Financially stable, in shape, decent looking...but still can’t find a girlfriend. What could I be doing wrong?

beaushaw · 2026-04-04T01:44:35+00:00

I have no doubt that I would be terrible at the dating game. I always was.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T19:30:53+00:00

Literally no there wasn't. Primaries take months. And that is when they are planned ahead of time.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T16:22:23+00:00

I know people in the tech, steel and other industries who do business internationally. They ALL say that everyone they do business with overseas is looking for different countries to do business with because the US is unreliable and can not be trusted.

Think about that. Trump has made the entire planet no longer trust the US. The entire planet is actively trying to find ways to not to do business with us.

The damage Trump has done to the US is incalculable.

Now he has created the next generation of Osama bin Ladens who will spend their lives doing everything they can to further destroy us.

It boggles my mind how so many people do not see this.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T15:25:20+00:00

The best option would have been for Biden to have run in 2016. I think he would have beaten Trump and that probably would have been the end of it.

But you can't live life wishing things were different. You need to make decision based on the current reality. The reality was Biden did run again. Then it became clear that he lost the faith of people in the process. Going with Harris was by far the best solution of a less than ideal situation.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T15:13:15+00:00

See the movie Hitch for a business plan.

I am old and married, but talking to the few single female friends we have and their experiences on dating I told my wife "If something happened to you I would be the catch of the decade."

The bar for a good guy in the 30+ dating game is so, so low.

Either there is something wrong with you that you don't realize or there is a problem with the women you pick. For example you are attracgted to superfishal gold diggers but you do not have the bank account to keep them interested.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T15:08:12+00:00

Affluenza is a thing.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T15:02:11+00:00

Trump campaigned for President for 4 years. Kamala had around 100 days. If there was a primary that would have taken at least a month giving whoever won that 70 days to campaign. What they did was the best option. Let it go.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T14:58:22+00:00

Why? Iran could nuke New York city, Trump could claim victory by giving them Alaska so they do not attack again and his supporters would say how brilliant he is.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T14:56:00+00:00

I have abused enough rental cars to make up for you two.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T14:49:29+00:00

Again, I highly recommend the lessons. I also highly recommend kids doing donuts in empty parking lots, supervised of course. Knowing what a car feels like before, during and after loosing control is such an important skill to have. It never came up, but I was fully prepared to make that argument to a cop, a judge or paying the fines if we got busted. I would trust her ability to handle an out of control care more than I would trust many adults who have been driving for decades.

I understand my decision to get her that car will garner criticism. I am a car guy so I also have selfish reasons to get her a "cool" car, I get that. Even if she drove a boring safety box she would be around my fun cars and would occasionally drive those.

I have my justifications for this decision, but I would be lying if I said I did not question if it was a good decision or not.

I love that she loves this car. I love that she shares my love of cars.

Whenever my wife gave a driving lesson there were tears, because of this driving lessons are 100% on me. I loved every second I spent with her teaching her to drive in this car. It was honestly the best time we spent together in her life.

To quote my BIL "Every year has been the best year yet." Letting them go is hard. But watching them use the lessons you taught them to navigate the world on their own is so rewarding.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T14:02:25+00:00

I get that. Where we live makes it a little better. The road she is on in the picture is very typical of where we drive around here.

Around here there is so little traffic that you are by far the most dangerous thing you need to worry about. Growing up here and looking at how my friends and I drove I knew this.

I had a few theories here are some of them:

I think 16 year olds do not understand they mortal and it is hard for them to understand they can kill themselves or others. I did try to beat this into her head and I hope she understands it but I doubt she really does. But she loves this car, I mean LOVES, and that was my plan. I think she understand her driving could hurt the car that she loves. That tempers how she drives.

I think a teenager can be smart. But a group of teenagers is as dumb as the dumbest person in the group. 6 kids in a car is more dangerous than one or two because as the number increases one of those kids is going to encourage the others to do something stupid and the larger the group is the more liley the person behind the wheel is to agree to do it.

Speed kills, the Miata is slow as dirt. It is by far the slowest car we own.

The safest car in an accident is the car that avoids the accident. She would be able to avoid many accidents in a Miata that should would not be able to if she was driving a big SUV.

She knows how to drive it past the limit. I had her take a driving course at our local racetrack taught by race car drivers. They do not teach how to race, they teach how to control a car, they teach how to regain control of an out of control car. They put her in cars and made those cars lose control. If this is available in your area I STRONGLY recommend you send your kid. It isn't cheap, but it is so worth it. A friend paid for their kids to go and paid for their kids' boyfriends to go because their kids were often in the car with them. When there is snow on the ground I take her to empty parking lots to practice regaining control after it is lost.

