Curious about my profile

Only true of the naturally pasty. :-)

I haven't eaten a doughnut in decades, but Tim Horton's is one of my happy places.

They rarely have a good suntan, though.

Fun Fact: Canada is per capita the #1 consumer of donuts on earth. Props to Tim Hortons!

Yeahhhh, I met one the other night. Very polite, very nice. There's a reason I don't sort for those traits.

One of my BFFs is a proud Canadian and pretty much a 24/7 asshole. No attraction there either, even though other women think he's jam, but at least he makes me laugh. ;-)

"Anyone who doesn't listen to Velma's advice on pictures is taking his sex life in his hands...
and throwing it away!"

Where's that dood with the sock puppet when you need him? If you have quality socks, you don't throw it away, you cum, rinse and repeat.

I miss the "quality socks" thread.

@msmolly

Canadian swingers are horny and also very polite in our experience :)

I have a strong personal aversion to guns, but photos of people shooting handguns don't bother me. People like what they like. It might be the tipping point between a yes and a no, but so could something else.

And to hedo2forus's point, it definitely makes a difference as to how many people in your area are on this site. I have a similar issue in that I live fairly close to a metropolitan area, but it's in another country and there aren't a lot of people from BC's lower mainland on SLS. But I have met some really lovely people and I regularly go to a meet and greet, where most of the folks aren't on this site at all. That helps.

To speak to the gun issue - if OP chooses to post that pic with the knowledge that it may limit interest from some we say more power to him.

Perhaps, that's even his goal. To only attract gun enthusiasts. Maybe he gets off watching a hot couple fire an AK. Who knows? Who cares? As long as no one is being coerced, deceived or injured it's none of our business.

We actually don't see anything wrong with EKserb2 posting a picture of himself firing a pistol, it doesn't bother us. We think some people give advice based on their likes and dislikes, and because they receive plenty of interest in their profile that they must be a hot ticket. Lots of people, more interest, less people less interest. You can be the hottest couple or person on here and if you live in a area with less people your going to receive less potential playmates.

Anyone who doesn't listen to Velma's advice on pictures is taking his sex life in his hands...

and throwing it away!

Nothing to do with the OP because he is, as you say, gone, but a lot of us don't want the kind of opinions that differ too far from our own. It seems to be particularly fraught if you're a man and a woman is doing something that looks like being disapproving or judgmental or even just disagreeing with your self perception.

I'm always so impressed by the people who come here and transmute what must feel like harsh criticism into what they need. They're the surprising ones (delightfully surprising). The rarer ones, those who pick up their marbles and leave or even block people, I expect those and just kind of shrug and wish them well.

LOL

This is not directed at the OP since he will never see this...

It never ceases to amaze me that some people ask for advice/opinions and then when they get an opinion they don't agree with, they pack up their shit and go home.

Well, that didn’t take long.

This is why I have avoided the forums until now. And why I will avoid posting here ever again.

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Let me put it a different way.

My husband served 4 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as an infantryman - specifically heavy weapons where he drove down roads until they blew up and took hills from Taliban who really wanted to keep them. Why is this information not on our profile? Because my husband doesn’t wave his dick around with an American flag on it - that and as an infantryman he mainly just wants to forget the shit he did.

My husband owns a pistol. I know how to shoot it. I have no problem with guns, but as a woman, I would be totally turned off by any guy with a firearm pic in his profile. I felt that way when I was single and I feel that way now.

As a single male, the deck is already stacked against you. You can take my advice, or you can ignore it, but if you take my advice you will be more successful.

Obviously, you don’t live in Florida. While there might be a handful of people here who would disqualify me for owning and using a firearm, those people are also the ones I least want to be around. If that one photo turns them off, so be it.

My only suggestion is to maybe remove the picture of your shooting the gun.

In today’s political climate, I think that you could turn some people off, so it’s best just to leave it out.

I incorporated many of the suggested changes. If you don’t mind, take a moment to see if it looks better now. (I just finished, so it might be awhile before they are live.)

Thank you for your help!

GGMM, thank you! I won't think about editing until I get a few more responses, only so I can get it all done at once instead of bit by bit.

Emojis and editing. But both are apparently way too much to ask for.

Hi and welcome. Ehhhhh. I like a lot of your profile and think my internal response - wow, guy, intense much? - is probably accurate. I hope you don't post rants very often, because the combination would be off-putting. Maybe rant here, in the forum, and use your profile solely as an effective marketing tool.

I think you have too many photos in your public gallery. I understand that you're a photographer and think that many of them are quite striking, but you're about ten photos over the limit past which I start wondering about your level of self-absorption. That's just me, though. I'd be interested in what other people had to say.

As far as the text, he content is good but you have some wall 'o text issues that make it hard to read, plus things in the wrong place. Oh, and could you at least consider not being a cliché and move your upper age limit up some. It's not just you, many men seem to feel they'd be trading way down putting their dicks in someone more than a year or two older and the problem seems to get more acute the older they get. Anyway, at least consider it. I swear you won't really notice an extra year or two. Or if that's too much, raise your lower level to 25.

So, in Looking For, the sentence "I have a lot of energy..." belongs in Description and "NOT INTERESTED IN..." belongs in Additional comments. I'm trying to figure out where to put a paragraph break in that first para and I think it's right at "Size and weight," but I could be wrong. The wall needs to be broken up though.

In Description, I laughed at the thing about licking all of it to be sure, but resented having to read about your laser procedure to get to it. Maybe save that for a more private conversation? Or not.

I'm unsure about mentioning your past as an Army pilot. Maybe that's because someone I know well was on the ground in two of those places and we only talk about them really late at night, so feel free to ignore that concern.

Other than that, nice job. You're particularly deft in introducing your relationship status and allaying any concerns anyone might have.
I don't think you should say when you got married, but rather just jump to the part where you are and have been together for eight years.

Other than that, the LOL in your tagline can go, in this case because it undercuts instead of emphasizes the humor.

Ugh. When is this site going to recognize emojis instead of replacing them with double question marks? Sorry. Back to the topic....

I change my profile fairly regularly. I’ll post a rant every now and then, but change it within a day or two back to something more pleasant. As of this writing, I think it’s pretty good, but I’d like to know what you think of the text and photos. Any honest criticism is appreciated.

(Also, this is my first forum post. Hi! ??)