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woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 205 (view)

Message Restrictions Posted: 5/20/2013 3:24:35 PM
Well, Markus, I can't respond to one of the forum friends I have in my email box now. Perhaps there should be a way to opt out?

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 103 (view)

Message Restrictions Posted: 5/20/2013 10:21:22 AM
Not sure how much pity I can actually muster for a 64 yo fella cheating on his wife when his new gurl can't get through because, you see, he can't give her his home email because the wife, yanno. . . .

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 71 (view)

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Posted: 5/20/2013 9:43:02 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_on_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq#Biological_weapons.2C_chemical_weapons.2C_and_delivery_systems

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 79 (view)

Message Restrictions Posted: 5/20/2013 7:19:29 AM
I still have somewhat mixed feelings about this. But the truth is I have no skin in the game at all. No one over fourteen years my senior is ever going to contact me, nor would I ever contact a fellow that much younger than me. I've never much minded the contacts from the baby boys, but it never gave me any kind of thrill, was seldom responded to, and only gave me a grin or two. DO have to note that several long term friends of both sexes from here are well outside the guidelines, and I'd miss having known them. But, the little girl, and young girl and woman that I was, from 12 on for about 25 more years who received the dogged "interest" of men old enough to know better. . . . Well that girl is grateful for the workings of the Karma Fairy, lol! Thanks, Markus.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 35 (view)

Message Restrictions Posted: 5/19/2013 3:41:17 PM
Ezme75 ~~ I'd put a message on my profile telling her she can send either her phone or email, but you can't respond on POF. ETA: I see you're ahead of me. Smart man.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 33 (view)

Message Restrictions Posted: 5/19/2013 3:28:45 PM
If an over sixty guy wants to "lie" enough to get him an 18 yo, he'll have to leave his pics off, or use really old ones, or fakes in order to pass as 29, lol!

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 1642 (view)

How Bad is it for Republicans? Posted: 5/19/2013 12:29:41 PM
Self Identifying Republicans are now down to 25%. . . . THAT is how bad it is for Republicans. http://www.nationalmemo.com/poll-mostly-republicans-care-about-obamas-scandals-and-thats-bad-news-for-the-gop/

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 10 (view)

Message Restrictions Posted: 5/19/2013 10:02:32 AM
I'd be curious to know if the same restrictions are in place for women seeking men, men seeking men, and women seeking women categories. I just tried, and got a youngster age 23, so I guess not. That said, I can't even imagine doing it seriously, lol! After my first marriage ended, some forty odd years ago, I belonged to a number of different dating/parents groups, and in every single one of them the older guys after the young chickies was a major problem. There were only three final outcomes: either the group broke up into and elder/younger pair of groups, they found some other way to largely keep the older guys out (had to have a child living at home, etc.) or the group died because all the women under 40 left. But it seems to me that all this will lead to is even more guys lying about their ages. . . .

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 41 (view)

Give date feedback Posted: 5/18/2013 12:36:51 PM
Without a question for rating spongeworthiness, I can't see how it's relevant.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 22 (view)

A man with ED? Questions please give info. Posted: 5/18/2013 12:08:41 PM
OPie, aside from his past drinking, his age, and heart problems, is the fact that MANY of the meds for heart issues are de facto anti-libido meds. Your friend however seems to be beset with a whole host of other things besides ED. I think your final assessment is about right: you've done everything you could, and he's pretty much unwilling to go any further than he has down ANY other road, so best to sign off. For the other poster: Almost NO ED is psychological, it is almost all physiological (85 to 90 percent ).

