Using Robotics to get the girl [Archive]

Amanda Morrison

11-03-2003, 14:44

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
amanda whats wrong with the drills?!

Those Bosch drill motors gave us more trouble than anything else on the robot. We had to build seven drive trains just to get them working, and even then, there was so much torque on them that they flipped the breaker every time we got *millimeters* away from the HDPE.

So I half blame it on the drill motors and half on design, but I still think our drills are possessed. :rolleyes:

Brm789

11-03-2003, 14:53

For what reason would you need a robot to get a girl with? Use a sweet smile and a charming hello. ;)

Scottie2Hottie

11-03-2003, 16:10

or you could just be sexy like me ;) Although, my girlfriends says I have a Hugh Grant smile :)

AlbertW

11-03-2003, 16:52

our drills only locked up once, cause our driver was being a (l)user...

"what? it stopped working? (the breaker broke) I guess i'll push the joystick HARDER!"

::sigh::

Frank(Aflak)

11-03-2003, 19:16

Originally posted by Aonic
our drills only locked up once, cause our driver was being a (l)user...

"what? it stopped working? (the breaker broke) I guess i'll push the joystick HARDER!"

::sigh::

heh, our driver(me) is also our designer and a member of the construction team. Benefits of a small team, huh? I would never hurt our poor robot. Well, not badly, anyway.

Josh Hambright

11-03-2003, 19:22

our driver suffered from the same problem until i threatened to reach over and grab the controls away from him to stop him from tripper breakers (i'm the aux operator of everything but the wheels themselves)

Amanda Morrison

11-03-2003, 21:09

Originally posted by Brm789
For what reason would you need a robot to get a girl with? Use a sweet smile and a charming hello. ;)

You want to know how to get a girl at a regional or at nats?

If she's sitting in the stands:
Sit with her, make her laugh, and ask her to hang out with you at the team party.

If she's working in the pits:
Ask her to take a break and go to lunch with you. If she's too busy, bring lunch to her.

Works every time. Why do guys have so much trouble finding this out?! :rolleyes:

Josh Hambright

11-03-2003, 22:58

wait does this actualy work?

I wonder if my GF would mind me trying this on a girl just to see if it would work...

maybe i'll just use one of my grunts to do it for me as a scientific experiment.

Amanda Morrison

12-03-2003, 14:11

This actually works. Promise. You'll get her every time.

p.s. - You call them grunts? I call mine minions!
(Team 1020, I am SO kidding!)

Josh Hambright

12-03-2003, 15:43

actualy i have a less PC word for them...but its a swear word so i figured i shouldn't post it here:)

They all know i love em though

MikeFromTeam71

12-03-2003, 17:42

hmmmmmm i think it just might work! eureka!! it will!!

Alaina

12-03-2003, 19:33

My boyfriend is on the team. He's the one that got me into it. :D

Though that isn't how I met him...When I first met him I was amazed how he wanted to hang out with me and not my sister (who's closer to his age than I am).

So, guys, just give her some attention!

ebmonon36

12-03-2003, 22:14

girls? We don't need girls. We got robots to build.:D

srjjs

12-03-2003, 23:46

My thoughts exactly. Everything but robotics and math is put on hold for build season and competition season.

Amanda Morrison

12-03-2003, 23:53

I met my longtime boyfriend on team 71 last year.

Figures, I was the loud, rambunctious cheerleader at competitions, and he was the quiet, sit-in-the-stands type.

But all he did was smile and say hi, be nice to me at competitions, and that was a year ago.

I'm telling you, it works!

Josh Hambright

13-03-2003, 08:19

Half of the guys on our team have in their AIM info
"Look at my girl friend!"
And its just a link to our inventor submission...hehe

Our tech advisor carries a picture around in his wallet and tells people "hey wanna see a picture of my girlfriend?!?!" and then shows them the inventor drawing he printed out.

Mmmmm robot loving

As i always say "You gotta give love to the robot to get love from the robot!":]

Katie Reynolds

13-03-2003, 09:17

Originally posted by amandabean
If she's sitting in the stands:
Sit with her, make her laugh, and ask her to hang out with you at the team party ...

Works every time. Why do guys have so much trouble finding this out?! :rolleyes: Hey, the whole hanging out at the team party thing worked on me! ;)

- Katie

Jonathan M.

13-03-2003, 09:50

*Takes out note pad and scribbles like mad* Lol. Not bad advice at all. :D I've found girls also like it if you can draw a really cool picture. I'm glad I'm good at drawing. lol

Later.

