But to some people it turns into a saleable piece of jewellry. One of my long time friends broke up with her fiance, and before the week was out she had the ring listed for sale. She claimed that "he owed her", which was not the case. She was unemployed & had been for a while, her ex was the breadwinner for the household. I told her that if she needed the money then just say that, but don't try and make it sound as if she was owed something.
(I'm not sticking up for her ex-boyfriend here, I didn't even like the guy & was happy to hear they had broken up.)
After working in a bar for the last 7 years, I can say with authority that it all depends on the woman you are talking to. Some have no problem jumping into the sack as soon as they get home (hell, some try to do it in the bathroom at the bar. Not a very romantic place.) Others won't even consider it until they have been with someone for months.
LOL, you just reminded me of an incident that took place back in the late 1990s in Calgary, AB. A bunch of friends & myself went out to a bar one evening, one of the guys that was with us starting hitting on a "woman" at the bar. We called him over and said 'Dude, "she" has an Adam's Apple...', we repeated this several times but he just didn't get it. So I said "Nevermind, have a great night!" We didn't see him for over a week, but when he finally came around we asked how his night went. He was so embarrassed that he couldn't even look us in the eye & he begged us never to tell anyone about it. Yeah, like that was going happen.
We still bug him about this everytime he gets drunk.
The same thing that happened between the hours of 11:59pm-12:01am on the New Years Eve ending the last millenia & bringing in the next.
Y2K turned out to be nothing but hype, a chance for some people to make money off of others by selling Y2K "Survival" guides & Emergency Kits, etc. The 2012 scare is only benefitting people in the same way, I can't count the number of books I have seen that "are all about" the coming end. When it passes with nothing of consequence taking place, certain people will begin planning for the next end of the world scare. Its a common theme for every generation or so to have chosen an end of the world date for some reason or another.
Many religions believe in Apocalypticism, but Christianity takes it to a whole new level.
What a waste of money it has been, 2 billion dollars and climbing steadily. Its a failed idea, but one that Canada just refuses to let go of for some reason.
A guy I used to work with was going to marry a woman from Argentina so she could stay in Canada. Many people told him that it probably wasn't the best idea, but he was determined to go through with it. The thing that killed the idea was a telephone call from the woman's mother (of all people), she told him that her daughter had tried this exact same thing with a man in Vermont & that she planned to divorce him afterwards and take whatever she could in the process. He confronted her about this, and wow, did her attitude ever change. She told him that if he wouldn't marry her then someone else here would, and was gone within two days. As far as I know he never saw or heard from her again.
Ah, okay. A very good friend once set me up for a date with a friend of the woman he was with. The date was interesting for about 20-30 minutes, but when we began to talk about various things I found out that she was the type of person who was an expert at everything/knew all there was to know about everything. And if I questioned her about something she that she claimed to know everything about, she became angry! A total personality change, one second pontificating about the right way to rapel down a rock face, then suddenly in my face because I corrected an obvious mistake in her "lesson" (I was a SARTech II at the time, I knew all about rapeling.)
I had never been so happy to have my on-call pager go off. I thanked her for the evening & took my leave. Speaking to her later on, I told her that I didn't think we would be a good match. Her responce was "That's okay, I didn't really like you all that much anyways" & she hung up. Never before was I so happy to have been told to basically get lost.
Sin/Sinner? Hell? Those are Christian beliefs, and seeing that I am not a Christian, they mean nothing to me.
It's my life & my property, to do with as I choose. I do not follow some invisible man in the sky who may punish me for doing what I want with that property.
Besides what I normally have with me during the day (Clothes, coat, Leatherman multitool, Zippo & Colts) & my medication:
1.) A well stocked first aid kit (for when I step on a stonefish or poisonous urchin, cut myself, get bitten by a rat, etc.),
2.) A Group Support Unit survival kit (Its one item... it just happens to contain hundreds of smaller items... :)),
3.) My Mandolin (It might get boring out there & besides, I believe that every tropical creature has the right to be serenaded with Bluegrass music at least once in their lifetime.)
The only Christmas show I watch is Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. The one with Yukon Cornelius, The Bumble, & Burl Ives as the Snowman/narrator. I think it was made in 1963.
As stupid as the show is, it reminds me of when I was a kid & what the Christmas season was like for me then.
No, I would not hire a private investigator to spy on a person that I was interested in. It's creepy. And if I ever discovered that a private investigator had been hired to spy on me, I would end the relationship.
Actually, I am looking forward to Christmas this year.
My favorite things about Christmas are not the shopping, the giving/receiving of gifts, or the Christmas dinner. My favorite thing is spending time (even if its just a few days) with my little sister, I don't see her much anymore & I miss her.
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RE: The beatles: the best song
Most of the songs listed in the poll are good, but my favorite Beatles song is Real Love.