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Online Dating

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Re: Online Dating

  • imagevolenti:
    I met guys in 1994 from the IRC.  They were also creepy, but I was at least over 16.

    Pretty much only toothless people in rocking chairs even remember the IRC these days.  I am both dumb and ancient.

     

    IRC was actually the first chat program I used. I also went to chat rooms, although the one I went to most was for teens and had monitors. I never met anybody, but I did become good friends with a girl I met in the chat room. We'd call each other, and she even mailed me a birthday present. In hindsight, not my best move, but eh. What I planned on telling my parents if I didn't get to intercept the mail that day I have no idea. They had no idea about this girl, and assumed everybody I was talking to online was a 40 year old perv. 

  • imageinsominac:

    I've got at least two guys fer you.  They're D&D free.   My take is 20% though.   :)

    Sigh.

    PS what is D&D?

  • imageHamster0601:
    imagevolenti:
    I met guys in 1994 from the IRC.  They were also creepy, but I was at least over 16.

    Pretty much only toothless people in rocking chairs even remember the IRC these days.  I am both dumb and ancient.

     

    IRC was actually the first chat program I used. I also went to chat rooms, although the one I went to most was for teens and had monitors. I never met anybody, but I did become good friends with a girl I met in the chat room. We'd call each other, and she even mailed me a birthday present. In hindsight, not my best move, but eh. What I planned on telling my parents if I didn't get to intercept the mail that day I have no idea. They had no idea about this girl, and assumed everybody I was talking to online was a 40 year old perv. 

    LMAO.  I once got a casette tape from a guy in Australia.  He made me promise that I would never make love to anyone while listening to the tape.  It was like a bunch of Dire Straits songs.  I'm pretty sure he WAS a 40 year old perv.

  • Kore!Kore! member
    Eighth Anniversary 10000 Comments
    imageinsominac:

    I've got at least two guys fer you.  They're D&D free.   My take is 20% though.   :)

    Do they expect sexual favors during dinners out with friends?

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  • image10YearsTogether:

    imagestarlily313:
    I went out on a couple dates with guys I had met on Craigslist back in '01. If I were in a position to date again I wouldn't rule out online dating, but probably wouldn't use CL again.

    Can you imagine using CL now?  I would think that a lot has changed on that site.

    Back then I met two dot-commers & a guy fresh out of grad school. I e-mailed with others, mostly dot-commers, but three CL strikes and I was out. I still had to weed out many pervs.

    Today I would have to spend at least twice as much time weeding out the pervs and the ones who post penis pictures.

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  • I was completely against it before my first marriage (2004). It seemed too much like newspaper personals at that time - something to read for fun but not actually participate in.

    After my divorce (2007) I jumped right in to it, and met my SO on eHarmony.

  • Confession:  I filled out an online personal ad because I like answering those fill in the blank questions.  It's also one of the reasons I like auditioning for game shows.  I love those fill in the blank questionnaires.

    Kore's dating life never ceases to amuse me.

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  • I am so glad I started this thread.
  • image10YearsTogether:

    imageinsominac:

    I've got at least two guys fer you.  They're D&D free.   My take is 20% though.   :)

    Sigh.

    PS what is D&D?

    You really don't read the personals, do you?  lol  Drug and Disease free.

    Actually, they have lots of drugs (heh.  perk.)

  • Kore!Kore! member
    Eighth Anniversary 10000 Comments
    imageinsominac:

    Confession:  I filled out an online personal ad because I like answering those fill in the blank questions.  It's also one of the reasons I like auditioning for game shows.  I love those fill in the blank questionnaires.

    Kore's dating life never ceases to amuse me.

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    Crying  Crying

     

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  • Kore!Kore! member
    Eighth Anniversary 10000 Comments

    imagemusepuppy:
    I am so glad I started this thread.

    Me too! Love it.

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  • imageKore!:
    imageinsominac:

    I've got at least two guys fer you.  They're D&D free.   My take is 20% though.   :)

    Do they expect sexual favors during dinners out with friends?

    They're paying for her company, but whatever consenting adults want to do is out of my control.

    10y could be quite the earner for me.   I know exactly how this works from all the TV I watch.

  • This brought back so many memories.
  • I met one of my HS boyfriends in an AOL chat room.  We met at the movies and he was late, so I stood outside while my friends went in asking every stranger if they were "Tim".  After the movie he brought me to Friendly's where he stuffed his face with chicken fingers as I just sat there staring at him.

     Apparently I was desperate, because we dated for a few months after that until he kept telling me that the boys on his baseball team were wondering when I was going to give him a BJ.

  • imageinsominac:
    imageKore!:
    imageinsominac:

    I've got at least two guys fer you.  They're D&D free.   My take is 20% though.   :)

    Do they expect sexual favors during dinners out with friends?

    They're paying for her company, but whatever consenting adults want to do is out of my control.

    10y could be quite the earner for me.   I know exactly how this works from all the TV I watch.

