How NOT to impress..... (19)

Sep 14, 2009 6:30 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
Don`t you people just love to get mail, read it, and then go to the persons profile........ and realise they Copied and Pasted their profile info to the mail?

I cannot be bothered to even give any sort of reply to that type of stupidity, and usually my non-reply brings forth no further contact. Actually ditto with a reply!

Puzzles me the mind-set people like that must have ....confused grin
Sep 14, 2009 7:17 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
Tulefel
TulefelTulefelGöteborg, Vastra Gotaland Sweden24 Threads 1 Polls 2,848 Posts
smoky: Don`t you people just love to get mail, read it, and then go to the persons profile........ and realise they Copied and Pasted their profile info to the mail?

I cannot be bothered to even give any sort of reply to that type of stupidity, and usually my non-reply brings forth no further contact. Actually ditto with a reply!

Puzzles me the mind-set people like that must have ....


50 % of my mail is of that kind. The first time I’ve got a copy-paste-profile “letter”, I just couldn’t believe my eyes. Now I don’t even wonder what exactly the author wanted to achieve. But I do answer all letters, though some of them only verbally.

grin
Sep 14, 2009 7:31 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
Fallingman
FallingmanFallingmanDublin, Ireland29 Threads 12 Polls 11,436 Posts
Tulefel: 50 % of my mail is of that kind. The first time I’ve got a copy-paste-profile “letter”, I just couldn’t believe my eyes. Now I don’t even wonder what exactly the author wanted to achieve. But I do answer all letters, though some of them only verbally.


Dear .......

Your beautiful blue/green/brown eyes seem to bore into mine. I think I love/hate/like/tolerate/can bear you. Will you marry/sleep with/blanket bathe me?

Please send me all your savings as my mother/son/cousin needs an urgent operation.

lots of love....me! laugh
Sep 14, 2009 8:27 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
Tulefel
TulefelTulefelGöteborg, Vastra Gotaland Sweden24 Threads 1 Polls 2,848 Posts
Fallingman: Dear .......

Your beautiful blue/green/brown eyes seem to bore into mine. I think I love/hate/like/tolerate/can bear you. Will you marry/sleep with/blanket bathe me?

Please send me all your savings as my mother/son/cousin needs an urgent operation.

lots of love....me!


Oh, dearest darling and sweetest honey Mr Fallingpeach!

Yes, I do sleep with a blanket as it’s Scandinavia, mind you, and you will never, I repeat it: never, persuade me to sleep without.

And no, I won’t bear you, as this very Bolivar never carries double.

But you better love me passionately, otherwise you will get all my babies.

Lots of luv... and don’t eat unwashed peaches. (It’s not an option, it’s an order!)


grin
Sep 14, 2009 8:40 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
saseez
saseezsaseezlakes entrance, Victoria Australia1,590 Posts
laugh rolling on the floor laughing yep i get those all the time ..lately Im dreading just getting the silly mail, coz you know a person your not interested in will be the one to have sent it laugh wine
Sep 14, 2009 9:19 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
rimowa
rimowarimowaLuxembourg, Luxembourg1 Threads 20 Posts
Tulefel: 50 % of my mail is of that kind. The first time I’ve got a copy-paste-profile “letter”, I just couldn’t believe my eyes. Now I don’t even wonder what exactly the author wanted to achieve. But I do answer all letters, though some of them only verbally.



I believe that is part laziness and part a lack of vocabulary/literacy in men. Have you heard men converse? It's unbelievable how many meanings a grunt has.

I also remember a time visiting a friend's home to pick him up to go to a game and his fiancé who was to accompany was such a drop-dead beauty in her red dress that I nearly fell down upon seeing her...guess what the guy, my friend, had to say..."got any beer in the fridge"?

This is, I think, a gender deficiency....men prefer playing with a ball than with words. "Should I compare thee to a summer's day"...duh!!laugh
Sep 14, 2009 11:03 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
Tulefel
TulefelTulefelGöteborg, Vastra Gotaland Sweden24 Threads 1 Polls 2,848 Posts
rimowa: ---------------------------------------------------------------

I believe that is part laziness and part a lack of vocabulary/literacy in men. Have you heard men converse? It's unbelievable how many meanings a grunt has.

