Do women find Ryan Tubridy attractive?

iamtony wrote: »

How many of you know tubs is a smoker:-0

I do funny enough. I "met" him on two occasions years back and on both he was in the smoking section having a ciggie. He seemed OK TBH, a touch of that "I'm slightly smugly wonderful", but that I have found is common, even near ubiquitous among your performer caste. Their need to perform itself seems to come from a conflict between their inner insecure need to please and their fear of being "found out as losers" kinda thing. Actors and actresses are the worse for this IME. The best tend to be ironically shy children in many ways. If they gain success, that what looks like smugness is just another mask IMHO. He was not impolite mind you. Quite the opposite, which stood to him. He did make an effort there.

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Feck me I never knew that, the spineless little bítch is a right vindictive kunt.

Yea that kinda thing is well out of order. Again I'd fall back on the "performers tend to have childish qualities" and you couldn't get more effin childish than pulling that shíte.

wakka12 wrote: »

Are you a man? Lots of men seem to think this. Ive never found a man in his 50's or older attractive. And men over 40 (excluding celebs) who Ive thought were hot have been few and far between. Im almost 20 and I don't know of even one girl my age who'd even consider having a one night stand with a guy over 40. I don't think women over say 45 are generally very attractive but I don't think the men are any better tbh.

+1 IMHO I think it's like bald men who compare themselves to Sean Connery or yer man of Star Trek if they're of a more nerdy nature. It's an ego hug, something to reassure them. And that's cool too, so long as they don't act out on that reassurance.

Down the years I've known only four young women who regularly went for much older men as a "thing". Like 19 going for 45 year olds type thing. And they really stood out. All four were cool people, but all four had major daddy issues, like textbook Electra complexes ahoy. Oh and the guys they went for weren't always rich sugar daddy types either, their age gap seemed to be the main draw(and mon dieu it wasn't their looks either) which surprised the rest of us at the time. The guys were nearly always real manipulative pricks though.

There were more "oul lad tourists" in the mix mind you. I mean the women who at 25 who met a guy of 40 or whatever that revved their engines on a night out and decided to try it out, but it was a one off thing, a curiosity, with no consideration of anything longterm to follow.

I reckon ten years as a gap is the average cutoff point, but five years is preferable and fifteen years the outside if there's genuine compatibility going on. Bigger gaps do happen and some are happy ones too, but they'd be the real exception. But hey if it works for such folks then fair enough.

Speaking of a ten year gap, I would say that as a VERY general rule and outside of outliers, men have about a ten year advantage on women, but that's about it. Their peak attraction is about ten years delayed too. A 30/35/40 year old guy has more options on the "dating market" than a 30/35/40 year old woman. Again as a very general rule. After 40 that drops off and after 50 it really drops off. Then men are around the same as the 40 year old woman.

That's in general mind you. It SO depends on the individual men and women involved. Especially mentally. EG an ex girlfriend of mine when we were both 20, was 20 going on 50 mentally. Had her whole life and choice mapped against her age. A guy mate I had at school, who was the coolest and most plugged in bloke at 16 was a near grandfather by the time he was 25.