was it easier

PTH2009

Was it easier for guys to meet girls back in the old days eg 1960's,70's. ??

For a single guy today it's near impossible to find a girlfriend eg tinder, good looking east European guys etc.

I'm 25 now fed up of the single life

Discuss

Jimmy Bottlehead

25?

You're washed up mate. Game over.

MagicMarker

PTH2009 wrote: »

Was it easier for guys to meet girls back in the old days eg 1960's,70's. ??

For a single guy today it's near impossible to find a girlfriend eg tinder, good looking east European guys etc.

I'm 25 now fed up of the single life

Discuss

Well don't be so ugly then.

dilapidating

It's never been easier, eg tinder, good looking Eastern European girls etc

El Guapo!

PTH2009 wrote: »

Discuss

No

Nucular Arms

Why is boards so full of whiney little man children recently?

"My mum always told me i'm the most handsome boy in the world but all the mean girls don't seem to think so.... Waaaaaaahhhhh"

Menas

Not easier back then, just different.

skittles8710

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

25?

You're washed up mate. Game over.

28 year old single female here.
Ouch .

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Of course it wasn't easier. You have to put in the effort.

Arsemageddon

It was much easier back in the day.

The sound of a minimally talented showband used to turn even the most respectable girl into a raving nymphomaniac.

Statistically speaking 99.9% of all Irish people born in the 60s and 70s were conceived in the back seat of a car outside the local dance hall.

razorblunt

skittles8710 wrote: »

28 year old single female here.
Ouch .

What are your feeling on dating younger men?
I know of a fella let's just use his initials of O.P. for now.

skittles8710

razorblunt wrote: »

What are your feeling on dating younger men?
I know of a fella let's just use his initials of O.P. for now.

As long as he has wads of cash I'm game.!






















Jokes..prefer an older man. Rb I suspect you are said type.

JeffKenna

PTH2009 wrote: »

Was it easier for guys to meet girls back in the old days eg 1960's,70's. ??

For a single guy today it's near impossible to find a girlfriend eg tinder, good looking east European guys etc.

I'm 25 now fed up of the single life

Discuss

Maybe by the time you're 30 you'll be married and Waterford will have won an All Ireland...Never know!

razorblunt

skittles8710 wrote: »

As long as he has wads of cash I'm game.!



Jokes..prefer an older man. Rb I suspect you are said type.

Older yes, maturer .... TBC.

SEPT 23 1989

You could not hide behind technology if you wanted to submit a young lady to a wooing

Nucular Arms

skittles8710 wrote: »

28 year old single female here.
Ouch .

And you're approaching 30 too.. Everyone knows that's like 50 for a woman.

:pac:

Lingua Franca

Arsemageddon wrote: »

It was much easier back in the day.

The sound of a minimally talented showband used to turn even the most respectable girl into a raving nymphomaniac.

Statistically speaking 99.9% of all Irish people born in the 60s and 70s were conceived in the back seat of a car outside the local dance hall.

Ya do the hucklebuck, ya do the hucklebuck, if you don't know how to do it then you're outta luck...

Banjo String

Op, please surrender your man card on the way out.

iDave

Can someone explain how Tindr makes it harder? Have a single mate constantly getting the ride from it.

Banjo String

iDave wrote: »

Can someone explain how Tindr makes it harder?

Dunno tbh, must have Vibrate function on the phone?

Have a single mate constantly getting the ride from it.

eurgh..... Sticky handset I bet.

skittles8710

Nucular Arms wrote: »

And you're approaching 30 too.. Everyone knows that's like 50 for a woman.

:pac:

Time to get on tinder, solicit a bareback ride and trap a man so I guess!

PTH2009

Women love gay men so if I act gay and then suddenly convert I'll be in there lol

iDave

Banjo String wrote: »

Dunno tbh, must have Vibrate function on the phone?
eurgh..... Sticky handset I bet.

Well played

whiskeyman

Back in our day it was all smoke signals and morse code...

anncoates

As the Irish branch of the human race hasn't died out yet, I'd hazard a guess it's always been relatively easy to meet members of thew opposite sex.

