How do you find a good guy

American....always practice in my experience.

PS When I wrote the post I wondered whether anyone would rise to the bait.

Some ill-educated modern Brits bastardise the original English language just as badly as we Americans.

You know, Pep, the English language even in England had gradually changed without any help from us Americans - I mean you can survey works by Chaucer or the Bible and then go further up in time and examine works by someone like Edward Gibbon. Big difference.

Fixed it for ya!

Pep (I agree!)

PS It is "bastardise" with an "s" because it has a Latin root rather than a Greek one.

Nobody cares Pep. Your thoughts about judging people and points based on typing/writing skill on a message board betrays you.

The smartest person I know, sends me text messages that look like they were written by someone ten years old. He "can" write properly, but in the text message forum, it has no importance to him.

My guess is that most here feel the same way about this message board. I assure you, I can take my time, read back through, and be a paragon of accuracy. That just isn't a priority to me ... I type what I type, hit submit, and mistakes be damned.

Pep (Your view doesn't invalidate mine)

Your viewpoint is invalid on it's own.

The amount of emphasis you place on the written word as it relates to this forum, is questionable. You judge someone intelligent, because they write well,

when they may be just a person that writes well. You judge a point as lacking merit because it's poorly presented, when it may just be a poorly presented, excellent point.

I'm sure most of us here know people that can't think their way out of a paper bag, but have superior communication skills,

and vice-versa.

I don't have to invalidate your viewpoint. The dynamic is so poorly thought out, you have invalidated it on your own.

Since this is SL, that may or may not be true. I was once told by a guy that if all they wanted was some decent sex, often the air heads were best - they would not want to talk afterwards and could be pushed out the door easier.

Sorry, your own skills in argument are considerably more defective than you appear to believe them to be.

Ahh, but I find that the well educated, creativily inclined, and literate women provide the best "cyberz". The novelty of the visuals can only excite a new SLer for so long (if at all). I doubt an air head would have anything particularly stimulating to say that didn't involve five lines of "mmmm". Air heads would make good partners for product testing.

@ Lil ~ who was that guy?? Talk about a womenizer lol

as for the grammer and spelling judgements....i figure if you understand what im typing well enough to correct it...then i got my point across.

also, i realllllly like ee cummings....

OK my question is in three parts like on Blind Date.

1) Where do I go in sl to find nice guys with good conversation. I mean straight men that don't think they are god's gift and don't talk as if they are texting. I have tried Sweethearts and Phats because I thought that the odds would be better on finding a diamond in a pile of rocks in a big place but that was a fail.

2) How can I attract the nice guys while scaring off the idiots. Is there any magic I can do with my profile.

3) Less seriously what are the best and worst chat lines you have heard. Don't bother about hi, A/S/L and wanna.... as I have heard them already.

People who rely on grammar corrections, spelling corrections, et al - especially when they go after non-anglophones - and who try to project an image as being above the rest of us hoi polloi, generally have some very real confidence issues. Compensate much?

I can pretend to be an erudite jackass all day long. Does that make me special? Does that make me right? Hardly.

pep...you do make me giggle... ;0)

as for the grammer and spelling judgements....i figure if you understand what im typing well enough to correct it...then i got my point across.

also, i realllllly like ee cummings....