..
this should really help my chances with the ladies with my answer... Shit I even have a picture of a car in my profile..
For me personally it is no different than those who are huge fans of football, baseball, hockey etc. and cannot miss a game or buy the package on Direct for a whole season worth of games. I go to about 6 races a yr. and don't miss one when its on t.v be it Sat. night or Sunday. Why? Simple it is something I enjoy and use that one day as my way of relaxing, just like others go shopping or to a lake, this doesn't make a person anti-social or a bad partner in a reliationship or marriage.. Funny that many say you should have differences and yet its awful if thiers is watching a race or not wanting to go somewhere because of it.
Personally if someone is going to judge me by what sport I enjoy they had better move on since there would be nothing but conflict for me having an interest of my own.. I'm sure there is/would be things they do that I might not like but for me it is all going back to the having differences and hobbies.. | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/5/2005 4:09:35 PM | | does it really matter... i say i like nascar. doesnt mean i have a car bed and watch every freaking race. i just happen to like car races... my uncle races... so its a family thing. just because they say they like nascar doesnt make them a "type" of person. who knows you might be "clicking off" THE ONE. | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/5/2005 5:58:13 PM | totally agrees with 7 & Cali!!!
Btw....I have Nascar listed in my profile....lol...and just like she^^^ said I don't watch every freakin race and or have race car border on my bedroom walls....lol...
Don't hate....Participate!!!
I have lots of different interest in my profile...some from one extreeme to another....
It's what I like and if a person dosent like me because of it well..then....all I can tell
ya is....put two chickens in a bucket and say Fruck it!! Fruck it!!! Fruck it!!!
cause wouldn't give a damn!! ummmmmmm-k? ummmmmmmmm-k!!! | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/5/2005 6:21:54 PM | I agree as well. I love Nascar to death and the women that I have dated just don't get it. I mean I don't miss races, thats what a vcr is for, so I can go and do other things when the races are on.
But the answer to the ? is yes, I would date a woman if she put Nascar on her profile. Gives us something other than movies to talk about.
My interests vary too, from the aforementioned Nascar to Star Wars and other stick and ball sports to just taking long walks.
I have found it difficult to maintain a relationship with someone when they don't respect my passions. And in the end you don't have to like it, just give me my space and I'll give you yours. | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/5/2005 7:26:55 PM | For me, it's more about recognizing that we're here to maximize our exposure, and given that, why mention something that's such a potential turn off for so many (unless you are really devoted and want the same).
A very similar lightning rod for some ("love it or hate it" wise) is Harleys (or just motorcycle riding in general). When a lady only posts three sentences and two of them mention Harleys, we're naturally inclined to think "biker chick" (complete with tatts, etc), right or wrong. I'm not a biker, but I have a couple friends with bikes (and indeed my ex used to ride a little bit before I knew her).
I would never "write off" a women because she likes Nascar or Harleys (shoot, I married one once), but if that's * all* they say, then....... it just tends to paint an image (right or wrong), and makes you wonder if they aren't maybe obsessive about it possibly. | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/6/2005 6:34:37 AM | I don't automatically dismiss anyone that 'NASCARs' a profile. I suspect that some use it to indicate a willingness to put up with 'guy things'. If it should turn out that she's a fanatic, then it's good-bye. Other potential deal-breakers - Harleys and C/W music. Any lady that aspires to the Harley lifestyle just isn't my type and C/W music is cruel and unusual punishment.
Odd thought here. Would a lady who claims to like Harleys respond to a man who claims to read Cosmo? | |
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/6/2005 8:31:03 AM | ha ha, this thread is funny.
i find it interesting to see the associations that others (and myself) tend to make. for instance, i said no to the guy with nascar on his profile, but having a pic of your car or cycle wouldn't put me off a bit.
it is not that i am not into certain `guy things', but weather it is nascar, football, or whatever- there is a line between watching to relax once in awhile and having to plan your life around the races (been there, done that, it sucked).
i am more ok with his hobbies that i don't enjoy if he doesn't expect me to watch with him. i don't care if my guy watches football, but i am not going to a game or sitting around staring at the boob tube with him on a beautiful day.
i thought above was funny too in that he throws in harleys and c/w music too.
i do not think of harleys as `low brow', but i do nascar, pro wrestling, country music, bowling, etc.
so- yep i am a harley owner, but not a `biker', if that makes sense? as for a guy who reads cosmo???
i don't usually get along with women who read cosmo, not quite my head space. so, i would maybe pass on that, not cuz he was into a `girl thing', but because unless he also reads something more cerebral, it would be another indication that we were perhaps way mismatched, uh.... `culturally.'
peace
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/14/2005 10:31:31 AM | Well, I like NASCAR, but I'm not addicted to it. I hardly ever get a chance to see it. But when I'm on a date I don't want my date to watch it, while I'm trying to get to know him... That happened on one of my last dates. There was NASCAR playing on the T.V. (at a popular sports bar I love) and he just kept staring at it, when he's on this date to know me... That was so disrespectful!! I like NASCAR, but not on my date....
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| Does NASCAR on a thread make you want to date/not date someone?
Posted: 7/14/2005 10:45:17 AM | | Personally, I'm not a big fan, but I think that a few years back ( 15-20 ) ??, NASCAR was concidered a Southern Redneck thing. But, they say, if you ever go to one of the big races, you are hooked for life.One day, I may go to one. | |
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