Hat wars and soup-er dates, let the sausage see the roll... The Online Dating Thread reaches 25!

[Yogagirl17]

Erm...hope nobody minds?

right, got a date set with CuteNurse :) next week once half term is out of the way, and one set with Safrican (whose accent is a bit grating but I'm hoping I'll get used to it) this week. I will not be spending silly money on it as it's not in London. Maybe some home cooking at mine. Is date #2 too early for home cooking?

Pixie - well done on broaching the topic with FWB - I can see why childless men are spooked by children - there's an implied responsibility there which parents got used to during the process of having them. They may not think you're looking for a dad for the dc but it's a lot more serious than just having fun with someone. When I dated someone with a 3 year old, back before I met my ex, it was just a different way of thinking - thinking about babysitters, do I hurt the child if I split with his mum, that kind of thing. A bit of being spooked is understandable, but its only when they get freaked out you've got to worry.

time to start thinking about the next thread title. Is it just me or do these threads seem to whizz by nowadays?

No pirates, hats, or sausages.

I loved 'the night circus' - just my sort of book. I need to find something new to read - finished the terribly depressing new JK Rowling yesterday. :)

Hellon - I've seen In the Night Garden, is that similar?

If you want to get into 'woo' SnapeI can recommend the iching..it's easy to do and you dont need to learn and puzzle over the meanings of the tarot and the various spreads

just for entertainment purposes of course:o

47 - Forty-Seven
K'un / Exhaustion

A Dead Sea, its Waters spent eons ago, more deadly than the desert surrounding it: The Superior Person will stake his life and fortune on what he deeply believes. Triumph belongs to those who endure. Trial and tribulation can hone exceptional character to a razor edge that slices deftly through every challenge. Action prevails where words will fail.

SITUATION ANALYSIS:

This is the realm of the Shaman. You have exhausted every alternative, spent yourself completely, taxed body and mind beyond your former limits.
Survival and salvation lie beyond your reach now. Only transcendence to a new existence a higher plane of being will see you through. The Old You is just a dry husk. You can't return to it. Metamorphosis is the only grace offered.
You can only return to your homeland as a New You.

WoooOooooOOoooOOoooooo!!!

guess you had your 3 coins already on standby there Snape :o

Read tarot cards for years Snape my gran gave me my first deck when I was eight. Also learned the four pillars and iching went through a real pagan phase in my early twenties.

lol..we're all witches at heart..I dont mean that in any kind of a bad way!!

I'm about to conduct my 4th interview via skype, finding it very helpful in figuring out which offers to accept.
Spoke to a bloke last night who looked good in his photo's but I got a weird sort of vibe from him and now dont want to meet him.

Best thing is it fits in with my 'stay in your pj's all day' lifestyle:o

so far no-one has tried to get his equipment out on the webcam:o

mercury!

Snape -Woo sounds positive

Watch - I think you did the right thing, I would have been climbing the walls with his gentlemanly ways

Mercury - what sites do you use?

I still have heard nothing from fridays coffee, even after I sent him a 'how's u' last night - so another one deleted. Bit miffed as I quite liked him

Switched back to IE for a few days, so far all potatoes but I managed to meet quite a few nice ones earlier this year so will see

Snape I want some woo too, please can you tell me where you got yours from. Thank you!

Mscello I'm on a no strings dating site, free for women blokes have to pay, I've used it on and off for a while...sometimes I find it a bit much but it's quite fun lately, it's quite fast moving!

Mercury which one I could always do with some 'extras'

my woo is from tarot & iching hours of navel-gazing fun!

:)

Thank you!

it's something like adult fish dating..several sites link in together..some of them are not sites you'd really want to be on!

Tarot stuff sounds very good...might give it a go myself :)

So, spoke to the policeman today. Despite being acutely conscious of the fact he is likely to be a complete nobber (cos most all policemen are, and because he was on POF) I like him a lot, he seems really, really nice. We're going for a drink next weekend. Unless he reveals himself to be married or a complete pervy fuckmuppet by then the chances of which are fairly high

and...

I think he actually appreciates me being clever.

famous last words

Ooh policeman sounds interesting (which reminds me, there were a couple of very cute policemen in Tesco last night).

I give up though. I have decided there simply aren't any decent, nice looking, single men online who live within 20 miles of Glasgow. So in preparation for many nights on the sofa I have so far downloaded The Hunger Games, Valentine's Day (which has a fantastic cast but is probably rubbish), Friends With Benefits (which I've seen but seems topical and because Justin Timberlake has a great ass), and several episodes of Greys Anatomy. Might dig out my tarot cards as well, haven't used them in yeeaaarrrss! Woo.

Trying to think of my single male friends in Glasgow....

Every time I go to my front door I expect to see that SODDING NOTEBOOK!

snape didn't you have a mutual friend seeing PM at some point? Could he get it back for you so you can stop worrying about whether PM will drop it on your step?

Yes, he emailed today to see how I was... Sometime this week apparently...

...to be honest I don't really want it, I do want him to keep it even if he doesn't deserve it

The Scotsman I met earlier this year was from Glasgow. He was v attractive and good company. Just a shame he was also married which I didn't find out til after I'd slept with him .

Valentine's Day is a lovely film, happy, but not TOO happy, if that makes sense. Definitely worth watching. I have Friends with Benefits to watch too - we'll have to compare opinions :)

Snape Voldemort won't return the notebook, I'm sure having it around acts as a constant virtual ego-stroking for him. Hope you're doing ok with everything non-Voldemort related too.

I am going to start believing in all this woo stuff you know. Something VERY lovely has happened (courtesy of one of you lovely people) and although I have my suspicions I am not certain who it was, so I will just collectively thank all of you. It is a v kind and lovely gesture which I really don't deserve. But thank you. Lots.

And...I gave some advice by pm to someone on another thread, and they thanked me really kindly. AND now I have 2 dates with men who don't seem to just want to shag me and one of which I really like so maybe nice things DO happen to me after all...?

sponge. Very pleased for you! Everything X'd.

I had a MN Christmas related piece of loveliness...and it has to be one of you and I don't deserve it either, but thank you whoever it was. I do really appreciate it. :)