I sort of want to see if he's interested in going to the next level (never mind that I've got plenty of hangups that have nothing to do with this man's age). Anyone out there willing and able to speak from the experience of an age gap of this nature? Any idea how many men are capable of saying "Well, I thought she was cool/witty/intelligent; now I guess she's cool/witty/intelligent and six years older than me"?
(FWIW: People routinely guess that I'm six or seven years younger than I actually am.)
― j.lu, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
For reasons of university the question of my age *will* come up if he and I have a getting-to-know-you chat.
― chaki, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Generally speaking the loves of my life have been near or at my age, or a little older. I've been captivated more than once by noticeably older women, though. Really, it's all about your brain and how you use it -- the rest comes naturally. :-)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Douglas, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
So I'D like to hear about it too. And if anyone wants to fix me up with someone 34+, let me know :-)
― Mark C, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I have been applying all of my high school level math skill to this ageless problem and have derived a mathematical formula that computes your socially acceptable age range.
Let’s say you are a lonely 30-year-old guy and are looking for love. How can you tell whether the rest of the online world is going to think you are creepy or not? It is actually very simple.
If your age is X and you wish to calculate age Y (the youngest person it is acceptable for you to date), simply divide your age by two, then add a creep factor of 6. The formula looks like this:
Y=(X/2)+6
Thus, our 30 year old guy would replace X with 30 and, after doing some math, would discover that Y=21. Thus, as long as the girl he was begging for nudes from was at least 21, he will not meet with societal disapproval.
The cool thing about this is that, as you get older, more people become available to you. For example, if you are 20, the minimum age of your possible partners is 16. That’s only four years worth of people. However, if you are 80, the minimum age shifts to 46. That is 34 years worth of people, my friend.
― numnuts, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sez Hu, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I have no problems dating much older (not retirement home-old though) but I do have a huge problem dating someone younger than myself. Last year (at the age of 19)I was dating someone I thought to be 18 years old. However he lied to me and was only 17 (in fact when we began dating he was only 16, I celebrated his 17th birthday with him). I could've been breaking the law if we had sex. Here's a tip for all of you: Get your hands on their driver's license and check the age for yourself.
What do you think my attempts to avoid dating youngers guys and my attraction to older men (not over 39-that's the cut off) means? I must say that my best and longest relationship was with someone only 1 year older than myself.
― Lindsey B, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mike hanle y, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― N., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― mike hanle y, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
NICK WON'T BE HAPPY UNTIL ITS A 3 SECOND YEAR OLD AND A 200 YEAR OLD
Fie on thee; take yer smut to the NAMBLA BB.
Seriously, though; thanks for the input. I also ran the question by some friends this weekend, who were all supportive. We'll see what happens...
― j.lu, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sean, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
As a fringe benefit, if you compare average life expectancies for men and women, we should both die around the same time. That business of marrying a woman two or three years younger than yourself just strews the landscape with teeming masses of widows looking for something else to fill up their last decade of life.
― Little Nipper, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― deepak, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dr. C, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Where? In the UK at least, life expectancy for men is 74.5 and for women it's almost 80.
― N., Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Graham, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Little Nipper's analysis fails to countenance the possibility that women might have a whale of a time once their useless hubbies are out of the way. What was that research about marriage making men happier and women less so? Feminists, come to my aid.
― j.lu, Wednesday, 1 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
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― bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)
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― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 16:45 (fourteen years ago)
Got a date lined up for Wednesday night. I'm not sure how much older this woman is (she's got a 3 year old and a 4 year old) but she is a FIREFIGHTER!Awesome, imo. I'm just excited to talk to someone with an attention span. Sick of dating children.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:46 (fourteen years ago)
firefighters are in some serious shape!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:15 (fourteen years ago)
she is a FIREFIGHTER!
never date a woman stronger than you!
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:16 (fourteen years ago)
whatever!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
scrunch up her buttcheeks and rip your dick off.
― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:34 (fourteen years ago)
omg
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:35 (fourteen years ago)
cannot laugh that hard at work
She has a big motorcycle in her garage, too.She doesn't look so tough, I duno. She is very cool, though.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)
i hope she aint hiding a hose in those pants.
zing.
― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)
ha ha wtf - are you trying to balance out the seriousness of your posts on the breakup thread right now?!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)
yes. makes me feel better.
― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)
put this on when you bring her back to yours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjcSxUQ6N88
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:49 (fourteen years ago)
trip, i can't help feeling that by the end of this date she is going to yell out "bring out the gimp".
― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:50 (fourteen years ago)
letting her bench-press you counts as foreplay.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)
http://scienceblogs.com/isisthescientist/upload/2009/03/stuff_you_send_me/bring-out-the-gimp.jpg
― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:52 (fourteen years ago)
at least make her wear the boots!
― OLD MAN YELLS AT SHOUT RAP (chrisv2010), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)
Threads like this give me hope. And some other feelings that are weird, and deeply confusing.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:35 (fourteen years ago)
I'm 41 and my SO of 2 years is a mere 33. She does keep on telling me how lucky I am... Which is true for many, many reasons.
― Stone Monkey, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:06 (fourteen years ago)
Got hit on my a woman 2x my age. First she announces she's a cougar and should leave me alone, and then repeatedly comes back in hopes that the convo before and the convo before was the last one to be awkward. They are repeatedly awkward.
The funny thing is, this was at the Dum Dum Girl's concert, and I'm pretty sure this woman was the drummer's mom.
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:14 (fourteen years ago)
Who actually uses "hi I'm a cougar" as a pickup line? Ugh.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 03:42 (fourteen years ago)
you should try it out!
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:00 (fourteen years ago)
i always seem to always get seduced by married ladies over 30. i love em.
― http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif
― buzza, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:00 (fourteen years ago)
Thermo I dont need to ;P
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:01 (fourteen years ago)
I don't "need" to do a lot of things but that doesn't mean it's not a great idea
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:08 (fourteen years ago)
*takes notes*
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:09 (fourteen years ago)
*adds to list of crepey ilx posts*
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:09 (fourteen years ago)
i almost exclusively date older women and imo it is a good plan. they're more able to have conversations than young women. </ageist.>
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:33 (fourteen years ago)
I've never really dated an older woman, the closest I've had are girls who were born in the same year as me but earlier. I definitely have been interested in a few, but nothing beyond kissing has ever happened. It's kinda sad.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 08:14 (fourteen years ago)
;_;
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 09:30 (fourteen years ago)
ben franklin on why older mistresses are better
― mookieproof, Friday, 25 February 2011 19:03 (fourteen years ago)
Totally scored with the firefighter.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 25 February 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)
the closest I've had are girls who were born in the same year as me but earlier
this is cracking me up
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 25 February 2011 19:06 (fourteen years ago)