Amanda Morrison

13-03-2003, 11:33

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
Mmmmm robot loving

Please don't tell me I mentor the only team that hugs the crate before it leaves?

Josh Hambright

13-03-2003, 11:47

hehe i hug the robot on a regular basis...if you have seen our tote mechanism you'll know that it hugs back too...but now it has apendages which kinda hurt when it hugs you:)

I have been known to kiss the robot too on occasion...and many other strange thigns...like the lucky hammer (RIP!) i wish we still had that thing.

We used to rub it on the robot to charge it with good luck then i would kiss it, chris would kiss it, shannon would kiss it and then me again, then we would set it on the robot until it got off the field, at which time i would put it in my pocket, then i would rub it exactly 14 times before the start of the match....chris and i both freaked when we lost it...

But we dont need luck to win when we have skill...and hot chix on our team:)

Ash

13-03-2003, 15:02

I'm just hoping that my mad skillz at driving the robot will turn me into a living legend, and in turn cause groupies to follow me around, or have girls throw their "unmentionables" at me while on stage. Just like The Beatles. :D

-Ash

evulish

13-03-2003, 15:46

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
But we dont need luck to win when we have skill...and hot chix on our team:)

Yeah...too bad my team doesn't have those hot chix. Those would sure be nice to have. :P *runs away*

Josh Hambright

13-03-2003, 23:47

the best part is when they rock like ours and do work!

Even if you loose you still got the females there to make it all better.

Every team should have hot chix thus why the RCU is a good thing.

Amanda Morrison

14-03-2003, 01:15

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
We used to rub it on the robot to charge it with good luck then i would kiss it, chris would kiss it, shannon would kiss it and then me again, then we would set it on the robot until it got off the field, at which time i would put it in my pocket, then i would rub it exactly 14 times before the start of the match....chris and i both freaked when we lost it...

Alright, I don't know Shannon Schnepp all that well, but judging what I know about you and Chris, I can picture this happening.

I was near tears when they took our crate away in St. Lou. *sigh*

Ah well, there's always IRI, right? I think that's Chris' last competition, and I know we're losing seniors too, but we'll have fun nevertheless.

Josh Hambright

14-03-2003, 01:24

Shannon is crazy, she is a lifer.

Its going to be alot of peoples last competition on our team...it'll be my last one as a high school student, i dont know if i'll drive there or not, i took over for carl (former driver now advisor) at IRI last year and did a crappy job, but i dont know if we will do that again this year or not, probably.

I hope i can fill chris's shoes next year, though my feet are probably bigger then his.

Amanda Morrison

14-03-2003, 01:28

If there is anything I've learned from FIRST, a great mentor always produces great students, who become great mentors, who produce great students...

See? You don't need robotics to get the girls. Just ask a mentor how it's done, preferably ones like Chris Noble from 461 who have been around for four years, and they'll tell ya.

Believe me. An engineering major will always get the girls before any other type of major. Go visit Rose-Hulman sometime. I wouldn't lie. :D

Josh Hambright

14-03-2003, 08:14

ask chris for ladie advice?

He should be asking me:) I am the robotics Ladies man!

We have love on our robotics team between 2 underclassmen members...and its adorable... everyone is all "see robotics = love" and it makes me laff!

Amanda Morrison

15-03-2003, 12:16

I think Robotics actually encourages involvement with other people. After all, you're around these people 24 hours a day, seven days a week (save for showering, sleeping, etc.). If you find someone that you're compatible with on your team, I say go for it - you're going to be around that person a lot, and as long as you aren't all over each other in the stands or anything, you will have someone to eat lunch with and have a good time.

Last year, we ended up having five different 'couples' during the build season, and another after nats. One broke up immediately, one dragged on and made both miserable for a while, one is still semi-together, and three are still going strong.

I think one of the hardest thing about being in a relationship with someone on your team is that you have to realize that you're there to design, build, engineer, and have fun in the process... and that doesn't always give you a lot of time to hang out with your significant other. Because of this, some girls and guys get jealous, and things just don't work out (at all). I know some of the couples on our team worked out a night after robots where we would all just go bowling, or out to eat, or somewhere besides a team meeting where we could spend time together... (this is especially effective if your team is made up of different schools) and the couples that realized that robots and relationships are two different things are the couples that are still together, a year or more later.

