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I am so sick of seeing this drivel. Dating sites are for dating, derp. Obviously men get accused of trying to bypass dating to get straight at the sex, but I think women are just as guilty of short-cutting the process and artificially forcing it towards marriage, children, and increasingly...

DING-DING-DING-DING!!!!!! http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3072/are-shrinks-nuts "But let’s get back to the point I made at the outset. Does the mental health field attract people with mental problems? Research is thin, but some studies have found mental health workers are more...

I've been putting this conundrum to my mates lately - catlady or horseygirl. Everyone, including myself, picks the catlady. To be clear I'm talking about the urban/suburban girls who stable a horse outside the city somewhere. I've heard other guys say that the country chicks who ride day to day...

Sure, to clarify, I'm not talking about the outliers (the nines and tens), those girls typically aren't online, no argument there. I'm talking about the average broad you're likely to meet in the real world vs her online equivalent. I'm saying the same broad will seem much less appealing online...

Recently saw some late show interviews with Steven Yeun (Walking Dead) and Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation) and it was really interesting to hear these guys doing schtick about sh!t tests, texting, and what a general pain in the ass dating is these days. I really didn't get the impression that...

I'm inclined to agree, and I'll go one step further. I think the main reason that online dating looks worse than the "real world" is that in the real world women don't come with a horribly written profile advertising just how banal and/or dysfunctional they are. Instead, you get to waste weeks...

I think you did what needed to be done - it's a definite next. Mind you, I think you would have been entitled to cut your losses after she dragged her feet ending the call. That's a good question about the walking on business though. If the situation had been reversed and you'd run into some...

Aha, and you know what I tend to find happens with these girls, the promising ones you're describing. You bring some A-game, you cut through all the noise on the site, establish solid rapport....and BAM....she freaks the fvck out, decides she can't handle all the attention (d!ck pics?) she's...

Doesn't directly address your question, but I have noticed one interesting "crossover". I work in an overwhelmingly male environment (80/20 I'd think) and with a smorgasbord like that the girls in the "industry" have never really looked further afield for male company. But in the last year a...

Heh, aint that the unfortunate truth. Seems like the best you can hope for is physically attractive AND tolerable company. Still, I'm done having tepid sex with boring women, it's just not an experience I need to have again.

So I can only echo some of the other recent comments about online dating taking a dive in the last year (I'm in Oz for reference). It's bigger than it ever has been which seems to have enabled women to become more passive than ever with their level of actual participation on the sites (hat tip...

Bugger me, it's one interaction, it doesn't matter if he does or doesn't knock it out of the park. Why the need to run everything through the DJ filter - if you insist on doing that all the time, who are you, what are you? Ugh, all this aloof, calculated indifference that gets promoted, it ain't...

Most recently, an FB who, looking back, was ridiculously sensitive about any comments about single mothers (good, bad, or indifferent). Didn't pay it much mind as I thought I was dealing with a self-actualised adult for the most part. One day she really starts wallowing it though, playing the...

Ha, maybe! I read the OP and instinctively chalked it up to two people rubbing each other the wrong way (now who's projecting hey?). Could be that he busted out some cheesy Mystery style magic tricks he's not telling us about;) Which reminds me, some friends of mine saw an older guy doing...

Hallelujah brother. Can I get an amen.

Not every interaction needs to end in a bang at all costs - the qualifying cuts both ways on a date, or at least it should. Seriously, I think you're wired a bit differently to a lot of us, and that's fine Zarky. I know from your posting history that you really get off on the novelty of new...

Oh this is beauuuuuutiful. I remember the last time a girl dropped this one on me. I actually laughed in her face. The prospect doesn't scare me one bit, never has. Classic female solipsism - methinks the lady doth project too much. Really, really, telling that every guy in here has apparently...

I have become a motherfvcking expert at determining what the rest of a girl looks like based on the merest glimpse of her upper arms from her sh!tty profile photos. Has anyone else developed this amazing superpower? Actually, impressive as it is, it's a bit redundant. Knowing what we know about...

Just to expand on that, you can be fairly sure that the winners won because they had mild appeal to a large number of women. Mild appeal might get you new contacts, or help you win a "best profile" competition, but it's not going to get you laid. A shorter, more polarising profile is going to...