Mister Vain

In theory it should be easier because there are more options now. The interweb is a bit of a double edged sword though. Yeah you have tinder and facebok and the like, but people spend too much time online now. I think social media has ruined the nightlife too because people spend more time recording the moment than actually living it. It's hard to approach someone when they're glued to their smartphone. In the old days it just seemed to be more simple and most people found someone and got married. People generally stay single til they're older now, and not always by choice.

Wow. What a silly thing to complain about. If you think Tinder and Eastern European guys are affecting your ability to find a partner then you're most certainly doing it wrong. If anything, Tinder should aid you in this prospect. And as others have suggested, you should just hand over your man card.

Do people actually use Facebook as a dating site?

Mister Vain

Yeah I'm not sure what Eastern European guys has to do with anything? You don't see many Eastern European guys with Irish women. It's usually the Irish men dating the Eastern European women.

swimming in a sea

I'd say your problem is you have your eye on the top self ladies, well if you don't have the looks or the €€€€ you have no chance so you may have to go the bargain section.

PTH2009

PTH2009 wrote: »

Was it easier for guys to meet girls back in the old days eg 1960's,70's. ??

For a single guy today it's near impossible to find a girlfriend eg tinder, good looking east European guys etc.

I'm 25 now fed up of the single life

Discuss

No, in fact I would say its quite easier these days to find a girlfriend if that is what you want. There is many more opportunities today to meet women that wouldn't have been there decades ago, when women might have been married at an earlier age etc.

Women aren't all the same, looks aren't the be all and end all. If you have a good personality and are fun to be around then eventually you will find someone you like and likes you. Make sure you don't come on to strong and seem desperate whatever you do, nothing turns women off more than desperation.

Jimmy Bottlehead

skittles8710 wrote: »

28 year old single female here.
Ouch .

You may have missed the sarcasm in my post

Mister Vain

It's a lot easier to get sex nowadays because people are more sexually liberated these days as the Catholic church doesn't have as much influence as it one had. Escort Ireland has helped in that regard too. But actually finding someone special to settle down with is a lot harder now I reckon.

ThisRegard

Nucular Arms wrote: »

Why is boards so full of whiney little man children recently?

"My mum always told me i'm the most handsome boy in the world but all the mean girls don't seem to think so.... Waaaaaaahhhhh"

There was a survey published last week saying that the current and future generations have little in the way of social skills in dealing with real women, it's a specific form of shyness.

Deadly serious, true story and all that. One of the reasons is due to the amount of on-line porn they watch so have don't have the mad skills us oldies have in talking to the ladies.

MRnotlob606

20 years old here.I Will be a priest.

Jimmy Bottlehead

Mister Vain wrote: »

Escort Ireland has helped in that regard too.

But actually finding someone special to settle down with is a lot harder now I reckon.

Just pay the escort overtime.

Like... 30-40 years overtime.

Mister Vain

Mister Vain wrote: »

It's a lot easier to get sex nowadays because people are more sexually liberated these days as the Catholic church doesn't have as much influence as it one had. Escort Ireland has helped in that regard too. But actually finding someone special to settle down with is a lot harder now I reckon.

I don't think its harder to find someone to settle down with to be honest. Any of my friends age group of 25-27 have found girlfriends when they want one without to much of a bother.

Mister Vain

Ancient Mural wrote: »

Before smartphones people just dreamt up other reasons why they shouldn't approach, it's basically the same.

It really isn't. Nightclubs used to be simple places. They were just music, beer, women, that's it. Now they're glorified photo studios where people stand around posing for facebook photos.

eternal

ThisRegard wrote: »

There was a survey published last week saying that the current and future generations have little in the way of social skills in dealing with real women, it's a specific form of shyness.

Deadly serious, true story and all that. One of the reasons is due to the amount of on-line porn they watch so have don't have the mad skills us oldies have in talking to the ladies.

Don't know about that. Younger men charm you a way more than older ones.

ThisRegard

eternal wrote: »

Don't know about that. Younger men charm you a way more than older ones.

I dunno, walking up to a women with you hand down your tracker knackers tucked into your white socks doesn't charm the women you should want to charm.

eternal

ThisRegard wrote: »

I dunno, walking up to a women with you hand down your tracker knackers tucked into your white socks doesn't charm the women you should want to charm.

Haha, that's a social stereo type. I've never had anyone described as such approach me.

