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Dreadwinter wrote:What THREE things are MOST important to you?

A. Video Games

B. Alcohol

C. Condoms

Yet somehow, they found me 7 matches on there. None of which match my interests at all.....

How dare women not like comdoms eh!!?

Nerivant wrote:I tried to fill it out, but it stopped me before I could finish with the first page of questions.

I'd try it just to see but I think She Who Must Be Obeyed
1) might get suspicious, and in good family tradition, run over her husband.
alternatively
2) realize the "oops" she made and decide she needs to clear the decks so to speak, again leading to #1, but thos time with a little crush and grind.

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:You think you don't have to pour booze into someone you meet on eHarmony?

I beg to differ, sir!

Yeah, being "that guy" at the bar is a problem, though. Don't get too drunk, and learn to both recognize if a gal isn't interested and to accept multiple rejections without anger.

Coffee shops are also a good place to go, if you suck at dancing or can't be trusted around alcohol. Learning to dance can't hurt either.

Maybe not, if he wants a long term commited relationship it might show a little class if he only has 'one or two' unless shes all down for partying then its on, funnel down her mouth while making her shot gun beers like at a college frat house Just be shure to 'get some' before she passes out....unless your into that.... Canneus might have some insights into that right bro ?

Screw that, go straight for the enema. Works faster, and depending on what you're into, can be more fun!

Monster Rain wrote:B: Go to places where people congregate, such as bars and clubs. Talk to women. Actually, engage women in conversation and let them do most of the talking. The less you say, the better.

It depends on what you're looking for. The bar scene gets old fast for some people.

But A. Get in shape, is right on the money.

Monster Rain wrote:How to meet a prospective mate without using an internet service:

A: Get in shape, maintain a socially acceptable level of personal hygiene.

B: Go to places where people congregate, such as bars and clubs. Talk to women. Actually, engage women in conversation and let them do most of the talking. The less you say, the better.

C: Repeat as necessary until one of them decides, against her better judgement, that you're boyfriend material.

And that was free, people.

You're welcome.

feth ive been doing it wrong for years! I thought you were supposed to google "Witchcraft orgy" and turn up at the nearest one with a severed goats head in one hand and your balls in the other.

Bars? Eeesh.

I think the best advice to give is to just make yourself available; show your face around where you can and just be receptive to what comes your way. Pro-actively looking won't be much more successful... I'm not some corny believer in 'fate' but life throws natural situations at you where you'll just click with people in everyday circumstances.

Then again, being a young'un, I have no idea how easy these 'everyday circumstances' are to come upon when people are holding down jobs; probably not as much time for clubs 'n' Uni. House Parties as I have now

Monster Rain wrote:How to meet a prospective mate without using an internet service:

A: Get in shape, maintain a socially acceptable level of personal hygiene.

B: Go to places where people congregate, such as bars and clubs. Talk to women. Actually, engage women in conversation and let them do most of the talking. The less you say, the better.

C: Repeat as necessary until one of them decides, against her better judgement, that you're boyfriend material.

And that was free, people.

You're welcome.

Works great for getting a girlfriend, 1 night stand, or bootey call, but it's not the best way to find a long term relationship or a wife. It's also less effective if a person is on shift work, has 2 jobs, is a full time student + works full time, or is in the military and is deployed overseas.

Personally I hate clubs and don't see how anybody can hear what a woman is saying let alone hold a conversation over the crap music blaring. The conversation is usually limited to saying "WHAT! OK! YEAH! WHAT! OK! YEAH! WHAT! OK! YEAH! " Don't even bother trying to talk to women at a club, just dance instead, if they like the way you dance they will want to talk to you, and if they talk pretend you can hear what they are saying over the music. If you're good at dancing then picking women at clubs is easy. Bars are better for talking, but/and the good/bad thing about bars is the women tend to be more serious drinkers than clubs. Drunk women are easy to pick up, but it's really hard to actually get to know somebody while they are drunk (If you care)

The big problem I have with the A. B. C. method you listed for RL dating is step C: Repeat as necessary until one of them decides, against her better judgement, that you're boyfriend material. The problem I have with it is there is a very good chance after all that work with my better judgement I'm likely to decide she's not girlfriend material, and I don't like wasting my time. Internet dating is awesome because you can tell in 5 minutes if someone is not for you, rather than wasting large amounts of time before discovering a deal killer.

The thing with e harmony is it's built to have the highest marriage rate of any internet dating service. If you're not ready to get married material, gay, or not religious e harmony will reject you and thus secure their place as the #1 success rate of a dating sight that ends in marriage. I never tried to use e harmony because people that desperate to get married tend to be emotionally desperate and/or religious fanatics both of which are deal killers for me.

Try match or Cupid. I met my wife on Cupid 4 years ago. It's actually a fun sight, and not too serious.

People should note that "bars and clubs" wasn't an exhaustive list of places to which you could go, but a couple of suggestions.

Monster Rain wrote:People should note that "bars and clubs" wasn't an exhaustive list of places to which you could go, but a couple of suggestions.

No. You said bars. Back-peddler!

Last weekend I did a nature hike via meetup.com. That's where I met the girl I'm having lunch with on Sunday. Thinking of doing a wine tasting next week. That meetup group is 3:1 girls:guys.

I met my girlfriend on a forum for graduate students.
There is no magic formula.

