timesonline.co.uk — Straight, proud, unmarried men over 30 are in crisis. So many have settled down or succumbed to marriage there's no one left to play with. I have watched my friends picked off, one by one, like blue whales in Japanese fishing waters...it's a lonely world out there when you realise that you're closer in age to Homer Simpson than to Jessica Simpson.
May 27, 2008 View in Crawl 4
spyseetunaMay 27, 2008
Of all the friends' weddings I went to over the last few years, I never managed to get out of the guy why or how he decided it was the time to get married. They'd say "I just knew" or "it was time" or any other loaded phrase with subjective meaning.
carbonetcMay 27, 2008
This guy's kind of a douche. I don't think there will ever be any shortage of douches, so he should be ok. There's a big difference between wishing people would become independent adults with you, and wishing people would just remain frat boys with you.I know how he feels, though. The people I know are usually too busy for me with marriages and mortgages and babies and such. I'd just rather have those people around to do things that have some actual intellectual nutritional value, rather than wasting time on beer and TV. I'm tired of it being automatically assumed that if you're over 30 and single (on purpose), you must be a superficial man-child like this guy. He's just bolstering the stereotype.
jashobeam5May 27, 2008
Dugg down for thinking you can know what stegosauruses ate every day of their lives.
middleofnowhereMay 27, 2008
I am almost forty.My best friend was (and somehow I hope, still is) my younger brother.Twenty-three years ago, we had expositions in the small town we came from. He was painting. I was writing. We wrote the music for the opening night together.Twenty years ago, we were in a band together. He was the gifted guitar player, I wrote the songs.Sixteen years ago, we had a studio. We worked our asses off to produce our first CD.Things went wrong. We lost money and finally gave up.Thirteen years ago, he moved to another country and finally got married.I became a 30+ single dinosaur.He's still alive.His marriage is working, although I don't understand why. His wife is sucking money and energy out of him, but he doesn't seem to mind.He has two wonderful, adorable daughters. smart, beautiful kids.He is happy, and I am happy he is. To me, he is the most important person in the world, and every six months, I get to see him.But I miss the life we had. I miss it so much.This is not a question of who did "the right thing".It's a question of losing something precious.
Closed AccountMay 28, 2008
Yeah women are the downhill after 30.... Or is it 24?
lojackMay 28, 2008
Remember the last line from the movie "Nurse Betty"? After changing the word 'man' for 'woman', it goes:"You don't need a woman. You don't need any woman. You've got yourself."
Closed AccountMay 28, 2008
1) My grammar failed (LOL at the downhill, what is that supposed to mean, STUPID!)2) Your attempt at trying to uderstand the tone of my sentence failed, since I wasn't even trying to be funny to begin with.
clockdistMay 30, 2008
By "ready" I mean when you're ready to sacrifice your freedom for the next 17 years.