BS: Want to meet someone?

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: bbc
Date: 28 Aug 03 - 10:23 PM

smallpiper, I started the member info site & removed my info when I stopped managing it. Those who need to know why already know. If you're curious, send me a PM.

best,

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Aug 03 - 02:56 AM

FEMALE PRAYER
> Before I lay me down to sleep,
> I pray for a man, who's not a creep.
> One who's handsome, smart and strong.
> One who's loves to listen long.
> One who thinks before he speaks.
> When he says he'll call, he won't wait weeks.
> I pray that he is gainfully employed.
> When I spend his cash, he won't be annoyed.
> Pulls out my chair and opens my door.
> Massages my back and begs to do more.
> Oh! Send me a man who'll make love to my mind, Knows what to answer to
> "How big is my behind?"
> I pray that this man will love me to no end,
> And never attempt to hit on my friend. Amen..
>
>
>   
>
>
> MALE PRAYER
> I pray for a deaf-mute
> nymphomaniac with huge boobs who
> owns a liquor store and a boat.. Amen.
>
>
>
>

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 03:25 AM

Its all true :-)))))))

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 07:28 AM

oi you lot...behave! Thanks for all the pm's. See I told you meeting people isn't that easy.

I've been away and so has mudcat, but i'm back for a while. Keep 'em coming and thankyou.

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Sep 03 - 11:06 AM

I'm turning into the man I wanted to marry!! And Jacqui C - Manitas is SO housetrained, feel free to borrow him, he's driving me batty!

Still holding out for that E type Jag though....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 11:47 AM

May I refresh this?

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 06:47 PM

Please do - I want to see if there is an E type out there!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 06:49 PM

How about a trike Liz........all that power between your legs!!!

Wish I had a camera at Towersey to get the expression on face when Mick brought you back to the pub on the back of his!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 06:40 PM

It was the 'can I have a cigarette and a rub down with a damp edition of the Radio Times please' expression.

Oh, and a clean set of underwear.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 03:51 AM

Yep that one!!

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 06:27 AM

Just a little reminder about this thread...

'I have a friend (male) who would like to met a like-minded lady for friendship and evenings out. He comes from the South of England, but attends many festivals all over Britain. He's a very talented musician/singer and a brilliant ceilidh dancer. He's in his 40's.

Is it possible for us to start up a meeting area for the shy?

PM me and I'll give you his Mudcat name.'

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 06:00 AM

I wish I was daring enough to post a similar request for a lady but I am far too shy to do it.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 06:54 AM

#8-)

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 11:34 AM

anyone rich and famous will do but then again this is a folk music site so not much chance of that!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 12:26 PM

Hi Efiddler - haven't you had any luck yet ? What part of the South are you from anyway ? - If you're anywhere near London, there's always our barbecue on Sunday.

Poor Leadfingers - it must be terrible to be as shy and retiring as you Terry.

Liz - how about a beaten up old Peugeot 405 diesel - would that do ?

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 03 - 12:28 PM

I'm always up for meeting someone new...or used even.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Efiddler
Date: 16 Sep 03 - 03:41 PM

Just for the record, I'm living in Somerset.

Yes, I'm still on my own, though I'm corresponding with one 'catter.

Don't have an E-Type. Will a Transit do?

Efiddler

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 03:14 AM

A man with a van!!!!!!! Would it be a white one by any chance???

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Efiddler
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 05:07 AM

Not white!! Mind you, they go faster than other vans. No, mine's big and orange (and that got me into trouble when I went over to Ireland a few years ago).

Efiddler

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: kendall
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 05:37 AM

Try driving a red one in Texas.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Noreen
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 10:06 AM

why?

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 10:28 AM

Seems to me that's a classic Welsh Valleys Boys' pick-up line: "I got a van." (delivered in a hopeful voice ...) Immortalized by Max Boyce.

sian
passion-wagonless

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Efiddler
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 02:40 PM

Don't know about red in Texas, but anything orange in Eire is still equated with the Unionist cause by a handful of people. The van got hit and I got spat at. I didn't see a single orange vehicle while I was over there!

