Thread of Love 3.0

[Lt. Dish]

four friends got engaged this weekend. im the last man standing.

"It's the most wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeaaar..."

pittsoccer33, I hope you're not fending off nosy married people (OK, mostly the women) who demand to know when you're going to "settle down"/why not/what's your problem/etc.

I can't stand it when people do that. I didn't like it directed at me when I was single, and today I sure as heck wouldn't dream of imposing the question to anyone else. I just think it's so discourteous. If the single person wants to volunteer the information or initiate the topic, then that's different.

/rant

[JS©]

I've been hit with that at work recently. I think a lot of it has to do with everybody over 30 being married or at least dating. Funny thing is I can't give a real reason aside from not really looking.

[Lt. Dish]

I've been hit with that at work recently. I think a lot of it has to do with everybody over 30 being married or at least dating. Funny thing is I can't give a real reason aside from not really looking.

JS@, not looking may be the explanation, but I'd argue that you don't have to have a reason for it.

Life doesn't work in the same linear fashion for everyone.*

* Outside of being born, living, then dying.

[pittsoccer33]

four friends got engaged this weekend. im the last man standing.

"It's the most wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeaaar..."

pittsoccer33, I hope you're not fending off nosy married people (OK, mostly the women) who demand to know when you're going to "settle down"/why not/what's your problem/etc.

I can't stand it when people do that. I didn't like it directed at me when I was single, and today I sure as heck wouldn't dream of imposing the question to anyone else. I just think it's so discourteous. If the single person wants to volunteer the information or initiate the topic, then that's different.

/rant

sure am. there is nothing about starting a family that is appealing to me. the blog myfriendsaremarried.tumblr.com might be more girl oriented, but its all so true. some of my friends claim they're envious of me, other want to know when im going to get sick of going to Villa on the weekends.

my sister is 25 and she probably has less interest in having a family than me. my mother absolutely hates it. girls probably get quizzed about this more. for my friends/coworkers im more of a curiosity. "you did what this weekend?!" "you went where?!" "you woke up where?!" not interested in trading it in.

ive been casually dating a girl a bit younger than me for a few months and my lone single friend hates that too. he thinks something has to be wrong with me for wanting to go out with a younger girl, but it seems to make a lot of sense to me. her top priorities for the weekend are having fun, not wasting money at ikea or bed bath and beyond.

[Idoit40fans]

I was at Ikea on Saturday

[pittsoccer33]

heres another christmas gift dilemma:

my parents don't have much money and don''t give many christmas gifts. which is completely fine with me. actually this year we decided no gifts for anybody.

any time I'm dating someone I get all kinds of stuff from their parents. my exgf's mom and dad got me several hundred dollars worth of home theater speakers last year.

mine a) don't have money like that to spend and b) don't seem to think giving gifts to the girls i date is appropriate. i wrote a few pages back that the girl ive been seeing's mom email me asking for a christmas list. should i buy her something and say its from my parents? thats so phony and the kind of nonsense thats wrong with christmas. i just feel bad knowing my rents wont be getting her anything.

[Rylan]

Your sister you say? And she doesn't want a family you say?...

[Sarcastic]

Your sister you say? And she doesn't want a family you say?...

Put it away, Rylan.

[Godric]

1.) Go to Youtube
2.) Search "Steven Fernandez How to Get Girls"
3.) Watch
4.)???
5.) Profit!

/endthread

[Sarcastic]

my sister is 25 and she probably has less interest in having a family than me. my mother absolutely hates it.

ive been casually dating a girl a bit younger than me for a few months and my lone single friend hates that too. he thinks something has to be wrong with me for wanting to go out with a younger girl, but it seems to make a lot of sense to me. her top priorities for the weekend are having fun, not wasting money at ikea or bed bath and beyond.

Women's priorities have changed in the last decade. Many choose to have a career and postpone having a family until later, like late 20's or even 30's.

A girl is typically younger than the guy in a relationship. I say typically. Reality is that girls generally look for a relationship more than guys do so one will probably look for a guy past her age - a smart move to find a more mature guy, if you ask me - and also that guys will generally wait until later to get married so they have a bigger pool to choose from. You don't often see a 30 year old girl hook up with a 21 year old 'boy'. Ignore your friend. If the girl you're seeing is fun, just have fun.

[Sarcastic]

I was talking to a friend of mine recently and he flat out said it's too difficult. He goes to his friends' homes and the wife's annoying and the kids are screaming and he says to hell with it. Money problems. I can see that side of the argument. Couple that with the fact close to 50% of marriages break up. I mean, it's sometimes not that easy to have a truly happy marriage. Many are more like a business relationship. Couples who go through the motions because they're already married.

That is completely incorrect.

That number comes from a (I am rounding to whole numbers) 2 million marriages per yer versus 1 million divorces per year. The reason that is a flawed stat is because the one million divorces do not come from the 2 million marriages. They come from the marriages of previous years. Thus, that is a completely wrong thing.

What numbers have you got? Last time I read an article about that stated it was in the upper 40's. Like 46 or 48.

If we're to believe in wiki..

In the USA the percentage of marriages ending in divorce varies from around 30% of all U.S. marriages to 50% of first marriages and 60% of second marriages. The British Government's ONS (Office of National Statistics) have stated that, at current rate, almost half of all marriages in England and Wales today (as of 2008) will end in divorce.

