vitaitaliano

Seems like you are definitely not alone in that!

Have you analyzed this thread yet?

Oh I can't resist telling about this one that happened to a friend of mine. This sounds like one of those "urban legends", but i know for a fact that it is true because I have known the two people involved for years:A friend decided to try placing a personals ad in the newspaper just for fun, not expecting much, but to her surprise, she got some replies from some men who sounded wonderful! She was guarding her privacy, so she exchanged flirty emails with a few of them , and met a few for dinner. Nice, but no sparks........came time to meet one man who had been particularily flirty; their emails soon became cyber sex; she had high hopes and got dressed to the nines, showing off all her assets & hoping to be irresistible.She meets this man at a romantic restaurant, and when he is shown to their table by the maitre d'.........HE TURNS OUT TO BE HER FATHER!!!!!Her very married father. Whom she ahd been cyber-sexing with.The final insult? After the horrible moment of shock wore off, he started lecturing her on the kind of cheating married scumbags who use the personal ads to prey on vulnerable women!!!!!

Well, my own worst date was when I put a personals ad in the paper and his was the first reply I got - had I but known!! LOL!!We were supposed to go for dinner at a very nice restaurant, but when we got into the car he announced that he had decided to take me to a country-western bar instead; this after I'd told him on the phone that I DESPISE country-western music! But he insisted. We then proceeded to spend the next 90 minutes careening around madly in every direction in his deathtrap of a car because he couldn't remember where the {expletive deleted} place was; it was like a slightly-slower-paced 90 minutes on the Wild Mouse at the amusement park.......I was dizzy from not eating & had no idea where we were, that's probably why I didn't jump head-first from the car! So he finally gave up trying to find the bar, and instead took me to his regular hangout, a dive where they actually had sawdust on the floor to soak up the vomit....um, yeah, every girl's dream date...... I didn't drink alcohol at the time --after that date I started , so I was stuck with a warm, flat ginger-ale for an hour, as I sat across from him wondering why his face and scalp had this slightly alarming glow-in-the-dark thang goin' on. It turned out to be "man makeup" that he thought made him look like Brad Pitt's prettier brother, but which reminded me more of The Incredible Hulk..........*sigh*........no wonder I'm still single......

I'm in Victoria, British Columbia,Canada, a city of about 60,000 people. We are on an island, the second biggest island in the world, about an hour and a half ferry ride from the mainland. Even though we're Canadian, this island is closer to Seattle in the United States than it is to the rest of Canada. There is very little industry, and then only things like kayak builders and salmon farms.......it's mostly rainforest, full of cougars and bears and eagles, and whales offshore. I've never seen a more beautiful place, but I also miss big-city living like crazy {moved here 8 years ago from a city of 5 million people! }

I am starting my site as an alternative to the Italian singles site I was on, because as people paired off, they were forced to leave the site as they were not single anymore! They had made friends and wanted to have a place to chat....plus there are many ways I see to improve over that site. So my site will be a site for everyone who enjoys our magnificent Italian heritage - the wine, the art and architecture, the music, fantastico Italian food, etc - to enjoy friendships and exchange recipes and stories and stuff, as well as the singles aspect, of course. It will be a huge amount of work when it gets going, and I am hoping to get some ideas from y'all as to how I might make some money from it to compensate me for all the time i'll put into it. I googled several combinations of words but all i get is affiliate programs or banner ads to add to my site for other singles sites, which is no help!I think an Amazon affiliate woudl be okay, because there are dozens of books on related topics {recipes, travel, romance, etc}; and when it gets to a couple of hundred members I could approach tour companies that include Italy in their itinerary to advertise on my site........I've heard that newsletters are very profitable but I am just not convinced that a newsletter would work for my site.......Any ideas or suggestions??

Tripod.http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ no longer available}I chose them for the site-builder because at the very very beginning, I did not need much more than page parking, with infrequent updates: I am in tourism dealing with people and little technological stuff, and i figured it'd be a long while before I needed anything like e-commerce tools etc.Tripod. Pop-up ad in every singe frame. You get your choice of po-ups or banners,so I chose banners, but after a couple of months they added pop-ups too!! i tried to get them taken off but any ALLEGED support team there must have gone on an extended vacation to Antarctica or something....HTML deliberately screwed up so you could never use it elsewhere. Locked out of several pages on my site, which was embarrassing and cost my reputatuion - this was not a high-tech biz and if anything went wrong like that, my customers usually blamed me as if I was not professional or something, I did not expect much more than the basics, it was only my beginner site and done with templates and all, and I figured I'd move on up after I got the hang of doing business through a website --but I DID expect them to deliver what they'd promised. I have great expectations of Xisto for my websites.

---oh thank gawd, another one who knows BLEEP !!! Nice to met ya, bud! I AM NOT ALONE!! LOL!!

Ouch!!! LOL!!!

With a nod to dizilluziondmasokist, my disaster dates really stand out in my mind as much a s the good ones! There are so many of them! Anybody else have any real doozies?? What made it a bad date, was it something you did to embarrass yourself? Did your date turn out to be anything but pleasant, or did they bring their two best friends to grill you on your potential? Did you sit down to your romantic picnic only to discover later that you'd parked yer butts in a patch of poison ivy? 'Fess up!

Do you mean watching wrestling,or doing it? I don't follow it on television, it seems that half the time the televised wrestling is actually those little skits they script, you know the ones, where two behemoths are supposedly engaged to the same babe in spandex or stuff & they beat their chests and roar like George of the Jungle while trying to keep a straight face......oops! My bad Spawn, maybe that is your fave part *hee* What do you think of that, um, I think it is officially called "Jackass" stuff, where inexperienced kids wrestle on bridges till one falls off into traffic and such? I'd be interested to hear from a wrestling fan, do you classify that as the real thing, or just the tragic result of brains on drugs?

Hey sweetie, gotta admire your taste in men!! LOL!!

hhhhhmm....when you say people think you're obsessed with Britney but they don't understand, does that mean you disagree with them? You listen to her every day, well, that is logical, if you find yourself tapping your toes or singing along, why not? But, do you think there's a difference between being obsessed with something and being addicted to it? ....I'm thinking here, LOL.......there must be a difference? Can one be obsessed without being addicted? But, okay, you said your friends just don't understand, but you yourself said that you were addicted, so you must see a difference!

Thanks for the welcome,Triple X!Didn't realize that the edit button - if I read correctly - could be used AFTER the post is published...on any of the other sites I'm on, you must post your addendum or whatever separately.......certainly have never run across that before, but this site sure seems to have all the bells & whistles! But, I did not post that to rack up numbers. I made a mistake and I wanted to apologize and that is what I did.I appreciate your patience with us newbies

LMAO!!Good one, alperuzi!