Monday, May 28, 2012
Favorites: Imagination
"For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining."
Day Forty Nine-Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Online
I have decided to sublet my dating profile to a friend of mine. Okay.....I'm not really subletting but she seems to think that my dating woes stem from user error as opposed to just plain crappy luck. Yes, yes, I know that I said I was done with the online thing but being that I got suckered into paying for a renewal and seem to do even worse out in the real world, I am allowing her to analyze and make recommendations on my choice of potential dates. So once again I put my profile out there and I subsequently received this email:
"Hello, Liked your profile would you do 57? LO! You want too get off the island and retire? I am looking for a a sian bride fri love and happiness."
First off "would you do 57?" is probably not a highly recommended way to initiate a dialog. I can think of (and have received) many worse than that phrase but it would make the Top Ten list of what NOT to write in order to elicit a response. Mr. 57 apparently lives in Florida....hence his suggestion?...offer?...to retire with him. Even if there was a compelling reason for me to pack up and relocate to Florida (and not just to meet a 57-year old complete stranger) this sounds like the start to a Movie-of-the-Week plot where I'd be yelling at the tv "What kind of idiot goes across country to meet a stranger?!?!" And finally, either Mr. 57 has extremely poor writing skills (WTF is "a sian bride fri love and happiness"???) or he might want to disable his autocorrect.
It is soooooo not user error.......
"Hello, Liked your profile would you do 57? LO! You want too get off the island and retire? I am looking for a a sian bride fri love and happiness."
First off "would you do 57?" is probably not a highly recommended way to initiate a dialog. I can think of (and have received) many worse than that phrase but it would make the Top Ten list of what NOT to write in order to elicit a response. Mr. 57 apparently lives in Florida....hence his suggestion?...offer?...to retire with him. Even if there was a compelling reason for me to pack up and relocate to Florida (and not just to meet a 57-year old complete stranger) this sounds like the start to a Movie-of-the-Week plot where I'd be yelling at the tv "What kind of idiot goes across country to meet a stranger?!?!" And finally, either Mr. 57 has extremely poor writing skills (WTF is "a sian bride fri love and happiness"???) or he might want to disable his autocorrect.
It is soooooo not user error.......
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Day Forty Eight-Chemistry
I recently read an article about chemistry and dating that included the following points:
1. "Women want to date men who smell like their fathers." I really don't recall my dad having any particular scent (except for the occasional Old Spice aftershave...which really just triggers the "old man smell" flashback). He used to smell like cigarettes (which doesn't appeal to me in the least) and sometimes a bit grubby (which also doesn't appeal to me); however, I do have vivid memories of every one of his t-shirts having banana goo stains on them. Does that count?
2. "Being on hormonal birth control can change a woman's taste in men." Apparently the hormone in pills can lead you to choose men with more pronounced masculine features (uh.....WTH does that mean? Hairier backs? Arnold Schwarzenegger jaws? They can't possibly be intending to head down to the nether region with that comment...can they?) and manly traits are linked to high testosterone levels (aggressive behavior, higher divorce rates). BUT then in the next paragraph they say:
Look for someone whose hand features a long fourth finger (a ring finger that is longer than the index finger). This supposedly indicates a higher testosterone level in the womb and will correlate to a man who tends to be logical, decisive, and ambitious. Hmmmmmmm........both my ring fingers are longer than my index fingers...what does THAT mean? I'm certainly not very logical, decisive, or ambitious and I really hope that I don't exhibit any masculine physical traits.....
3. "Adrenaline helps you bond with your date quickly." So why is it when you sleep with someone on the first date (a MAJOR adrenaline rush), it tends to destroy any potential bond?
1. "Women want to date men who smell like their fathers." I really don't recall my dad having any particular scent (except for the occasional Old Spice aftershave...which really just triggers the "old man smell" flashback). He used to smell like cigarettes (which doesn't appeal to me in the least) and sometimes a bit grubby (which also doesn't appeal to me); however, I do have vivid memories of every one of his t-shirts having banana goo stains on them. Does that count?
2. "Being on hormonal birth control can change a woman's taste in men." Apparently the hormone in pills can lead you to choose men with more pronounced masculine features (uh.....WTH does that mean? Hairier backs? Arnold Schwarzenegger jaws? They can't possibly be intending to head down to the nether region with that comment...can they?) and manly traits are linked to high testosterone levels (aggressive behavior, higher divorce rates). BUT then in the next paragraph they say:
Look for someone whose hand features a long fourth finger (a ring finger that is longer than the index finger). This supposedly indicates a higher testosterone level in the womb and will correlate to a man who tends to be logical, decisive, and ambitious. Hmmmmmmm........both my ring fingers are longer than my index fingers...what does THAT mean? I'm certainly not very logical, decisive, or ambitious and I really hope that I don't exhibit any masculine physical traits.....
3. "Adrenaline helps you bond with your date quickly." So why is it when you sleep with someone on the first date (a MAJOR adrenaline rush), it tends to destroy any potential bond?
Sunday, May 20, 2012
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