please empty your brain below
DG= Dichotomy Geezer.
[In other words, it is a mutually exclusive bipartition of elements. i.e. nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts, and everything must belong to one part or the other.]

Nevermind,plenty more fish in the sea DG. Oh, there aren't.

strandman | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 7:56 a.m. | #

And is the replacement still there or did he get the same treatment? At least she didnt leave you for another woman like a friend of mine had happen to him.

Debster | 03.11.06 - 8:02 a.m. | #

But you have got us dg. How many more do you want?

Music Man | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 8:29 a.m. | #

Re: The bit about Christmas.

Yeah, we solved that one. I laid it down almost as soon as our first christmas came about. We are *ALWAYS* spending it with my parents. Until we have children at least. I don't want to spend my birthday with his Mother, she drives me mad all of the other 364 days of the year. He doesn't argue with me. He'd be in severe trouble if he did

Laura-Ann | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 8:49 a.m. | #

I almost shed a little tear.

Simon | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 9:24 a.m. | #

My god, it's that time again? It's come so quickly! It means I've also been single, for... Oh... A. Long. Time.

The Girl | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 9:34 a.m. | #

But we love you DG, because of what we see first thing in the morning.

What's the single person's corollary for the in-laws coming to stay?

ian | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 9:37 a.m. | #

There is something heroic about Diamond

Simon | 03.11.06 - 10:47 a.m. | #

I would offer my annual sympathies, but if it's November, that makes it EIGHT years for me. Thanks for the reminder. [Chig bites tongue to prevent any further comments on the comments...]

Chig | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 10:52 a.m. | #

Can I not match make and suggest the Girl moves in today with DG?

strandman | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 10:53 a.m. | #

Hmm, does this tie in somehow with the fact that no-one's been in your house for a year? Maybe if you invited us all round (not all at the same time you understand) you could kill two birds with one stone?

(As one recently single, I don't quite know whether to laugh or cry at this post - I guess that's the point. Thanks though.)

Cal | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 11:02 a.m. | #

I think they might using different definitions of "a long time".

Blog mergers though. Could it be the future?

ian | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 11:04 a.m. | #

I see the future---
running Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)for Bloggers at low fees (no win no fee) and bike riders to merge with traffic..

strandman | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 11:34 a.m. | #

I very nearly left the same comment as I did last year. But as I was writing it, I thought "I'm sure I said that last year" and checked. I did.

At least I'm consistent!

Still a good post...

anxious | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 12:05 p.m. | #

I would also like to know what happened to the replacement bloke... I think there could be a lot of interest.

There are a lot more singles out there than you think. How about a DG dating agency?

Spud | 03.11.06 - 1:22 p.m. | #

Nov 3rd! My favourite day of the DG year.

Where's the bus ticket one gone?

Ian | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 1:55 p.m. | #

Get some nice female friend to put you on MySingleFriend.com , DG, you'll have date offers coming at you in no time.
Maybe you could do it in the name of research and then do an article on it?
Go on, you know you want to.

Johnny Topaz | 03.11.06 - 3:27 p.m. | #

Spud - I met the replacement bloke about eight months later, after he'd been ditched in similar circumstances. No hard feelings, just a lot of sympathy.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 5:11 p.m. | #

that article you quoted ends with:
The report also suggests the government could encourage people to live more space-efficiently with the introduction of an occupancy tax.
Did I read that right? Ouch! Double Ouch! What an awful thing to consider. I am single for no reason but that I never met the right person; single people already pay A LOT more for LOTS of things that married people take for granted already, so how utterly awful it would be to get TAXED for living alone!!! Yikes!!

jan | 03.11.06 - 6:19 p.m. | #

Right. Serious advice from a Labrador Cross.
Draw a line and move on DG! There's thousands of women who aren't like your ex and you have 12 months to locate one using your brilliant interweb communication skills.
There, it's been said.
I'm sticking around and will be there next year to check that the November Post is not there any more.

Murphy | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 6:24 p.m. | #

DG, Cal I am with you. But now I am depressed. I am going to wallow my sorrows in drink any just to cap off

Single: No one sees you drinking at home alone
Couple: Somebody might care enough to make sure you look after your liver

City Slicker | Homepage | 03.11.06 - 7:00 p.m. | #

I'm intrigued by the fact that the moment of break-up was at a quarter past seven in the morning. It just doesn't sound like a breaking-up time of day. But what would I know.

Great Aunt Annie | 03.11.06 - 7:09 p.m. | #

Sad, sad, sad.

Get out and find a young filly.

BUT, keep the blog going of course

The nearest dance club is ??

peter | 03.11.06 - 7:33 p.m. | #

Ahh, everyone has assumed a lot about the Geezer here.

I'm not really thinking properly tonight, I have had my almost 4 year old daughter forcing me to light every firework I have. All day today she told me the robots have been telling her what to do.

I'm scared.

Uncle Hunty | 03.11.06 - 10:16 p.m. | #

Single by choice:
You choose to define your entire being by a single betrayal, and thus allow that person to have a far greater influence over you than they warrant. After much rumination and oh, perhaps 2500 tossing nights - you give it the stiff upper lip and soldier on, knowing that you are better than the ex treated you. Still, you always wonder if "this is it" as far as life goes. You try to avoid getting a cat.

Coupled by choice:
You understand that every relationship has its ups and downs, along with various exit strategies. Still, the sum is often greater than the parts, and you know that magic can be regained with the right person. One day you realize that it's been months since you've thought of .... what was the name.....

Rickster | 04.11.06 - 1:40 a.m. | #

I couldn't have said it better myself.. and it's been longer than 7 years for me!

deeleea | Homepage | 05.11.06 - 4:49 a.m. | #

not easy is it?


(sob)

denz w | 05.11.06 - 11:17 p.m. | #

The comments to this post make me laugh every year

Blue Witch | Homepage | 06.11.06 - 9:46 a.m. | #

Methinks I've realised what Blue Witch and Uncle Hunty are on about.

Michael | 06.11.06 - 10:15 a.m. | #

This is like that funny English film German TV shows every New Year's Eve, without fail

Ooooh, and it's the third time I've read this single as well. Hmmmm.

Inspector Sands | Homepage | 06.11.06 - 12:43 p.m. | #

About five years ago I had one of those defining moments when I broke my foot and managed, eventually, after returning from casualty, to hobble into the kitchen on my crutches, and make myself a cup of tea. It was a tiny galley kitchen with no room for a table in it. So, leaning on the counter, exhausted, trying to balance the crutches and not knock anhything over, etc, I made the tea - and then realised.

I can't now remember if I did even manage to get it to the other room or if I had to drink it where I was.

I've got surgery in both eyes coming up and I haven't yet figured out how I'm going to manage THAT critical day or two. The thing is, if you're single you have to spend hours and days on the phone galvanising some enormous & complicated 'support network', relying on the very few friends who aren't so inundated with kids etc that they have no space to help anyone... In a couple all you have to do is look up over your morning coffee and say, "by the way, it's next Thursday."

In a simple world all of us nice single people would just get together and make new couples, & indeed when I was newly single I just assumed I'd be re-partnered within a year or two, but apparently it's not a simple world!

Ms Baroque | Homepage | 06.11.06 - 10:00 p.m. | #











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