Residual Parenting Commitments, The Last Turkey In The Shop, Boiled Bunnies, Men With Fish and Stolen Condoms. Dating Thread XXXI.

[FlorentinePogen]

Get on with it, daters.............

KW sorry, couldn't resist.

I'm sitting here on PoF wondering if I only attract really unattractive, odd men. I think maybe I need to send out some messages rather than waiting for a gem to find me...

GreenEyed - I think generally people found that hiding your profile on POF and just messaging nice looking people had a better success rate than waiting to be approached. And also it's less depressing than getting all the weirdos messaging you.

I have discovered heels. Found a pair of brand new clarks ankle boots in a charity shop today for a tenner.

I now wiggle.

Wiggling is cool.

Snape I find it hard to imagine you ever being uncool

BantaBaby That sounds like a good plan. I think i will get Xmas and new year out of the way then look at signing up to a 'proper' OD website. I'm thinking Match or GSM. Unless anyone has any better suggestions...

Seriously. I tend to bowl along, but with heels I'm 6 foot tall & a bit intimidating and I strut. This is weird. I feel about a stone lighter.

& I never wore heels because voldemort was about two inches taller than me and I liked that and now I don't give a stuff. Bring on the professional basketball players.

Ah here is Barry now:

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Green - it really depends on whereabouts in the country you are as to which sites are good. GSM is pretty dismal outside London/major cities. I think there was one person within ten years of my age and fifteen miles of me . . . I signed up to Match and had no better luck on there than PoF (did it the other way round actually - was scared by PoF horror stories so paid to go on Match, didn't think it was worth keeping up the subscription and then found a lot of the same people were also on PoF). Both have been okay and I've had no lewdness or cockpics at all. Slightly disappointed.

OKC, on the other hand, was a total flop. I hardly got any messages apart from ones from odd guys in Chicago or India. Again, not many people locally so that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

They quote a lot of poetry on OKC as well.

Snape wear da heels I like heels makes the arse look more pert...sheesh Barry well what a surprise he is a minor celeb..

It would take more than heels to make my arse look pert

Yikes have been trying to keep up over the past few days but always pages behind to post. Been spending too much time on my fone as it is emailing Mr Funny. We met up for dinner in town last night (2nd date) and it was lovely. He continues to be lovely. I don't know how we're managing to email so much and still have plenty to talk about in person/on the phone. We have the same sense of humour which helps.

Tbh, it's going so well, no red flags etc, more I get to know him the more I want to know him, I find myself waiting for something to go wrong. But he always responds to messages, always does what he says he will or gives warning when he can't. And there's chemistry! And some kissing before rushing to catch the last tube last night! The antidote to months of crappy online dating. Just enjoying it for now and obviously really early days so who knows.

And haven't been back to check out dessert trolley since we switched over to emails. Happy to see where this goes.

Western ..I forgot to mention the spanx

Green - I've used GSM. Like western says, very much depends where you are. I'm in Glasgow and managed to meet a couple of decent men but they were all in Edinburgh. Even in a city you might only have dozens within your age bracket and location rather than the hundreds you might find on OKC and POF. Then again I've given up on OKC & POF completely because I just CBA talking to ugly, thick, uninteresting men.

4 me

questions it sounds lush ...enjoy!

I had a look at POF and to be honest, I just found it scary. They are the psycho looking men with their profiles ALL IN CAPITALS. Or the odd icky ones who say things like 'Well presented,clean, d@d free, good looking man seeking discreet encounter.
You must be clean.
Not into bars,however do like spending quiet times in the indoors, cuddling and kissing, massaging.'

That must be the most unsexy thing I have ever heard.

Blimey how do you find the diamonds in the dust?

Also what on earth is d@d?

santa it's either drug and disease free, or dungeons and dragons.

No idea if I have found a diamond. Early days.

Drug and Disease free! People put that!

Santa Barry gets around a bit doesn't he?!

Drug and Disease free? jeez, sounds like something from my dog's worming tablets leaflet.

Green I used Match and although you get your fair share of twunts and misfits I actually had dates with some very nice men and of course met Mr Ex Army who is lovely crosses fingers so as not to jinx anything

Questions Mr Funny sounds good, fancy! a man who does what he says he will and means what he says - whoever thought it would be such a hard thing to find! enjoy x

punk - are you deliberately searching for men looking for 'discreet encounters'? Cause if not you can change your search settings to look for men who at least pretend they are looking for relationships you will get different results. At the very least you might get fewer men declaring themselves 'disease free'!

Ooh no, Yogagirl, I'm not really looking at all...I just randomly scanned POF and it all seemed like another world.

I am laughing so much at Lulu's 'jeez, sounds like something from my dog's worming tablets leaflet.'

It's not for me. I am too daft, too soft, currently too hurt. But I am learning! I thought that d@d meant dad. Doh!