Plenty of Fish?

[smegballs]

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[metalangel]

There's a good show on TLC here (not sure if the UK TLC is going to show it) called Love at First Swipe where they get people in with BAD dating profiles and give them a makeover, both physically and profile-y.
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[andym]

[metalangel]

Saw one where the girl was decent looking, but had a terrible frizzy perm-afro haircut. They sorted that out and then sat her down and roleplayed sending messages to a new dude.

She thought that telling a guy he was 'adorbs' was a good idea. The hostess was aghast.

Another had a very cute Chinese girl who had the stereotypical 'manic pixie dream girl' personality. All her pictures, though, had her pulling stupid faces and wearing weird clothes so they slapped a ton of makeup on her and concealed her quirky nature to make her more mature.

At the end they get to pick one of three guys to go on a date with. The first girl picked a tweed-clad hipster with a beard you could lose a badger in. China girl picked a normal looking guy but they had to go and play chess on a picnic blanket in a park as their date. Meh. 'Reality' TV.
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In B4

[J0Al1]

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[smegballs]

[metalangel]

I'm happy for you, not-JFK. You do seem to have something that draws them in so it seems inevitable one of them will be a keeper eventually.
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[unitynotsocri...]

jsut to say......im sorry for starting this post........and sorry for the unique access to bcf mens hearts.......dont think I ll have the transop after understanding men a little more.
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[Lord Percy]

So winter is firmly on its way... and a POF profile has been created again. After a severe let down after I got back from China, I think it's time for me to give this online malarkey a go again.

Anybody else still using it?

[Pie-Roe]

I got depressed about the casual nature of smashing girls on tinder and POF. I'm now networking a lot more at uni and have met a couple of very lovely lasses who I'm attempting to woo.
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[Lord Percy]

I think I'm still in 'excitement' mode as I only set it all up again yesterday. Loads of potential, absolutely tons of pretty people on there too. And I've got quite a few 'mutual matches' and a few messages from girls as well. I'm not there for quick sex though.

I'll be honest I was in a pretty bad way after the aforementioned let down after China. Getting shot of her for good and seeing what's out there is filling me with optimism. Currently chatting to a couple of really pretty girls (not just in a casual 'fancy a shag' way). I'm biding my time a bit and tonight will be asking one of them if she fancies meeting up sometime soon. Her profile seems to suggest we have a lot in common, apart from one thing... one of her main goals in life is to raise a family and have kids . Not the worst thing in the world though, I guess. I just never thought seriously about it before.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Lord Percy]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Lord Percy]

I think I'll take up Metalangel's reigns and provide regular updates of my POF quest, just as he used to do, just for the hell of it because it's cold, dark and miserable outside and my internet life has now increased hugely.

So that girl I was messaging, we're still talking and it's looking strangely positive. I asked her if she fancied meeting up at some point and got no reply. Then earlier today I saw one girl's profile mentioning that she gets about 300 messages a day, so I decided to brave it and messaged again, basically saying, "I'm just wondering if I should take the non-response as a 'no', or is it because you get hundreds of messages a day and were a bit swamped?"

To my surprise, she replied and said yes it's because she's does get around 100 messages. (This is a revelation to me in itself. 100+ messages a day for some girls?!?!?!).

I jokily told her I didn't have very high hopes then because I can't be arsed competing with hundreds of other anonymous blokes on the internet, to which she responded they're all weirdos, it's no competition at all and I keep just being drowned out by the other messages. Heh, jackpot.

BUT. She sneakily overlooked the 'let's meet up' request that I made. Funnily enough I'm fine with this, I figure she's just apprehensive, but to be honest so am I! I only suggested meeting her because in the past I find messaging will tend to die out if you don't try to make things 'real' at some point.

So to get around the 'swamping' issue, I asked if maybe I could get her phone number so we can message on whatsapp or something instead. She overlooked that request as well . But she's still replying to me, and messages are now ending with an 'X'. Possibly a good sign?

Also joined OkCupid and got a message from a quite pretty girl on there - she messaged me first . We've been slowly chatting daily since then, just a couple of messages each day. Definite potential there too.

[J0Al1]

[Lord Percy]

^^^^^ oops, never saw the above reply. Sorry!