    And all this time I thought you were serious about having a backup husband for me. 

  • imageKore!:

    imagemusepuppy:
    I am so glad I started this thread.

    Me too! Love it.

    Oh God me too.  lol

  • imagecount the stars:

    I met one of my HS boyfriends in an AOL chat room.  We met at the movies and he was late, so I stood outside while my friends went in asking every stranger if they were "Tim".  After the movie he brought me to Friendly's where he stuffed his face with chicken fingers as I just sat there staring at him.

     Apparently I was desperate, because we dated for a few months after that until he kept telling me that the boys on his baseball team were wondering when I was going to give him a BJ.

    This is gold.

  • image10YearsTogether:
    imageinsominac:
    imageKore!:
    imageinsominac:

    I've got at least two guys fer you.  They're D&D free.   My take is 20% though.   :)

    Do they expect sexual favors during dinners out with friends?

    They're paying for her company, but whatever consenting adults want to do is out of my control.

    10y could be quite the earner for me.   I know exactly how this works from all the TV I watch.

    And all this time I thought you were serious about having a backup husband for me. 

    Okay, okay.  I was under the impression you wanted a little extra spending change.  lol

    I do have that one guy for you...

    The big dogs are all in the process of getting divorces, so you'd need to act quick.  And be willing to date a 50 year old guy with gray hair in the pubes.   The little dogs are players, but you could potentially reform them.  The medium dogs are fug.

  • imageinsominac:
    image10YearsTogether:

    imageinsominac:

    I've got at least two guys fer you.  They're D&D free.   My take is 20% though.   :)

    Sigh.

    PS what is D&D?

    You really don't read the personals, do you?  lol  Drug and Disease free.

    Actually, they have lots of drugs (heh.  perk.)

    I was thinking Dungeons and Dragons. Embarrassed

  • imageinsominac:

    I do have that one guy for you...

    The big dogs are all in the process of getting divorces, so you'd need to act quick.  And be willing to date a 50 year old guy with gray hair in the pubes.   The little dogs are players, but you could potentially reform them.  The medium dogs are fug.

    How do you know this?!

  • imagemusepuppy:

    imageinsominac:

    I do have that one guy for you...

    The big dogs are all in the process of getting divorces, so you'd need to act quick.  And be willing to date a 50 year old guy with gray hair in the pubes.   The little dogs are players, but you could potentially reform them.  The medium dogs are fug.

    How do you know this?!

    Well, I don't know exactly.  But I'm assuming. 

    Grey hair on head = gray hair on pubes, no?

    And I have a feeling that pubes grow gray quick, but I could be completely wrong.

    Could someone in the room enlighten me?
  • We met on match.com in 2001.
  • imageinsominac:

    Grey hair on head = gray hair on pubes, no?

    And I have a feeling that pubes grow gray quick, but I could be completely wrong.

    Could someone in the room enlighten me?

    Crying

    I really hope someone can answer your question.

  • imagemusepuppy:
    I am so glad I started this thread.

    I just can't wait to see what it becomes renamed next week.

     

  • imagevolenti:

    LMAO.  I once got a casette tape from a guy in Australia.  He made me promise that I would never make love to anyone while listening to the tape.  It was like a bunch of Dire Straits songs.  I'm pretty sure he WAS a 40 year old perv.

    Cannot...stop....laughing...

     

  • Kore!Kore! member
    Eighth Anniversary 10000 Comments
    imagemusepuppy:
    imageinsominac:

    Grey hair on head = gray hair on pubes, no?

    And I have a feeling that pubes grow gray quick, but I could be completely wrong.

    Could someone in the room enlighten me?

    Crying

    I really hope someone can answer your question.

    I was curious (and I'm not at work), so I googled. Apparently, pubic hair doesn't gray as quickly as head hair. 

    I've been told by women in their 50's that their pubic hair kinda fell out, and there isn't much down there anymore. Not sure if the same applies to men.

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  • imageEastSideFluffy:

    imagemusepuppy:
    I am so glad I started this thread.

    I just can't wait to see what it becomes renamed next week.

    It is so good in its virgin form that it need not be resurrected as something else.
  • I reconnected with DH on an online dating site.  We didn't realize who each other was at first it had been a long time since we'd seen each other.  But after talking we realized that his grandma lived across the street from my mom and our parents were friends as teenagers.  I felt a little safer meeting him after that.
  • Even when I try to quit the Nest, I can't.

  • imagekb75:
    imageinsominac:
    image10YearsTogether:

    imageinsominac:

    I've got at least two guys fer you.  They're D&D free.   My take is 20% though.   :)

    Sigh.

    PS what is D&D?

    You really don't read the personals, do you?  lol  Drug and Disease free.

    Actually, they have lots of drugs (heh.  perk.)

    I was thinking Dungeons and Dragons. Embarrassed

    Heh. So was I. Although I hope they'd be free of that too! 

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