These threads are invaluable. My date... definitely, without having read so many of your tales and experiences, I wouldn't know what to think. So first of all - why lie about height? It's going to be fairly obvious that 5'9" is NOT 5'11" when I am just over 5'7" and wore 2.5" heels. The whole thing about "the worst photo" is very pertinent. Also (and I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt here, which I will explain after this little factoid): telling your date you really, really want children after 60 minutes may be a wee bit full on. Here comes my BoD: i imagine that if one has been on many dates, one might want to get that fact out quickly to avoid wasting time/money/effort on dead ends. Or else he had already decided (as had I, within minutes of meeting) that we really weren't a match and was just telling me about himself without agenda. Which is fine and perfectly plausible/likely.
So I emerge unscarred emotionally from my first 'first date'. It wasn't dreadful, he was just a little bit too 'I hate it' about certain things that could have been handled more diplomatically and there was no physical attraction. But a perfectly pleasant way to spend a couple of hours talking about books and films and football; height and children-confession notwithstanding.
Seriously, without these threads, I would be feeling a lot more guilty about the 'no spark, but thanks and good luck' message. It's like a manual of dating on here.