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I've just registered, thanks to encouragement from MNetters. All I want is a few nice nights out.

I haven't done a photo yet though, as I'm sat here in front of the webcam with a cold and zits.

The thing that fucks me off is that I'm 48, nearly 49. I look it. Why are most of the suggested matches 41, 42, 43? They really wouldn't want me. It would be embarrassing to meet them.

I've changed my profile to add a couple of years.

Can you not select the age group you're interested in? Not done that website, but the ones I did do (match.com and soulmates) you could choose the age group you wanted.

I bet you're the first person ever to lie about their age by making themselves older!

(or maybe you should be more open minded - maybe they might be into older women )

Good luck

I can't find the age-select thingy.

My last relationship was a toy boy. Not going there again - I want to play at grown ups for a change!

Don't be too hasty. Most of the blokes on POF age in dog years.

Found it!

Doers every man aged 49 in the UK not looking for an intimate encounter really work in a warehouse?

Do most men over 45 now have no hair?

Do most men in there 40's think that its such a 'turn on' for us women to see them :
a - photographed in their bikers gear
b - in said bikers gear next to bike
c - photograph with ex W/P with her cut out but with her hand still showing on his shoulder
d - Guy holding a fish/pint of beer

I know there is more to add to this list ladies.........

Flotsamflo I think I need you as my personal agent.

I've now had a reply from a guy who I used to know years ago, but has since been at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

e - always an image of a sperm or Justin Bieber with the hilarious caption, 'Me when I was younger.'
f - the joyous requests in the texty bit for 'No lumps' and 'Don't bother lying about your looks.'

g- guy wearing a tuxedo - THEE pic from his previous wedding when he still had hair lol

OMG LineRunner what was he in for ??

You've forgotten:
h - reflection in bathroom mirror. Taken whilst wife / partner / girlfriend is in the other room.

Do I get to list the equivalent female photos? I've seen some corkers...

ha!ha!ha! thats a popular one

i- the topless one with stomach sucked in and a constipated look on his face

j - ten years ago / better looking brother / better looking random stranger.

Why would you? But I'm reliably told it happens...

k, taken at arms length with a good view up his nostrils....

How do I get to see the female profiles?? I gather from some of the chaps' comments that they're not always entirely accurate...

chubbasmum, I believe it was a financial irregularity of some sort. He wants to take me out for a drink. It's a bit like being rediscovered by Derek Branning.

linerunner - you have to log out and then tell it you're a man looking for a woman!

at Derek Branning

have you thought about paying a specialist introduction agency? There is quality schlong out there but not sure you will find them on PoF - have you got any hobbies or interests? I bet there is an agency specialising in them, or a regional one or something like eHarmony?

I joined one at the weekend and was very pleasantly surprised, although not sure this sort of structured approach is for me I think I've made a new friend or two already. And through the psychometric testing thing I match with a famous tennis coach (but he has a shiny head so will ignorez-vous him)

<officially outraged at men being referred to as "quality shlong">

<but kudos to Mitchie for using the word schlong>

sorry my misandry strikes again

must stop objectifying them, for one thing it just encourages them

hahahaha! Very true....

It's all soooo depressing.

Funny, though, in a way. Mitchie, I haven't heard the phrase Quality Shlong since dear Shmuelik took me to meet his mother in Arad and his sister decided we were destined to be together.

ha!ha!ha! i might have a little laugh about POF but its not all bad i was with a paying dating agency and i just got loads of `paying` tossers went back to POF in Aug 11 met a really nice guy i still cant believe my luck

Quality schlong (!)

So anyway, I have had only one nice email and the rest are from degenerates and losers.

The man who sent to nice email is not my type, I don't think.

do you know what you're looking for?

I was pleased to sort of click with a few and line up some dates, then I worry that I won't know what to do with them over time. It's a bit destabilising.