[Closed] The murky world of online dating..

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LOL, serves you right for dating two girls at once.

Stop, then you'll meet some-one, guaranteed

A bit of perseverance is required. From my experiences, yes, there are a few 'creatures' out there...but on the other hand there are a good number of very lovely very attractive women...it's just a question of finding them.

What site are you on anyway?

What's wrong with just staying single..?

at least you can get a date

I'm lucky if I can get someone to respond to a message - think I'm going to give up again, it's doing my head in

I don't send them pictures of my penis, maybe that's what I'm doing wrong

i don't understand the parameters, but i seem to have created the perfect profile for attracting 45 yr old divorcees...

I don't send them pictures of my penis, maybe that's what I'm doing wrong

TSY clearly does. That's obviously where he's going wrong.

45 yr old divorcees...

cougartown. yeeha.

I most certainly don't. My god, it's tiny, like an acorn. 😆

loddrik has a point

thankfully I'm happily married, but if I were to become single again, I'd be quite happy to stay that way.

besides, nobody would have me 🙁

so neither of you could pass your appearnace of as being big boned then
IGMC

TSY - do you mention your fitness regime? It can be considered scary! You are the exception for exercising regularly - really important that you remember this. 😉

Have a break from it, sounds as though it's become soul-destroying. Now that can be unhealthy.

How you getting on with the Ti?

C_G... the only time I've talked about my fitness regime is with girls clearly as crazy about it as I am. Girls that put in 3 hour + sessions a night.

The Ti is amazing. If the weather looks alright going to try and do the Twrch in under an hour tomorrow. The uppy-downy post is still working mint after a gritty welsh ride and being upside down all week.

Aww no tsy, perhaps you need to change your strategy. Meet girls through friends of friends, offer yourself to a life art class, take up a hobby like knitting or cake baking for selling or Become a masseur or sommet. Online dating seems a bit weird to me, be like meeting one of you lot for a date 😕 Must be some truth in the saying it will happen when you least expect it 🙂

top tip:

start salsa/kizomba dancing, most towns will have a trendy bar doing lessons/classes once or twice a week.

my pal 'S' has gone from single, and deep in a dry spell (and a little down about it) to a shagged out peacock in about 6months.

i've been along to a couple, it's quite literally, crumpet central.

YOGA!!!

But should I meet the divorcee thai-bride? Surely that's what internet dating was invented for?

Loads of single girls in the running club I've joined.

[i]offer yourself to a life art class[/i]

art students...*shudders*

my mate has a thai bride he met over here via normal means he always gets looks from starangers like he bought her over the internet

STW is the best dating site i've ever used.

No subscription either.

USER you said I was the only one

Is it essential that a girl is into fitness of some description? Actually that needs rephrasing!! Are you emphasising that it's a large part of your life and that you have a rather lovely bike too which you know how to ride?

It really does sound as though you are exhausted with it all. Step back! I found I was getting quite insulted with idiots that contacted me, did nothing for my self-esteem.

Don't know what the Twrch is, Cwmcarn? Bike and uppy downy sorted - result!

You're lucky, he won't even agree to meet up with me 🙁

C_G... I don't even mention it to be honest. Like I'll say I go biking at the weekends and I'm a regular gym goer... I don't say I'm obsessive about my fitness though!

Perhaps keep quiet about your habits? 😉

Haha, the biggest thing I reckon to keep quiet about is this place!!

You riding Swinley this weekend?

You need to come to terms with being ugly.

Ugly people need love too. 🙂

Haha, but when I'm not looking in the mirror I'm beautiful...

Interesting article by the founder of free US internet dating site OKCupid. Amusingly this article was taken down, the below link is a mirror of the original article, when Match.com bought OKCupid for $50 million.

It's US biased obviously, but quite a good read.....well I thought so which is no guarantee of anything.

[url= http://jasonbainbridge.com/okc_blog/index.html ]"Why you shouldn't pay for internet dating"
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Definitely do not mention STW!!!

May possibly ride Swinley but I have a house to sell so will depend on whether there's any punters.

darcy - TSY is lovely and not ugly at all.

Ugly people need love too.

...and DD is married TSY. So if he can snag some poor unfortunate you shouldn't be too worried.

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Haha, I like that article... it tells me what I already knew and... that I have an abnormally high hit rate!! 🙂

Had a quick skim of that link, doesn't surprise me. I find these dating sites quite immoral and feel that they should have some accountability rather than lying through their back teeth.

Edit: the number of middle-aged drongos was astounding including those looking for a younger woman! Glad I'm out of that stuff.

The amount of time you seem to be at the gym TSY I would have thought that would have been a better bet to meet the laydeez.

.....but then it being stinky and sweaty is never the best time to bust out the chat up lines....plus you might come across as a 'that guy' who pervs in the gym.

Jamie... YOGA!! Everytime I look up from a stretch a young lady is eyeballing me.
Possibly because they've spotted I've put my back out...

i want to try internet dating. is it really that scary? 😕

It's not normally scary but I admittedly love it.

