Dating Sucks!

[Loverskitten]

Yeah well.... "some US Americans don't have maps" and such
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&feature=youtube_gdata_player

On the flip side, I was once making small talk with a new manager at an old job
Me: "you have a bit of an accent, where are you from?"
Jerk: "Rhode Island, NO IT IS NOT IN NEW YORK AND NO IT IS NOT AN ISLAND"
Me: glaring "I know. I enjoyed visiting Newport last year" *walk away*

 

[mynameisben]

Yeah well.... "some US Americans don't have maps" and such
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Someone should have taken a bicycle pump to her head and given that poor girl a few more PSI.

I wonder. Did she win?

 

[StrayKat]

Yeah well.... "some US Americans don't have maps" and such
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww&feature=youtube_gdata_player

On the flip side, I was once making small talk with a new manager at an old job
Me: "you have a bit of an accent, where are you from?"
Jerk: "Rhode Island, NO IT IS NOT IN NEW YORK AND NO IT IS NOT AN ISLAND"
Me: glaring "I know. I enjoyed visiting Newport last year" *walk away*

OMG lol poor kid

What I find really amazing is that at the present time it is so easy to Google even the most minor facts and yet some people I chat with dont seem to have a clue. How hard is it to open your browser and just do a search for something?

I remember the time with no internet when you either had an Encyclopedia to read (I actually loved them) or had to go to the library and do some serious search and study if you wanted to learn things. Yet the people I talked to regularly didnt seem to have such huge knowledge gaps like average interent users I chat with nowdays.
I guess I am getting into that age when everything I can think of in some discussion is comparison to good old days back <then>

 

[BiBunny]

I'm attempting to meet people. The attempt is not going well. I don't even remember how to do this anymore.

 

[StrayKat]

Oh Bunny, its just relax and be your own sweet self (or not so sweet ). I never change anything in my bitchy attitude for the sake of online dating and I never seem to have problem meeting people. Some even more than once

But then I do wander around a lot, my nick is not picked just because it looks pretty.

 

[zathras52003]

I thought so.
I cant even imagine how confused he would get if I wrote I was in Croatia, Zadar area, what is actually my hometown. Lot of "USA-centric" folks ask me if that is some country and where is it located on the world map. I remember telling a guy "Adriatic Sea, across the Italy" once, and getting promptly in reply "and where exactly is Italy?"

It is interesting to note your point and several of the other ones here. Looking back, I cannot remember a single geography course in High School. My understanding is that was pretty standard for, say, the baby boomers. Most of the geography I picked up was part of other classes in HS and college.

As far as the guy who didn't know where Italy was- did you give him the boot? Sorry, couldn't resist.

Weird admission: whenever I think of geography as a study, I think of Cary Grant in "Father Goose.'

 

[adam_]

OMG lol poor kid

What I find really amazing is that at the present time it is so easy to Google even the most minor facts and yet some people I chat with dont seem to have a clue. How hard is it to open your browser and just do a search for something?

Without meaning to sound rude, how hard is it to just explain something to a person? If everything was left to Google, there would be no conversation left in the world!

 

[wicked woman]

Without meaning to sound rude, how hard is it to just explain something to a person? If everything was left to Google, there would be no conversation left in the world!

Not hard at all, but sometimes you get amazed when you find a person who doesn't have what is considered basic knowledge that you expect an educated (I'm only talking high school) person to know.

When my sons were in grade 9 we developed a plan for what courses they would take in high school. They used to say there were the school's rules (English for all years, a few Math - I can't remember but very minimal) and Mom's rules. To me there's a certain base level of knowledge that a person needs. I remember feeling disbelief when one year, the school didn't even offer American history because not enough people wanted to take it or another when the majority of people registered in it were my son and his friends. We're their neighbour to the north. How can you be educated and not know their history? Or Canadian history, geography, some science, math. I feel embarassed for intelligent people who don't know basic stuff - like a guy in Washington, DC who didn't know where Toronto, Ontario was. Duh, it's the largest city in Canada. Kind of like me not knowing where NYC is.

 

[the captians wench]

Not hard at all, but sometimes you get amazed when you find a person who doesn't have what is considered basic knowledge that you expect an educated (I'm only talking high school) person to know.

When my sons were in grade 9 we developed a plan for what courses they would take in high school. They used to say there were the school's rules (English for all years, a few Math - I can't remember but very minimal) and Mom's rules. To me there's a certain base level of knowledge that a person needs. I remember feeling disbelief when one year, the school didn't even offer American history because not enough people wanted to take it or another when the majority of people registered in it were my son and his friends. We're their neighbour to the north. How can you be educated and not know their history? Or Canadian history, geography, some science, math. I feel embarassed for intelligent people who don't know basic stuff - like a guy in Washington, DC who didn't know where Toronto, Ontario was. Duh, it's the largest city in Canada. Kind of like me not knowing where NYC is.

I'll admit my geography is very basic. Like I know what most of the European countries are, but I can't identify all of them correctly on a map. Especially all of those little guys between Europe and Asia. Until a few years ago I could point out the UK, but not the countries that makes up. And when I was in Dublin buying a outlet converter I was baffled because they said US-UK and not US-UK/Ireland like the one I bought here did.

