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Last night, I had a few webpages opened on my browser that I wanted to research in the morning. I put the computer to sleep instead of shutting down like usual. The wake sequence didn't work and I was forced to completely reboot and wait for Windows to do some recovery diagnostics.
The good thing is, I was able to recover the browser pages. After, I cleared the cache file and cookies and restart the browser. Coming to Connecting Singles and checking the new member list (before logging in) showed all new members and not only women as my normal default.

Each page shows 48 new members and there weren't many women joining.
45 men, 3 women on the first page.
44 men, 4 women on the second page.
44 men, 4 women on the third page.

It was night time in North America and I expected to see Europeans joining... that wasn't the case. Guys from Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Kuwait were the majority of new members.

I only checked the first 3 pages, but if this statistic for the most recent 500 to 600 members is the trend, something isn't right.

1 woman for every 12 men are joining.

It wasn't long ago I blogged 'they don't return' in that, scanning the list of new women joining CS drops off sharply after the 2nd page. They come, they look around, they disappear.

Can you formulate what is happening long-term... ?

My thought is:
Unless CS can advertise in places that will bring men and a lot more women from Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Asia, their chances of survival aren't real good.

After what seemed a productive meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco on Wednesday, an offhand remark by Biden could set back the relationship that the two leaders were working to mend.

“After today, would you still refer to President Xi as a dictator?” a CNN reporter asked Biden at the end of a post-summit briefing, referring to the President’s previous labeling of the Chinese leader that has incensed Beijing before.

“Well, look, he is. I mean he’s a dictator in the sense that here’s a guy who runs a country that is a communist country based on a form of government totally different than ours,” Biden responded.

Hopefully men are following instructions and reading this before contacting me...

I used to get upset that all men cared about was the photo on dating sites (or for that matter CL replies) your looks are a result of one minute of creation and how you look is a result of the "good" genetics your parents had, whereas your personality is a result of your sense of humor, intelligence and innate (or not of kindness) and in MY case hours (LOL) of carefully crafting my profile, writing and re-writing!

The photos are to show my puckish sense of humor, I am NOT trying to fool anyone but I know if you are just oogling the photo or bothered to read my profile which (if a person had any brains) could figure out it was taken DECADES ago! I always tell my age so if you think that in my sixties I would look like this, (in my forties though looked like that though!) you're not on the swift side.

I want to find someone who had a puckish sense of humor like me. but also adventurous and curious and DARING, which means willing to see what I look like NOW in person vs. the past, the big hint was should have been wrote you'll have to meet me to see if I have aged like fine wine or do I look like Jabba the Hut. I used to say that this was taken before Reagan was elected but when one guy said his photo might make me throw up but at least it was taken after McCain left the Hanoi Hilton, so even if that was waay (sic) after that, I will keep that in.

I am NOT too stupid to take a good photo as one man said, my caption tells why it looks blurry (though one man thought it showed I had good cheekbones, go figure that!) for god's sake it's a dating site, don't take photos so seriously!!!

A study was done and the result said that women were happier with less attractive men.

Do that mean i am attractive?

The cases against the orange rat are about to swallow him up one way or another.

In chess a gambit is offering up of relative value to be in a much better position.

What is about to be offered is Ivanka.

In a CRIMINAL case against the orange rat, Ivanka has been invited to testify
about what she witnessed, when she asked her father to please make the insurrection end. To tell the insurrectionists to go home.
Now, this is her real opportunity to be a real patriot. She can tell the truth and save her butt as a bonus. Sure, it would help convict her father, but that's just a matter of time anyway.
It would spare jail time for her, and that's a bonus.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't expect that is what will happen. Indeed, most people don't.
More likely, like Eric Trump, she will attempt to cover up for her father with evocation of 5th amendment cries. So far, they have been effective in delaying justice in the Congressional and the Civil cases against the orange rat.

But, this is much different, It is a CRIMINAL case. They do not play that game,
If someone refuses to testify, they are held in contempt, arrested, held in custody and then, when the prosecution is ready, forced to answer questions under oath.

