Happy Valentine's Day!
If you haven't got a Valentine, be your own. Do something nice for yourself!
It's about love not just romantic love, and self-love is the most important version of love in the Universe!

And maybe be a bit of a Valentine for others by paying a compliment or a simple smile.

Get a better profile photo. The one you chose now isn't clear enough. The thumbnail had me thinking you were a bloke. Choose a photo that leaves no doubt about your gender.

As was said, way way way too many questions!
Men aren't going to read such a huge, solid block of text.
I like reading but even I had to force myself to get through it.
Use paragraphs, helps a lot.

And instead of all those questions, why not simply say what you say here: " I'm definitely looking for a conversationalist"

That sums it up. Makes reading your profile a lot easier, better, and nicer.
I too like a man that can hold an in depth conversation, but the way you're attempting to convey that is near off-putting.

Your reason is that many send daft messages. That won't change. This is a free dating site with tons of scammers. If you want more messages of substance without the BS you should go to a paid-for dating site.
Either that, or put up with the nonsense messages, learn to ignore & delete them. A man of substance will send a decent message, provided you have a profile that invites them to. As it is you don't have that.
Most will see that solid block and leave without reading. Leaving you with the nonsense messages.

Even if some read it, they will feel the demand in your text & questions, you go too political as well (a profile isn't the place for that), and they'll leave even though they were initially interested.
Seriously, dump the questions! A profile should be reasonably short, fun, positive, light-hearted, attractive, and have paragraphs.

Also, get rid of THE CAPITALS! SCREAMING IS PAINFUL TO THE EARS AND RUDE! NO ONE LIKES IT!

You're confusing Western culture with American culture. It's not the same.
You over there have this feminism thing, lots of anti-women stuff going on in the US still. Which is far from being a 1st world country, closer to a developing country's culture.
That is typical US.

As for it being researched across cultures: yes. The decline in fertility is worldwide. Pollution plays a part in this.
But in many other cultures hormone levels are still healthier.

And a good thing women don't choose to serve their husband. If a man wants to be served he better get hired help in.
We're equal, are supposed to be equal. Man & woman are meant to stand side by side, equals, perfect complements. That's Divinely created that way, mankind effed that up.

Seems US men feel emasculated when a woman is equal, meaning your version of feeling like a man comes from knocking women. Does that sound healthy to you? Doesn't even sound manly if you need to feel good at the expense of another.
Being a man means you honour other people, especially your partner. You respect, love, cherish her, defend her if need be, provide & protect. You don't need her to be inferior in order to feel good yourself.
That attitude should be in the DSM-5 as it's scary and sounds like a serious mental health condition.
Seems to go around in the US a lot as I've never come across it here.

Joye, thanks for the info you posted earlier.

Fact that people don't experience it as a problem still doesn't mean it isn't related to imbalance / low levels of gender-specific hormones!
As a matter of fact I think many will feel more at peace when their sexdrive disappears. Sexdrive in a sense brings more 'waves' in life, which are supposed to feel good.
But I think some people feel like that's a lot of to-do. Yet, with these people it usually stems from lack of hormones...

I have been reading a helluva lot on this of late and you will not believe how much of our behaviour, interest in things, desire to socialize, sex-drive and so on is dependent on hormones!
When you read all the ins and outs of hormones it becomes clearer and clearer that most of what we do, feel, think, want, desire -or lack thereof- is driven by hormones.
Just for the heck of it Google 'symptoms of low estrogen' to get an idea how far the impact goes!

I do wonder if a-sexuals can have real deep passions in life? For instance very good at sports, or painting, or... or...
Could be they're incapable of feeling such passions for something or... they've found another outlet for their energy.

Thinking... HI KITKAT!!!

And thinking... it's been a really good day! Busy but great!
Now it's time to get some shut-eye. It's late and I'm sleepy.

12C grey but we had about 15 minutes of sun!! Hihi

We had so much rain the last few days that my garden is like a swamp. Many parts would require wellies to walk through.
I wanted to go out with my kitten, but it wasn't doable. She doesn't like to wade through water, hihi. I decided to go in the front yard with her as it's drier there.
Backyard is horrible!

Probably due to lack of oestrogen in women and when it concerns men, lack of testosterone.
Both genders are lacking in their resp. hormones these days.
Men have 20% (!!!!) less testosterone than they used to have. This goes for young men too, age 20 and up.
Our hormones are directly related to having a sexdrive or not.
In women it's mainly oestrogen, for men testosterone.

Try HRT (hormone replacement therapy) for a while and you'll likely notice that suddenly you DO have sexual feelings and a sex-drive and are no longer a-sexual at all.

