Hi, I'm a UK national/been married/kids/badly educated(polytechnic)/stopped studying biology at the end of my 3rd year to concentrate on other subjects/not in love/don't really mind at all/don't want to relocate/not expecting to find true love on cs - but no harm in trying/half baked potatoe of an imperfect husband
I'm not writing my email address on an Internet page for sniffing software to add my details to spamming lists
Go on holiday or even better get a job in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. No visas required for women from these countries. Put a lonely hearts ad in their newspapers before you go.
Avoid embarrassment when falling over in the street by repeating it several more times to make people think it's part of your normal everyday behaviour.
Ireland: Giants Causeway near Portrush plus also the bouncy wooden bridge a few miles to the east that links a small island to the mainland and was used my salmon fishermen.
Blarney Castle near Cork.
Newgrange near the Boyne Battlefield.
Scotland: Edingburgh castle / Arthurs Seat / city centre
Forth Bridge
Golf courses - loads of great ones - St Andrews, Troon, Gleneagles etc. Ireland has many great ones too.
The Highlands - for walking and scenery and isolation
West Coast and isles - for scenery
Glasgow Rangers v Celtic football match
Loads of pubs for good food and beer in Scotland and Ireland
The people. In general, I like the Irish and the Scottish.
So what't the problem with handing in your notice and working out the remaining 4 weeks - if they want you to?
Just inform your new employers that you'll be joining them in 4 weeks after you've worked out your notice with your old employers.
In that way you'll have the satisfaction that you acted in a professional and ethical manner.
4 weeks is no big deal at all in the context of a 40 year working career.
The bad chair is a separate health and safety issue. If it's giving you a bad back explain this to your boss, health and safety officer, and personnel dept and refuse to sit in it for more than 5 minutes at a time before getting up to walk around to stretch your back. You only have 1 back which is very difficult to repair. Look after it. Health and safety always comes first.
I have an older brother who my Dad labelled as the dunce of the family. The joker. The clown. The not very gifted academically one. My brother took an IQ test and scored 140.
I knew a girl who had an IQ of 178. She was a book-worm. Wore glasses. Thin. Plain looking. Nerdy as hell. She didn't have a huge amount of common sense and wasn't very good at dealing and talking with people. She wasn't a total disastor - just below average on the interpersonal skills front. I suppose she was just a rather specialised person. Spent all her time reading. She read a Harry Potter book in 1 week. In W H Smith's bookshop. By taking it off the shelf and reading it. She didn't have the money at the time to buy it.
For me, personally, I'd be happy with a woman who was intelligent and well educated and who had some nerdy and geeky interests but who didn't come over as a nerd or a geek.
I can fully understand why the ladies would have a more positive reaction to a man in a Ferrari than a rust-bucket.
If a lady turned up for a date in her Ferrari it would certainly get my attention.
Or if she turned up in something like a big Volvo / BMW / Merc /Audi diesel I'd be intrigued too. And impressed by her very practical choice of vehicle.
If she turned up in a van that she used for her business that would be a good sign too.
What else would be interesting? A unicycle. A pogo stick. A space hopper...
Bought 10 records today. 1 of them was Brighouse and Rastrick Brass band, which I have no desire to keep. 7 of them I've got already (10cc Phil Collins Tony Hancock etc). This leaves a Blue Oyster Cult album and a Joe Cocker single that I actually want to keep and listen to.
Tried to buy a pair of 35 year old big ugly brutish speakers from Berlin. Got outbid. Doh!
Went to Blackpool for the afternoon. It was windy.
Listening to The Revolution By Night now. Good purchase.
I think it's fair to say that if you started travelling you wouldn't be alone for long.
Like when I went to Thailand many years ago. I was never alone for long. Some of the people I spent time with were Budhist monks who wanted to practise their English - AFAIK. Whilst some of the other people I spent time with were hired by the hour and a half...
That's a good approach. How the other person would feel about it might depend on the tone of voice and type of laugh. If done in a good naturedly having fun kind of way that's great. If done in a sarcastic taking the piss type of way then that's not the way to win friends.
But then thinking about this subject, we all have different ways of expressing ourselves. There's no right or wrong answer. If you feel most comfortable telling white lies then that's fine. If you prefer to be more brutally honest, that's fine too.
I'm not going to condemn this man. I've never met him.
I'm not always perfectly behaved myself.
I can at least admire this man's honesty. He said what he thought. It sounds like he wasn't the sort of man to just say what he thought others wanted to hear.
He sounds like the sort of person that I'd be happy to have as an acquaintance. The sort of man to share a few jokes with and not take too seriously.
But I wouldn't want a romantic partner who was the female equivalent of him and I can fully understand why you dropped him like a stone.
As Tommy Boyd used to say on TalkSport Radio "Most people are objective about others and subjective about themselves. It'd be better if they were more the other way round"
I think Englishman and I are on the same wavelength on this one.
I'd go for the one with the best PERSONALITY.
And, by the way, I don't go a along with all this "I'd pick the fat one and put her on a diet / fitness regime". That's just controlling behaviour. If the fat one wanted to go on a slimming regime I'd be happy to support her in any way she wanted me to - including doing her food shopping and cooking and going along with her for any exercise activities.
I wouldn't put pressure on her to lose weight. That sort of controlling behaviour never works out for the best.
Sounds like you're talking about the days before a Nuclear War, before the radiation made everyone's hair fall out and increased the number of genetic mutants?
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RE: A soulmate
Hi, I'm a UK national/been married/kids/badly educated(polytechnic)/stopped studying biology at the end of my 3rd year to concentrate on other subjects/not in love/don't really mind at all/don't want to relocate/not expecting to find true love on cs - but no harm in trying/half baked potatoe of an imperfect husbandI'm not writing my email address on an Internet page for sniffing software to add my details to spamming lists
PS Age, colour, status are important for me