The Dating Thread 72

[LizzieBelle]

Welcome

Ok I proper like
Toryboy

We kissed. I liked it.

Hello everyone - I'm new here (have posted under other names before but never seem to manage to keep up with the speed that this thread moves at!

I have been online dating for around 5 years now (with 2 serious-ish relationships of a year and 6 months (individually) breaking that time up. My wall will soon have a hole in it from banging my head against it. I'm looking for someone open and inquisitive but he doesn't seem to exist. Any advice anyone other than keep looking? (probably the only advice I could give someone asking the same question but if anyone has any other suggestions I'd love to hear them!)

The date was interesting. I think it went ok. I did an impression of a Russian woman Toryboy dated once. I lectured an alcoholic in the pub about not drinking. We talked religion and politics. And yes, I think there was a kiss. I can't quite remember.

Scarey...for someone with a mental meltdown early in the week, he sure as hell has made a rapid recovery to even consider attending a work's party!!!

Thisyear - what Internet dating website do you use? And I'm new here also! Just joined EHarmony and had a thoroughly enjoyable week with a very nice, but not right for me, chap. I've dated in real life over the 5 years I've been blessedly single but thought I'd widen my chances of meeting men by signing up to a dating website.

"I did an impression of a Russian woman... We talked religion and politics... I lectured an alcoholic in the pub about not drinking... I think there was a kiss. I can't quite remember."

Probably due to the alcohol.

Dont, it seems like you pretty much covered everything that people say you shouldn't do on a first date; topics you shouldn't talk about with people you don't know and yet it sounds like it worked out okay in the end.

Scarey, maybe you should check the dating site once a week (sunday morning perhaps?) rather than everyday because it does become a chore. I used to find that nothing much happens on online dating on a day-to-day basis anyway and you can easily catch up.

Online dating, Facebook, Twitter, mobile phones, etc, etc, all these things seem to demand our constant attention, making us think we are missing out on exciting stuff if we aren't signed in to them. Then you log in expecting some 'crazy party' to be going on and realise that nothing is happening and nothing has changed at all since yesterday... so you start refereshing the page and wasting your time.

Scarey that's my main reason for delaying restarting OLD too, the effort!

That's why I liked Doing Something website because it wasn't a million detailed profiles of some prat wrestling a shark whilst kayaking down the Amazon.

Also is it me?! How many guys (or women) pose behind/by tourist stuff, interesting poses etc... I just shove a few ones of me out at various works Xmas parties or one was in Ibiza!

I'm cringing a bit though! He did text me last night and asked me to text when I got home safe. He's no geeky but could be a grower.

Even if it don't work with Mr IT .
Think I've made a good friend , just went to my car yet another lost purse issue lol
Note saying , I was passing yours on way to gym, hope these help
Packe of brufen and heat pad in my garage I've twisted my knee and can't drive .
I 've had bf that not been that thoughtful lol

Morning everyone!

I'm feeling chirpy this morning as I have a date on Wednesday with Mr Conductor! Also found out that he is staying with friends this weekend and I stayed with them not long ago...my ex-H (we are really good friends, were friends for years before we got together, have managed to go back!) knows him a bit too and describes him as 'sound'.

He has been texting a couple of times a day.

Hello My pictures are one of me in a slightly dodgy Christmas jumper and one in a restaurant looking rather pissed happy. When my friend emails me the image though I am going to put on a really lovely one of me in Buckingham palace gardens having a picnic though.

scarey I tend to check in the evening after the DDs are asleep, reply to messages, block horrid ones and then have a quick browse.

Trying to catch up with everyone's news and dates!

lucy I'm feeling chirpy too! I have a date with Mr Tall on Tuesday, we text each other most days and he seems ok...so far!

Also chatting to another guy but he's the same height as me and at 5' 10" I do prefer men 6 foot +. He's asked me for a drink so have to wear flat shoes.

Someone has emailed me on match from Sweden!? What is the point? Match really is rubbish, nearly 300 views in 8 weeks and not one date! Whereas Tinder and POF have been much more fruitful.

Hi guys - can I join? I am feeling like a fish out of water as just dipping my toe into dating again, having come out of a long-term relationship about 6 months ago (officially, though we had no 'relationship' other than living together for nearly a year before that). I have joined a dating site and am a bit bemused by it all.... Am reading this thread with interest and gaining some insight into the world!!!

OK - I have a question - I have 'met' a man on match.com. He looks nice, he seems friendly, interested, etc BUT he emails a lot (this is only over the space of a two days so i'm not thinking 'marriage!!!') but he only ever sends one or two line messages...he has said a few nice things, he has made a few quips and asked a couple of questions but there has been no introductory email so far (which I guess is what I assumed would come quickly if someone was initially quite interested) i.e. he hasn't "introduced himself" in the way that you would do in real life. Does this mean he's a player/messing around/emailing loads of women or am i reading too much into this? I find it hard to 'understand the rules' re: online dating so any advice is welcome!

I've just logged into POF to find this gem of a message awaiting me (for info, I mention astronomy in passing on my profile):

'Would you like to handle my telescope ;) at full extension you can see the man on the moon'

Fucking hilarious . I won't be responding.

lucy your pics sound great they're like mine, relaxed and unposed and in a neutral surrounding.

So many men seem to be though bam I'm in a trendy market/street being quirky, here's me next to London Eye! Etc....

Kent Lad had several of him posed outside his house in shades looking actually arrogant (ha!) or next to a sports car - not his and what a boring pose... He really was a poser though which isn't me. He did selfies. I don't!

Lol at that message softkitty. I texted toryboy an hour ago but no reply. Maybe he's not keen?

We must've kissed as he texted me last night to say 'I wonder what Prospero would've made of that moment.' I had told him about a reference to the tempest in my book where Miranda and Ferdinand fall in love too quickly and Prospero vows to put obstacles in their way lest 'too easy winning make the prize light.'

He replied. I'd said I had a headache and he said he's not surprised - I was chugging the wine like it was a juice. He was playing Richard to my Judy. He said I could stick that in my book if I liked. Think it was lighthearted but I'm not sure about him.

dontcallme he sounds nice...

Was it the drink speaking last night as you were keen then?!

softkitty men make me laugh I mean his opening line was that, and he expected you to be what impressed?!

Women don't do that, do they?!

knitted I'd say yes a player but not in a bad way. Lots of men and even women email a few suspects to keep their options open. I've been known to do the same too...!

Depends what you want and if you feel more could be there.

Welcome by the way!