Posts by enchantingimage

 Everyone deserves someone that loves them. He's made it blatantly obvious he doesn't respect you. The way someone treats their spouse reveals their true character. Unfortunately life doesn't always (as in, rarely) works out the way we planned. Most people think they're the exception to the rule. It hurts to admit we were wrong about someone, but it's the right thing to do. I suggest giving yourself a hall pass, and moving on with your life.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjgdGTVB1XI I dedicated this song to my sister a few months ago. :( The lyrics may resonate with you as well.

Original Post by caloricat:

I'm reviving this thread because I have an online dating question/concern and this is the only online dating thread that didn't have nauseating stories of fat/old chicks finding weird dudes to marry them on eHarmony.

Alright, so I'm on this website now...figure I'll finally break down and try it.  I tried Ashley Madison while I was married and stuff...but thats sort of a "cheating" website and not really for finding a "relationship" per se. 

So I've sent out 50-60 messages to matches that get sent to my phone...some fairly promising...but I don't get anything back....nothing yet after 1-2 weeks.

So I've found myself sort of getting annoyed and responding to chicks that are "matches" just to almost tell them why I'm not interested.  Not in a jerky way like; "You're too fat and ugly for me to date...sorry!!" 

I mean, like there was this one chick that made this really long post about how she is looking for Mr. Right and this super sensitive, awesome guy that will shower her with attention....then...later in the post....says she isn't interested in anything serious right now because she's just seeing whats out there and doesn't want some loser texting her and calling her all the time asking her what she's doing.

So I respond with something like, "You're very beautiful but I can't tell if you WANT to meet someone or are trying to AVOID meeting someone."

See...it's just frustrating.  Every one of those damn profiles are the same thing..."I love to laugh and love to travel and want to see the world and want to get the most out of life and love friends and my family...and...blah blah blah....I love the movie "Eat, Pray, Love"!"  And I SWEAR to CHRIST...why does it keep setting me up with models in their upper 20s....?  I got NO SHOT with them...it's effing embarrassing!! 

"You might like...Charmaigne....she's 21, wants a man that is athletic and toned who makes >$250,000/year, and wants to travel the world and works as an arcitect or for a non-profit.  Charmaigne has 1 cat, enjoys modeling beachwear, graduated from Florida State where she majored in liberal studies and spent 3 years on the Cheer Squad.  Go get her!!"

Yeah...FU website.  I'm not chasing that white rabbit.  The only way I'm hooking up with a 21 year old bikini model is if I roofie her, blindfold her, and get her as near to death/blindness as possible feeding her methanol.

1. Extremely amusing. xD
2. People tend to use Facebook as a virtual diary to advertise their relationship status. It seems any website can be used as a dating tool. ;D Try expanding your social circle without expectations.
3. “May the odds be ever in your favor.”

Don't steal her wind... Be Your Own Windkeeper!

What does your gut tell you? Trust your instincts, using your intuitive sense of what's right for you. You know when something isn't in your best interest. Save yourself time! 

There will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that a woman is more likely to protect her persona, so to speak, than an man would be. Early on females are urged to do their utmost to live up to the public's expectations of their gender. A man goes crazy in a bar, gets trashed, knocks up a female, gets into a fight, and it's considered "a guy thing"... A women does that and she's called names nine times out of ten. Believe it or not, a lot of women do it. The world is littered with people like this, some more discreet than others. Probably more females than males, and so really nowadays– It's a Girl Thing! ;D Either way, it's a bad thing. Why? It's dangerous. In My Humble Opinion: There is nothing safe about sex. While casual sex CAN be perfectly safe, it raises the probability of STD's and pregnancy. Good luck with that! “May the odds be ever in your favor.”

 I'm a Manilow Fan! :) That being said, his success isn't strictly based on his vocals in my opinion. His music is beloved because he writes beautifully. <3 Like Adele. 

Original Post by kathygator:

In reading up, it seems as if the screening process for franchise owners is pretty tight. It's pretty easy to imagine that they'd only approve Christian applications.

Example. ;D

Original Post by kathygator:

Original Post by tblover900:
I just downloaded a copy of the employment application, there are no questions that could possibly indicate sexual orientation. 

Of course not, because that is illegal. It is illegal because we, as a society, have agreed that we don't tolerate sexual orientation discrimination and have legislated that intolerance.

Lol. Guilty until proven innocent. This is the new American way.

 Chick-fil-A never refused service/employment to anyone on the grounds of sexual orientation. Sounds like discrimination to me, also sounds like Chick-fil-A should find a good discrimination lawyer!!! Mr. Cathy has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty of your assumptions. Any more preconceived judgments or opinions?

Original Post by tblover900:

I look at this differently than it seems most of you here do. You have every right to exercise where you spend your money personally. That's absolutely fine. 

However, if you want to claim to be an advocate of equality then you MUST allow Chik Fil A to exist in any town or city. Do you have to go there, no. But a mayor denying licensing rights to them after publicly stating its because their CEO doesn't support gay marriage is in fact discrimination, intolerance, and inequality defined perfectly. 

Discrimination doesn't happen to minorities only, and this is an example of that. Most of you want to fight intolerance, so I see it as utter hypocrisy that you are saying some of these things. You can't be intolerant of gay people, but I can be intolerant of religious people, that's how things work these days eh? I find that horribly disappointing and sad. 

Exactly! I agree.  <3

Original Post by smashley23:

Original Post by theviewfromhere:

Original Post by enchantingimage:

This is the simple breakdown.  It would be stereotyping to judge a collection of entities based on the preference of one franchise.  It is prejudiced to judge that one franchise based on an advocacy of their choice. Lastly, a person can either stand for their religious belief against gay marriage, or stand for their liberal belief in freedom of sexual choice.  That isn't a civil right, it's a personal belief.  Race and Gender prejudices are against civil rights.  Being pro or anti homosexuality is not a factor of civil rights.  Your kids not having a chicken sandwich because their parents are against a franchise which is related to another franchise whose owner donates money to a group of people who advocate something you are against is bigotry.

You seem very, very confused.

He wouldn't understand prejudice if it bit him in the face and pushed him down the stairs. He doesn't understand the difference between making a judgement about a group of people because of their status or perceived status and disassociation with a specific person because of his/her actions. There's a difference between refusing to seat black males at your restaurant because you assume they won't tip well and banning a specific group of black males that started a bar fight in your restaurant last week. The people boycotting chick a fila aren't making a judgement about the employees or customers. They just don't want their money going to causes that they dislike.

In that case, we should do a SERIOUS background check on every founder or inventor throughout history.  You should know that Elias Howe, the inventor of the zipper, owned slaves and his family still receive profits for the invention.  Therefore, you should clear your closets IMMEDIATELY!!  In the same way, the founder of Chick-Fil-A truly has nothing to do with the franchises, and simply has a flow of profit because of what he invented.  What are you going to do... SHOW HIM just what he's doing wrong by punishing the franchises? That's laughable. You know, one of your neighbors probably works there, and another neighbor is probably an open activist against gay marriage.  Why don't you go to both of their doors and force your opinions down their throats?  You are doing nothing but being dramatic by feeding into the media story of the week, and they are loving making money off of you supporting their stories.  There's bound to be some employee, franchise owner, entity founder, inventor, or something somewhere in the things you use that doesn't share your exact beliefs. Don't go moving to Madagascar and living in the wild because of it.