Aren't you just the wee package of dynamite starraven.
Thanks for the compliment, I've heard worse about my attempt to explain myself to women here.

I completely empathize, about running your own business - I only took a vacation twice in the first 17 years of my general contracting business and worked better than 12-14 hours a day/7 days a week at it.
BUT..I always made time for teacher/parent meetings, kids' sports games, doctor visits - things that truly mattered to my 2 boys' upbringing & didn't just dump the load on my spouse like some typical "trad-wife" husband might.
In fact, that's probably what killed me because otherwise I was in prime physical condition, exercised through physical labor at work, ate properly, and didn't over-abuse drugs or alcohol.
(Tetch of the herb now & again.)

Smoking & too much snausage & cheese are probably the most likely culprits behind my heart attack, but this is Wisconsin so what's a fella to do?

Been all the way across B.C. on a trip through Banff and wow, are you ever lucky to live in nature's paradise.
I have a funny joke involving the acronym B.C. - probably one of the funniest I've ever read, but it would be off-topic here.

Never been the lucky type, which is why I've never ever purchased a lottery ticket.
In truth, aside from lightning striking me in love against enormous odds, the only thing I've ever won was the heart of my late wife.
I still don't understand WHY she ever adopted me but I consider it better than winning the $2billion powerball so maybe I was lucky - once.

Hold my beer.
Okay, got a good grip on my beer?
Maybe sit down now, because here is the coup-de-grace that's going to shatter your kingship.

https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/kbvYe4CVSOSav9Yrezf3fg.Ntakp90sTIdn5lmB6fRIwL


How the heck does one post a picture that shows up?
That's just one I stored on Amazon Photos for this occasion.

You're better off than me.
I don't subscribe to Instiprints, WazzApp, Siganal, or Telegraffiti, Facebook dating only works as a app on cellys (which I don't use) & several other "free" sites I've tried are useless for anyone seriously seeking a Silver-age match.

I'm not about to start paying for a dating site that can't even deliver a modicum of usefulness on the "free" level, it'd just be more of the same rubbish and probably even more scammers thinking if I'm so desperate to pay a dating web site I'm a sure-bet sukker to ask for gift cards or money.

So google image search is about all there is available for me to check photos.
Surprisingly it works about 25%-30% of the time - though the AI doing the searching tends to look for the clothing or jewelry in a photo a lot more than the face recognition.

If you crop down to face only it generally returns that the image is not a celebrity and is likely from a profile on a private dating site which google AI is forbidden to scrape for information - although it does occasionally find that person if they are an "influencer" with a web presence hawking their wares.
Those mostly turn out to be fake profiles where somebody swiped the inflencer's photo & posted on the dating site - whether harmlessly to conceal their own actual identity from searches or as a scam.

This account was a dead-ender for nearly a year, so I decided to start over.
This was before I learned about deactivating and deleting accounts.
I'm not trying to fool anybody, not consciously trying to break any site rules, I'm just a little bit lonely old widower trying to get lucky enough to maybe find love for the 2nd time in my life.

The FishingMan account worked - at least before it went under review - so that's the one I prefer to use, but now can't.

If the price of getting back access to FishingMan is that this account has to go into deactivation, I can work with that.
I just wouldn't want to completely delete this one because I put a lot of work into it already and any corresponding women could be informed that I have a newer, different account now.

(I still say the acceptance/rejection of profile photos is highly arbitrary because several were removed from that account but appear to be just fine on this one.)

Thanks for your considered reply TxsGal.

I'd very much like to live on into the future if only to see what becomes of us.
With a near infinite lifespan novelty would keep you occupied for a very long time but eventually most everything would become repetitions on a theme and at that point living might not be as desirable as it once seemed or one might decide that the last novelty is to experience death.

As to how old or at what age I would prefer to be - old enough to know better but still young enough not to care.
With longevity hopefully comes wisdom, so the primary concern would be what physical age presents the most options for novelty - which I believe to be around 25-30 years old.
You've escaped the raging hormones of youth, you still have all the stamina in the world, and wouldn't yet have started to notice that metabolic decline that characterizes aging.

Plus, on the ego side, 25-30 is probably the age you would be most attractive to friends and partners - both young and old.

The final consideration is of course whether you would be a unicorn or whether or not there existed others like you who also are near-immortals.
Losing friends and especially those whom you love deeply would be an incessant and terrible burden - one which you MIGHT finally become inured to - but probably not when it comes to losing someone you love deeply.

If there are others then it seems likely that group would become self-contained just to avoid the envy or hatred of normally mortal folks, which seems to me a rather limiting and shallow existence and results in far less novelty, which is my primary motivation for wanting to be near-immortal to begin with.

You would be caught in a trap of living outside the group and experiencing the losses that would be so heartbreaking and lead to depression, or staying within the group and never experiencing a wide range of emotions that only the "headed for dying" can fully understand.

