The all new, sparkly,2013 Dating Thread - 35!

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off you go.

Meant 2 of the best looking ones around my age. There will be lots of nice younger ones.

Good luck, Snape, I hope he is fabulous. Wasn't 'Barney' a purple dinosaur?

Oh crikey I am overrun with dinos of every description ...I would happily offload some onto you Snape. Good Luck...I so hope he is as cool as you think.

well I was supposed to call someone, or she was supposed to call me, last night, and each (possibly) thought it was the other - although I still think it was meant to be her, so the call never happened. This is a girl who winked at me, I replied to after a couple of days, we exchanged 4 or 5 mails and I said lets meet for coffee/drinks - and she said she'd prefer to wait a couple of weeks.

I explained my theory that long buildups tend to disappoint, whereas quick meets when we know we're both not strange let us know sooner if there's a spark or not. She said she'd still rather wait and exchange more emails and phone calls. Since when there have been very few emails or phone calls. Meh.

Miss Guinness is up for another date, however childcare (mine and hers) is proving to be a hurdle.

CabinCrew is still theoretically up for date 2 at the end of the month. I will be in another country.

ShoeGirl hasn't responded. I really just want to ask her why she ran away, not that I expect a response. I don't walk with a hunch, I have all my teeth, I'm not bad looking.. I dunno.

It isn't. Lizard Man (eyes strangely far apart) is due to reply, after his message which was a thinly veiled attempt to get professional advice out of me, I'm supposed to be going for a drink with Save Lives, Me ( meh ), Professional Irishman took umbrage when I refused to be pushed into talking to him on the phone and Floating Parts Talent Show continues to send short, flirty emails despite him 'seeing someone' from work. (I quite like FPTS, he's daft as a brush and has nice legs) .
In summation, no sausage seeing the roll chez Arse.

Did you text Shoegirl Bant, since the abandoned date?

Bit of advice needed, I'm very much of the school of thought that if a guy is interested he will keep the contact up, so what to do if when I log on someone that I've chatted to is online. Wait for them to message then take lack of message as not interested anymore. Or say hi?

Oh Bant, ShoeGirl's clearly a knobber.

Thanks for the advice. The private pics thing seems like the best idea. I'm wary of public pics anyway for the reason of my ex, even more so having found someone I know within five minutes of being on the site. I know all the reasons for ignoring people with no pics and ironically I'd assume the worst of a man who didn't have any, although I'm guessing there's more married men dicking around online than there are married women.

I've tried Match in the past a couple of times but always ended up feeling shit for paying and not meeting anyone. In my area at least it seems to be the same guys on there all the time, literally; I've joined twice with a couple of years break between and seen the same guys listed. Of course there's a lot more people who can't write on POF and a lot more people indirectly bellowing at their 'headfuck' exes but at least that type show their hands at the off.

I say hi Scrazy...at that point its no big deal they dont know you from adam.

48 - pear cider? pear cider? oh dear..... Round here, where it comes from, cider is ONLY made from apples. If it is made of pears it is called perry. But apparently it was decided this was too confusing for the public, so the big producers agreed they would market it as pear cider. Sigh.

Sorry, as a cider drinker, I hate pear cider. Although I understand girlies like it.

Oh dear Mr Natural has taken down his profile since I tried to get him to go on a platonic date and then said I would only 'think' about any dates with sex potential....I reckon he's gone right off the cougar idea...maybe even women in general after all that headfuckery.

Excuuuuuuse me, I've never had pear cider, I like proper cider.

yeah its just roughed up Babycham that 'pear' cider...

Arse - glad to hear it!

Thanks Ike, most people have the 'Chat' facility but I don't. Not sure I want people chancing their luck with IM.

Me a girlie Runs away sobbing. Gave up 'proper' cider many years ago. Got me in too much trouble.

Ike, lots of younger men on the sites thinking older women are gagging for them. Don't worry about headfuckery, expect his willy was drooping at the thought of not being able to pull a MILF.

Bant as Shoegirl has now officially very behaved badly by not getting in touch at all and you probably wouldn't want her anyway, you have nothing to loose in asking outright and I'm curious. Beware if you start with her again though as she did it once and you may always be wondering if she would do it again. Not helpful if you are in Hungaria.

Tamoo on most people seem to have success on Match, I get nothing, on GSM I get pervs. POF meh, and okc is the one that I've actually had dates with.

Tamoo - Match, OKC and EHarmony were useless for me. GSM I've just tried and found it hopeless. POF the only one I had any slight success with.

Agree about Eharmony, it was the absolute worst as they decide who is a match and you don't see any others.

PoF for me! Had a few dates off Match but it does get expensive. PoF is fine if you're selective.

48 cider has got me in a lot of trouble too. I only drink the sanitised Strongbow type stuff now which helps. I love it. But never had perry. Or them fancy mucked about drinks pretending to be cider.

May be about to write long, self-indulgent crappy post so you have been warned. But I might not, need to get my thoughts in order first.

Not tried PoF or OKC ( wavering about trying the latter ) Match frickin' useless, GSM, up their own arses/personality disorders, most luck on MA, which is freaky as everyone else reckons it's rubbish.

(Seriously thinking about trying Uniform Dating, for a bit of light-relief perv fishing and then reporting back here )

OWW, what's up?

Match works for me. POF nothing, GSM nothing, OKC nothing (well there was an offer of a date from a girl who looked like a man. I declined)