Posted on 12/05/2014 6:39:10 AM PST by C19fan
Edited on 12/05/2014 9:19:12 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
"My generation of boys is f****d," says Rupert, a young German video game enthusiast I've been getting to know over the past few months. "Marriage is dead. Divorce means you're screwed for life. Women have given up on monogamy, which makes them uninteresting to us for any serious relationship or raising a family. That's just the way it is. Even if we take the risk, chances are the kids won't be ours. In France, we even have to pay for the kids a wife has through adulterous affairs. "In school, boys are screwed over time and again. Schools are engineered for women. In the US, they force-feed boys Ritalin like Skittles to shut them up. And while girls are favoured to fulfil quotas, men are slipping into distant second place.
lol.
My situation is a long story. My keyboard types letters I’m not even touching. And sometimes my keyboard will let me type anything but letters, at the same time as my mouse will let me click anything except letters. But it’s not really my keyboard that’s the problem then because when I plug my ergonomic keyboard into my laptop it does the same thing...
If I click on a news site that has scripts it takes a minute or two before it will scroll at all, and by that time I’ve tried to scroll so when it catches up it scrolls up and down so that I can’t read anything. Then it freezes and I have to restart and hope that I can catch the next paragraph down before having to restart the computer again.
I’m using encrypted Linux because my son thinks it is more secure and he’s sick of having to wipe my hard drive all the time - and my husband is tired of replacing my computer all the time also (actually I’m the one who’s tired of it).
That’s a small piece of my situation.
But my husband tells me my computer-stud sons are planning to surprise me for Christmas so I need to just wait. Hopefully everybody else can be patient with me as I wait. =)
“(By the way, I own a cat.) “
Just so long as it’s not two or more. :):):)
“Nothing better than going shooting with and then solving computer problems for clients.”
When I worked at a national lab as their chief network engineer, I’d take visitors, including visiting Chinese scientists, to the range to shoot the various of my full-auto firearms. Got to do it on company time too! Was really a GREAT way to bond professionally. My version of taking the clients out to play golf.
“I don’t work for “progressives”. If I don’t know ahead of time where they stand politically - I do try to screen them - I fire them if I find out they’re the enemy!”
I work for myself now, and quite frankly, I could care less about my clients’ politics; all I care about is if their money is green. On the other hand, I’ve made some really good friends amongst my clients; naturally none of the friends are “Progressives”.
“They can’t force men to marry and support women, and once enough men go this route, women will be forced to make concessions to our demands, as they cannot survive if men abandon them en masse.”
It’s too bad that’s not entirely true. These women you refer to simply vote for “Progressives” to raise the taxes on the working males and redistribute our earnings to the single females. So they manage to get us to support them one way or another after all. Single females are one of the BIG constituencies of the U.S. national socialist party. In effect, the government is their “man”.
“I wouldn’t consider myself red-neck, but I am Texan.”
I think that’s one of the all time great lines: “I’m not a red-neck, but I AM Texan!”
Like the “I’m not a whatever, but I DID stay in a Holiday Inn Express one time!”
“But it does seem that you are cynical about the existence of real love...”
No, I am not cynical about that. You just cannot know if you have real love, except in hindsight. Everyone will think, at the beginning, that their love is real, but they don’t all turn out to be right. Everyone pledges to stay faithful forever, but they don’t all keep that pledge. So saying “well if it is real love you don’t have to worry” is no consolation, because I am not a prophet, so I cannot see the future and know if it will prove to be real or not.
The song is nice, but it is just sentimentality. It doesn’t change the reality, which is that counting on love to keep a relationship together is demonstrably unreliable. Lots of people do that all the time and get burned.
“These women you refer to simply vote for “Progressives” to raise the taxes on the working males and redistribute our earnings to the single females.”
Then we move to step two and stop working. They can’t redistribute an income that doesn’t exist. One way or another, women will break down and cry “uncle” before men do.
My wife and I will celebrate 48 years in April.
When I read these threads, I am saddened.
I would wish a happy and life-long marriage to every male and female.
In the past 40+ years of marriage, there have been good times and bad times, pressures on the marriage from child rearing, money, separation because of jobs, mothers-in-law and other family members. And even the verge of a divorce at about the five year point.