This weeks been extra special though. Has made me think I should have stuck, rather than twisted with some previous dates.

oh i might give it a go, but i think i'm too shy!! ha ha .i'm not normally but the whole internet thing seems to put me off. any tips????

Just give it a go... why be shy on the internet?
What have you got to lose? It's not like one day you're going to meet up with the people you spend your days chatting to online... oh, wait a minute...

that's it. i don't want to look like a saddo, that my mates can see, and laugh at me!!!

Give a shi.... Who cares? There are 5 girls from my work online dating at the moment... all nice normal girls... they clearly don't care, so why should you?

There are other STWers doing it... including female members...

yey you're tempting me 😆
you might see me on there soon. what's the best site???

Restless... if you're a bloke I very much doubt you'll appear in my searches!

Plenty of Fish... free, loads of members.

i'm a girl

Oh reaaallly... *smooths eyebrows down*... how you doing? 8)

cool 😆 i'm good, been out tonight for my mates birthday, so nice and floaty 😛

I feel like a voyuer, should we all go and buy hats?

Hey, whats up with 45? I'm 45 today. I've a few nice bikes. Like fitness but do not obsess. Know how to get to afan. Like cake. Like whisky. Can quote pretty poetry. Can cook. can fully spanner a bike and build wheels. I'm bl**dy perfect except that is i'm straight as and besides fully taken (according to the wife).

But if i were you i'd go with the salsa club angle. Top tip i reckon.

i couldn't do salsa. no way!

Yeah, you're a skater boy though... not my type.

So restless... where are you based?... and 'do you?'

do i what? sorry to sound thick but i don't know what you mean?!
i'm in nottingham by the way 😆

Sorry, I don't even know... it's the initiation for another forum.

Nottingham, oh shucks, I'm from the Southern 🙁

Nottingham eh? I'm on PoF and keep getting checked out by the laydees of Nottnum.

Oh, and TSY, 'do you' is for over the road fella, not here!

Gathered that from your name!
oh well 🙁

*sets search parameters for Nottingham*

Seriously though... I wouldn't want to date me, if I knew I was the Southern Yeti!

TSY get in your car, you could be in Nottingham by 3.00

restless, leave a key under the flower pot

They don't call me cupid for nothing!

it's nice here 8)

I can make it to Leicester Forest East in 1hr 5mins... how far is it from there? 😆

Hugh... you want me or restless to wear the headcam?

About an hour.

An hour!

What's that walking?

about half an hour from there 😀

So hugh was right in the first place... you're a bright bloke.

bit less than that if you knew restless was waiting up for ya 😀

😉

Getting to LFE from where I live in that time is pretty illegal... even more so when you add on the fact I'm at least double the drink drive limit....

But this is romantic... right?

Can someone lend me a headcam?

TSY, Im in Wiltshire, sober, i'll pick you up on the way and bring the camcorder, we can get some flowers on the way from the 24hr garage.

Now that's romantic?

POF you may meet a plumber or 2 on there, they lie about their age, only converse via email and text, eventually meetup, and even though they are in their late 40's they dump you by email!! bitter yes, give a s**t no, just warning others out there

flowers from the garage, yeay 😀
see yoo soon 😉

This plan is awesome... although... you could just cut me out of the deal.

Restless - I have a birthmark the shape of Slimer from the Ghostbusters on my left buttock!

Ha now you can't!

what a bizarre birthmark, ha ha
see you another time then 😥 8)

TSY i was going to drop you off then go to that awsome titty bar on that industrial estate in Nottingham (didn't catch the name last time @ 4.30am)

Cool, see you in a bit my post code is OX 1M EZ...

The birthmark was a cunning ruse to make sure I wasn't sharked out of this... my bottom is unblemished.

😮 don't quite understand what you're on about, but may see your botty one day to prove it 😛

It's 2am and my senses detected the sweet smell of a female.

So hello Restless, there'll be no slicking back the eyebrows and smooth talking from me.

I'm single, free, handsome and fit.

Also i'm mentally unstable and feral, so unless you're ready for a life of foraging and a wild life, all the best with the search..

Or my e-mail is in my profile if you'e totally loopy. 😀

it's nearly 2.30 and i'm off to bed , good night 😕

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lol.

A wonderful thread.

STW is the best dating site i've ever used. No subscription either.

I had about 12 months of internet dating, 1st dates are very addictive and easy after the first few as you build up a script that seemed to go very well 😉 but I was more interested in the thrill and buzz of the first date than the hassle of a second, shame really as some of the girls were really nice...happy now with 5 bikes and no standing order at the chemist for condoms

What the bloody hell happened here last night? I am off to play badminton in my tightie whiteys and I expect a full report of the nights murky goings on.

It's like STW is a lovely viewpoint by the side of the road where you can see all of nature falling away in majestic splendour.....

.....and then at night it is a dogging spot.

... and 'do you?'

Rookie mistake.

restless - I'm really sorrry, 7 hours I've been stood out on the side of the A420 waiting for Hugh, I'm cold, tired, wet through and almost completely sober. I'm going to bed.

It's at times like this I take solace in Shakespere, who said... 'the course of true love never did run smooth'.