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  • #32
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    20 years old here.I Will be a priest.


  • #35
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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  • #37
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭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.


  • #38
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,772 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #42
    ShowMeTheCash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭ShowMeTheCash


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


  • #43
    skittles8710
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭skittles8710


    Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »
    You may have missed the sarcasm in my post :D

    Not at all sure I'm only messing ! ;)


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #45
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


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














    Out of this god forsaken thread.


  • #46
    The Corinthian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,772 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #47
    Nucular Arms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭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". ;)


  • #48
    knucklehead6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,848 ✭✭✭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?"


  • #49
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »
    Just pay the escort overtime.

    Like... 30-40 years overtime.

    Probably works out cheaper than marriage...


  • #50
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭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. :D


  • #51
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭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 :)


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  • #52
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Online dating has created a window shopping mentality when it comes to finding a partner. Men generally out number the women on these sites. For the women its like walking into Tesco. You have multiple aisles with a plethora of options. You can pick something up, put it back, try something else. For the men its like walking into Aldi, only most of the items aren't for sale; they're just there for show. There's just one shelf at the back of the shop with available items and there's a queue a fcuking mile long to get to it.


  • #53
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    It's easier to be unfaithful and harder to find the innocence of true love.


  • #54
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Might start a how to meet women business. Seems to be a market.

    You are over thinking it.


  • #55
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    The Rodgers wrote: »
    Might start a how to meet women business. Seems to be a market.

    You are over thinking it.

    I think it's been done!


  • #56
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    silverfeather wrote: »
    I think it's been done!

    Ah yea but room for another, and better++
    15% discount for boardsies.


  • #57
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    The Rodgers wrote: »
    Ah yea but room for another, and better++
    15% discount for boardsies.

    Ah i prefer the 'I believe in love' way...I shall leave it for another less innocent than I to partner you.


  • #58
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


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

    he's 25, not 2!


  • #59
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    The Rodgers wrote: »
    Ah yea but room for another, and better++
    15% discount for boardsies.

    Don't offer a money back guarantee for them though! :eek:


  • #60
    job seeker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,145 ✭✭✭job seeker


    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Back in our day it was all smoke signals and morse code...

    Remember when Ireland was under British rule?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcVkYD3o910


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  • #61
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    silverfeather wrote: »
    Ah i prefer the 'I believe in love' way...I shall leave it for another less innocent than I to partner you.

    No reason it can't lead to <3


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