Dating thread no 51

[JulietteMontague]

All tales of online and real life dating here!

Ah Pom, I can confirm that 'summerbody' works as well as 'holiday skin' though it turns out that they really do mean it when they say you should wash your hands thoroughly after use. Tanned legs good, orange palms bad. I've been using it twice a day for a week, and my legs and arms are no longer scary white.

I wonder if scary white is in the F&B catalogue?

Kin, that offer is nearly as scary as my legs were. I know you're amazingly attractive and wonderful and everything, but that's waaaayyyy to keen in my book.

*Little LESS sleepy.....

Kin in that case, no. Does he work? he seems to be very available. Maybe he was angling to take you home, you know your house. Through that door, settle himself of the sofa with the remote

Yes, he works, if he was angling to take me to my house, 200 miles away, then I'll be needing you lot to score me some Temazapam.

Have well and truly jinxed the good weather by going out and buying a new garden chair this morning!

Well, these PoF men eh! I am getting quite a few new messages off reasonably possible men but they are asking to meet up in their first or second message. I find this a bit odd - surely they would want to chat online a little bit and make sure I'm not a raving loon? But I must have had four or five like this over the last few days, never got this at all last time I was on. I am replying now saying I would rather chat a bit first but is this eagerness to meet when they have no idea of anything about me a bit of a red flag?

Could someone suggest something for me to write back to the other one who wanted to meet on Monday? I probably will meet him, but not on Monday - I want to backtrack a little bit, chat a bit more, then maybe meet in a week or two once I've met up with the other ones that I like better I'm going to have to reply soon otherwise it's just rude. Should I just tell him I can't meet next week?

Sorry, this all sounds stupid but I'm not used to this at all. Someone must have put something in the water round here.

200 miles I begrudge driving more than half an hour...

OWW, just tell him/them, that you what you said that you are busy Monday/whenever and would like to chat a bit online so that feel comfortable/have conversational points when/if you meet.

Meeting a stranger with whom you haven't changed even a few friendly email messages can make conversation really difficult.

How is the air traffic OWW? Are they suitable men and suitably stacked?

Have been in bed all day, being unwell is not my thing.

48, I would maybe like to clone MrR&R, perhaps cross him with Nameless and Mr Nice .

I have a new BF his name is Shiraz, although he is only half the man he was when we first met. I think this is a love match, he is so tasty, can't get enough of him.

I note BGT is on, anyone fancy trying to spot Talent Show, he of the semi-submerged genitalia ?...

is he on tonight?

Dunno but he auditioned - singing a song of his own composition and playing guitar

WFF I have a night with his cousin Mr P. Noir

Ps hope you feel better WFF

I may have to see if Mr Cox would like to keep me company. He's not quite as strong as Mr Noir or Shiraz and a teensy bit yellow but he's full of sparkle and rather fruity.

Hello :)

Was he on there Nora? Goodness me, you do have a talented band of followers.

I have found a box of biscuits at the back of the cupboard! Bad, bad thing to happen as I've somehow found that there are now six fewer in there than there should be. Distracting myself with rum and PoF.

Have a new favourite on there - you know when you get that nice feeling that someone is on your wavelength? Well this one is one of them. Looks okay but am placing no reliance at all on blokes' photos any more. And I do very much like the Italian. I am meeting RickAstleyalike (who is charming) on Thursday, want to meet the Italian soon too (ruggedly handsome and also charming - I like his pictures very much but see comment above) and also this other one who I will call MrIndie and the rest can wait. That's at least two or three weeks worth of dates just there.

Oh, and guess what? The new one is . . . wait for it . . . another sodding engineer. I think I just need to resign myself to the fact that I am going to be dating engineers for the foreseeable future until the planetary alignments shift and suddenly it's all financial advisors or something.

I think I might hide my profile on Match as I am actually getting far, far dodgier characters messaging me on there than on PoF.

Has anyone noticed the deeply dodgy side-bar advert about "Make him fall for you?" Very surprised at MN having that sort of thing on here.

I think the adverts are generated by the thread content, of course we are all here posting away for free so that MN can make a profit from advertising...
such is the digital economy

No, he wasn't on tonight, OWW - I might not own up if he does appear

(probably will. For the lolz ).

What is it with you and engineers, do you dab WD40 behind your ears before you go online ? Mr Indie sounds promising, as does Signor Italiano, I think the actual Rick Astley puts me slightly off your Astley-a-like. Not noticed the side bar.

Western at yet another engineer! I think only eating 6 biscuits shows remarkable restraint, although as I am currently ploughing through a bag of Aero bubbles, I am probably not the best judge of these things!

Nora you have to tell us who TalentShow is if he appears on BGT!

I keep having 'lucky escape' moments...a couple of old flames (well not exactly flames...sparks maybe?!) have revealed themselves to be the utter knobbers/cringily embarrassing so am thinking I am much better off without :) Likewise the Ex who surpassed his usual vile self with a few comments to the DSs. I really WOULD rather be single than have any of them in my life!

Please can we call Rick something else? Just when I think its safe to come back on the thread, there it goes

'Together forever and never to part, together forever we two...'

OWW I am vair impressed at your contingency plans for Project 'Man'. Risk Register notes Knobberdom now assessed as likelihood 3, impact mitigated down to 1, now certified as 3. Heavy reliance on Engineering Sector entered in Issues Log.

You utter utter git Juliette I'd forgotten that song until then

Oh no Juliette - I'd forgotten about that particular gem from Mr Astley. Will call him Mr Yoga instead then as that's the other most noteworthy thing I have discovered about him (yet).

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Velvet ooh if I had Aeros I would have finished them by now! Hope your ds are alright, sounds like your ex has had a bit of a moment with them.

Velvet I think you know me well enough by now, that if I can get cheap laughs out of identifying a man on national tv who sent me a photo of his semi-submerged penis, it's a dead cert I'll do it.

What have your exes done to reveal their knobberdom ?