Whatever you do, make sure that you can do both before you get in over your head. :rolleyes:

Firewolf

15-03-2003, 22:07

Some of you guys are crazy!
Robotix fantasies? Of being great drivers? = Beatles?
.....
OK, well, I'm guilty just the same, not, er, in the same
story line, (no male unmentionables please!)
but guilty nonetheless of daydreams
:p

but some of your stories.... chick magnet? lifter 'couches'?
wow,
i'd say try the smile thing first,
b/c remember, that FIRST girls are sligtly different,
and if they don't not like it,

be aware, they prob. know how to use power tools
....
or misuse:ahh:

Ash

15-03-2003, 23:47

Fantasies are a perfectly legal way of relieving stress, and they're all I got! Whenever I try to talk to a girl its always "Hi, my nam::gurgle:: ::gag:: ::stammer, stutter, look like a fool::" :( . I find it much easier to just think about what I would say to a girl than actually say it to her.

Besides, whats wrong with being crazy? They keep me sane.

-Ash

Firewolf

16-03-2003, 12:06

Originally posted by Ash
Fantasies are a perfectly legal way of relieving stress, and they're all I got! Whenever I try to talk to a girl its always "Hi, my nam::gurgle:: ::gag:: ::stammer, stutter, look like a fool::" :( . I find it much easier to just think about what I would say to a girl than actually say it to her.

Besides, whats wrong with being crazy? They keep me sane.

-Ash

This is true,
but you should try stuttering anyway!
she might put you at ease, er, yeah
and if you don't then it will forever be in your head.

there is nothing wrong w/ being crazy, it's a way of life for me man!
It also keeps the rest guessing
:yikes:

Kiwi_queen

16-03-2003, 20:57

Originally posted by Firewolf
This is true,
but you should try stuttering anyway!
she might put you at ease, er, yeah
and if you don't then it will forever be in your head.

there is nothing wrong w/ being crazy, it's a way of life for me man!
It also keeps the rest guessing
:yikes:

trust me..it's worked for her too! firewolf's a man-magnet! hee hee!

firewolf..has there been any year that you haven't had a guy hit on you?

::runs away for fear of getting smacked:: (gonna get it in school anyway)

Amanda Morrison

16-03-2003, 21:06

Originally posted by Ash
Whenever I try to talk to a girl its always "Hi, my nam::gurgle:: ::gag:: ::stammer, stutter, look like a fool::" :( . I find it much easier to just think about what I would say to a girl than actually say it to her.

Don't forget that FIRST girls are much different than the rest of the fe-species... they're brainy, they've got power tools, and they think FIRST boys are adorable. No matter how nerdy they may or may not be, or consider themselves to be.

Go up to those girls. Talk to them. Stammer. Twitch. Do whatever it is that you do - but just be yourself, and guaranteed, there's a girl out there for you wishing on her lucky drill motor that you'll come around and talk to her.

Joe Matt

16-03-2003, 21:15

Yeah, be free, be yourself, even if it means for you to pass out and go into spasms. :confused: :eek:

Amanda Morrison

16-03-2003, 21:20

Originally posted by JosephM
Yeah, be free, be yourself, even if it means for you to pass out and go into spasms. :confused: :eek:

Awww, come on, give your peers some credit. :)

I've yet to meet a FIRST student with that little self-esteem, confidence, or courage. Girls aren't half as intimidating as you make them out to be. Let's see if I can make this easier.

FIRST boys - think of girls as robots. Except really, REALLY hard to put back together or make sense of. Once you figure one of them out, keep that one, and never tear it apart or analyze it again! :p

Josh Hambright

17-03-2003, 12:36

I have a non robotics girl and she is begining to despise the team and first because she never gets to see me...

I really have to make an effort to make time for her in between work and robots and school...

She was like cursing when she found out the ship date was extended cuz she knew that was just more time i would be spending at school.

Silly girl.

They are like robots, and i have a whole theory about that, but i dont want to get into it now.
I also have a theory as to why all robots are communist.

I have alot of strange theories, ask the people on my team:)

Onizuka

17-03-2003, 14:08

yes yes, you do have quite a few interesting theorys:D

Team238-aholic

17-03-2003, 15:09

us robot girls like when boys come up and say hi....

we sometimes also like to ask you question about the robot just so you will talk to us....cause theres alot more of you than us...so if we want a certain robotics boy, you kinda have to try to get him before all the other girls get him...lol

ya know what i'm saying....

Kiwi_queen

17-03-2003, 15:09

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf

They are like robots, and i have a whole theory about that, but i dont want to get into it now.
I also have a theory as to why all robots are communist.

