trinacriabob

Neither, reg, instead procure someone who looks just like Jill St. John did in "Diamonds Are Forever" Reg, can you dig up a picture of "Tiffany Case"? Now, that's for eye-candy, but not to settle down with. Unlike P-C-S, the Aryan look he likes doesn't work for me, having always dated the brown-brown combo (Italian, Argentinian, Greek, Cuban, Lebanese).

What an 'effin great setup, but I'll resist...My response to thread: amoeba

Thanks...as I hopelessly hang on to disco and avoid MySpace like the plague.

ocean liner

Still wondering about your screen name... Anyways, ENJOY!

Tu sei veramente matto!

Eleven

Women are indeed masters of being selective. Some will not date anyone under 6'-0". I'm 5'-10". I knew one chick in ATL who wanted a corporate mucky-muck so she "could entertain." The guy she ended up marrying is a middle management dweeb who wouldn't be put near a client if his life depended on it. There was a singles ad someone pointed out to me where a chick required an income of $ 150,000. Of course, that's what she made as well as a sales exec. But, hypothetically, if you make $150 K and he made $95 K, but he had everything else, you mean you'd have a $h!ty life? All I was saying is that I would only consider my "equal." I'm wondering if those who bristle at the educational requirement (a bachelor's degree in ANYTHING and with ANY grades, for God's sake) or my "nuclear family" thing for no previous kids do so because they themselves feel slighted in some way.

Yeah, a redneck polyglot!

My list has NEVER been described to women and, after an office manager chick at a firm in Seattle liked me and I told some of the guys why I couldn't reciprocate, I'll never do that again. If they're not chicks who have a minimum level of education or they have kids, I'm always polite and keep them at a social distance, meaning I joke around with them or go to lunch with them in groups, but that's it. You know these attributes right away and can decide to keep them at "arms length" rather than hurt their feelings. What would be the point in that?

My list ISN'T much different from Pontiac's, he just didn't expand his criteria into separate bullet points. - I'm single and don't have any kids - I am educated and do professional level work - I get decent feedback on my appearance and behave in a way that is "gender appropriate," not to the point of slugging down beers at a softball game, though, if that's what it takes to be masculine - I am 10 lbs. over my ideal weight; I was on my way to the gym when I saw this response - I was NOT sexually abused, don't have a problem with affection or weird "flashbacks" Why does the "no kids" stuff bother people? This is the only item that is really different from Pontiac's. That's right, we live in a society of disposable relationships and very few of us can claim "nuclear families." My parents stayed together. And, most of my friends who married someone they met in college who was their "equal", are still married...and that was in L.A., for God's sake. Since I've never had kids, I am not in the least bit interested in someone else's kids. Not in the least bit. People nowadays are desentized to this traditional value. When I was working (until right around March), people would say "Why don't you date so and so in the office?" or "Why don't you take so and so to the Christmas party?" It was always someone with younger kids and a messy divorce. I said nothing to avoid any backlash, having learned my lesson from an office experience like that in the Seattle area where I was more candid. Why is that so 'effin bothersome that I have this stipulation? You know, women who fit this list (the language bullet point is superfluous since I've always dated first-generation "whatever nationality" women,it just happened that way) DO exist. They have regular jobs with their degrees...working at "the State" or wherever...and they are rebuffing not only my interest, but that of every other guy, almost all of them professional, normal and decent looking as far as I can tell. They are more chronically single than I could ever be. How this thread evolved from Dirty Dancing to "my list," I'll never know.

Seriously...that sympton says tie rods more so than wheel alignment. Have you had it happen to you? Expensive?

For about the last month or so, I have gotten a vibration in my front left tire/wheel at speeds above 60 or so. It is when the wheel is centered and I am going down the freeway. If I move the steering wheel to the left or the right just a hair, it goes away. I'm thinking it's the alignment. It's a W-body Regal coupe. This morning, I got my on-schedule Costco tire rotation and balancing. It didn't help much, so it's probably not the balancing. Is it probably the alignment? I had front brakes done a month ago...it's FWD...is there anything in a caliper or anything in the front axle that could cause a vibration at higher speeds? Lastly, could it be something else like a front wheel bearing hub that is starting to fail? Can you help me walk down the process of elimination? Thanks.