What's funny is realizing what we take for granted as common knowledge others might not have been exposed to. Like my outlet example, Jounar looked at me like I had three heads when I told him they all said UK and not Ireland and answered me like he would a 5 year old when I asked if it would work. That is until I explained that the ones I saw at home said UK/Ireland on them. I've never been to other parts of Europe, how am I supposed to know there isn't some slight difference in their outlets. They are different countries after all.

 

[Loverskitten]

OT but I'm getting excited for my date on Friday

 

[StrayKat]

Without meaning to sound rude, how hard is it to just explain something to a person? If everything was left to Google, there would be no conversation left in the world!

If you want to play a first grade teacher by all means do so. I dont. And my convos are generally about completely different things I have interest in than geography in example

OT but I'm getting excited for my date on Friday

I just got home from one. Wish I could have stayed longer.
I feel like that girl from "eat a lemon to erase the grin from your face" joke

 

[wicked woman]

I'll admit my geography is very basic. Like I know what most of the European countries are, but I can't identify all of them correctly on a map. Especially all of those little guys between Europe and Asia. Until a few years ago I could point out the UK, but not the countries that makes up. And when I was in Dublin buying a outlet converter I was baffled because they said US-UK and not US-UK/Ireland like the one I bought here did.

What's funny is realizing what we take for granted as common knowledge others might not have been exposed to. Like my outlet example, Jounar looked at me like I had three heads when I told him they all said UK and not Ireland and answered me like he would a 5 year old when I asked if it would work. That is until I explained that the ones I saw at home said UK/Ireland on them. I've never been to other parts of Europe, how am I supposed to know there isn't some slight difference in their outlets. They are different countries after all.

I don't think Jounar expected you to know about their electrical currency but what countries make up the United Kingdom.

I blame part of it to how America-centric America is. The rest of us know the world doesn't resolve around us so we have to learn about the rest of the world.

 

[Loverskitten]

OT but I'm getting excited for my date on Friday

Aww hell, I shouldn't have said anything because when I get overly excited to meet someone, something happens. I may have jinxed myself. Oh well. This will be a different experience for me if all goes well on Friday.

 

[Art H.]

Being a disabled Dom in the online dating arena can be quite a roller-coaster, whether you're open about it or not. If you are open, subs tend to pass by due to "fear of the unknown," and if you tell them after they've gotten to know you it turns into "I'm sorry but no."

Admittedly, I understand the logic behind these responses, but it is still very trying...Oh well, keep on rollin'

 

[YourCaptor]

Being a disabled Dom in the online dating arena can be quite a roller-coaster, whether you're open about it or not. If you are open, subs tend to pass by due to "fear of the unknown," and if you tell them after they've gotten to know you it turns into "I'm sorry but no."

Admittedly, I understand the logic behind these responses, but it is still very trying...Oh well, keep on rollin'

Do they need to know?

 

[YourCaptor]

Aww hell, I shouldn't have said anything because when I get overly excited to meet someone, something happens. I may have jinxed myself. Oh well. This will be a different experience for me if all goes well on Friday.

Howd it go?

 

[Art H.]

Do they need to know?

A fair question. Depends on the seriousness involved, but I'd hope that things *eventually* progress to live play, which is affected...

 

[YourCaptor]

A fair question. Depends on the seriousness involved, but I'd hope that things *eventually* progress to live play, which is affected...

Maybe, but I can't think of anything at the moment that would hinder a dom from laying back and making em do whatever. Maybe get a shock collar for the unruly ones.

 

[YourCaptor]

So I'm trying my luck on CM again, and so far the only real response has come from what I have now discovered to be a prostitute.

Online dating is amazing.

 

[Art H.]

Maybe, but I can't think of anything at the moment that would hinder a dom from laying back and making em do whatever. Maybe get a shock collar for the unruly ones.

Shock collar, nice

 

[Loverskitten]

Howd it go?

The actual date was great. However, he expected me to go home with him for a weekend of play, and I won't do that (Top or bottom) unless I trust. Not to mention I caught him in a lie, and I don't put up with lies. Next.

 

[Loverskitten]

Shock collar, nice

I have a remote one I used on my dog and have been wanting to put on a man, yummmm

 

[midwestyankee]

I don't think Jounar expected you to know about their electrical currency but what countries make up the United Kingdom.

I blame part of it to how America-centric America is. The rest of us know the world doesn't resolve around us so we have to learn about the rest of the world.

Would it be unseemly of me to point out that if the world revolves around the U.S. (as many of my compatriots believe), then Canada is right there next to our center of gravity. Sort of like you're a suspont on our sun.

All of which is meant to say that dating Canadians can be fun, eh!

 

[waaitg]

/Pulls up a seat and settles down in an out of the way corner

 

[wicked woman]

Would it be unseemly of me to point out that if the world revolves around the U.S. (as many of my compatriots believe), then Canada is right there next to our center of gravity. Sort of like you're a suspont on our sun.

All of which is meant to say that dating Canadians can be fun, eh!

Well I'm glad some of my fellow Canadians have treated you well. As for me, the verdict is still out on Canadian men. I may have to test that water again.