One of the early PC games was just that. Liesure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.

I'm just curious because, while you decry political motivations of those who support human-caused global warming, those who are opposed to that interpretation frequently have their own political agenda.

How do you explain the melting of the arctic tundra? The rapid retreat of glaciers around the world? The very real thinning of the arctic ice sheet - after all, the Northern Passage has actually opened for northern circumnavigation.

> I never said all guys send hi messages. only 198 out of 200 so far.
> And the two who made a bit of effort to say hello properly got a reply from me.
See and here is the problem. I have noticed a lot of women want a book for a first message. It's unrealistic. I realize women want to be flattered by the guy writing a message and talking about something he liked in her profile but come on, be fair.

1. Stuck-up, snooty women who think they are God’s gift to men. With the tons of e-mail they get from hopeful suitors, they acquire both swelled heads and a wildly unrealistic opinion of their market value in the dating world. Women like this are clearly suffering from what I call ‘Princess Syndrome’. A characteristic symptom of the malady is having a stringent laundry list of ‘requirements’ and ’standards’ few men could ever hope to meet.

'm a Cub fan. Love the team. I have no problem dating someone who likes another team.

it would be weird if a guy DIDNT check out my boobs at least once.

Owning a house is fine, but it doesn't mean that you are financially secure anymore than having a lot of credit cards.

Notice that those sites never show you who the paid members are? That would be too easy... And too revealing!

However, I've seen some see "desperate" as when someone shows them a lot of interest. I remember a woman whom I showed a lot of interest in (because I thought she was gorgeous, intelligent, and very cool) rejected me (friendzone). When we talked about relationships one time the subject of my interest came up, and she said I was just so desperate, which is how she described any guy who basically showed her interest.

i was always taught that the man is the hunter and therefore should pursue a woman he is interested in. if you think women are supposed to chase you, then you will be single forever.

in my experience, if a woman chases a man, she is seen as desperate and needy and no man wants someone like that.

Are you using big words to confuse me? lol

I think most average women focus more the connection and personality than looks

can you elaborate on those a little so I know what you mean?

This is funny because it's the same for women

doing drugs is illegal and as a role model do not be surprised if she has some confusion about obeying rules

No fact. Paul Bernardo did not murder most of his victims.

, it is better to fight if you can and if there is a chance of killing the rapist.

Hunting a bear with a 22 is a joke because the bullet would not hurt it much ,just make it angry. It's not my fault you did not get the joke.

I said when the time was right women rose up and fought

People who are pacifist believe that to everything there is a season,even corrupt murdering governments. Everything ends and outlasting someone means you win.

you can't ever know what it is like to not be able to over power another man

Seriously, you're going to quote the 'strawman' theory again? Aren't you tired of using that same rebbutal in all your arguements the minute someone doesn't agree with you?

You even had the gaul to bring up traffic into your numerous ludicrous comparisons.

Not to mention, I'm not the one here who thinks that being attacked by a grizzly bear is somehow on the same scale as someone assualting or raping someone. To which, I agree with Banana Anna that it is a foolish comparison and that is just an understatement.

And that's only a few of your comments.

Because giving in is what is "degenerating the society."

Well that's an understatement that the scale is different.The difference between having your feelings hurt and being murdered.

Paul Bernardo was a violent rapist and most,not all, of his victims he let go. He probably would of had a lot more murders under his belt had his victims tried to overpower someone so much bigger and stronger.

Yeah dude you go and punch a bear in the nose and then he will eat your face. I never said I was going to go anywhere with a rapist.In fact I believe I said I don't know what I would do ,and that whatever the situation called for at the time,and whatever seemed like the best course of action is what I would do. You are getting my post mixed up with other posters and picking certain sentences here and there and ignoring the rest that is written.

Hun if you don't know the difference between a human being and a bear then perhaps you need glasses.

A bear is acting only on instinct and is not a sentient life form.

Victims of rape who have survived have in the past survived by talking to their rapist and appealing to whatever shred of human decency they had in them.

