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Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

Canada is dog-poo poo compared to Sweden

Sweden is the utopia, the end game of civilization. The greatest collective achievement of man

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suburban virgin
Jul 26, 2007
Highly qualified lurker.

A Strange Aeon posted:

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Holy poo poo a good poem

Sometimes I forget they exist

Meldonox
Jan 13, 2006

Hey, are you listening to a word I'm saying?

suburban virgin posted:

Holy poo poo a good poem

Sometimes I forget they exist

Yeah same, being friends with creative types in high school really put me off the medium.

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga
Are my dating options in my 30s going to be entirely weird cat ladies or single moms that got pregnant way too early?

Police Automaton
Mar 17, 2009
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LOOK AT insightful post
"It's a pretty good post."
HATE post
"I don't understand"
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"You shit on the post. Why."

Magius1337est posted:

Are my dating options in my 30s going to be entirely weird cat ladies or single moms that got pregnant way too early?

If you're european - no. If you're american - yes.

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

my ex girlfriend is in china and there's a saying that they have there: people born in the '80s are looking to get married for the first time and people born in the '90s are already divorced

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

Magius1337est posted:

Are my dating options in my 30s going to be entirely weird cat ladies or single moms that got pregnant way too early?

You can obviously date younger, but assuming you mean dating people in your age range, that's definitely increasingly likely as you get older. You have to understand that every remotely attractive woman has had guys throwing themselves at her for loving ever by the time she reaches her 30's, so if she's single there's probably going to either be some kind of catch somewhere or just very good timing with another relationship ending. If she really is just a unicorn who has everything together and just happens to be available when you meet her, lucky you if she's actually interested in you.

Obviously single guys later in life are more likely to be undesirable fuckups too, but it's easier for relatively normal guys to slip through the cracks for at least a little longer since they're less likely to be relentlessly pursued if they don't prioritize settling down/might just be dating younger women.

Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Nov 4, 2017

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

Magius1337est posted:

Are my dating options in my 30s going to be entirely weird cat ladies or single moms that got pregnant way too early?

I'm 30 and most of my dates right now are women between 18-27. It's very random

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.

Sinteres posted:

You can obviously date younger, but assuming you mean dating people in your age range, that's definitely increasingly likely as you get older. You have to understand that every remotely attractive woman has had guys throwing themselves at her for loving ever by the time she reaches her 30's, so if she's single there's probably going to either be some kind of catch somewhere or just very good timing with another relationship ending. If she really is just a unicorn who has everything together and just happens to be available when you meet her, lucky you if she's actually interested in you.



I lucked out, one way to prevail in this situation is to be over 6' and also date ladies over about ~5'10" tall. Some people refusing to date down, height wise, can work in you favor if you're lucky.

Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Nov 4, 2017

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Police Automaton posted:

If you're european - no. If you're american - yes.
it depends on where you are in america. in the sticks, this will definitely be the case. in cities, there will be plenty of women who haven't been married

solar energy panel
Apr 30, 2007

Ronwayne posted:

I lucked out, one way to prevail in this situation is to be over 6' and also date ladies over about ~5'10" tall. Some people refusing to date down, height wise, can work in you favor if you're lucky.

Tall women prefer to date taller men its true. Tall men tend to like really short women. Short men are overly attracted to tall women. Nothing makes sense really.

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Panfilo posted:

My wife's friend had a situation out of r/relationships. She got pregnant at 17 from a boyfriend, and decided to get an abortion. She later meets her husband and they decide to hold off on kids. She gets pregnant unexpectedly at 25 and her husband is freaked out that they can't possibly support a child (even though she had a masters and a good job, and he was an RN). At the time she wanted both of them beyond on board with parenting, so she had another abortion.

At 40 they are even more stable and she wants kids. Her husband finally agrees and they start trying,but at this point she's dealing with infertility. During the fertility treatment (intra uterine insemination) she discovers her husband has gotten a female Co worker pregnant, and also has been hooking up with other guys on Craigslist (this was before tinder type apps were common). So she ended up with a real punch in the ovaries; her husband getting some other woman pregnant and also being really Evasive about whether he used protection when he had sex with other men. So she had to get tested for HIV and stress about that, along with dealing with a messy divorce.

Through her tribulations she often second guessed her choices in the past, and often regretted the opportunity of being a mother given that she was in her forties and single with little to show for the time.

What is this the first draft of your novel?

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Magius1337est posted:

Are my dating options in my 30s going to be entirely weird cat ladies or single moms that got pregnant way too early?

You'll find that women's desirability is directly proportional with the difficulty of picking them up.

Alhough if you do go for a single mom you can get lucky and find someone who wouldn't spit at you in your twenties

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

ditty bout my clitty posted:

You'll find that women's desirability is directly proportional with the difficulty of picking them up.

