Nine words women use...

Hilarious.... I love the list. Although, 5 more minutes for me usually is 5 minutes....unless Im sleeping....

I too went camping for years until I finally gave up. I call it KR, they say okay. Usually every 3 months or so they ask me to explain what it is again. Then it is called "That thing I do on the weekends, yeah thats the one."

The list is very appropriate.  And yes I also say camping.  Ben used to tell everyone at work about it, and would occasionally get the latex weapon delivered to work.  But after a long talk, I still say camping, and if it must be discussed at work, its done so quietly and with as few details as possible.  Plus I'm pretty good at lying about the questions 

I've rarely ever had women use the 9 words on me... but most of my relationships have never been so long term that those 9 would be used.

As for what I tell folks... I tell the whole truth.  Sure some folks think its weird while others mock... but if there are such a thing as female larpers, then male larpers isn't so odd or such a turn off, I think.  We have couples and married folks here... so larping can't be any real form of negative quality that would make a prospective mate turn away.  If it does, then that person would never have understood you in the first place... I think.

Of course, as I said before, I've never been in any real long term relationship, so maybe I'm just whacked out of my mind and have no idea of what I am talking about.

I think its easier for a girl to get away with KR than a guy.  I usually start with the "camping" excuse, but then I gauge the person I'm with and it either becomes "reenactment", "improv acting troupe", or the full out truth of here's the website and look at me dressed in a bodice.  The people I tell never seem to have an issue with it, and are either fascinated in a distant way, or end up coming (see long list of people I've brought to KR...)

lol i just tell people who wouldnt get it (ie the people i knew from highschool) a bunch of nerds in the woods with foam weapons .... but every one else i explain everything to

Yeah, I'd have to say the five minutes to a half hour thing is a bit exaggerated, though when I'm feeling particularly floofy and primpy then I guess it could be a half hour. I think...five minutes is probably closer to 8-10 minutes to me. Not too bad.

With my non KR friends its Larping (much to their hilarity), at work it's camping. I tell them when I go to anime conventions and dreamation and stuff, but it's too much explanation to explain KR to them. Meh!