[Godric]

Sarcastic watch the Steve Fernandez how to get girls video

[Sarcastic]

Sarcastic watch the Steve Fernandez how to get girls video

I did watch that one and one where he goes after boobz. He's pretty funny. Can't believe he's only 12.

[Rylan]

I was talking to a friend of mine recently and he flat out said it's too difficult. He goes to his friends' homes and the wife's annoying and the kids are screaming and he says to hell with it. Money problems. I can see that side of the argument. Couple that with the fact close to 50% of marriages break up. I mean, it's sometimes not that easy to have a truly happy marriage. Many are more like a business relationship. Couples who go through the motions because they're already married.

That is completely incorrect.

That number comes from a (I am rounding to whole numbers) 2 million marriages per yer versus 1 million divorces per year. The reason that is a flawed stat is because the one million divorces do not come from the 2 million marriages. They come from the marriages of previous years. Thus, that is a completely wrong thing.

What numbers have you got? Last time I read an article about that stated it was in the upper 40's. Like 46 or 48.

If we're to believe in wiki..

In the USA the percentage of marriages ending in divorce varies from around 30% of all U.S. marriages to 50% of first marriages and 60% of second marriages. The British Government's ONS (Office of National Statistics) have stated that, at current rate, almost half of all marriages in England and Wales today (as of 2008) will end in divorce.

http://www.divorcesource.com/ds/main/u- ... 1037.shtml

The 50 percent statistic is very misleading, if not completely wrong. "The demographics of divorce are routinely reported wrong, calculated wrong or misinterpreted," says Robert Hughes, a former professor in the Department of Human & Family Services, College of Human Environmental Science, University of Missouri-Columbia. Hughes says that for every two marriages that occurred in the 1990s there was one divorce. "This does not mean the divorce rate is 50 percent [because] the people getting married in a single year are not the same ones getting divorced," he says.

[count2infinity]

does it really matter what the exact percentage is? It's still pretty high and a lot of marriages end in divorce.

[pittsoccer33]

does it really matter what the exact percentage is? It's still pretty high and a lot of marriages end in divorce.

we don't "need" to be married now.

traditionally, men needed women to do chores around the house, keep it tidy, and cook meals.

women needed men to provide them with food, clothes, and a house.

none of that's true anymore. add to it that for most of human existence the life expectancy was under 40 years old. thats not a long time to be stuck dealing with somebody.

[JS©]

http://i.imgur.com/QJ6Hs.jpg

[ExPatriatePen]

http://i.imgur.com/QJ6Hs.jpg

That's awesome!

There's a guy up here on Long Island that has a Houseboat named "Ruth-Less".

and yes, it means what you think it means...

[ExPatriatePen]

Working from home today with local public radio (WFUV) on in the background, when this Mumford and Sons song that I've heard 100's of times before. This time though it made me think of the ToL v.3.0

[Godric]

Totally got shot down today, it was kinda funny

I was riding my bike back to "Da Crib" from work and I cut through a parking lot and I was feeling it anyway and I saw two honnies in a car leaving the parking lot.... So I went in front of them and began to hop speed bumps while wheelie'd ( I wasn't impedeing their travel because they had to slow down for the bumps anyway and I was going fast)

As I was stopped at the intersection with them I of course signaled for them to roll down the window so I could "holla" .... They did but the light turned green

[Pavel Bure]

Totally got shot down today, it was kinda funny

I was riding my bike back to "Da Crib" from work and I cut through a parking lot and I was feeling it anyway and I saw two honnies in a car leaving the parking lot.... So I went in front of them and began to hop speed bumps while wheelie'd ( I wasn't impedeing their travel because they had to slow down for the bumps anyway and I was going fast)

As I was stopped at the intersection with them I of course signaled for them to roll down the window so I could "holla" .... They did but the light turned green

I have a very flawed view of people online. I assume everyone is my age or older, I'm wrong. How old are you?

[Sarcastic]

That's funny. ^^^ (i meant Godric's post)

[Godric]

Totally got shot down today, it was kinda funny

I was riding my bike back to "Da Crib" from work and I cut through a parking lot and I was feeling it anyway and I saw two honnies in a car leaving the parking lot.... So I went in front of them and began to hop speed bumps while wheelie'd ( I wasn't impedeing their travel because they had to slow down for the bumps anyway and I was going fast)

As I was stopped at the intersection with them I of course signaled for them to roll down the window so I could "holla" .... They did but the light turned green

I have a very flawed view of people online. I assume everyone is my age or older, I'm wrong. How old are you?

You asked me this before in a thread I made about who the better tv writers are between the Simpsons, south park, and family guy and you only have to click on my name to find out I am 20.... Born Jan 17, 1992

[Pavel Bure]

Totally got shot down today, it was kinda funny

I was riding my bike back to "Da Crib" from work and I cut through a parking lot and I was feeling it anyway and I saw two honnies in a car leaving the parking lot.... So I went in front of them and began to hop speed bumps while wheelie'd ( I wasn't impedeing their travel because they had to slow down for the bumps anyway and I was going fast)

As I was stopped at the intersection with them I of course signaled for them to roll down the window so I could "holla" .... They did but the light turned green

I have a very flawed view of people online. I assume everyone is my age or older, I'm wrong. How old are you?

You asked me this before in a thread I made about who the better tv writers are between the Simpsons, south park, and family guy and you only have to click on my name to find out I am 20.... Born Jan 17, 1992

The bike wheelies make no sense to me

[Godric]

Oh and I live in the greater Los Angeles area and that's why I was able to ride my bike without freezing to death today