Alhough if you do go for a single mom you can get lucky and find someone who wouldn't spit at you in your twenties

If they don’t know they want to hump you you probably aren’t going to convince them. :shrug:

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

If they don’t know they want to hump you you probably aren’t going to convince them. :shrug:

This is definitely not true. I do think if you have to persuade someone to be with you it significantly increases the chance that they'll change their mind and want out when they remember why they didn't want you in the first place though.

Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Nov 4, 2017

Magius1337est
Sep 13, 2017

Chimichanga
How old is too old to go after college chicks?

solar energy panel
Apr 30, 2007

Magius1337est posted:

How old is too old to go after college chicks?

after 25 you start to look retarded dating anyone college age

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

Magius1337est posted:

How old is too old to go after college chicks?

Depends on how much money you have/how creepy you feel like being. Something like Seeking Arrangement remains an option for a very long time, and restaurant managers have been creeping on their much younger employees forever, but in general once your peer group ages out of that scene it's probably best to move on. If you just happen to meet someone cool who likes you, I think it's pretty forgivable (though interacting with either one of your friend groups will still be awkward if you're substantially older), but if you find that it's a habit it probably means you're a manchild who can't relate to actual women.

ditty bout my clitty
May 28, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Magius1337est posted:

How old is too old to go after college chicks?

It's socially acceptable to date anyone that's half your age plus seven years.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

suburban virgin posted:

Holy poo poo a good poem

Sometimes I forget they exist

quote:

They gently caress you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were hosed up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
- by Me. Honest.

Lena Dunham
Sep 19, 2017

Sinteres posted:

Depends on how much money you have/how creepy you feel like being. Something like Seeking Arrangement remains an option for a very long time, and restaurant managers have been creeping on their much younger employees forever, but in general once your peer group ages out of that scene it's probably best to move on. If you just happen to meet someone cool who likes you, I think it's pretty forgivable (though interacting with either one of your friend groups will still be awkward if you're substantially older), but if you find that it's a habit it probably means you're a manchild who can't relate to actual women.

Yeah either that or you're not tryna get married anytime soon

A Strange Aeon
Mar 26, 2010

You are now a slimy little toad
The Great Twist

wit posted:


The Larkin poem


Yeah, that was the other poem that seemed relevant. But I like the Hayden one because it reveals something essentially true about the parent-child relationship, and displays some vulnerability and reflection, whereas Larkin's poem is so cynical and flippant, it really just reveals his own guarded misanthropy.

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

Magius1337est posted:

How old is too old to go after college chicks?

With dating apps taking over now, there is no longer any such weird age

It would be weird before because how the gently caress did a 30-40 year old guy even get in touch with a college aged woman to date her?

But now? Everyone is loving everyone on Tinder

Uncle Salty
Jan 19, 2008
BOYS
The Hayden one is so specific and piercing, I can see the cold morning and the dad stepping through the house. Beautiful.

Edit - when I was in high school and college, mid 90s, going to big house parties every weekend with a 30 rack of cheap beer and the Reversoir Dogs soundtrack rattling the floor, there were always creepy older guys hanging around. They were bosses, older brothers, men who had dropped out of the school we attended, neighbors, dealers. They just were there. And creepy. No one ever questioned a guy like that at a big party. I knew enough to stay away from them, even though I did flatter myself that the kids my own age were all idiots.

Op, what kind of women do you date now?

Uncle Salty fucked around with this message at 03:39 on Nov 5, 2017

revwinnebago
Oct 4, 2017

Fartbox posted:

With dating apps taking over now, there is no longer any such weird age

It would be weird before because how the gently caress did a 30-40 year old guy even get in touch with a college aged woman to date her?

But now? Everyone is loving everyone on Tinder

Older and younger people were getting together before the internet.

Also depends on the app and your area. Tinder, everyone is loving everyone. POF and OkCupid randomly try to prevent you from sending messages because instead of giving people the options the want it's more important to make the average easily offended rear end in a top hat feel "safe". Although to be fair, the number of really ugly old people trying to mack on younger people they couldn't touch even if they had a million dollars is quite off-putting even if you want to play that game.

The real danger especially trying to get into younger women aside from jail is that you'll get knee-deep in Snapchat and Instagram accounts. You see a girl who seems lovely and has a good career so maybe she's worth a look, then she says you can check out her Snapchat and you realize she's pinballing between saying she has the best life ever or posting a video with a loving dog face filter where she's crying because she realizes her only contact with human beings is based around pop culture and internet comments rather than actual community.

Then just as you're moving to uninstall the app because gently caress this you start to get an extended series of pics and vids with exposed secondary sexual characteristics and the cost-benefit analysis gets a lot more complicated.

Why you do this to me, penis?

bloodysabbath
May 1, 2004

OH NO!
I kind of dig being in a committed relationship with someone my own age who loves me and is a decent person, but if that’s not in the cards for you or it’s not your thing, there’s nothing particularly wrong about trying to bone college age girls with daddy issues who just basically want nice things. Just don’t try to be a part of her peer group scene outside of the boning, and understand that you will inevitably be the creepy guy she talks about going through a “phase” with.

