Anyone do personals?

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Anyone do personals?

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I am a member of several personals sites, you know the "online dating" scene! hehe.


Addiction to personals!


A point had been made to me a couple of days ago by a special someone. They said that they were giving up personals for life. I asked why and the answer was a simple "people on personals are addicted to it, even if they find someone they do not stop pursuing others". This raises an interesting topic and from first hand experience with personals I would agree that many men and women on the personal websites are never content with whom they are with.

See, it becomes painfully obvious that giving up personals mate no1 for a risk with no2, basically makes you a statistic in the same vein. Everyone essentially goes round in circles and ending up with nobody. Lets face it, if your on personals, no matter what credentials you have, there is something a miss with your social life. It might just be that your standards are just too damn high or your looking for a miracle, or you have 10 kids and can't get out. It takes acceptance of what you have or what was brought to you. If someone puts a smile on your face, the world will be a greater place having you smile back at it.

Contrary to what you might think, most people on personals websites are already in a relationship. They date you 3 times and figure it aint gonna work out and its time for them to go back to their soul mate they shouldnt have left in the first place. Was this before or after you had sex with them? Oops! :?

Also, I bet less than 10% all the profiles actually say anything interesting.

Lets start with "Why am I different?". Its always a subject matter in your profile right? Ok, so someone writes "I like music, I go swimming, I watch movies!". Woopdee doo! That just says your like EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD! :lol:

Then you get to the more ambitious parts of the profile. Someone likes 4 wheeling or horse back riding. Then on the first meeting you ask "Oh, I read you go 4 wheeling and horse back riding!" and are often greeted with the reply "Oh, I have not done that for 2 years!" or "Actually, I only did it once when I was 6" :shock: . So basically we can concur that nobody is different at all, we just glamorize ourselves to hide the fact that we do nothing but slouch around all day spending too much time on the darned internet.

But thats ok, we should not be ashamed of who we are! We are decent human beings after all. Is it possible to accept someone in our lives right now when there are potentially a million other of the opposite sex still hitting our mailboxes? .

Two people I met were married and never told me until at least the 3rd meeting and that was only because trouble was brewing ahead! Where is the honesty in this world?



Ive had a few matches sent to my email lately. Apparently we are compatible matches. Then I look at the picture and see a black female, almost 500lbs that looks more like a Gorilla than a human being. I can thank "Lovehappens" for the thought, but no thanks!

I started to email this girl called "Anna" once, supposedly from Arnold, MO! She ended up being from a place in Russia I can't even spell. After sending me many pictures of super model quality, she pursues to get a free plane ticket (or pocket the cash) to America. When I refused to send money overseas her reply was as follows -

You do not want to go on these conditions, not that man which to me actually means you is necessary!!!!!!!! GOODBYE!!!!

OK Anna, work on your English and stop using a translation site.. thankyou. :lol:

PS. If anyone wants a pic of the beauty just pm me your email addy :D


Can you find love on the internet? I believe you can! You just need to find someone who is ready to STOP when they find that YOU made them happier than they were yesterday. Remembering to STOP yourself searching out someone that will make you even happier tomorrow. True compatibility takes time and unless you give it a chance, your wasting your time altogether, you would be better off going to bars, at least you can have a drink and enjoy yourself in the process :D
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Seems like those eHarmony commercials are on TV non-stop these days. It must be working if the company is dumping that much money into numerous commercials.
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Post by iatneH »

I love your stories, man. Funny stuff :)

And yeah, things are looking pretty hopeless for me right now, but I have to get my own crap together before I'll be ready to take on someone else's crap.
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Post by Benjamin »

As much as I loathe sites such as MySpace and the like, I hate to say that (to me at least) it seems that ignoring these Internet networking sites also hurts you in the end if "networking" is a goal of yours. I admit I contemplate joining such a site but haven't yet, mainly because the profiles I browse seem to be either out-and-out idiots or physically unappealing people (being polite there :^) ). I think the sad thing is is that once you become an adult and out of school, the only places it seems that adults are supposed to meet people are bars. :/
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A mate of mine went on some sort of dating site and shortly after I noticed this large girl over there when I went to visit. She was cool and would even play twinkle star sprites 2 player with the rest of us.

Anyway, something like 3 weeks after her first appearance she brought her 'friend' (whom she had met that week) and that 'friend' was an absolute nutter! she ended up dating my mate who did the date site thing in the first place.

2 weeks after that and our gaming sessions were no more, there were anywhere from 2 to 6 children running around and most of us stopped going over there. A lot of other stuff that's even worse happened in addition, but the whole series of events showed me what happens with the date sites, you never get what you bargain for.
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agreed with everything said in this topic thus far.
I honestly can't stand internet trends. I really don't know what it is about Chuck Norris jokes, Myspace, bittorrent and all this other bullshit that irks the hell outta me. I guess its because I am not apart of the crowd that would be interested and shit like that. I miss the good ol' days when only college kids/rich kids had internet access. Then again I wouldn't have access to much of the shit i'm into now. Maybe its because I believe in using the net for what its really good for(porn, porn, buying stuff, learning stuff, porn) and not building my entire social life around text messages from people I prolly won't ever meet and prolly wouldn't want to either.
As for personals, Blech...been burnt on those things before. Better to get dressed up and go to a bar/coffeeshop/school and meet chicks the old fashioned way-walking up to them and talking like you have some sense. the only thing the internet has to offer as far as dating is concerned are crazy sloppy fat wanna be bisexual chicks who think they're goth cause they watch CSI and read Stephen King and listen to My Chemical Romance.
I'd rather get shot down 100+ times in front of a real woman than to engage in e-drama with some fat slouchy "punk" bitch who sits in front of her computer all day drinking mountain dew and complaining about how the world doesn't understand her....
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That was hysterical. :lol:
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Post by JBC »

You can always try profile sites like MySpace or VF. *cough Myspace sucks cough*

It's basically the same thing except it's only a dating site if you want it to be, and you can do kickass shit with HTML and check out new music in the meantime.
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Online personals are good idea in theory (getting to know someone first). I responded to and met 1 person. She was cute, smart, and it was fun. Seriously though, attractive and intelligent women are lavished with too much attention on these sites for it to be worthwhile. Kind of puts an extra edge on it knowing there's dozens of other guys in line. That really rubs me the wrong way. I was told some 40+ year old guy offered her a new car (and plane ticket, this was out of state) to move in with him. Aside from being thoroughly creeped out, I think that kind of attention can skew a person's perspective a bit. Kind of depressing.
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neorichieb1971 wrote: Ive had a few matches sent to my email lately. Apparently we are compatible matches. Then I look at the picture and see a black female, almost 500lbs that looks more like a Gorilla than a human being. I can thank "Lovehappens" for the thought, but no thanks!
This made me laugh out loud. :lol:
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Look right, I drive a stick shift (manual gears). If the hip bone of my date prevents me from going into 5th gear its a definate no no! :lol:
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neorichieb1971 wrote:Look right, I drive a stick shift (manual gears). If the hip bone of my date prevents me from going into 5th gear its a definate no no! :lol:
Lol! :lol:
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neorichieb1971 wrote:Lets start with "Why am I different?". Its always a subject matter in your profile right? Ok, so someone writes "I like music, I go swimming, I watch movies!". Woopdee doo! That just says your like EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE WORLD! :lol:
You forgot "hanging out with friends" and "having fun".
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