Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends.
Sally Albright: Why not?
Harry Burns: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally Albright: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry Burns: No you don't.
Sally Albright: Yes I do.
Harry Burns: No you don't.
Sally Albright: Yes I do.
Harry Burns: You only think you do.
Sally Albright: You say I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry Burns: No, what I'm saying is they all WANT to have sex with you.
Sally Albright: They do not!
Harry Burns: Do too.
Sally Albright: They do not.
Harry Burns: Do too.
Sally Albright: How do you know?
Harry Burns: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally Albright: So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive?
Harry Burns: No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too.
Sally Albright: What if THEY don't want to have sex with YOU?
Harry Burns: Doesn't matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.
Sally Albright: Well, I guess we're not going to be friends then.
Harry Burns: I guess not.
Sally Albright: That's too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York.

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I think basically it's true. Thoughts? Discuss

Just because you want to have sex with someone doesn't mean you can't be friends :p

What if the man is gay?

OMFG... LOL!!

Priceless.

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i buy my crack and smack my ***** right here in hollywood?

oh wait, that's not related at all.

I'm of the thinking that it goes both ways. Women do the same thing, in my experience. One of my housemates, who I'd call a friend, was more or less, trying to jump my bones, but I wasn't responding to it. Now I don't really hang out with her too much.

I agree it goes both ways. So think it's basically impossible for men and women to be friends unless the guy is gay or the girl is les. it's probably why I love gay men so much they are the perfect guy when u just need a friend.

Harry is half right and half wrong. Guys normally have female friends because they are attracted to them on some level. It just might not be enough where they would have a relationship with them(or are not able to for some reason). Same thing goes for girls and having guy friends. They are attracted to them, but not so much that they'd actually have a relationship with them(or are not able to for some reason).

kieran u and I can never be friends haha U are too great of a guy all around


PS is it just me, or dont u agree that conversation totally sounds like us talking? haha u are always logical and im always trying to bring up counter points until I finally agree u are right lol

Yes, it does. If you made the guys language classier and made his argument more detailed. I also wouldn't let it get to the point where'd we just say "To hell with you" though like they did.

That sounds something like "Why can't I ever find a nice guy to date??!?" ... "Oh, I could never date him, he's too nice."

I like to have sex. Oh. wait. I have lots of friends who are girls... they just all have nice racks. *shrug* what?

No, that was my saying he's myfriend whom I like. Who's helped me change, let things go and grow stronger and I appreciate him and I like him, as a friend and as more. because I've appreciated how he's been there for me

...you just said he could never be your friend. ...
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it was a joke. I tend to make those... he and I ARE friends. It was my way of saying I was also attracted to him for being a great guy allaround and for helping me get over guys who werent worth my attention in the first place, basically guys who had treated me wrong

I agree.

With what, I do not know.

On the internets you must use the [joke] text [/joke] tags correctly or people jump all over you. Notice the catch-all sarcasm tag in my sig

I think it is fair to assume that there is at least a small portion of the population that is looking to bed a member of the opposite sex.

Stupid people think this is true. Or people who have no social skills. Or people who are obsessed with sex.:rolleyes:

When ever I make new friends, I practically always get a mini-crush on them, regardless of a gender. And then I realize that I'd rather have a friend than either someone I can never have or an ex, and I shove those feelings aside.

noeven. jus b cohearnt.

It's true to some extent. Not every case, but, till true.

Wait, are you saying that therefor, being gay, the reason most of my friends are guys is because I want to have sex with them?
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Well, maybe a little. But they are all straight, and there are some guys I am just plain not attracted to. But then again...if they were my friends...

Damnit, stop confusing me! I was quite content with my self and now you just told me I want to have sex with all the friends I have who are guys! On the brightside, I'm not really attracted to any of the girls who are my friends.

Most of my friends are girls :: to be honest, most 'blokey' blokes do my head in, and girls are far easier to get on with. They might argue amongst themselves about little things, but not with me

So the blokes I'm friends with tend to be *really* good freinds, who I can I put up with their occasional outburst of testosterone fuelled childishness

I disagree. I've female friends who I find both physically attractive and not physically attractive (not to say that they're cold-stone ugly - I just don't find them sexually attractive).

That's a bunch of crap. If you can't be friends with someone from the opposite gender without involving sex... you're pathetic. Stop wasting oxygen.

Sounds like Marty's a gurly man.

i think being friends with aman doesnt mean that he wants to have sex with me or vice versa, itmeans we both acknowledge that we 'could' if we wanted to head down that road because we are of the opposite gender adn are straight (or same analogy with homosexual people works as well). my point is, being friends with someone means you are a friend to them. you care about them, you look out for them, you take 'em out when they're down, youre loyal, etc. just because on an instinctual level you recognize they're of a gender you're attracted to, does not mean you all of sudden dont care about them, or loko out for them etc. and dont say they look out for people specifcally because they want to have sex with them and think being nice is gonna get them laid. if girls can be nice to girls and boys to boys (ie, be friends with eachother) then its a quality everyone has, and who we choose to share that quality with (same gender as us or opposite) is not affected by what we get out of it. honestly the western hemisphere of the world is so overly obsessed wiht sex, i agree wiht whoever said something about people that obsessed with sex need to stop usin up our oxygen.

Wolvie: you pretty much said everything I was going to say... I have friends who are girls and sex doesn't even cross our minds... and as for the comment on somebody being a waste of oxygen, they aren't gonna just get a simple slap on the wrist... oh no... I have something far more devious i mind... *begins making evil plans*

I agree with Martyn.

All my female friends say that. And then they tell me that I'm nice. I never did understand it.

I'd comment, but both my nature and demeanour are stuck at loner for the moment.

What?

i've got female friends i dont wanna ****.

That's a girl's way of saying "I really don't want to date that guy," but trying to avoid hurting his feelings.

This is the foundation of the "Ladder Theory" and it is bull****.

I'm not really sure...probably because I'm a girl. But I do have more guy friends than I do female ones (probably because I'm play D&D and all.) My best friend (who is a guy) and I were watching this movie and that part came on. There was a long awkward silence and he went through why he doesn't believe it's true. He made sense...but I dunno...my D&D group is just overly protective. If I start dating a guy they insist on meeting him...it's cute...okay...I'll stop now v_v;;

I had an experience like the 'freinds' one once before... I asked her out, she didn't like me because I was an idiot, and later that night we talked, and she said 'we could be really good friends'... from then on she completely ignored me and even avoided me.

It sucks.

Go gay.

I'm thinking of something... it begins with 's' and ends with 'tfu'!