No amount of talking in the world will stop a grizzly from killing you when it has a mind to.Your comparison between a bear and a rapist is an extremely foolish. I was joking about hunting a bear with a 22 obviously. You are dead serious which is extremely troubling. I mean you even went to the length of providing links!!

Sometimes in life you are the hunter and sometimes you are the prey. People have survived from the beginning of time by being the prey and submitting to their aggressors. Had all the first nations peoples thought as you did they would all be dead and gone. All of their ways and culture gone with them. Thankfully they saw the wisdom in surviving on their knees for a better day and now they are finally rebuilding and coming back. It takes a strong person or people to live as long as they have on their knees,gritting their teeth and waiting for the day to emerge again.

Women in general are another group who have lived so long on their knees bowing to men,their aggressors.

As I said before Xeotide, you talk a good talk and not to say the logic doesn't make sense but as with everything in life one approach to one situation isn't necessarily the answer to all in every situation.

Foremost, I personally don't care to know about you're personal experiences, so no need in conveying esp. since I wasn't asking. It was a hypothethical statement, look it up if you're not familiar on the meaning.

One could find what you say offensive especially if they have been in that situation. You make it seem as if though the victim of an assault deserves what happens to them if they don't fight back. Which makes you sound callous know it all, so stop preaching.

We are not talking about a bully like the kid in school who teased you because you momma dressed you funny.We are talking about a dangerous violent offender who has in all likelihood raped before and probably worse.

Again we are not talking about the misunderstood school yard bully. We are talking about a dangerous psychopath who in all likelihood will have no problem murdering you. And how is someone who is smaller and not as strong supposed to kick someones ass? Sure maybe that lady wrestler china could kick a mans ass ,but the rest of us are not capable of that. Do you really think that someone who is this evil who would rape and murder would run away if you hurt him a little? For someone that hell bent you better darn well kill him and not just hurt him a little. That's like suggesting you take a 22 and go hunt a grizzly bear with it.

> It puts the choice a person has to make as one where he can be a hunter or prey.
You are suggesting hunting a human being with no soul and who views you as nothing more then an object for amusement and pleasure? In order to be the hunter you must have tools at your disposal that enable you to overpower your prey. Being a man you are evenly matched with another man so you have the chance to over power and win in the battle. Women are smaller and weaker and don't have as much of a chance.

Sometimes you have to live on your knees for a while in order to live for another day. Oh and this handgun suggestion,

And you tall women none of you even like really tall guys most of the time so just shut up.

Just a fun online story.....I once met a woman who doictored her pics and said she was 5'4....125 pounds. When we finally met she was more like 5'1....230 pounds and did'nt look anything like her pics.

WOW, that's a great list of some of the most gifted and talented and smart people walking the earth...and they all turn you off???

I was beginning to wonder if you could get properly pissed off at all.

So indulge me here xeo, instead of screaming that the strawman is coming to molest your hind quarters again:
According to this logic, you would therefore defend not only pot smokers and bikers, but also the right of a person to view child porn online, assuming 1) It were available to view totally free of charge and in a totally undetectable fashion, and 2) That person, in no way shape or form was detected in his actions, and/or promoted the cause of child porn in any way whatsoever, and 3) That was all that the person ever did that was illegal, because.....

Now I am real big on live and let live bud, believe me. But, are you beginning to see how this 'politically correct lets-all-be-free laissez-faire b/s attitude run amok' of people like you is overtly promoting the putrefaction of the individual from within, and that inevitably becomes society's burden in the long run? Again.... you need a more balanced attitude.

Xeo, I'm really starting to feel sorry for you.
You do seem like a nice guy. But you gotta grow a set of balls and suck up the victim attitude thing. The way you moan, I would've thought you were living in the black hole of Calcutta, only for that the average resident there doesn't piss and moan about life nearly as much. Look I'm sorry you got your ass resized by Uncle Sam a while back, but you gotta get over it and move on dude. And for God's sake, stop trying to constantly reason with people when they abuse your ass. Being a doormat does not become you.

