Hey all you p-eople I see nothing added since some comments on my last up-date. As I said I have no intention of reading them but surely you have more to say on this subject? No? OK will give you something to get your teeth in to:
A lady I took out quite a number of times in Germany and then here in Spain, received my views & comments regarding her never offering or insisting to pay before she left to go back home to Florida. We are still great friends!
This is what she wrote me a day or so ago:
Glad you enjoyed your date. After all, seems she meets your requirements. I've had a few dinner dates since I returned to the states and, it must be an American thing!!! I insult every man I meet by attempting to pay for my meals. Customs are so very different around the world!!!
So I replied:
I honestly do not think that custom has anything to do with men paying for every lady they take out, it is a social thing from way back in the dark days when men were the only ones earning and they would naturally have to pay for the lady but will expect something in return. If both pay there is no obligation at all and so the lady can rest in peace if she decides not to give him her pu**y, I said it before and nothing will change my mind. My lady said "I do not want to offend you but I will pay for myself" for the same reasons as I have stated. It was not an offer to pay but a statement to which I could only say "fine by me" as otherwise it would have created difficulties. You go on doing your thing and don’t be guided by my thinking, it is not the general accepted way and I hope you enjoy the desert.
See, I illustrate above how I feel about all you misguided males and you females that use the excuse that if a man wishes to be recognised as a GENTLEMAN then he must pay. May I suggest you look up the definition of Gentleman in the oxford Dictionary, I think you will not find any reference to money.
Right this brings this topic to the front of th line again.
Met the lady as arranged, after the usual hello and so forth entered the restaurant and were sat at my pre-booked table. When we were handed the menu eahc the lady said "I do not wish to offend you, but I will pay for my share of the bill", you see, I am not a gold digger so you do not mind do you? No said I, I prefer it that way.
I WILL NOT BE LOOIKING AT ALL YOUR COMMENTS AND REPLIES, IF ANY, AS I FIND THEM NOT INTERESTING AND HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO. GO, FOR IT, HAVE A GOOD CHUCKLE AT MY EXPENSE.
The lady in question and I are meeting again Friday this week. The bill came to 50 Euro, I paid 30 and she paid 20 as I suggested that as I had a beer and a desert but we shared a bottle of wine as well, so in fairness as I spent slightly more I paid a little more.
If you ladies do not agree with this bill sharing as you surely will not, you may actually come under the gold diggers description or even worse.
Have a good time pulling me to bits, little things please little minds.
There is nothing NATURAL about people on CS, I have read it between the lines a lot over the months and there you go again Mariola, saying I profess to be a writer. I stated it from the very first day I joined CS on my profile as I felt people should know I write as it is very time comsuming and I would not give it up to make more time for a new friend.
Why would I do so, to impress people you obviously believe. Impress them for what reason? So we end up feeling sorry for each other? I reject your saying you are sorry for me Mariola, I need your compassion like a bad headache.
What makes it actually worse for you as a person is that you felt happy that you could "expose" me. How sad! How terribly sad that you could get a kick out of that. You could have sent me a personal message if you felt that strong and advised me that you and other people may think that I pretended to have written it. A decent way of enabling me to have immediately put a note out to state what you knew. I do not think or believe you and I are the only people on CS that will have received that verse per e-mail, but obviously they are not nasty minded.
As I have already said as from now this very second
Right then, now I have replied to all the people who have slated me for trying to share with you some philosophy that I thought you would all appreciate, well some of you did until Mariola in her underhanded way attempted to "expose me" as she assumed I wanted people to think I had written it as did Smoky although I did not put any addition on and launched it exactly as I had received it via an e-mail.
I looked carefully at the various options open as to what subject to launch it on and decided that Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy would be the right one.
Whatever subject I had chosen would have had the same result I can only assume.
My conclusion is that I am not on the same wavelengths at all to many people on this site, for whatever reason.
I am out.
First the forum threads and for personal reasons not immediately the CS site.
If you now think "Great" then you are the sick person.
I do sometimes feel that I have landed on a new planet with strange people that jump to very wrong conclusions and feel proud of themselves.
I like Mariola received the mail, thought it wonderful and shared it with my friends on my e-mail address book. Had great mails back as they appreciated the writing very much. NOT ONE OF THEM THOUGHT I HAD WRITTEN IT MYSELF. In fact if you come down to earth a moment you should read it all very slowly and you may actually spot that not anywhere in that verse is there any reference to the author.
