Official authorized age gap

[cc3]

After living there myself, I wouldn't want to retire there.  My point... if she was looking for a mule, I would imagine she would pick a better one.

WHO?...you for instance?

[cc3]

I think you would be surprised at what WM are hooking up with over there.  I know I was.

Human or vegetable?
 

[TomT]

Anyway, I'll give cc3 a bit of credit if he does in fact run 9-min mile for a 68 year old. I'm certain any other man his age in the world of MOB would easily keel over short of an 1/8 of a mile at that pace. Heck, even YOUNGER MOBer, I bet.

Really?

[cc3]

On the photo of the blonde woman with the older chap you linked?

With respect to the lady, and I don't know her age, whilst she is not a fat lady, she is not what I would call slender of thigh. Probably European average.

For her height (relative to him - assuming he average), slender would be UK size 8 or less. She is more of an average size (UK) 10/12. My guess is she is circa 60 kgs. Slender for her height might be 54kgs, which that lady isn't.

Hey Manny, my fiancee may not be model slim, but she's beautiful, inside and out, and only a month away (now that it's warming up here) from being back into the fitness regime she abandoned because of all the marshrutka-riding and walking she has to do in her private English tutoring endeavor. A lot of women can workout to be slim, but nothing will make them beautiful but genetics.

[cc3]

After meeting and seeing her in real life, she is not big.  Everyone's opinion is based off of a few pictures and we all know that pictures can be misleading.  Saying that she compares to the average Brit chippie is hilarious.

Thanks, R. I'm getting back up to speed after 10 days offline.

[cc3]

I'd have to agree with Manny, going from the photo,
she's more average Brit than slender.

Brit???!!! Ha...there is absolutely nothing Brit about her...especially the passion-neutralizing plainness and homeliness of the average Brit woman.

[Boethius]

Brit???!!! Ha...there is absolutely nothing Brit about her...especially the passion-neutralizing plainness and homeliness of the average Brit woman.

That's kind of a dumb post.  There are plenty of very attractive British women.  However, I doubt you'll insult Ade.  He never married a Brit.

[cc3]

That's kind of a dumb post.  There are plenty of very attractive British women.  However, I doubt you'll insult Ade.  He never married a Brit.

He can insult my fiancee and I'm supposed to keep quiet? What little club is this? Only a certain few can throw out their caustic remarks and the rest of us have to meekly take it?

[Boethius]

So saying she is "average Brit" in size is an insult?  I find that a little over the top.

[cc3]

Hey, hey, hey. let's separate flies from cutlets here. 
I fully believe this much younger woman could have fallen in love with you. You must, as a package have really great qualities - like treat her better than any man did, substitute a father figure, teach her, provide for her intellectually and materially and so on...
However, when talking about fitness and pure sexual attractiveness - as in what would sexually turn a woman her age on - I just don't buy that you are the highest, best quality male specimen she has ever met and she desires you (on a purely physical attributes) more than any other man she has ever met. Just looking at your photo. She is grossly exaggerating or/and has been exceptionally unfortunate and unsuccessful with men, period.
Let's just flip this situation. It's like, imagine a fit guy in his late 30-s saying that one of those older AW in your photos, though super fir for their age (late 60-s I presume), is the most sexually desirable woman he has ever met. I bet most 40-y.o. guys on RWD won't sleep with them under any circumstances. 
 
So nah, still don't buy it.

Toooo bad....

[cc3]

So saying she is "average Brit" in size is an insult?  I find that a little over the top.

Yes, I found it a little over the top as well.

More over the top was the constant sniping and 'bad-mouthing' that occurred on this thread after I positively responded to pitbull's request for photos, and then suffered a 10 day offline episode, while the idiot negative posters on this thread did their dirty work. Hey...why isn't anyone else posting photos of their picturesque couplehood? Afraid of the inevitable negative critiquing?

[Hammer2722]

He can insult my fiancee and I'm supposed to keep quiet? What little club is this? Only a certain few can throw out their caustic remarks and the rest of us have to meekly take it?

Get used to it, its the norm with some here.....

[Boethius]

Yes, I found it a little over the top as well.

HAHA.  I meant that you found the post insulting.  Ade, BTW, will not find your retort insulting, I can guarantee that. 

No nation has the market on beauty.  There are beautiful women, and men, in every country.  Further, what one person finds beautiful, another may not.  It's subjective.

More over the top was the constant sniping and 'bad-mouthing' that occurred on this thread after I positively responded to pitbull's request for photos, and then suffered a 10 day offline episode, while the idiot negative posters on this thread did their dirty work. Hey...why isn't anyone else posting photos of their picturesque couplehood? Afraid of the inevitable negative critiquing?

