I'm actually laughing out loud now. Because I started thinking about it, and I am totally hunting! But not in an aggressive way... IN MY HEAD.
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
Dawn ,'Beneath You'
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Jesse - Mar 01, 2010 1:48:05 pm PST #12330 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Amy - Mar 01, 2010 1:48:32 pm PST #12331 of 30001
Because books.
I've heard half your age + 7.
So anyone over ... 28 is okay for me? Until April, I guess.
Not that I'm looking, of course.
-t - Mar 01, 2010 1:48:43 pm PST #12332 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes, Cash! Glad he's okay, finger's crossed that the insurance works out.
javachik - Mar 01, 2010 1:51:02 pm PST #12333 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Cash! So glad he's not more hurt. YIKES.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2010 1:51:30 pm PST #12334 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am totally hunting! But not in an aggressive way... IN MY HEAD.
Mmmhmm.
I can't even gather properly. Can't even make eye contact with possibly neutral parties in bars.
Barb - Mar 01, 2010 1:54:10 pm PST #12335 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Argh, Cash. Here's hoping your dad's okay.
So what's the formula for determining at some point if you + person = cougar hunting?
It's proportional. When I was twenty-one and dating a nineteen year old, I was a cradle robber. Now that I'm 42 and he's 40, the age differential is non-existant. When I was in my early thirties, thinking someone who was nineteen was hot freaked me right the hell out. Same person is now 29 and I'm not so freaked out by thinking he's cute anymore.
It's a sliding scale sort of thing.
-t - Mar 01, 2010 1:54:21 pm PST #12336 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, dear. I am having terribly inappropriate thoughts about safaris and those places where they feed deer so people can come shoot them easily.
erikaj - Mar 01, 2010 1:54:46 pm PST #12337 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I hate the expression "cougar" but I've never really been into someone that much younger so it's not that it hits a nerve.
meara - Mar 01, 2010 1:55:10 pm PST #12338 of 30001
I've heard half your age + 7. I'm not entirely sold on the usefulness of this formula, though.
Well, that's who you're allowed to date, yes. But I dunno if that's also the cougar rule, too! Cause I think if I were dating on the bottom end of that, it'd be cougarish.
OTOH, I have a friend in New Orleans who posted a picture where she was posed with some boys at Mardi Gras who were kitted up all Croc Hunter with signs that said "Cougar Hunters". I was like "How OLD were they??" because they didn't look that young (and she's my age). But OTOH if they were like, in college, it might apply...
Cashmere - Mar 01, 2010 1:56:17 pm PST #12339 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Just talked to Mom and Dad. He's got a minor concussion and a bad case of whiplash. Good thing he was wearing his seatbelt. It was a college kid who actually went around a car that had stopped at a red light. He never even slowed down--just swerved around and ran into Dad's car as it was entering the intersection.
Man, Dad is going to be SORE tomorrow. He's been getting stiff and having problems with arthritis for a while now.
The kid broke a leg in the accident. Must have been trying to stomp on the brake. But he's insured, thank goodness.