Bizarroville!! PoshBoys, Muppets, Surgeons, nurses, coffee addicts and RL - dating thread 27!

[lubeybooby]

Roll up roll up get yer dating chat here... all kinds of dating...

Online, RL, established, new, join in and blether away!

jeeze louise, another one already!
I'm busy chatting to lots of possibilities, including a firefighter as it happens:o

sponge :) :) :)

Yay sponge!!!! Third date! THRID DATEEEEEE!!!

Oh, and it's my grievance at work today, that will be fun. some work related woo please, thank you! :)

<strong>Sponge</strong>!!! Yay yay yay! <span class="line-through">I'll try not to be too smug about knowing something good would happen for you</span> <img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Wink" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/wink-ClU7UaDM.png">

Sponge!! Look at you, all second-dated! Glad it went well, I'm actually smiling here on your behalf.

Snape, good luck at work.

Kirsty, the fireman, hope he's lovely. All the firemen I've ever met (though I've only met a few, and briefly) have been. Around here, though, they all seem to know each other - is there a chance he knows your STBXH?

Sponge, im so happy for you. See, its never been you, you havent done anything different this time round, you look the same. Its just all those others were dicks! And a third date too!!!!!

Gopd luck snape.

Woo dispensed to all. Extra portion to Snape, fingers crossed for you.

(WFF lookds sternly at the negative energies, and unsatisfactory outcomes and bids them to move on and step off...)

Now women, and men, take up the opportunities as they present themselves, give the sausage a chance to see the roll, the woo can't do all the work

I want some COFFEE, hot, strong full of a certain flavour

Sponge :D woohoo third date! So pleased you had a great date two :o

Snape ~~~~~ work woo for youuuuu~~~~~~~

snape hope it goes ok today .. Sending positive thoughts your way x

fay there is a good chance he knows STBXH as STBXH used to work in training and so came into contact with a lot of them .. Unfortunately he wasn't nice .. When we started going out he told me his nickname was the grinch .. Should have been a red flag!!

sponge go girl!!! :-)

4 hours til my first OD date and surgeon has texted this morning but was generic ' morning beautiful' so he may have a list!! :)

snape hope it goes ok today .. Sending positive thoughts your way x

fay there is a good chance he knows STBXH as STBXH used to work in training and so came into contact with a lot of them .. Unfortunately he wasn't nice .. When we started going out he told me his nickname was the grinch .. Should have been a red flag!!

sponge go girl!!! :-)

4 hours til my first OD date and surgeon has texted this morning but was generic ' morning beautiful' so he may have a list!! :)

Oops double post

I find it interesting that so many people on here DO seem to do well (at least in getting dates even if not relationships) via online dating. Or is there just something in the water at the moment?

I know so many attractive people (I'm not counting myself in that) who have great profiles and photos and have barely had a date in years from any site, paid or otherwise. And if you look at POF forums, the single parents there say they have the hardest time whereas - at the moment at least - Mumsnet appears to buck that trend.

Does make me wonder how many of those of you who are actively dating at the moment live in large cities?

I'm in the Glasgow area voice

I have been bombarded since signing up on Sunday ..

I'm in the London area voice

Snape sending positive woo your way!

Kirstie do you mean your ex was called grinch?

Sponge I'm so pleased your second date went well. Am I right in thinking you went to Covent garden? Plus just to say don't write off the policeman, remember what happened when you wrote them both off!

Sponge - woo, third date!!! So pleased for you

Bantam - my ex fiancée was South African. His family and friends were all a bit bonkers with varying degrees of racism. I I think it may be quite common. Longer you leave the finishing things the harder it will get!

Watch - hope the headache shifts for you

That's the extent of my short term memory, they really need to fix this phone app so you can read back messages when replying.

No climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for me, can't pay the deposit until next week and there are only twenty five spaces throughout the city, will all be gone by then! Looks amazing though and will definitely do it in 2014, plenty of time to save up

Went to the fireworks with NL, they were brilliant as always. Played a few games of pool before hand and beat NL and his friend twice each was a nice night

Hello people, I manage to get about a word in edgeways on each dating thread before it goes into orbit, so here's my tuppenyworth ... re kissing and nakedness:

Guy I'm seeing was quite shy on first date, so was I, I kissed him on the cheek as we parted, more so that he'd know I liked him than anything else. He texted to say he was pleasantly surprised and it took off from there. I honestly think we may never have got to date 2 if I hadn't done that. That was 10 weeks ago.

