online dating experiences

Ps- anyone see a lovely looking blonde on the left/right for sock shop in some nice stockings?

Yep 🙂

Al, have you tried the Sarah Beeny site where your friends fill in your profile for you? You could get the other big hitters to sort it for you. The ladies will be queueing out the door…

http://www.mysinglefriend.com/

He he nice one Rickos

I’ll write up my experiences later

mattromans – cheers Matt, some solid advice there – not sure writing about myself is a strong point but definitely worth re-writing my profile to see if I can improve and sound a bit more passionate about my hobbies rather than “i like biking, etc”!

I think on-line dating just makes the whole thing a lot easier!

I love chatting to new people and making new friends, always chat to folk out biking etc, but I have no idea if any of them are single etc etc as that’s just not the thing that comes out of a normal conversation (especially a biking ‘you’ve got a flat tyre’ type one). Plus, from the reverse point of view, it’s probably always assumed that i’m the other half of one of the male bikers i’m riding with.

Even trickier to meet people in non-biking ways – I would never go to the pub by myself, and if i’m out with my friends it’s just that, to spent time with them.

Pah. I’m talking myself into this, going to have to sign up properly and pay for the damn thing 😕

Naughty hora, naughty hora…why do I always feel like a Wolf on such subjects 😐

Just email me notax, miss the whole signing up step out completely 😉

just want to meet a normal, well adjusted woman

Yeah, good luck with that one!! 😉

What, and take away all the fun..?! 😆

He he 😆

Can’t remember what site it was on but that’s how I met my wife! Over 4 years on we’re married and have had our first child, so for me it was well worth sifting through the chaff.

I’ll not lie, I met some ladies I’d rather not have (it seems the trade descriptions doesn’t stretch to dating profiles), you’ll message a load of women that won’t reply too, but don’t get disheartened as the next one might be a keeper.

Just be yourself, if you don’t like someone that’s messaged you tell them and wish them all the best. Oh and don’t bother with all that winking stuff, man up and send the girl a message – just don’t forget to ask her some questions (other that her preferred style of underwear) that will help prompt a response.

Good luck and keep us posted on how you get on.

Wondered how long before sock girl got mentioned. The one in the pic for the ritchey trail masters on the homepage is rather fetching too.

We need a STW singles thread where we can post links to our online dating profiles, might save sifting through the rubbish 😆

Me and Mrs Windowshopper started going out ten years ago today. Now married with two kids. Thanks to Match.

You misread her comments I believe

And I said as much, and thought no harm done.
🙂

I think on-line dating just makes the whole thing a lot easier!
And
I would never go to the pub by myself, and if i’m out with my friends it’s just that, to spent time with them.

The points I was thinking of too. I think some blokes might not be that fussed about online dating. But I get the impression that women like it as its a safe way of interacting with men they haven’t met before.
Just my opinion.

I went on Match and had a couple of strange dates, and a really nice girl who I saw for a few months. I eventually started chatting to someone who seemed perfect, and we were due to finally meet up after a lot of chatting, but the night before we met up, I hooked up with my missus at our xmas party. After having worked with her for 5 years and always admired her from afar! Had to call off the meet up with the other girl, but I’d recommend it for anyone. As others have said, there are some genuine people on there and its easy to spot the butters before you arrange a meet up 🙂

you’ll message a load of women that won’t reply too, but don’t get disheartened as the next one might be a keeper.

That reminds me of when I first signed up. It went nuts, trying to keep up with the messages. I had to close the laptop and leave it a few days before logging in again. Its quitened down a bit now.

Mrs PJM1974 and I met through b3ta…we both knew what we were getting before we actually met in person.

She’s quite lovely. Five years and counting…

Depends what you’re after. Rule of thumb (I think) is that the more the site costs, the more serious the clientele. Free ones have more people after casual relationships, more expensive ones are populated with those after something a little more long-term.

A friend-of-a-friend uses POF and has 10 women on the go at any one time. And that’s fine for him (and them) and everyone’s happy.

I dabbled with Matchaffinity and Zoosk. Both require quite a lot of effort to sign-up with. And as the name suggests, Matchaffinity does more to ‘match’ its clients. Zoosk doesn’t do that and you search through filters. And be warned there are a lot of desperate/odd people out there.

Met a really nice divorcee on Matchaffinty (fit, pretty, no kids, intelligent, funny) and all went well for a couple of months until I discovered how damaged she was. Single, fit, sane. Turns out she’d never got over her ex-husband/love rat and was incredibly flighty.

