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  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Famous Blue Raincoat


    The connectingsingles.com website, which since 2001 has been quietly in existence as a free website in a quiet corner of the internet - reopened this week and it's a travesty what they've done.

    When you hit it, you are lambasted with adds for sister websites of a very dodgy nature, and other things, and before you know it your connectingsingles.com information has been shared with those websites (not by you!) and you are being bombarded by emails from the associated websites.

    Everybody on the new connectingsingles.com website seems to be from"Stoneybatter, Wicklow", "Tinkerslane, Meath" or a couple of other places - which sounds vaguely familiar from a crap dating site elsewhere on the internet.

    And if they think I'll part with €45 for three months as my "half-price discount" for that, they've another thing coming.

    www.connectingsingles.com



  • Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Luna84


    Then again there's a thread on reddit/Ireland where everyone talks about not having sex in ten years so it could be worse.

    I'm not on reddit but I am Irish and also haven't had sex in 10 years. I'm 40 and I was around 30 when I was last with a FWB chick. Maybe I should join reddit those people seem like my kind of people. 🤣

    Just to add I'm not on dating sites or have a friend circle and don't head out on the town. I also live in the sticks so very little chance of meeting someone.



  • Registered Users Posts: 868 ✭✭✭purifol0


    Christ you much be absolutely minted. Nothing drains my bank accont faster than dating. 100 quid on drinks in town and then another 200 on a hotel room if it goes well.

    Monk mode has its advantage$



  • Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Luna84


    Tbh honest I actually do have a nice few quid saved up. I shouldn't really be posting this personal stuff here but sure wth.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,314 ✭✭✭Jequ0n




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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,575 ✭✭✭worded


    Yeah, never too old or too wide a gap.

    So what was it that first attracted you to billionaire Robert ?

    Pfizer shares have gone up

    https://www.thejournal.ie/rupert-murdoch-married-wedding-6396967-Jun2024/



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Was chatting someone on pof, we matched but there is a distance of 2 hours 20 minutes by car between us, she says sure you drive up to me as you drive for a living you will be used to driving 😂 then she says you can get a hotel in my town when you come up. she doesn't drive but come on what effort is she making here? needless to say I blocked her. she said on her profile that she worked as something but when I questioned it, turns out she isn't working now as she is looking after her kid. 🤦‍♂️



  • Registered Users Posts: 868 ✭✭✭purifol0


    Bahaha. Last year I went on nice and casual drinks date a day or two after matching. Turns out it wasn't a pub but a restaurant and she had booked the table in advance and the whole thing was going to be my treat.

    It honestly blew my mind she thought this would work. I shook my head she chased me outside as I headed back to the car literally screaming at me.

    Tinder has a report poor offline behaviour button, but you cant press it after they unmatch. I pity the next poor bastard she tries to get a free meal from.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    😂🤣 Unreal. sad thing is some lads are so desperate they would let women away with behavior like that.



  • Registered Users Posts: 868 ✭✭✭purifol0


    Aha yep. But its completely normalized.

    I saw an episode of First Dates where a 21year old Irish girl gave a permanently wheelchair bound virgin the privilege of a date. Which consisted of half an hour out of her day for a polite chat with the "just friends" ending and the kindness of handing him the bill. And afterward he gets to wheel himself out to the taxi and wave her off, out of his life forever and about €150 lighter. What a great friend she is!

    You know back when Irish men weren't completely pussy whipped he would have been brought to a whorehouse and she would have been shamed for taking a cripples money.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,314 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    You know back when Irish men weren't completely pussy whipped he would have been brought to a whorehouse and she would have been shamed for taking a cripples money.

    Oh I needed that laugh. Fantastic!



  • Registered Users Posts: 868 ✭✭✭purifol0


    If you think thats funny I had a very jealous friend who was absolutely desperate back in my student comp sci days.

    Unlike the rest of the virgins this guy wasnt content playing Magic, but he wouldnt step a foot inside the gym either. He was convinced he was to pull via his personality and how nice he was to women. This got him a few female "friends" who he waited on. He was literally a walking drinks and bag holder for one, and an emotional tampon for the other.

    Anyway dating apps were suddenly a thing and lo and behold he got a match and she found him funny and attractive. She was also 6000 miles away in New York and wasn't coming over here.

    Whaddya think he did? And do you think it worked out?

    Cue a call to me from himself sobbing his eyes out in a hostel in the Big and very lonely Apple.

    As the kids say "what no pussy does to a MF"



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    So a few red flags I've noticed....

    1.."I own my own house"...eh well good for you...but you're either seriously lacking in modesty or see it as some kind of transaction which in reality if you're harping on about owning a house you're probably very conscious of the fact that it's your house and there ain't no transaction involved. It's yours. We know that that full stop and also we don't care.