The Corinthian

PTH2009 wrote: »

Was it easier for guys to meet girls back in the old days eg 1960's,70's. ??

For a single guy today it's near impossible to find a girlfriend eg tinder, good looking east European guys etc.

I'm 25 now fed up of the single life

Discuss

Well, back in the day you'd talk to your local matchmaker, generally paying a fee of a goat or three chickens and a six-pack of porter. She'd organize a match, who you would meet once at the local hop, naturally chaperoned by the parish priest. Now if the priest liked the look of you both, you'd get married next and have a baba on the way nine months later (if less than nine months, no one would say anything to your face, but you could be sure that auntie Brigid would never invite you to visit again), with another one every 10 to 16 months thereafter until yer wife hit her menopause or her uterus fell out - whichever happened first.

It became a lot harder with the advent of the Celtic Tiger. People started having these career yokes, and so they'd end up in the pub less often. A decrease in romance was inevitable, as, sure, how are you supposed to feel romantic without a couple of drinks in you - or her, so she can block out the voice of old sister Assumpta in her head, telling her how what she was doing was vile, dirty and a sin. Men were luckier as priests said very different things to us when we were boys and alone in the confessional.

Alcohol has been the backbone of Irish romance for centuries. How else could the ginger gene have persisted, when it's gone extinct in almost every culture that's been forced to court stone cold sober. Sure, one in two Arabs were gingers at the time of Mohammad.

Increases in marital breakups, HIV, unmarried mothers and gahy marriage can all be traced back to people spending less time in the pub. Won't someone, who isn't in the priesthood, please think of the children?

Nucular Arms wrote: »

Why is boards so full of whiney little man children recently?

+1

ShowMeTheCash

I have recently discovered sharking and gunning....
Make's me happy!

skittles8710

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

You may have missed the sarcasm in my post

Not at all sure I'm only messing !

eternal

eternal wrote: »

Don't know about that. Younger men charm you a way more than older ones.

That has always been the case. It could be because the younger guys would make so much more effort to impress older women.

Adamantium

OP....I'm up for the ride!....














Out of this god forsaken thread.

The Corinthian

Deleted User wrote: »

It could be because the younger guys would make so much more effort to impress older women.

They have to make the extra effort, because all the younger women, their own age, are already taken by the older guys.

Nucular Arms

skittles8710 wrote: »

Time to get on tinder, solicit a bareback ride and trap a man so I guess!

I believe the technical term is "spermjacking".

knucklehead6

End of term civics essay due OP?

"How has the prevalence of Dating Sites and the influx of Immigrants affected the traditional Irish courting rituals?"

whiskeyman

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

Just pay the escort overtime.

Like... 30-40 years overtime.

Probably works out cheaper than marriage...

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

The Corinthian wrote: »

Well, back in the day you'd talk to your local matchmaker, generally paying a fee of a goat or three chickens and a six-pack of porter. She'd organize a match, who you would meet once at the local hop, naturally chaperoned by the parish priest. Now if the priest liked the look of you both, you'd get married next and have a baba on the way nine months later (if less than nine months, no one would say anything to your face, but you could be sure that auntie Brigid would never invite you to visit again), with another one every 10 to 16 months thereafter until yer wife hit her menopause or her uterus fell out - whichever happened first.

It became a lot harder with the advent of the Celtic Tiger. People started having these career yokes, and so they'd end up in the pub less often. A decrease in romance was inevitable, as, sure, how are you supposed to feel romantic without a couple of drinks in you - or her, so she can block out the voice of old sister Assumpta in her head, telling her how what she was doing was vile, dirty and a sin. Men were luckier as priests said very different things to us when we were boys and alone in the confessional.

Alcohol has been the backbone of Irish romance for centuries. How else could the ginger gene have persisted, when it's gone extinct in almost every culture that's been forced to court stone cold sober. Sure, one in two Arabs were gingers at the time of Mohammad.

Increases in marital breakups, HIV, unmarried mothers and gahy marriage can all be traced back to people spending less time in the pub. Won't someone, who isn't in the priesthood, please think of the children?

+1

That's a dam good post.

major bill

Tinder,POF, Instagram etc have all made the most average looking women think they are Katie Perry due to the randy nature of Irish men liking everything and anything therefore making it extremely difficult to pull birds.


**** you Social Media