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I was thinking about this while in the bath this morning. Does it matter where you meet? Does it have any effect on you or others around you? Do you judge others on how and where they met?
What are your thoughts on people that have met say, in a pub? Or in a club? What about a blind date? Personal ads or the one I'm really getting at, through the Internet? I obviously have had a little personal experience regarding the last of these and have found it to be very strange in some ways. It's strange, because it hasn't been strange, if that makes any sense whatsoever.
It hasn't seemed strange to me regarding my lass, but yet I've still not been comfortable to tell everyone where we met. Why could this be?
I've told some people and it hasn't been a big thing to them and yet I think it would be to others. My parents for instance.
It just strikes me as odd.
We met online, (this very forum), talked for a year and a half on MSN and the phone and then met up. We just got on really well, as cheesy as it sounds, we just "clicked". We've been a couple for over 4 months and now and now she's just my lass. No longer is she a name on a forum, my contacts list and mobile. She's ma' woman, innit.
The way I see it is that is doesn't matter really how we or anyone else meets, it's how you get on and relate to each other and those around you that matters.
I've taken some stick for meeting her online, (even worse then that it has made me talk like a third division football manager now and then).
It has been called "sad" that we met online and are now dating. Why is it sad? I didn't come on this website looking for totty. I mean, the fact that the sexy beast that is Light comes on here keeps me coming back, but that isn't why I joined. If I'd joined a gym or something because I wanted to go to it and then I met someone there, would that not be the same thing? Is it simply because when we first met, we didn't really meet because we were an hour away from each other that causes people to look down their nose?
What if I'd signed up to a dating website, would that then actually be sad because I was looking for people online and the perception may be that I can't "get" a girl in "real" life?
I'm just wondering what all your thoughts are on this and if any of you have had any personal experience of any of it.
Now go, my pretties, and go on Light, you gorgeous creature.
I was thinking about this while in the bath this morning. Does it matter where you meet? Does it have any effect on you or others around you? Do you judge others on how and where they met?
What are your thoughts on people that have met say, in a pub? Or in a club? What about a blind date? Personal ads or the one I'm really getting at, through the Internet? I obviously have had a little personal experience regarding the last of these and have found it to be very strange in some ways. It's strange, because it hasn't been strange, if that makes any sense whatsoever.
It hasn't seemed strange to me regarding my lass, but yet I've still not been comfortable to tell everyone where we met. Why could this be?
I've told some people and it hasn't been a big thing to them and yet I think it would be to others. My parents for instance.
It just strikes me as odd.
We met online, (this very forum), talked for a year and a half on MSN and the phone and then met up. We just got on really well, as cheesy as it sounds, we just "clicked". We've been a couple for over 4 months and now and now she's just my lass. No longer is she a name on a forum, my contacts list and mobile. She's ma' woman, innit.
The way I see it is that is doesn't matter really how we or anyone else meets, it's how you get on and relate to each other and those around you that matters.
I've taken some stick for meeting her online, (even worse then that it has made me talk like a third division football manager now and then).
It has been called "sad" that we met online and are now dating. Why is it sad? I didn't come on this website looking for totty. I mean, the fact that the sexy beast that is Light comes on here keeps me coming back, but that isn't why I joined. If I'd joined a gym or something because I wanted to go to it and then I met someone there, would that not be the same thing? Is it simply because when we first met, we didn't really meet because we were an hour away from each other that causes people to look down their nose?
What if I'd signed up to a dating website, would that then actually be sad because I was looking for people online and the perception may be that I can't "get" a girl in "real" life?
I'm just wondering what all your thoughts are on this and if any of you have had any personal experience of any of it.
Now go, my pretties, and go on Light, you gorgeous creature.
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Aww he's all growed up.
Wow, AbsoluT Neó. I didn't know you was married! I thought you was about 15 :o)
Question for Pro Evo.
If you were the one who flew out to meet her first, weren't you a bit concerned you were spending all this money to meet somebody you'd only ever known as a username, words, voice, etc? Or the other way around, weren't you concerned she was flying out to meet you, going to all this trouble, and it just wasn't right?
I mean, all the travelling costs don't come cheap, do they?
If you were the one who flew out to meet her first, weren't you a bit concerned you were spending all this money to meet somebody you'd only ever known as a username, words, voice, etc? Or the other way around, weren't you concerned she was flying out to meet you, going to all this trouble, and it just wasn't right?
I mean, all the travelling costs don't come cheap, do they?
