Somewhere over the rainbow....

[johnny9fingers]

 

xkcd....brilliant.
For some reason or other this resonates.
However, I doubt I could date anyone half my age plus seven (which is 30). In general I prefer women my own age. Not that I'm excessively prejudiced against the young.

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[darkblood777.livejournal.com]

Funny comic!

[thaliastrel.livejournal.com]

And every day, I grasp more and more of how generous that is. My gosh, people my age are exasperating.

[tripinthehead33.livejournal.com]

I like that standard creepiness rule at this moment for myself. Going under that means handcuffs, and in a bad way. That negates that "Oh wow, I'm getting close to 30" feeling I've been sharing with my brother the past few weeks.

So you wouldn't turn down a pretty college girl who threw herself at you then?

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Thirty and a 'Reader' at a good university or similar....well I might not turn a lass like that down, but as I've mentioned before: sometimes it gets down to cases, like the children's TV you remember. If I'm quoting 'Bagpuss' and all she knows is 'Power Rangers' their seems little meeting of minds. Really brilliant women however, tend to make their own rules: but thankfully I doubt that sort would be too interested in me.

But somewhere, on the edge of the bell-curve.....

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

'There', not 'their'. Blast.

[vlion.livejournal.com]

I don't find women who are under 22 interesting as a rule of thumb. But I'm 24 and, in the US, there's a buttload of growing up that happens in those couple years.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

When I was 24 I went out with a girl who was 22, and brilliant. She's a professor now somewhere in Texas. I had trouble keeping up intellectually. Clever girls keep you on your toes, which is a good thing.
Points of similarity and points of difference combine to make people interesting. You split up with your young lady and are now single, from what I recall. At 24 the world should be the shellfish of your choice. I'm pretty certain there many nice young women out there. I'm not saying 'cut a dash' or be a cad, but you should get out there and try again if it looks like you and your ex-fiancee aren't going to get things back together. (But I may be teaching my grandma to suck eggs here.)

[vlion.livejournal.com]

The Ex and I will more than likely not get back together in the near-/mid-future.

There are many lovely and smart women in this town, but realistically serious commitments right now are tough- it's a college-only town, and I'm only going to be here maybe 18 or 24 months more. Regardless, I am open to interested women, but I'm not looking...graduate studies are demanding timewise.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

i find young people more or less irritating. but then, i am irritable.

as well as people who stay in and make graphs, i am a person of limited going out, and people used to tell me i would never meet a man in my own living room, but then i did, and in fact my still-on despite it all boyfriend is someone no one could ever meet anywhere. he is immensely asocial, even though he is nice.

so there you are. gripping wasn't it? i'll get my coat.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

We could start a branch of the Grumpy Old People Club.

Personally I can't wait until I'm old enough to have a bath-chair, pushed by a nurse in a white starched uniform, whilst I point my antique brass ear-trumpet at some young whippersnapper shouting "Speak up boy, can't hear what you're saying. STOP MUMBLING."
I have to get a monocle like Patrick Moore's. And I shall have to cultivate a twitch. And wave my cane in impotent rage.
Bah, humbug.

[e4q.livejournal.com]

oh, absolutely. i am all about the bath chair. and the nurse has to have a starched uniform. i am feeling a view of a lake and small cups of very potent hot chocolate as well.
also, i was once at a party full of oldsters in a garden which had potted white hydrangias at face level. i noted that they were quite flattering against soft wrinkly skin and white hair, so that's on my list for later as well. in the mean time i am limbering up and will be really good at the full curmudgeon by the time i get there. other people will be mere amateurs compared to us!