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I dunno, Lex.
I think I've been doing it wrong for quite a while now. lol |
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It sometimes amazes me the number of people who look at my profile. Then again, it sometimes amazes me that dogs aren't better at algebra, so maybe that's not particularly relevant. But seriously -- there are people looking at my profile from all over the world (and elsewhere), and sometimes I have to stop and think about the fact that I'm so "out there" to every normal and/or loony person who chooses to take a peek. It's daunting sometimes; a little bit like wanting to take a shower even though there was a big spider in there yesterday, and you think you squished him, but sometimes they have a habit of coming back to life and scaring the behoozis out of you. But that's how these things work. When you've been on a site for 3 years and you've made 24,000 posts, people are going to be curious. They're going to wonder "What's wrong with this guy that he can make 24,000 posts in 3 years? What kind of life is that?" In my own defense, I would like to note that I've seen people make 24,000 posts in 3 [b[days, but that doesn't happen too much anymore. It's contrary to the laws of physics. And, really, 24,000 posts in 3 years comes down to 8,000 a year, or about 22 a day. It's not really that much, if you think about it. Or even if you don't. But here's the problem -- I am naturally inclined to be curious about the people looking at my profile, so I look at theirs. And they are always 48 years old, and they have three kids and, as they never hesitate to mention, "THEY ARE MY WORLD." I have reached the conclusion that the only women left on the face of the planet are all 48 years old with 3 kids. When did this happen? I have heard of no such catastrophe that would have eliminated all other women from existence, and yet it must be so! The reason I put this in "Dating & Relationships" is because I am trying to come up with a way to use my forum posts and profile for the purpose of obtaining some dating and relationships. This seems reasonable to me, although I have a long history of not really understanding what "reasonable" means to most people. But how can I effectively do this if the only people who look at my profile are total non-prospects? I need to find a way to make myself, my profile, my posts, my shoes, more appealing to the six or seven people left on the planet who don't have kids. This is a difficult thing. Especially if they're on MySpace. Don't worry, we all do it wrong once in awhile. Speaking of...I knew there was a reason I matched with you! From Russia with Love.  |
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My dog is terrible at algebra. Sometimes I feel like I'm throwing money away on his tutor.
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Good Morning
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But how can I effectively do this if the only people who look at my profile are total non-prospects? I need to find a way to make myself, my profile, my posts, my shoes, more appealing to the six or seven people left on the planet who don't have kids. This is a difficult thing. Especially if they're on MySpace. Lex. Lex. Maybe they are 30 and childless when they START reading your profile... |
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But how can I effectively do this if the only people who look at my profile are total non-prospects? I need to find a way to make myself, my profile, my posts, my shoes, more appealing to the six or seven people left on the planet who don't have kids. This is a difficult thing. Especially if they're on MySpace. Lex. Lex. Maybe they are 30 and childless when they START reading your profile... BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! 18 years to read his profile sounds just about right...LMAO |
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But how can I effectively do this if the only people who look at my profile are total non-prospects? I need to find a way to make myself, my profile, my posts, my shoes, more appealing to the six or seven people left on the planet who don't have kids. This is a difficult thing. Especially if they're on MySpace. Lex. Lex. Maybe they are 30 and childless when they START reading your profile... BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! 18 years to read his profile sounds just about right...LMAO I cut it down to a couple of hours...but then again, I'm a rather quick reader.
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But how can I effectively do this if the only people who look at my profile are total non-prospects? I need to find a way to make myself, my profile, my posts, my shoes, more appealing to the six or seven people left on the planet who don't have kids. This is a difficult thing. Especially if they're on MySpace. Lex. Lex. Maybe they are 30 and childless when they START reading your profile... Yeah, maybe I should move some of that criteria stuff closer to the top! Might have a chance to get them while they're still young....! Some brilliant Hollywood type is going to eventually see the potential of making my profile into a movie -- it will be tough to prune it down to 2 hours or so, but, hey, my work on it is already done, so I'm good with it.... |
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But how can I effectively do this if the only people who look at my profile are total non-prospects? I need to find a way to make myself, my profile, my posts, my shoes, more appealing to the six or seven people left on the planet who don't have kids. This is a difficult thing. Especially if they're on MySpace. Lex. Lex. Maybe they are 30 and childless when they START reading your profile... Yeah, maybe I should move some of that criteria stuff closer to the top! Might have a chance to get them while they're still young....! Some brilliant Hollywood type is going to eventually see the potential of making my profile into a movie -- it will be tough to prune it down to 2 hours or so, but, hey, my work on it is already done, so I'm good with it.... We just need Johnny Depp.