I wanted to share it with CS "friends" so did just that. I did not say I wrote it, I just launched it. I have to admit that up to joining CS I have alwasy been aware there are strange people about, but boy am I still learning.
Shame on you and anybody else who has taken the same stance, completely foolish.
Had I been able to write such a wonderful verse that may or may not have gone over your head, I would not have put my name to it. I would have thought it did not require that. These sort of verses are to be enjoyed and not used to knock people with. What are you thinking? I say shame again on you and people like you. It is perhaps people like you who should feel they are on the wrong site.
LEATHER Wallet? Have you seen the price of leather here in Spain? I have used old socks for years now and there is nothing wrong with that method. I colour code, red for Euros, green for 50 cent pieces and so on. Shopkeepers are amazed, it never fails and they call their colleagues over and they all laugh and roll around the floor as they obviously feel it is a wonderful idea and why has nobody else thought of it before.
Naturally I short change them as they have so many tears in their eyes they are not able to carry out their job function at all.
It is all just life experience and the need to survive.
My yellow sock is due to be replaced, has anyone got one that they are throwing out?
Wonderful Mariola, agreed and settled. However we will have to wait to see if you will have the honour of Tomboygirl as your sous chef as there is no room in the kitchen for the cage and anyway on the matter of the kitchen we are already past C so are not able to bring the Cage in to play.
Tomboygirl is busy preparing 7 full sized meals for my freezer I hope and then it will all be settled. I will be 14 Euro worse off as I will have bought all the frozen meals off Tomboygirl, but not to worry about dosh, it is a small matter of no consequence to me. She has done well, sold all her produce before actually making them. Well done Tomboygirl.
In case Tomboygirl does decide to stay in her cage, who would you like as a sous chef? No promises but I have contacts in the catering world, my great granddad used to sell food on the street in his rain Mac, his name was Donald.
Phoenix is aware of the promise he has made and is busy filling his tank with FN so that the 6 months stint will be no problem to him at all. I understand and accept that as after all I was young once, I think.
I do hope he will have enough energy to flush out the birds and not fall asleep on the job, it would be a first for him I am sure.
I also received it per e-mail and found it so lovely, going to print it out on nice coloured paper and frame it and hang it up so I can see it every day.
Mariola it is all down to you, if you help with the vegetable preparations, inside the cage naturally, cleaning the banana leaves and generally helping out as we put stuff through the bars for you to take care of, it will give Phoenix and me the opportunity to build a very high strong compound around the cages and after you have proved your worth on helping, say after 5 months and 30 days, we will throw the keys of the cages to you over the compound wall.
Alternatively you could be nice and friendly to me starting today and we need only use the one cage for Tomboygirl who has anyway indicated she is happy to relax and stay in there and be fed. The empty cage could be used for storing all the treasure collected and kept under lock and key until we three depart.
Tomboygirl may now read this and also decide to be nice to me starting today and that would mean we have two cages free and can collect more and more treasure. She may in fact refer to me by my listed name and leave out the **AT bit as it is not nice to speak like that anyway. Smoky has given us all this wonderful opportunity to move on from the past in to a bright future.
Sweetheart, there is no electric on the island, how we gonna keep the 14 frozen meals after tonights cooking stint. Tell you what, I will give you one euro each for them and store them in my freezer, then on my return I can invite ladies around to my place and feed them for ONE EURO, even I wont ask them for half the cost.
Phoenix has made a promise! He is not the sort to chicken out on that.
Smoky, I meant use the hammer on the mirror you silly little girl. You are too lovely to demolish, we would miss you too much and we want you to have a long happy life still. did I not already say that in another thread.
THE SWEETENERS ARE NOT IN THE KITCHEN FOR ME.THEY ARE FOR LADIES WHO VISIT AS THEY ARE IMPRESSED BY THEM, I SPOON IN LOADS OF SUGAR TO GIVE ME A LOT OF ENERGY AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE REQUIRED.
I knew about the formaldehyde and dead bodies as we used to keep the dead bodies for disection at the pathology laboratory at Cardiff University. There where some nice ladies there amongst the bodies and I do believe we used to notice in the mornings that the bodies had been jumbled about and we would all leap back putting our hands up saying "I have no keys", but we all did and we all knew we did. Oh happy days......
What thread is this? Is it the kitchen one? Better put us back on track Smoky, the plot has been lost.