Re nakedness, in my errm not-so-limited experience, you're both so happy to be getting it together that sagginess here and there (and there and there ) is the last thing on your mind and hopefully the enthusiasm and mutual encouragement take over. And I am old as the hills

Kirsty you were in my dream last night - I met you and your gorgeous boyfriend!! And I had not one but two job offers and they were starting a bidding war for me. Hopefully woo wont just be in my head. Good luck with today's date, can't wait to hear how it goes.

Sponge - WOO HOO
You are totally awesome. An so happy Cuthbert continues to be lovely.

Snape - good luck, will send positive vibes ur way xx

Madame - am on my phone just now but will link to gingerbread mans profile later. Conversation with the Engineer going well tho so hoping he will suggest a date. I could do it myself but I kind of like to be asked.

Boise that was some profile! He started off sounding quite normal and then...!! I read one profile yesterday that was an entire paragraph - about 10 or 12 lines without a single capital letter or punctuation mark just total stream of consciousness. And another that was ALL IN SHOUTY CAPS AND GOING ON ABOUT WHAT NATIONALITIES HE WILL DATE!!!

U wonder if these guys are just totally unaware, taking the piss or think someone will find it funny and charming

When I started writing that we were on page 1

that's fantastic news sponge, I've got everything crossed

Voice I am in London

Good luck snape, hope all goes well today

Lots of woo and positive vibes Snape

Sponge wow!!! Fantastic result. Really, really pleased for you that you've broken your no-second-date run, and he sounds nice. More gossip at once, please!

Kirsty - hope things go really well for both dates today . . .

Voice - I'm in a rural part of the north-west but had no problem finding dates reasonably locally. I think you need a bit of determination and gumption to make things happen, sift through all the shite etc but there are genuine people out there. Met up with eight or so dates (first dates with a couple of seconds) with mainly very nice guys but no spark, before I met the really lovely man I'm with now. I was always quite positive about the OD thing and enjoyed the chat (not smutty) and found it all quite confidence-boosting and fun, had a few good nights out even if nothing was going on romantically. I think it does work, it's just another way to meet people and the only one that would work for me due to work and childcare commitments . . . Haven't had anyone with ishoos about me having children, but I've always been up front about it on my profile. It's probably easier dating single dads as they understand about priorities, childcare etc, although logistically it's not that easy . . . but you're both in the same boat so it's okay.

voice - getting dates is easy. i got offered 3 in the space of 2 days:) its getting a decent date that is the difficult thing! i dont live in a large city at all, and if you look on okcupid for men 5 years either side of my age and in a 25 mile radius, there is only about 15 men!! so, its slim pickings. BUT, getting a date, is easy.

fate, sorry about the climbing, but there is always next year, like you say. OR, you might be lucky and be able to get a space, you never know. Sounds like you had a nice night in any case :)

bant - you need to do it, i know its hard, i stalled with the puppy for a week ( but he was away, so i knew i wasnt going to see/ speak to him in that time anyway) and that was a 5 month relationship, its hard, i didnt feel bad for me, but knew he would be upset.... but, you just need to do it.

i def cant make fridays date now, my brother is doing some work on my car, and is picking it up friday eve. i feel pleased i have a genuine excuse, so im taking that as a sign i really need to give it a rest for a little while. I have had a 5 month thing and then a month dating with someone else, thats not so bad for the last year really.....

ok, I sent the text to the Safrican, and now I feel guilty. Ah well at least we hadn't done the deed yet.

Crap.

Good for you Bantam - it's not easy doing that sort of thing. Don't feel bad, at least you didn't just disappear and leave her hanging!

delurking again .... oooh this is becoming a habit!

Agree with Western, I joined Match at the end of the summer. I went into it with a positive mindset, got a few frights with some suggestive first messages and the usual bad spelling, grammar, one liners etc. Quickly got brutal savvy, at weeding out the unsuitables and had some nice first and second dates. Then met current man about 7 weeks ago and clicked from the first email, loads of phone calls, texts and then super, can't stop smiling, amazing dates.

Will it last? who knows? but it has restored my self confidence, and I know now that I am capable of feeling that spark, knicker tingling lust with someone else other than cheating bastard STBXH!

Amen to that