charles_nz Forum Posts (1,386)

RE: Old Blokes and Young Women

I'm not going to disagree about that. When it comes to looking for a spouse, women are far more motivated by the potential spouse's money than men are.

But I don't think we should be taking specific people, by name, and calling them gold-diggers. That's not cricket. It may be a factor, who knows. But I do think most of this over-analysis of celebrity marriages is motivated by envy.

RE: at last, Trump landed in Vietnam

I think you'll find the folks in the South weren't that "happy" in the mid 1970s to be over-run by communist invaders.

Of course, many people have been born since then, and know nothing different.

RE: Generating Criminals?

As a solution to crime, prisons simply do not work. All it means is that shiftless, work-shy losers get free food, free accommodation, and get to hang out with their friends. How is this a punishment?

We need to get beyond this approach and try something different.

I am firmly of the opinion that we should re-introduce corporal punishment. Caning, flogging, call it what you will. And frankly, putting certain categories of criminals in stocks in the public square, where society can tell them what we think of them wouldn't be a bd idea either.

Murderers, of course, should be hanging from a rope.

RE: at last, Trump landed in Vietnam

I am unsure whether the summit is being held in the North, or in communist-occupied South Vietnam? I must Google that.

RE: at last, Trump landed in Vietnam

Are you trying to imply that the F16 was used in the war between North and South Vietnam? If so, I suspect you are mistaken.

RE: Old Blokes and Young Women

I'll go further than that.

I can't provide a single example of a rich woman of any age, marrying a poor man of any age, lol. Marrying someone of more modest means, only works in one direction.

RE: Generating Criminals?

No, I see no mention of that in your opening post.

RE: Old Blokes and Young Women

I suspect that a lot of this is motivated by jealousy.

Men call it disgusting, because they can't get a much younger woman. Women call it disgusting because they can't get a rich celebrity.

How about we mind our own business and focus on finding someone for us, not analyzing everyone else's relationship?

RE: Perhaps we need to keep an eye on India and Pakistan shooting down planes

India and Pakistan have been threatening war for many decades, and nuclear war for several decades. And nothing ore than the occasional border skirmish ever happens.

It's all blow and no go.

RE: Old Blokes and Young Women

Yet another woman airing her hang ups about age in these forums. Paging Lee Charming, Lee Charming to this thread!

I am sure Mr. Gere's wife is delighted by you calling her a gold-digger.

RE: Generating Criminals?

Certainly, but predisposition to crime is primarily genetic.

RE: Supreme Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsberg

This is actually quite an artistic comment, and one of your best.

RE: Question for women - dating men - What is your height preference?

It is interesting that to men, the height of the woman is almost always completely immaterial. But to women, they really seem to have an obsession about the height of the man.....

RE: how do you foreigners see The Netherlands?

In all European countries, non-European immigrants are massively over-represented in crime statistics.

Another reason it was not a terribly good idea to be importing millions of these people.

RE: I don't like or respect Donald Trump because....

I presume you mean internal, not eternal?

I am interested in the internal affairs of various countries, as they pertain to world affairs. Britain, France, Russia, the USA, Venezuela, etc. And why shouldn't I be?

I certainly have no opinion on, nor interest in, what should be the rate of sales tax in Minnesota.

RE: I don't like or respect Donald Trump because....

Maybe we believe what we say as much as you do? Or has that thought not occurred to you?

RE: World without end.

Likewise.

RE: World without end.

Amen.

RE: I don't like or respect Donald Trump because....

You seriously believe that? Come on, you are more intelligent than that.

RE: What kind of smartphone do you use? And why?

You mean you are on the Spark network, then?

RE: Do people turn their photos in the wrong position deliberately to get attention?

At least they manage to upload a photo.

RE: What kind of smartphone do you use? And why?

I don't use a smartphone.

RE: The threat of the Chinese ideology

China is a massive threat to the world.

It is like the early 1940s all over again.

RE: Israel under attack since Wednesday, nothing in the news or newspaper.............

The reality is there will NEVER be peace ion the Middle East as long as the Republic of Israel is there.

Surely all rational people can see that plonking it down there was an "epic fail" to use modern parlance.

RE: Have you ever considered how difficult you are to live with?

Nowt so queer as folk......

RE: Does America have the right to sail their warships in the south China sea.

The South China Sea does not belong to China.

As with any body of water, the edges belong to the country in closest proximity, and the middle belongs to no-one.

We should all be concerned about China going the way Japan did in the early 1940s.

RE: Fireworks

I've always hated fireworks. As a child, I was absolutely petrified of them, and as an adult, I see them as un-necessarily dangerous and stupid.

But some people like them, and we should be concerned about governments banning this and banning that. Soon we will have no freedom left.

RE: Israel Under Attack

A good way of putting it.

They put Israel in the most barking-mad place they could find, and wonder why there's trouble?

RE: Soon

Where did you find this nonsensical drivel, that has absolutely no basis in reality?

Can you provide a link?

RE: Are North American Women really that bad?

Western women in general are not as appealing as they once were.