To want to e-mail this guy from a dating site with this?

[FisticuffsBartholomew]

So he e-mails me as an opening salvo:

Galaxy or Dairy Milk

Red or white wine

Corrie or Eastenders

and I am tempted to e-mail him back:

Aristotle or Plato

Ibsen or Brecht

Nadezhda Krupskaya or Rosa Luxembourg

Can't think why I'm single....

ninah!

you've got me

I'm on a couple of dating sites and earlier got a message saying "Hi, I'm ***" Well, yes, I know that it's on your profile

At least he didn't ask

"Spit or Swallow"

I got one earlier who said he liked to go to the see side

A change from all the ones who are looking for their sole mate.

Or who don't understand the difference between two, to and too...or your and you're.

I got a message a few weeks ago saying I was 'hotter than a glamour model'

I have decided to view it as fair comment

Pedantry is good. You might be desperate for a date but you must also be discerning!

I could never date a guy with bad English. I'm still getting over my partner's hung/hang gaffe. I'm sure I don't need to explain.

Good luck and report back!

Hatesponge

I read some profiles mentally correcting their spelling/grammar

It is virtually impossible to meet intelligent people on dating sites. Plenty of people are willing to admit that they're not that attractive, but no one will own up to being fik, so everyone always has "Very intelligent" on their profile

Me too!

I wince at the really bad ones...3 winces and I have to stop reading

I do feel tempted to message some and explain that, however fit they are, they still need to use proper grammar, punctuation and spelling!

Also can't bear over-familiar men, what's with all this 'babe', 'hun' and 'sxy' after you've exchanged 2 emails about the weather?

I've been very lucky and met 4 very intelligent people recently on dating sites (only dating one though!). I should pass them on to you. They are out there.

One (other) guy did e-mail though and all he wrote was 'so what questions do you want to ask me?' as if he was shit hot and I wouldn't possibly have anything of interest to say about myself. I didn't reply.

On one profile I put I hate text speak. The first message I got on that site contained text speak

I put that I hate text speak

I agree it would put me right off.

Need to be careful with this though. I met a lovely man on a dating website. Really bright guy, degree in physics runs his own company. BUT he is dyslexic. I noticed this as my son is also dyslexic and they both had a really big vocab but couldnt spell. When he told me that on our first date, I wasnt even surprised.

If you look hard enough there are some lovely bright men out there though. Have dated, professors and managing directors with degress in subjects like chemistry and maths. My current date is a lovely man who is an academic with a Phd. Met him on a dating website

I think it`s Rosa Luxemburg (only knows because she googled).

I have nothing useful to say but I want to know if he replies.

My mum got engaged on Monday, her birthday, to her lovely internet dating fella. :o

I totally disagree with whoever said its not possible to meet intelligent men internet dating.

Agree that noone says they are thick but it's not hard even looking at their profile to spot the intelligent ones. Exchange a couple of emails and it becomes glaringly obvious.

I dated 4 or 5 other men I met online before meeting my dh - all very intelligent (teacher, owned own business, anaesthetist etc etc)

ROFL am reporting back.

Sorry perhaps I should wait till later, it's a bit early for this, but it is friday.

He wrote back saying: "oh you're clever"

Then he said he's not interested in politics but could tell me exactly who Chelsea beat in evry game in the league. (I'm waiting with baited breath )

Then he said anyway the language of love is more important and he would love to go down on me and would have me writhing on his tongue (sounds good ) asked me how big my breasts are, assured me that his penis is 8 inches and I won't be able to get my hands round it it's so big, and invited me on a date.

So it didn't put him off

Lenin or Mao?

Greer or Frieden?

Catherine de Medici or Lucrezia Borgia?

Gonorrhea or syphilis?

Bloody hell! 8 inches?!

Have you actually replied?

I'm wondering if it could be a double/triple/quadruple bluff and he's actually a nobel-prize winning scientist who plays concert-standard piano and writes poetry in his spare time.... The rather unoriginal sex talk might be some kind of test. Or maybe not.

I think you need to take a ruler on your date, get him to drop trou' and measure it before you proceed any further to make sure it lives up to its promise.

Is that how people actually talk to potential dates on them there dating sites?

Because. I am going to be forever single if that is the case. Honestly.

It seems very forward doesn't it SK?