The lack of hormones is one of the biggest issues of mankind.
It has scientifically proven and predicted that in the very near future we might become near extinct.

And think of the difficulty people have had for decades with getting pregnant!
IVF became common-place in the 80s and the difficulty to become pregnant has only increased since then.
That's 40 yrs already!

Lack of hormones. Major issue!

Get some oestrogen cream. I'm almost 100% certain you'll get a sex-drive and sexual feelings again.
** do use progesterone as well if you have a uterus.

Thinking... a good time to go to bed! It's late and I'm tired.

I always felt respect for what Madonna did and pulled off.
But then I saw her on Graham Norton's show, and boy does she have an attitude problem!!
I think she made a lasting impression with that appearance, and definitely not a good one.


As for not sticking to concert times... my ex worked in show bizz as a professional lighting & sound guy so he had seen a lot.
He said Bruce Springsteen was god awful as he didn't stop on time. He went on and on and on.
That forms a problem for all the people behind the scene who get rented in to do a job for a certain amount of money for a certain amount of time. So they don't get paid per hour. Meaning if he goes on and on, they're not getting paid, yet they cannot go home either...

Plus, the rent for equipment, returning equipment to storage, is another issue when a rockstar doesn't give a toss about that.
He gets to go to his hotel when done, but all those people have another couple of hours of work to do to take everything down and bring it away. All while no longer being paid for the extra hours because the idiot went on too long.
So it's very selfish to not take them into account.

10C overcast, not too dark but dull nonetheless.

Gerard Butler... I like most of his movies. He has a powerful & attractive aura, probably cos he's a Scorpio. I love it even more if you can hear his Scottish accent.
It narks me that Hollywood demands Scottish (or English) people to speak American.


Aaron Douglas, came across him in a movie last night. I seriously dislike the man. I've only seen him twice, in the movie and in series Flashpoint, seems he always plays a near-psychotic a-hole.

The text feels choppy, sentences too long, too many weird things in them like overusing & and bt. Does the "u" on your keyboard not work or is it too tiring to simply type 'but'?
Not having a go, but if you want to sell yourself you need an easy read.
Also not clear why you keep typing ';'?

In short: rewrite it and make sure to use proper punctuation and dump the chat lingo (& and bt) and ;

Also, try to give it a positive feel. As it is you come across as insecure and needing a woman to buoy you up so you can feel good.
Few women will feel attracted to that.

Then add what kind of relationship and partner you'd like to find.

Europe of course!
I have lived in Asia for a few years, but it isn't home.
Australia could have been home.
Never America.
Nowhere where way of life / culture is too different.

I wouldn't mind moving to another country, or other area of the country, but unless it's Australia, I'm not leaving western Europe!

Thank you, Julie!

Nope, I already am in Europe

Not 100% certain, but I think that's what it says when someone logs out. And many do log out.
Some may come back on, others may forget about it, and yet others may have decided to sod it altogether, hihi.

What we could do? All find that great person and move our butts off the site and into the real world, making new memories with our lover.

Thank you so much, Julie!

Fun fact: The reason the roof looks red-brown is because they used purple heather -from Culloden itself- for it.

I have added a few things to the painting. I was only painting the sides of the frame and suddenly felt like adding some heather and one of the standing stones with clan names on it.
I would've loved to add a few more of these stones, have them disappear in the distance, but that doesn't work out space-wise.

After thinking for a bit where to place the heather & stone, this is what it looks like now.
Wonder what you ladies think!

Criminal Record - 2024 - 7,5 IMDB rating
British crime series. So far 4 episodes available.

So far I like it, but only in episode 3, too early to give a decent rating.

Short story: an old murder seems to tie in to a new one. The cop investigating it discover this and wants to dive into it, but the cops that dealt with the old murder try to stop her from doing so, clearly being bent coppers.

Thank you, Julie!


OT - Last night I suddenly knew how I wanted to finish it and how I could make the fog part stand out more.
It also meant that the other part needed its grass with more highlights, especially since the cottage has clear sunlight, the source coming from the left.
In order to emphasize that a bit, I added more yellow tones to the left side of the cottage, and cool blue tones to the right side.

Then I added the mud/sand fountain, caused by a canonball hitting the ground, mud & soil flying everywhere.
More fog in that entire right hand section.

I'm thinking of calling it "Through the Veil of Time" or "Glimpse of the Past". "Mists of Time" maybe?
Not certain.

I do hope the painting itself expresses what it's supposed to:
Leanach cottage in the now with a glimpse of the the Battle of Culloden in the past through the fog. It should not appear to be in the same timeline as the battle wasn't fought right next to Leanach cottage.