Dating websites

BraziliaNZ · 14-07-2008 05:37AM

Are there seriously attractive women on it? Surely if a girl is any way decent looking they get hit on by all kinds of men wherever they go? Can they not just stand around bars until they meet someone they like? I mean not ALL blokes in bars are drunk/morons/looking for one thing. That's why I never understood girls using them... unless they're not easy on the eye.

14-07-2008 05:42AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Are there seriously attractive women on it? Surely if a girl is any way decent looking they get hit on by all kinds of men wherever they go? Can they not just stand around bars until they meet someone they like? I mean not ALL blokes in bars are drunk/morons/looking for one thing. That's why I never understood girls using them... unless they're not easy on the eye.

Good point. I've never gone as far as using a dating website but I was thinking the same thing.

hussey · 14-07-2008 05:59AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Are there seriously attractive women on it? Surely if a girl is any way decent looking they get hit on by all kinds of men wherever they go? Can they not just stand around bars until they meet someone they like? I mean not ALL blokes in bars are drunk/morons/looking for one thing. That's why I never understood girls using them... unless they're not easy on the eye.

Maybe that is the point??
To NOT be hit on by guys in bars?
the guys you described as above don't always hit on girls, until they have enough dutch courage!

BraziliaNZ · 14-07-2008 06:06AM

oh come on I've lived with many single girls and currently with 2 girls and another guy and when we all go out the girls always at least snog someone or get phone numbers, if not take a guy home, whereas me and my male flatmate have to make a real effort approaching girls etc.! From my experience sharing with single girls, they get a hell of a lot more action than your average bloke these days.

hussey · 14-07-2008 06:49AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

oh come on I've lived with many single girls and currently with 2 girls and another guy and when we all go out the girls always at least snog someone or get phone numbers, if not take a guy home, whereas me and my male flatmate have to make a real effort approaching girls etc.! From my experience sharing with single girls, they get a hell of a lot more action than your average bloke these days.

Oh 100% agree, but you put all girls in that category, I am saying not every good looking girl wants to go to a bar to pick up.

so if you didn't go to a bar/club ... where would you pick up?

BraziliaNZ · 14-07-2008 06:57AM

me? well the last few girls have all been through friends, I think back home it was easier to meet girls in bars for some reason but it's not the same down here, I am but a dirty foreigner to them.

Explosive_Cornflake · 14-07-2008 07:00AM

LadyE wrote: »

I dunno...have never tried tbh

Reminds me of I think it was Jasper Carrott routine about a phone in opinion poll.
X amount of people phoned in to say they were in favour.
Y amount to say against.
Z amount phoned in to say they weren't sure.
People actually rang upto say they didn't know.

hussey · 14-07-2008 07:11AM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

me? well the last few girls have all been through friends, I think back home it was easier to meet girls in bars for some reason but it's not the same down here, I am but a dirty foreigner to them.

Yeah, since I came to Oz, I think I see the irish mentality to picking up is all around the bars/clubs. Through various friends and work friends I know around about 6 girls who have tried it.
One I would call rough, two I would call stunners.

Disco Stu · 14-07-2008 04:38PM

Karsini wrote: »

I wouldn't really agree in that sense. I believe that if it's free it's bound to be abused by people looking for a laugh whereas if you go on somewhere that charges a fee that should eliminate at least some of the muppets.

yeah i agree with that, I think what I was meaning, and wasn't too clear about, was that for a first time to get over the whole "online" thing it's worth looking at... if you do pay for one I'd guess you'd be more likely to find people seriously trying on it...

for a bit of free fun though :rolleyes:

anthony4335 · 14-07-2008 05:03PM

I checked out a few of these sites, and I am a little sceptical of them. You can sign up for free, you nearly always get a message request from someone in the first day ,and when you go to reply it requires you are reuired to pay money to use this function, and I did not have a pic either. So I'm wondering if the people who run these sites employ people to attract the punter who has signed up for free to "upgrade" there account to start chatting (if I owned the company that is what i would do).

rowlandbrowner · 14-07-2008 05:05PM

I’ve met a healthy mix of freaks and compos mentis individuals in the bar/club scene; I would wager that online dating has a similar distribution.

BubbleWrap85 · 14-07-2008 07:43PM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Are there seriously attractive women on it? Surely if a girl is any way decent looking they get hit on by all kinds of men wherever they go? Can they not just stand around bars until they meet someone they like? I mean not ALL blokes in bars are drunk/morons/looking for one thing. That's why I never understood girls using them... unless they're not easy on the eye.

Wow, WTG making me feel good about myself :P I've no problem getting a snog or a phone number, it's keeping them I've trouble with :P

MissHoneyBun · 14-07-2008 10:07PM

Of course there are weirdos on it. But no more than you'll meet in the office, on the street, in the pub or anywhere else for that matter. The same way there are, *shock* normal, attractive guys and girls on dating sites too. And yes, I do have first hand experience before anyone asks!

I think it's high time the adults of Ireland started growing up and stopped buying into outdated pre-conceived stigmas

BubbleWrap85 · 14-07-2008 10:09PM

MissHoneyBun wrote: »

Of course there are weirdos on it. But no more than you'll meet in the office, on the street, in the pub or anywhere else for that matter. The same way there are, *shock* normal, attractive guys and girls on dating sites too. And yes, I do have first hand experience before anyone asks! I think it's high time the adults of Ireland started growing up and stopped buying into outdated pre-conceived stigmas

i'm normal [not sure about the attractive part!] so figured there would have to be same on the site from the male side!