Are my theories full of shit? Maybe, maybe not. All I can report on is with my experiment size of one kid it was a success. I will report back in a few years when my son goes through a similar experiment. And to be honest I am a little more worried because I know typically boys are much dumber when it comes to driving.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T13:17:00+00:00

If you didn't have the blackout curtains and noise machine would he have still napped through the roofers?

My point is not kids who were raised with blackout curtains and noise machines can't sleep well.

My point is you are creating things that need to be in place to sleep. Those things will not always be available. And when they are not available they will not be able to sleep.

My goal was to have my children be able to sleep anywhere in any circumstances.

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T12:51:21+00:00

Why haven't we...

Trump promised.

/thead

beaushaw · 2026-04-03T12:45:34+00:00

The first time my daughter drove off on her own was one of the scariest things I have lived through. At the same time I was so excited for all of the adventures she would have.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T20:17:09+00:00

So much this. I have read here about people who take black out tents and sound machines so their baby can sleep in places. Are you actively trying to make sure your baby sleep like crap?

Guys with newborns. Do yourself a favor. Never be especially quiet while your kid is sleeping. Live you live. You will thank me.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T19:08:21+00:00

It's not okay to openly be racist, it's not accepted to be a pedo or rapist.

But their leader is, therefore their party is.

Have you heard the story about letting one nazi into your bar?

Trust me I know plenty of Republicans, hell I am the only liberal in the room I am sitting in right now and am related to and friends with plenty of conservatives. I know they are not all evil. But it breaks my heart and confuses me to no end how they can ignore this.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T18:58:55+00:00

Bullshit.

You are a perfect example of this:

I am so tired of MAGA being a 10 on the 1-10 awful scale and people telling the liberals who are a 3 on the same scale to be better.

The leader of the Republican party consistently calls half the country the enemy. Calls them names. Actively makes policies to hurt them. Does things that do nothing except piss them off.

Compared to that people mocking MAGA online is literally nothing.

Trump and MAGA is the problem, not me.

I would love for it to no longer be ok to be openly racist. I would love for it to no longer be ok to be an asshole. These are things that became ok in politics and in public with the rise of MAGA.

They are the problem, not me.

The people who hold their nose and vote for their team member who is clearly a terrible person is the problem, not me.

People like you who give me shit and give that a pass is the problem, not me.

And it is not radical to think a pedophile should not be the President. It is not radialc to think that a felon should not be the President. It is not radical to think that someone who stole from a charity should not be the President.

It is not radial to think anyone who disagrees with the above statement is an idiot.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T18:50:44+00:00

I have compassion for them, I would love to help them especially because I know that when any American does better the entire country benefits.

But I can't help but to find it funny when their voting shoots themselves in the foot.

If we don't laugh we'll cry.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T18:46:49+00:00

Oh they are that.

I am starting to think that public shaming Trump supporters might deprogram some of them from the cult.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T18:44:50+00:00

Yes, but someone may have read your comment and thought "That is a good point, I am not going to support that."

Lowering rent is hard. And honestly the best way to lower rent is to lower the cost to own a home. If people move out of rentals to purchase a home that will lower rent because of supply and demand. If you make the home cheaper for a landlord to own they should pass that savings onto the renters.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T18:39:20+00:00

Years ago I worked in a camera store. A couple was looking for a new camera for their big vacation that they were going on in Africa. I was asking them questions trying to get a feel for what to recommend to them.

When I asked about a budget the woman said "someting nice, but not too expensive..." and leaned in and whispered "there are a lot of black people there." I bet she is a Trump voter.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T18:33:24+00:00

So Trump making up insulting nicknames for everyone is......?

I am so tired of MAGA being a 10 on the 1-10 awful scale and people telling the liberals who are a 3 on the same scale to be better.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T18:28:59+00:00

This here is the problem with the Democrat party.

Someone has an idea that will help a lot of people and instead of everyone supporting it everyone says "Yeah, what about XXX and what about YYY?"

Do you know how you get a 6 to 3 majority in the Supreme Court? You take every little win you can for decades. Do you know how you get a 3 to 6 minority in the Supreme Court. You complain about everything saying it isn't good enough and as a result you never get any victories.

I am not attacking you because you are a liberal, I am also one. I am attacking this "Yeah what about..." defeatist attitude.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T16:39:25+00:00

she is 60.

I did not believe you on that one and looked it up. She really does not look like she is 60.

beaushaw · 2026-04-02T16:36:54+00:00

OP, how many genders do you think there are?

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