Things you hate about Online Dating....

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Just for a laugh, I thought I'd start a thread about the bad and the ugly of OLD...

Here's mine:

1. When men have a picture of a then holding a child on their profile, and then say 'oh, by the way, it's not mine, I promise.' Why include it if it's someone else's?

1. When men say 'if you want to know anything, just ask.' I'm sorry, ask what? You haven't given me anything to ask about!

1. When men just write their social media details on their profile with the words 'add me' and nothing else. No thank you. I'm not a love island contestant.

Looking forward to hearing everyone else's

Oh and the “look at me standing next to a car I don’t own”.

I mean, if I have sex with you does that make your (car you stumbled across in the street) my car?

The minute that you start to like the person, they decide to throw in the sex talk 🙄 It’s every bloody time

9h and another one.... "no crazy exes please".

I mean define "crazy". And if you did have a knob ex as if you are going to go on a dating site, like the look of someone and then think... oh no best not swipe right because my ex is a bit of a twat.

I'm still wondering how owls have sex 🤨

The 'university of life' thing says to me "I have a massive chip on my shoulder about anyone (particularly women) who has bothered to get themselves an education". It seems to go hand in hand with being a gammon, probably quite racist, voted Leave, thinks women are there to serve him type bloke. Hard no from me. Why would I want to be with someone who makes it clear that he has no interest in the world?

I used to say that! Not online though. I didnt know it was embarrassing! I emigrated at age 23, brushed up my spanish, got a job with a spanish co in london, i felt a bit more worldly than the average graduade and i used to say it. Mortified now. I supposed i meant "dont pigeon hole me". But hands up, i used to say this 😪

Ahh my OLD days were hilarious. Hilariously awful and I nearly wrote a book.

So many potato men.

So many idiots.

So many sex pests.

@Sagaz

I used to say that! Not online though. I didnt know it was embarrassing! I emigrated at age 23, brushed up my spanish, got a job with a spanish co in london, i felt a bit more worldly than the average graduade and i used to say it. Mortified now. I supposed i meant "dont pigeon hole me". But hands up, i used to say this 😪

I get what you're saying. I'm not university educated, I'm in a successful career (ironically, in HE) but when I was younger I would say it as my response when asked. For some, it'll mean as described here, but for others it might not carry as much weight

and if you don't look like you're photo, you're buying the drinks until you do.

I'm the sort of guy who'll hold the door open, then smack you on the butt on the way through.

I've lost count of how many times I've seen the above! Rolls eyes!

EarthSight Anglo Saxon poetry !
I like the ones that write a funny profile
There was so funny I did chase him down

Then on a flight home my 10 year old disclosed he had not only opened my tinder app but read all the messages
‘Ha mummy , you said Steve was really funny but he never ever replied hahahah
Ha mummy what’s a FWB’

I’ve since deleted it

I'm the sort of guy who'll hold the door open, then smack you on the butt on the way through

ew I saw that too and totally cringed
And it’s a Thing !!! Fuck me , that’s so
#metoo

I'm the sort of guy who'll hold the door open, then smack you on the butt on the way through

Ooh sexual harassment. So hot….

Anyone wearing bike gear in a picture. Bore off mate.

@dubyalass the men calling themselves “CEO” or “Executive “ or other senior role (and are telling the truth) want a very successful professional woman. BUT not MORE SUCCESSFUL or accomplished. That immediately makes their dicks shrink and these so called alpha captains of industry, run away intimidated and being ridiculous with butt hurt.

Putting things like “my kids are my priority, don’t bother swiping right if this is a problem”- well of course your kids will be the priority . Group photos with no individual ones, having only one photo, putting “don’t swipe right if you don’t talk”, putting “own house, own car” (so do I pal lol)

THIS

THIS

Articles on dating app fatigue - definitely found myself they were Ok to dip in and out and see new faces

but after about 1-2 years of on-off use just found them too much to handle!

One article mentions something like "some great meets that go nowhere, long flings, friends" (and having to sift through a lot of bad apples and sex addicts and flakes to get there) and the "reward/work" ratio just doesn't seem good enough right now for me!

Let's see.....
All of the other stuff on the lists.

Fish pics
Grainy miserable faced webcam stills.

Laying on a beach looking like a greasy sausage/potato hybrid.

Stringy looking men on mountain bikes.

Drunk group photos

Dressed up like a knockoff Action Man with assorted dead creatures around him.

And of course "No Fat Chicks" hur dur hurr.

@DontscratchthePRADA when they say no fat chicks and they have a belly hanging over their belt!

"own house, own car” (so do I pal lol)

These are the ones who also complain about gold diggers!!!

Shall we start a new thread about " what is the alternative to OLD ? " as we all seem to feel pretty rubbish about it all ?

ALL OF THESE and I'll add in profiles that say for example 39 then somewhere really inconspicuous in the profile it says '47 not 39 not sure why it says I'm 39'

Anything where the BIO says “will come back to this “
Close up of her eye (seen this a few times now)
Pick of the back of their head
Groups of drunk women
Pictures of horses 🐴

You really don't like those
horses do you @JustAnother0ldMan 😂

@givinglessfucksdaily if only there was such a place

Go on @Hopetobe4mrfatty 😊 you start
There's got to be an alternative that doesn't just involve joining a walking group 🙄