Had more luck with Zoosk. On paper, this girl sounded ideal. Absolutley perfect. However when we met there was nothing there. Went back for a second date to be absolutely sure and sure enough… there was nothing there. Baffling. Another girl (who I’ll be honest wasn’t even in my ‘maybe’ pile) contacted me. She was too short, lived too far away and had too many kids in tow. Anyway we met up and clicked instantly. Been together 4 months now and can safely say I’ve never been happier.

PS @ Cynic-Al:

The long distance thing killed it after a year or so but I wouldn’t have met her without online dating.

Out of curiosity, what sort of distance are we talking?

Onzadog – Member
Used to use love at Lycos and I’m now married to her. She posts on here and she’s not bad on a bike.

Put so romantically 🙄 😆

But yes, ours is another online dating experience that turned out pretty well. 4 year anniversary next month (although I don’t think he’ll ever really forgive me for combining our nuptials in Whistler with snowboarding rather than combining it with a summer wedding and mountain biking!)

I get fed up with women who do not seem to have read my profile or selectively ignore certain parts of the criteria I’ve listed. The age group I’m looking at, being the most often criteria to be ignored.

If you’re looking for complete eccentrics then Guardian Soulmates seems to be the place.

You may even end up being written about on the internet:

Herald Scotland Online dating blog

Just going back to the point about women’s ages – if I hadn’t, errrm, “altered” my age I would not have met my beloved, as he was looking for someone younger than my “real” age. I did confess on our first meeting though!

Sorry, been out on my bike (shock horror) so catching up a bit with this thread, and well, i don’t want to sound prudish or anything, but i think we should leave Hora’s Beautiful Member out of this discussion, afterall there are ladies present………. 😉

i think we should leave Hora’s Beautiful Member out

I think he should put it away.

I think Hora should get it leached first. 😆

I think he should put it away.

He’d have to stop looking at it to do that…
😉

I think Hora should get it leached first
Thats not a leach…..
😯

Beautiful member? I only said once casually that a lady once said it was the best looking schlong she’d seen. When pressed(!) (fishing for a compliment) she replied that she’d seen a few- alot were overkinked/thin/small/plain ugly. To me, they all look the same – UGLY 😆

Jesus this strikes me as self-advertising and equally wrong in equal measure.

A girl I once worked with told me hers had been described as ‘pouty’. I replied ‘like it was kissable’? Que uncomfortable silence 😆 8)

“pressing it’s half the problem”

She was too short, lived too far away and had too many kids in tow. Anyway we met up and clicked instantly. Been together 4 months now and can safely say I’ve never been happier.

See, there you go – rule #3, don’t be afraid to lower your standards; you might surprise yourself 😉

I only said once casually that a lady once said it was the best looking schlong she’d seen.

er… how do you say that casually on a mountain biking forum? “What tyres for impressing a lady who thinks your schlong is great?”

If you’re looking for complete eccentrics then Guardian Soulmates seems to be the place.

or hipsters, meeja types, middle class liberals, public sector workers, etc. It does seem to be a bit of a melting pot; bit like the paper itself I guess?

Has it got its own website yet Hora?

A Facebook page, at least?

Hora’s_horror_schlong_shoker.com?!

I used OKcupid.com, and as a result I’m now married to my beautiful wife. Worked ok for the two of us, but we met some rather odd people before meeting each other.

matttromans
Hora’s_horror_schlong_shoker.com?!

Or for even worse:

Hora’s_horror_schlong_choker.com?

Just what would it say about oneself if one were to “like” that on BookFace??? 😉

Have you ever seen an ugly lady garden? I haven’t, they all seem to be lookers 8)

(Please don’t ban me!!)

Or indeed if you ‘shared’ it…

Thanks all. I should say I’ve online dated with some success quite a few times. My conundrum just now is while it would be nice to meet a lovely woman and do something serious, I’d also quite like some “fun”, but I don’t want t be perceived as a sleaze.

Houns – Member
Just email me notax, miss the whole signing up step out completely

Oih! This is my thread! Anyway you are have an unfair advantage of being a dating Maestro (a bit like someone at a trail centre on the best ever trial-centre bike)

Thurman Merman – Member
PS @ Cynic-Al:

Uh? I didn’t post that.

EDIT – I remember someone posting up here about being an escort. Tell us your stories.

typical throw away comment

No…more a philosophical observation on how people met via internet dating generally reflect those to be met in wider society. Your interpretation an interesting lesson in perspective though.

And….

Which are far, far outnumbered by the reverse on here

Quite! 🙂

Philosophy on STW? wow, i’m impressed. Generally the only philosophy we get on here is the “i’m right, you’re wrong” type (which i am btw)…………..

A girl I once worked with told me hers had been described as ‘pouty’

She had a schlong ? 😯