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Greystone1
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You can waste a lot of time with older men who are couch potatoes and just want to sit on their couch and look and talk (usually about sex) but will never arrange to meet you or ask you out on a date.
You keep saying things like that, every chance you get. And yet your profile says you are seeking men 58-68. You seem to have an ax to grind, and men over 55 are the intended targets of your wrath. What's wrong with this picture?
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| Jan 26, 2006 @ 11:36 PM |
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Alana595
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You keep saying things like that, every chance you get. And yet your profile says you are seeking men 58-68.
Thanks for the reminder. I had changed the age bracket on another post on another website and started seeing someone. I guess I forgot to do it on here. Will do that now.
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| Jan 26, 2006 @ 11:51 PM |
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JenRNinOhio
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But I found that men over 50 don't ask ANY women for dates .
I think my age preferences are set between 45-65. Doing a search of men in my preferred age group (in my geographical area) I found that many men in that age group are looking for younger women ...sometimes much younger women.
I say, "their loss".
I have, however been asked out by a few men 50 & over.
...and by many younger men...but that's a different forum topic.
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| Jan 27, 2006 @ 12:22 AM |
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Alana595
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You seem to have an ax to grind, and men over 55 are the intended targets of your wrath.
No ax, no wrath. Just sharing factual information with other women about the facts of life, so they don't think their experiences are unique.
And you know the facts I mentioned are true.
Thanks for the age bracket reminder. I had changed it on another website and forgot to change it on here, but now have remedied that.
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| Jan 27, 2006 @ 12:40 AM |
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Alana595
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I think my age preferences are set between 45-65. Doing a search of men in my preferred age group (in my geographical area) I found that many men in that age group are looking for younger women ...sometimes much younger women.
Well, they may do a lot of looking, but I doubt they do a lot of dating.
Most women I surveyed, young and old, had not been asked out by an older man over 50. You are one of only 3, I think.
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| Jan 27, 2006 @ 8:28 AM |
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Greystone1
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No ax, no wrath. Just sharing factual information with other women about the facts of life, so they don't think their experiences are unique.
And you know the facts I mentioned are true.
I'm sure you believe what you are saying. But that doesn't make it true.
And knowing that I know something is true would require you to read my mind, wouldn't it?
The more interesting question is why you felt compelled to conduct a survey... and then why you mention it in nearly all of your postings all over the forum.
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| Jan 27, 2006 @ 10:08 AM |
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Alana595
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The more interesting question is why you felt compelled to conduct a survey... and then why you mention it in nearly all of your postings all over the forum.
I conducted the survery to find out if my experience was unique. It was not.
I mentioned it in the forums to let other women know their experiences are not unique.
I've also moved on and discussed many other things in forums.
You thinking something is untrue does not make it untrue either.
So please.....think whatever you like and conduct your own surveys you like, if you are troubled by my results.
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| Jan 27, 2006 @ 10:29 AM |
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Greystone1
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I did a survery of women of all ages in forums on 3 websites asking how many had a man over 55 ask them for a date. Of the 100 or so women that answered the question, 95% of them had never had a man over 55 ask them for a date.
In order to validate your conclusions, you would first have to eliminate those who had never been contacted by men over 55. Then eliminate those who had only first contact. In other words, you would have to narrow your survey down to those who had established a sufficient relationship to warrant being asked for a date. Your survey is inherently flawed, and designed to reach the conclusion you intended it to reach.
Let's imagine, for example, that 95% of the women in your survey had never even been contacted by a man over 55. This would mean that 100% of those contacted had been asked for a date. The conclusion would be the exact opposite of what you would have us believe.
[Edited on 1/27/2006 11:24 AM]
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| Jan 27, 2006 @ 1:29 PM |
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cocoa55
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I would just like to say that you are wrong for I have been ask out on dates with men 55 and older, and have been ask out for a second and third date as well.............
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| Jan 27, 2006 @ 1:45 PM |
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Alana I don't mean to jump on you or make ya look bad but I have contacted or been contacted by a number of woman over 50 and ALL have been asked out by men over 55. I too have noticed that you seem to have a chip about us older men. Why? If you wish to date younger men just do it. You don't need validation from the forum people,do you?
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| Jan 27, 2006 @ 3:05 PM |
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Sagittariuspatti
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Sorry but I don't agree with most of the posts on here. I was 66 in Dec and had to list my age as 55 for the search engines. Otherwise all that was sent to me were men in their late 60's and 70's... I have nothing in common with either men or woman who are in my age group. I play tennis 7 days a week (rated 4.0) with a mixed group who range in age from 30 to 40.... I date men who are in their early 50's.....I would date men younger, but my oldest daughter is 47.....Anyway I have met my man.... he is 62 but acts & looks as young as me!!! I think that I will be off of here soon...... BTY didn't meet him here... met him at Lowes.
