well, sort of……

I’m seeing someone at the weekend who works in developmental neuroscience. Please supply up to date snippets and little nuggets of current research type wisdom to enhance her perception of my breadth of knowledge etc

No need to cite references, just give me some smart stuff, esp questions I can ask her to disguise the inner cretin.

Thanks, I await in eager anticpation

Dave….. tut tut.

You could just say, ‘That’s interesting, I don’t really know anything about it, could you tell me more?’

She’s not going to be asking her friends about anaerobic threshold or VO2 max in order to impress you, is she?

Ask her about her views on vivisection.

…or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Developmental_neuroscience.

Well yeah, but that’s besides the point.

Crikey – Nice one, some light reading there…

Why not just proclaim your ignorance and ask her to educate you? It might be nice for her to feel like there are things she knows that you don’t.

I think turning up with some sound bites and no background knowledge is more likely to prove you are a fraud than win favour?

Or, you could, if the subject of her work does come up, just do what my wife does whenever I’ve talked about working with computers – say it’s boring and start talking about something else…

Yeah could be a bit dodgy that approach, better to plead ignorance but express interest rather than appear poorly read.

However “Stem cells and opportunities for treating neurological disorders” should provide you with more than enough rope to hang yourself.

I have some interest in the area of neuroscience and have been performing a series of subtle experiments on the STW forum . This is a breakdown of the results so far –

Get her to do all the talking, women love that.

tell her she must be mental to work in neuroscience.

or

recent research has shown that brain stimulus caused by mountain biking can greatly increase the female hormone “hornidrone” and as part of the research could she help with a ride on sunday morning?

This is a breakdown of the results so far on intellect –

well, unless you do a fast edit the results are more of a comment on your posting ability than the collective stw intellect 😉

Maybe I best not mention scoring 5 on the autism test….

I think the site I’m image linking from has a random show / no show image feature 🙂
It’s a great graph though –
http://www.shorpy.com/node/2194

Just be a good listener.

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Bastard **** websites that don’t allow deep linking! A pox on them!
I’ll have to copy that image elsewhere.

Love the category ‘morally helpless’ – I’ve found a home…..

If I’ve spent all week working at the Lathe I wouldn’t want to discuss it at the weekend. All I would be concerned about is a good long hard shag.

Shes intelligent, doesn’t mean she doesn’t think or do anything else you know.

I always go for the geeky/bookish girl as they are absolutelty bonkers in bed 8)

If she wanted to talk shop she’d do it at work, and if she wanted to date someone who was on her level to talk shop with, she probably has a lot of male colleagues, maybe she likes your Other attributes, and to have a laugh instead
That’s what my brainy phd’d mrs told thicky me 😀

iDave, take the chart along with you and ask her how many drinks does it take before she falls into that category 😉

If you’re really serious, then subscribe to a neuroscience journal, and you can commence each conversation with “Did you see the article in this months Neuroscience monthly……..can you explain it to me?”

I could get the chart printed on a t-shirt maybe – there’s enough time

Khani, you assume I have ‘other attributes’?

Some neuroscience jokes, apparently…

http://www.bris.ac.uk/neuroscience/the_node/glutamate/giggles

Try to impress her with info/knowledge that you don’t understand/have and you’ll come across as awkward and a bit insecure IMO.

Tell her about the American Bald Eagle with large talons gripping your nuts tattoo that you have on your manservant.

She will be riding you like the favourite at Goodwood.

Get her a phrenology head as a ‘hello’ present.

Tell her that if it wasn’t for Carbon-14, you’d never date at all.

It’ll bring the roof down. Possibly.

Ask her opinion on neuroplasticity.

Talk to her about Obama and Sitcoms.

Dating STW style – wade in armed with snippets gleaned from google 🙂

Khani, you assume I have ‘other attributes’?

Maybe she just want a bit of [/i]Ruff then
Drop eight pints of wifebeater, stop for a donna on the way back, give her a slap, and try for a quickie in a bus stop, you’ll find out then 😆

Or a sensible answer, be yourself?

hora, I’m sure I can manage that thanks. I don’t actually ‘need’ help, just interested in the responses and it was worth it for IanMunros chart alone. I’m sure I’ll be fine discussing the weather and x-factor….

I’m sure I can manage that thanks. I don’t actually ‘need’ help

This is STW. Land of the single male…

Oh yeah, I forgot…..

So, what do I do if she tries to talk to me?

X-Factor? You’re doomed!

I’m seeing someone at the weekend who works in developmental neuroscience. Please supply up to date snippets and little nuggets of current research type wisdom to enhance her perception of my breadth of knowledge etc

You not heard of Google?

I wouldn’t pretend to know anything about this subject if I were you.

Talking “shop” is very dull.

Ask her about her family, her interests and whether she’ll want to s…. no forget that. 😆

Ask her about her family, her interests

Gee, thanks, I had no idea……

If you feel the need to do some research to bring yourself up to par on a date then you’re starting out on the wrong foot IMHO…

…if you’re dating someone with very specialized knowledge of a complex subject, then it’s best to let them do the talking and ask 101 level questions. If she’s a decent lass, she will be cool with this and may surprise you by asking “just what tyres should I use for Cannock Chase”?

If the latter happens, marry her quickly.

Dave

This book will be your friend and will give you material for hours and hours of conversation.

I found the second half of the book hard work, as the author goes way beyond the evidence in furthering his thesis, the first half is everything you need to know about neuroscience in an easy to read format.

It’s not exactly rocket science is it