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 34 (view)

Having a relationship with zero sexual intimacy Posted: 5/17/2013 10:08:44 PM
Actually, sometimes pregnant single women DO find Mr. Perfect who wants to be with them, no matter what. And marries them, and they have several more kids, and become grand parents. Good friends of mine, and going on 30 plus years now. They're still gorgeous together.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 15 (view)

Guy's Profile is Deleted, and then He Comes Back With a New Profile Name Posted: 5/17/2013 8:23:53 PM
Well, maybe I'm unusual, and this was early days on here (more mods, more mod fights), but I've talked (just that) with two who got into pissing matches with moderators, and got deleted. After suitable cooling/down time, both returned, and have been here for more than five more years without incident. I also had a short agonizing period where I couldn't sign into my own profile. So made another just to inquire. Mea culpa: I'd forgotten my own pass word, and the system wasn't supplying it as per usual. I then deleted the second profile. All said, I think I'd proceed, with caution.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 25 (view)

Dating more than one man at a time Posted: 5/17/2013 1:37:05 PM
I mostly haven't dated multiples, partly because they've sorted themselves out fairly fast, but also because I feel real uncomfortable juggling egos. Nevertheless, found myself talking relatively seriously to two fellas from PoF about five years ago for a month. Longest damned month of my life. Finally met one, had a fabulous 12 hour date, and he decided it wasn't a go. Relief! Ended up with the other for four years until health issues ended it. So sometimes it does just happen, and not much you can do about it. If one does begin to single himself out, go ahead and meet and see if it takes. And good luck!

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 157 (view)

Why do Men of a Certain Age HATE Facebook? Posted: 5/17/2013 12:34:57 PM
giggles, no. I have no intention of leaving facebook. Nor cutting my nephew off of my feed, much less unfriending him. What I AM saying, is that I wish some peeps were more aware of how widely facebook broadcasts your chit. And the potential for REAL hurt to people you do really love.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 20 (view)

Am I being scammed? Posted: 5/17/2013 11:51:52 AM
Mule, this is the deal: there is a kind of bad grammar that belongs to Americans who were either asleep in class, had a bad education, or who aren't too bright. There's a second kind that comes from not being a native speaker. Now if the second type shows up in tandem with someone claiming to be a successful American businessman who's somehow trying to get you to cash a check for him, then Yes, one needs to be very wary.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 1598 (view)

How Bad is it for Republicans? Posted: 5/17/2013 11:37:27 AM
Well, if we are waiting on the right wing wind machine to do that educating, we're in for a very long wait: they're still recovering from their surprise that Romney lost (unskewing polls and all that. Besides, Nate Silver sounds like a gurl.). They're still hoping for some milk and honey from Benghazi. Although 39% of their base doesn't even know where on earth that might be. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/05/voters-trust-clinton-over-gop-on-benghazi.html

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 153 (view)

Why do Men of a Certain Age HATE Facebook? Posted: 5/16/2013 4:26:18 PM
There are times. . . . I have a nephew whose mother died of metastasized breast cancer five years after a double mastectomy. A friend of his was on fb making some fairly crude jokes about Angelina Jolie's breasts. She's exactly the age his mother was when diagnosed. So instead of ignoring his bud, or calling him out, he joins him. Worse, his five brothers and father are all on facebook. Just something I wish I didn't know about him, and which will affect my future relationship with him.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 1582 (view)

How Bad is it for Republicans? Posted: 5/16/2013 12:44:46 PM
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/145363.html About the use of quotes in google. Take what you will.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 48 (view)

Trauma & dating Posted: 5/15/2013 2:50:03 PM
OPie, you seriously need to get a new tape. Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me is extremely off putting. Globalizing misery will do just that: make you miserable. And alone, because while misery loves company, company does not love misery. There ARE other options, and this is one of the best: Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life [Martin E. P. Seligman] http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1400078393 I used to play this during my most down times, because it made me laugh. . . . Linda Ronstadt - Poor Poor Pitiful Me Well, I lay my head on the railroad track Waiting on the double E But the train don't run by here no more Poor, poor pitiful me Poor, poor pitiful me Poor, poor pitiful me Oh, these boys won't let me be Lord, have mercy on me Woe, woe is me Well, I met a man out in Hollywood Now I ain't naming names Well he really worked me over good Just like Jesse James Yes, he really worked me over good He was a credit to his gender Put me through some changes, Lord Sort of like a waring blender Poor, poor pitiful me Poor, poor pitiful me Oh, these boys won't let me be Lord, have mercy on me Woe woe is me Well, I met a boy in the Vieux Carres Down in Yokohama He picked me up and he threw me down He said, "Please don't hurt me, mama" Poor, poor pitiful me Poor, poor pitiful me Oh, these boys won't let me be Lord, have mercy on me Woe woe is me Poor, poor, poor me Poor, poor pitiful me Poor, poor, poor me Poor, poor pitiful me Poor, poor, poor me Poor, poor pitiful me

