Hi, Sarah!
How are you feeling?
I'm okay, Francis.
Thanks for asking - I went into work today, good job as well as I was the only one in on my side, the rest were off sick!
How are you? Are you in Paris? Is it busy with Le Rugby?
Wish I were there, love the place.
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Had a very cheeky customer in today - he told me to "hurry up as he was tired"!
I took my time...
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Yes, I'm in Paris.
Not yet busy avec le rugby, it will be tomorrow.
I have to visit Manchester, some day.
Yes, please do. You're welcome anytime.
I would make you a roast beef dinner and show you the sights. We could watch the sun set over The Manchester Ship Canal, it's very impressive.
x
I've been called much worse Doowop!
I had a right good bike ride today, stopped for a sandwich at a little pub just outside of Chorley, up on a hill. it was called 'The Sea View'
It was possible to see Blackpool Tower, the coast line and a couple of landmarks out towards Southport.
I was in good deep thought during the ride as well!
It is conventional wisdom that the primary emotional need of a woman is to be in a lifelong relationship with a man. Traditionally, this would be her husband. I think the affinity for lifelong love relationships is in the nature of women, as it has resulted from hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. Thus, it is a matter of nature. Spendi might just consider it to be an act in compliance with god or shall I say GOD.
Women, lose their sexual market value much quicker than men do. When you are 20, you can have every man,( I'm being kind here of course, but you understand the point I am making) even though it may only be for an episode. But when you are over 40, it is very difficult for you!
The competition from the younger flashy birds is HIGH.
Yes, you may still be able to find a man.
You obviously ask yourself though, could there be a problem with him for not being involved with a younger woman??
"Younger" is the keyword. Youth, or the beauty of youth, has a magical power over men. And from the end of your 20's, you are discriminated upon because of your age. And this is a discrimination that is much more difficult to legislate away than just lower pay for equal work. Because this discrimination is in the minds of men who feel sexually attracted to younger women. They cannot be forced by the law to be attracted only to women of the same age.
You can of course buy all the fancy creams from Boots to wash away the wrinkles and wipe away the tears, or would that be fears?
Your passport etc doesn't tell or support porkies though!
Without the legal documentation and the surgeons knife you could perhaps get away with a few years and enjoy the additional applause and well meant compliment bashing from the gents on the back seats of the theatre I suppose.
It's just that, because of her more rapidly declining sexual market value, as well as social restrictions, the options and opportunities are declining like the wrinkles on a baby's bottom.
One might well consider a working marriage to be a gift that ought to be well treasured.
Young women of course are totally unaware of the exchanges they will encounter as the years roll by.
Perhaps a young woman should therefore be expected to take several lovers in the fortunate years, as well as a husband.. {Your views please ladies}
Women love to be told how beautiful they are!
Of course, every woman can achieve orgasms and at any age, not all of them do.
They aren't satisfied with masturbation either, no matter how good it may be tendered, the demand is for the phallus, strong, erect and outstanding in technique.
Isn't living full of bollocks!
Seemingly isn't good enough Spendius, it's a bit like switching the light on an off, having a fear of being seen naked, don't you like to stand naked on the dressing table or window sill, shouting;
'Look at this baby' it's all meat, a real treat?
I certainly don't. It's as much as I can do to stand on the carpet while the maid cleans my sofa when my feeble fingers have allowed the porrige bowl to slip sideways.
You're all talk. You probably got that out of Mailer or Confessions of a Window Cleaner. The former had Rameses do it, flanked by two fluffers, in front of a baying crowd of thousands in Ancient Evenings on a raised dias in the amphitheatre as the first golden rays of the sun, focussed by an array of burnished shields on the towers, bathed his muscled and oiled naked body with their lifegiving warmth. Dressing tables and window sills are for the cheeky-chappies with ideas beyond their station.
I bet nobody on here has read that. Or even could do.
smorgs wrote:I'm okay, Francis.
