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 Author Thread: Most Overrated Destinations
 offthecoast
Joined: 8/17/2009
Msg: 39 (view)
 
Most Overrated Destinations
Posted: 8/29/2009 2:42:23 PM
I wouldn't recommend Tunisia, unless you get out of the tourist places. Port El Kantaoui was purpose built and not good at all. Don't bother with Carthage, here is very little there, the Romans flattened the place. I found many of the traders in the souks just wanted your money (compared to Egypt where they love to barter and just have a laugh).

The Li river in China is amazing , unless you go there when the tourist craft are returning empty in the evening. The noise of the boat horns makes the M25 seem peaceful. Also Yangshuo is a lot of a tourist trap - not much of traditional China left there.

Paris as the people are just plain rude and Euro Disney as it's wet and dull.

A bit off topic, best places (so far) - China: Tong Li and Suzhou for the gardens, Yonghe Lamasery, Bejing, the great wall at Simanti. Japan well all over but especially Hida Takayama for the spring festival. Yellowstone in the USA, The Rockies in Canada - but go before the bugs come out! Lake Magorie - Italy, the hills around Florence....
 offthecoast
Joined: 8/17/2009
Msg: 87 (view)
 
Lying about your age
Posted: 8/26/2009 2:23:02 AM

I think that lying about ones age makes them feel like they are not getting older. Unforunately, some can't face the fact that we all get older by the day.


" I'm all for getting older, when you consider the alternative." - Dave Allen

On lying about your age - short answer - Don't. You look insecure, and perhaps untrustworthy and untruthful.

Long answer. You look younger than you are, congratulations you have looked after yourself, stayed out of the sun, or are just lucky. Be glad of this, let people know if they ask you, but please don't bang on about it. You have plenty of time to do so when you get past 90. You look older than you are, you enjoyed yourself in the sun, life has been less kind, you earned those grey hairs. You are who you are, let people like and love you for that.
 offthecoast
Joined: 8/17/2009
Msg: 1 (view)
 
Searching for specific erm thing people are searching for - that doesn't make sence!
Posted: 8/22/2009 4:56:10 PM
Hi,

To try and explain. When using the manual search you can search for people looking for Friends, a Long Term Relationship and so on. Or you can search for everything. You cannot search for someone looking for Friends and to chat/email , or someone looking to date and hang out and so on. Finally you cannot prevent your Everything search from picking up people looking for an intimate encounter.

It would be good if the search could be modified so that you could select a number of options, or at the very least prevent intimate encounter users from being added to the everything search - unless you really want them to be.

Oh sorry if this has been asked - I guess it must have been! However I cannot find it when searching...

Anyone got any thoughts?
 offthecoast
Joined: 8/17/2009
Msg: 86 (view)
 
Can you re-take the Personality test?
Posted: 8/19/2009 12:36:30 PM
Hi there,

Sadly there is no disclaimer, for me this is a real pain, since although I answered the questions as honestly as possible the resulting profile is only about 40% accurate. Large chunks are just wrong. For someone who is not sure this is for them, the fact that the computer has said 'you are this person' when I know darn well I am not sticks in the craw somewhat. Also I do not know how much people look at the Chemistry thing. I did and many of the matches are not really people I have a lot, or anything in common with.

By the sound of things I am now stuck. Some people who have posted have said don't worry - nobody looks at this thing, in which case why have it? I have just shot myself in the foot by completing a click button questionnaire which has now said the following?

As someone who is oriented to familial matters, you value the company of family-members and domestic life. - Yes I value family, but I like going out and being with people. Domestic life - not really, and I love travelling... Go figure.

If you have children already, you enjoy spending time with them very much and work hard to be a good parent. - Don't have any children, sorry.

If you don’t have children, you very much desire having children in the future. - Wrong, I'm not saying I don't like kids, I'm just not that sure I want a family.

And your preference for cooking and entertaining guests at home will likely ease the transition into parenthood. - Wrong, wrong, wrong! OK I like cooking sometimes.

You take pride in maintaining and cultivating a healthy family and work hard to achieve this. - OK sort of correct, family is important... but...
This natural tendency is easily illustrated by your preference for doing things around the house as opposed to going out to clubs and restaurants. - Wrong! I like restaurants, I'm just not into clubbing.

What really sets you apart from people that are low in family orientation is that you know how to manage your frustrations and work well on your own. - Sorry? I work in a team of 35 people. I like it. As for frustrations, sorry what?

This means that you are well-equipped to manage a family without letting all the work that is involved wear you down. - Erm how? I'm single with no kids.

However, as someone with strong family values, all the work that is involved in maintaining a tidy home and well-stocked kitchen might occasionally make it difficult for you to finish everything that you need to do. - Yes well housework. That's a blast. Not. I hoover I clean, but if I didn't the dust would evolve into a semi-sentient being and try to take over the world, or something.

So am I stuck? Apparently you can't restart, or can I? Would zapping everything and re-registering be allowed, just to get this wrong profile from around my neck?
 
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