When I was in high school and college, I was constantly annoyed that the older - college and then grad school age - guys somehow managed to get dates so easily with the most interesting women.
Now that I'm - ahem - older, I find headlines like this vastly encouraging instead (and no, TG's not going anywhere...I'm talking about 'abstract principles' here).
Chen Ning Yang, 82, to marry 28-year-old student
Way to go, Chen!! Score one for the old guys!
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Hmm, he may be a Nobel science laureate, but it doesn't look like an Anna Nicole-Smith thing. 82 year old professor + 28 year old grad student Wong Feng.
Hmm. Congrats to the happy couple... and when do we get to read the follow up reports of "Nobel Laureate Chen Ning Yang's Vigor Enhancer Elixir" taking the Far East by storm? If he isn't rich now, he could be very soon with some smart marketing.
This is in China, right? Any reason to suspect this is other than an arranged marriage between a famous man and a poor girl's family? The only difference between this and Anna-Nicole Smith is that this girl's family probably gets a cut.
Hey, speak for yourself! Some of us come in "PRAISE of older women!"
That was during my 20's. Now that I'm no longer in my 20's, I've been dating younger woman. Now I'm very serious with someone 10 years younger - and gorgeous to boot.
Ah the stories I could tell, the lies I could share... :)
Still, A.L. You have in previous post and comments referenced - obliquely - your, uhm, erm, let's go with "exciting and dynamic" dating history. You sure that having this type of attitude, where finding an 82 year-old paired with a 28 year old "very encouraging", just might have something to do with your previously referenced "exciting and dynamic" history, with the fairer sex?
Just sayin...
Meant the above comment to be "nudge nudge wink wink you know what I mean?" humor, but don't think it came out right.
Sorry.
JC -
...me?? (practicing innocent look in mirror)
A.L.
I hate, I hate, I hate viagra. Bible thumpers should stigmatise that aberration that perverts God´s plan for life and personal relations, and Commies should target that bourgeois drug that sexual exploitation of the youth by old filthy rich rags but both groups might be very high on it to bother.
No, seriosly, what I really hate about viagra is the new trend of eighty-something parental folly. when I saw that 88 years old rich-and-respected folk on the BBC some time ago babbling about his 6 months old baby girl (Bonded to be very soon his orphan daughter), it annoyed me but what disgusted me the most was the cheerful reaction of everybody around him. As if these brats needed any encouragement to feel entitled to fullfil any caprice they have regardless the consequences.
In the unlikely event of this irresponsible bastard being able to make it for his daughter´s seven birtday, from where the hell is fossil supposed to get the stamina to fullfil his duties of reponsible parenthood? A hefty fund for her to inherit is enough?. This is just WRONG
After all, women are just trophies, and the only way men can prove themselves men is to get a younger, better looking one (because those are the only important attributes of a woman).
Women are sex objects, men are success objects, and some like to play that game. As Good Charlotte notes
Then again, as The Jim puts it, "people are strange" - and sometimes real love blossoms in unlikely places.
It annoyed me but what disgusted me the most was the cheerful reaction of everybody around him. As if these brats needed any encouragement to feel entitled to fullfil any caprice they have regardless the consequences.