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indiepanda

indiepanda

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> And don't let me start on the online dating sites populated by men looking for women 30 years younger. Who all themselves look like the proverbial cat-hedge-wise, and twenty years older that their stated age in real life, and suffering from severe personality problems invariably.


Lol, I did dabble with internet dating and did get the odd man who completely ignored the age range I had put on my profile, but I didn't get any that were 30 years older, 20 maybe and that was creepy enough.


To be fair, the guys I went out with were all quite normal, just not for me. All nice looking enough, but no feeling of mutual chemistry, conversation a bit hard to get going. Maybe I was expecting too much for a first meeting...


Oh actually, there was one awful one. He lived in London and said he never used public transport which I thought was odd, so I asked what he did when he went out. He said he "knew his limits" when going out and would only have 4 pints or one bottle of wine before driving home. Now that was definitely a deal breaker!

Miles

Miles

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Costume dramas never really interest me, but Atonement was very good.


indiepanda Wrote:

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> Miles Wrote:

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> > Being a real man, I have no idea what a male

> > version of Bridget Jones, or more Sex and the

> City

> > might involve never having watched them :))

>

> Fair comment... I'm not sure I've ever met a

> straight man who liked Sex and the City, or seen

> Bridget Jones without being dragged to the cinema

> by their girlfriend.

>

> Bridget Jones is basically an updated version of

> Pride and Prejudice.... but then maybe it's only

> us girls that watched that too ...*drifts off into

> dreams of Colin Firth*... (I should add I loved

> the book long before the BBC adaptation)

indiepanda

indiepanda

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Miles Wrote:

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> Costume dramas never really interest me, but Atonement was very good.


hmmm, maybe I'll get round to watching that this afternoon (am home sick and decidedly bored. honestly, I'd rather be at work!!!)

KalamityKel

KalamityKel

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Miles Wrote:

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> Costume dramas never really interest me, but

> Atonement was very good.

>



Indeed, especially the wedding scene... twas a nice church in Westminster that it happened to be filmed in...

louisiana

louisiana

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indiepanda Wrote:

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> louisiana Wrote:

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> > And don't let me start on the online dating

> sites populated by men looking for women 30 years

> younger. Who all themselves look like the

> proverbial cat-hedge-wise, and twenty years older

> that their stated age in real life, and suffering

> from severe personality problems invariably.

>

> Lol, I did dabble with internet dating and did get

> the odd man who completely ignored the age range I

> had put on my profile, but I didn't get any that

> were 30 years older, 20 maybe and that was creepy

> enough.

>

> To be fair, the guys I went out with were all

> quite normal, just not for me. All nice looking

> enough, but no feeling of mutual chemistry,

> conversation a bit hard to get going. Maybe I was

> expecting too much for a first meeting...

>

> Oh actually, there was one awful one. He lived in

> London and said he never used public transport

> which I thought was odd, so I asked what he did

> when he went out. He said he "knew his limits"

> when going out and would only have 4 pints or one

> bottle of wine before driving home. Now that was

> definitely a deal breaker!


One of my funniest was the guy who turned up two hours late (cafe meet) - I had by that stage given up on him - and then berated me for having had a glass of wine or two during that two hours. No apology for actually turning up waay beyond time. (We'd never met before.)


Then there was the one whose very first utterance was to attack the colour combination of bag and shoes I had that day. (Yes, he actually used the word 'clashing'.) Yes, it was also a first meeting.


I mean, if that's how they start out, what kind of hell are they going to be in three years' time, I ask myself.


The great thing about internet dating is that you can be systematically ruthless.

indiepanda

indiepanda

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> Miles Wrote:

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> Costume dramas never really interest me, but Atonement was very good.


Yes, it was. James McAvoy is a very good actor, not good looking in the classic sense but there's something about him that's very compelling.

indiepanda

indiepanda

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louisiana Wrote:

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> One of my funniest was the guy who turned up two

> hours late (cafe meet) - I had by that stage given

> up on him - and then berated me for having had a

> glass of wine or two during that two hours. No

> apology for actually turning up waay beyond time.

> (We'd never met before.)

>

> Then there was the one whose very first utterance

> was to attack the colour combination of bag and

> shoes I had that day. (Yes, he actually used the

> word 'clashing'.) Yes, it was also a first

> meeting.

