The Online Dating Journey

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What's interesting is that some people clearly find it very difficult to find partners, so when they get one it's both a mixture of surprise combined with thinking that it won't happen again and/or they can't be bothered to return to the seeking/attainment process. I wonder how many people stay in relationships for that reason.

A large number I imagine. I also know of large numbers of people who got together in their teens and 20 years laters still argue like teenagers, they clearly aren't meant for each other but they stay together.
 
Had to search just to make sure, looks like he's made a few digs over the years:

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Yeah I don't really understand, we plan staffing for an entire bank, not sure how that constitutes a "call centre". Housey didn't believe the job I did so I told him the systems I use and he said I was lying? Really weird. Just saying things doesn't make them true.
 
Yeah I don't really understand, we plan staffing for an entire bank, not sure how that constitutes a "call centre". Housey didn't believe the job I did so I told him the systems I use and he said I was lying? Really weird. Just saying things doesn't make them true.

It's all good, you seem to be living rent-free in his head with him mentioning the same thing, 4 years apart.
 
Yeah I don't really understand, we plan staffing for an entire bank, not sure how that constitutes a "call centre". Housey didn't believe the job I did so I told him the systems I use and he said I was lying? Really weird. Just saying things doesn't make them true.

You have to realise that a lot of people don't care about finding the truth out, they only care about the argument, and they will sustain that for as long as possible. I think this is because they enjoy using the forum platform and they're bored, or they don't want to look like they've 'lost'.

One thing I rarely read here is someone saying, "I'm sorry, you're right". It does happen, but very rarely.
 
Eh? I'm on about the search results I found. I think you need to read my post again, it wasn't a dig at you :D I'm well aware he didn't mention it this time around but he nearly always responds to your posts in GD.

Yeah he's a weird guy, I found a video of his band on Youtube though and he's exactly the type of bloke you'd imagine, the kind who bores you with "funny" anecdotes to make up for his lack of personality at any sort of social event.
 
Yeah he's a weird guy, I found a video of his band on Youtube though and he's exactly the type of bloke you'd imagine, the kind who bores you with "funny" anecdotes to make up for his lack of personality at any sort of social event.
C'mon, you have to post a link to that so we can give it the GD treatment :p
 
What's interesting is that some people clearly find it very difficult to find partners, so when they get one it's both a mixture of surprise combined with thinking that it won't happen again and/or they can't be bothered to return to the seeking/attainment process. I wonder how many people stay in relationships for that reason.

I dipped into this thread with no real interest, just mild curiosity.
When I was “in the life” the World Wide Web hadn’t come into being, let alone online dating, and it comes as something of a surprise to me, a full fledged dinosaur, that meeting a prospective partner online seems to be an accepted thing now.
It all seemed so simple to me in my 20s and 30s, I’d be in a bar/pub/party/wedding/social get together, I’d see an attractive woman, and making sure that I stayed just outside her comfort zone, I’d open up with something innocuous, which could in no way be seen as pushy.
You could discern the reaction in seconds, if I was shot down, shrug and walk away, if she smiled, I’d keep saying hopefully nice things, and it went where it went.
Naturally, nothing lasts forever, and one evening I was hoist with my own petard.
I sailed nonchalantly into a South London pub, gently “put the bite” on an attractive freckle faced redhead, and didn’t feel nor hear the jaws of capture clanging shut behind me.
Still, I had a good run while it lasted, memories live longer than dreams.
 
I dipped into this thread with no real interest, just mild curiosity.
When I was “in the life” the World Wide Web hadn’t come into being, let alone online dating, and it comes as something of a surprise to me, a full fledged dinosaur, that meeting a prospective partner online seems to be an accepted thing now.
It all seemed so simple to me in my 20s and 30s, I’d be in a bar/pub/party/wedding/social get together, I’d see an attractive woman, and making sure that I stayed just outside her comfort zone, I’d open up with something innocuous, which could in no way be seen as pushy.
You could discern the reaction in seconds, if I was shot down, shrug and walk away, if she smiled, I’d keep saying hopefully nice things, and it went where it went.
Naturally, nothing lasts forever, and one evening I was hoist with my own petard.
I sailed nonchalantly into a South London pub, gently “put the bite” on an attractive freckle faced redhead, and didn’t feel nor hear the jaws of capture clanging shut behind me.
Still, I had a good run while it lasted, memories live longer than dreams.

There's something poetic to your DelBoy.ai ramblings :D
 
I met my partner on Tinder 3 years ago. I think we texted for a few weeks until we decided to meet up for a date and we've barely been apart since.

It was different with other people. Some, if they were really local, we'd talk for a few hours and meet for a coffee that evening.
 
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