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Then you must keep responding to me because you're lonely :-(

It's quite simple. YOU are the empty face on the internet, from my point of view. How else am I supposed to evaluate you, except by what you say? As you point out, it is the only thing that I know about you. Perhaps you're an expert in children - but if you don't seem like it on this thread, and...

It's funny how, when you're a teenager, you have this constant the-world's-gonna-end feeling that you need to rush everything and that if it doesn't happen NOW then it's never going to happen. When you're a decade or two older, you don't feel in such a hurry anymore. It's the perspective of...

Don't start correcting spelling on forums; it's a full-time job, and you'll never find an end to it. Unless you're a wannabe troll, of course, in which case carry right on!

Many reasons. Perhaps they're just as smart as you are, or maybe they're nice people. All the same reasons as why I wouldn't necessarily want to play games with people my own age or twice my age, for that matter - an arsehole is an arsehole, whether 14, 28 or 56 years old. I want to play against...

My grandparents were Italian (meaning not of Italian descent, but actual emigrants from Italy) and so we've always had a strong streak of Italian culture in the family. When I grew up, for example, I was given red wine with a meal if I wanted some. Granted, it was a small glass, and granted, it...

Don't see the problem with that. My wife pretty much does the same and we've been together since 2000. The secrets to a strong relationship are a) understanding what the other needs/wants, and b) being willing to compromise on the things in a). A woman who says "gaming is for children, don't do...

Somebody with no experience of children. They can talk from the age of 1 onwards. Younger children (1-3) are generally more pleasant to talk with than older children. 3-year-olds can often read simple books and hold quite coherent conversations about the contents. This is not the fault...

Well if that's the criteria for the women, then they're evidently all shallow and materialistic. And who wants that sort of a girlfriend? I know I wouldn't want to be with somebody who only wanted to be with me because I was successful. Of course, it doesn't do much for your sex life, but...

Erm... Syndicate? Even, I suppose, Flashback? There have been lots that aren't in a fantasy (or indeed a science fiction) environment which could fall into this category. The thing is, most of the ones I'm thinking of go back a way (and judging by some other threads, go back to before many forum...

Speaking from experience - quite a lot of it, back in my university days - coupled with the fact that I'm now happily married with a child on the way, I can say that yes, I'm definitely somebody that others find attractive. I also know from past experience that it's partly my physical appearance...

Your choices are hopelessly naïve and narrow-minded. Life is all about shades of grey, not absolutes of black and white. There will always be people arguing for both ends and there will always have to be a compromise somewhere in the middle, because it's very rare to get everybody to agree on...

Not, strictly speaking, my hometown - but the town where I grew up. We moved there in 1987. In 1988, it became famous for the Lockerbie Air Disaster. Judging from other posts on this site, most of you don't even seem to have been born until the mid '90s, so you'll probably have to look it up. It...

I have to say, I seem to be in the minority here, what with being almost 30 (no, it's not actually as old as you would imagine). However, I will say that I know some young people in the 12-16 age range, and they are very nice and very pleasant. They're very much like mini-adults. Being a...

I used to do these sorts of things as a child - I suppose it helped that I lived in the middle of nowhere and could play in the forests and dig pits and build treehouses to my heart's content. It makes a difference if you grew up in a city or in an area with strictly controlled private land all...