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

[Yogagirl17]

Erm...hope nobody minds?

but tights fall down. and are twisty. and thrushy.
suspenders are a faff.
hold ups are the best.

I think I will do Watch, it would be nice to have a bit of a diversion. If I can muster up the energy to write yet another profile! I knew I should have copied the last one before I deleted it!!

I love hold ups, the ones with the deep lacy tops are the best, they tend to stay put. I like suspenders too but they don't give a clean line under clothes, so they are best worn without clothes.

Good luck Snape, we're all rooting for you!

A general OD question for you experienced, wise folk - how many guys do you talk to at anytime? I currently have a friend with benefits that I keep praying will realise he can't live without me and have arranged to meet a different guy this Sat afternoon for a first date (both through match). I have received a wink from a guy who looks quite nice but fear talking to yet another may take me into hussy proportions!!

Oh and have to say I'm a big fan of the hold ups as long as they're not being worn for practical reasons, the buggers never stay up!

I like tights. I have some in vaguely exciting colours.

Am considering getting some stockings as well though (not exactly for wearing tbh).

I also had the experience of hold ups falling down. I kept trying to push them back up (not easy in public!) but within seconds they'd slowly start sliding down again. Once they ended up round my ankles - not quite the look I'd been aiming for. Since then it's been tights all the way for me.

I don't like hold ups ... but mostly because the elastic is hard on my sensitive dry skin and a rash isn't attractive. I have been known to wear those lace topped ones briefly, just in a put them on so they can be taken off way. I cannot wear tights for thrush reasons, so it tends to be stockings for me, or bare legged with boots ... by preference.

my dating postion?
I am a long way from the sofa..
met a man 15 years my junior today, he says he's up for it, pretty sure I am.

a bloke I've chatted to online for a year or so is due to visit this weekend, he has a 4 hour drive to get to me, so I hope I can be worth it:o

long term fwb has been in touch and says he badly needs to see me, probably not as badly as I want to see him, I'm secretly a little in love with him

pixieI tend to talk to several people at a time...but as regards 'having relations with' I tend to keep it between 2 and 4, but they would all be at varying frequencies
(dont really care about the 'hussy' issue)

Sponge, you were asking about Match. I was a member until last week, and usually looked for men between 40 and 50 in the London/Surrey area. I wish I could point you in the direction of a few good ones, but I had trouble finding any! (Mind you, I think the feeling was mutual, as I didn't get many messages either!) I was a member for 2 months and only had one date (who didn't want to see me again) out of it. Pah!

time take your date of birth off of your cv .. Against age discrimination laws to have it on there and see if that helps??

Oh bollocks. Have just texted him to ask what he fancies doing tomorrow, he said "having a talk with you about feeling nervous". I texted back "Okay. Oh dear??" and he said "Hmm". I said "Now I am feeling nervous" - no reply. Not good at all. Shit.

Western, what do you think he means by that? What could he be feeling nervous about?

Western I wouldn't take that as bad. He probably just doesn't know what to reply now - it's merely a conversational cul de sac.

That was a bit direct of him talk about putting you on the spot. Try and not think about it western and focus on enjoying your night. He may have just reaches the stage of thinking about possibilities too.

You are very kind but it's not sounding great to me ... I don't know, what is there to be nervous about? Can't think of anything in particular unless it's facing the wrath of a good woman when you bin her off cos you've got your shag

Do you think I should just leave it for tonight and see what he has to say tomorrow?

Thanks Kirsty I have just done exactly that! And taken off my very dated school education which gives away my age. But I have dates on my work experience which may be telling. I guess I will just have to see how it goes.

you dont need your dob on your cv. and if needs be take your years off your qualifications too.

western, weird. Cant you just call him now and find out, but unfair to keep you hanginglike that.

and pirate just called me too, to talk about my first day in detail.
which, i think, was nice of him :)

AND - if your jobs go back really far, you can take them off ( unless they have skills you want to demonstrate)

i only have 5 years work experience on mine, there isnt much need to go back further, and my cv would run pages long if i did.

Could call him but think I would rather see him face to face whatever it is. It's the "nervous" bit that's odd - nervous about having a new relationship/moving too fast/showing his feelings/ what??

Weird and unsettling. If by some chance we are still on after tomorrow night I am going to talk to him about keeping me dangling like this. Not at all fair.

I wonder how snape is going? we all want to know and actually I think its very mean of her to have not been updating on her phone. I hope it goes well xxx

Lol moving, it's hopefully because they are too busy....ahem...discussing things.

Thinking of snape too!

Western - what was the conversation you had with him yesterday? thread moves so fast I can't remember. Could this be related?

Yes. He met up with the childhood flame. He likes her. I have presented the notebook & uncorked the whiskey....

Fuck.