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RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

You trying to send out a subliminal message with all this red, white and blue stuff?

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

I don't know a friggin' thing...

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

What's the difference? She wants to know if he actually wants to sleep with her? How can we know that? Ask him...

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

Well, hypothetically, you, a man or woman, can do anything they want that is legal and with a consenting partner. A relationship is a difficult, complicated thing with all kinds of variables. It seems most reasonable that people within a fairly limited age range of each other get along best....but there are exceptions. My great grandmother married a man 10 years younger and it worked out fine. To me, I think probably 10 years either way is reasonble, workable, for a serious, long term relationship. But if you just want to have fun, and there are women that much younger, go for it. I don't admire men who do this, to be honest. I admire men who want a whole relationship, an emotiionally and intellectually mature relationship, and I don't think they get that with someone 15 or more years younger.

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

30 is the new 20, 40 is the new 30, 50 the new 40, etc.


You can be 30, but not 20

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

The way she's asking it is if she should take it seriously. If she just want to go for the fun...why is she bothering to ask anyone?

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

Because of the 20 year old?

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

Because of the 20 year old?

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

Do you think and act like a 30 year old, or is this pure speculation, hypothetical?

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

So do you find 20 to 25 year olds interesting? Obviously they can be very physically attractive, but I guess what a lot of women don't understand is why men are interested in serious relationships with women half or nearly half their age. When I was 20-25 I was not at all interested in men so much older, and neither were any of my girlfriends. But I guess it does happen. And I, at 31, would not be interested in a man much younger than 30, maybe 27 or so....To me being with someone with whom you connect in the mind and heart is essential and I don't think it happens with someone who is that much younger.

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

I'm ready

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

Serious response:

Tell me: If she/or he is 20 years younger and you don't speak the same language, literally, how can a real relationship develop? What is in it for the younger person? What is in it for the older person? How can it be about connecting intellectually and emotionally? Explain. Please.

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

Oh not you again!!

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

No, seriously?

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

Well, not yet.

Maybe "I'd like a foreigner to be into me..."

RE: I have a foreigner interested in me

Are you really this naive?

RE: Gun Shots

LOL

Not sure how to take this...Well, I didn't go there and so of course didn't shop at the gift shop....my life sucks often though...but I don't think I need any help from ghosts...I seem to be able to manage screwing it up all by myself.

Have you been there and bought stuff in the gift shop, or were you forewarned?

RE: Gun Shots

No, art museums...MOMA was closed, but The Whitney, The Met, Guggenheim.....

RE: Smoking should be banned in all public places

Hi reelman I think we could make a lot of money too if we legalized heroine, cocaine, mary jane, etc. Why not? The economy needs a boost and that would probably be just the ticket. End a lot of crime too. Cool.

RE: Smoking should be banned in all public places

Yep...I avoided this thread for a couple of days...just because I realize there is no point...but my flack jacket is in good condition...

RE: Smoking should be banned in all public places

Yes, but unless you are an alcoholic, having a few beers is not killing you.

RE: Smoking should be banned in all public places

Don't know why the big caps on huge...don't know how huge the tabacco industry is...but I believe there is documentation to show that 30, 40, 50 years ago when it became known by the industry just how lethal tabacco is, it was covered up. And, yes, as a former smoker, one who smoked heavily for years, I believe smokers are weak...allowing yourself, your life, to be controlled by a chemical substance is a weakness. However large or not large, however powerful or not powerful the tabacco industry is or isn't, it has only one purpose and that is to make money from the weakness of others.

RE: Smoking should be banned in all public places

The argument that it is a personal choice is nonsense. If it were that kind of issue, every drug under the sun would be available to you on your local grocery store shelves. Tabacco is a lethal drug. It is sold to you so the tabacco industry can make money. Pure and simple. Smokers are pawns. Smokers are being exploited by the tabacco industry. The idea it is about choice is a fallacy.

RE: Smoking should be banned in all public places

You will hang on to your opinions despite any evidence contrary to them...which to me signals a complete lack of vision. But, that's it. Not bothering. Be mean...I know you will...go ahead and say mean things to me...make my day.

RE: Smoking should be banned in all public places

Probably not. Probably from just what I said...being a non-smoker....But little minds have little vision.

RE: The Young Pretty Butcher Who Works At "La Marketa De Carne"

She may have looked younger than she actually is.

RE: Gun Shots

Oh, I don't think that's true at all. I think it is just that America is such a big, complex, much more highly populated country....Canada is sort of sitting up there quietly, in comparison not much going on, or so it seems, in comparison. People who live near the border know a bit more. I do know Vancouver and have been there a few times and to Victoria....but the rest of Canada is pretty much unknown to me.

I don't know about Alberta because there is so much I don't know....probably a lot of Americans know about the oil there...but I'm very ignorant about political things and stuff like that.

RE: Gun Shots

It's interesting, it's noisy, interesting to visit, I don't think I'd like living there. I went for a week the summer before I left the States, five years ago. Stayed near Central Park....I like the museums and the food, so much ethnic food....

RE: Gun Shots

Okay. I knew nothing about this. I suppose I should. Canada....really don't know much about it except Vancouver... I've traveled far more outside of N. American than in it...Never been to Canada, except Vancouver and never been to Mexico. Have been across the States on road trips a couple of times, and to NYC, Washington, DC, and a few other places. But, it's embarassing how little I know about Canada.