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 1569 (view)

How Bad is it for Republicans? Posted: 5/15/2013 10:27:02 AM
Well, I'm going to ask you to look up on Google, "Democratic party Communism" just like that. There are 47 million results. Well, I wasn't expecting this one myself. The way google works is if you put in Democratic party Communism with no quotes, you will get everything that has ANY of the three words. If you use quotes around it, you'll get this: About 216,000 results (0.13 seconds). When I used: "Democratic party and Communism", I got this: 10 results (0.24 seconds)

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 20 (view)

Did I already mess this up? Posted: 5/15/2013 8:50:54 AM
Funny how different people take things. . . . In vino veritas is pretty much what I've always gone by, but then I don't drink all that much. Maybe ya'll need to go back to the days of face-to-face? It's harder (though not impossible) to misread stuff, and you both seem pretty much hell bent on misreading. The jail time communication does count as relationship time -- same as if he were military and had been posted out of the country. So after nearly a year, he works up his courage, via alcohol, to tell you something he's otherwise too chicken to say. And this makes you wonder if he really does? If he's NOT confused, he's not human. He must think he's got one hot mess on his hands. . . . So, ya: chill. As long as you can. He deserves a bit of room to get straight in his head if this is something he wants to deal with long term. Meanwhile, you need to find some way to convince yourself that you are worth loving. Meditation, medication, church or therapy: something. . . .

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 62 (view)

Learn to Take a Hint...I Don't Want to Be Cruel Posted: 5/14/2013 8:06:38 PM
So, your scarf it is apricot?

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 12 (view)

Am I being scammed? Posted: 5/14/2013 6:58:09 PM
This is interesting. . . . http://www.corporationwiki.com/Florida/Deerfield-Beach/amerisource-financial-services-inc-5177901.aspx And yep, scam. Hope to heck you didn't give your SS# and birth date, or you're a lot more scammed than you think you are.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 15 (view)

Physically Disabled: Perceptions & Stereotypes? Posted: 5/14/2013 4:46:18 PM
Just as info: I have a friend whose brother was in a car accident, and is paraplegic. He's married (post accident). She dated and lived with a guy in a chair she met while visiting her brother in rehab. Another friend met a guy IN rehab, married him and had two kids with him. More, if you want to check it out: Jill Kinmont. . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Kinmont_Boothe I've never dated a guy in a chair; but on the other hand, I've never NOT dated a guy because he was. There ARE stereotypes, and you can't get around that. But there also, real live living caring people out there to whom it won't matter all that much. Good luck!

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 61 (view)

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Posted: 5/13/2013 5:04:45 PM
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/05/voters-trust-clinton-over-gop-on-benghazi.html

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 60 (view)

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Posted: 5/13/2013 4:46:36 PM
Not really, how many Dems voted for the final bill? Dems have this problem: they don't believe they should shut the government down just because they don't get their own way. Odd that, eh?

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 42 (view)

Why do smokers feel they can just throw their cigarette butts anywhere they want to? Posted: 5/13/2013 3:31:48 PM
Robin, it doesn't really need to be below with the social drinking/drug stuff, since it is in the about section, first line, just under your name.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 198 (view)

First date: when the picture in the profile look nothing like the person in person. Posted: 5/13/2013 8:07:34 AM
I saw one guy who was remarkably different than the pictures he'd sent. Exactly like each, and different from every other. I could be sitting across a table from him, and he'd turn his head, and four different looking people would appear, one at a time and disappear. I finally decided it was because while most of our faces/skulls are relatively flat, his was very deep. None of them were especially good looking nor spectacularly ugly. Met his sister, who in a feminine way had the same skull/face. Very interesting. Other than that, everyone has looked like themselves, with only a tiny tiny fudge factor on weight/height/age. Actually none at all on age that I know of. I think it helps that we talk for a month, maybe two, before meeting--a lot drop out somewhere in there, so who knows. I just know that for me, it's pretty much been what you see is what you get.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 39 (view)