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Can’t agree. Have you heard men boast about their conquests and/or extraordinary achievements in whatever field they think they advance? Have you ever heard men complaining about their wives/lovers and unfairness of this life? Cicero nervously smokes in the corner.

But best of all is the book “A Gentleman’s Excuses and Promises”, this second to none collective work. Never read? Then you should – a good laugh is guaranteed. Or perhaps not. After all, chances are that you’ve written a chapter or two in it.


grin
Sep 14, 2009 11:19 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
saseez
saseezsaseezlakes entrance, Victoria Australia1,590 Posts
rimowa: ---------------------------------------------------------------

I believe that is part laziness and part a lack of vocabulary/literacy in men. Have you heard men converse? It's unbelievable how many meanings a grunt has.

I also remember a time visiting a friend's home to pick him up to go to a game and his fiancé who was to accompany was such a drop-dead beauty in her red dress that I nearly fell down upon seeing her...guess what the guy, my friend, had to say..."got any beer in the fridge"?

This is, I think, a gender deficiency....men prefer playing with a ball than with words. "Should I compare thee to a summer's day"...duh!!
yep its sheer lazziness a cant be bothered putting effort it to this il just send everyone the same thing oh hum ....... yep laziness and unthoughtfull ..grin
Sep 14, 2009 11:24 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
saseez: yep i get those all the time ..lately Im dreading just getting the silly mail, coz you know a person your not interested in will be the one to have sent it


Most of the time mail is from my regular friends here, and then inbetween up pops these Scammers. I call them scammers because I feel they just either bored people playing the sites - so they`re probably married ......or their wives work and they don`t, or else they sit in cubicles with hundreds of others "working" the singles sites looking for a gullible someone .... and have worked out that copy and pasting gets them thru their daily workload.....grin
Sep 14, 2009 11:27 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
rimowa: ---------------------------------------------------------------

I believe that is part laziness and part a lack of vocabulary/literacy in men. Have you heard men converse? It's unbelievable how many meanings a grunt has.


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I don`t believe it`s anything to do with layiness or lack of vocabulary or literacy. Men, normal men, hold very interesting and intelligent conversations. These mailers are just as my above posting says - Scammers.

And there are some here on this forum - they know who they are - and that is their problem, not mine, they got to live with themselves, and whatever their modus operandi is they`re trying to operate here.
Sep 15, 2009 5:09 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
jedst1
jedst1jedst1Tirana, Albania4 Posts
Hey, give us men a break ...

I'm glad you differentiate between the scammers and 'normal' men. But, is there any such thing? Or any such thing as a normal woman for that matter.

Yes, men can struggle with communicating their feelings, and we've all read the literature that says women are better at that sort of thing. But we can communicate very effectively when we need to, and some of us communicate for a living, so we must be doing something right.

Communication over the internet is difficult, because so much of real conversation comes through body language. Myself I like to see the eyes of the person I'm talking to, male or female. The eyes tell the story more often than not. And on the internet we can't see the smiles or hear the intonation. Sometimes it's hard to realise someone is actually joking.

So, let's hear it for good, honest, a-little-bit-strange maybe, but men. Different from women. Maybe not as developed emotionally. But still men, with all the things you love about us (occasionally, or from time-to-time, or passionately if you're lucky). Vive la difference!
Sep 15, 2009 5:11 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
gussi
gussigussiVilters-Wangs, St Gallen Switzerland12 Threads 2 Polls 4,032 Posts
smoky: Don`t you people just love to get mail, read it, and then go to the persons profile........ and realise they Copied and Pasted their profile info to the mail?

I cannot be bothered to even give any sort of reply to that type of stupidity, and usually my non-reply brings forth no further contact. Actually ditto with a reply!

Puzzles me the mind-set people like that must have ....