Sian - well, there is a bed in the back! I spend about 20 weekends a year away from home, mostly with the business at festivals, and I'm damned if I'm going to be uncomfortable!

Efiddler

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 18 Sep 03 - 05:31 AM

Sounds like - all in all - you're a red-hot property Efiddler. I was camping in Somerset a couple of weeks back; should have paid more attention to this thread!!!

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Sep 03 - 11:37 AM

It would be the English number plates combined with the orange but maybe you just went to the wrong places.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Efiddler
Date: 18 Sep 03 - 02:24 PM

Kilorglin. The locals were wonderful people, but a few of the people coming into the Puck Fair were rather nasty! I'd still go back to Ireland (as soon as I find a suitable companion - I don't like travelling alone), but this time I'll hire a car over there.

Efiddler

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: kendall
Date: 18 Sep 03 - 10:59 PM

Efiddler, I enjoy doing many things alone, but travelling is not one of them.
Noreen, a red vehicle...red is the color of communists. The only worse one is a pink one!

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Jeanie
Date: 19 Sep 03 - 02:17 PM

Orange ? Pink ? The colours of choice for all the best and most eligible superstars when on tour ! See here

(I don't know that they got to America, Kendall, so you can be forgiven for having thought that pink vehicles aren't just as cool as orange).

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST,jk
Date: 20 Sep 03 - 11:42 AM

It'll have to be a red van for me then ! Kendall, I hope your wee comment was a joke !

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: kendall
Date: 20 Sep 03 - 03:25 PM

Of course it was. I drive a red van. Well, more like burgandy.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: diesel
Date: 20 Sep 03 - 07:38 PM

Hi Efiddler

Sorry for your troubles with the van in Ireland. Next time you're over in Dublin keep this in mind : There is a rumour floating - not sure how true, but seemingly Dublin during the week has a Female:Male ratio of 7:1 dropping to 5:1 at the weekends !

About the van - just a thought - I don't think it wasn't the colour orange or unionist conotations that done it. Fairs attract their more than fair share of 'gypsies' (inverted comma's for a reason as there are other names used for who I mean..) they nearly always drive vans and with UK plates - dead ringer I'm afraid...

As for me suggetsing where to go if you do come back, and I hope you do, I'm afraid I can't help ye there - I'm married !!
(Though I could always ask the wife if she know's of anybody interesting....)

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: RichardK
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 04:19 PM

Um,
Hello.
Er.
Oh well, here goes. Let's see if this works.

Yes well, I'm single, male, and 39, and recently moved near the UK's south coast, near Portsmouth. And I'd be happy to find someone (female, my age or younger) for a bit of company. Concerts, dances, staying in with a video and a bottle of wine (crossed out and replaced with beer, we are talking folkies after all, but then replaced as I like wine as well and it wouldn't do to stereotype folkies as only beer drinkers. It wouldn't do to stereotype people who listen to folk/world music as folkies either, would it. I think I'd better stop before I offend everyone).

Seriously, when I go to folk events, whether concerts or morris or dance events I often feel like my age puts me half a generation out of step. There's those who started in the earlier revival, who are likely to be ten to fifteen years older than me, and there's their children, who are fifteen years younger. I can't be the only one in this middle range ? (Nearly wrote middle age, but that's not what I mean !)

Hmm,

Hopefully,
R.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST,María
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 04:42 PM

Richard,

Good on ye for getting your message out there. You sound like the kind of guy that I am looking for. Only problem is I already have a guy (although he ISN'T in to folk etc.). Och well, another time , maybe !

I am a second generation folky, and I am your age. No, there aren't many of us about. That's maybe why I am with a non-folky type, looking enviously into the folky garden next door where the grass is greener !

Good luck !

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Jeanie
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 08:10 PM

Ah, I'm glad this has got onto the subject of ages. I wonder why it is that it's OK for a man to be looking for a woman his age or younger, yet for a woman, the reverse is what is generally considered "acceptable"?   