It is truly a complex philosophical idea that could engage one for an eternity & still never produce a definitive answer.

jessicawoods

{chuckles out loud}
Given the theme of this tread, the obvious answer is to BE one of those women who want sex all the time.
In 15 minutes you'll have more friends than you know what to do with, even if you know what to do with them.

Your profile photo has already given you "a leg up" so to speak. (Pun intended.)

Gentleman that I am, just being around you and able to admire you would be enough for me, and as I am rather good at organization I'd even go so far as to offer to interview, mediate, and arrange assignation times for your new "friends" (with benefits) without compensation - aside from, like I mentioned, being able to see and admire you doing ordinary daily "you" things.
(Accra, Greater Accra Region is rather a long ways from Wisconsin USA, however, so there could be some likely logistics issues involved with all this, of course, but I am a resourceful fella.)

J/K and thanks in advance for hopefully being a good sport about all this. Hope I made you laugh and brought a wee bit of sunshine into your day.


Sincerely yours;
Your newest friend.

(Should I, with your permission of course, click on the "Like" heart on your profile?)

So nice of Mingle2 to deactivate FishingMan's account for complaining here.
No small wonder this site gets such terrible reviews on the web.
Any moderator with enough hutzpuh to directly face me would be more than welcomed.
Reasonable people should be able to reach reasonable solutions without going all nuclear over peanuts.

Would that I could but nobody, on this site anyway, has done more than ask me for my (cell) phone number so we can text each other.
I don't USE a cell phone.
I have a cordless base set with 3 wireless handsets that only display Caller ID.
I hand out my number regularly to all of them and ask them to call, so we can talk.
Guess how many have called?
Yep, NONE - furthermore they immediately stop communication on the message system here as well.

Either they are guys catphishing, which would immediately become apparent in a voice conversation, "escorts" looking for old guy customers, or they are mutes who cannot speak.
Either way they are not serious people and are not TRULY looking to find a meaningful relationship here.

I find it sad really, because I am a brilliant conversationalist, well-educated on almost any subject, and like nothing more than to spend time talking with and listening to women.
Heck, I end up having long conversations with customer service ladies when I call companies about stuff and invariably they thank me for brightening up their day.
(Lawdy call-answering must be mind-numbing work if I'm the one making their day.)

There is only 1 thing that could make me change from an agnostic to a believer.
Stop all the pain & suffering being caused by the azzhats of the world trying to get richer/more powerful/more control over others.
If that happened, if war and child abuse suddenly stopped happening all over the world - then yes, I could become a believer.
I wouldn't even have to see this deity, just proof of its works in that way would be enough.

On the flip side let's say there is some sort of prime mover, a god or gods that actually do exist.
Even if that were true - in fact even more so because of that existence AND still the suffering goes on - then any such "deity" is a terrible thing and certainly not deserving of worship and obeisance by any sane human being.

What is most astonishing to me is that people in massive numbers can worship such an idea IN SPITE OF that entity's failures to deliver kindness and end suffering - it's as though they are worshiping the evil and suffering itself - which is why, in addition to being an agnostic on the subject of a prime mover (there is not 1 single indisputable proof of such a being throughout history, aside from tall tales handed down for millennia) I am also someone who views "religious" people with great disdain.

Not those who are spiritual, mind you, just the ones going around promoting this brand or the other of "religion".
They are intellectually lazy, substituting effort to gain knowledge with simple "faith"/"belief", and have NEVER seriously questioned the subject matter.

Not saying I am any sort of expert on the matter either but I did spend my formative years surrounded by the church and its teachings and even studied all the major religions, and some of the minor ones, for 2 years during high school.
It is most likely that those religious studies are what converted me to agnosticism, aside from the pure azzhattery present in the world and seemingly to me MOST present within those who profess a belief in a religion.

The most decent human being I ever met was my father-in-law.
Not once in the 5 years he was alive after I met him did he ever say 1 thing about religion or try to convert me.
He simply lived every single minute of his life in line with his belief in the goodness of a Catholic version of God who cares about people - which is far better than any supposed creator has ever done on this Earth.

So true..it was by using image searches that I came to realize just how many of the female profiles are just copied & pasted from professional bios of totally unrelated people in far aware places (a petro engineering professional in Dubai claiming to be right here in my home city, for instance).

I had considered that possibility Duttoneer but lying out of the gate seems to be a poor way start any relationship, let alone one with a man such as myself who detests liars with a deep & abiding passion.
I do not lie, not ever, not even to preserve the social niceties (does this dress make me look fat?)
I may be a bit odd, but lying to someone never seemed to turn out well in the end - so I stopped doing it.

