trinacriabob

Voce e louco, isso e a verdade!

Hope you stick around! There are a lot of "unique" people here, for lack of a better word...

Bemvindo, Deds! Uma outra pessoa do Portugal ... eu fui em Lisboa seis vezes! Gosto muito da sua cidade! I think that, first and foremost, there is an American obsession with European things as being "cool" or "the way to be." I will say that their "upper end" cars are impressive cars. However, their entry level cars are highly functional but not suitable for American driving conditions, except in maybe the densest of cities. (When I see these cars, the first thing that goes through my mind is that I would not want to be clipped by a Cadillac or an SUV). About specific European cars I know: Italian: - one cousin in Florence IT has a Punto; this is the bread and butter Fiat car. It seems to serve her well... - Lancia Ypsilon - uglier than sin; it looks like a caricature (in Italy, it is nicknamed "L'Elefantino") Spanish: - I think the S.E.A.T. Ibiza coupe (the model in existence about 3 to 4 years ago) is the best looking of the bread and butter entry-level European cars French: - another cousin in Sicily has a Twingo; it seems to work well for him; it is unusual looking in the front, like it's sad or something... - I am expecting to have a Citroen C-3 on Gran Canaria this summer German: - I have Mercedes Smarts reserved at most of my European destinations this summer (being that they are automatic instead of manual) - obviously, Mercedes makes impressive cars but they just don't feel right to me; if I had money to throw away on a car, I'd buy a Cadillac DTS in Ice Blue Metallic Another thing to keep in mind is that European cars are very costly here (to buy, to insure and to repair).

invention

a fright

nerds myself included

Thank you. Very thorough to you and Olds. I have an appointment next week and will try to drive it as little as possible in the mean time.

Yeah, I'm taking my stuff up there to store it at the end of the month while I travel. MAX = decent system; the end of the line is where the Greshies live (people from Gresham) Local beer = hate ALL beer Local cuisine = lots of good eateries, but I like portion size over presentation. Weather = my Mom says it has been nice lately BACK TO THREAD: whenever Reg runs a chick or Rosie thread, it degenerates into a relationship thread and acquires a life of its own!

Jerry

grateful

Good eye and good call! I can do without the fussiness in the rear lamps.

I had been drinking orange juice or grapefruit juice just about every morning. I love it, no doubt, and it's good for you, but I picked up some apple juice on sale and talk about delicious and soothing. Not as tart, either. What is your favorite type of juice?

women's prison what a vid that would make for

Neither, reg, instead procure someone who looks just like Jill St. John did in "Diamonds Are Forever" Reg, can you dig up a picture of "Tiffany Case"? Now, that's for eye-candy, but not to settle down with. Unlike P-C-S, the Aryan look he likes doesn't work for me, having always dated the brown-brown combo (Italian, Argentinian, Greek, Cuban, Lebanese).

What an 'effin great setup, but I'll resist...My response to thread: amoeba

Thanks...as I hopelessly hang on to disco and avoid MySpace like the plague.

ocean liner

Still wondering about your screen name... Anyways, ENJOY!

Tu sei veramente matto!

Eleven

Women are indeed masters of being selective. Some will not date anyone under 6'-0". I'm 5'-10". I knew one chick in ATL who wanted a corporate mucky-muck so she "could entertain." The guy she ended up marrying is a middle management dweeb who wouldn't be put near a client if his life depended on it. There was a singles ad someone pointed out to me where a chick required an income of $ 150,000. Of course, that's what she made as well as a sales exec. But, hypothetically, if you make $150 K and he made $95 K, but he had everything else, you mean you'd have a $h!ty life? All I was saying is that I would only consider my "equal." I'm wondering if those who bristle at the educational requirement (a bachelor's degree in ANYTHING and with ANY grades, for God's sake) or my "nuclear family" thing for no previous kids do so because they themselves feel slighted in some way.

Yeah, a redneck polyglot!

My list has NEVER been described to women and, after an office manager chick at a firm in Seattle liked me and I told some of the guys why I couldn't reciprocate, I'll never do that again. If they're not chicks who have a minimum level of education or they have kids, I'm always polite and keep them at a social distance, meaning I joke around with them or go to lunch with them in groups, but that's it. You know these attributes right away and can decide to keep them at "arms length" rather than hurt their feelings. What would be the point in that?

My list ISN'T much different from Pontiac's, he just didn't expand his criteria into separate bullet points. - I'm single and don't have any kids - I am educated and do professional level work - I get decent feedback on my appearance and behave in a way that is "gender appropriate," not to the point of slugging down beers at a softball game, though, if that's what it takes to be masculine - I am 10 lbs. over my ideal weight; I was on my way to the gym when I saw this response - I was NOT sexually abused, don't have a problem with affection or weird "flashbacks" Why does the "no kids" stuff bother people? This is the only item that is really different from Pontiac's. That's right, we live in a society of disposable relationships and very few of us can claim "nuclear families." My parents stayed together. And, most of my friends who married someone they met in college who was their "equal", are still married...and that was in L.A., for God's sake. Since I've never had kids, I am not in the least bit interested in someone else's kids. Not in the least bit. People nowadays are desentized to this traditional value. When I was working (until right around March), people would say "Why don't you date so and so in the office?" or "Why don't you take so and so to the Christmas party?" It was always someone with younger kids and a messy divorce. I said nothing to avoid any backlash, having learned my lesson from an office experience like that in the Seattle area where I was more candid. Why is that so 'effin bothersome that I have this stipulation? You know, women who fit this list (the language bullet point is superfluous since I've always dated first-generation "whatever nationality" women,it just happened that way) DO exist. They have regular jobs with their degrees...working at "the State" or wherever...and they are rebuffing not only my interest, but that of every other guy, almost all of them professional, normal and decent looking as far as I can tell. They are more chronically single than I could ever be. How this thread evolved from Dirty Dancing to "my list," I'll never know.

Seriously...that sympton says tie rods more so than wheel alignment. Have you had it happen to you? Expensive?