Thanks for asking - I went into work today, good job as well as I was the only one in on my side, the rest were off sick!
How are you? Are you in Paris? Is it busy with Le Rugby?
Wish I were there, love the place.
x
Love that subjunctive.
X
Scarce, very scarce nowadays, more's the pity.
Mathos, sweetie, come sit by me and let's have a good old discourse on the revelations that came from your bike ride. Strange, really, my natural instinct was to just reply - bollocks - big hairy ones...
But I couldn't get a connection, so it gave time to think. Did I really disagree with everything you just said? Or would it be the natural reaction of any woman 'of a certain age'? So after much pondering, a diet coke and a fag... here goes, my honest opinion, but I'm aware it means nothing in the grand scheme of things, I just need to get it of my withered old chest:
I think there's a lot of transference in that post. I think that it's YOU that is conscious of ageing. Oh, don't get me wrong, I like you very much, have much cyber fondness for you, you're obviously an erudite, active, go-getting, successful man. That's sexy, no doubt, and it's attractive to women.
But I disagree that it is conventional wisdom that the emotional needs of women is to be in a lifelong relationship with a man. 'Hundreds and thousands of years' have made us successful sperm hunters, we are not genetically designed to swoon at engagement rings, but we are genetically designed to mate successfully, and that means whatever it takes. That's why we are all still here, we are built that way.
Social and moral convention dictate wedlock and monogamy, not our genetics.
I agree totally, however, that younger women are more attractive to men than women of my age. They have to be... genetics again! They are menstruating, they have the round heaviness to their hips, they have a dewiness about them that no amount of surgery could ever replace nor make-up mimic. They have the promise of fecundity, and you want to pass your genes on, you're driven to do so, it's only natural.
But I'm fifty and peri-menopausal. I have lines on my face, I can't read instructions on backs of packages without me bins. I totally agree that I am never going to be as attractive as a young nubile girl.
Mathos, sweetie, come sit by me and let's have a good old discourse on the revelations that came from your bike ride. Strange, really, my natural instinct was to just reply - bollocks - big hairy ones...
But I couldn't get a connection, so it gave time to think. Did I really disagree with everything you just said? Or would it be the natural reaction of any woman 'of a certain age'? So after much pondering, a diet coke and a fag... here goes, my honest opinion, but I'm aware it means nothing in the grand scheme of things, I just need to get it of my withered old chest:
I think there's a lot of transference in that post. I think that it's YOU that is conscious of ageing. Oh, don't get me wrong, I like you very much, have much cyber fondness for you, you're obviously an erudite, active, go-getting, successful man. That's sexy, no doubt, and it's attractive to women.
But I disagree that it is conventional wisdom that the emotional needs of women is to be in a lifelong relationship with a man. 'Hundreds and thousands of years' have made us successful sperm hunters, we are not genetically designed to swoon at engagement rings, but we are genetically designed to mate successfully, and that means whatever it takes. That's why we are all still here, we are built that way.
Social and moral convention dictate wedlock and monogamy, not our genetics.
I agree totally, however, that younger women are more attractive to men than women of my age. They have to be... genetics again! They are menstruating, they have the round heaviness to their hips, they have a dewiness about them that no amount of surgery could ever replace nor make-up mimic. They have the promise of fecundity, and you want to pass your genes on, you're driven to do so, it's only natural.
Don't forget, Mathos, that a woman's capacity to orgasm increases with age as a mans diminishes. And you die younger. The obvious genetic reason for that is that women carry on shagging! And some of us will settle for less, and some men will settle for less, because social convention dictates it. But quite a lot of us will go into the third age happy and embracing it. With quiet confidence that they will share what's left of their lives with another man, in another way, companions and lovers. Probably going back to bed for an hour after Gardener's Question Time.
