I'm in college. I'm not allowed to "splurge" if I want to make rent. Ah, I got it. I'll save money drinking coffee that is perfectly fine, while you waste yours on coffee that you think is somehow better.. ?

McDonald's the worst? Hardly. It's a dollar. I drink it quite often and enjoy every drop. And when I go spend 5 bucks on a cup at some fancy bistro that claims to have some crazy good brew, it tastes basically the same. Coffee is coffe, man. Don't f*ck it up with cream and sugar and I'll drink it all day long.

Nicely put.

Honestly, I like a lot of people around here... they're genuine and whatnot, for the most part... but when I think decent, I can't help but apply my personal dating criteria to it. I'm sorta picky, really. So really. Where ARE the decent women? Ha ha.

I think the "genuine" coffee mindset is flawed. There's good coffee and bad coffee, for sure. But for the most part, it all tastes the same. I am an avid coffee drinker, and I would prefer McDonald's coffee over some specialty coffee anyday. It's cheaper and essentially tastes the same. I have tried a particular kind once, though, that was different from any I had had before, and it was actually really good.. It was gingerbread coffee. Niccce.

But overall, I like my coffee black, straight up, just as nature intended.

Yep. You really left this time.

If you're just going to dog all guys without knowing them (people like you who just try to convince others that there's no such thing as a good guy offend me, personally), then you really shouldn't be here. Or if so, you should probably become a lesbian and change what you're looking for.

A joke that requires you to assume something like that without any way of leading you there is really not funny..

The last thing I think of when I think Mexican as opposed to Russian or Italian is beating the wife and making her blind for two days..

Uh. What's funny about that.. ?

Are you ever going to leave? This is like your 2nd or 3rd announcement..

You have a point. He's needed... but only by people that have nothing better to do than watch other people present problems they should know the answer to. If you really need an answer to a situation as lame as the ones on his show, you can go to any coffesshop, hair dresser, friend's house, whatever, and get better advice. Because it's more personable. Not all advice can be copy/pasted from a TV show to your own life.

Surprisingly enough, there are.

You'll find that many more women out there prefer the reserved type than they let on. More than anything, most women look for a balance. Knowing when you should be talkative and when you should be quiet is a very powerful tool in a relationship. Knowing when it's best to let silence do the talking will better any relationship.

Wow. Dr. Phil, are you kidding? What a crock. Watch his show. All he really does is point out the obvious. But it works because typically the people who need help are so stupid that they wouldn't have been able to figure it out if it hit them on the head. He's a TV star, but by no means a relationship specialist.

I think it gets more credit than it deserves. It's pretty good, but I've seen better romances. I think it's over-rated, is all.

Well, that's just the thing. If you want to make it work, you can. It will be hard, but never once did I feel like that year of my life wasn't worth the trouble. Money for plane tickets and the like was really a small price to pay to feel like I never have before.

I think I'm gonna go with Titanic.

I feel as if I have some expertise to bring to this table. Listen to my story. It's fantastical, but it's also true and may help you.

In August of 2006, I began posting on some popular discussion boards on Facebook. I became really addicted like many people and would be posting day and night. After a few days, I noticed I was responding a lot to a girl named Kelly from Missouri. She must have noticed this too, because we began talking in personal messages through Facebook outside the board. Within a few messages we had traded AIM s/n's, and were talking deep into the night. Until 4 or 5 in the morning for weeks, we were talking on AIM, learning about each other, finding we had quite a few things in common. After a short time... only about a month, we mutually decided we wanted to meet... despite her being in Missouri, me in Georgia, a 649 mile distance seperating us. But my resolve was final. I wanted to meet this girl that attracted me like I had never been attracted before. I haphazardly planned a 3 day stay with her, which required a 16 hour drive straight to and from Springfield, Missouri. Things went great, and when I got back to Georgia, I called her and asked if she wanted to be my girlfriend.

For 10 months, we talked on the phone and on AIM, seeing each other once every two or three months for a week, possibly two at a time. She was the best thing that ever happened to me. In fact, in the last few months of the relationship, I had been planning a proposal. And even though our life and love together was perfect... the distance finally tore us apart. I did the dirty deed of the break up... it was the hardest decision of my life... and it was painful for us both, and to this day, almost 4 months after the break, I wonder if I ended something that was meant to be...

Basically, my advice to you is this: Be careful what you get into, because the chances of having the perfect relationship are great, but the risks of ending up with a broken heart are greater.

Most people just help them pack their bags. Their tricks backfire..

I hate that people devote entire threads to it, like it's a majotr event we should all be aware of. Now, especially if you're the kind that's leaving because no one knows you exist... well. Yeah. Maybe it would be ok if you were doing it to let friends know you're not going to be forum-ing anymore...

Maaan. Don't remind me. My day off is at its end.

Just look them over... that or say your piece to them like a man. Either way, doesn't your display of how you deal with an irritating situation help other people "learn" about you, just like you seem to want?