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Sun 03/29/26 11:28 AM
If anything, compared to what's being posted online by women these days, you probably come off as a cloistered nun, Mormon sans homespun, or a Southern Baptist.

No, seriously, you look like a nice respectable young lady any fella wouldn't hesitate to take home to meet Mom.

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Sun 03/29/26 11:13 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Sun 03/29/26 11:22 AM
Fergitabout the phone-flexing.
My curiosity is about the incredibly high number of female profile photos that were taken in the bathroom of a gas station or a motel room or in their SUV.
Is taking a photo in a terlit some kind of status thingy with Gen Z?

All I see is a homeless hooker that has to do her daily hygiene in roadside sinks, slept in the motel room of last night's John, or the only place she CAN take a photo is in the car she lives out of.

JeBus, even if you live in a run-down dump filled with roaches, ladies, at least have the dignity to show you aren't un-housed and looking for a place to sleep rent-free.

I dunnoe, maybe that's how escorts advertise without saying it outright.
"See me in this nice Hilton Grand Suite bathroom?
If you can afford the rates, contact me."

rofl

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Sun 03/29/26 11:00 AM

To say that one gender has more intelligent decision-making capability is looking too much at formal educational achievement. In many couple situations, there is a definite difference in capability. While both should have input, the input of the person with the most applicable knowledge and proven history should have the greater input.

The real problem and damage occurs when the person with a track record of failures is allowed to be the primary decision maker. In some situations, one of the partnership just has to accept the decisions of the other if the partnership is to be successful. I have very little time for someone who thinks they have high capability but have a proven track record of failures in their life.

Ever hear of the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
Sums up nicely what you are saying.

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Sun 03/29/26 10:31 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Sun 03/29/26 10:46 AM
I'm real & in fact SOME of the responses I've gotten matched to have also been real - to some extent.
Most of them had Hispanic accents when on the few occasions I got them to actually make a phone call & talk, but their profile photos were decidedly Caucasian & 90% of the time they are far younger than the 55+ age they claim.
Of course they only reveal their youth after you call them on it.

I believe there are a lot of undocumented women on here desperately seeking refuge from ICE deportation efforts & landing an older Caucasian American citizen is excellent camouflage for them - or so they likely believe - which goes a long way toward explaining why they are so quickly willing to uproot from California, Florida, Texas, etc. & move up here to the Frozen Tundra that is Wisconsin.

In principle I have no objection to a much younger woman or one with an accent I can barely make out 1 word in 5, nor do I give one whit whether they are a citizen or not.
What I DO need is someone who can truly like me enough to not be physically repulsed by a tubby old saggy 70+ year old so that we can hold hands, hug, caress each other's bodies, and demonstrate true caring for that person.

Hell, I'm old enough I don't even need to have actual penetrative sex with them, as long as there is genuine physical & mental closeness to satisfy my need for companionship.
I'm more than 3 years widower-ed & I think I've learned how to address most of my sexual needs by myself, if needs be.
rofl

All I ask is that she be HONEST with me.
I don't care if she made a living as a hooker/escort, if she was married 10 times, if she's an ex-con (murderesses excepted, unless she shot her abusive husband while he was beating the shight out of her).
I don't care if she's currently making a living as a scammer here.
I don't care if she is 30 or 90, albeit I'd prefer a woman who's age is closer to my own, with plenty of life experience carved into her looks so my aged "no longer an Adonis" traits aren't so noticeably repulsive.
I just DO NOT CARE, as long as she is honest with me - everything else I can overlook.

I'm offering devotion, singular loyalty - no cheating on this end, endless patience, a willingness to provide a minimum level of physical support & comfort with a roof overhead, food on the table, enough money to go shopping occasionally, and a pretty nice boat with a cuddy cabin to sleep on the lakes here in the warmer weather (early May to mid-October), & what I believe is a broad-minded & cheerful personality that allows me to try & appreciate new experiences to stay entertained.

Is this too much to ask?
Am I not "REAL" enough?

