What is this age thing?
That whole last post had me lost.
What did Bees say?
He said that if he was interested in women he’d do you in a second.
You can check for yourself, unless you blocked me for some reason. :dubious:
She has questionable standards, all yours. 
Oh, OK.
Who said that?
Hahahaha. This board is fucking awesome.
I am dumb in the extreme. Someone has to clue me in here.
Not sure I understand how you aren’t understanding. You aren’t seeing Bee’s posts?
Melon,
Not sure if I get Bees posts. I think he/she is saying I am a bad person.
Damned if I care.
KB
He’s not saying that at all.
So what did I miss?
Bees told you that he is older, more attractive and better groomed than I am.
You didn’t seem to understand what he was saying so I quipped that he wasn’t interested in you because he’s gay.
Then he responded that if you’re interested in me you must have low standards and so he yielded defeat.
Then you asked wtf was going on. 
And then ACM explained it to you.
And then I typed this.
And then…ooh, cookies!
The young studs are fighting over you, but in a somewhat questionable way - that is, the seduction techniques being used are questionable, that they’re fighting over you is not.
FWIW, I wouldn’t take the ‘pic-sent, no-response’ thing personally at all. Firstly, your pic looks just fine. It’s fresh, outdoorsy, and you look like a fun person.
I’m assuming one of a few things.
One - you said you were mid 40s-ish - maybe buddy was expecting Demi Moore - she’s 47 - not much you can do about that; however, if you turned out to be Demi Moore-esq, he would probably complain about how much time it took you to get ready to go anywhere. (Lets all remember - Ms. Moore does not wake up looking like that - despite being naturally pretty, there’s still hours of prep time involved in her public appearances.)
Two - as everyone lies on the internet, perhaps he thought you were bigger than you are? That sounds odd, but hear me out. Many moons ago (kind of before there was an internet) I was on a thing called ChatLine. It wasn’t specifically a dating service, but everyone kind of used it that way - you were required to fill out a profile which I did in a way that I thought was honest - i.e. I listed my figure type as curvy. IRL, I AM curvy - i.e. I have a small waist and a curvy booty and boobs; however, I’m also kind of small (a lot smaller then - I wore about a size 2 or 4 - sometimes a 0 depending - SMALL). So I met a guy off ChatLine and he was shocked at my IRL size. Apparently on the internet, curvy means really, really quite large. If you listed yourself as ‘a few extra pounds’ (which I guess a lot of women would do) that’s (apparently) code for really, really big.
What I’m saying is, is that you look quite slim and athletic in your pic - I could imagine that if you had chosen ‘curvy’ or ‘a few extra pounds’ in your profile he may have been expecting a much bigger girl and been disappointed - not because you don’t look good, just because he likes bigger girls - ya know?
Thirdly, any of the other things that have been suggested - he met someone IRL and fell for her, his wife found out, he’s gay, he was abducted by aliens, he has a strange puppet phobia, he’s a douche, etc. Regardless, I can’t think that your pic actually had much to do with it, but he really should have messaged you in SOME way so you wouldn’t be wondering; however, if he’s this inconsiderate, I think you dodged a bullet, personally.
I apply a decibel scale to reported weight on dating profiles, so “a few extra pounds” is “borderline obese”, “overweight” is “morbidly corpulent”, and “slender” is actually “terminal stage anorexia”. You, my dear Alice, would be “average” (or perhaps “athletic”) despite that term giving no fair description of your Jessica Rabbit-esque proportions.
Stranger
Wait… Covered in Bees is a guy?
Yes actually.
Agreed. (And Covered_In_Bees is, indeed, a guy. EDIT: way too slow over here.)
I don’t have that much online dating experience, but in the brief period of time I did it (and it is how I found my current SO), I don’t think I ever responded to anyone without a picture in the profile. It’s not like I’m George Clooney or anything myself, but best to set expectations up front. There are also certain types of pictures that instantly turned me off (shots with obvious significant others cropped out of the picture particularly irked me.)
I also think it’s good to meet fairly early in the process, so you don’t get wrapped up in some emotional relationship over the phone or emails, only to find out you don’t have that “chemistry” – whaver that word means to the both of you – in person. It’s just a hell of a lot easier that way. You don’t have as much emotionally invested.
Now, that’s just my perspective. Maybe I’m just a shallow son-of-a-bitch.
At any rate, the OP’s photo is perfectly lovely–natural, fresh, honest, pretty. I’m really not sure what else the guy wanted but, really, it doesn’t matter. Whatever it is, you’re not his physical type, but you can’t be everyone’s type. Better to screen these people out with a photo upfront then to find out later, in my opinion.
I think you need to start making travel plans, Bobo. 
Yeah, you’re only like, what, two inches tall?
You were speaking waaay too long before exchanging photos.
It’s probably nothing to do with how you look (because you look fine) but that the image that he built up in his head of you (for better or worse) didn’t match reality.
Have a friend take a nice photo of you and put it in your profile.
I am a girl! The F. on the front of my name is supposed to show that, at least in Hittite, whence I took my user name. Do you not know Hittite spelling conventions?