Girls…they are a funny breed. I would like to take a moment to discuss my type with you.

There have been several (drunken) nights (/mornings) where the topic has come up, but up until now I don’t think I have ever given a coherent answer. Following is a description of my type (punctuated with experiences of the exact opposite).

My type of girl is:

Intelligent - Maybe it is just me but I find nerdiness attractive. They must like reading. I don’t care what. A willingness to learn new things, challenge their own views, accept different points of views. An example of the opposite of this would be a conversation I overheard two people in a canteen having.

Girl : I would love to join a book club…but then you have to read, and most of the books have underlying messages and philosophies which I will never pick up on
Guy : Yeah, I know what you mean, I am quite happy to stick with the £2.99 basic fiction books, nice and straight forward.

Girl: Yeah.

Seriously. What the fuck? From what I can figure out, she wanted to join a book club that read basic trash fiction and on top of that, you don’t want to have to read the damn book! Needless to say, I didn’t bother trying to listen in further.

Quirky - I hate normal, definition by imitation. The quirks in people are the best bits. Someone who thinks watching squirrels frolicking in the middle of a deserted park is a perfectly acceptable way to spend dawn.

Now there is a kind of loop hole here. There is quirky and then there is just plain annoying. I will be the first to admit I don’t have a fashion sense, at all. Most of my clothes are the same so I don’t have to worry about what to wear on a given day. So being told by a girl while I was out at a club that I looked hotter without my jacket was quite an insight - For my following point to make sense you should know I have a very self centered locus of control, I hate not being in control - So where was I, oh yeah the hotness remark, so she told me that I looked hotter without my jacket. She then decided to make it her mission to remove me from my jacket.

Note i said “remove me from my jacket” not “taking my jacket off me.” I have never sobered up faster in my life, not because this girl was quite hot and seemingly interested, no, I sobered up because I had lost control over the situation. For the next 2-3 minutes, I was worrying about where my fucking jacket was.

So yeah, quirky, but not in a way that invades my control space!

Stupid - Having done some extremely stupid things in the last few years I find it hard not to be attracted to someone who has done the same.

I should probably define stupid here. Stupid as in, will burst out laughing when they realise they have woken up in the middle of a field with no idea how to get home. Maybe stupid is the wrong word, a better way to put it would be “Ability to identify and accept their own stupidity)

Here I shall give an example of the good kind of stupidity. In a club a few weeks back, actually, I just realised I can’t actually describe to you what happened leading up to this incident because I don’t actually remember.

Guess I will just have to describe the act in a sentance. Ballroom dancing to 90’s cheese.

Now onto the specifics….

Ok…so there above are three very general concepts, now onto the specifics:

• Left Wing
• Interested in politics/philosophy/culture
• Atheist/Agnostic/Anything that is not a mainstream Abrahamic religion. Deists welcome.
• They have to like penguins.
  
• Slightly goth/punk is a plus but not essential
• Musical - Being able to play an instrument, even if it’s as crappy as I play the guitar, is definitely another plus.
  

In Conclusion…

If anyone knows where I can find the girl described above….please let me know.