If a woman wants an older man, then she should state so in her profile at least and not leave a lingering misimpression drawn from only the matching algorithm's profile headline.
The lingering impressions from that tend to quickly beg the question whether a younger woman is simply seeking a "sugar daddy" because her looks haven't paid off with a man her own age and because older men are generally more financially secure and can give her a life of comfort & ease without working & saving for it.

Not nice to make assumptions but those are cold hard facts surrounding the "self-employed/consultant/free lancer Gen-X women overstating their ages here - many are in fact working women looking for "paying dates" & this is just one more form of advertising no different than backpages or other escort ad venues.

Oh, and thanks for the well-wishes and same to you, if you are also a seeker.

Dunnoe why you seem to have an issue with me personally.
If I offend you so much, stop replying to my posts and giving your unsolicited advice on what constitutes a "proper dating pool" for someone my age.
FYI, my recently deceased wife ALWAYS looked more than 2 decades younger than her age - good genetics one supposes, since she used no cosmetic enhancers - and she was older than I was.

In person it's not difficult to judge age accurately, but photos, which is what we are limited to here unless someone agrees to meet IRL, are an entirely different exercise.
These days many senior women over 60 photograph quite well and do have youthful appearances - albeit nowhere near some of the ones I was posting about - you understand, 25-30 year olds stating they are in their mid-50s to mid-70s, which is how they end up in my match profiles to begin with.

So, are you stating that I should practice reverse ageism whenever a woman seeking a man my age and claiming to be in my age bracket (+/- 15 years) fails to look like a withered old crone?
Or is it that you resent a man my age even looking at any women a couple years younger than you?
(My age search parameter is set at 55-75.)
You claim to live in Zeeland, more than 6,000 miles from Wisconsin.
Perhaps you don't fall into my distance parameter of 100 miles (and not because of your appearance) & that is why I never initiated a conversation with you?
Another FYI, I have always been attracted to women older than myself but that "pool" doesn't seem to have as many fish in it these days.
Perhaps a man my age doesn't have a lot of choices about looks, in the pond he's fishing in.

Am I the only one who notices that about 70% of the match profiles that say 56-70+ of age have photos of young ladies who can barely have reached the age of consent?
Either Mingle2 is randomly assigning ages that are in fact not accurate or they are all liars.

One woman I did have intercourse with (scrape your filth mind out of the gutter - it was social inter-course, as in exchanging messages) admitted in the 2nd exchange that since I was being honest she had to admit she was really 42, not the 62 on her profile.
She lied!
Not that I fell for it because I told her that if she was 62 I was 129 - that's when she fessed up.

So what is it with all these young chickadees claiming to be Silver Citizens?
Are they posting photos of themselves from 30 years ago or just straight up lying about their age for some weird reason?
Oh, and more than half of them have empty profiles, which seems a good way to sift the wheat from the "bot" chaff - empty profile = not a real person.

Ladies, if you want to be taken seriously, put something about yourself in the profile, or do you just want to play "Tinder Hookup" and swipe on hot hunk photos in your matches without anyone knowing anything about you?
I believe they have an app for that called ..... drum roll please .... TINDER !!

Since when do testicles hatch?

My oldest son dated a woman with an autistic child with a 1.5 year old mind, for 8 years.
What broke it up was her oldest boy coming back from the Philippines and moving in and apparently he was jealous of his mother sharing her attention.
If my son could handle THAT for 8 years (I seriously doubt I could have) your daughter is practically a hundred Xmas presents by comparison.
There's a guy out there for you, keep looking until he finds you.

Latest out of CERN is that they've opened a rift to a paralell universe and when they adjust the parameters of the experiment whatever is on the other side appears to give evidence that they are an active intelligence and observing the experiment at CERN.
Would explain UFOs if they are advanced enough to send observation craft across the rift.

I've long held that scientists are being tricked by red shift.
If you've ever shined a flashlight through a glass of muddy water you'll see it's been red shifted a great deal over less than a foot.
If the universe is just dirty space filled with unlit - ergo "dark" - matter, then light would bounce all over the place and red shift as it slows down - making distances assumed to be much farther away because of the amount of red shift.
Then they are not really so far away and any calculations about expansion or distance are meaningless because they are based on a false set of premises.

Where can I find a sale price on a good pitchfork?
There's enough manure (my wife used to laugh out loud every time I said that word) here to keep a person mucking out the stalls for a month.

The UK in general has far superior actors because the vast majority cut their chops on the stage before (and even while) becoming "famous" TV or movie stars.
Give me Nicola Walker, Dame Helen Mirren, or Dame Judy Dench over Margot Robbie, Julia Roberts or whatever flavor of the month walking beauty pageant winner is being sold as the next young "star" in American cinema.
Can't act for shight, none of them.
There's a reason why Bette Davis is still considered the best actress to ever come out of Hollyweird and it wasn't because of her looks.