Travelling

Dr Crayfish · 01-01-2017 09:45PM #1

Ok so if anyone has used online dating, you must have noticed how (well the women anyway) so many people talk about "Travelling" and how they are passionate about it. One girl has in her profile "I'm a traveller not a tourist". What are they trying to convey? That they're not eating beans and chips in Benidorm? I love going on holidays. Is that the same thing? I backpacked before in South America, I guess that was a long holiday on a budget.
I just saw a girl who's profile headline said "Traveller at heart" (I sh*t you not), I sent her a message saying are you a Ward or a McDonagh, she viewed my profile but didn't reply, lol.

tomwaterford · 01-01-2017 10:17PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I just saw a girl who's profile headline said "Traveller at heart" (I sh*t you not), I sent her a message saying are you a Ward or a McDonagh, she viewed my profile but didn't reply, lol.

Bet she was a connors :P

Lucky shes not starting a fued with you

But in all seriousness they sound somewhat up their own hole and painful....traveller but not a tourist :pac:

Trebor176 · 01-01-2017 10:29PM

I'd be surprised if everyone that lists travel as being an interest has actually travelled much. It's like as if it's a requirement on a profile, and makes them look good. The gym is another very popular thing on a profile.

Agricola · 01-01-2017 10:32PM

It's just another way of saying "I'm very cultured, I love nothing more than seeing new places and meeting new people"

The same way mentioning the gym is another way of saying "I take care of myself and like to look and feel healthy"

I'd take anything I read on a dating site with a pinch of salt........Himalayan salt of course.

Dr Crayfish · 01-01-2017 10:37PM

I just find it incredibly boring that they're going on about countries they've visited. Pretty much everyone has been everywhere nowadays, it's not that big a deal. As I'm getting older my desire to visit far flung places seems to be waning, which I'm glad of, I had all kinds of ideas when I was younger and always blamed Ireland for my problems...

whoopsadoodles · 01-01-2017 10:40PM

"Dear sir, if you cannot afford to go and feed the orangutans in borneo, it would be best if you messaged another girl, one perhaps, who is content with a week in benidorm."

FizzleSticks · 01-01-2017 10:41PM

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buried · 01-01-2017 10:44PM

"Travel" is just another hardwired acceptable hobby the majority can relate too. Its an acceptable label to pin on yourself like enjoying "movies" and "fine food". If your on them dating sites, whatever you do, don't put down "Black Magic" in the hobby section, even if you meant the dark chocalate selection box like what I honestly actually meant it was in all fairness

Agricola · 01-01-2017 10:45PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I just find it incredibly boring that they're going on about countries they've visited. Pretty much everyone has been everywhere nowadays, it's not that big a deal. As I'm getting older my desire to visit far flung places seems to be waning, which I'm glad of, I had all kinds of ideas when I was younger and always blamed Ireland for my problems...

The other consideration is that most of us don't have very exciting lives. Few of us are moutaineers or sky divers in our off time. So travel is something most people have done which is a conversation point.

Fleawuss · 01-01-2017 10:47PM

Hehe put down "ready to put down roots with well travelled woman".

anewme · 01-01-2017 10:53PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

, I sent her a message saying are you a Ward or a McDonagh, she viewed my profile but didn't reply, lol.

I had on my online profile Traveller as you had to pick something (out of a list of adjectives ) and that applied to you so I picked that without any deep or meaningful analysis.

Then some bloke (Think Tom Selleck with a dodgy mullet) replied in an extremely patronising manner and asked me if I knew what a traveller was and proceeded to explain about Wards, McDonaghs etc. He cane across as a complete misery guts.

I just thought to myself - well you sound like a right barrell of laughs mate. Imagine having a negative nelly like that nitpicking all the time. You'd think you have to take out your words and examine them, before you said them.

I did tell him he must have grown up posh as we would have had different definitions in west Dublin growing up.

I don't get traveller not a tourist bull****, that's just pretentious codswallop but you are reading too much into it. It's just a conversation piece as someone else said.

There's also nothing wrong with listing your hobbies either- it tells you if you are compatible or not.

Dr Crayfish · 01-01-2017 10:54PM

Some also say they're "passionate about travel". What does that involve? Going to some far flung place and standing there all hot and sweaty and intense, being passionate?

I love this part on "City Breaks" from the book, "Is it just me or is everything sh*t?"

You might become so desperate for variety that you're persuaded by the guidebook's intriguing descriptions to explore a picturesque suburb where the real city dwellers, possibly even vibrant immigrant communities, live out their lives drinking insanely strong coffee in colourful gambling dens. On arrival, you find yourself walking down an empty street where the silence is punctuated only by the bark of a dog and the distant chink of cutlery from behind shuttered windows. An old man's vacant stare seems to ask the question that's already forming in your mind, pounding at your forehead: "What the f*ck are you doing here?"

