Men on OLD are the pits

[ArtisticYouth]

Seriously.. I've tried Tinder, Bumble and Hinge..

It's mostly the same old boring potato headed men gawking into their smartphone with a serial killer look on their face.

Where are the good looking men?

Miaow!

Very true. DP had godawful photos on his profile, but he'd taken the time to write an actual profile so I swiped on the off chance, we chatted, we met, I fancied the pants off him. He's wonderful.

And he definitely wasn't looking for a younger woman. I'm 6 years older!

I met my fiance on tinder but that was after a few months of meeti g rotters 🤣

Same for women or just the men?

I'm.happily married but my friend is on OLD. You need a open mind and a sence of humour I think. Her story's crack me up but she laughs too and has been reasonably successful.

I’ve seen this bitchy post parroted a few times on here in the last few days but I don’t believe this is the case at all. These apps want people to stick around, not be horrified by terrible profile after terrible profile and give up. It would make no sense that it worked the way you suggest. My friend and I both used the apps at the same time, we were shown the same men and had a laugh with it. We both worked our way through the entire Bumble ‘beeline’. We saw a complete mixture, many attractive, many unattractive, many just plain. In the end I wasn’t feeling it and uninstalled the app.

Nope . So many more women end up single because so many men out there are cheating creeps using sex workers or with porn addiction , violent etc
so no , much less chance of a decent bloke being single and available
great women being cheated on every day by men who are never satisfied and looking for someone younger , different , or simply just another woman.

The last man I met was from tinder

He lovebombed me and because I needed the love, I soaked it all up.

Then the mask slipped and one night he was standing over me with a machete

He'd just been throwing things at me and saying the most awful things.

He was incredibly good looking and tall.

I got away fortunately

Being in love with someone you don't like very much is living hell

Then the mask slipped and one night he was standing over me with a machete

Is it worth it?

Then the mask slipped and one night he was standing over me with a machete

So troll boys, how many females have you had threaten you with knives? Fat, filtered or not females? Troll boys what is the most actual physical fear you have been confronted with?

The potatoes with eyes are all around, single, middle aged, blaming god knows what for their sad little lives IRL as well by the way. Contented males love the mother of their children, their homes and lives. They protect. Not demand porn sex and cleaning.

@frozendaisy
’So troll boys, how many females have you had threaten you with knives? Fat, filtered or not females? Troll boys what is the most actual physical fear you have been confronted with?’

absolutely Spot on . You’ll see them on these threads time after time trying to claim ‘ oh women are just as bad as men ‘ ‘ oh it’s no easier for us men ‘ blah blah blah

they like to conveniently forget that women are additionally dealing with so much that men are not dealing with on ANYWHERE near the scale women are . Porn adddiction, using sex workers , sexual assaults , violence and worse .

men seem to think a woman turning up fatter than her profile pictures is on par with women having to deal with all that crap.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris

That quote above is why I'm choosing to be single 😁

I wish I were dead most days, so probably not

My colleague is on hinge - she has been on a lot of dates, a few she’s quite liked, nice looking, appear normal! I love hearing about the latest date. She did meet someone on an OLD app a few years back and was with him for a few years. She tried to talk another colleague and I into signing up when we travelled somewhere together last week. We were intrigued, both single and hard to find anyone naturally but not sure if I’d have the patience to weed through the weirdo’s. Two days after she tried to talk me into it (and I was thinking about it in my mind) I bumped into an ex colleague who I always had some chemistry with. Wasn’t sure if he was still single, but he messaged me a couple of hours later asking if I wanted to go for a drink!! That wasn’t exactly a date but ended with a peck (on the lips) so definitely not just a catch up between colleagues! A real date is happening next week. He’s the first guy I’ve met in over 10yrs being single and I’m so keen but must play it cool! Haha. Good luck OP! It’s not easy out there

My colleague is OLD and was telling us about the latest guy she’s dating. She said only problem is he has a lot of kids. Well how many?! 5! So we now call him Tony 5 kids (not his real name)! She’s on date no 4 this weekend with him though! He was widowed too which accounts for 2 of the kids

Jesus wept. That’s horrific. I can’t imagine how terrifying that must have been

Oh yeah these men who have all these kids and take zero responsibility for them and claim they are their world are the pits arnt they 😂

YANBU - friend is in her forties, pays for the app, the men on there have been on there for years, not talking a couple of years either. She’s pretty much given up.

Well, don't you sound like a prince?

My friend's son (late 20's) met a very nice girl on POF, so it does work for some.

They dated for 18 months and got married last year.

(I don't know how many people they met before they found each other ! )

I met my very lovely and very handsome (at least to me, and as far as I'm concerned that's all that matters) partner on Hinge.

Almost everyone single under a certain age uses dating apps, so you'll get the full gamut of humanity on there. It's not true to say it's only for the bottom of the barrel or those who have no other options.

Sounds like a whole lot of projection going on here.

Some people have positive experience of OLD but mine was similar to yours:

• men who lied in their profile (not single, older, shorter)
• casual sex or/and open-relationship seekers
• women-haters
• a worrying number of guys with alcohol and drug addictions
• porn addicts.

I kept trying on and off for about 4 years but after a while you start seeing the same men in these apps/sites so I thought it was time to give up.

The last straw was being sexually assaulted by a man I had met online who had maintained the charm for months before showing his true self.

So I would no touch OLD with a barge pole at this stage.

I only know one couple who met OLD and are now happily married. They were in their 20s though and I think it works best when people are younger.

If you are OLD in your 40s and 50s, it is almost impossible to find anyone half-decent.

I don't miss this type of dating at all and I am much happier without that stress in my life.

This reminded me of the quote I saw recently.

”Being a straight woman is wild because you have to date your only natural predator.”