does it seem odd to anyone else that somebody would not even except a message from someone because of their birthday.it seems narrow minded to me to accept messages from someone born a week later than someone who doesn,t qualify to message you bacause of age.many times these restrictions seem to come from self proclaimed intelligent ,open minded people.

not odd for them to have preferences, odd for you to want to change them...

luck to you!

$.02

The world is filled with odd folks. Who cares? Just talk to someone else.

the more oneself declare anything else as odd, the more narrow minded itself hath become?

open minded would be most to see nothing as odd?

would open minded be one that like many foods?

many different types of vehicles?

many different typers of music?

many different types of people?

one can keep their mind "open", only if oneself is aware of what itself does to close it's mind?

one that insist to itself, that all are as unique, one of a kind, and finds the valid good reason for all things by humans, can not help but to expand the intelligence and points of reference of the brain itself, for could anything know winter, without summer?

so opposites of self are a DIRE NEED, to the human race, creating the very intelligence of the mind itself?

just one cent

No.

If one responds to one person who is a week off, then they should respond to one who is a week more off, or a week after that.

Personal preference. Why can't someone make a decision and be allowed to stick with it?!

strange.....


yea a little....

but i have seen stranger on here...believe you me!!!

Hummm odd no we all have our limits of what we want out of life and others..... even if they do not go along the lines what others think is right.....

I have some pretty broad age restrictions (no one older than Mom or younger than my nieces), but I have wondered if maybe I shouldn't have those there. I wonder if maybe I missed out on meeting some wonderful person because I had some reservations. Did my own ideas of what might be "an acceptable age difference" keep me from getting to know someone who I might later love?


Probably not, but it is something to ponder.

One reason I've never put any restrictions on who can mail me is because there are all kinds of interesting people out there, of every age, from every place, and with all sorts of different lives, beliefs, goals, etc., who I might like to get to know.

Having said that, I think I've made it very clear what my dating preferences are.

But that in no way precludes me from having friends outside of those preferences -- those preferences aren't FOR friends.

I can't even begin to try to explain some of the things that other people do. Why someone would feel it's OK to have a friend who is 46 but not one who is 47 is beyond me. Then again, I try not to get too absorbed in the reasons for other people's preferences, because I wish they'd stop grilling me about mine....

Yeh, but while you are wanting to find someone to date, you're also open to friends here. Some people are only here for the possibility of dating, and don't wish to consider people for friends.

I do better making friends, too. But one friend is totally and only committed to dating with the intent of future wife. Granted he's still whining about being single, but he feels he has enough women friends and doesn't want to meet anyone else for that.

I've run into that before, and I'll admit I have a hard time understanding it.

It's as if they take the term "dating site" so literally as to impose an absolute stranglehold on what it is the site can and cannot be used for!

But some sites -- this one in particular -- are set up so as to allow more than one variety of "social networking," so to speak -- I understand that the generic term "dating site" is used as a sort of search-engine-shorthand when discussing sites like Mingle2, but it's really so much more than that....



How can a guy ever have enough women friends?

That's what I've seen as well, and find it sadly amusing. I certainly agree with you about it being far more. Unfotunately, some don't.

If he could seriously meet a gal, I could easily see him married and her pregnant within the year, so he could start his family thing.



LMAO!

if someone put on their restrictions they would not accept messages from people whose names start with R,would that seem odd to you or would you think it was narrow minded of me to think it was odd?

i got alot restrictions to ...it gets old ..people sending you emails to make small talk ..

I only ignore the men from the middle east because half of the time they don't know how to spell correctly and it bothers me.

I'd think it far odder of you to be so upset about it.

Just shrug your shoulders and move on. You don't know the reason they made the decision they did to have that restriction. It's a waste of energy to get bent out of shape over it.

I think the world is full of odd people. I think that is why there are animals to even things out.

No, they just keep things more amusing. I have a conure that laughs at funerals on TV and a parrot that mutters like she's plotting against you. Definitely odd, and downright amusing.

got odd

I have a cat that is intelligent. He was noticing I had taken the window out between the house and the new room I am building. He was perched on the window sill looking at the house and looked at the new room. It was like a light bulb went off in his head that the two parts were meant to be as one.

I have a dog that is intelligent. I was calling her and she was on the ground and I was on the roof of the new room. I told her to jump and she just looked at me like I was crazy.