Whatever happened to good women?

Dude. Seriously. Part of the problem may be that you have a slightly over inflated sense of ego.

You expect people in general to be less intelligent than you?

I understand being confident in your intelligence. But the way you just put that stretches things WAY beyond normal self confidence and verges into being not much more than an ego maniac with an inflated sense of self worth.

Keep in mind, you decided to ask a question here. Any responses you get from me were part and parcel of the deal. If you don't like what I have to say, that's not my problem.

I am begining to think the whole concept of dateing is dead never to be reborn.

I hear one more moron say what do you want to do and expect me to plan the date I am going to scream. Especially after wasteing hours blabbering about their life story.

There doesn't seem to be any fun dates anymore. I see guys work, do the the domestic stuff, and a few will ride their precious motercycles but none of them seem to know there is anything to do. They can't tell you anything going on at the convention centers, don't know what movies are playing, can't find a place to dance, don't even know where local attractions are. Amazes me have their hands on a keyboard and can't look anything up.

Maybe it is the vesting process but I don't call standing on the auction block to see if I measure up a date. If you can't be man enough to actually get through and activity with a woman why should I knock myself out. The whole go to starbucks and let me lay eyes on you is ridiculous. Are people blind? Don't most people have pictures? Or at least exchange them before they meet? What is this interogation thing on the first date thing? I can't believe people have to ask your life history just to spend a couple of hours together. Or tell you theirs. Geezz get a therapist.

I don't see how meeting at a bar and watching the guy get drunk and smoke, go to the casino and watch some idiot trow more money than I live on for a month down a slot machine, and the can I come over and layaround while you cook and provide a video I am too cheap to buy can be called a date. Or my personal favorite the one where you actually go to a resturant and all they do is whine about how much the meal costs, or they could cook it better, and can they take the leftovers home for their lunch tomorrow and don't leave a tip because they have to pay too much to the third ex-wife. I feel like sending some of these guys a bill. LOL sorry for the rant! Can you guess which kind of date I had this week. lol

(Please know that this is NOT an attack response,so don't come out fighting -but I'm extremely curious...)

What do you mean by this, exactly? Do you EXPECT a woman to be less intelligent than you are? (You also seem disgruntled that women often "aren't" smart but you later say it's not important...that seems contradictory.)

In any case you might consider that you are just participating in some self-fulfilling prophecy. If you want smart...look for smart. Trust me, they are out there and some of them are H-O-T!

Back to you, JustAGuy!

There are, as you know, differing levels and types of intelligence. A person who is " book smart " can be pretty much clueless about life itself. A person who is " street smart " may know all about life, but may not have a clue if you used big words.

You are correct in thinking that communication is important, but there are forms of communication besides words that are necessary in a relationship.

That being said...you also seem to indicate that the women you date wind up not being very intelligent. If that's the case, why is your intelligence not allowing you to catch on to that fact in the first few emails, or even the first conversation?

Not to mention, intelligence is not always indicated by a person's vocabulary. My daughter's mom wasn't an exceptionally intelligent woman as far as words go, but if you put her in charge of an eatery or a kitchen of some sort ( she was the manager of the kitchen at a bowling alley for quite a while ) she could run the place, very efficiently, with seemingly very little effort. That would indicate that, even though she wasn't great with words, she had a lot of organizational skill, which requires a type of intelligence that even the largest vocabulary wouldn't necessarily impart.

Basically....it's all a matter of degrees of intelligence. If you want someone who has a large vocabulary so that she can understand what you are saying, then that's the kind of intelligence you can find either there or lacking in pretty short order.

My definition of a date is more then two hrs a nice dinner or activity.

Social meet is drinks lightfood and under two hrs
and is just talking to get to know each other.


right or wrong.

Why would a woman look for someone who is intelligent, yet be unable to hold a conversation herself without a dictionary or some other sort of translation tool?

I happen to think communication is important...and if I'm constantly having to explain what words mean, no real communication is happening. So why would they seek it out if they themselves don't have it?

X-Men
(Wasn't that from a book? )

The average guy over 30 usually spends $100.00, or more on a date.

Should we start going Dutch....or hitting the fast food joints ?