We seem to be talking of two different things. You talk about setting a distance limit on who may text you. I am talking about the distance limit in the search. The meaning of the latter has certainly changed. I don't know anything about the former; I haven't used it, and I know nothing about it.

The meaning of the distance limit in the search certainly has changed since I started here in January 2025. That limit used to be a hard limit; it now is largely meaningless.

This is extremely poor design. The miles limit should be designed to either be a hard limit or the way it is set up now. The users should be able to choose which of the two alternatives they prefer. BTW, it used to be that the miles limit was a hard limit, but some blithering idiot changed it to be a soft limit only. Any design that removes options from the user is, putting it mildly, less than optimal.

PS. I was a software engineer for 45+ years, so I have some experience to back up my judgment.

The sensitivity of the issue of money depends on where you live. For example, when I lived in Sweden (lo, these many years ago), somebody published a semi-official list of everybody's income. The annual publication was called inkomstkalendern. Thus, your income wasn't very interesting nor was it a sensitive subject.

All men are different. All women are different.

You can't realistically expect to get a connection after only two days on this site. Expect searching here for at least several months before you get a connection that isn't a scammer.

Sooner or later, folly brings its own punishment. I think there's no need for action. Besides, it's futile to try to convince a fool that he's wrong.

The immune system is wonderful, but it has a limitation: it can't protect you against an infectious agent that your immune system has not encountered before. The purpose and effect of vaccination is to provide a new encounter to "tell" your immune system about a specific infectious agent so that your immune system will "know" about that agent.

By refusing vaccination you expose yourself to a greater threat to your health. Furthermore, if you get an infection, you may harm others by exposing them to that infection.

Bottom line: Refusing vaccination is foolish. As Einstein is alleged to have said: Unlike genius, stupidity has no limits.

I hate to disagree with the almost unanimous sentiment against vaccination here by noting a fact: the risks of vaccinations are far lower than the benefits of not getting whatever the vaccine protects against. A simple cost-benefit analysis.

I suggest that, wherever you have "No answer" in your profile, you put something. Only a set of photos is not useful. Furthermore, it is essential that you put some text in the Interests section.

IMHO, nobody will contact somebody with as meager a profile as yours.

When, in the paleolithic, I was working for a living, somebody said "there are people with 20 years of experience and people who have one year of experience, repeated 20 times."

It seems to me that the vast majority of the likes I get are young enough to be my children or grandchildren. Over the years, I have seen enough to suspect that, to a lot of people on dating apps, old people are useful for one and only one thing: as a source of money.

According to Wikipedia, the etymology of Bovril indicates "great strength obtained from an ox". Thus, not quite the same thing as male-bovine excrement, although male-bovine excrement may have a strong smell.

The claims "400 years" and "900 years" are, at best, questionable. The longest verifiable life span, according to, i.a., Guiness Book of Records, is around 120 years. A possible extreme life span that you may live to see for anybody is 150 to 200 years. Still, that means that "age is just a number" is a foolish statement.



You elided "speculation" at the end of the last sentence.



That belief is supported by life-span statistics.



Regardless of the Essenes, saying that "age is just a number" is, at best, uninformed.



A polite and yet clear way of saying what you were too polite to say is to refer to "male-bovine excrement."

It used to be that you could specify to only search in and accept likes from your country, but the administrators in their infinite "wisdom" decided to remove that option. They also changed "distance" in search to be meaningless, rather than a hard limit, as it used to be.

I believe the administrators should allow the users maximum choices and not force changes that may be undesired.

Unfortunately, administrators on many sites and in many organizations are swayed by the few noisemakers rather than by the silent majority.

IMHO, the administrators are free to change defaults but should ALWAYS RETAIN the option of keeping the old behavior. Furthermore, administrators should always remember that their job is to serve, and NOT rule, the users. Of course, in some cases, the changes are imposed by the site owner(s). Like with any brand, unwise choices by the owner(s) result in loss of business and, eventually, may result in the collapse of the business.

Bravo!

I agree.



As an old geezer, I might say: what am I going to do with such a child?



I agree completely.



A practical solution might be to split the 50+ group into, say, 50 to 65 and 65+.



I am an old grandpa, but I don't need a walker at this time. As Yogi Berra is alleged to have said, it's hard to predict, especially the future.



Again, I agree.

Yes and no. Agreed, there are many important considerations other than age. That said, age brings life experience and if the life experiences differ too much, the age difference becomes quite important. As an extreme example, the difference in life experience between somebody my age and somebody of the age of one of my adult grandchildren is simply too large. Of course, as you grow older, ten or twenty years make less of a difference.

Very good point!

Two observations: Few people on this board understand Swedish and Maya's career here was brief -- she was deactivated the same day she joined.

Having a lot of time to waste, I read this entire thread.

It is very interesting that all the entries missed the main point: the woman's personality is her most important aspect. The size of her boobs comes a distant tenth (or lower).

That said, the size of her boobs is her decision and nobody else has the right to object to her decision.

Incidentally, I have been told that very big boobs can be uncomfortable for the woman, particularly in hot weather.