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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 6121299" data-attributes="member: 25619">An intriguing perspective, and you might be right.But my first interpretation would be that it was meant as a joke/friendly put down, not a come on, and came out overly harsh either due to the female joker's own social awkwardness, or perhaps drinking too much (the incident took place in a pub, if I understood correctly).Your theory does make me question for a moment my impression of my own experience of being "accused" of virginity in a London pub by a coworker way back in 2000 (which stung enough to be able to recall it clearly now).  Maybe Gareth wasn't trying to be insulting or making a joke that came out wrong . . . perhaps he was trying to suss out if I was interested in him?  I never considered that possibility until now, but I've been known to miss some fairly obvious hints from women too, up to and including invites to come drink alone together in a hotel room as not possibly being a hint of sexual interest . . . so I guess I might miss a whole lot of things!Again, I do have somewhat Sheldon-like characteristics, on occasion.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>