I have alot of strange theories, ask the people on my team:)

so if you say girls are like robots, and all robots are communist... does that mean you think all girls are communist? ;)

Josh Hambright

17-03-2003, 15:43

no

All orange are fruits...
All Apples are fruits
But apples are not orange
:]

Ashley Weed

17-03-2003, 16:27

Originally posted by evulish
Yeah...too bad my team doesn't have those hot chix. Those would sure be nice to have. :P *runs away*

haha! *cough* speak for yourself! *cough*

...... your just mad that you can't have any of us!!!!!:p

Kiwi_queen

17-03-2003, 16:36

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
no

All orange are fruits...
All Apples are fruits
But apples are not orange
:]

that doesn't explain it. girls are robots, robots are communists.
that would be like... oranges are apples, apples are fruits.

Firewolf

17-03-2003, 17:01

Originally posted by Kiwi_queen
trust me..it's worked for her too! firewolf's a man-magnet! hee hee!

firewolf..has there been any year that you haven't had a guy hit on you?

::runs away for fear of getting smacked:: (gonna get it in school anyway)

omlord, you are gonna get a beating!
Brandon, can that please get delted?

Don't listen to her! She's on meds, or should be,

((Make friends so does not mean being hit on! :ahh: ))

no really, i'm serious
this makes me upset, it's not true

Don't forget that FIRST girls are much different than the rest of the fe-species... they're brainy, they've got power tools, and they think FIRST boys are adorable. No matter how nerdy they may or may not be, or consider themselves to be.

this is true you all need to chill out, I tell all my heart suppressed
guy friends, girls aren't all that important -- I mean as in 'having'
which is another topic. Girls aren't meant to be owned, OK?

but yes, chill out, if a girl's cool, even if you go up to her and say
'hey, that's a nice shirt/button/robot/somethingelseunoffencive'
they're not gonna spaz at you (atleast i think),
and everyone in FIRST is out to make friends,
the girls are just as shy as guys,

I mean, I'd be shy to talk to a girl as much as I would to talk to a guy,
but then again, I'm not all that shy in making an idiot of my self
in public :D or to people - i find it all fun
you can ask anyone close to me,
I'll do the stupid dares when we're all bored w/ nothing to do
:rolleyes: :p

Josh Hambright

17-03-2003, 18:11

Okay so your right but not all girls are communist

I am currently forming a new theory as to what political system girls are...i think it might be facist (just kidding)

I'm gonna shut my mouth now though before i get flamed:)

Not all girls are communist
but all robots are communist
All girls are robots...

The theories can exist independantly of each other but not at the same time in the same space etc...

These things always work in my mind but never to anyone else:)

Kiwi_queen

17-03-2003, 19:39

Originally posted by Firewolf
omlord, you are gonna get a beating!
Brandon, can that please get delted?

Don't listen to her! She's on meds, or should be,

((Make friends so does not mean being hit on! :ahh: ))

no really, i'm serious
this makes me upset, it's not true

aww, ya know I'm just teasin' ya! ;o)
ok..it's true..I confess... firewolf has not actually gotten hitten on every year...she has just made friends..that happen to be guys.

love ya firewolf! (don't hurt me)

Firewolf

17-03-2003, 20:59

Originally posted by Kiwi_queen
aww, ya know I'm just teasin' ya! ;o)
ok..it's true..I confess... firewolf has not actually gotten hitten on every year...she has just made friends..that happen to be guys.

love ya firewolf! (don't hurt me)

you KNOW i'm sooo 'grrrr'ing right now

but whatever, i put up w/ insults everyday,
I would just like that fact cleared up

I do not get hit on..... even if it makes me sound o so pathetic,
it does not happen
making me all the more happier

meeting a nice guy is better then having
one trying to come on to you
huh?
anyone disagree?

Amanda Morrison

17-03-2003, 22:27

Josh - get your girlfriend to become a FIRST girl. Then, she'll spend time with you and get interested in this stuff. Promise.

p.s. I'm looking forward to some of those theories when I'm back home... I think I'm staying at Chris' Thursday night, so maybe I can set you straight on this whole 'girls are communists' thing.

I think I'm going to launch some kind of FIRST dating service. I would make millions. :)

Harrison

17-03-2003, 22:32

Originally posted by necroprime
I dunno... thought about this long and hard... Seems like a lifter would be the best way to carry off the girl.:D Well, any ideas?

Personally I think 'using' anything just to get a girl is not ok.

I guess it just kinda eerks (that a word?) when a guy just tries to "get a girl". Call me old fashioned but im more of a relationship guy.

