I enjoy your work here, Indy. And thanks for lightening up that photo, too. Good to see the face within the darkness. I thought you were with the CIA or something for awhile there...
You know, I find that I've become really sensitive about dumb blonde jokes these days But at least it gives me something of an excuse I never actually believe it was true until I put that damn wig on...
Well, I admit I am a bit put off by your "handle." I don't think people should list their military status, especially if they enjoy a high rank (speaking a former "private").
My understanding is that Catherine actually had a crush on *Kirk* Douglas, but settled for his son...but that's another, probably apocryphal, story...
Good point about ratings, Dark Angel. Right now it's all in the eye of the beholder. Though I have heard someone just came out with a machine that objectively measures attractiveness. That's kind of scary to me.
Personally, like Athens, I would never attach a number rating to someone publicly, but if I did, I'd probably only rate Solid as a 7.7789. That means he may only get within a fraction of his ideal woman. So close, and yet so far.
I've thought the whole subject to death. I'm pretty confident I know the kind of person I want. I'm also pretty sure she's a long, long ways away, possibly even in another country... But then that's part of the price of living in the middle of f""ck*** nowhere.
I think all of us are particular, or have our own special peculiarities, when it comes to romantic attraction. I don't think Solid is so much different from most of us, except perhaps in the narrowness of his "attraction range." Aren't we all looking for appealing people, in terms of both looks and personality? I don't believe that makes us shallow. It's part and parcel of the human condition, isn't it?
Anyone here willing to state *honestly* that they don't care about looks and age? I can't.
Well, as far as impractical love-fantasies go, I don't believe your desire for a young, beautiful, childless woman rates particularly high. I see it all the time around here...sometimes I even think it's the norm. So many average-looking older guys with much younger, good-looking women. Not sure how they do it. It's clearly practically achievable.
Nor, in terms of ethics, do I see anything wrong with wanting that. Not my cup of tea, but to each his own.
"It's as if it's dangling in front of me sometimes and if I could just lean a bit further forward and stretch as far as possible, I might be able to grasp it...but I am leaning out over a cliff or a rooftop wall or something, and I'm afraid of stretching too far because it's a hell of a long fall, should I lose my footing."
That is an agonizingly beautiful way to put it, Athens. A very difficult stretch -- particularly if you have a fear of heights.
RE: Here we go again...
That just proves that some Nords have brains, Oslo.