Don't get me wrong, I don't believe Ivanka has the integrity to testify against her father. She will likely ATTEMPT to evade answering. It's just not going to work and it will likely force the DOJ to make it's first public move in siding with the prosecution.
That initial public involvement will hasten their own case against the orange rat.
So far, they have just quietly laid back, collecting evidence without publicly appearing to be involved.
So, Ivanka has a choice, But, the case against the orange rat will likely be strengthened either way. Do you feel lucky Ivanka ? Do ya ?

Don’t be surprised if Novak Djokovic in just a few years will make his comeback as one of the world's biggest sports names.

It is not the first time a world champion has been knocked out for not doing what the politicians ordered him to do. Right now, many are very satisfied - but in hindsight, the process against Nole will be seen as grotesque and completely unreasonable. And people will be ashamed of the racist undertones and lies that the political circus is currently driven by.

Muhammad Ali was also not doing what the politicians demanded. The boxer would not allow himself to enlist in the U.S. Army and take part in the Vietnam War. And the punishment was harsh and unfair: a sentence of five years in prison. He was deprived of his boxing license, his World Cup belts - people would not even recognize his name. That was in 1967.

But just three years later, the world looked different. The mood of the people was reversed. There were huge demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the racially divided USA.

Muhammad Ali had thrown his Olympic gold medal into the river after an episode in his hometown Louisville. He had walked into the town's fine restaurant with the medal around his neck and ordered two cheeseburgers.

- We do not serve negroes…
- And I do not eat them! Just give me two cheeseburgers…

The Olympic champion was kicked out of the restaurant just because he was black. And in Vietnam, blacks accounted for a quarter of the casualties, even though they accounted for only 12% of the U.S. population.

The US Supreme Court overturned Muhammad Ali's prison sentence, he was acquitted of all charges. He made a rock-solid comeback when the Champion of the World got his boxing license back.

He was right! He sure was the Greatest, even when he went an impressive 32 laps against the Parkinsons. Billions of viewers saw the sport's biggest icon stand with the torch and with trembling hands light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony in Atlanta. That was in 1996.

Muhammad Ali died in 2016, 74 years old.

Today, all I had learned up until now, would have to be put to the test. I was VERY nervous. This is my future livelihood at stake here. If I fail, then I will be a disgrace not only to myself, but to my friends and family.

Yes, I am very hard on myself.

Anyway, after some breakfast, it was time to pick the assignment. One of 3 categories, like I mentioned yesterday: Stowing, rigging and forklift. I was certain I would pick forklift, since it's the one I have the least practice in. If I picked that, I would certainly fail.

I drew my assignment. It said C. I went over to the table and picked envelope C2. Then, I took my place in front of a computer. We were then told to open up the envelope and look at the assignment.

On the bottom of the page, right there, it said "Stowing a trailer".

All my anxiety. All my nervousness. All my worries. Vanished. Like that! All because I picked stowing, and not forklift. I even picked the trailer that I had practiced on the most, so I was extremely thrilled.

I began to work, taking my time to do it right, but the teachers and the external examiner commented on how fast I was stowing the trailer. Then, one quick load securing later, the test was over.

Long story short: I passed!

I am SO happy!

No supply chain issues involved.

That is how much weight I have lost since last summer when I was diagnosed diabetic and started to eat right. The closest thing I can figure out is that I am sweating out fat. My a** is nothing but a bit of wrinkled hairy skin, skin folds and wrinkles all over my body. If I were to sleep with a woman now, the lights would have to go out, I am awful to look at now I know the skin will eventually go back tight again but its quite different looking at myself now.

I have always had the ‘problem’ of attracting younger men, but only because I look and think/act younger than my actual age. As such, all but 2 of my past relationships/s*xual encounters (not that many), which includes my marriage, were with younger men.

The thing was, what they expected of me and I of them, didn’t mesh well enough to keep the attraction going for very long (especially since I’m not easily impressed and get bored quickly).

Crossing 55 made me determined to only form personal relationships with older men, whose future expectations/outlook on life were more in line with mine, and with whom I could fulfil the need for meaningful companionship.

Idealistic? Maybe. Pragmatic? I think so. Achievable? I certainly hope so. Cheers