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I met my boyfriend on a forum, so I guess I can't really diss dating sites. I think it's better if it just sort of develops though.
Also, long distance, so extra fun.
Quote: ellipsis @ March 3 2010, 11:26 PM GMTI met my boyfriend on a forum, so I guess I can't really diss dating sites. I think it's better if it just sort of develops though. Also, long distance, so extra fun.
You mean because you can cheat on them and they'll never find out? I hear you. 
Quote: sglen @ March 3 2010, 10:14 PM GMTAt some point I'm just going to have to accept my fate.
Have you tried Guardian Soulmates? You tend to get a better quality of creep there, and they are more likely to be interested in 'the arts', so your comedy side might be better catered for. Unlike the free sites, it's not free...which is perhaps an advantage ( all my bad dates have been from free sites). But it's free to just look, so at least you can have a look for nowt, and join properly later if you want to.
Quote: Nogget @ March 4 2010, 7:10 AM GMTHave you tried Guardian Soulmates? You tend to get a better quality of creep there, and they are more likely to be interested in 'the arts', so your comedy side might be better catered for. Unlike the free sites, it's not free...which is perhaps an advantage ( all my bad dates have been from free sites). But it's free to just look, so at least you can have a look for nowt, and join properly later if you want to.
Guardian Soulmates was the one I was on, yeah. You don't have to pay to put up a profile, just to speak to people. You can show if you're interested by making people "favourites" as well so I thought I'd subscribe if I got "favourited" by someone I liked. Unfortunately, no one I liked liked me and there was no one coming to me that I was willing to spend £30 to chat to! I just got sick of all the messages coming through in the end. (Unless there's a way to stop them from coming through to your email that I hadn't worked out!)
I was probably being too honest, to be fair. I'd had a look around and everybody seemed to be putting that they wanted a woman "who looks after herself" when it comes to image. I hated the idea of being with someone that would want me to make an effort in that department all the time so I made it politely clear that I wanted to meet someone who didn't place much importance on it. (which probably made it sound like I'd gained twenty stone and contracted leprosy since my profile picture was taken...) 
Quote: sglen @ March 4 2010, 8:01 AM GMTeverybody seemed to be putting that they wanted a woman "who looks after herself" when it comes to image.
I think that phrase is just a Guardian-readers euphemismistic way of saying no one who sits around in a stained leisure suit all day smoking Super Kings and eating Cornish pasties with hair you could fry an egg on.
Quote: ellipsis @ March 3 2010, 11:26 PM GMTI met my boyfriend on a forum, so I guess I can't really diss dating sites. I think it's better if it just sort of develops though.
Also, long distance, so extra fun.
Quote: chipolata @ March 3 2010, 11:32 PM GMTYou mean because you can cheat on them and they'll never find out? I hear you.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ March 4 2010, 8:18 AM GMTI think that phrase is just a Guardian-readers euphemismistic way of saying no one who sits around in a stained leisure suit all day smoking Super Kings and eating Cornish pasties with hair you could fry an egg on.
There are quite a few euphemisms like this. People prefer to describe themselves as being 'curvaceous' when they mean 'obese'. Of course they couldn't actually use the proper word, because that would be offensive...to themselves?
Often they say they 'live life to the full' which often seems to mean that they ' need a straightjacket'.
And I discovered that an 'occasional' smoker finds no shortage of occasions in which to smoke, judging by her yellow teeth and gravelly voice.
I wouldn't internet date. I can see the benefits of being able to filter a list of potential suitors, but I'm far too neurotic to go out with someone I've never met.
I quite fancy the idea of a Russian mail order bride.
Quote: chipolata @ March 4 2010, 9:23 AM GMTI quite fancy the idea of a Russian male order bride.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ October 11 2009, 9:37 PM GMTI discounted Andrea because she's still technically married and lives 3000+ miles away. (Plus Tim Walker is all over that like white on rice).
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop @ October 11 2009, 9:42 PM GMTTim Walker: Smoooooooth Operator.
It all feels smooth when you're only semi-conscious.
Quote: Timbo @ October 14 2009, 4:30 PM GMTWhat's to lose?
Quote: Paul W @ October 14 2009, 5:02 PM GMTYour anal virginity to a man call Russ?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 14 2009, 5:05 PM GMTI might be wrong, but it seems most people meet this way.
My parents did too (meet through friends).
Quote: Paul W @ October 14 2009, 5:02 PM GMTif I wasn't with my current girl I would have no idea how to meet a nice any woman
Quote: chipolata @ March 3 2010, 8:49 AM GMTIsn't that the problem with dating sites? The dates are blind. At least with meeting people at work etc, you know if you fancy them before a date.
No. That's blind dates. On a dating site, you're supposed to put up a recent photo of yourself.
Of course people can lie or otherwise stretch reality, but that's a risk in almost every corner of life.
Quote: EllieJP @ March 3 2010, 12:35 PM GMTOh wow. See I won't date anyone that's not within dating distance. In London, I live in the South West, so I go for people around there. Anything North or East is out of the question. I appreciate effort is to be made, but an hour to go and see someone for a date is ridiculous.
You're shitting all over Elliot and Robyn here!
Quote: scratchyr @ March 3 2010, 12:53 PM GMTIt's pretty limited in Southend to be honest, and I do have a bit of a thing for foreign ladies, so I am very happy.
What kind of a foreign is she?
Quote: Aaron @ March 4 2010, 4:40 PM GMTYou're shitting all over Elliot and Robyn here!
I didn't say these are rules everyone has to follow, believe me I've been in my own long distanct relationships. It's just not something I want to persue again.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ March 3 2010, 9:33 PM GMTI mean, I can't remember if I posted on this thread before, but I dunno what I'd do without Elliot now.
You'd probably be bald. And/or dead.
Quote: EllieJP @ March 4 2010, 4:42 PM GMTI didn't say these are rules everyone has to follow, believe me I've been in my own long distanct relationships. It's just not something I want to persue again.
Oh come on. It might take a little more effort to travel, but South West to North London is not "long distance" by ANY stretch of the imagination. Believe me!
Quote: Aaron @ March 4 2010, 4:46 PM GMTOh come on. It might take a little more effort to travel, but South West to North London is not "long distance" by ANY stretch of the imagination. Believe me!
It takes me an hour and a half to travel door to door from my house (near Putney) to East Finchley. It's ridiculous.