I was looking for a fatal attraction in my life

[venta]

Back from Whitby. There may follow reviewage, but in the interim I need your help on something.

On Sunday, in the course of trying to persuade me to do something, someone who shall remain nameless[*] offered me a blowjob if I complied[**].

Now, I've always been under the impression that this is just not possible. Blowjobs are things which can only be performed on blokes. However, maybe the term has wider use than I thought. There is, of course, only one way to settle such things.

[Poll #1080106]


[*] Mostly because I don't know their name.
[**] If you want to know, I declined.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I think if someone used it to refer to cunnilingus I'd understand what they meant - it seems like the most obvious extension of the word, after all - but I'd probably not usually call it that myself.

[zotz]

Likewise, I think. It isn't entirely as appropriate. Going down on is closer, but not entirely there.

The other thing you could tell us about - or understandably decline to - is what the individual wanted you to do in return. Exchange rates are a hot political issue, you know.

[venta.livejournal.com]

what the individual wanted you to do in return

Er... attend a pub quiz at the Little Angel. I think they were trying to destabilise the market.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Blimey, the going rate for pub quizzes has changed since my day. Squishing sweatily into the back of Jon's Renault 5 was about as exciting as it got, IIRC.

[zotz]

Blimey. An economist could have a fun time trying to figure that one out. You might almost think that the offerer considered it a win in both ways - or would that be too cynical?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'd understand what they meant

Well, yes... but there's a difference between "I understand what you mean" and "That was a correct use of the word". If I wave a bottle of vodka and tell you I'm off to get bucketed, I'm sure you'd work it out even though as far as I'm aware I just made that word usage up.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Where by correct I mean common, and widely used. Dictionaries and the like may not be involved.

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

Note to self, read question properly before answering polls

I put the term that I'd use in making such an offer, rather than the term that I consider equivalent.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It's possible to change one's answers to polls

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

There was a young woman who said
"I resent being the giver of head.
I want to receive!"
"If you don't like it, leave,"
Growled her lover, and ***ed her instead.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I hestitate, given the context, to use the phrase 'rising to a challenge', but you deserve some sort of picking-up-an-idea-and-running-with-it award for that :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I like limericks. If there was some job that just involved writing limericks all day, I could happily do that. (Well, limericks and the occasional mini radio play about poisoned pumpkins.)

[ebee.livejournal.com]

In my experience if a male was offering the BJ as a reward he was rather hoping you'd perform such an act on him and be deeply appreciative of the great honour he was doing in letting you..but then it could be said I hang out with the wrong sort of chap ;-)

'Somefox' is rapidly trying to educate me on the ways on female 'empowerment' - she'll be disillusioned soon enough!

[thegreenman.livejournal.com]

Mostly when people mean blowjob they mean suckjob, blowing up anyone's genito urinary tract is more likely to give you embolism than ectasy.

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

I consider myself an expert in such matters as I think about little else all day.

When a temporary exchange of a bike happens, one person "borrows a bike" and the other "lends a bike", but neither is objectively "the" active participant and merely the offer to participate in a bike-transaction does not give any clues as to what is going to happen. However, if the offerer is brandishing a big ol' bicycle the direction in which the transfer is intended to occur is clear. It was a cheeky turn of phrase, wittier than bringing the synonymous "a bang in the mouth" to the table, even if the latter leaves less margin for miscomprehension.

If I remember correctly, early safe-sex surveys and education were muddled by the ambiguity about which partner is "doing" said act, particularly when it could be one of two fellows.

If only it was all as straightforward as in the Mike Harding joke where a couple make love against a chip shop door and break it down, but the woman refuses to go halves on the repairs because she was pushing in the opposite direction.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Slightly irrelevantly: I read your comment on my 'got any news' thread a while back, and completely failed to identify you. I could think of two people of your name from said organisation, but wasn't sure which you might be - neither seemed inclined to have such problems with salad. Now I observe from your bio that you're six feet tall, which means I'm even more confused because I don't think either of the two I had in mind is.

So, um, either you're taller than I think you are, or you're someone else. Can you provide any further identifying marks ?

Mmmmm salad.

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm a Tommy-vintage role-player: you may remember me from such characters as "Beerbohm Tree" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerbohm_Tree), "Rolf Wenders" and the narcoleptic weapons merchant "Zoltan Tepesh".

Actually, I'm pretty sure you were not in that last one but after digging through archive.org for ten minutes for the name I thought I would include it anyway. I saw a lot of evidence on players' lists there of people from the mid nineties whose names and characters I remember but whose faces are now a mystery.

Re: Mmmmm salad.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, are you really six feet tall ? You were indeed one of my candidates.

In that case, hello, and gosh I haven't seen you in ages.

I don't think I'd ever have considered "wimble-vintage" as a description of anyone, but may start...

Re: Mmmmm salad.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

"wimble-vintage"

Like a fine cheese.

Or indeed a not-particularly-fine one.

Some of my characters were shorter, if that helps...

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

are you really six feet tall ?
If I stretch, and round halves up. Its more obvious if I'm not standing next to Felix, which may be how you normally saw me.

Re: Mmmmm salad.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

hey! -- you exist. Fancy that. Hope all is good!

Re: Mmmmm salad.

[sparkymark.livejournal.com]

I'm covered in tzatziki but otherwise current mood = chipper.