(PS: because I literally fell in love with my wife the second our eyes met across the room, I am a firm believer in "Love at First Sight".)
I
KNOW I can fall in love with a woman & KNOW it's going to be true love on my end in a second.
I
KNOW I can look at a photo of a woman & immediately KNOW whether or not I am capable of falling in love with her & remaining in love with her unless her personality is so horrible that no sane human being could love her.
I see beyond makeup & flattering camera angles & can see in a face that which invites love from me.
It may sound a bit
"psychic" or just me being fullashit, but it's never-the-less true.)

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Sun 03/29/26 09:57 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Sun 03/29/26 09:58 AM

FYI.. she's SOUTH of you not WEST laugh
Methinks we're talking about 2 different helpful former mods.
I was thinking of the one nearer the Canuck border, not the one playing whack-a-mole with the invading hoards from the south.

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Sun 03/29/26 09:49 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Sun 03/29/26 09:52 AM

I didn't read ALL that Coot, however.. I do have to say.... (maybe you wrote it here, maybe you didn't)

just cuz WE (humans on Earth) haven't figured chit out.. doesn't mean that other worldly "aliens" haven't.. they may well be much farther advanced with technology and space travel than we simple humans can fathom.. maybe they're all AI.. or maybe they've learned how to control their AI..

all I do know is.. anything is possible, and that we are definitely NOT alone..
For someone who has repeatedly disclosed to me that you carry a measurably high intelligence, you seem to spend an inordinate amount of time complaining how disinterested you are in putting the effort into learning complex subjects.

In MY experience, in order to more fully understand the complexities of the world and the people in it around me, it takes a lot of effort and persistence to read and try to comprehend things which I do not yet fully understand in sufficient detail to qualify as "knowledgeable" about those subjects.

Koans & homilies are easily stated in a sentence or two but those understandings did not come from thinking short thoughts with few words.
They are distillations of CENTURIES of deep philosophical pondering which rare unreasonably insightful human beings have spent more than a second or two contemplating.

Either you have a lust for understanding or you do not.
If you can't spend the time, maybe you shouldn't make the claim that you have it?

For me to more fully understand my wife's kidney disease and ensuing transplant health care I spent approximately 1,500 hours studying medicine and every human bodily system - just so I could track what her doctors were asking us to do (blind faith in experts in white lab coats was never my strong suit).

Reading a couple of Swedish studies on acetaminophen only to find out modern medicine's RDAs (4,000 mg. - p.i.d.) are off by a factor of 3 (the Swedes came to the conclusion that 1,400 mg. -p.i.d. should be the MAXIMUM allowable daily dosing) allowed me to not only convince her doctor to prescribe oxycodone without Tylenol but by doing the conversion off the added acetaminophen in that medicine allowed her to stop taking the little purple pill - Nexium (esomeprazole) - entirely.
No stomach upset from the Tylenol = no need for a PPI (protein pump inhibitor) to quell the queasiness induced by the excess Tylenol.

But to read those 2 studies and fully understand them as well as the testing protocols, took up the better portion of an entire day.
Or, I could have blindly accepted their findings and then tried to get my wife's lazy-azzed personal physician to study up on it instead of going water skiing and playing in his semi-garage band.
Lots of luck with THAT one.
rofl

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Sun 03/29/26 09:08 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Sun 03/29/26 09:19 AM
The most recent discussion surrounding "Aliens" is "How" they could travel vast interstellar distances.

I follow science to a degree & lately there is a debate underway about some new physics that seems to indicate the possibility of creating (for lack of a better term yet), a "warp bubble" that would allow for interstellar transits within reasonable time constraints - by using what's being deemed "negative energy".

Nobody knows HOW to make negative energy yet but the mathematics seems to indicate it's a real thing - and often times knowing something is possible is already more than half the battle to making it realize in ways we can utilize it.

Like all new ideas this must be tested & confirmed or disproved - but the evolution of the understanding of physics and mathematics seems to make a lot more correct guesses than wrong ones these days.
That's the beauty of the scientific method - a constant challenge to everything we THINK we know & as new science comes to light sometimes we have to revise what we thought we knew.

The Hubble Constant (rate of expansion of the universe) is another such thing scientists thought they had down pat only for new discoveries to throw a spanner into the works by finding TWO different rates of expansion.
Reconciliation is currently underway and the next thing "we know we know" will replace what we thought we knew about the rate of expansion of the universe.

