Electric Porsche!

I get where you are coming from, and I confess I do not know the answer to your delima. Even married people are not always happy with there lot.

 

Can't buy me love? Before you can say "Once more, with feeling", there's gotta be a 'once'. And it's not usually the guy that needs dinner and a movie first. For $200 an hour, I'd say skip that part and have dessert first. It's your birthday. Treat yourself.

If it's any consolation, us married old farts don't necessarily have it any better. If you add up the costs of the mortgage, the w(h)ining and dining, sending the kids to university, the pain and suffering of taking out the garbage all those years, the endless 'honeydew' lists, sleeping on the couch when the significant other is snoring...and divide it by the number of times you get laid, I bet hookers are waay cheaper. And you don't have to put up with the same one all the time, either.

 

Hyo I think Daniel was just trying to shock me. I dont think he needs to pay for sex. He is happy just the way he is.

 

The Russian mail-order bride thing isn't always a scam. A technician I used to work with married a Russian girl through a "mail-order" service. He was in his 40's, not very good looking, with a deformed hand. After 30 years of rejection from American women he tried something different. We all thought he was getting scammed because it took ~18 months and he was constantly having to pay for stuff. ~$30K and 18 months later she was in the US and they were married. Seven years later they are still together.

I also know quite a few Indian couples that have arranged marriages. Their parents make a selection, the meet once or twice, then they are married for life.

It seems Americans expect perfection like you see in some movie.

 

Dating is an expense. A spouse is overhead.

Tom

 

'Not happy the way I am'.

I have seen your picture on 'What do you look like', and you look very hansome. You don't look 60. You look fit and happy. :kiss:


'Looks like I'll be "celebrating" my birthday by eating lunch alone at the Indian restaurant and then probably pick up some chocolate cookies at the bakery. (I'm not big on cake.)'

We can have a Birthday Party on PC for you, you have lots of friends here.arty:

 

I saw that movie. I also saw a British real life show, where a British, older man, dated a russian girl on the internet. He paid for her to go through college. She did go to England to meet him, and had intended to marry him. After 1 week with him she couldn't wait to go home. In the credits at the end of the show they claimed that he was not her only 'boyfriend'. Apparantly she had others who also sent her a lot of money.

 

a co-worker's brother did a mail order bride kind of thing and it was legit, but cost a fortune and it did not work out. he brought her over for around $20,000. they were together for around 2 years but i guess the relationship never really had a chance from the start.

so even those are not guaranteed either (oh oh!!... was i not supposed to bring that up?)

 

I'm happily single for a good reason

[Sound of Jay kissing the carpet, thankful to be single]

 

I really don't care about birthdays, but maybe I'll change in another 20 years or so. My birthday is a State Secret, at least around the office

My pets provide far better companionship than people

 

I think once robot women are perfected (Clever programming to make one think the machine actually DOES like you, robot parts that won't maim or kill you), the problem of not having a date or wife will disappear

 

Leave your sheep out of this conversation.

Tom

 

Daniel,

Have you ever studied biology/ecology much? I mean enough to understand how incredible even the tiniest organism is? Have you looked into and learned about the many wonderful adaptations plants use to survive, grow, and reproduce, many of which use other organisms for some of these processes? There is so much wonder in the world that I cannot be down, or feel bad a bout my lot in life. This has really helped transform my view of the world and my place in it. Depression has no hold on me nor will it ever. Even in death I feel I will be doing good for a variety of organisms and systems so I can remain happy.

I know you love animals and you love to learn. Have you ever thought about working with habitat restoration specialists? I'm seriously considering starting a breeding program for some of the endangered or threatened species in my local area to aid in reintroductions into newly created habitat or in restored habitat. Many species populations are down due to over-development and not typical "Darwinian struggles" and there are MANY habitat restoration projects that mitigate for such development but often times it is difficult to introduce locally extirpated species into this new habitat because you cannot simple go to a store and purchase some. I thinking of starting a breeding program for certain vernal pool crustaceans and amphibians to aid in such restoration work. Many people around the world do this and they appear go gain great satisfaction from it just as I do growing all my little oaks that we use in restoration work. Maybe it is something you would find useful to the world and would keep you busy enough to not even care about women?

I'm likely way off base but seeing many of my older friends, that are without wives, lead happy lives that are filled with conservation work leads me to believe this works for some people.

 

Oh you're just jealous!

 

Huh. That always works for me.

I guess every human goes through a certain amount of melancholy. It's not healthy to dwell on it