Are there womenfolk on this forum?

[greg]

Keeping at it with your unique writing style, eh, snyprrr?

[DavidRoss]

Great; my womenfolk coddle me on the weekends . . . .

Awww....  You're blessed, Karl (but then you already knew that, didnya?).  Me, too.  My lovely wife is being especially sweet towards me these days, protective of my sadness following the third death of someone meaningful to me in almost as many weeks...and with another friend having just survived a heart attack, thank God.  Getting older ain't for sissies.  

[knight66]

 Getting older ain't for sissies.  

As Bette Davies pithily, almost, pointed out. Indeed not. My opinion is that when you hit 50, whatever does not stop functioning, falls off.

Yes, snyprrr this thread has taken some very odd byways. Threads here are a bit like launching your children on the world; will they thrive, or go to the bad? I think this one is struggling to survive a turbulent adolescence.

Mike

[snyprrr]

...ah the Swiss...

I'm glad you brought it up.

I too feel that "irretrievable loss"...I believe I am a man living in a chalet in the Swiss Alps, out of time, "the golden age"...pondering life like an end of the century Romantic, Magic Mountain,...watching Visconti's "Death in Venice" like Charlton Heston in "The Omega Man."

I don't know why it's the Swiss Alps that I'm so attracted to, and I don't know if this has anything to do with the concept of neutrality, but there is a folksong interlude towards the end of the first movement of Bartok's 3rd string quartet, that if you get it as I do, you will know what I mean (if you expanded the canvas).

But, of course, this is only to covered up for The One That Got Away.

...so I know what you mean...

[greg]

But, of course, this is only to covered up for The One That Got Away.

Whoever that is, don't worry about it. If this woman is a typical woman, she might look good, but not have much else to offer besides a lifetime of enslavement and nagging (though there are exceptions).

You seem like a free-loving type of guy- am I right? Think of that whoever that is who got away and how much freedom they could take away from you- would it be worth it?

Yes, snyprrr this thread has taken some very odd byways

but that's the fun of it! 

[nut-job]

Whoever that is, don't worry about it. If this woman is a typical woman, she might look good, but not have much else to offer besides a lifetime of enslavement and nagging (though there are exceptions).

And this broken record claims that women are limited.   

[ezodisy]

If this woman is a typical woman, she might look good, but not have much else to offer besides a lifetime of enslavement and nagging (though there are exceptions).

lol! If only it were that simple

[snyprrr]