    2.."I don't like drama"...clearly you love drama...either that or you're still entangled or in love with some drama laden floozy who I'm going to get alot of grief from or you're going to triangulate me with for your ego driven insecurities.

    3.."Your mom will love me"...first of all...we don't say 'mom' here in Ireland..it's mam and no sweetheart she won't love you and your bullshit 'im a cheeky chappy innocent guy" shyte. In fact if anything youre coming across as a **** who thinks he can manipulate older women.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Is it me or are lots of Irish women really bossy and domineering these days? every woman I meet seem like they think the best way to pull a guy is to be really pushy and bossy, I hate it, nothing turns me off faster.

    not to hate on women here, loads of them are great but its just something I have noticed.



  • Registered Users Posts: 652 ✭✭✭Luna84


    3.."Your mom will love me"...first of all...we don't say 'mom' here in Ireland..it's mam

    I say ma as I grew up in Dublin and that's what everyone said and it's ingrained in me now but my sisters kids say mom and so do their friends. Her eldest in 23 so maybe the guys you are chatting to are young. I have no idea when people switched from mam to mom. Most likely picked it up from American Tv shows and it took off with the youngsters.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    Not my experience at all irl. They seem to love bossy women like they absolutely love it. They love women pining and whinging and crying about them and messaging them multiple times and lowering themselves.

    In general I've not been bossy enough, I just can't like I'm not gonna make a guy to go somewhere he doesn't want to go or behave in ways that go against his integrity or even with choosing places Im too laid back because I just think it's fun to be with each other and not the place ...Im like "eh whatever you want to do'....but don't take a non bossy woman as being stupid or naive...it doesn't mean they don't see **** going on.

    'not to hate on women here, loads of them are great' lol why wouldn't loads of them be great? So yea I think it's you 😁😅



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Men don't want a bossy woman, so you are right to go with the flow. its very masculine if a woman is bossy and aggressive, such a turn off.

    im saying I dont think they are all bossy cows but I just meet lots of them. 😫



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    I say mam now but I was sat down by my older brother when I was around 8 and told that I can't be saying mammy anymore that it's ma now and I did call her that for a long time but now it's mam ☺️



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    Bossy men aren't great either. I feel often I give them the first choice on things but I want to be able to feel like I can say no I don't think that's good without it being a big deal…

    Two much unbossy can end up like both being bossy towards one another😁😁 remember when you were a kid with your friend and you both couldn't decide on a game and you'd say 'i don't know what to do'...and they'd say 'well I don't know what to do either'...'well..…' and it would go on.... and on and on 😅😅😅



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,396 ✭✭✭JamesBond2010


    Good to see i am not the only one so, its happening to & getting ghosted.If u dont want to talk dont match or send me msgs then.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    Apparently if you don't look at tinder enough or say tinder five times in the mirror....they, The Tinders start sending you notifications to say 'dont ghost me' 😮 The Tinders are pros at guilt tripping lol did you ever? Lol



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,314 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    Not to boast but the moms usually like me. It’s not that hard really.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    Not to boast…from you? 🙄 lol 😂🤣🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Well yes, do it 50/50, not letting one person decide every time.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    Im gonna put up on my profile now....

    Your dad will love me 😂🤣😂🤣😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    when was this episode on? I want to see it. I wonder is it on RTE player.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,314 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    My dad would love you indeed.

    Good luck with your profile and new search.



  • Registered Users Posts: 868 ✭✭✭purifol0


    I posted about it on the first dates thread a few years back. I watched it on the player I think in 2020 so I've no idea if it's still there.

    In fact it was one of the reasons I stopped watching it. The exact opposite date happened too. A very pretty young girl in a wheel chair was basically on TV to talk about her tragic accident that left her paralyzed and they paired her with a youngfella her own age who she wouldn't have touched with a bargepole before it. But due to this terrible accident she was forced to lower her standards, which for a woman is just unthinkably bad. The show edited the two to show him in the most unflattering light despite the fact that he paid in the end and didn't give her the "let's be friends" treatment.

    It was not subtle. The difference between the disabled dates was basically men should shut up about it, while women can spend the entire date going on about it. It's not that I don't have sympathy for her, but just imagine for a second her date leaving her with the bill and expecting her to escort him to the taxi!



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭ruth...less


    Is it ok if I call him daddy? Lol 😂😂😂 I'm joking 😂😂😂



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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    You just reminded me of some woman I met lately, in a wheelchair, lovely personality and good looking, I would have no issue going out with her, it wouldn't matter that she is in a wheelchair at all, sure its only a chair, so im not sure people in wheelchairs have to lower their standards.



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