Five Years Today
Yep, five years and it feels like yesterday when I first stumbled across Connecting Singles after googling for “Connecting Terminals for Single Wires” while fixing a washing machine. I joined the next day and life had never been the same for I became a CS addict. Of course I was not allowed to post immediately. That was the longest week in my life.
Five eventful years it was; especially the first two. Lots of fighting on the blogs and I even managed to get a few blogs deleted and got myself suspended once; mercifully for only ten days. Mind you, with all the times I went AWOL I can probably only claim four years on-site. Just in 2017 I was missing from mid February until mid November.
During my sojourn here I met some great people; sadly some of them have left us.
Also met a bunch of arseholes; mostly trolls and sadly some of them are still with us. I have no doubt that some are just as keen to see me closing the door from the outside. Bad luck! I’m here to stay for a while longer.
Then there were the weird ones. They come and go and it is not always easy to keep track of who is who when they reincarnate. But I enjoy them; they keep things interesting. How boring it would be without them!
And finally, of course, there were the scammers but what will a social site be without scammers. At least they kept my mailbox going those days. Mind you, I have not been troubled with scammers so much lately; I think they have me black listed. I used to mess them around too much; thinking out new excuses why the money has not arrived kept me quite busy those days. :uhuh:
If I subtract the 52,400 ±10 Private Messages from scammers, gays and men (those that I have deleted from my mail box) from those who have viewed my profile, I’m left with exactly 109 (estimated and not reviewed by peers
) ±10 real women who had viewed my profile. When you consider some of them viewed my profile more than once, it is even less. 
All in all the blogs had gone quiet. Lately the only fights we get are about politics and religion. So boring; I wish they would ban those two topics; it does not seem to promote romancing.
Seven people commented on my first blog and four of them stand out today. See my first comment about them.
But never mind the niggles, this is still the best social site on the planet. I don’t bother with Facebook, Whatsapp, Skype and the likes. CS is tops and I’m looking forward to many more years on this delightful site.
Comments (49)
I hit virtual love almost straight out the box
But it was CS love, sweet but unwholesome, baked only for short-term use, and went vrot within the year so hey, I now twitch my curtains as I watch life in the CS village, and knit as the heads roll ...
Time sure flies. And if you stay away from CS for anything longer than three weeks the faces have changed. Can you imagine the confusion when I came back after an absence of nine months It was like walking into a mew site.
Thanks but the fizzy will have to wait for next month. There is a more important event coming up on this day next month.
And I never heard of that guy you mention so for me he certainly doesn't personify CS
The people who posted on my first Biff blog - well, case in point, all blank silhouettes until you, Lou, Crazy. Although most are blank because they have become dormant profiles. That's another reason I hate the blank silhouette. It's like being at a seance.
I'm a little testy this morning, woken at sparrows by jackhammering in the street. Third cup of coffee may be the charm.
Yes, that is something that did change. When I first came here the generic picture was seldom seen. Now even bloggers who had faces before are faceless. Seems to be the trend at the time.
Cat, of course I know Boban
And Guzman is still hanging around the forums if you are looking for him.
I probably joined about the same time as you, but didn't hit the forums for another couple of years.
I will always be eternally grateful to CS for a number of reasons.
Even the proliferation of fundamentalist blogs and threads can't take that away.
I suppose now that I have completed my apprenticeship I may start blogging.
I wish the asylum would give me some more time to blog.
most people seems to forget that none of us here are experts. it is all opinion and does not really count for everything..
And I still think the earth is flat.
Of course you will know him.
And I don't mind you with a blank face; I still remember your pic even if it did not show much
Well, as the generic pics are the trend I may as well go blank as well, I just cannot get the last pic deleted.
mind you I have not tried it since we have the new site interface
As Biff said, seeing a row of blank pics is a bit disconcerting
It is even hard to pick out yourself
Hmm, that is something I did not think about. And being vain as I am, how will I stand out if I looked the same as everybody else.
You're so right. and now I'm going to apply my charm to some luckless lady at the supermarket.
Congrats on ur Anniversary.
Hope u buy yourself somethibg nice to celebrate !!
Thanks.
Well, I have a bottle of cheap export wine in the fridge. We have learned quickly. We no longer export our best.
Why should we when we get the same price for junk. This fella really though he did me a favor when he gave me this box ox vinegar. And now I owe him. I wonder what he wants. One should not criticize a gift but some people never give something without expecting something in return.
I'll soon know what he's after.
Things are very orderly now.
After a week on the site, Simmo was having a fight with two other guys who were banned some time ago and poor Robrt was dragged into it.And everybody climbed in. The whole of blogland was divided into two camps. It was crazy.
good grief, I said to myself, I must rather go to the forums. It may be safer there.
Spent an half hour there to discover it was worse . So I rather posted an article to get away from the politics. It was madness those days.
Well if he gave u a box of vinegar the only logical thing is to give him some fish and chips in return!!
Knowing him, he's gonna be after more than fish and chips. I can already see him walking out here with an open box with three or four bottles of bottles of sour wine it it.
What do they say: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
I remember when you came into the Blogs.....
Yes, you were on of the first to become friends with me. I wonder if the
I had been on Cs for a while just don't remember, but is was Cailin who introduced me to the Blog's. I posted my first blog on 10-31-2013. At the time I didn't know I was in for the ride of my life
Keep on blogging my friend
so you're also clocking five years a bit a bit later this year.
Yep, blogging is a ride and a half. A roller-coaster of sorts.
Nope! I don't remember him. Give me more details!....
He had a funny Name... I just went to search it his name is whtwhb. Really weird. And paranoid. I see he still has a profile here.
Yes! Now I Remember.....
But I agree, it's quietly boring these days. I miss the interesting ones.
Long live and blog Catfoot. You put up some interesting blog.
I don't think CS gives us this information. But something else very important in my life also happened here in the real world five years ago on the 23rd of January, 2013. It is a date that will remain with me until I die.