Sure meeting someone through robotics is awesome, but I am definitely not involved in FIRST to "get girls".

Amanda Morrison

17-03-2003, 22:38

More guys need to approach girls and just say hi, be friends, etc. Friendships and relationships through FIRST are incredible and a lot of fun.

I don't understand why it's so hard to approach girls at a competition... it's not like boys don't outnumber us 3:1. :D

Harrison

17-03-2003, 22:39

Originally posted by amandabean
I don't understand why it's so hard to approach girls at a competition... it's not like boys don't outnumber us 3:1. :D

'Cept that we're all (ok maybe not all) big wussies.

So taking into account the 'wussie factor' I'd guys are prolly outnumbered 2:1 ;)

Team238-aholic

18-03-2003, 08:11

see...if any of the guys on here approached me (lets pretend this was about 3 years ago, and I was still in high school), I'd be more than happy to talk to any of you...cause you're all super nice... :)

Josh Hambright

18-03-2003, 13:10

YAY!

Just wait amanda when you hear my theories about dean:) they are kinda twisted...but my team has had to listen to them all year.

And my theories about woodie are just funny!

And then there is my theory of how they came up with the game this year.

I wish i could get my gf into robots, but she is a swimmer and like active in the band and doesn't have any free time. Our busyest seasons coincide making things kinda dificult. But we survived:)

On a seperate note...on the issue of 'getting a girl' i dont think thats what the thread meant...not like 'getting her' or 'hookin up for the night' more of just how to meet a girl and get her to notice you and talk to you.

As as most of the girls have pointed out, the girls at competition are just as eager to meet us as we are to meet them. We all just need to stop being silly and talk:)

Amanda Morrison

18-03-2003, 15:27

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
Just wait amanda when you hear my theories about dean:)

PLEASE don't get me started on Dean. I hugged him once on stage, and I've been swooning ever since. *sighs...*

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
As as most of the girls have pointed out, the girls at competition are just as eager to meet us as we are to meet them. We all just need to stop being silly and talk:)

I think this year was better that last year in that sense. I made a lot of new friends in St. Lou, and I hope Chicago will be the same.

purpledaisy

18-03-2003, 23:06

First of all - firewolf is right! i've made guy friends at robotics every year (i would have made girl friends, but there aren't as many of us gals!!!). my team does the same thing - calls me a major flirt, etc. i'm not! i'm just friendly!

and guys ~ go ahead and make a fool of yourself. yeah, we'll prolly laugh, but not in a derogatory way, cuz we've all done it! seriously, just be wacky and crazy and fun and come talk to us. we do like it (or at least I do).

yeah, first guys tend to be super nice, and most of us won't shoot you down - unless you're being a complete jerkoff. In that case, you deserve it - but i've not seen many jerks at robotics. remember, we don't bite... often...

Josh Hambright

19-03-2003, 12:23

Well if all goes accourding to plan i may actualy be able to get outa our pit for awhile in chicago, minus my scouting and driver responsibilities, i should be relenquishing most all of my 'technical' responsibilities to a junior to jump start him into his job next year of being the student incharge of SCIPPE(Sensors and Controls Integrated with Pneumatics Programming and Electrical our neato little subteam name) next year.

I dont usualy have time to talk to the ladies unless they are in the pit and i talk to them when i'm scouting or if they are on the driver/hp team and i talk to them about strategy.

Robots control my life.

Amanda Morrison

19-03-2003, 12:34

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
Robots control my life.

Isn't that your girlfriend's job? :D

Originally posted by purpledaisy
(i would have made girl friends, but there aren't as many of us gals!!!).

I think a lot of the girls involved with FIRST are the tomboy kind, and are more apt to have deep friendships with guys. Okay, at least, that's how I am. I think more girls can vouch for that.

Firewolf

19-03-2003, 17:27

Originally posted by purpledaisy
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and guys ~ go ahead and make a fool of yourself. yeah, we'll prolly laugh, but not in a derogatory way, cuz we've all done it! seriously, just be wacky and crazy and fun and come talk to us. we do like it (or at least I do).

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So very true, I LOVE it when people are just silly.

But think of it, guys, if you're silly,
this girl you wanna talk to is surrounded by
guys like that all the time,
she's not gonna shoot you down!

There's a 999% (yes 999, started off as a typo, but that per centage sounds good) chance that you'll make a friend.
I think a lot of the girls involved with FIRST are the tomboy kind, and are more apt to have deep friendships with guys. Okay, at least, that's how I am. I think more girls can vouch for that.

I - sure as anything - can.