I met my SO at University (also in Brighton, topical thread). On the open day that summer I'd met a girl from High Wycombe who was quite pretty and very friendly, and on the first day of Uni proper I was hoping she'd be there, so I was desperately looking round the crowd for her. The only girl who looked anything like her was the girl I am now with, but I decided it couldn't be her. So the first time I ever set eyes upon my current girlfriend was an occasion marked by massive disappointment :0]
On the subject of internet dating, one of the most popular people I work with (though I do work at a games company) is using an internet dating service to find a partner. Apparantly they're heavily laden with reasonably attractive women, he's already been on several dates with one and is in contact with another.
On the subject of internet dating, one of the most popular people I work with (though I do work at a games company) is using an internet dating service to find a partner. Apparantly they're heavily laden with reasonably attractive women, he's already been on several dates with one and is in contact with another.
I met my girlfriend through the net 4 years ago, and have been in a long distance relationship (as in, we live in different countries) for 3 years last Thursday.
I dont care about telling people where we met, it doesnt matter to me. We have both met each others parents which all went fine. We dont see each other as much as we like but we do have lots of plans for the future, one being one of us moving out to live elsewhere, her here or me in the US, which ever is best possible when it comes to it, which wont be till we have finished Uni.
We both went down to London last week for a few days and are seeing each other in the Summer too. Its hard work but we are working at it and its what we want.
Doesnt matter to me where we met, we do love each other and thats all that matters to us, and when we first met, we really did just 'click'.
If this makes me sad, im the happiest sad man ever.
I dont care about telling people where we met, it doesnt matter to me. We have both met each others parents which all went fine. We dont see each other as much as we like but we do have lots of plans for the future, one being one of us moving out to live elsewhere, her here or me in the US, which ever is best possible when it comes to it, which wont be till we have finished Uni.
We both went down to London last week for a few days and are seeing each other in the Summer too. Its hard work but we are working at it and its what we want.
Doesnt matter to me where we met, we do love each other and thats all that matters to us, and when we first met, we really did just 'click'.
If this makes me sad, im the happiest sad man ever.
Timmargh wrote:
> Panda and Light: am I right in thinking that you guys know each other
> from way back?
You are indeed.
> Panda and Light: am I right in thinking that you guys know each other
> from way back?
You are indeed.
I have been out with someone who I met online and spoke to for a few years before deciding to date, it was good for a while and last a couple of years but in the end it didn't work out for the same reason as Paradox - primarily a distance problem. In her mind, it was always a casual arrangement and one day she decided to finish it will me over a text message, which I will never forgot.
I then met someone at Uni through a college friend of mine and we went out for approx 4 years and finally decided to tie the knot last year and have been extremly happy ever since, she is my soul mate and I don't know what my life would have been like without her.
I then met someone at Uni through a college friend of mine and we went out for approx 4 years and finally decided to tie the knot last year and have been extremly happy ever since, she is my soul mate and I don't know what my life would have been like without her.
I met Mrs. Timmargh at work - while everyone else pusssy-footed around me, she used to have a good laugh and play me up (I was one half of the IT department). When the doctors retired me off I realised I missed her, so I got in touch and the rest is history. We've been together for six years, argue all the time, have split up on several thousand occasions and are both sex maniacs.
I think hiding something like the fact you use the internet or have a website is sad - not in a "you're a sad git" way, but in a "it's a shame that you feel you have to hide who you are". Mrs. Timmargh knows I have two websites but has no interest in them whatsoever - she's quite happy to let me get on with it. She also knows I talk to people on MSN who I've never met - not a problem. She does have some rules, though: no mention of her name or posting any photos of her.
Panda and Light: am I right in thinking that you guys know each other from way back?
I think hiding something like the fact you use the internet or have a website is sad - not in a "you're a sad git" way, but in a "it's a shame that you feel you have to hide who you are". Mrs. Timmargh knows I have two websites but has no interest in them whatsoever - she's quite happy to let me get on with it. She also knows I talk to people on MSN who I've never met - not a problem. She does have some rules, though: no mention of her name or posting any photos of her.
Panda and Light: am I right in thinking that you guys know each other from way back?
I met my girlfriend through a friend, he introduced us and we became friends first, then got together as a couple a few months later.
I went out with a girl I met from the net, that didn't go well at all, mostly because of the distance so we couldn't see each other an awful lot. It soured me to the whole concept. I think the internet is just a way for shy people to talk to members of the opposite sex, which is cool for them I suppose.
I went out with a girl I met from the net, that didn't go well at all, mostly because of the distance so we couldn't see each other an awful lot. It soured me to the whole concept. I think the internet is just a way for shy people to talk to members of the opposite sex, which is cool for them I suppose.
Yeah, ho, what's wrong with meeting someone in a bar? Hehe. I suppose it was really all of those bruises from the mechanical bull ride, that dance you did to win the wet t-shirt contest, and the missing cowgirl boot we just couldn't get about when you met Elvis. It was just so uncharacteristic, you computer geek you. :P
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