From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Various ramblings...
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:22:57 GMT

kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>Are you accounting for my age here?  Are you accounting for my field of
>expertise?

How is that relevent?  If even you are making less than you should be
than you're still better off (ie. greater disposable income) than most.

>But I'm *not* complaining about my financial situation. 

You're complaining about it affecting your ability to get dates.

>The reality remains: my *insufficiently high* income rules out an entire
>class of people that might otherwise be interested in me, because I'm
>not making enough money to support someone else.

It's not a large number of people, nor are you especially disadvantaged here.  

>>Unless you're only into super models, the amount of money you make is no
>>excuse.  
>
>Not that I disagree with you or anything, Ross, but why do you suppose
>the amount of money I'm making would make any difference to a supermodel?
>I mean, if it doesn't make any difference to any of the other classes
>of women...

Because the set of supermodels is rather small and easily enumerable, 
and I don't believe any of them have showed any interest in dating someone
who was dead broke. 

>And if it *does* make a difference to supermodels, why *wouldn't* it make
>any difference to the other classes of women?

Because I can't think of any other class of women that I can rule
out as not being interested in someone because of their financial
situation.

>>Do you have asthma?  Otherwise it is something you can get used to.
>
>No asthma, but I nevertheless find it impossible to breathe in such an
>atmosphere.  This, after repeated attempts.  I haven't a clue how others
>manage to tolerate it.

Ever passed out?  If not then you can breathe well enough.  The reason
you don't go Jazz clubs is that you don't want to, not that you can't.

>>Relationships are very complex, too complex for anyone to
>>understand.  
>
>How can anyone possibly succeed at something they don't understand,
>except through sheer luck?

Did Newton fully understand Physics?  He didn't understand relativity,
quantum mechanics or the wave-partical duality of light, still he
could make some accurate predictions on what would happen when an
apple falls or light goes through a prism.  People, through observation,
through trial and error, and with a bit of luck, build there own
models of how relationships work, for them.  Their model undoubtably
has more holes than swiss-cheese, but it only has to work a small
fraction of the time to be sucessful.  The unfortunate problem
with these models, is that they're are not often transferable,
especially to someone as different as apparently you are.  This means
your pretty much on your own, and you're going to need to do a lot
of experimenting to find out what works for you. 

Also, please stop bitching about how poor and ugly and how few women
you meet, because I'm poorer, uglier and meet fewer women than you
and I might just start getting depressed about it.

							Ross Ridge

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