I'm sorry if it sounded harsh. By "become part of the community," I meant just this: get involved, interact with others, meet people, have some fun. CS works best (when it works at all) as a sort of ongoing party, where you mingle, talk, bump elbows, etc.
And the "making no effort" part, well, forgive me if it did not apply in your case; I may have been hasty. But it's not uncommon to hear folk (of both genders) suddenly appear and say, This place sucks, all I get is scammers! when they've made no effort to introduce themselves to anyone.
Plenty of us out here. How easy have you been to find? You filled out your profile, and.....what? Waited for suitors to come knocking? Well, they did. The scammers. Lesson: that's what you get when you make no effort -- nothing.
Or, you could get involved, get to know people, become part of the community. It's fun! And, then you'd know the guys you met were real, 'cause they'd already be your friends.
No, quite certain, "What's Up Doc?" starred Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal. Featured Babs singing "You're the Tops." Farcical plot owed a great deal to The Twelve Chairs.
Not quite Jac, but close. "Cognitive dissonance" occurs when folk are forced to reinterpret their perceptions due to conflicting reality. When their initial perceptions were fantastic, it's called "schizophrenia."
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is the early death of the Greatest American Musician Ever....Scott Joplin. He died of complications from syphillis in 1917, at the age of 50. Now, 50 is considerable, given the ages that some influentials have passed on, like Jimi Hendrix (age 29). But what's so tragic about Joplin's death is, he left no recordings! Had he lived only 2 or 3 more years, we'd be able to actually listen to his genius. As it stands, we've only a scant few player-piano rolls recorded by him, and his copious compositions on sheet-music. But, the guy created (all by himself) an entirely new style of music (ragtime), that in the era before WWI was as wildly popular as the early R&R of Elvis Presley. (Oh, and he also wrote two operas, for which he has won posthumous Grammys.)
One problem, though, is that "Hobbies" by itself has too broad a definition. Lotsa folk could say their "hobby" is watching TV. So what you need is "Hobbies & handicrafts."
Did you read the words in between the ones you emphasized? Or are you just gonna discount them because they don't agree with what you thought you read at first?
Well, I agree with you, Misty, that that's an unfair generalization. But a lot of fellas feel the way he does, so it's worth considering why, isn't it?
To answer the question posed in the thread title: Maybe so. Maybe companionship is actually more important. I look at my Dad & his galpal. He's 80 now, and I'm too much of a gentleman to give her age, but...anyway, they've been together 31 years now, most of that time living together. That's a good bit longer than he and my Mom were married. They like each other. They enjoy each other's company. And they love each other. And I think they do it in that order.
I used to have a copy of Mr. Boston's, and the Harvard Bartending Guide too (which was much more useful). They're both probably still around here somewhere...you're right though, liquor doesn't go "bad," certainly not while still sealed, so whoever collects my estate, hopefully many decades from now, will likely inherit several bottles of booze.
I've done it at supermarkets too. I get home with a week's worth of groceries, and I'm putting them away in the cupboard, and...smoked oysters? What the hell did I buy those for? Sun-dried tomato pesto? Huh? The cupboard's already full of weird stuff like that. Some of it I don't even know how you're supposed to use it.
Yet the only other alcohol I have is a small bottle of apricot brandy, which I sometimes have for an after-dinner drink...and it's only about half-done after 2 years or so.
I think maybe I had in mind that it's a homey kind of thing, to have some liquor available, just in case I entertain guests...but tequila? Amaretto?
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RE: Where are the real men????????
I'm sorry if it sounded harsh. By "become part of the community," I meant just this: get involved, interact with others, meet people, have some fun. CS works best (when it works at all) as a sort of ongoing party, where you mingle, talk, bump elbows, etc.And the "making no effort" part, well, forgive me if it did not apply in your case; I may have been hasty. But it's not uncommon to hear folk (of both genders) suddenly appear and say, This place sucks, all I get is scammers! when they've made no effort to introduce themselves to anyone.