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Oh Jeez, is there an Emily Post book on what people "should" do on first dates? Is everything lived by what "should" be?
If you want to get nit picky then "should" probably isn't the best word. But when a man complains about being financially burdened by paying for dates and sees them as a risk they must take, then coffee and desert is a "reasonable and logical choice" for first dates.
I never knew any men who chose an upscale restaurant for a first date, especially if they didn't know the person very well.
Also, dating norms vary from one culture to the next. In some countries, dutch dating is the norm.
I've been on several first dates to very nice restaurants. One guy was well off, he wanted to go to Phillips Seafood so that's where we went. The others weren't quite as expensive but definitely higher end local places as well. Towards the end of my OLD adventures though, the last couple of years, I always pushed for a meet before a date. To me dating is a numbers game. People make a mistake focusing on one person at a time and trying to "get to know them" via online. It's much better for everyone IMO to just meet for coffee 3 days after they e-mail you then to spend weeks chatting thinking you're making a connection with someone compatible only to meet in person and realized you wasted all the time you spent e-mailing and exchanging pics and talking on the phone.
I never knew any men who chose an upscale restaurant for a first date, especially if they didn't know the person very well.
Also, dating norms vary from one culture to the next. In some countries, dutch dating is the norm.
That may be so. Others experiences may be different but this was in response to poster who complain or imply they do or must drop a couple hundred on an expensive first date. Apparently many men do this.
Well, the guy is clearly a dope, but 13 years seems pretty harsh and a waste of taxpayer money. I say you put him to work until he reimburses what he owes.
And a prick. While 13 years is excessive, he wouldn't be in court in the first place if he wasn't an A#1 A-hole and SOB.
13 years....Ridiculous Draconian prison sentence. Our government is really getting out of control and becoming absolutely brutal in handing outs sentences.
It's usually the people most out for blood that are the first to cite the hand chopping excesses of conservative Islamic countries. I bet secretly they'd LOVE to be the ones to cast the first stone. Yes we are becoming harsher and less forgiving than ever before.
Did you see the story about the woman who was sentenced for life for having a 14 year old touch her breasts?
I wonder how many of those women were expecting him to cover the entire bill when they sat down to eat.
I would have been if it was a date and he invited me to dinner. What’s wrong with that? A lot of men like traditional courtship, especially in my age group. I was always clear in my profile I liked old fashioned dating and courtship so there were no surprises.
It's usually the people most out for blood that are the first to cite the hand chopping excesses of conservative Islamic countries. I bet secretly they'd LOVE to be the ones to cast the first stone. Yes we are becoming harsher and less forgiving than ever before.
I believe the USA has the highest incarceration rate of any first world country and around 1% (one in hundred people) is incarcerated. Sentences are also very long here in the US. Americans criticize other countries punishments as barbaric or inhumane but we aren't far off from them.
We need to make petty criminal acts (and I'm speaking primarily of property-related offenses, which is where almost all of it starts) into a losing proposition from the first offense. When four gangsta-wannabees are caught joyriding in a stolen car, the result should be several long weekends in custody -- and the certainty that further criminal behavior will bring stronger punishment the next time around. The record shouldn't be expunged just because a thug-in-process turns eighteen.
There are a lot of no-goodniks (of every societal background) out there who simply need to be broken -- or the cycle will just escalate, and the consequences worsen.
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