And you know why I'm so confident of this happening again? Because I have a small shopping list: I want to go out on a cold autumn morning with a mongrel dog, my mushroom book, pick some and go home, and eat them for breakfast in an omelette. I want someone to warm my bum on and they can put their feet on me. I want someone to bring me a brew in bed, someone who'll feels a natural inclination to put a wheelie bin out on time. Someone who will wolf down my dinners. And do you know what's best about my list, at my age? Looks aren't on it... because I simply don't care. I've moved on, I'm no longer a young girl, I assign value to different things now.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And I behold myself in the mirror every morning and say "hello gorgeous" in a Yonkers stylee, like Barbara did in Funny Girl.
Of course I'd much rather we were having this discussion over a pint, it's your round...
x
(smorgs, a round of applause from another decidedly non-dewy 50-year-old. Well said.)
Awww, Tai!
I was just about to go in and edit it, I've gone and buggered it up, cut and pastin' it, as my connection keeps going.
x
But thanks anyway, I enjoyed it. Mathos needs a good spanking for a post like that!
x
smorgs wrote:But thanks anyway, I enjoyed it. Mathos needs a good spanking for a post like that!
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Careful, that might have been his plan all along!
The proper one.
Mathos, sweetie, come sit by me and let's have a good old discourse on the revelations that came from your bike ride. Strange, really, my natural instinct was to just reply - bollocks - big hairy ones...
But I couldn't get a connection, so it gave time to think. Did I really disagree with everything you just said? Or would it be the natural reaction of any woman 'of a certain age'? So after much pondering, a diet coke and a fag... here goes, my honest opinion, but I'm aware it means nothing in the grand scheme of things, I just need to get it of my withered old chest:
I think there's a lot of transference in that post. I think that it's YOU that is conscious of ageing. Oh, don't get me wrong, I like you very much, have much cyber fondness for you, you're obviously an erudite, active, go-getting, successful man. That's sexy, no doubt, and it's attractive to women.
But I disagree that it is conventional wisdom that the emotional needs of women is to be in a lifelong relationship with a man. 'Hundreds and thousands of years' have made us successful sperm hunters, we are not genetically designed to swoon at engagement rings, but we are genetically designed to mate successfully, and that means whatever it takes. That's why we are all still here, we are built that way.
Social and moral convention dictate wedlock and monogamy, not our genetics.
I agree totally, however, that younger women are more attractive to men than women of my age. They have to be... genetics again! They are menstruating, they have the round heaviness to their hips, they have a dewiness about them that no amount of surgery could ever replace nor make-up mimic. They have the promise of fecundity, and you want to pass your genes on, you're driven to do so, it's only natural.
But I'm fifty and peri-menopausal. I have lines on my face, I can't read instructions on backs of packages without me bins. I totally agree that I am never going to be as attractive as a young nubile girl.
Don't forget, Mathos, that a woman's capacity to orgasm increases with age as a mans diminishes. And you die younger. The obvious genetic reason for that is that women carry on shagging! And some of us will settle for less, and some men will settle for less, because social convention dictates it. But quite a lot of us will go into the third age happy and embracing it. With quiet confidence that they will share what's left of their lives with another man, in another way, companions and lovers. Probably going back to bed for an hour after Gardener's Question Time.
And you know why I'm so confident of this happening again? Because I have a small shopping list: I want to go out on a cold autumn morning with a mongrel dog, my mushroom book, pick some and go home, and eat them for breakfast in an omelette. I want someone to warm my bum on and they can put their feet on me. I want someone to bring me a brew in bed, someone who'll feels a natural inclination to put a wheelie bin out on time. Someone who will wolf down my dinners. And do you know what's best about my list, at my age? Looks aren't on it... because I simply don't care. I've moved on, I'm no longer a young girl, I assign value to different things now.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And I behold myself in the mirror every morning and say "hello gorgeous" in a Yonkers stylee, like Barbara did in Funny Girl.
x
They always say that a bimbo knows she's being shagged but that she doesn't know why.
Only experienced women know the right answer. Which is why I stay well out of the way.
Good for you Smorgie, that was a good one.
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