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Hey, it's the Dating thread... number 37

999 replies

lubeybooby · 20/01/2013 00:04

Of we got - all dating chit chat here!

OP posts:
watchoutforthatsnail · 21/01/2013 17:49

i am upset. im not ashamed to say it, im not some unfeeling thing.

I was totally taken in, his profile says long term, until friday talks had been about travel, politics, feminism ( catliin moran) cheese, film, current affairs, pubs, cheese!! and just nothing along the smut line. He asked about coffee friday then weirdly didnt firm anything up... but checked i was on for sunday. I had bloody arranged a babysitter and everything and was really exited and bam. hes a tosser.

i just feel a bit flat about it.

ho hum, im getting a barrage of emails ( 47 and counting ). just had one from a 20 year old. i shall take the shallow flattery and leave it at that.

watchoutforthatsnail · 21/01/2013 18:05

i have a new neighbour. there was just doorstep flirting.
i am wearing fleece

dies a little inside

JulietteMontague · 21/01/2013 18:14

Watch unless it was a onsie you're in the clear

MsCellophane · 21/01/2013 18:17

I give everyone one fail.

BUT I would now be strongly telling him that I am not dial a shag and if that's what he wants, then he's pissing up the wrong tree.

You don't want that, I would tell him that and see if he comes back. I don't like letting these men keep trying to get one over on lovely normal people. But I am long single so maybe that explains it.

mercury7 · 21/01/2013 18:17

yep Voicewe can all be shallow (including me!) and online dating seems especially conducive to superficiality, I've done my share of cancelling at the last minute, changing my mind and ignoring people after I slept with them Blush

Snapespeare · 21/01/2013 18:20

Flirting while wearing fleece is a skill imagine the devastating effort of your non-snowy attire.

I am talking to a 33 year old on OKC, who is clever and handsome. He has ME but doesn't over-state it. He's perfectly gentlemanly, so it is actually very gentle and nice. We're averaging a message on OKC a day, no over-kill. I like talking to him. (Has teeth and meets requisite height requirements- bonus!!)

I just stripped down to my underwear, ran out on the snowy- roof and got DD to take a photo of me for my old tattoo forums closed group on fb. No chance of that ending up on my OKC profile. Hmm

Nomorepain · 21/01/2013 18:20

2nd date fixed for Thursday! I am excited!! Really, really excited!!!

VoiceofUnreason · 21/01/2013 18:21

Sorry, I know I keep harping on about jusing the word 'some' before the word 'men' lately, but as almost the sole guy on this thread now - Bant has gone and Bill is infrequent - it grates a little.

Yes, there are men out there who are wankers and when you mention one I am the first to agree. But there are decent guys - like me - and please don't tar us all with the same brush. In almost every instance (thanks Mercury) women can and have done exactly the same things. I agree, probably not as often, but often enough.

Nomorepain · 21/01/2013 18:22

I miss Bant!!

grinchie · 21/01/2013 18:24

Yay nomore Smile

watch 'cum tribute'? Eh?

Hi Kelly
Hi Dipping

Snapespeare · 21/01/2013 18:24

Absolutely agree. No-one would get away with 'women are bitches' without a deluge of abuse.

grinchie · 21/01/2013 18:24

Has Bant gone to Hungary?

ike1 · 21/01/2013 18:27

Dont forget Bunny!

mercury7 · 21/01/2013 18:28

'probably not as often, but often enough.' too kind voice women are just as bad..given the opportunity, at least I am

ike1 · 21/01/2013 18:29

Yes...dont forget I am the woman that nipped to the toilet and never came back!

JulietteMontague · 21/01/2013 18:31

Voice I wholeheartedly agree. It is unfair and unjust, particular to the men who are on this thread who have to read it. There is plenty on these threads of women being cavalier too. If anything, if any of the men on here spoke about women as we women have spoken about men I suspect they would have been cut up into small pieces and fed to the dogs told about it.

mercury7 · 21/01/2013 18:35

also, if your experience is that all women/ all men are horrid it might be a good idea to wonder why you are drawn to people who are bad news.
Rather than extrapolating from your own experience and applying it to everyone...

watchoutforthatsnail · 21/01/2013 18:35

voice, not for one second do i mean all. you know that.

it wasnt a onesie, ill have to make sure i bump into him in non fleece at somepoint.

snape - very brave of you, was it freezing?

mrs c, i think hes had two chances already really...

48howdidthathappen · 21/01/2013 18:41

Voice I do get where you are coming from, I am sure the lack of 'some' at times is an innocent mishap. I know in RL I have been guilty when going through a shit patch with my ex to have said things like 'fucking men' Blush

Brain is not always engaged. I am unaware if I have commited the sin on here or not.

BillMasen · 21/01/2013 18:42

I'm still here. Just more lurking until I have something to add. Agree with snape, we (that's some men) wouldn't lump all women together in a disparaging way, and it'd be nice if it were acknowledged that not all men are bastards/perverts/inadequates/twats/short. Delete as applicable.

To be fair, it doesn't happen often on this thread. You're all a nice bunch.

nomore sounds brilliant, really pleased for you and hope it all continues to go well Smile.

VoiceofUnreason · 21/01/2013 18:44

We men on here are a minority, you're not supposed to discriminate against minorities!!!! Smile

I knew you were lurking Bill

watchoutforthatsnail · 21/01/2013 18:46

im not always drawn to people who are bad news Confused

i had no idea, he seemed perfectley lovely. until yesterday evening.

I certainly dont mean all men, its like 48 says, and is just a thing, i shall be more mindful of putting ' some' in front.

though i do have to think there is some sort of fact there, ive posted a pic where i look very young, and stupidly pretty ( my modesty knows no bounds) and ive had 67 messages since it went up, what, less than an hour ago.

BillMasen · 21/01/2013 18:46

Oh and hello to the new posters. I'm bill and I'm whispers a bloke! Don't let that put you off though...

48howdidthathappen · 21/01/2013 18:47

My sister has just texted me from the hospital my mum has just had her feeding tube removed. I am over the fucking moon Grin

watchoutforthatsnail · 21/01/2013 18:50

oh 48, thats amazing!!!!!!!

go your mum!!!!

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