What's with this Take Time To Heal advice? Posted: 5/13/2013 7:43:29 AM
Looks like our OPie has a kinda shallow view of exactly what a "going deal" in a relationship actually IS. And it also seems as if he's pretty good at locating females who basically agree that companionship/sex are comestibles that may be had in exchange for lucre, filthy or otherwise. Howsumevah, it would appear that his self talk is not actually convincing something in his soul, hence his need to come here and repeatedly try to convince an unbiased jury of his peers that what he's doing is A-okay. I personally don't think it is. I also think that avoiding one's AFOGs (Another Frickin Opportunity for Growth) is counterproductive in the long term scheme of things, but I rule only one life, mine. And of course, NONE of this has one thing to do with how/when/where other people heal.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 113 (view)

PROBLEM with stepkid Posted: 5/12/2013 7:28:43 AM
I haven't read the whole thread, so if someone else has suggested this, I'll just second them; if not, what I would suggest, most wholeheartedly, is some family time at Al-Anon. If you can't get the whole family to go, go yourself for as long as you need to. Also try several groups; some are more tuned and less hlepy than others.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 54 (view)

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Posted: 5/11/2013 3:36:35 PM
Have to say that what the House voted for before the conference committee is a bit more telling. . . . http://thehill.com/homenews/house/250237-gop-embassy-security-cuts-draw-democrats-scrutiny

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 40 (view)

Kermit Gosnell alledged murderer. Posted: 5/11/2013 6:40:49 AM
No one goes to a Gosnell if they have ANY other choice. Certain segments of this culture have worked tirelessly for years to insure that Gosnell's clientele had no other choices. At a certain income level, it may take months to get together enough $ even for a Gosnell. [Kermit Gosnell Price Sheet Shows $1,850 for 23-24 Week Abortion. -- http://www.lifenews.com/2013/05/03/kermit-gosnell-price-sheet-shows-1850-for-23-24-week-abortion/] At that income level, with that racial profile, I expect the women are exquisitely aware that giving up a baby at birth means a lifetime in foster care for that child. Gosnell is a monster that we, collectively, have created. He is not alone, he has always existed, and always will. With decent healthcare, education, birth control, there will/would be fewer of them.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 22 (view)

moving in after 3 days...can it really succeed? Posted: 5/10/2013 4:29:40 PM
OPie, she rescues him; you rescue her. Difference? Succeeding? I'd give it a very dim maybe. I had a friend who had a girl in the same situation move in with him after their first date. They were together for several years. She considered him her mate; the reverse wasn't also true.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 33 (view)

Kermit Gosnell alledged murderer. Posted: 5/9/2013 10:27:07 PM
Quite a bit was written about it a couple of years ago, mostly by left feminist bloggers. Now that the right has discovered what they imagine is a moral judgement against abortion, they're all over it like white on rice. Fact remains: a whole hella lot of what Gosnell did is NOT legal by anyone's standards. Fact also is, if the forced-birth right gets its way, Gosnell is the permanent future, just as he was the past of my growing up and young adulthood. Gosnell is what illegal abortion looks like. Gosnell is what illegal abortion IS.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 87 (view)

Any advice would be appreciated... Posted: 5/9/2013 8:24:10 PM
Why is the "rest" attached to sex anyway ..? Well, it isn't always. But grownups don't pretend the one to get the other. They just state their intent clearly and work their way through the takers.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 106 (view)

Should men be discriminated against because of long hair? Posted: 5/9/2013 10:35:47 AM
For women who like (love, adore, are turned on by) men with long hair: Pow-Wows are a trip. . . . Just sayin' (and bring a fan -- whew!)