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But how can I effectively do this if the only people who look at my profile are total non-prospects? I need to find a way to make myself, my profile, my posts, my shoes, more appealing to the six or seven people left on the planet who don't have kids. This is a difficult thing. Especially if they're on MySpace. Lex. Lex. Maybe they are 30 and childless when they START reading your profile... Yeah, maybe I should move some of that criteria stuff closer to the top! Might have a chance to get them while they're still young....! Some brilliant Hollywood type is going to eventually see the potential of making my profile into a movie -- it will be tough to prune it down to 2 hours or so, but, hey, my work on it is already done, so I'm good with it.... We just need Johnny Depp. Yeah, he'd be great! As long as he's not llamaphobic.... |
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It's interesting reading your post lex, and i'm sure a few of us understand. The question for me would be. Do the ones that send an email understand. Some might, but it still led you to make this post, and at the same time were not getting any younger.
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It's interesting reading your post lex, and i'm sure a few of us understand. The question for me would be. Do the ones that send an email understand. Some might, but it still led you to make this post, and at the same time were not getting any younger. Hay, Shadow, long time, no see! As to the question -- I'm not really sure I know the answer. Do they understand? On balance, I would suppose not. I mean, I haven't seen much evidence to indicate it! Let me put it another way -- somebody reads my profile, they take offense to the fact that I have preferences, and they write me a long letter explaining why my preferences are wrong, and why I should scrap everything I want in a partner and just do what they think is best for me. I'm thinking this is not necessarily the best approach. Realistically, I'll pretty much write back to anybody who writes to me. That's not a problem. I just have this philosophy that, if someone takes the time to write, they deserve the courtesy of a reply. I know that not everyone feels that way, but whatever. BUT -- and this just happened a couple days ago -- someone writes and says she loves my profile, and she thinks we're a perfect match for each other, and all of the things that we should do when we get together, etc., and then I go look at her profile, and discover that there is no way she read mine, what am I supposed to do? I wrote back and explained that it was impossible, and I told her why -- it was information from her own profile. And she writes back and says that the stuff she put in her profile about all of that isn't true (then why put it there in the first place?) and that there are, therefore, no obstacles to our being together. If you ignore the fact that she is very very far away from me. She says "Distance is not an issue!" It is to me! |
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Edited by
TheShadow
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Fri 01/29/10 12:20 PM
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It's interesting reading your post lex, and i'm sure a few of us understand. The question for me would be. Do the ones that send an email understand. Some might, but it still led you to make this post, and at the same time were not getting any younger. Hay, Shadow, long time, no see! As to the question -- I'm not really sure I know the answer. Do they understand? On balance, I would suppose not. I mean, I haven't seen much evidence to indicate it! Let me put it another way -- somebody reads my profile, they take offense to the fact that I have preferences, and they write me a long letter explaining why my preferences are wrong, and why I should scrap everything I want in a partner and just do what they think is best for me. I'm thinking this is not necessarily the best approach. Realistically, I'll pretty much write back to anybody who writes to me. That's not a problem. I just have this philosophy that, if someone takes the time to write, they deserve the courtesy of a reply. I know that not everyone feels that way, but whatever. BUT -- and this just happened a couple days ago -- someone writes and says she loves my profile, and she thinks we're a perfect match for each other, and all of the things that we should do when we get together, etc., and then I go look at her profile, and discover that there is no way she read mine, what am I supposed to do? I wrote back and explained that it was impossible, and I told her why -- it was information from her own profile. And she writes back and says that the stuff she put in her profile about all of that isn't true (then why put it there in the first place?) and that there are, therefore, no obstacles to our being together. If you ignore the fact that she is very very far away from me. She says "Distance is not an issue!" It is to me! Well like you said, if she read your profile she wouldn't have sent an email. This comes back to what I should have explained more on about, do they understand and you actually answered it already. She had no clue what she was getting into with you lol Reading a profile might be a way for some people to get to see what somone might be like. But, as we all know most profiles end up being the same way, and on top of it all, like she said, all of what was on her profile isn't true. So for me it leads to, do I want to take that time and see if this person is worth getting to know or will they make it easy and ill go on my way. Like she did to you and say you two were a perfect match. I know you know this already. Although if she sent an email to me, and she explained that she felt we had some things in common and wanted to share them with me, but understood there are some bumps on this road. I would have had an open mind to the conversation.I have met some women that expected me to get all emotional and attached to them on the net knowing we will never meet. It's just nuts! and it's somthing that will never happen with me. Oh, by the way it's good seeing you. |
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I know you know this already. Although if she sent an email to me, and she explained that she felt we had some things in common and wanted to share them with me, but understood there are some bumps on this road. I would have had an open mind to the conversation.I have met some women that expected me to get all emotional and attached to them on the net knowing we will never meet. It's just nuts! and it's somthing that will never happen with me. I just don't understand why they can't have at least a little bit of honesty/reality in the communication, ya know? I mean, if she didn't read my profile, fine -- but SAYING she did, and then going on to make numerous comments which prove otherwise, doesn't give me a very positive impression! And then telling me the disqualifiers in her profile are suddenly not even true -- well, that's a huge red flag. And the RUSH RUSH RUSH thing, the "I think we're a perfect match," that's got to go -- slow down, already, I haven't even had a chance to check her profile for bad grammar! I keep hoping that maybe one day, I'll get an e-mail from someone who says something like "Hey, I read your profile, you sound interesting, and I'd like to know more," from someone who is actually some sort of dating/relationship prospect. Before I'm 90. |
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Oh, by the way it's good seeing you. Good seeing you, too! Us long-timers are getting rare around these parts, and you've been here longer than I have!
