Brunette. And no, I'm not gonna dye my hair. I worked hard for each of these strands of gray!
Tjol wrote:If things are good while one is single, there's no need to be desperate about finding someone, as being with the wrong person will be worse for you than finding no one at all. So make sure you look for the right someone rather than just any someone.
I love the term "cougars" -- I'd never heard it before. It fits several 50+ women I know. It's like the sexual revolution of the '60s ("sex any time I want it, no guilt!") collided with their '50s upbringing ("gotta have a man or I'm nobody!") just as their last divorce was final. Their desperation is palpable, enough so that it even makes *me* queasy, and I'm not even their type.
Some of these same women think I'm a chicken for opting out of dating -- like there's something wrong with me. But I like being single, and right now I'm too freakin' busy for a relationship anyhow. So, pfft.
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
I first heard the term cougar when watching Oceans 13 in the theaters earlier this year.
I've never felt so uncomfortable as late last year, when an older (she was in her late forties, I think) and very recently divorced coworker of mine (from a different department, but worked on the same floor) out of the blue gave me an exaggerated look up and down before pronouncing that I looked like Brett Favre. This dumbfounded me for several reasons:
1) I'm an engineer and am very unused to these types of comments.
2) It was creepy - for the first time in my life I felt like I had been ogled.
3) She knew I am happily married, and after that time made a couple comments to indicate that she could care less.
4) She was obviously smoking crack - because I don't look anything like Brett Favre.
I think this was cougar behavior. Thank God she has since left the company for another job. I don't know if it qualifies as sexual harassment or not, but it was definitely an unwanted and uncomfortable situation.
Cail wrote:Plenty of Fish is creepy as Hell. I was on for a whopping 48 hours, and I'll never go there again. Without exaggeration, every response I got was from a cougar trying to get her freak on with me.
I told you using your KW avatar as your photo was a bad idea.
Dangit!
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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DukkhaWaynhim wrote:I don't know if it qualifies as sexual harassment or not, but it was definitely an unwanted and uncomfortable situation.
Not sure legally. It's *definitely* sexual harassment, because you felt uncomfortable at your job. But whether it fits the legal definition depends on whether she was your superior. I think. Don't quote me. In any case, you would have had grounds to take it to HR and have them talk to her. Thank goodness she left of her own volition.
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
I got yet another unwanted text message from a woman I haven't spoken to in nearly two months at 1am last night. Thank God she doesn't have my address, but I'm probably going to have to file a protective order against her next week.
Beware of the needy people out there.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Cail wrote:Just another note on privacy and stalkers.
I got yet another unwanted text message from a woman I haven't spoken to in nearly two months at 1am last night. Thank God she doesn't have my address, but I'm probably going to have to file a protective order against her next week.
Beware of the needy people out there.
no dude! i was just replying to YOUR txt message!! HONEST!!!
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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that was supposed to be funny. you were supposed to laugh.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Texting, emailing, and phone calls. I've asked her to stop, she hasn't (we're soul mates, dont'cha know).
I spent a total of 2 hours with this woman 2 months ago, and <wags finger> did not have sexual relations with that woman.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Well over half the country believed Clinton when he said it....
But yeah, I really didn't.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
_____________
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
_____________
"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
_____________
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Cail wrote:Just another note on privacy and stalkers.
I got yet another unwanted text message from a woman I haven't spoken to in nearly two months at 1am last night. Thank God she doesn't have my address, but I'm probably going to have to file a protective order against her next week.
heh. Try the old flea flicker Cail. Ask her out, order offensive food, eat like a pig, burp, fart and drool, ogle the other women, drink like a fish, make lewd suggestions for after dinner, don't bring money to pay the check, etc, etc....then, keep calling and texting her at 4 am. She'll be gone before you know it, and you'll have at least one enjoyable evening pretending to be someone you're not.....trust me, it works.....
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