While I have many vents about online dating, I would like to share just one of them right now. As more come along, I might add them.
Right now the biggest thing that irks me about online dating is when a guy (other ladies may do it too, I wouldn't know) connects to me by email or message through the dating site with a very obvious generic email. It is obvious that it is generic because it doesn't say my name, it doesn't ask questions, it sounds scripted (and like it is copied and pasted into many emails), and most importatnly it doesn't ever refer to MY profile! When I receive an obvious generic email I am tempted to tell the guy off. He needs to learn that sending out the same email to every girl he is interested in is not going to get him anywhere. Online dating tip numero uno: make the first email/message personal!
It really just baffles me how clueless guys really are.
Oh and I guess I also hate when profiles don't have a picture, are only partially filled out, are ridiculous (his favorite thing: being with you of course....PUH-LEASE!), are full of one liners/pick up lines.
Serious people that use online dating sites to look for REAL relationships take the time to fill out their profiles with appropriate information, choose quality pictures of themselves, and also take the time to send personal messages/emails, NOT GENERIC ONES that are used over and over again.
Okay. That's my vent for today.
So now that I am all caught up on The Office, I have moved onto Weeds. This show is hilarious! I am watching it right now and one quote I just heard speaks the whole truth:
Andy: "What are they teaching you in school?"
Shane: "How to pass a weekly standardized test so the school can get more funding."
And that my fellow Americans is what our education system is all about!
Oh and speaking of weed. I am not a big fan of smoking weed myself, I really don't like the taste. I feel the same way about alcohol. But I am beginning to agree with the legalize marijuana folks: Alcohol makes people do dumb things and weed makes people do dumb things. How come one can be legal and the other can't? How come one can be sold publicly in order to benefit the economy, but the other can't? I am sure if marijuana was legal, our economy would get a great big boost. And tax payers wouldn't have to spend so much for having pot sellers take up space in jails. You know jail, the place for murders, convicts, and pedophiles?
People are going to smoke weed and teenagers are going to have sex. My advice: legalize pot, help the economy. Teach sex education because teenagers have a right to be exposed to all information. No more of this "abstinence only" crap. (I want to add that I saw Lewis Black live the other night. Even before seeing him I was always an advocate for comprehensive sex education, he just sparked me to write about it today that's all.)
I am learning at this young age that our society has major issues with social order and social change. Maybe when the old conservatives die off, our society can welcome some much needed change. Who gives a care if gay people want to marry? Who gives a care if dads choose to stay at home while mothers bring in the bacon? Who cares if a women decides she cannot have a baby at that time in her life? If it doesn't affect your well being and your life style, why do you care so much? Get off your high horse and let people live the life they want.
"pursuit of happiness" come on!
What word or phrase drives you absolutely nuts?
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Growing up, I never liked when my parent's would say "because I told you so". That was never good enough for me. As an early childhood educator now, I work extra hard to give real reasons for why children should do things. When I hopefully become a parent some day, I hope to never use that statement when enforcing a rule or consequence for my children. As a child, I wanted a real reason, and I believe that most all children want a real understandable and rational reason for why parents or adults want them to do things. There is are always ways to explain things to children so that they will understand. "Because I said so" just never cut it for me, and it probably never will.
