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What does your girlfriend say about cubing?

What does your girlfriend/boyfriend think?

  • Because of cubing we got together!

    Votes: 6 3.1%
  • She/He thinks it's cool and likes it

    Votes: 37 19.1%
  • She/He accepts it

    Votes: 42 21.6%
  • She/He hates it

    Votes: 6 3.1%
  • It'll be the reason we'll break up

    Votes: 5 2.6%
  • I don't have one

    Votes: 98 50.5%

  • Total voters
    194

Erik

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I can imagine a lot of girlfriends would be annoying with cubing because of the clicky sound, the less time you have for her or the fact that you get excited by a PLL skip ;) What about yours?

EDIT: If you are a girl, the question is of course "What does your boyfriend think about it?"
 
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I would imagine the last option on the poll will be the most popular.

What about boyfriends?

My girlfriend is supportive of my cubing and even helps me practice for competitions a night before. Probably the reason why I got an 11 avg and maybe a 10 avg in the future. She even got involved herself for a little while and even got her PB down to 17 seconds with a 25-30 second average.
 

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What exactly does "because of cubing" mean anymore? :p

(If you cube enough, it affects how a lot of things in life happen, but saying they're "because of cubing" is picking out only one reason. :cool: )
 

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My girlfriend HATES cubes. As soon as I bring them out, she puts them away out of my reach. She wishes I could do something better with my time like watching TV!?

When she gets annoyed I ask her "what would you rather I had as a hobby, poker machines? Hard liquor? Porn?" that usually shuts her up for a while as many guys here in Japan have a hobby of slot machines or "drinking".
 

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My girlfriend HATES cubes. As soon as I bring them out, she puts them away out of my reach. She wishes I could do something better with my time like watching TV!?

When she gets annoyed I ask her "what would you rather I had as a hobby, poker machines? Hard liquor? Porn?" that usually shuts her up for a while as many guys here in Japan have a hobby of slot machines or "drinking".

My girlfriend doesn't like cubes because of the clicky sound...

But I also have some Pachinko machines at home, she likes to play them :) Maybe a good hint :) Get your girlfriend hooked on a pachinko at home then you can cube ;)
 

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I'll just literally translate what I said on the german forum about it today:

I don't have a girlfriend, but if, I wouldn't really care what she thinks about cubing cause I wouldn't cube when I'm with her. There's better stuff you can do with your girlfriend...

But I guess that she'd accept it because if not, she wouldn't wanna be with me anyway...
 

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My wife accepts cubing as my hobby. She's not to happy about me trying to teach her F2L though ;)

But we've got a husband and wife unofficial time on speedcubing.com. Ton and Maria will be hard to beat :)
 

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Nice topic Erik!

My wife accepts it, thinks I'm a nerd, but humors me. She went to the Standford Cube-a-palooza with me though, so I guess she supports my obsession somewhat. But just yesterday, I broke my personal best due to a PLL skip and she was like: PLL what? Huh? Whatever... haha
 

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She thinks it's cool and likes it. I even teached her, and now she wants to learn F2L :) It's great that she's not annoyed with it..
 
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