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Posted: 8/31/2009 7:09:29 PM | "Well, I see that I need to bring some reality back to this thread.
Some of you need to face the fact that you are getting old. There really are more important things to life. And let's get real here, most people in our age group who find a companion, eventually break up. Stop stressing over this silly stuff and buy a Cat already, I did."
This is the best thing I have read on POF in the month I have been here!!
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Posted: 8/31/2009 7:23:45 PM | Please tell me you did not buy a cat when we have so many many homeless cats begging for a home. In fact, Pasado's animal rescue is right in your city.
Help stop kitty and puppy mills - ADOPT. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2009 7:25:59 PM | | I just adopted a 2 year old Bullmastiff last June from a rescue in Colorado. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2009 8:51:17 PM | It was message No. 121 that said he bought a cat. That was what I was referring to.
Keep up the good work. I also take a stand against breed specific legislation which wants to eliminate breeds like pitbulls. There are no bad dogs, only bad humans.
I'll take a pitbull over Michael Vick any day. | |
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Posted: 8/31/2009 10:11:54 PM | Yes I know you were referring to msg 121 but since you are in the dog rescue business I thought you would appreciate my adoption of a dog as opposed to purchasing.
Now to go back to the topic of this thread, it appears that the dating pool is very large especially here on POF. So why is it there are so many men and women looking but at least from what I can tell that's all they seem to be doing. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2009 4:33:27 AM | ^^^some of us have given up looking and just come here to pour our inconsequential thoughts out on computer screens everywhere for the rest of you to benefit from our infinite wisdom!
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Posted: 9/1/2009 6:26:53 AM | truetemp 1 said,
Maybe we'll come out refreshed with some new thoughts, outlooks and attitudes. And maybe read some interesting things or just have a good laugh or a "spirited discussion". Hopefully -someday we'll put ourselves out there and succeed. Personally, it beats TV by a wide margin. Least your interacting with some people. Gotta start someplace
Well at lest football is ready to start! lol
Anyway, I've have met some beautiful people here, so some of them can show their true colors without having a panic attack.lol And I do understand in narrowing the dating pool and those who are confident and mature.
Chose wisely my friend... | |
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Posted: 9/1/2009 6:53:13 AM |
Well at lest football is ready to start! lol
FOOTBALL- YEAH!
See - who's got time for dating anyway? Time to head for the sports threads . See you all in February.
Well - maybe there'll still be time during the week or maybe squeeze it in at half time. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2009 7:32:30 AM |
See you all in February.
Well - maybe there'll still be time during the week or maybe squeeze it in at half time
And like a soap opera, the themes will still be the same. lol cuz you won't have missed much. cheers | |
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Posted: 9/1/2009 8:10:15 AM |
Here ya go Dave:
http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingForum22.aspx
I was married to a football fanatic (and any other sport if that wasn't available). It was fine with me even though I wasn't interested, I just got so tired of hearing the crowds and the announcers on TV all the time.
VVVV Another one bites the dust. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2009 8:24:28 AM | | Thanks outta here !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!How bout them Cowboys!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 8:07:47 AM | As far as the raw numbers of "qualified" dating partners go it has probably all been downhill for most of us since college. I went to a large coeducational state university. I was in a good fraternity and class president one year. Young single beautiful women were all over the place.
Perhaps when I get to a retirement community things will be like that again since women outlive men. As my vision fades I may develop a condition similar to beer goggles where all the ladies will look good to me. Many of their husbands will be gone; it will be a geriatric paradise. Oh well, one can dream. | |
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Posted: 9/3/2009 12:52:56 PM | The dating pool is vast.
It seems YOU have marginalized yourself by your own admission. Far left wing, NO interest in your appearance (humans are visual creatures), practicing strange artistic endeavors, basically a 60's counterculture hippy living in a conventional puritan-based modern shirt and tie world.
Go to the events and places YOU enjoy. at least you'll find some bohemian woman who shares at least THAT one offputting part of your life. Maybe she'll want to share more.
No man is an island, unless he WANTS to be. | |
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Posted: 9/4/2009 2:09:20 PM | from the OP: ^^^^geez 1kindman4u -- i clearly have some communication work to do-- i'm a woman!
i think it's interesting to call how i live self-marginalization, specially when compared to threads here that gladly encourage folks to "be yourself"... with which i agree. it's hard to imagine not living one's beliefs and worldview-- and i'd never suggest anyone else do so either. does it narrow the range of folks i find interesting and vice versa? yup, totally. but maybe it would be completely idiotic of me to try to be more conservative, or to not be upfront about my views. i think it would, anyway. on the other hand, i'm interested in what and how conservatives believe and how they live...
fyi, i think i could have worded the OP better if it sounds like i'm a hippie-- um, nope-- in my work and social life i deal with people breaking new ground. what i liked about the 60s (mind you i was a kid for most of that decade) was the widespread belief in the power of democracy and love. what troubled me about those times was the derogation of tradition and history, and lack of intellectual rigour...
it's been neat to read everyone's responses to this thread. one of my questions was really "are there ways to widen that perceived narrowness?" sometimes when i read people's expressed wants and dealbreakers on PoF-- well it's difficult to comprehend such specific parameters. looking past the surface to another's heart-- maybe we can never really predict who we might care for? | |
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