Concerning the current "Aliens-are they real?" flap, it seems to center around 2 schools of thought;
1.) We "know" they exist because the gummint has concrete physical evidence & has been researching it for close to 80 years, trying to reverse-engineer both material & energy science and come to understand the mathematics & physics underlying whatever makes the reality of that physical evidence possible.

2.) We, as humans, are constantly testing cutting edge technology - usually in secrecy so we can gain a military advantage over our competition for global control of the planet.
Because, by its nature it is shrouded in secrecy, the general public and all but a select few gummint & civilian contractors know nothing about the ongoing work & its testing that exposes the products of that research on occasion.
Those rare occasional public exposures that cannot be avoided if the research is to be put into real, usable, machinery - account for the vast majority of "unexplained" but documented "proof" of aliens existing and visiting our planet.

Furthermore, the debate still rages as to whether these appearances are true "Alien" contacts precipitated by a species not of this planet & non-human - or whether these contacts are humans from our future who have somehow resolved the complexities of time-paradoxes & the time-travel that would involve.
Einstein himself had to admit that his relativity equations DO allow for the possibility of time-travel & nobody has yet disproved that assumption - thus leaving that door open as to the nature of recorded "Alien" encounters.

Beyond "Alien" excuses for the rest of this conspiracy nonsense, there is no need to ascribe to outside forces to believe unhealthily wealthy people can get up to all sorts of depravities.
In FACT recorded history is replete with accounts of the perversions, evils, & downright immorally disgusting behaviors that only the filthy rich & powerful can get away with because their wealth shields them from the negative consequences of such behaviors.

Could you or I get away with killing 600,000 children around the globe by cutting off their USAID funding?

Could you or I get away with raping 13 year old girls & boys and still get elected President of the United States?

Could you or I get away with committing multiple mass murders with gigantic bombs dropped on schools, hospitals, old folks homes, apartment buildings, & energy production utilities that strand people to freeze to death in the cold winters in Ukraine or die of thirst in the deserts of the Middle East?

No, of course not, because we couldn't afford the lawyers to litigate our way out of the bevy of charges a "normal political State justice agency" would level against us - but filthy rich people can! - do DO[/] - every single day & they get away with it because they now control 98% of the media on the planet & can scream their innocence far louder than any responsible authority can proclaim their guilt.

Never ascribe to outside forces that which can easily be explained by the depth of depravity that human beings with the proper resources have already committed in our past

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Sun 03/29/26 08:09 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Sun 03/29/26 08:10 AM

"Cray crazy"?

Is that a reference to the Kray brothers?
Nah, cray cray is just Gen Z slang for crazy, hence the need for the modifier "batshit".

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Sun 03/29/26 07:22 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Sun 03/29/26 07:24 AM

yup.. and I asked him (owner of the site) but.. even he can't seem ta do anything about it.. stupid bots grumble

not who you THOUGHT it was huh bigsmile

no offense Coot.. but I'd rather NOT be a split in two.. noway I jus wanna be ME agin tears
As you well know from my multiple imprisonments & re-releases on parole here, profiles CAN be restored & based on recent experiences apparently also given a pass on some of the less egregious offenses so as to not get repeatedly re-banned.
Maybe owner-guy should have a talk with whomever does the scripting for him around here, to get better acquainted with what's possible & what isn't.

Yer right, it definitely wasn't who I thought you might go to.
(PS: if she's reading along I HAVE to tell her that 2nd profile photo is a banger. If she wasn't so short I'd already be on a plane west so she could flip me off in person.)
drool

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Sat 03/28/26 06:46 AM

He is most likely referring to how do you see the members that you Blocked.

Click on Account, then click on Settings, Click on Mail Settings, towards the top you will see Blocked Users click on that if you want to remove someone from your block list check the box and click on Remove Block.

https://mingle2.com/blockeduser/list

Due to the fact this is his first post he most likely does not know about the words getting replaced with asterisks within the Forums.

The reason that was put in place was due to members using vulgar language on the forums. This does not apply within emails.. For those words are not replaced with asterisks within emails here.

Maybe no longer but when I was setting up my profiles the word "profile" kept getting asterisks every time.

