Oddbean new post about login | logout Now, now. No need to sell yourself short, mate. 😂 That's true! Many ladies nowadays pretty much chase any man that fits some type of heavily romanticized stereotype. Female dating standards can be absolutely mental!
well, i'm a long way from being fluent in portuguese as well and i've got a drinking problem that i have to address and right now a problem with my teeth related to food sensitivities so i'm feeling like a bit of a tarder cat, hence the change in my pfp
Yea, I had a rather severe drinking issue for years after I left the service. Then I knocked up my daughters mum and everything changed almost overnight. 🤷♂️ I understand. Alcoholism can make people do some truly loony things. Best of luck with that 👍🙏! For real.
yeah it gets extra complicated with food sensitivities cos the wine is not so bad but i had a couple of local madeira stout last night while hanging out with the most loony people in my neighbourhood playing dominoes and ... yeah... much easier to make a bad call... the malts and the pepper and the chilli and the carbs all have been slowly creeping back and then it's a sock in the jaw like this my insides feel like hell, as well, and i think i overdid the sun-baking today, my skin feels hot everywhere
Spring is sunburn season. I'm at an age where more than one glass of wine will leave me hungover for two days. 😅 My partying days are basically over.
Yea, mine as well. I really ain't upset about that, though. My partying days were truly bonkers. LOL! Just some cocky little shit who thought he was better and knew better than everyone. Joining the military only made it worse, for a time 😅. I really only drink once or twice on the weekends now. 🤷♂️
I was never that wild because I married young, but even the little bit I did was enough. 😅
I was WILD! My old man and I got into plenty of arguments over my irresponsibility. I was a touch spoiled. Shouldn't be a shocker 🤷♂️. Yup, I'm a tad bit jelly that you married young 😅. How young?
We got engaged when I was 22 and married a year later and our son was born a year after that.
I’ve come to the conclusion that male and female dating standards are on the whole wild these days. We all talk like there’s a generally agreed on dating standard that we’re all supposed to know. Meanwhile I’ve seen a woman ask if there’s any tea or red flags about a man and then proceed to share a mugshot. While another woman thinks because she chatted with a guy on a dating app and then they met for coffee 2 weeks ago with no contact since then, that he’s a cheating boyfriend for meeting someone else for coffee. I knew from personal experience how crazy men could be but damn the stories some women tell on themselves is wild to me.
One quick cup of coffee and she thought they were together?! 👀 Sounds like the kind of woman I would expect to see skulkin' about my front gate if we ever met. 😅
I’ve also seen a woman who kept sleeping around on a guy because they hadn’t had the talk. Meanwhile everyone thought of her as this guy’s girlfriend and it was blatantly obvious so did this guy. They’d been dating for months. I recommended she have the talk so they were on the same page but she knew what he was thinking and didn’t want reason to ruin her fun. I went out on a first date I cut short and the guy thought I was the one. Like weeks later showed up at my doorstep crying at 3am. Then I know guys who are like 40 something thinking maybe I’ll settle down one day. The dating pool is fair game batshit craziness.
There's no normalized standard of behavior, anymore, or rituals, so it's all become very subjective and haphazard.
The arranged-marriage societies may be on to something.
There’s a really funny comedian who has a bit about her sister choosing an arranged marriage and her choosing a love match. Let me find a clip.
Here’s a short clip. The whole thing is apparently super long. https://youtu.be/DX9EhYIIAXw?si=ur1C9g90i2ejG4Dk