ETA - You edited your post after my response, so I will respond now.  The above is irrelevant.  Did you notice I had no response to your half dozen or so preceding posts?  I just thought your retort was somewhat petulant but, more importantly, didn't hit the mark.  There are no British women posting here, nor did any make any comment on your fiancee.


As I posted previously, pitbull did have a photo posted here (with her hubby), and Ade had a photo of he and his lovely wife as his avatar for quite some time.  So, no secret what they look like.

[lonedrake]

Good to see you back posting C.  By-the way....Nina is slender and beautiful.

 I thought maybe you got upset and left the forum....but I can see thats not the case

[GQBlues]

Really?

With very few notable exceptions of course, TomT.  Emphasized on the word 'few'.

[Slumba]

Really?

If you guys are going to get out a ruler ... please, keep it to PMs ...

[Ade]

He can insult my fiancee and I'm supposed to keep quiet? What little club is this? Only a certain few can throw out their caustic remarks and the rest of us have to meekly take it?

So you think comparing someone's size to the average Brit is insulting? I believe you are insulting British women by taking offense. Can you say hypocrite?

And fwiw, I wasn't trying to insult your girlfriend but if you are that sensitive perhaps you should think twice about opening a discussion about looks and weight.

[TomT]

If you guys are going to get out a ruler ... please, keep it to PMs ...

As usual, you have no idea what was on my mind.


Staying in shape is certainly preferable to carrying around fifty pounds of interabdominal fat but I would never claim that it's a panacea. If an old coot is trying to play a young man's game, he had better have more going for him than a running addiction.

[LiveFromUkraine]

WHO?...you for instance?

My mule suit is very expensive and I doubt she could afford it.

[LiveFromUkraine]

As usual, you have no idea what was on my mind.


Staying in shape is certainly preferable to carrying around fifty pounds of interabdominal fat but I would never claim that it's a panacea. If an old coot is trying to play a young man's game, he had better have more going for him than a running addiction.

I thought Viagra was the new fountain of youth.

[IAmZon]

I thought Viagra was the new fountain of youth.

HAHAH  - Viagra is the Fountain of Frustration for most men, I would imagine.

Yes, boys!  The name of the game nowadays is keep in shape; especially true if you tempt the Gods and become romantically involved with a much younger woman.

There really is only one clear way to navigate the question of age gaps in marriage - "Are you both head over heels in love?"  or is it a logical decision?  This question, at the end of the day, is much ado about nothing!   If it feels the slightest bit wrong, it is.

[GQBlues]

..
Staying in shape is certainly preferable to carrying around fifty pounds of interabdominal fat but I would never claim that it's a panacea. If an old coot is trying to play a young man's game, he had better have more going for him than a running addiction...

Good point TomT.

But like I said, at least cc3's blood circulation may not necessarily have the same hurdles and obstacle that pester the average old fart coot MOBer flowing in their respective tired ol' veins.

Your point would be, realistically at his age (as with all old fart coot MOBers) graphically-speaking the curve for getting in better shape is heavily reliant upon the health of the host's cells. But at the ages of our heroes, they're all just about, well, dead. So the curve for getting in better shape is realistically and heavily anchored by these expiring cells (btw, fact: Hair are technically dead cells - so no such thing as a healthy head of hair - it is one of the body's way to discharge dead cells out from a person. Which explains why there's an accelerated hair growth in old folks' nose, ear, etc..)

To which I would easily agree. You have a very valid point, but you need to hear me out as well. As MaryKuguk of Odessa so succinctly stated not too long ago....

"there are other evidences of the feelings"    fur coats, shoes, traveling, insurance pay-offs, etc..

...so you see, and no pun intended, in the long run, blood circulation isn't necessarily what makes a retiree 'the most intimately desirable man'. They're all aware of this. No one is kidding anyone. Hence, I gave a bit of credit to cc3. At least the woman won't have to deal with the customary 'gut' that usually come in these packages.

[Vaughn]

But at the ages of our heroes, they're all just about, well, dead.

 

[TomT]

Everyone maneuvers to increase his/her apparent social equity by any means possible. It's important that we don't believe our own BS, though. 

[Vinnvinny]

It certainly does.  You referred to the UK's obesity rates as evidence that Manny was wrong, because, by inference, he must be used to seeing many large (UK) women.  No one ever says Ukraine is full of overweight women, notwithstanding the fact its levels of girth are not too far off that of the UK.

That's not true.