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Participant[quote=davelj]On a related but different subject, does anyone else find it interesting that there really is no male equivalent to Groupies – whether they be of the musician, athlete, or other variety? I’m not saying that there aren’t some dudes who would hang around Britney Spears’ trailer to try to get in her pants, but… in a general sense, the population of folks who would be considered groupies is probably comprised 95%+ of females.[/quote]
Hasn’t Cher had her share of groupies. Rob Camilletti, her 22 year old bartender boyfriend comes to mind.
But it does seem to be quite a bit rarer. Chrissie Hynde (pretenders) commented that she’s never been approached by a male groupie. I challenge you to find any comparable MALE rocker that could make the claim of no groupies.
Participant[quote=davelj]On a related but different subject, does anyone else find it interesting that there really is no male equivalent to Groupies – whether they be of the musician, athlete, or other variety? I’m not saying that there aren’t some dudes who would hang around Britney Spears’ trailer to try to get in her pants, but… in a general sense, the population of folks who would be considered groupies is probably comprised 95%+ of females.[/quote]
Hasn’t Cher had her share of groupies. Rob Camilletti, her 22 year old bartender boyfriend comes to mind.
But it does seem to be quite a bit rarer. Chrissie Hynde (pretenders) commented that she’s never been approached by a male groupie. I challenge you to find any comparable MALE rocker that could make the claim of no groupies.
Participant[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]
For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.
but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.
Participant[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]
For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.
but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.
Participant[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]
For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.
but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.
Participant[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]
For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.
but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.
Participant[quote=davelj]I’m seeing answers of all kinds regarding how the engagement ring issue was handled. Go back and re-read the posts. No, there’s not a single woman who has said here that she wouldn’t marry a guy without an engagement ring – despite this site’s anonymity, it would be naive to expect that level of honesty from many folks (if, in fact, that’s how they feel). [/quote]
For the record. I would have married my husband without an engagement ring. He gave me one – which I am sappy about and cherish because it’s from him… but it wasn’t a deal breaker in any way. I absolutely would have accepted his proposal without the ring.
but he would have had to change his proposal. He proposed with a 3-d viewmaster reel – I was looking through it at pictures of his trip to Istanbul and the last picture was a stereo picture of the ring with my first name and his last name and a question mark captioned below the picture. I guess he could have done just the caption… The answer would have been the same.
Participant[quote=Russell]We didn’t do any engagement ring. I had been going dutch on all dates or going without for years in advance of meeting my wife. I guess that was a good preparation for not meeting too many gold diggers. Made it natural that my soul mate would be offended by the diamond engagement ring thing for all the reasons discussed including by the OP. She has a modern sense of gender justice.
We bought cheap bands. I like my band because it shows people what I am doing with my life. It also helps women deal with my animal magnetism. I had the ring charged to suppress the attraction field. I had my face rearranged to be asymmetrical too. Anthropologists believe that sturdy and symmetrical features indicate good genetics and attract females in estrus, which I would unnaturally wish to avoid in a modern civilized society.
My wife works with lots of people from many walks of life and education levels and didn’t want to deal with the confusion of her having children and not having a ring indicating she was approved to do so. I put a tattoo on her neck that says “touch at the risk of disembowelment”. This is in case guys don’t honor that the ring means she is my property.[/quote]
LMAO!
Participant[quote=Russell]We didn’t do any engagement ring. I had been going dutch on all dates or going without for years in advance of meeting my wife. I guess that was a good preparation for not meeting too many gold diggers. Made it natural that my soul mate would be offended by the diamond engagement ring thing for all the reasons discussed including by the OP. She has a modern sense of gender justice.
We bought cheap bands. I like my band because it shows people what I am doing with my life. It also helps women deal with my animal magnetism. I had the ring charged to suppress the attraction field. I had my face rearranged to be asymmetrical too. Anthropologists believe that sturdy and symmetrical features indicate good genetics and attract females in estrus, which I would unnaturally wish to avoid in a modern civilized society.
My wife works with lots of people from many walks of life and education levels and didn’t want to deal with the confusion of her having children and not having a ring indicating she was approved to do so. I put a tattoo on her neck that says “touch at the risk of disembowelment”. This is in case guys don’t honor that the ring means she is my property.[/quote]
LMAO!
