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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Some random "would you date" questions
Would you date a (assuming you liked his other qualities, basically are these a deal breaker). Each of these are independent of each other-
- 7 ft tall man
- a truck driver (local, not long haul)
- guy that was 15 years younger (assuming legal based on your age)
- bad speler, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs
Re: Some random "would you date" questions
The first two I could go for. The last two not so much. There is a major difference in maturity and I've tried not limiting younger guys but in the end they just cannot handle my lifestyle right now.
The way I fee about the spelling is if I can further my education while raising a child then the least they could do is at least work on their basic education.
Fun poll!
- 7 ft tall man Yes
- a truck driver (local, not long haul) Maybe
- guy that was 15 years younger (assuming legal based on your age) No
- bad speler, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs No
- 7 ft tall man Yes
- a truck driver (local, not long haul) It's a steady job...why not?
- guy that was 15 years younger (assuming legal based on your age) Not legal for me, and even if it was, probably not. I think the maturity just wouldn't be where I need it to be.
- bad speller, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs This is a deal-breaker for me. I'm a writer. Grammar and spelling are extremely important to me. I judge poorly written text messages.
- 7 ft tall man - yes, my BF is 6'5" so it wouldn't be a huge difference to me, and I'm almost 6' in heels so I like tall
- a truck driver - probably yes, as long as he enjoyed what he did for work and could support himself
- guy that was 15 years younger - that would be a 21 yr old for me, I think there would be a huge gap in maturity/experience there so no.
- bad speler, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs - NO NO and a thousand times NO. I've tried to make exceptions to this before and found that usually the offender wasn't very smart in person either.
- 7 ft tall man Yes
- a truck driver (local, not long haul) Yes
- guy that was 15 years younger (assuming legal based on your age) Yes, as I am 45 that would make him 30. As you get older I think the age gap is less noticeable.
- bad speler, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs This one I am unsure about. It would really bother me. He would need lots of other redeeming qualities to make up for this.
Haha, Calle, I feel your pain. I just divorced someone who couldnt grasp the difference between "loose" and "lose".
- 7 ft tall man: yes
- a truck driver (local, not long haul) : don't know. He would need to be someone with a lot of motivation.
- guy that was 15 years younger (assuming legal based on your age): as a FWB yes, date no. Guys are immature. ETA: right now the guy would be 14 but let's assume I am 35-40 here lol.
- bad speler, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs. No because it would annoy me.
- 7 ft tall man Yes
- a truck driver (local, not long haul) Probably not, but maybe if I really like him
- guy that was 15 years younger (assuming legal based on your age) No
- bad speler, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs Depends. My current SO is a terrible speller and is terrible at grammar too, but that's because English is not his first (or second) language. I assume, although I don't know for sure, that he is a much better speller in his 1st and 2nd languages. So, if someone was obviously smart, and for one reason or another was a bad speller, I'd still date them. I couldn't deal with excessive !!!! or LOL's.
Perhaps I am a snob, but I wouldn't date any of those people for the following reasons:
- 7ft tall man: I'm 5 feet tall ... I'd have trouble hugging a 7 foot tall person
- a truck driver: I work a pretty standard 9-5 professional job. I couldn't date someone who had a schedule that was not similar, simply because I get such little free time out of work hours between my ds and school that I want to know my SO has similar time off on a regular basis
- a guy that was 15 years younger: No. He'd be 22. That's just gross to me and we would be at such different life stages. My ex-h acted like a 22 year old and I hated it.
- bad speller, etc: that would just annoy me
- 7 ft tall man- no, and I am 5'9"
- a truck driver (local, not long haul)- no
- guy that was 15 years younger (assuming legal based on your age)- yes, have done that (well, he was 13 years younger)
- bad speler, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs- no to bad speller, but the !!!! or LOL's wouldn't bother me
Would you date a (assuming you liked his other qualities, basically are these a deal breaker). Each of these are independent of each other-
- 7 ft tall man yes I like tall guys
- a truck driver (local, not long haul) I wouldn't not date someone just because this was their profession. It would depend on them as a person as a whole. I think its pretentious for people to assume truck driver = uneducated.
- guy that was 15 years younger (assuming legal based on your age) fvckk no. I have only ever dated older guys and I like older men. Younger is too immature for me.
- bad speler, excessive users of !!!!!!!s or LOLs Not anymore I wouldn't no. MH is a horrible speller and it drives me nuts. I am a grammar and spelling freak and I judge people who are not good at those basic reading/writing skills. People who say LOL too much think they are a lot funnier than they are. !!!!!! is obnoxious and too energetic for me.