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Sat 03/28/26 06:43 AM



My fingers on the right hand , as I am a hunt and peck kinda keyboard warrior !!

rofl
You have no idea how hard I laffed when I first MIS-read that statement.
I'm a lefty myself, for all occasions except writing.
tongue2


You MIS read that....how could ya ??laugh laugh


My hamstring, for constantly pulling it when I try some weird position , before actually warming up!!

right hand - hunt & "pecker"?
How can any self-respecting solitary widower NOT inadvertently misconstrue that at a fast glance?

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Sat 03/28/26 06:35 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Sat 03/28/26 06:36 AM
You know someone who can get your Zee profile reactivated.
Just ask her to put in a good word for ya.
Then you can be like me and have a split personality.
rofl

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Thu 03/26/26 10:53 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Thu 03/26/26 10:54 AM

How can I show banned characters

If you are referring to certain words being replaced with a series of asterisks you can't - it's built into the site software that certain seksualized terms and others will not post.
You can end-around some of it by altering the word's spelling.
For instance, the site software seemed to hate the word profile for a while, so I beat it by typing pro-file with a hyphen in it.
AI really ain't all that smart.

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Thu 03/26/26 10:37 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Thu 03/26/26 10:43 AM




what's with everyone writing novels??? whoa
you'n Crystal wud be perfect together laugh just sayin :angel:

The big problem would be fighting over keyboard time to see who's novelette got posted first.
She's actually an attractive woman but highly resistant to any constructive advice (as noted by others here-abouts, apparently, not just mine) & that's not my head space.
I actually welcome input from anyone who can improve me in any way, because I've spent an entire lifetime seeking perfection.
No advice is unworthy of hearing, even if I don't eventually take it.


there IS such a thang as personal laptops.. just sayin.. no fighting needed laugh

the only advice I'd offer is?? shorten yer answers to readable levels bigsmile after all.. this IS a dating site and not a writers syposium glasses

as for seeking perfection?? I don't think ANY of us have enough life left to achive THAT

1 day of life is enough to seek perfection.
Achieving it, is something else entirely.

While this IS a dating site I seriously doubt anybody haunts the forums looking for their next lover.
Forums are by definition a place to exchange ideas & some ideas are not neatly encapsulated in a sentence or three.

If someone does not have the patience to read longer screeds then there is a scroll control for them to simply bypass it or the next forum topic up is also an alternative.

Personally, even if I was in the forums hunting my next ex-wife I'd welcome voluminous postings in order to gain more insight into their head space.
You can never know too much about someone you intend to be intimately involved with.

Hey, what's with the name change anyway?

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Thu 03/26/26 10:28 AM

I am Canadian and just making an observation based on the lies that have been perpetrated through out the days, months and years since January 21st, 2021.
The events of that day were all over the news and your presidents lies were present through out the news broadcasts.
I sit back and laugh at what happens through out the world each and every time more lies are perpetrated by DJT.
With 30,000+ documented lies from his first 4 years in office, the claims of fraud are mute...


Moot, not mute, though lawdy I wish we COULD mute that fatuous drag queen in spray tan & his garish eye-liner wearing V.P.
Boxing promoter Don King used to have a saying; "Only in America..."

Only in American could a person with the reading level of a 3rd grader (if that high), the math comprehension of a 4 year old, the social graces of a 2 year old, the racism that would make old Jefferson Davis proud, & the total disregard of ANY laws, get elected to the highest office in the land.
Not even Russia would tolerate that open level of dishonesty & evident poor manners in an autocrat.

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Thu 03/26/26 10:11 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Thu 03/26/26 10:13 AM


what's with everyone writing novels??? whoa
you'n Crystal wud be perfect together laugh just sayin :angel:

The big problem would be fighting over keyboard time to see who's novelette got posted first.
She's actually an attractive woman but highly resistant to any constructive advice (as noted by others here-abouts, apparently, not just mine) & that's not my head space.
I actually welcome input from anyone who can improve me in any way, because I've spent an entire lifetime seeking perfection.
No advice is unworthy of hearing, even if I don't eventually take it.

