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allison:
I disregarded the creepiness factor (x=1/2y+7) by 2 years - he was 26, I was 18 - and it ended badly. There is a reason things like this exist. Also the girlfriend that he had not told me about proved to be a problem. So maybe you can ignore this altogether.

Protip: make sure the man you fall in love with does not have a girlfriend who he probably intends to marry at some point.

Yunior:

--- Quote from: KvP on 23 Mar 2009, 09:48 ---There are people out there who prefer older partners, like, old enough to be their parents. I know a few. They tend to be women. I'm not going to speculate on why that is.

--- End quote ---

Probably Daddy issues. And it usually accounts for women who prefer older partners just in general, albeit not twice their age.

Slick:

--- Quote from: the_pied_piper on 23 Mar 2009, 09:58 ---we are all in fact right

--- End quote ---

I maintain no. MrBlu had the right thing but I think it was phrased poorly so I re-arranged it. Then you said something that missed the original question and made a completely false statement concerning the equivalence of my statement. I think your p parameter is totally superfluous. Think about it, we have a function that defines a cutoff, and we have written that cutoff as x, then you defined their age as p and compared it to x. We can just compare x directly to p.

Why am I so bitchy of late? I don't know. Whatever.

the_pied_piper:
The problem with rearranging the equation is that you wanted x in the first place not y so there is no need. Also, you know your age y and their age which i defined as p but not x. To make any comparisons using this equation you need x as without x how do you know the acceptable age? That is what x is and that is what you need to know to make any sense of the equation.

You know y is your age, p is their age
the formula produces x the youngest acceptable age in terms of y. there is nowhere within the formula to directly compare p and y using the function x and without the function x you don't know whether it is acceptable or not.

e.g. use 20
x=20/2+7 =>x=17

then if p<17 not ok
          p≥17 ok

for y=2x-14 we know y not x so we would have to rearrange it back to the original formula anyway.

If you directly compare p and y it is just 2 constants, i.e. p<y,p=y or p>y but that doesn't tell us anything other than what we already know.

20 jazz funk greats:
man, i love how this forum figures out acceptable age differences using algebra. you are all geeks in the best way possible. people i know in meat life (myself excluded) just tend to follow the silly 5 year rule.

so, relationship/math thread:

when i was younger i was pretty into the idea of meeting a "sophisticated older guy" who also has the exact same taste in music as i do for deep, meaningful conversations and possible makeouts.  now i realize that it wasn't really about age, but more of a certain personality type that i thought would be more common among older guys. it's actually not a common thing at all though, and i've given up on looking for it.  i did meet this guy on the internet (accidentally, not through a dating site or anything) who seemed like that type of person. he was twice my age and ended up falling in love with me and writing some songs about me, which was cute even though the songs weren't that good (but i still liked them), and at first when he told me that he was going to write me a song i didn't believe him cause it seemed pretty unrealistic, and i kept making fun of him and telling him to write/record faster, and then he did and i felt like a jerkface for doubting him, and for making him stay up late finishing the damn song.  well okay i didn't force him to do the latter, but he did, and it was because of me, so i felt responsible for that and for nearly destroying his vocal cords.

then he turned a bit creepy and kept on insisting that we should meet even though i politely refused cause i was engaged at the time (and i told him that from the start...) and wasn't looking to cheat on my fiancee with a stranger from the internets. at first he was all nice about it and was like oh we can be friends and watch old movies and eat popcorn and i will respect your boundaries and not touch you except maybe in a platonic way, because i am a perfect gentleman. i had a hard time believing it since he was obviously attracted to me.  also i am kind of suspicious of any dude who claims to be old-fashioned and chivalrous. so i was like ehhh that's probably not a good idea. then he got more pushy about it and was all like oh i am going to drive down to your campus even though it will take me 7 hours (!!) because i just love you that much, and we are going to have such a wonderful time together. weird, but again, i had a hard time believing that he would. and...i don't think he did. (of course, it's hard to say, since i was in tronno at the time)  but he insisted that he did come and he
looked for me everywhere and he put up posters advertising his "band" in our concourse area and i was like riiiiight, because when i returned and went to the concourse i didn't see any posters.  i told him that i am not a fan of surprise visits and to not do things like that in the future and he apologized i think but eventually he started bothering me again when he saw that i was no longer engaged and started asking me if i was okay, and that just came off as creepy as fuck.  um, eventually we just stopped talking entirely.

that experience ruined the mystique of the older man forever.  :|
or maybe i was being overly paranoid and missed out on a real good thing? hahahah. doubt it.

tl;dr, sorry everyone.

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