Boys are boys

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1. Lover Boys

Eternal lovers, who are hard to be found without ‘their’ gal piggybacked. For them, this world is a romantic pink painted paradise and the guy is either eternally in search of his permanent Juliet or in search of ways to please his current Juliet. The kind of guy who not just remembers the DOB of his girl friend, but her maternal granny’s and their family puppy’s also. If you send them some stupid stuff like a web based 'love calculator', they are sure to check their name against each of the girl’s name they know, and in turn sending you a BCC-ed mail about all the details. In the (highly) likely event of a breakup with their partner, they are sure to be spotted with a beard in the next 38 hours, and then hooked up with the next partner in exactly 10 more hours.

2. Flirts

This set does not believe in commitments. Their motto is “Variety adds spice to life”. They do not believe in dedicating all their time and resources, which they can effectively utilize for multitasking, to a single gal. They too go after birthday cards, treats and such fancy stuff, but at the same time, they make sure they get something in return. There are people from this sect who modestly admit, "I know ONLY around 150 girls of our batch". It’s a well known fact that the smarter ones among this lot maintain more than a dozen active affairs at any time.

3. Fools

These people shamelessly go ahead and propose every other girl they meet in the lobby or the street. A dozen or two rejections are not enough to dishearten them, as they go on doing the same exercise with the next girl they meet. They think of themselves as Lover Boys or at least as Flirts. Most of them honestly believe that the female population of the college are all falling head over heals for him, and that they ogle at him hiding behind the pillars when he passes by. Needless to say, these are the guys who are scorned the most by gals. Their conversation lingers around 3 things: (1) girls, (2) girls and (3) more girls.

4. Wannabe Toughies

This group is actually a cross of sets 2 and 5, i.e. they try to project an image of a Real Toughie but deep within they are nothing but Flirts. Usually, early on in their career (career of a womanizer), they start off as Flirts and due to some not so favorable responses or image tarnishing incidents, stop openly going after girls. Nevertheless, given a chance and enough privacy, they are sure to show their original colors. The kind of guy who will innocently ask the cute girl in his workshop batch questions like “Is this the first time you are doing smithy?” or “Is that sledge hammer too heavy for you?” thinking they both are alone. Unfortunately, the BBC of the class always overhears it, and the exact same conversation is pasted on the bulletin board the very next day morning. One such crusader was recorded as proclaiming, after three on the rocks of OCR, “No kutty, not to this sinking ship’s captain” when asked what his response would be if the cutie whom he openly shouted at in college, proposes to him.

5. Real Toughies

This is the rarest breed. You hardly find a dozen of this kind in an entire batch of engineering. These guys define their own rules and are preoccupied with their own priorities. These days, most probably, the priorities are either alcohol or free software development. In most of the cases, its alcohol and I have seen some who are dedicated to the cause of free software development. Alcoholic Toughie is the one who will ask for "Change for a large of OP at GP" to any fresher gal he meets, without even bothering to ask her 'braainch' (GP being the official college bar and 'braainch' eventhough sounds like 'branch', has no connection with that). The second set, i.e. Free Developer Toughie has to bother about the latest versions of a lot of software related stuff including but not limited to GTK, QT and about the seventeenth flute that Tony Stanko bought from Tunisia when he went there for a talk on FSF awareness. This set of boys has little time left to take care of the lesser mortals around them. These are the guys who (genuinely) get angry and shout at you when you inform them that you have invited a folk of gals to the movie which he had planned for the gang of boys.

Thats it from my side. You are free to add/modify to the list. ;_)