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

bloodysabbath posted:

I kind of dig being in a committed relationship with someone my own age who loves me and is a decent person, but if that’s not in the cards for you or it’s not your thing, there’s nothing particularly wrong about trying to bone college age girls with daddy issues who just basically want nice things. Just don’t try to be a part of her peer group scene outside of the boning, and understand that you will inevitably be the creepy guy she talks about going through a “phase” with.

Bingo. Also don't try to make her part of your peer group unless you want everyone to talk an immense amount of poo poo about you behind your back.

bongwizzard
May 19, 2005

Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"
Grimey Drawer
When I was in my 20's I was super into women in their early-mid 30's. It was great as they were mostly super driven A-type people who were really work-obsessed and thus put very little social demands on me beyond dinner/drinks/shows/fuckin. I was a pretty hopeless stoner fuckup, so having people in my life to keep me aimed in a reasonable direction it was helpful as well.

My plan was always to keep dating older women until I got into my mid 30s and switch over and start dating women in their mid 20s, but I foolishly fell in love and settled down before I could put the plan in action.

A CRAB IRL
May 6, 2009

If you're looking for me, you better check under the sea

Magius1337est posted:

Are my dating options in my 30s going to be entirely weird cat ladies or single moms that got pregnant way too early?

your dating options from about 32/33 onwards are most often

- become a new stepdad
- fat / homely ones
- poly ones
- insane ones, not "gaslighting" crazy, actual loving crazy

Enfys
Feb 17, 2013

The ocean is calling and I must go

bloodysabbath posted:

there’s nothing particularly wrong about trying to bone college age girls with daddy issues who just basically want nice things.

Purposely exploiting the daddy issues and naivete of someone younger for your own pleasure and ego is wrong however much you and pornography try to normalise it.

It's ok, with enough cognitive dissonance, you too can be "that creepy guy" banging barely legal girls and still convince yourself that you're a good person with a healthy ability to relate to others as equals.

Just don't try to be a part of her peer group because it's hard to maintain cognitive dissonance when faced with social criticism of your low impulse control.

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
so which one of you is this guy

Enfys
Feb 17, 2013

The ocean is calling and I must go

Guys, I'm totally in a committed relationship with someone my own age who is great and I wouldn't have it any other way, but it's totally fine if you all want to bang college girls with daddy issues. Like just go ahead and do it.

I mean, I wouldn't do that because I am so happy in my age appropriate relationship, but you guys go right ahead because there's nothing wrong with it. You shouldn't try to be part of her peer group though. You should instead keep your relationship secret because other people just wouldn't understand and would think less of you. But it's actually fine.

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice

Splicer posted:

so which one of you is this guy

me

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸
how are your telomeres doing?

myDad
Jan 20, 2010

ce n'est pas ma mère
College Slice

Splicer posted:

how are your telomeres doing?

They are ready to be rubbed against the younger telomeres, which as you know,

Dr Kool-AIDS
Mar 26, 2004

Clamps McGraw posted:

your dating options from about 32/33 onwards are most often
- fat / homely ones
- poly ones
- insane ones, not "gaslighting" crazy, actual loving crazy

Once you said poly the other things were pretty much understood. At least that's what comes up on Tinder whenever I see a profile that mentions being poly, unless it's a hot couple looking for a third.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Clamps McGraw posted:

your dating options from about 32/33 onwards are most often

- become a new stepdad
- fat / homely ones
- poly ones
- insane ones, not "gaslighting" crazy, actual loving crazy

-women in their 20s :D

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

Clamps McGraw posted:

your dating options from about 32/33 onwards are most often

- become a new stepdad
- fat / homely ones
- poly ones
- insane ones, not "gaslighting" crazy, actual loving crazy

*Phew* thank goodness fat and homely made the list or I'd have nothing to look forward to!

bloodysabbath
May 1, 2004

OH NO!

Enfys posted:

Guys, I'm totally in a committed relationship with someone my own age who is great and I wouldn't have it any other way, but it's totally fine if you all want to bang college girls with daddy issues. Like just go ahead and do it.

I mean, I wouldn't do that because I am so happy in my age appropriate relationship, but you guys go right ahead because there's nothing wrong with it. You shouldn't try to be part of her peer group though. You should instead keep your relationship secret because other people just wouldn't understand and would think less of you. But it's actually fine.

Old enough to sign up for tens of thousands of dollars in loans she’ll never be able to repay, young enough to still need her sacred virtue defended by Enfys on the Internet.

I think I finally get what Britney Spears meant by “Not a girl, not yet a woman.”

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Enfys
Feb 17, 2013

The ocean is calling and I must go

Yeah things have worked out really well for her. Nothing wrong with the sexualization and objectification of teenage girls by older men.

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