My point being that I don't post this to say "look at us, marriage is easy".
It's not always. We married very young and grew up together, learned that it wasn't always all about us individually, learned to compromise, learned to give at least 51% to the marriage, and have now reached the point where we can laugh at our silly selves and the way we acted toward each other back then.
We also have many happy memories about when we had little income, but in many ways were happier than when we had more than enough income.
I met a couple in Walmart today. She was well dressed, pushing a cart, looking at some toys/bike parts, and he was wandering along behind her. She was a smallish lady and he was a big burly guy, beard, T-shirt/shorts/tennies/white socks kind of guy.
They seemed a very unlikely couple. As I pushed my cart past her, then paused for her to notice me and move enough to let me pass, he said jokingly "Just run over her if you need to."
At this point I knew they were at least a couple. She smiled and excusing herself, moved her cart aside. I paused and wanting to say something nice, responded that I couldn't run over her and that she looked to me like a real "keeper". Then I said "I've kept mine almost 50 years now."
They both laughed, and she said that they had been married for 10 years now. I congratulated them both and said "I always congratulate the woman for being patient with the "man stuff" we men bring to the marriage, and I always congratulate the man for standing by his woman and sticking with the marriage through thick and thin."
We all laughed and I think they appreciated the praise and encouragement for their marriage. I try to congratulate all the married couples I meet. Marriage is the bedrock of our society, as proscribed by God to us through the scriptures.
Oh, and BTW, neither of them would have won any beauty/handsome contests (neither would my wife and I) by society's measures, but they were obviously attractive enough for (and attracted to) each other.
So, I say, never-say-never about getting and staying married. Trust in the Lord, he has someone in mind for you (just don't set up so many "acceptance" factors that will cause you to reject him/her). Just be prepared to understand and recognize him/her when he/she crosses your path.
We only get one shot at this life, and I wish for every man and woman to find his/her mate and live a joyful life until each must go home to be with the Lord.
May God bless and keep each and every one of you.
People sometimes give up on the love that the Lord gives to them that is supposed to spill over into others in their lives. That doesn’t mean that there is no love, but that sin won out over the love.
The love of Jesus is MUCH, MUCH more then mere “sentimentality”.
“You ‘own’ a cat? ... Not even, you are the cat’s staff.”
Indeed. But there’s not point to cohabiting with a cat unless you intend on spoiling it rotten anyway.
That’s not me. I only speak Italian. Ciao!
“The love of Jesus is MUCH, MUCH more then mere “sentimentality”.”
Yes, but we’re not talking about marrying Jesus.
Congratulations to you and your wife for 20 years of marriage! Unfortunately, that’s rare these days.
“The old saw about meeting them at church has a lot of wisdom.”
I met my wife at church 29 years ago! Had moved to a small town for my first job. But had kept going to church going to college, etc.
As a teen I always thought my dad was old-fashioned when he talked about dating and being “equally-yoked”. But he was right. As usual.
I used to teach the introductory course in Management at a university. One class session was devoted to managing your own career (if you don't manage it, someone else will and you may not like it). I used to tell the young ladies, imitate Margaret Thatcher and Indira Ghandi: have your children first, then become Prime Minister.
I was widowed after 30 years of a good marriage. I dated a few women over the next dozen years, but either I decided I didn't want to marry them, or they didn't want to marry me. Finally I signed up with catholicsingles.com. I met a woman there, a widow. We spent several months chatting on line, at least an hour every morning. In six months there wasn't much we hadn't discussed. During that time we actually saw each other face to face only once, at an airport near me when she was changing planes while on her way to visit her son at college. Finally I flew to her place, hoping to find out of she was really like her on-line persona. Yes, she was. I proposed, and we've now had fourteen years of happy marriage. I attribute it all to the time we spent getting to know each other, even if it was via the Internet. There's no substitute for that. (Just remember, though, on the Internet no one knows you're a dog. You need to verify that the person on the other end really is as they present themselves.)
A belated congratulations to you both!
see tag line. These are the keys that stopped working on my old laptop. LOL
Have you tried using the on-screen keyboard that comes with Windows?
Thanks! A good laugh was needed!
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