>

> I mean, if that's how they start out, what kind of

> hell are they going to be in three years' time, I

> ask myself.

>

> The great thing about internet dating is that you

> can be systematically ruthless.


Those ones definitely sound not worth second meetings. I'm impressed you stuck around for 2 hours, I wouldn't have given someone that long. If you are going to be that late surely you just phone and reschedule??

Gen17

Gen17

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Indiepanda and Louisiana,

Fab dating tales! Made me chuckle.

The worst of many bad dates for me was when my date (about our 4th meeting) told me off - yes, as if I was a 3 year old - for not having any cash on me to pay for dinner at somewhere that didn't take cards (of which I had plenty). He thought that as he'd paid for the cinema tickets, dinner was on me and got REALLY stroppy when he ended up having to pay. Everything else had been 50:50 up til then...but it just made me realise how much effort he was spending on making sure everything was "fair". I'd like to say that I told him there and then that he was an anally retentive boring b@st'rd and to stick his cinema tickets where the sun didn't shine, but I was in shock.

Needless to say, I didn't agree to a 5th date.

jollybaby

jollybaby

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AAhh the delights of internet dating. Don't let these tales put you off - I met Mr JB online and we're still going strong three years later . . . . aaah. I did have a couple of funny experiences on the way through. The worst was with a chap who cancelled the date the first time (his dole check hadn't arrived). For some reason I agreed to see him again and on the morning of the date he emailed me several additional photos so I would recognise him. Number 1 had him mending his car with plastic gloves and a spanner in his mouth, in number 2 he was wearing a leopard print dress and number 3 looked like a mugshot! I still agreed to meet him and spent the whole night watching sweat trickle down his forehead! After a couple of drinks I made my excuses and got home to a text saying ' damn I meant to go for a proper kiss' yeuch. About six months later I got another text from him saying that 'he had found love and he hoped I was happy'
Miles

Miles

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I don't recall meeting you, but I did meet a lot of people. Maybe I was given your real name?

Most people seem to have remembered me from this thread.

There will be a photo of me up.


shoshntosh Wrote:

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> miles, so which one were you at the Forum Drinks

> on Friday night? Did we meet? There seemed to be

> several "nice looking" males in attendance...

Miles

Miles

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Thank you kindly, it was rather daunting.

I like Miles from This Life, I like to think we're similar only I'm better looking but less arogant ;-)


LuLu Too Wrote:

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> Miles - somehow I see you as a Jack Davenport

> type.....

>

> Good for you for having the cojones to start this

> thread and go to Forum drinks. Sounds like it was

> fun.

> I salute your style!

LuLu Too

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Ooooh, nice one!

In that case, I'm like Anna - only without the "issues", or the Scottishness, or the other stuff... As for that Milly, she was insipid.



Miles Wrote:

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> Thank you kindly, it was rather daunting.

> I like Miles from This Life, I like to think we're

> similar only I'm better looking but less arogant

> ;-)

>

> LuLu Too Wrote:

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> > Miles - somehow I see you as a Jack Davenport

> > type.....

> >

> > Good for you for having the cojones to start

> this

> > thread and go to Forum drinks. Sounds like it

> was

> > fun.

> > I salute your style!

Miles

Miles

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Well you sound perfect for me, they were always meant to be together and then we wouldn't have had to go through the follow up episode.


LuLu Too Wrote:

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> Ooooh, nice one!

> In that case, I'm like Anna - only without the

> "issues", or the Scottishness, or the other

> stuff... As for that Milly, she was insipid.

>

>

> Miles Wrote:

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> > Thank you kindly, it was rather daunting.

> > I like Miles from This Life, I like to think

> we're

> > similar only I'm better looking but less

> arogant

> > ;-)

> >

> > LuLu Too Wrote:

> >

> --------------------------------------------------

>

> > -----

> > > Miles - somehow I see you as a Jack Davenport

> > > type.....

> > >

> > > Good for you for having the cojones to start

> > this

> > > thread and go to Forum drinks. Sounds like it

> > was

> > > fun.

> > > I salute your style!

Sarah J.

Sarah J.

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Miles,


I got told the same thing; well, something similar anyway. "Join EDF, and come along for drinks." Perhaps I shall see you at the next social gathering.


PS: I think that people put too much emphasis on "finding" someone and forget that looking for them is the best part. How else are you to know how lucky you are when you finally do come across the right one?

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