The whole business of people limiting their relationships age-wise puzzles me. As far as the superficiality of looks are concerned, anyone in their 30s or more who has been to a school or college reunion will know that people born in exactly the same year may look anything up to 15 years older/younger than each other ! It really is impossible to tell the chronological age of someone by looking at them.

The way a person thinks, behaves, treats others, views the world, life and living - surely more important criteria in seeking common ground with a potential mate - most definitely bears no relation to their chronological age !

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Sep 03 - 09:27 PM

Jeanie for president!

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: Jeanie
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 05:02 AM

President of what, Kendall ? The "Shy People Wanting to Meet Someone Society" ? OK...especially if it means I get to choose what the Secret Society Handshake is, and the Initiation Rites !

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 05:44 AM

Don't stop now, this thread is beginning to look promising.

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST,Diva
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 07:26 AM

Toyboys are all the rage for women of a certain age...or so I read. I'm a bit boring in that respect,I mean what would you talk about??? Or maybe I should try it!!!!   Seriously though, this is an interesting thread and good luck to all who are searching.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 08:08 AM

I tend to agree with Jeanie on the age thing although I think that too big a gap either way has to be looked at seriously. Up to about ten year's difference there will still be a lot of shared memories of the public events, the music and all the other things that influence everybody. I think that those things do matter in a relationship and, with a larger age gap, there have to be other very strong factors to ensure any sort of success. But what is it with so many men who state that their ideal partner should be their age or younger? Is it the culture we've been raised in, an attempt to retain their own feelings of youth or just nature's imperative that says that reproduction is the reason we're here and the younger the female the better the chances!

I've got at least two friends who lie about their ages, one specifically on a dating site. I can see why they do it but, if that's what it takes to get a man interested I think I'll sit that one out. I think that it happens both ways though, this friend met quite a number of men through the dating site - I know because I acted as 'mum' when she met them for the first time - having their details and waiting for her phone call to say she was home safely - and some of the 'exaggerations' that were made were unbelievable. It's sad to think that so many people feel that they can't find a partner just by being themselves. It's also sad that so many people will discount others without even trying to find out more about them. Anyone want to join a campaign for more honesty or am I tilting at windmils here?

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST,Diva
Date: 22 Sep 03 - 01:29 PM

I'm with you Jackie.....we should be ourselves and if the world don't like it..too bad. A friend of mine went through the personal adds looking for a bloke while she was living in Edinburgh and turned up some horrors and a couple of nice ones. She would read out prospective dates to me and I would translate them back......saved a bit of time. Bit like the adds placed by estate agents ie compact...small etc. As for the age thing..we'd add on at least 5 years to whatever they said and found we were nearer the mark.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: kendall
Date: 23 Sep 03 - 10:38 AM

If you lie, you will be found out, and that is far worse in the long run. I hate liars.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 03:49 AM

So do I, but what is it about cyberspace makes people think they can get away with it?

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 04:22 AM

What gets me is that so many people think that they have to knock years off their age to make themselves 'attractive' to the opposite sex, and it seems to be more a female than a male thing.

The columnist in last night's paper decries the idea of having date of birth on any identity document we might have as it provides 'incontravertable proof' of a woman's age. Why is this such a problem?

Can any male mudactters explain please!

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 06:22 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 08:41 AM

Any male mudcatters out there, or are you all still thinking about this one?

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Oct 03 - 04:11 PM

I really can't be arsed to read all the posts but going back to the OP I have noticed that most good male dancers don't have any problems meeting women. Quite the reverse in fact.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 12 Oct 03 - 02:09 PM

So you don't have a problem with women then?

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: kendall
Date: 13 Oct 03 - 07:52 PM

I haD a blind date recently. When I net her it was obvious that the picture she sent me was at least 20 years old. Whey do people do this? I'm not even sure it was the same woman; in the photo she was quite attractive; in person she looked like she had fallen out of the "Ugly tree" and hit every branch on the way down.
I can't abide deceit.

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 10:44 AM

But what happened to the original lonely heart in this thread?

Subject: RE: BS: Want to meet someone?
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 11:35 AM

I'd like a toyboy but he would have to have a functioning brain. Too fussy?
SINS