A Dub in Glasgo · 01-01-2017 11:02PM

Ask them do they like the Karl Pilkington vision of travel, you know where they will try something at least once

Agricola · 01-01-2017 11:08PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

You might become so desperate for variety that you're persuaded by the guidebook's intriguing descriptions to explore a picturesque suburb where the real city dwellers, possibly even vibrant immigrant communities, live out their lives drinking insanely strong coffee in colourful gambling dens. On arrival, you find yourself walking down an empty street where the silence is punctuated only by the bark of a dog and the distant chink of cutlery from behind shuttered windows. An old man's vacant stare seems to ask the question that's already forming in your mind, pounding at your forehead: "What the f*ck are you doing here?"

I read too much of the Sunday Times travel section. Stopping that is a new year's resolution. The answer to that existential pondering is obviously that as a "passionate" traveler, you are seeking out authentic experiences. It's just not enough to fly to the other side of the world and see the national landmark, oh no, that's just for plebs. You must, preferably live like a local for a time. Perhaps, take up a job cleaning a public toilet in Bangladesh for the day, get a feel for the life of a native.

Surreptitious · 01-01-2017 11:09PM

I love Benidorm. What's wrong with Benidorm.

Dr Crayfish · 01-01-2017 11:10PM

Surreptitious wrote: »

I love Benidorm. What's wrong with Benidorm.

I've never been but I believe it's hard to find Spanish food there!

Noveight · 01-01-2017 11:10PM

You haven't travelled until your Facebook profile picture is one of you looking outward over the Grand Canyon or some mountain. Obvs.

Agricola · 01-01-2017 11:11PM

Hard to find Spanish people there too

Surreptitious · 01-01-2017 11:12PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

I've never been but I believe it's hard to find Spanish food there!

It's huge. There's all different types of restaurants. And there's loads of Spanish people there that holiday.

Dr Crayfish · 01-01-2017 11:14PM

Surreptitious wrote: »

It's huge. There's all different types of restaurants. And there's loads of Spanish people there that holiday.

It's funny that the same people who seek authentic experiences abroad are the types who'd be in Chinatown seeking authentic Asian food. Why aren't they berating the Chinese for not integrating?!

J Mysterio · 01-01-2017 11:16PM

Surreptitious wrote: »

I love Benidorm. What's wrong with Benidorm.

Its ****.

Totally soulless place. Go down the road to Alicante or up the road to Denia.

01-01-2017 11:18PM

I love this gem on profiles; "love my nights in and love my nights out".
So you just like being alive is it?

tomwaterford · 01-01-2017 11:22PM

Noveight wrote: »

You haven't travelled until your Facebook profile picture is one of you looking outward over the Grand Canyon or some mountain. Obvs.

Pfft.....petting drugged zoo animals is where its at

(tbf if i ever did go to thailand i prob would go for a gawk....but i dont do photos)

Dr Crayfish · 01-01-2017 11:23PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Pfft.....petting drugged zoo animals is where its at

(tbf if i ever did go to thailand i prob would go for a gawk....but i dont do photos)

But the poor bloody tiger!

tomwaterford · 01-01-2017 11:26PM

Dr Crayfish wrote: »

But the poor bloody tiger!

Itll nevee know :pac:
(i assume).... It seems everyone in the country has done it

Tgough is it any diffeeent that petting kangeroos at foto wildlife park?

tomwaterford · 01-01-2017 11:27PM

Omackeral wrote: »

I love this gem on profiles; "love my nights in and love my nights out".
So you just like being alive is it?

Their clearly a vampire and a ceature of the night??

01-01-2017 11:29PM

Another annoying one is that they are a "Foodie",,, one said that and a travelling addict, all her photos were her in somewhere like Ibiza and she was eating a hot dog in one of the photos

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 01-01-2017 11:30PM

J Mysterio wrote: »

Its ****.

Totally soulless place. Go down the road to Alicante or up the road to Denia.

or to a different region altogether.

anewme · 01-01-2017 11:31PM

Noveight wrote: »

You haven't travelled until your Facebook profile picture is one of you looking outward over the Grand Canyon or some mountain. Obvs.

I went away last year with a group of solos.

One of the guys raised this early on - he said what was it with women and their dating or Facebook profiles that they had either a photo of a tandem skydive or a picture of them with a tiger or on a mountain and that him and his mates noticed this and stayed away from such women.

It went completely over my head as I never twigged that but one of the girls in the group went pale- turned out her profile was her doing a tandem skydive.

As the trip progressed - it was clear he (the oracle as he became known and to be avoided at all costs ) was a pain in the hole- a military guy who knew everything about everything - going on like he was in The SAS - he was like the boring priest in Father Ted, me, me, me, while she turned out to be a no holds barred, hard drinking, straight talking Geordie with a wicked sense of humour who works with the criminally insane. Such a fantastic interesting character.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 01-01-2017 11:31PM

Likes:

Reading (tabloids)
Politics (voted once or twice)
Walking (to the bus stop to get to work)

Surreptitious · 01-01-2017 11:39PM

One guy has his profile picture of him sky diving, another him in a tent and on a mountain top. You couldn't see his face in any of them. He had zero personality and tried to claim he was given a Master's for nothing as 'they gave them away'. Turned out he had a level five and lied about it on his profile. He offered me money and said I 'could pay him in kind'.

Travelling

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