Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[Sardondi]

...In that way, you can make the leap from a loose salt shaker lid to Jews being led to death camps, because I ain't going there....

The "A" answer.

[BobGrau]

Quick survey: Is 21(f) - 35(m) too much of an age difference?

Art Bell and Fort Rock needn't bother replying, obviously  :

[Eddie Coyle]

Quick survey: Is 21(f) - 35(m) too much of an age difference?

Art Bell and Fort Rock needn't bother replying, obviously  :

Definitely a "for each their own" thing...and personally, such a disparity would be odd for me. (a) I can't imagine someone that young being interested in an old goat like me(b) I've mentioned that "Hey Nineteen" scenario before, the generational gap would do a number on me. In 1991, I was 15/16, and doing all the dumb shit kids that age do...and this girl was being BORN. That freaks me out. That I could have sired kids older than her...is also a major mindfuck. But then again, I think too much and analysis paralysis is recurring theme in my life. It's getting to the point where I'm no fun anymore. Like someone born in 1991 would get that reference...see what I mean?

             I'm an equivocating "yes" on this question.

       

[McPhallus]

Quick survey: Is 21(f) - 35(m) too much of an age difference?

Art Bell and Fort Rock needn't bother replying, obviously  :

Depends on the type of relationship.  If this is just a lay or an FWB, don't worry about it.  If it's for more of an LTR, make sure you're compatible in terms of maturity.

[Harmness]

Quick survey: Is 21(f) - 35(m) too much of an age difference?

Art Bell and Fort Rock needn't bother replying, obviously  :

No.

[HAL 9000]

Quick survey: Is 21(f) - 35(m) too much of an age difference?

Art Bell and Fort Rock needn't bother replying, obviously  :

I once asked an intelligent mid-20's cutie who was married (so I was not interested in her) where the line is drawn regarding dating age differences for my own benefit. She unhesitatingly gave me the following mathematical formula, which when  tried, seemed to work out about right.

OGA=old geezer's age
PYT=pretty one thing's age
MA=minimum age you should consider dating

MA=(OGA-PYT)+7

Looks like you just made it, but a caveat - the lower the value of PYT, the more danger there is for the formula to yield an irrational number.

[stevesh]

I've always heard that it should be MA = (OGA/2) +7. That way you don't need to know the PYT's age before you start looking, and it scales perfectly: the MA for someone who's 16 is 15, and if you're 90, the MA is 52, so she'll still be young enough to have a good time spending your money when you kick ten years or less later.

[BobGrau]

You've all in your ways reflected my various views on the subject. Harmness wins the prize for most concise yet thoroughly-researched reply so far.

We have a second week of work-related enforced-socialising to go before I do or don't try to make a fool of myself.
Before that, I still need to settle what I've come to think of as the 'gaga factor'. ie I can't take seriously anyone who's young enough to not completely hate lady gaga

[BobGrau]

I've been handling the stupid things on my mind, but we need more random.


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[HAL 9000]

I've always heard that it should be MA = (OGA/2) +7. That way you don't need to know the PYT's age before you start looking, and it scales perfectly: the MA for someone who's 16 is 15, and if you're 90, the MA is 52, so she'll still be young enough to have a good time spending your money when you kick ten years or less later.

You are exactly correct - as Roger Clemens would say, "I misremembered that."

[MV/Liberace!]

Quick survey: Is 21(f) - 35(m) too much of an age difference?

no.

[stevesh]

Quick survey: Is 21(f) - 35(m) too much of an age difference?

No, unless the 21(f) is my daughter.

[Morgus]

Quick survey: Is 21(f) - 35(m) too much of an age difference? 

nah, I dated a 19 year old when I was 34.
Even 40 year olds could date 21 year olds no problem if you don't look old.
Young looking 50-60 year old men can date early 30's females too.

[ChewMouse]

No, unless the 21(f) is my daughter.

Classic! Great response!

[Juan]

Interesting that we've avoided the subject of money in these relationships.

[ziznak]

You've all in your ways reflected my various views on the subject. Harmness wins the prize for most concise yet thoroughly-researched reply so far.

We have a second week of work-related enforced-socialising to go before I do or don't try to make a fool of myself.
Before that, I still need to settle what I've come to think of as the 'gaga factor'. ie I can't take seriously anyone who's young enough to not completely hate lady gaga

Dude... although I'm not a huge fan of Gaga I have to give the girl credit for what she's accomplished.  She got big the way a real musician/performer SHOULD get big.  Although her persona and music may seem overproduced now I'm pretty sure she's had much of the creative control.  She also went through the high and low of getting signed to a major label only to have crap go south and the label drop her. 