BubbleWrap85 · 14-07-2008 10:12PM

PS If there were any guys interested in going to the Dandy Warhols/Ash on Friday in Galway............take me take me!

ImDave · 14-07-2008 10:12PM

Worked well for a friend of mine. He found a great girl and have been going out for almost a year now.

truecrippler · 14-07-2008 10:16PM

anthony4335 wrote: »

I checked out a few of these sites, and I am a little sceptical of them. You can sign up for free, you nearly always get a message request from someone in the first day ,and when you go to reply it requires you are reuired to pay money to use this function, and I did not have a pic either. So I'm wondering if the people who run these sites employ people to attract the punter who has signed up for free to "upgrade" there account to start chatting (if I owned the company that is what i would do).

I've been on Plenty of Fish for nearly a year, had no one contact me or favourite me

. I must be too damn good looking :P.

BubbleWrap85 · 14-07-2008 10:18PM

Even I've been favourited on that thing :P Not that it means much! Was talking to a few people on it but only joined a couple of months ago!

dsmythy · 14-07-2008 10:28PM

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

oh come on I've lived with many single girls and currently with 2 girls and another guy and when we all go out the girls always at least snog someone or get phone numbers, if not take a guy home, whereas me and my male flatmate have to make a real effort approaching girls etc.! From my experience sharing with single girls, they get a hell of a lot more action than your average bloke these days.

That's not true though. Straight single women in the world get the same action on average as straight single men. After all it takes two to tango. Unless they're scoring themselves...

theganster · 14-07-2008 10:41PM

I used to be very sceptical about the whole online dating thing but I recently gave a facebook app called 'Zoosk' a go and it has been very successful for me. Took me a while to get into it and learn how to interact with the girls to get the best recults but I've never had so much fun and highly recommend it. From talking to the girls yes apparently there are a lot of weirdo guys, but me being a normal good-guy, that works out well for me :-).

It takes time and it is a numbers game, but after not long I flirting loads, getting them onto msn and I was regularily in my bedroom all evening untill 1am and 2am chatting to 2, 3 and maybe 4 firls at the same time. I've met quite a few girls now, dated a few (even 2 at once for a while!) and had a lot of fun throughout. It's a great confidence booster. They were all very pretty (I'm shallow and won't reply to swamp donkeys) but you kinda find the best looking girls don't have much to say for themselves, so best to find a happy medium.

I'm not good at chatting up random girls in bars, never been my thing, but this way its open and direct and honest. With practice I've got pretty good at online-flirting and can now go from initial contact, to getting to know each other to agreeing a date in quite a short time.

Definitely the way ahead imo. There used to be this big stigma attached to it, but that's is very quickly disappearing. At first I was keeping it secret, but after a while I started telling a few people... Now I'm happy to volunteer the story of how I meet these girls - if said with confidence almost always gets a positive reaction. I used to be the guy that scored way less than most of the lads, now I have dates lined up most weekends and doing far better with the ladies than any of the guys I know. Many of them are following suit and trying it themselves!

I highly recommend you give it a go...

taidghbaby · 14-07-2008 10:43PM

BubbleWrap85 wrote: »

PS If there were any guys interested in going to the Dandy Warhols/Ash on Friday in Galway............take me take me!

your desperation is starting to show!!!

BubbleWrap85 · 14-07-2008 10:49PM

lol turns out I'm going elsewhere on Friday now anyway so alas, I'll be unavailable :P funnily enough I didn't get bombarded with any PM's to go anyway

BubbleWrap85 · 14-07-2008 10:50PM

lmao Go you!!!!!!

[the ganster]

taidghbaby · 14-07-2008 10:53PM

BubbleWrap85 wrote: »

lol turns out I'm going elsewhere on Friday now anyway so alas, I'll be unavailable :P funnily enough I didn't get bombarded with any PM's to go anyway

http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/5/5d/Woman1.jpg

well who wants this desperation??

BubbleWrap85 · 14-07-2008 10:57PM

LoL Well the idea isn't half bad. No stray hairs at least :P

taidghbaby · 14-07-2008 11:00PM

BubbleWrap85 wrote: »

LoL Well the idea isn't half bad. No stray hairs at least :P

:eek: durty

BubbleWrap85 · 14-07-2008 11:04PM

I know, that's what my friends keep tellin me

BraziliaNZ · 14-07-2008 11:54PM

dsmythy wrote: »

That's not true though. Straight single women in the world get the same action on average as straight single men. After all it takes two to tango. Unless they're scoring themselves...

Well I've come to a conclusion that there's a small cluster of men banging all the chicks

JangoFett · 15-07-2008 12:43AM

deebee08 wrote: »

I have a question....does anyone believe that all these dating websites really work?? Or are they just full of weirdos? I joined one recently and was sceptical to start with but am seriously starting to lose faith here!! :rolleyes:

My friend signed up to one and thought she met a nice, cool guy and as soon as they had sex he started to make excuses not to meet up, so she everntually kicked him to the curb cuz he wouldn't see her for 2 weeks

I signed up to it and every girl who contacted me was either lying about her appearance or was just plain nuts

BraziliaNZ · 15-07-2008 12:46AM

JangoFett wrote: »

I signed up to it and every girl who contacted me was either lying about her appearance or was just plain nuts

On the internet, "Curvy" means fat/chubby

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