Monster Rain wrote:People should note that "bars and clubs" wasn't an exhaustive list of places to which you could go, but a couple of suggestions.

Meeting a chick at a clinic for people with sexually transmitted diseases would be pretty cool... I mean, shes bound to be a proper mucky bag of carrots!

Im going to put my suit on and stand outside my local one with some flowers!

mattyrm wrote:

Meeting a chick at a clinic for people with sexually transmitted diseases would be pretty cool... I mean, shes bound to be a proper mucky bag of carrots!

Excuse me while I grab my English to english dictionary...

Dreadwinter wrote:
Yet somehow, they found me 7 matches on there.

I just filled it out as a completely psychotic My Little Pony fan and it got me 4 matches.

My actual profile got 0.

Wheeeeeeeeeee.

mattyrm wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:People should note that "bars and clubs" wasn't an exhaustive list of places to which you could go, but a couple of suggestions.

Meeting a chick at a clinic for people with sexually transmitted diseases would be pretty cool... I mean, shes bound to be a proper mucky bag of carrots!

Im going to put my suit on and stand outside my local one with some flowers!

No, no, mattyrm.

I stand by what I obviously meant, that what I said earlier was word for word the only way to ever meet women. I also must have deliberately left out the part where someone might be able to alter it in some way to suit their own personal circumstances.

DickBandit wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

Meeting a chick at a clinic for people with sexually transmitted diseases would be pretty cool... I mean, shes bound to be a proper mucky bag of carrots!

Excuse me while I grab my English to english dictionary...

She is bound to be really really filthy, and as a result, great in bed.

mattyrm wrote:

DickBandit wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

Meeting a chick at a clinic for people with sexually transmitted diseases would be pretty cool... I mean, shes bound to be a proper mucky bag of carrots!

Excuse me while I grab my English to english dictionary...

She is bound to be really really filthy, and as a result, great in bed.

Or terrible depending on how far gone she is disease-wise.

I don't know about you, but people who just died of [insert STD here] don't tend to be very active in the sack.

They also have cold feet.

Avatar 720 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

DickBandit wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

Meeting a chick at a clinic for people with sexually transmitted diseases would be pretty cool... I mean, shes bound to be a proper mucky bag of carrots!

Excuse me while I grab my English to english dictionary...

She is bound to be really really filthy, and as a result, great in bed.

Or terrible depending on how far gone she is disease-wise.

I don't know about you, but people who just died of [insert STD here] don't tend to be very active in the sack.

They also have cold feet.

Pah!

My diseases will eat theirs!

And was previously only found in sharks...

I think the only way to get a good match at all, is to say things like
Im athletic and in good shape
I make a gak load of money (whatever that equates to on there)
I was the star on my football/soccer/hockey/random sports team
My IQ is 160+ and Im a wine taster.




Thatll fetch you something I bet. And the thought of Hilters profile, actually made me giggle

Well, Hitler killed Hitler, so that's gotta be worth something.

schadenfreude wrote:Internet dating is awesome because you can tell in 5 minutes if someone is not for you, rather than wasting large amounts of time before discovering a deal killer.

In general, I can tell within 5 minutes if I'm willing to date someone.

I also wouldn't call any time I spend pursuing a person to be wasted.

Hell, the main reason I would never use a dating site is that the pursuit part is half the fun.

schadenfreude wrote:
Drunk women are easy to pick up, but it's really hard to actually get to know somebody while they are drunk (If you care)

Well, not when they're that drunk.

Fafnir wrote:Well, Hitler killed Hitler, so that's gotta be worth something.

That is scary logic...

Rented Tritium wrote:There was a guy on another forum that made a profile as close as he could to pre ww2 hitler.

I like art and nationalism

Me and my friends have a running joke about doing something similar on Jdate...It's far too offensive (until we get REALLY bored)

dogma wrote:
Hell, the main reason I would never use a dating site is that the pursuit part is half the fun.

I think there is a point where it becomes stalking. Very fine line.

dogma wrote:

schadenfreude wrote:
Drunk women are easy to pick up, but it's really hard to actually get to know somebody while they are drunk (If you care)

Well, not when they're that drunk.

Well, when you are trying to get laid you want them that drunk.

Dreadwinter wrote:
I think there is a point where it becomes stalking. Very fine line.

I suppose a better way of putting it would be that going out and meeting different people is half the fun.

Dreadwinter wrote:
Well, when you are trying to get laid you want them that drunk.

There's a pretty fine line, though, between "drunken mistake" and "date rape".

Plus, drunk sex isn't exactly the best kind of sex.

dogma wrote:

Dreadwinter wrote:
Well, when you are trying to get laid you want them that drunk.

There's a pretty fine line, though, between "drunken mistake" and "date rape".

Plus, drunk sex isn't exactly the best kind of sex.

True true. You have to make the distinction, or have the morals to care about a distinction between the two. I like to think I do.

But still, drunk sex is still sex. Plus, sometimes they surprise you.

As someone who... nevermind. You people frustrate me to no end.

kronk wrote:
It depends on what you're looking for. The bar scene gets old fast for some people.

Tell me about it, I work there.

I broke EHarmony by being too fussy when I filled in my profile. I joined again with a different email addess and was less fussy, and have had a couple of dates from it.

Settling: What all men have done like since forever amirite?