Well I had to do a lot of soul searching on this one. First reaction is to take the three nicest people along with me, but what then if the rescue helicopter never came back. I would have been responsible for stranding three wonderful people for the rest of their lives on this island.
I would therefore take MARIOLA TOMBOYGIRL PHOENIX
The items I would take are 2 solid cages for two humans 1 shotgun with a good supply of cartridges
Phoenix and I would easily be able to fend for 4 people as far as food is concerned as like myself he has experience of living in a tough place.
Phoenix and I would collect many items we will take back with us, so unfortunately the cages and contents would have to be left behind, as the helicopter can only carry a certain weight. However, the cage keys would be dropped from the helicopter near enough to the cages to enable self release. The shotgun with remaining cartridges will be left 200 paces from the cages to ensure our safety with the treasure.
No, don't shake your heads, I distincly recall myself overhauling my Ford Popular car engine on the kitchen table inclusive regrinding the valve seats and replacing the big and little end bearing shells. My mother was out at work!
If you recall the old Ford Popular "sit up and beg type" read my thread on retirement.
I would never trade my friends, my wonderful life, and my loving family for less grey hair or a flatter belly. As I've aged, I've become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself. I've become my own friend.
I don't chide myself for eating that extra cookie; I am entitled to a treat, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon?
I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love..... I will. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old.
I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.
Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody’s beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect.
I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning grey and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think.
I don't question myself anymore. I've even earned the right to be wrong. I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it).
We all have so much to look forward to at whatever stage of life we are at.
Well, if it to be a long term relationship then it can BECOME a problem, I speak from experience. Most of the things partners like is when they can enjoy the same music, remember the same TV programmes and many such things. If they both like Mozart well OK, but if we are talking about lighter music that each partner may have danced to at university or when a teenager, well 5 years or so may not have much of an effect.
Many of us have memories associated to songs or tunes if a certain era, mine are the 60's and may they live forever. A lady of say 20 years younger, well you can guess what that could mean.
We are all different, I would say Age does matter and the bigger the gap the more it can become a problem. I hasten to add I personally know a few marriages with an age gap of 15 years and in some the lady is older in others the man.
Life is a gamble! Try to reduce the chances of losing.
Hello Lassinfrance You have taken a brave step and I wish you luck. Personally I do not trust my instinct and have never met up with a date via any Internet site without at least speaking on the telephone a few times first. You will get a feeling of the other person and if they are what they say they are as far as their outlook on meeting up. They will have to also make you feel they are glad you are both in contact and that will come over to you.
As most of us live in permanent homes we are all tied to a geogrphical area so as yours is maybe within a few hours of Bordeaux, it limits th scope but we are all in the same boat there. Just search the site for local members and if there is someone that could become a friend, same interests and so on, then great. I nearly always first send an e-mail suggesting they look at my listing and that if they are interested perhaps I will hear from them. That is really all you can do without overpowering with flowers of gifts or whatever.
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and not fall asleep on the job, it would be a first for him I am sure. 
Are woman mean?
Hey all you p-eople I see nothing added since some comments on my last up-date. As I said I have no intention of reading them but surely you have more to say on this subject? No? OK will give you something to get your teeth in to:A lady I took out quite a number of times in Germany and then here in Spain, received my views & comments regarding her never offering or insisting to pay before she left to go back home to Florida. We are still great friends!
This is what she wrote me a day or so ago:
Glad you enjoyed your date. After all, seems she meets your requirements. I've had a few dinner dates since I returned to the states and, it must be an American thing!!! I insult every man I meet by attempting to pay for my meals. Customs are so very different around the world!!!
So I replied:
I honestly do not think that custom has anything to do with men paying for every lady they take out, it is a social thing from way back in the dark days when men were the only ones earning and they would naturally have to pay for the lady but will expect something in return. If both pay there is no obligation at all and so the lady can rest in peace if she decides not to give him her pu**y, I said it before and nothing will change my mind.
My lady said "I do not want to offend you but I will pay for myself" for the same reasons as I have stated. It was not an offer to pay but a statement to which I could only say "fine by me" as otherwise it would have created difficulties. You go on doing your thing and don’t be guided by my thinking, it is not the general accepted way and I hope you enjoy the desert.
See, I illustrate above how I feel about all you misguided males and you females that use the excuse that if a man wishes to be recognised as a GENTLEMAN then he must pay. May I suggest you look up the definition of Gentleman in the oxford Dictionary, I think you will not find any reference to money.
Right this brings this topic to the front of th line again.