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this is kind of scary,actually..
ive been reading thru the glorious profiles thread,and was firmly convinced that you are a cool guy..then i found out you are an author too... ps thanks a million for the great reads. anyways,after reading thru this thread,i say to myself..if this guy here cant find anyone,and hes the Man,then what are the odds for me....? pps..why no kids?..if you dont mind me asking. |
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I just trolled you. 41, no kids. Just doin' my part to mess with your stats!
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Just have to say...in this day and age, with the callous ways people treat their marriages, like they are disposable your going to find woman with children. When i got married i thought it would be forever, so having my 3 kids was a dream. How could i have known my husband wld cheat on me, and leave me a single mom? And of course dating has been hard, because i do have 3 kids. However i met an amazing man that loves me, and he loves my kids. I wasn't look for a dad for them, they have that. And most woman aren't looking for daddies. They are looking for love. I guess iam just saying don't close your mind to woman with children. you very well might miss out, on the perfect women. And like my guy say's...Now i have four people to love me, how could it be any better.
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this is kind of scary,actually.. ive been reading thru the glorious profiles thread,and was firmly convinced that you are a cool guy..then i found out you are an author too... ps thanks a million for the great reads. anyways,after reading thru this thread,i say to myself..if this guy here cant find anyone,and hes the Man,then what are the odds for me....? Actually, I think your odds are much greater than mine. Here's why: For whatever reason, there are some here who have made the decision (consciously or otherwise) to see me as someone who is too "intimidating" and "complicated" (two of the more popular assessments!) to bother getting to know. Which is fine -- but may be based on erroneously-perceived attitudes and opinions. I'm probably the wrong one to ask, as I'm kind of in the middle of it. I admit to being "selective," but that's something I think most of us are (or should be), albeit to varying degrees. See, I know what happens when I'm NOT "selective." I'd prefer not to go through all that again. Some people who fall outside my "dating parameters" tend to take it personally and can become (and have, occasionally, become) extremely outspoken (in a nasty way!), as if I had somehow gone out of my way to exclude them because they were horrible, horrible people. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth -- most of my friends on this site are people who have kids -- !! (Largely a function of math, yes, because there AREN'T any people who DON'T have kids; but my point is that even some people with kids can get along with me quite nicely if they understand that my preferences are just preferences and not crusades....) In your case, assuming you enter into the equation without the type of "baggage" I carry, which I have attempted to describe above, I don't see any reason why you couldn't find someone quite wonderful here....! pps..why no kids?..if you dont mind me asking. Rob, when I was younger, I went through a period where I dated several consecutive (may have been overlapping, now that I think about it; it was a LONG time ago) older, divorced women with kids. In every one of those cases, the women weren't looking for a relationship at all -- they were looking for someone to come in and play Daddy. Being young and stupid and gullible beyond words, I played along -- and learned, eventually, that I simply had no aptitude for, nor interest in, being a "parent," real or otherwise. When I was studying psychology, a clinical psychologist once told me, "If you haven't seen good parenting, you'll never really know what it is." I realized that my own parents never should have had kids. They were totally unqualified for the job, and did so only out of the sort of societal inertia/expectation that pervades so much of the American mindset. At 22, I decided I would not reproduce. I knew it would be a bad fit for me. A couple years later, I decided I did not want to be involved with anyone who had kids, or who wanted kids. I'm a strong believer in "preventative medicine." Having seen the sorts of things that people I've known have gone through with their marriages/kids/etc., I can only thank whatever dumb luck it was that led me to the decision I made so many years ago. |
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Oh, by the way it's good seeing you. Good seeing you, too! Us long-timers are getting rare around these parts, and you've been here longer than I have! Being on this sit longer then you. I don't know if that is a good thing or not. JK Hm, now that I look at it. As long as I been on this site. I can say I have run into some interesting situations from some people on this site. I don't know whats going to happen next  but I think that is a part of what makes me keep coming back other then friends.
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