Good Morrow Queen Smokes wave wave

he he simple things please simple minds.

rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
Sep 15, 2009 1:56 PM CST How NOT to impress.....
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
gussi: Good Morrow Queen Smokes

he he simple things please simple minds.
Good morrow to you too Prince Gussi!

Well, I got a simple mind - actually probably an empty one, according to my good friend Rimowi ...... but I get achingly bored with stupid people - and when one perceives one is included in what is probably a "production line" of emails - then I simply delete them....(part of my own personal production line - if it doesn`t produce it gets anhialiated forthwith!)..except if its wormed its way into my heart like an abandoned desert dog or other 4 legged creature - but 2 legged 2 armed (except simians) gets deleted.
Sep 15, 2009 2:02 PM CST How NOT to impress.....
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
jedst1: Hey, give us men a break ...

I'm glad you differentiate between the scammers and 'normal' men. But, is there any such thing? Or any such thing as a normal woman for that matter.

Yes, men can struggle with communicating their feelings, and we've all read the literature that says women are better at that sort of thing. But we can communicate very effectively when we need to, and some of us communicate for a living, so we must be doing something right.

Communication over the internet is difficult, because so much of real conversation comes through body language. Myself I like to see the eyes of the person I'm talking to, male or female. The eyes tell the story more often than not. And on the internet we can't see the smiles or hear the intonation. Sometimes it's hard to realise someone is actually joking.

So, let's hear it for good, honest, a-little-bit-strange maybe, but men. Different from women. Maybe not as developed emotionally. But still men, with all the things you love about us (occasionally, or from time-to-time, or passionately if you're lucky). Vive la difference!


We love our normal men on this forum - there`s quite a few of them - like Phoenix, Elley, Robert, Gussi, Virgosign, Expat, Lagoona,to mention a few who spring to mind, the others haven`t sprung to my mind this instant - and when I remember their names I gonna feel bad, but they know who they all are, and now you will be included, cause you write so nicely.

Ja ja, much disappointment has happened at actual meetings - when the eyes don`t meet, or the eyes are just "not there" ....

If it wasn`t for men, there would be no women here on THIS site! Despite the fun we make of you all, we DO love you Species of the Other Gender!cheers Otherwise we wouldn`t be here trying to communicate with you guys...hug
Sep 15, 2009 2:47 PM CST How NOT to impress.....
abarth
abarthabarthmillau, Occitanie France3 Posts
smoky: We love our normal men on this forum - there`s quite a few of them - like Phoenix, Elley, Robert, Gussi, Virgosign, Expat, Lagoona,to mention a few who spring to mind, the others haven`t sprung to my mind this instant - and when I remember their names I gonna feel bad, but they know who they all are, and now you will be included, cause you write so nicely.

Ja ja, much disappointment has happened at actual meetings - when the eyes don`t meet, or the eyes are just "not there" ....

If it wasn`t for men, there would be no women here on THIS site! Despite the fun we make of you all, we DO love you Species of the Other Gender! Otherwise we wouldn`t be here trying to communicate with you guys...



I agree with you madam smoky,and would like to say that txt spk is also to blame as it is easier to communicate without any effort.I paid good money on another site and filtered out what i didn't want just to be innundated with txt spk msgs from younger women on the take as it were.I am desperately trying to learn French at present, and i despair when i get it wrong.Hence trying to find a lovely French lady to converse with here.You are also right in that the eyes are most important when you first meet hence no picture.
Sep 15, 2009 4:26 PM CST How NOT to impress.....
smoky: We love our normal men on this forum - there`s quite a few of them - like Phoenix, Elley, Robert, Gussi, Virgosign, Expat, Lagoona,to mention a few who spring to mind, the others haven`t sprung to my mind this instant - and when I remember their names I gonna feel bad, but they know who they all are, and now you will be included, cause you write so nicely.

Ja ja, much disappointment has happened at actual meetings - when the eyes don`t meet, or the eyes are just "not there" ....

