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lubeybooby · 01/03/2013 09:46

Here we go - all dating chat here!

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ChooChooLaverne · 05/03/2013 23:41

mercury I'm like you, it's much better to be off the grid. Who'd want anyone to be able to google all their details like that?

Bill are you happy with it?

BillMasen · 05/03/2013 23:45

Yeah I am, but I do worry that I'm trying a bit too hard to look "cool" and it's coming across as "desperate" Smile

mercury7 · 05/03/2013 23:59

hair looks fine to me Bill,really..presumably you canstyle it more or less casually as required in any case?

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lubeybooby · 06/03/2013 00:11

Looks fine to me bill, and you don't look anything near your age therefore anyone saying it's scruffy is jealous and trying to age you

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StrictlySalsaDancingDiva · 06/03/2013 00:17
grinchie · 06/03/2013 00:22

I like it bill

KinNora · 06/03/2013 06:54

Morning,

Bill agree with Lubey, you look young and can carry it off - the people who told you to get rid are just haterz.

Not quite condoms but I thought I share a Story of Shame to amuse you first thing in the morning, I popped into our local very,very tiny high street Boots to buy some lube. Obviously I was already really quite embarrassed about this but had decided that it was preferable to buying it in the local supermarket where pretty much all the staff know and chat to me.
Anyway, there I am, all nonchalant, all 'look at me, I'm a completely liberated, sassy modern woman who knows what she wants and has a vibrator' perusing the brands on offer, wondering which one to buy as I bend down to look at the display, eventually as I make my decision, I stand up with it clasped in my nervous, sweaty little hand and as I stand, I catch the enormous shampoo display behind me which collapses in hideous comedy slow motion. Then of course, to complete the moment, the pharmacist rushes around the corner to help, with the horrible meeting of eyes and his quick glance to my hand. Marvellous. This is why Love Honey is good.

Have a lovely day everyone, proper dating update later.

ChooChooLaverne · 06/03/2013 07:27

Bill I think your hair is cool. If you're happy with it it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks anyway.

Nora arf Grin

48howdidthathappen · 06/03/2013 08:20

Bill I like your hair. Bed hair Smile You should see mine. Wild.

Haha kin Did you ever go back? Grin

Flipper924 · 06/03/2013 08:26

Bill, I like your hair, and I agree, you don't look your age. A more 'age-appropriate' style would probably make you look older. Of course, if you're wandering about with your very tight trousers lower than your arse, and insist on only wearing JW, then you might well look like you're trying too hard.

How can anyone still be embarrassed about buying condoms? Honestly, having worked for years on the checkouts, nothing going through my till was of any interest to me. Bung them on the belt next to the other non-food items (for ease of unpacking) and smile at the person sitting there. I promise they will notice that you smiled at them more than they'll notice the condoms! I get more embarrassed buying microwave meals...

Though I did think you could still pick them up for free from the family planning clinic?

Flipper924 · 06/03/2013 08:27

That's funny, Nora. I think I'd always have to make the trip to the next town for anything I needed from Boots after that.

ike1 · 06/03/2013 08:27

......and Kin dont tell me....he was gawjus! Bill you look cute n' cuddly. However I would grow it even longer and go for a mod type do....a bit Liam Gallagher...

ike1 · 06/03/2013 08:31

....she says sitting with her orangey pink hair growing out at the roots all greasy n' shit...

48howdidthathappen · 06/03/2013 08:34

Just reminded me Ike I need to to touch up my grey bits.

VelvetSpoon · 06/03/2013 08:35

Bill your hair looks fine. Lots of people seem to feel they have to project their own issues by criticising others, I have been on the receiving end of this in rl many times.

So, the update on text watch is there's still nothing from C. Which means I probably won't see him this week either. Oh well...

MirandaWest · 06/03/2013 08:46

Bill you don't look your age :) and hair looks fine. I don't see how it matters what people's hair is like although am slightly concerned mine is starting to look a bit boring. Has been growing for 2.5 years nearly although started very short and grows slowly so not a lot there really Hmm. Thinking of either making it a but shorter or getting a fringe. May be brave and put a photo up later Grin

OhWesternWind · 06/03/2013 08:51

Bill you are cool.

Can I have some hand-holding and all that today as I have a really bad feeling about tonight when I'm supposed to be meeting (L)M? I've done a huge amount of thinking and soul-searching, and the bottom line is that I really don't want to be fobbed off with the "crumbs" any more. So we are going to have to have a full-loaf-or-nothing conversation, probably tonight. I suspect that he is going to go for the "nothing" option. It is a crying shame and makes me so sad as it could have been really good between us, but if he won't sort out his depression and issues then I'm not going to carry on with it any more. Really, really sad, though.

I'm going to ask him though if he wants to leave things until he's sorted out (mentally) with the shop if that's going to be reasonably soon - it's opening this weekend but I am not sure how much things will settle down then, or if it's going to be stressful for the next month/two/three or whatever. I'll talk to him about it, though.

I've told my mum and my friends that I'm thinking of finishing it, too. Varying responses but most of them are to give him a little time because of the shop stuff, which I am more than willing to do if I think it will realistically make a difference.

48howdidthathappen · 06/03/2013 08:54

Will be thinking of you OWW Smile

EternalRose · 06/03/2013 09:11

Thinking of you too oww.

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lubeybooby · 06/03/2013 09:14

OWW I think you're doing the right thing. This is your gut instinct which keeps coming back and telling you this, over and over, so you must listen to it.

If he loses you because of his drama and inaction then maybe that will finally be the kick up the arse he needs to get some help.

And I don't think you've ever been truly happy with him or getting what you need and deserve despite the good times and his good points.

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ike1 · 06/03/2013 09:19

Sounds reasonable OWW .....you are being fair.

ike1 · 06/03/2013 09:20

P.S I can be a bit of a hair snob...... that's why I am single.....and probably will be for a long time to come.....sob.....

WarmFuzzyFun · 06/03/2013 09:21

OWW follow your instincts, you know what you need to be happy and however trivial those little things are they matter.

Sometimes we can be too understanding/accommodating in that we forget our needs are a priority too.

Juliette well done with run. Envy I don't run outside anymore, as it took 6 months for my knee to get back to normal after an injury and won't risk it now.

48 Hope all goes well with your mum.

I must be the woman of choice for the German Match website, all my views/winks are all German, it's a pity since my last boyfriend was a fantastic easy going German!

WarmFuzzyFun · 06/03/2013 09:22

Hi Ike!

ike1 · 06/03/2013 09:25

Hi WFF .....why did you chuck in the last bf?

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