In response to the part about girls getting loads of messages - It seems true. It's become a line of conversation for me on there, asking girls how may creeps and weirdos they've had, and the answer is usually 'loads'! I ask what the weirdest things are and there's been stuff like being asked to be a sex slave, being paid to be a girlfriend, being a mistress and tying guys on a lead, and one guy who made about 37 different accounts to speak to this girl each time she blocked him!

Anyway, an update on my little POF quest...



So the one(s) I was talking to before all fizzled out. Pretty annoying actually - you're having a nice chat about stuff and then it suddenly just stopped.

However I got talking to a couple more.

I met one of them on Tuesday evening sort of impulsively and wow she was nothing like I expected. More ugly than her pictures and her character was horrendous. I don't know if it was nerves or what but she was loud, gregarious and OTT in the ways you would expect someone to be in a group of young mates.

We met on campus then decided to go for a pint, so had to get in her car so she could drive home and then we'd walk to a pub in the area we both live. It was near 5pm so traffic was thick. She got road rage and started doing that annoying OTT anger that people do in a way that's meant to impress others but really it's just annoying. "OH MY GOD FUCKING COME ON, GUY IN FRONT YOU CAN GO FURTHER FORWARD THAN THAT, JUST MOVE!"

It was utterly unreal.

We actually got on ok as people but there wasn't even the slightest tingling of attraction. It was morbid in that sense. I don't necessarily think she was into me either though. And overall it wasn't a bad time. Just not at all romantic by any stretch of the word.

And now I'm in a spot of bother because, as has always been the case with these things, I've very suddenly gone off the idea of online dating things and am quite ready to once again delete it all because it just isn't 'me'. But I've got one problem...

I'm meeting someone else tonight to watch the new Star Wars film. The way we'e been messaging doesn't really fill me with much desire; I can't be arsed at all but she bought the tickets and it'd be a waste for me to cancel.

So I'm gonna go and watch it and just be totally neutral about the whole thing. I figure that's the best way out of it. I'm just not interested in this online datey stuff and I really should be strong and stop drifting towards it. I suppose it shows some level of desperation in me really. And it's never cool to go looking for these kinds of things when you're desperate...

[metalangel]

I am of the view that when you do find a person you click with, it's worth all the crap you had to go through in order to find them. As you recall, I had plenty of horrendous experiences like yours before I found my girlfriend (seven month anniversary yesterday, by the way) so don't get too discouraged. If you are serious about finding someone, you'll keep at it.

If anything else, isn't it nice having stuff to go out and do from time to time?
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[Lord Percy]

Yeah you're right, and actually tonight wasn't so bad!

Star Wars film was a laugh and totally went against the whole 'cinema first dates are weird' ideology. Then we went to a pub and talked for an hour or two.

She's actually a really nice person and we got on pretty well. However I'm not sure if there's a big physical attraction from me. I guess I'll see her again but I'm also sort of scared. Tonight was the whole 'nice to see you' + 'hug goodbye' (which she went for, not me) - what if next time I decide she's not for me, but she's decided something different?

Either way, it was sort of encouraging, I may not give up quite so soon. I've had a nice Scouse girl messaging me a fair bit who I may just see about meeting now too. Feels odd though - dating multiple people is a 'thing', isn't it? Some people do it anyway. Feels strange to me however.

Weird, I used to find the entire concept of meeting strangers, and especially dating them, a mega nerve-racking idea, but today and Tuesday were both totally fine, and suddenly I'm actually sort of enjoying it, if anything because, as you said, it's nice to have new stuff to go out and do. I guess it's like job interviews. Go to one or two and you start to be ok with all of them.

[RedPanda]

If you're serious then try a paid site like Match.com, far fewer time wasters and women don't have to pick through 100s of messages. You can probably get free trials, deals etc this time of year.
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[Itchy]

[Hahadumball]

Match.com is shit and scammy as fuck, always fuckloads of women near me that want to meet me...

More proof... i signed up for it using smilers name and pictures.. loads of women want him!
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[Codemonkey]

lol, Years ago when I was single I signed up to match.com, expecting to end up going on countless disastrous dates. In reality I only met up with one person from there, we got on well and have now been very happily married for 6 years. I'd hardly call that a scam.
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