Well, aaaantoine, that's because his (and their) base level is kind of "hick" ...sorry to say. How one feels about abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research can be so rooted in religion, thus they don't have to "crunch any numbers" to determine economic impact and policy. On the other hand, what a country does regarding education, social security and outsourcing jobs can draw little from a Biblical context, does not require any economic modeling and is too "esoteric," so these rednecks can be reactionary on baseline moral issues while these bigger issues are too complex for them to come to terms with. It doesn't make for good pulpit material, anyway. That's why the minute I hear any evangelist that sounds either too smooth or too forceful, "click." Their viewpoints tend to very limited and not very holistic.

liquidation

I'll bet...and the success stories inspire you...and the "namby pamby" whining stories probably irritate you...that must be a tough job!

Happy birthday to my Regal! It turns 15 today. I bought it as my first brand new car while I was in grad school (though it was garaged at my parents' house 2,000 miles away) and the powertrain is original. It was factory-ordered. When I parked it last night, the odometer read 235,000.1. So, I'm less than 15,000 miles away from the quarter million mark I'm shooting for. Should I keep striving for it? I'll still get my new car (W-body) anytime between fall of 2007 and spring of 2008, and keep the Regal to try to hit that milestone!

See, people have a checklist, even our own P-C-S. People are entitled, including the "brain and degree" part of the equation. Women have checklists for men. I know...I've had to listen to them.

Delta Air Lines

Just think of how hairy your kids would have been - exponential !Rethink the comment, though, as you're well traveled. I had this discussion with my cousins who live in Italy. We were talking about who are the most attractive women in Europe. They said the French and then the Italians. I generally am not fond of French arrogance and neither are they, but I will have to say the French are an attractive people - a nice blending point between the polarities of Northern European and Southern European features. The Italians follow close behind for the same reason. That isn't to say that other Europeans aren't attractive, it just doesn't seem to be as uniformly distributed elsewhere on "the Continent." Also, P-C-S, there are NO hairy women in Italy (smettela! )....at least not now. That was in another lifetime and the basis of a lot of jokes! But when Americans go over there, they walk around with their mouths open.

inebriated

Christianity (ALL branches of it, including Catholicism) says it's all about tolerance, mercy and forgiveness. It's a hard task to live up to. I don't like everybody (like a friend in Portland likes to say, "God loves you, doesn't mean I have to"). However, one can at least tolerate someone / a group if they are vastly different from you and allow them "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This means that Falwell evidently never bought into the Christian message. I tend to ignore ALL televangelists and religious zealots. Too intense for my taste and I dont' have enough hours in the day as it is.

Ok, the latter one can be "worked on" but there's no guarantee of success. Some have gotten over it. Others haven't. One of my really good friends, an engineer in his early 40s, is married to a woman who was a victim of incest. Their marriage has stayed afloat and they have 2 kids, but there is a lot of dysfunction in the family -- I can't believe some of the stuff he tells me about what's going on in his household when we meet for lunch.As for the previous items, it's all about taste...and that's a matter of individuality.

What true colors? That I'm selective? Maybe a little snobbish...if you want to call it that?You've been hounding me on this topic for at least 2 years and this is a "public" forum. As someone who lives 3,000 miles away from me, you don't know me. It's more distasteful on your part, Bill. I don't make inferences about other members' personal lives, though I will comment on people outside of this forum. It's basic courtesy to keep it safewith the other members and have some respect for their feelings. In fact, I can think of other times when you've confronted/suspected others on C&G as it pertains to your "favorite" theme. So I have no problem periodically "mowing you down" to reset boundaries, capisce?

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