If it wasn`t for men, there would be no women here on THIS site! Despite the fun we make of you all, we DO love you Species of the Other Gender! Otherwise we wouldn`t be here trying to communicate with you guys...
But then we ain't Springboks!rolling on the floor laughing
Sep 16, 2009 7:05 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
wooffy: .............well as you know men are from Mars. ................
...............Women are from Venus
.........

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Everyone knows about that, but how many have actually read the book, AND remembered WHAT the difference is?.....

So, I will tell you who have forgotten ....

Men ... On Mars - they use Hi-Tec machinery to do everything, they build big buildings, and do research into all sorts of hyperthetical scientific hokus-pokus. Everywhere is machinery, and smog, and dust, and noise. They have no forests left cause they cut down all the trees for their projects. They have no gardens cause they all too busy inventing stuff - every man trying to out-do the next man in how big and impressive what he is making, etc etc.....

Women.... On Venus ... they sit around chatting, plant flowers, grow vegetables and fruit on organic farms, create beautiful gardens with water ponds, the animals are all tame cause they got nothing to fear (there are no guns on Venus, or steel to make traps). They are surrounded by natural old rain forests, the weather is sublimely beautiful, the skies are clear and clean.

On Mars, some "very clever man" invented a Super Powerful Telescope .... and thus Venus and Women were discovered, and a huge mega space-ship was built to transport men to Venus ... who then took the women to live on Earth (I think dunno thats how it ended?) And they all lived happily ever after .........drinking
Sep 16, 2009 7:15 AM CST How NOT to impress.....
smoky: Everyone knows about that, but how many have actually read the book, AND remembered WHAT the difference is?.....

So, I will tell you who have forgotten ....

Men ... On Mars - they use Hi-Tec machinery to do everything, they build big buildings, and do research into all sorts of hyperthetical scientific hokus-pokus. Everywhere is machinery, and smog, and dust, and noise. They have no forests left cause they cut down all the trees for their projects. They have no gardens cause they all too busy inventing stuff - every man trying to out-do the next man in how big and impressive what he is making, etc etc.....

Women.... On Venus ... they sit around chatting, plant flowers, grow vegetables and fruit on organic farms, create beautiful gardens with water ponds, the animals are all tame cause they got nothing to fear (there are no guns on Venus, or steel to make traps). They are surrounded by natural old rain forests, the weather is sublimely beautiful, the skies are clear and clean.

On Mars, some "very clever man" invented a Super Powerful Telescope .... and thus Venus and Women were discovered, and a huge mega space-ship was built to transport men to Venus ... who then took the women to live on Earth (I think thats how it ended?) And they all lived happily ever after .........



In response to: And they all lived happily ever after .........
rolling on the floor laughing
Sep 16, 2009 2:47 PM CST How NOT to impress.....
Tulefel
TulefelTulefelGöteborg, Vastra Gotaland Sweden24 Threads 1 Polls 2,848 Posts
jedst1: Hey, give us men a break ...

I'm glad you differentiate between the scammers and 'normal' men. But, is there any such thing? Or any such thing as a normal woman for that matter.

Yes, men can struggle with communicating their feelings, and we've all read the literature that says women are better at that sort of thing. But we can communicate very effectively when we need to, and some of us communicate for a living, so we must be doing something right.

Communication over the internet is difficult, because so much of real conversation comes through body language. Myself I like to see the eyes of the person I'm talking to, male or female. The eyes tell the story more often than not. And on the internet we can't see the smiles or hear the intonation. Sometimes it's hard to realise someone is actually joking.

So, let's hear it for good, honest, a-little-bit-strange maybe, but men. Different from women. Maybe not as developed emotionally. But still men, with all the things you love about us (occasionally, or from time-to-time, or passionately if you're lucky). Vive la difference!


You sound as if being a man is a huge handicap. Which is not. Sure there are gender dependent skills, and one has to adjust. If I know that I would have difficulties with parking a car, then I have few options to consider, the first of them is to take bus. If I despite common sense took car, I either would have to drive it until I’d run out of fuel, or park the damn thing somewhere somehow.

It’s the same with an Internet dating site: you either try to communicate in written, or take bus.

grin
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