Participant[quote=Russell]We didn’t do any engagement ring. I had been going dutch on all dates or going without for years in advance of meeting my wife. I guess that was a good preparation for not meeting too many gold diggers. Made it natural that my soul mate would be offended by the diamond engagement ring thing for all the reasons discussed including by the OP. She has a modern sense of gender justice.
We bought cheap bands. I like my band because it shows people what I am doing with my life. It also helps women deal with my animal magnetism. I had the ring charged to suppress the attraction field. I had my face rearranged to be asymmetrical too. Anthropologists believe that sturdy and symmetrical features indicate good genetics and attract females in estrus, which I would unnaturally wish to avoid in a modern civilized society.
My wife works with lots of people from many walks of life and education levels and didn’t want to deal with the confusion of her having children and not having a ring indicating she was approved to do so. I put a tattoo on her neck that says “touch at the risk of disembowelment”. This is in case guys don’t honor that the ring means she is my property.[/quote]
LMAO!
Participant[quote=Russell]We didn’t do any engagement ring. I had been going dutch on all dates or going without for years in advance of meeting my wife. I guess that was a good preparation for not meeting too many gold diggers. Made it natural that my soul mate would be offended by the diamond engagement ring thing for all the reasons discussed including by the OP. She has a modern sense of gender justice.
We bought cheap bands. I like my band because it shows people what I am doing with my life. It also helps women deal with my animal magnetism. I had the ring charged to suppress the attraction field. I had my face rearranged to be asymmetrical too. Anthropologists believe that sturdy and symmetrical features indicate good genetics and attract females in estrus, which I would unnaturally wish to avoid in a modern civilized society.
My wife works with lots of people from many walks of life and education levels and didn’t want to deal with the confusion of her having children and not having a ring indicating she was approved to do so. I put a tattoo on her neck that says “touch at the risk of disembowelment”. This is in case guys don’t honor that the ring means she is my property.[/quote]
LMAO!
Participant[quote=Russell]We didn’t do any engagement ring. I had been going dutch on all dates or going without for years in advance of meeting my wife. I guess that was a good preparation for not meeting too many gold diggers. Made it natural that my soul mate would be offended by the diamond engagement ring thing for all the reasons discussed including by the OP. She has a modern sense of gender justice.
We bought cheap bands. I like my band because it shows people what I am doing with my life. It also helps women deal with my animal magnetism. I had the ring charged to suppress the attraction field. I had my face rearranged to be asymmetrical too. Anthropologists believe that sturdy and symmetrical features indicate good genetics and attract females in estrus, which I would unnaturally wish to avoid in a modern civilized society.
My wife works with lots of people from many walks of life and education levels and didn’t want to deal with the confusion of her having children and not having a ring indicating she was approved to do so. I put a tattoo on her neck that says “touch at the risk of disembowelment”. This is in case guys don’t honor that the ring means she is my property.[/quote]
LMAO!
ParticipantFrom reading the article – it sounds like the court action did involve serving the couple – but that it may have been a questionable service.
It also sounds like the couple did everything wrong. They bought the house as an investment for $520k in 2006. They refinanced to a first of $464k and a 2nd of $126k a year later. They claim they took out 20k to pay off credit cards… I guess the other 40-50k in additional debt was just bonus money. These people ATM’d their “investment” property.
IF the court summons was properly served (which is in question) – then I don’t see anything wrong with the process. The article doesn’t mention whether they stopped paying on the 2nd – but I have to assume they did when they stopped paying on the first.
They made bad choices. Life is full of consequences.
ParticipantFrom reading the article – it sounds like the court action did involve serving the couple – but that it may have been a questionable service.
It also sounds like the couple did everything wrong. They bought the house as an investment for $520k in 2006. They refinanced to a first of $464k and a 2nd of $126k a year later. They claim they took out 20k to pay off credit cards… I guess the other 40-50k in additional debt was just bonus money. These people ATM’d their “investment” property.
IF the court summons was properly served (which is in question) – then I don’t see anything wrong with the process. The article doesn’t mention whether they stopped paying on the 2nd – but I have to assume they did when they stopped paying on the first.
They made bad choices. Life is full of consequences.
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