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Thu 03/26/26 09:52 AM

My fingers on the right hand , as I am a hunt and peck kinda keyboard warrior !!

rofl
You have no idea how hard I laffed when I first MIS-read that statement.
I'm a lefty myself, for all occasions except writing.
tongue2

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Thu 03/26/26 09:50 AM
My heart, for having broken it by falling so deeply in love with my now departed wife of 18,910 days.

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Thu 03/26/26 09:13 AM
Edited by OldCoot on Thu 03/26/26 09:28 AM
Wisconsinite here & anybody claiming we have no "tolerance", bring it on.
Lifer, currently smoking 25%-ish content flower "4i" (illegal Illinois Indica inhalants) therapy for pain.

25% is a sort of misunderstood label - it's actually .25 by DRY weight but includes both THC and THCA (which converts to THC when heated).
If it was ACTUALLY 25% (1/4) you'd have a ball of gummy tar with a bunch of dry leaf bits in it.
Even then percentage isn't a true estimate of how high you'll get because the "entourage effect" (combination of terpenes, phenols, & flavonoids in the strain) goes a long way toward how it affects an individual.

Some people react differently to the various terpenes & what gets one person whacked out of their gourd might only mildly intoxicate another.
The ONLY way to know how it will affect you is to use it, then, over time, you can learn which terpenes affect you how, and shop accordingly from a reputable supplier who analyses their product to detail what terpenes are present in their strains.

Not all, in fact not many, weed shops bother with that detailed of an analysis.
Most rely on users' reports to determine what terpenes are present in a given strain as terpene effects are more well known by now.

The claims that today's stuff is so much more potent is horse pucky, based on leekers who never HAD access to the best stuff.
I had friends shipping back Thai stick, Afghan Kush, Cambodian Red, Vietnamese Green weed and Afghan & Pakistani hash from 'nam in the late 60s that makes the a lot of the modern stuff feel like ditch weed.

High-potency modern strains are about equivalent (25%-30%) to the original land race Kush from Afghanistan & a particularly hallucinogenic Jamaican strain I had the good fortune to grow when I was a teenager.

PLUS, as recently happened in Michigan, some underhanded testing goes on because the "percentage race" drives sales.
Infusing extra THC into a test sample that can then be used on the label for ALL of a particular strain ends up with the vast amount of it not even coming close to testing at the percentage given.

I used to grow my own (hybrid I crossed from Maui Wowie+Cambodian Red imported seeds via a mail clerk in the U.S. Navy) for several years but had to give it up when I moved cities.
It's hard (not to mention the likelihood of being arrested) to drive a car full of possessions down the road when you have a couple of 4' tall weed plants taking up the entire back seat.rofl

The gummies we have access to in WI are Delta 8 derived from hemp, which is "technically" federally legal - if you overlook the residual Delta 9 THC content in it, which the authorities seem to be doing because they don't want to bother with the paperwork involved in ticketing weed denizens when it's only an ordinance violation with a minimal fine in the 1st place.

As a long-time high-tolerance user my recommendation is use 5mg. gummies if you aren't used to the punch.
They'll rock your socks the first few times but tolerance builds pretty quickly.
If you feel like you OD-ed, go sleep it off.
In a few hours you'll be right-as-rain again.

I'm currently at 10mg. gummy dosing for pain while avoiding the "dizzy" effect from too much THC in a concentrated dose gummy if I want to stay straight enough to go about my biz-nus for the next 3-4 hours.
Other times I have 2-3 puffs of flower for about 2-3 hours of pain relief.
The pain doesn't really go away, you just don't notice it because of the high.
You can't avoid the post-high lag regardless of how you imbibe though - that's a constant with use no matter if you eat or smoke THC.

While the legislative critters here are beholden to the liquor lobby & continue to block legalization (making WI a "dry" island in a sea of weed surrounding the entire state), the upcoming retirement of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in the new term looks to finally break the stalemate so we too should be legalizing it finally, in 2027.

Whether it's legal or not one thing is certain; a LOT more research needs to be done on the effects and chemistry of weed before we ever get close to understanding it even half as well as Big Pharma does prescription medicines.

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Wed 03/25/26 01:55 PM
Edited by OldCoot on Wed 03/25/26 01:56 PM

there women who are really looking for love and not money the only problem with some men are looking for beauty instead of characters .

I want both, beauty AND personality - preferably a wacky personality that acts outside the box.

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