sure go for it

she is the mind behind, I wouldn't do anything without consulting her first

i can understand

uh huh

i could care less if you show her picture...just makes me question things

she is 17, but her social circles are single and married people of 20, 30, 40...

mine were at that age also,, but i was still young

pretty girl

OK, see her, Thumper

yes sir i do

very pretty daughter..but still young

you live in the uk right doc?

I live in Israel, lived some time in Britain... that's another picture for you before I put back my ugly face...

shes a very pretty lil lady

thanks doc,,

OK... got some interesting m--l... and the family gathering is building up... see you...

later doc

To overcome this state of transparency involves a choice, though -- the choice to make oneself more "solid," more "substantial." It takes time, and, as far as I can tell here, requires a process of putting yourself out there and interacting.

I mean, if I decided to sit down and make a quick, random list of 20 people on JSH, the first 20 I could think of, it would most likely be a mix of people on my friends list and people who post a lot and are therefore highly visible.

There is a method to the advertising strategy of always keeping the product, and the name of the product, in the public consciousness.

I have 5000+ posts on here, and I don't feel transparent at all. For a guy who does nothing but make fun of everything and write long manifestos for no reason, I get a hell of a lot of attention. Give people something to think about, make them laugh a little, you get noticed.

The romantic thing? Well, a goodly number from 897,000 miles away have e-mailed and said they would love to date me, except for the distance thing. And that's an issue for me, too. Other than that, I'm REALLY "selective" about what I want, and that's my own fault. But I think if I was more "mainstream" in what I'm looking for, I would have met some genuine possibilities here. But I don't do "mainstream."

The quality of the people, overall, here is the best I have seen on any site. That's not the same as the quality of the dating prospects; because the latter is necessarily more inclined to more specific parameters. But what good would a dating site be with thousands of good prospects who are all just rude and nasty people?

There's always a trade-off....

I was referring, for instance, to ignoring mails as a typical symptom of the problem... this is a great site in terms of community spirit, which is shaped and shared by a minority... yet it's plagued by one of the highest rates of snubbing, according to my experience... might be aliens...

Might be infiltrators from the British isles...

Yeah, I have had the same issue with people ignoring e-mails -- so I just don't e-mail anyone first, and that's OK because enough people e-mail me first. Problem solved. Not exactly the way I had planned or hoped, but good enough in the grand scheme of things.

As for snubbing -- one of the ongoing themes of JSH since I got here is the idea of "cliques." It used to be a lot worse. Not to say that they don't still exist, but my perception is that it's on a much smaller scale now, and the "cliques" are more nebulous and not very well-defined compared to the way they used to be.