Go figure.. LOL  
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 9:01 AM |
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Alana595
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My question asked on 3 websites was "How many of you women of any age have been asked out on a date by a man over 55 this past year?"
Of the women who answered the question, 95% had never been asked out on a date by a man over 55.
One new post on this page (Cocoa) says she was asked out by a man over 55. That puts the per cent down to 94%.
Some had received messages and chat from men over 55, but receiving messages and talking on the phone are not the same thing as being asked out on a date.
One gal says she thinks she's found a 62 year old man, but doesn't say if he's asked her out on a date.
I'm not sure what there is for anyone to disagree with here.
But if you think all these responders to this survey are lying, you are free to conduct your own survey. You can reach a lot of people on the various websites. (You might get accused of having a chip if you do conduct a survey, but what the heck, these same people will find some other fault if you don't!!)
I notice the 2 older men who jumped in on this page, didn't mention anything about asking a woman of any age for date during the past year either.
[Edited on 1/28/2006 9:21 AM]
[Edited on 1/28/2006 9:39 AM]
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 10:08 AM |
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Greystone1
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But if you think all these responders to this survey are lying, you are free to conduct your own survey.
You really don't get it, do you? Your survey only proves what the question in the survey asked for.
It proves that 95% of women who responded have not been asked for dates by men 55 or older.
It proves nothing else.
It does NOT prove that men over 55 do not ask women for dates. That is an entirely different question.
You are trying to say that one question proves the other question. It does not. Different question. Apples and oranges.
It isn't the survey that is wrong, it is what you think the survey proves that is wrong.
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 12:24 PM |
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Sagittariuspatti
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Hate to disprove your census, but I have been asked out & dated quite a few men in their 50's...ranging from 50 to 59..............And I have had more than one date with some of them........Most of them have remained my close friend though the "spark" wasn't there for anything else.
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 12:50 PM |
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charley43
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You go girl!!!!!!!!!  I'm camping out in Lowe's!
Meeting this way...on-line. It has it's flaws.
We talked about this at work. I work in a 24 "man" shop. There are 4 of us of the gentle sex. Most met their mates at work or a neighbor...or a friend of a friend. Few at school. I think at work the attraction and the friendship develops simultaneously. Same at school and the neighbor thing.
But on line we read a few lines and see a picture. I find the person always looks different then their picture. Sometimes better, sometimes not. Then you meet for coffee. I try to put myself in the mind set that it's a no pressure coffee. I am not looking to fall in love...just find interesting conversation. About half of the fellows I've met have not met my expectations. To explain that I mean they are too pushy, tall tales tellers, not what they said they were.... The other half seemed to be normal fellows that I felt I could see again......but they weren't interested in me.
I was separated a year and now divorced a year. I have only one friend I've met on-line. He is much younger and we are just friends.
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 1:44 PM |
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TJA1950
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Charley, Expectations do have a tendency to get in the way, it happens to everyone. I'm trying very hard to have no expectations. I have met a couple of women, both I would have dated again, but I guess I didn't meet their expectations. All I can say is, Oh well.
Just wanted to add that I love Anchorage, I live there for a couple of years.
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 1:44 PM |
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Heaveninawildflower
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More food for the survey...
In the two years I've been doing the internet fishing thing, I've dated about 20-30 men, mostly in their 50's. Probably about half of them were multiple dates, with two that became relatively long term - the first of the two men was 58, that relationship lasted 9 months; the second was 53, and lasted 7 months. The last guy I dated was 46, but the reason that I decided not to see him again had absolutely nothing to do with age or even physical attractiveness, just a difference in the way we see the world (which would have been true when I was 46 too, by the way).
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 3:50 PM |
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Alana595
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Hate to disprove your census, but I have been asked out & dated quite a few men in their 50's...ranging from 50 to 59
You are not disproving anything. You are simply adding some valid data about your own personal experience. And that changes the percentage of women who have been asked out, from 6% to 7%
But that doesn't mean the other responders in the 90 percentile were lying about their experiences.
Your personal experience doesn't speak for the entire world, and I'm sure you didn't mean it that way.
Thanks for your data.
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 3:54 PM |
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Alana595
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In the two years I've been doing the internet fishing thing, I've dated about 20-30 men, mostly in their 50's. Probably about half of them were multiple dates, with two that became relatively long term - the first of the two men was 58, that relationship lasted 9 months; the second was 53
Thanks for your data. This is relevant to my question.
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| Jan 28, 2006 @ 3:58 PM |
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Alana595
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I would just like to say that you are wrong for I have been ask out on dates with men 55 and older, and have been ask out for a second and third date as well
Wrong about what???
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