Nobody gets victimized when pot is used, except the poor user.

No crimes against others ever occur due to pot addiction.

Nobody gets damaged from pot usage.

But, you clearly are filtering your perception of 'the facts' through some ridiculous, overly naive, anarchistic, and narrowminded set of feelings, where, apparently, the rights of the individual should reign supreme, and societal restraints on the individual's freedom should be greatly diminished.

Foolish to even question the state? Apparently, you consider it to be foolish to question the state's sole and obvious intent to impose tyranny over the poor huddled and oppressed masses. So studying the basics of the justice system is irrelevent to you, as it is simply propaganda to enslave the common man's mind. Am I not reading you correctly?

If the population of the earth were exactly 1, it would make perfect sense to do away with all societal constraints. Being as it is more than 1, the societal constraints inevitably play a significant factor, and it then becomes a balance between the individual and society... hopefully a healthy one.

What I am saying, is that it sounds like you should take a few hours and study the basics of the justice system that has evolved over several thousand years, and which forms the basis of our modern day western democratic society. So that you can consider both sides of the equation, instead of just the one.

Then you may have a less radical, a more intelligent, and a more balanced approach to the issue of individual rights vs. societal rights.

Only a fool would choose to ignore the justice system basics and simply continue to rant only about the oppressed rights of the individual.

Your expression of 'feeling ridiculed' reveals much about your own degree of open mindedness and willingness to seriously consider differences of thought.

Buy the book just like I did, and read the first chapter just like I did, and stop whining... just like I did. It's not difficult. Then you won't feel ridiculed anymore.

> Furthermore why does the government get to decide what we can and cannot put
> in our bodies? Aren't we free? Isn't the most basic piece of freedom to own one's own
> body?
Why don't you go to your local thrift shop and spend $3.99 on a high school text book on introductory criminal law, and read the first 20 pages. Then you won't have to ask everybody this question anymore. But, in case you aren't motivated to do so, I can answer the last 2 questions with the same answer for each: Yes and no.

> why is it that so many women in these forums have such dislike for what other people do
> with regards to meeting women from overseas?

It's not REALLY my business, but I was under the impression that I'm allowed to have and give my opinion on things. This IS a Forum, not a "meeting of like minds" website.

> And as far as 'real' women go, ever think that there may be something that
> wrong about American society, or at the very least it is a society that is so weighted to > favoring certain kind of people that others are just left out?

Actually, that's a very American attitude, to think that everyone "should" have the same chance as everyone else (in this case, to marry happily, I guess). IS it a "right" to get to mate? Nope. Not constitutionally and not, apparently, really.

Um, no, it's a universal truth that it is a route for men who have no options with "real" women. I've known four guys who've done this (Filipino and Ukrainian women), all every guy was a real soft milquetoast who was put off by American women (and they, them). It's the option for men who can't get women on their own, so they have to buy a woman, and--if you go by my admittedly too-small sample--only a 25% "success" rate.

> I could just as easily say that evolution is responsible for women who consistently > choose losers (i.e., ``bad boy'' syndrome), in that women are genetically programmed to > seek traits which are not useful in modern society.

The fact that women, myself included, love “bad boys” is that these men posses many of the same qualities that good men do but they have a bit of a dangerous edge to them. They are exciting, daring, take risks, are non conformists…..the very qualities that most successful men possess.

But you are doing something that is illegal and do you want your daughter to grow up and tell her friends, "My mommy smokes pot!". She'll figure it out one day. Trust me.

I just think a baseball cap at that age is a total turn off .

forumphantom profoundly gets the bigger picture!

You never know these days. Montel Williams did one using craigslist with a buxom blonde and found the majority were married guys looking to cheat.

Left me wondering how it'd work if they used a piece of manmeat who and what they would reel in. And why they did not do it for the other sex? Maybe it would not get the ratings they wanted. Maybe they did and never used it.