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 60 (view)

Dyslexia Posted: 5/9/2013 8:10:35 AM
I'm just a see/say reader, but I have had a number of dyslectics in my life. Two of them Ph. D.s. . . . The third was an ex, and I didn't spot it for months. Did, finally, when he told me to find 47.9 on the radio dial. . . . After that, I watched how he went about his world very closely, and for sure. I finally asked him if he had ever heard the word? He had not. He had gone to a one room school, and the teacher had spent a LOT of time telling him to try harder. (I spect she saw, as I did, how very bright he was, and thought he was just slacking on his written work.) HIS conclusion? Since he knew he was trying as hard as he could, he decided that he must just be stupid. He repeated seventh grade three times, then ran away and joined the Marines. The second is my daughter in law. Who is a nuclear physicist. And who works harder at everything than any ten other people put together. I am in total awe of the amount of energy she expends to simply get through a day normally.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

Msg: 38 (view)

Any advice would be appreciated... Posted: 5/9/2013 7:05:49 AM
OPie, you were in a desert, and mighty thirsty. Howsumevah, the dew on a cactus plant is not going to slake your thirst for long, no matter the flower is pretty. Likely best to keep on truckin. . . .

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 50 (view)

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Posted: 5/8/2013 3:46:43 PM
Good, thoughtful piece: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/06/the-real-benghazi-story-the-dogs-that-arent-barking/

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 55 (view)

My Boyfriend's Dog Posted: 5/7/2013 8:49:43 AM
Plenty to criticize OPie and her beau about, but that's pretty much been said. I'd just like to point out that some breeds are close to untrainable, and within that some dogs themselves are not. My dog trainer noted to me when I was training with her that Shitzus were close to impossible (my observation was that this was the royal toy dog in China, and was never even toilet trained: had its own servants who walked around and picked up after it, lol! Bred this way for millennia. . . . ). I had a white German Shepherd that my brother had given me as a puppy, and whew! At a year, I dropped her off at his place while I flew home to give my sister a month's respite from mama care. Hannah promptly knocked my tiny sister in law on her keester, and my brother snarled at me: She needs to be trained! (He'd worked for years training German Shepherds for the SS.) I said, Kewel: you've got a month! Go for it. When I picked her up, she jumped me. As I looked over her shoulder at my brother, and raised an eyebrow, he pleaded: SHE CAN'T BE TRAINED!! Bingo! I knew that by then, but also knew that he knew better, so nothing like real time experience. Still, there is something awesome about a dog who can make herself access to your roof, and run along fence tops. . . .

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 1449 (view)

How Bad is it for Republicans? Posted: 5/7/2013 8:07:36 AM
I have a friend who was involved for many years with the Iowa Democratic Party Platform Committee. His description of the process was roughly: members from all around the state make proposals, and the committee hammers out what they think most represents their idea of what the party stands for and alienates fewest of the members. I 'spect the national platform is put together similarly. My guess is that most of these people have never read Marx, nor care a great deal about European socialism, if they even think about it at all. Closer to the truth I think would be the theory that they're following their own religious understanding of how an ideal world would be. Which brings us to the distressing similarity of the Republican ideal and Supply Side Jesus. . . . http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/17_franken.html

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 58 (view)

First date Posted: 5/5/2013 8:25:26 PM
I remember sitting in a tiny local restaurant in Tianjing, listening to the couple in the booth behind me. Young boy courting young lady. . . . If you will marry me, I'll do all the washing [done by hand in a basin on a chair, and hung on lines throughout the room]. No. I'll do all the shopping [done daily because of lack of refrigeration, entails waiting in some very long lines]. No. I'll do all the cooking and washing up [Chinese food takes notoriously long to do since everything has to be cut into tiny pieces so it cooks quickly on limited energy]. No. I'll do all the housekeeping. No. Listened for about a half hour before leaving, laughing. She never said yes while I was there. Maybe she was just a dinner hore?

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 138 (view)

Pissed, Played and Out for revenge...Or not? Posted: 5/5/2013 10:36:38 AM
OPie, there IS no rule that we get closure from the other. Therefore, we MUST get closure on our own. If you could force him to speak, he'd tell his truth, and it wouldn't matter. Trust the Karma Fairy: she's relentless.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 24 (view)

going on 10 months, should I love her or leave her? Posted: 5/4/2013 3:10:16 PM
I'd say leave her now. If you don't, and continue to harbor feelings of deprivation over her softness, she'll end up leaving you in ten years, and a couple of kids, and a whole hella lot more heartbreak than now.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 31 (view)

Lowered Standards is really a lame excuse for being Human Posted: 5/3/2013 10:38:16 AM
m8t, thanks! dragonb -- I think the sapling had been marked, but I don't think that would have otherwise have been its day. When I stopped laughing, I asked. His response: I just felt SO GOOD, I had to do something big! And I have to admit there's something very erotic about a nekkid man in the spring sunshine with a chainsaw in hand. Something I would never have otherwise known, grin. . . .

