Dating Englishmen versus not… light hearted ☺️

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Just wondering what your experiences are… and preferences… both good and bad!!
disclaimer: this is a light hearted thread so please, let us agree from the start that I’m not trying to stereotype anyone here… promise!

Is this for the Daily Mail?

What a strange thread. Yes of course it's going to be based on some kind of stereotyping or commonality, otherwise I doubt you'd find the responses amusing!

She probably means the comparison between different countries/ cultures, and she states it’s light hearted…

But let’s get our knickers in a twist regardless…

I wish they would visit the dentist more often. It’s hard looking at manky teeth. The British teeth episode on the Simpsons is not a stereotype! (I understand this is hard though due to how difficult it is to see an NHS dentist).

Yeah I was worried about the potential of everyone getting their knickers in a twist with this thread… so thanks for getting it out of the way early @EarthSight ☺️☺️
I’ll start… good old fashioned etiquette seems to be more of a thing amongst (some… now I feel the need to qualify anything 🤦🏼‍♀️)…foreigners… in my humble experience!

And if there is a commonality, is it really a stereotype? (but that’s a separate thread I guess!!)

It's a stereotype.
What do you mean by "old fashioned etiquette"?
Opening doors?

Yes. Opening doors. Bringing a small gift when you arrive at someone’s house, and removing your shoes… 🤷 making a bit of an effort for a date… complimenting the woman… and god forbid, offering the better seat at the table in a restaurant, or offering to pay for dinner…
im ready to be shredded to pieces next 🤣

How many Englishmen have you dated v "foreign" gentlemen?
I'm just wondering how big the sample is.

How many people do you lot date? I'm 50 ish. I've had 3 proper boyfriends, maybe two casual ones and 10 -15 one night stands of which one was Middle Eastern and one South African.
No idea if there were any similarities or difference due to where they came from.

The drinking! Was just chatting to my French friend about it earlier.
I haven't met/dated men of other nationalities for whom drinking is such an important part of everyday life (every evening after work, weekends), but have recently met a few English guys with whom that's a big part of every activity! E.g. cinema trip, chilling in the house, shows/theatre, travel, going out... Pretty much everything apart from breakfast!

Oh actually never met a circumcised English guy. Both my foreign guys were. No idea ...er..how it worked without the skin.

Everything but breakfast… brilliant 😂

@Corinthiana I’d say a few more foreign gentlemen than Englishmen but the overall sample probably not large enough to support an academic research paper admittedly 😅😁

@Invent what do you mean when you say you have no idea how it worked? Didn’t you say they were your one night stands? 😅

Shame. I was hoping for something peer reviewed.

That's so interesting cos two of my white, British as it gets for generations, non religious boyfriends were circumsized (health reasons)

Everyone I've dated has been an Englishman (or English boy really, been in the same relationship since I was 16). I've nothing to compare them to.

I've lived abroad twice and travelled a lot and I actually really like English men. I like the humour, the self deprecation. Compared to some men I've met from other nationalities many English men know how to behave and not be overtly sexual/flirtatious (obviously there are many exceptions and examples of bad behaviour from English men!). I had a work night out recently and some of the southern European men were being very flirtatious - discussing a colleague's beautiful body and asking her to take her coat off so they could see it better. The English men were very shocked!
Having said that I ended up marrying a foreigner! The one English man I had a longterm relationship with was an idiot.