As for the whole age thing... If both parties can relate to each other and connect intellectually it really doesn't matter.  I used to love girls in their early twenties but I was still in my (whoring) twenties.  As the age gap gets bigger the ability to relate gets smaller.  God I feel old when I say/type shit in reference to a decade past.

[Eddie Coyle]

Interesting that we've avoided the subject of money in these relationships.

And I always will...with good reason.

[ziznak]

At the end of dinner I just smack at my back pocket and then fake a wallet misplacement...

Interesting that we've avoided the subject of money in these relationships.

[stevesh]

I'm pretty sure I'm in love with Serena Williams. Might be Venus.

[MV/Liberace!]

I'm pretty sure I'm in love with Serena Williams. Might be Venus.

easily one of the world's most beautiful women.

[coaster]

Anyone who thinks that lady gaga is even remotely talented has no business judging music imo. Talent is no longer a factor in today's music. All it takes is a computer. I could fart a days worth of chili farts into autotune and make a number one hit.

[stevesh]

I could fart a days worth of chili farts into autotune and make a number one hit simulate any given George Noory interview.  

[ziznak]

Anyone who thinks that lady gaga is even remotely talented has no business judging music imo. Talent is no longer a factor in today's music. All it takes is a computer. I could fart a days worth of chili farts into autotune and make a number one hit.

ahh the oldschool of what can be judged as "music."  For most this means some sort of instrument vibrating from human interaction with a bit of technology to amplify and add FX to the sound.  I'm sure when the electric guitar came out there were people complaining about the unnatural sustain and twang of the instrument and stating that music made with such contraptions was not music at all.  These days if I feel that an artist is producing work that is actually coming from them and not a record labels production team then they are being true to themselves and music regardless of whatever contraptions come into play.  You can fart a days worth of chili farts into autotune go ahead... but could you become "one of the best-selling music artists of all time" that way?  me doubts it.  Something else has to be going on.

[Camazotz Automat]

easily [Serena Williams is] one of the world's most beautiful women.

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[coaster]

I'm sure when the electric guitar came out there were people complaining about the unnatural sustain and twang of the instrument and stating that music made with such contraptions was not music at all. 

I'm sure you're right. I'm also sure that the electric guitar (which revolutionized music) can't really be compared with autotune. one needs talent to play the guitar. autotune makes it possible for talentless people to sing. Music, like art, is subjective. But autotune is the jackson pollock of the music scene.

[MV/Liberace!]

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loooooool

[BobGrau]

Dude... although I'm not a huge fan of Gaga I have to give the girl credit for what she's accomplished.  She got big the way a real musician/performer SHOULD get big.  Although her persona and music may seem overproduced now I'm pretty sure she's had much of the creative control.  She also went through the high and low of getting signed to a major label only to have crap go south and the label drop her. 

As for the whole age thing... If both parties can relate to each other and connect intellectually it really doesn't matter.  I used to love girls in their early twenties but I was still in my (whoring) twenties.  As the age gap gets bigger the ability to relate gets smaller.  God I feel old when I say/type shit in reference to a decade past.

I'm happy to offer my respect to gaga as a performer etc. and good luck to her! I just can't stand bland, soul-less music, and the bland, soul-less people who settle for it.

[ziznak]

I'm sure you're right. I'm also sure that the electric guitar (which revolutionized music) can't really be compared with autotune. one needs talent to play the guitar. autotune makes it possible for talentless people to sing. Music, like art, is subjective. But autotune is the jackson pollock of the music scene.

It all depends on how you use the auto-tune... I personally have hated the effect since Cher auto-tuned her old lady voice on that annoying ass song about believing in love... fuck love she should believe in "depends" at this point.  If you're using auto-tune to make your horrible voice sound better then yeah your using the tech to make you not suck which in turn makes YOU suck even more... But if the effect is run with delay or some sort of sampler to create a beat or melody then it's different.  My guitar FX consisted of 2 distortion channels one of which had a slight phaser effect.  I also had 2 clean channels one which was the "acoustic" channel and the other was a slight delay echo pop channel... (sorry about the stoner musician fx talk if you can't understand what I mean.)  I like the FX to enhance the sound not BE the sound... this line can blur with many artists.  It's like ruining a dish with salt.

[MV/Liberace!]

when you cast tom hanks in a film, you're taking a big chance.  it's either going to be a great american classic, or a steaming pile of shit.

[Eddie Coyle]

when you cast tom hanks in a film, you're taking a big chance.  it's either going to be a great american classic, or a steaming pile of shit.

My money is on the latter. I thought he was good on "Bosom Buddles"...but then again, I was 5 at the time. His Oscar speeches in the mid 90's were the phoniest, most overwrought parodies of humanism ever concocted, fake tears, fake emoting...