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Fri 04/24/26 07:07 AM

I believe that scammers, on the whole, are not the cleverest people.

I think it was that "Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller" show that interviewed scammers and talked to them about the things that they do. One of the things that was talked about was the poor grammar, which they said was on purpose. When you are scamming someone, you want to weed out the intelligent people. The lower educated are easier to scam. I figure it works the same with the location also, make some guy believe he found a small town girl...lol


Interesting thought. I may have underestimated the scammers.

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Thu 04/23/26 08:08 PM
Edited by PeterB on Thu 04/23/26 08:14 PM
I believe that scammers, on the whole, are not the cleverest people. However, giving "credit" where it's due, they are very good at manipulating people.

Let me give you a couple of examples of scammers' stupidity:

1. Village A has a population of 423 (according to a web search). I have had 40+ likes by people claiming to be women and who claim to be from that village. Thus, if they are a) real, b) actually female, and c) actually live in village A, we see that about 20% of all females (of all ages) in that village like me. If we take age distribution and Mingle2 membership into account, it's significantly more than 40%. The odds are that a very large percentage of these are scammers.

2. Another village, B, has a population of 168. I have had 55 likes from that village, or 65% of all females in that village. Taking age distribution and Mingle2 membership into account, we're getting a very large scammer percentage indeed.

3. A third village, C, has a population of 213. I have only had one female from C who liked me. I'd be inclined to provisionally believe that one.

Were the scammers of even average intelligence, they would not claim to be from villages small enough that they can be exposed by using simple calculations.

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Fri 04/17/26 11:19 AM

С россии, хочу 30-35 сочную, жду


You may not have realized that the language for this web site is English.

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Sun 04/12/26 07:06 PM
I agree. To me, the important things, in order of importance, are a good heart, a compatible personality, and a good brain.

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Tue 04/07/26 05:48 PM
I suggest that you put more text in the "About me" section.

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Wed 03/25/26 07:19 AM
Your profile has two major problems. There's no text in the "About" section and there are too many "No answer" responses in the section on details about you.

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Tue 03/24/26 07:00 AM

Kind of curious what picture I should make my profile picture


A good set of pictures. I see no reason to change the set. The main picture is a good one. If it works, why change it?

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Mon 03/16/26 01:02 PM

If your date has no nose, how do they smell?


Badly

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Mon 03/02/26 08:05 PM

Interestingly, frogs don’t drink through their mouths, they absorb moisture through their skin instead.


Also interestingly, the fairy tales never tell where the protagonist of one sex kisses the frog that is an enchanted person of the other sex.

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Sat 02/28/26 07:03 AM
I know nothing about it, but -- for those interested -- Wikipedia has a long article about it.

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Thu 02/26/26 06:17 PM
Edited by PeterB on Thu 02/26/26 06:29 PM



About to date a woman who has three Exs.
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Fool me once: shame on you.
Fool me twice: shame on me.
Fool me thrice: I'm incorrigible.

Could be me, but I fail to see how what you say relates to what you quote?
There's nothing weird about someone having 3 exes unless they're 20 maybe.
At a certain age having 2-5 exes is pretty common.
And it also has no relevance to the OP not learning.


I thought it was obvious, but apparently it wasn't. Having too many exes seems, to me, to indicate that the person 1) has difficulties making up their mind or 2) is not thinking things through before entering into a relationship or 3) is rushing into a relationship before both parties are ready. I'm 82 and have only two exes (not counting one-night stands) and the last one was my wife. We were married for 46 years, until she died. Had I had many relationships, it would clearly demonstrate that I had an incorrigible tendency (and an inability to learn from my mistakes) to get into doomed relationships. BTW, having many exes tells me that there's a problem with at least one of the protagonists.

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Thu 02/26/26 01:41 PM
Edited by PeterB on Thu 02/26/26 01:42 PM

About to date a woman who has three Exs.
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Fool me once: shame on you.
Fool me twice: shame on me.
Fool me thrice: I'm incorrigible.

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Sun 02/22/26 09:41 AM
Edited by PeterB on Sun 02/22/26 09:43 AM
You're certainly beautiful enough.

I believe you would benefit from adding text to the "About" section of your profile.

Furthermore, to use a cliche, good things come to those who wait.

Best of luck!

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Thu 02/19/26 06:57 AM
Edited by PeterB on Thu 02/19/26 06:57 AM

Judge my profile like a talent show........what's my score?


2 out of 5. You don't say anything about yourself, such as your interests, what you want in a partner, etc.

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Wed 02/18/26 05:57 PM
Edited by PeterB on Wed 02/18/26 06:02 PM

Have been so many places but I couldn’t find love or true friendship.


I suggest that you start by putting some information in your profile. A profile that contains only one (although, admittedly, attractive) photo isn't going to interest anybody; too many scammers have empty profiles. In particular, you need to tell people about yourself and your interests. The more people can find common ground with you, the more likely they are to contact you.

In particular, many are interested in your religion and whether you want children.

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Wed 02/18/26 10:21 AM
Edited by PeterB on Wed 02/18/26 10:26 AM

... New York, New York, ...


Minor nit: of the places you list, (city of) New York, (county of) New York, (state of) New York is actually real. Additionally, Colorado, Colorado is reasonable but imprecise; there are two towns called Colorado City and Old Colorado City in Colorado; the latter is a suburb of Colorado Springs.

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Fri 02/13/26 11:48 AM
Edited by PeterB on Fri 02/13/26 11:52 AM
Huge difference is, to some extent, in the mind of the beholder.

That said, I'm 82 and have my age limit set at 60 to 105, or 82 +- 22.

Few people remain spry at, or even live to, 105. The one person who liked me and allegedly was over 100 had a picture of a woman in her twenties. An obvious scammer.

I find that a mismatch between picture and alleged age is a clear indication of a scammer.

Since I don't contact or reply to a message from somebody who I suspect is a scammer, I don't know for sure whether that somebody actually is a scammer. Better safe than sorry, to use a tired cliche.

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Fri 02/13/26 10:10 AM
I suggest adding some text in "About Godsway"

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Thu 02/12/26 02:18 PM
Edited by PeterB on Thu 02/12/26 02:23 PM

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First off, let me clarify that to be in a long distance relationship to me means that you have met in person but live in different cities that are a ways away. If you have to think about stopping at gas stations or getting on a plane to see each other then I would call that long distance. I do not consider just talking online to be a relationship, that is more of a pen-pal thing.

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To me, that seems to be a workable definition.

My point, probably based on my early training in mathematics, is that you can't meaningfully discuss a subject until the other party clearly knows what you mean by saying something.

With definitions out of the way, I don't think that a relationship can work unless you and the other person can regularly and easily meet face to face.

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Thu 02/12/26 12:22 PM
Edited by PeterB on Thu 02/12/26 12:28 PM

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let's say two different countries.


Still imprecise. Think of Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City ...

You need to specify distance or time of travel.

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