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 23 (view)

Lowered Standards is really a lame excuse for being Human Posted: 5/3/2013 8:03:11 AM
OPie, I don't like the "lowered standards" meme either. Mostly because it just isn't true. What one likes doesn't make it a high water mark. Just a wish. And one's own wish isn't superior to any other one's wish. Just different. I was courted once by a guy who was classic alpha, and out to prove it. He was mighty pleased with himself, and had every right to be: an inventor, an entrepreneur, self made millionaire in his thirties, tall, blond and very good looking. Bright and interesting. A truly beloved professor of mine had "lined us up." To me he felt pushy, bossy, impatient and intolerant. All I could see in our future if it were together was an endless string of End of the World battles. Which began with my telling him it wasn't a go. . . . Met him for decades after at the professor's Christmas parties, and he never once failed to show up at my side with some mean or catty comment about my idiocy in turning him down. Often in the presence of his wife, whom I rather liked. Curiously, I never, not even once, regretted it. I did regret that I hadn't found a way to avoid hurting him. . . . Some twenty years later, I met, was courted by, and gave my heart to a disabled grade school dropout dyslectic coal miner. We gave it a run, but in the end, he "rejected" me. Still feel this terribly warm space in my heart for him. (This is a man who immediately following the first time we made love, jumped out of bed, buck nekkid, ran outside, fired up his chainsaw and cut down a sapling. . . . And, yes, I told him I'd have to tell that, some time, some where. . . .) I'm pretty sure those stories have something to do with the topic.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 76 (view)

Bacon Hater! Worst/funniest date evah! Posted: 5/3/2013 7:04:45 AM
Jeepers! No wonder I never have any funny dating stories. . . . This: Prior to me meeting him he complained that he could only seem to get women to go out with him "once" and he was certain that they were restaurant whores. That is where I would have bailed.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 27 (view)

Friendship question which may shed light on my love life Posted: 5/2/2013 9:09:54 AM
Stage two of my undergrad experience was much like yours: I lived off campus and commuted, and I was in my late twenties (as well as had young kids). Didn't make many friends with the other students. I did however have other friends which lasted over the back to school frolics. In grad school, it was different, I was single, and although I was still pretty much ten years older, I had time. And used it to hang around school. I also began giving parties at home. I still have friendships that are active which were formed during that period. But, OPie, what your post reminded me of is a girl I knew during grad school. She was gorgeous, bright, funny, and not in her own mind unkind. And was the most totally negative human being I've ever known. She lasted about six months in my life, and about five years in her husband's. Everyone else also ran. I tried as did several others that I know of to talk to her about her attitude, and we all got a "Yes, but. . . ." I don't know if she ever found a therapist or not. I hope so. A very good one. Good luck.

woobytoodsday

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Msg: 29 (view)

The Attraction Attraction Posted: 5/1/2013 2:37:08 PM
Long ago, far away (and no links) saw a passel of studies claiming that if peeps were lead to think strangers somehow liked them, they rated those pictures higher (more attractive) than those with no "claimed" background. Stands to reason: we certainly like babies of all species because(?) we know they're going to like us. We also think they're alpha cute.

woobytoodsday

Joined: 12/13/2006

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Distance, is it an issue? Posted: 5/1/2013 11:53:33 AM
For a PoF meet/date? 14 hours one way. Date lasted five weeks. We didn't quite make it, but are still good friends. Cat enjoyed the trip, too. Second time, it was three and a half hours each way. We lasted four years, he died two weeks ago. I'd do a repeat on either. Last stats I saw (few years back) most, something like 80% of peeps married someone within five miles, so you're pretty much with mankind's tide. I never was.

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