online dating

I've been doing the online dating thing for over a year now.

I thought I had written a pretty good profile but a friend looked it over and came up with the following comments. I said that I hate things like reality TV, Heat magazine etc and he told me that women do in fact enjoy those activities, some even refer to them as hobbies or past-times. The other comments was that I had said that I don't believe in astrology, his argument was that most women do and sometimes would choose their partner based upon the stars and their supposed compatability based on their date of birth. The things I still have to learn about women, most especially that they are all Leek'n'Lentil (guvnor).

I've been on three dates :-(

The first date was kind of a damp squib as the girl realised as soon as she saw me that she was far too good looking to go out with me. My argument is that 1) she should have looked at the photo's and 2) my personality far outweighed hers anyway.

The second was cast asunder as she spoke the immortal words "Daddy drives an Aston". Now, I appreciate the intrinsic beauty of such a car, but she was also ginger which kind of pushed it over the edge! Don't get me wrong, gingers can be beautiful too, but they are generally then referred to as redheads.

The third date was with a Korean girl, very nice girl but her English was a little pidgin. This made it very difficult to come across as an interesting and humourous individual, all of my funny quips passed her by. Shame really as I had loads of gags about Kim Jong-Il!

I'm now on the prowl - is prowl the right word? I feel like I'm prowling when I'm cruising the virtual kerbs of the website. Browsing! I'm now browsing for a new girl to go out on a date with, but I've run into a problem. It seems that I've winked (virtual wink) at all of the attractive women in Edinburgh, Glasgow and surrounding villages. There's none left! They've all been made aware of my availability and yet have managed to resist winking at me, or emailing me, or indeed cross referencing my profile with facebook, selecting a cross section of photo's and extrapolating a theoretical M.O. which includes regular bars and then turning up in those bars to see if she is as hot as her photo indicates so that she can meet me online and in person in the same week and put it down to serendipity...oh bugger!

Suffice to say, I'm still single. But I'm hopeful. I recently browsed (definitely not cruised this time) the men in Edinburgh on the site and they haven't really put the effort into their written profile, haven't gone through the editorial process that I did. I think this will pay dividends in the near future.