@Unlimited and his love life.

[Smoggy]

9 hours ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

I admire the persistance. The dating game was cruel before the dawn of online dating. Now its really hard these days, those apps are addictive and truly a numbers game and a lot of luck

Again, I hear bits at work about this..Hard not to as along with housing one of the main Sydney obsessions at the moment...

A fella said the women he meets want equality of money / resources / everything....Until they want a husband / partner, which is when they want someone who earns higher than them...with more resources....

Hmmm...sounds bitter...probably...

Edited July 26 by Smoggy

[marron]

Yep, bitter.

There are certainly people like that who just want to be provided for, but plenty who don't.

A hypothesis based on nothing would be that if a person values money highly themselves, they are going to be meeting people who do as well.

 

 

[Unlimited]

On 26/07/2024 at 5:43 PM, Smoggy said:

Speed dating …the last resort of the desperate, or those having a bit of a laugh right?

Heard a women at work taking about this. She said there is always a lack of men show up, and the ones that do show up are poor standard..

It seems - based on paltry research - that CitySwoon and Encounter at least attempt to make it even. I'm worried about the clientele so I'm looking at more of those "singles parties" instead to gauge the vibe, but also feel that the apparently curated speed dating format would also be better for me as it apparently matches you based on personality which is how OKCupid (?) apparently used to work in the early 2010s. Apparently it was so successful, they realised they had to make the product worse so that their clientele - i.e. single people - didn't find love too quickly. And thus started the enshittification of dating apps which continues to today...

On 26/07/2024 at 11:29 PM, Sithslayer1991 said:

I admire the persistance. The dating game was cruel before the dawn of online dating. Now its really hard these days, those apps are addictive and truly a numbers game and a lot of luck

Are they addictive? I feel somewhat stuck. Like I'm currently trying to figure out when I could pick up tennis again and then hope like **** my future girlfriend is in attendance lol

The catalyst for all of this - for a bit of TMI - is that I was cleaning my apartment and I found some... anti-children devices, shall we say. They had expired. I remembered when, in the depths of Covid and in the aftermath of my break-up, I purchased them in the hope I got to use them one day

ahhhh good times

On 27/07/2024 at 9:14 AM, Smoggy said:

Again, I hear bits at work about this..Hard not to as along with housing one of the main Sydney obsessions at the moment...

A fella said the women he meets want equality of money / resources / everything....Until they want a husband / partner, which is when they want someone who earns higher than them...with more resources....

Hmmm...sounds bitter...probably...

Funny you mention this, I was toying with the idea of playing up the financial side of things in my dating profile.

I remember thinking to myself, "Well, if I mention it and I get a match, at least I get a match". Eventually I opted against it because it would attract the wrong kind of person.

Besides, might be cheaper to just go to a brothel. The idea has been floating in my mind as well for that too, I am sorry to say  

[Legionista]

[Smoggy]

1 hour ago, Unlimited said:

It seems - based on paltry research - that CitySwoon and Encounter at least attempt to make it even. I'm worried about the clientele so I'm looking at more of those "singles parties" instead to gauge the vibe, but also feel that the apparently curated speed dating format would also be better for me as it apparently matches you based on personality which is how OKCupid (?) apparently used to work in the early 2010s. Apparently it was so successful, they realised they had to make the product worse so that their clientele - i.e. single people - didn't find love too quickly. And thus started the enshittification of dating apps which continues to today...

Are they addictive? I feel somewhat stuck. Like I'm currently trying to figure out when I could pick up tennis again and then hope like **** my future girlfriend is in attendance lol

The catalyst for all of this - for a bit of TMI - is that I was cleaning my apartment and I found some... anti-children devices, shall we say. They had expired. I remembered when, in the depths of Covid and in the aftermath of my break-up, I purchased them in the hope I got to use them one day

ahhhh good times

Funny you mention this, I was toying with the idea of playing up the financial side of things in my dating profile.

I remember thinking to myself, "Well, if I mention it and I get a match, at least I get a match". Eventually I opted against it because it would attract the wrong kind of person.

Besides, might be cheaper to just go to a brothel. The idea has been floating in my mind as well for that too, I am sorry to say  

Been said many times before, but just work on yourself…for you. Enjoy your hobbies and get some news ones. Just try and meet new people without the idea of a partner, just be…….you……

Brothel will give you gratification, for about 10mins, then back to the way you are feeling now….or worse….

Edited July 28 by Smoggy

[pseudonym]

 

[Legionista]

So thats what those things are called. Lol

[pseudonym]

 

[Smoggy]

On 18/08/2024 at 11:31 AM, pseudonym said:

 

Its been said many times before...but seems apt again...

You post some random ******* shyte man! 

[pseudonym]

 

[Unlimited]

Sitting in my apartment alone again on a Friday and despite every fibre of my body saying “don’t do it”, I decided I should at least try speed dating. The probability is still very low but sitting at home is lower.

I signed up for an event next week… and it’s sold out.

 

[MathyouWSW]

There's one at Gregory Hills Hotel if you're interested.

I think there was one at Ambarvale Hotel and/or Macarthur Tavern a while ago. I was tempted to go but I changed my mind.

 

[Smoggy]

On 04/10/2024 at 5:48 PM, Unlimited said:

Sitting in my apartment alone again on a Friday and despite every fibre of my body saying “don’t do it”, I decided I should at least try speed dating. The probability is still very low but sitting at home is lower.

I signed up for an event next week… and it’s sold out.

 

He'll on earth...can't imagine speed dating event and don't want to. 

[pseudonym]

 

[CaptainJess]

On 26/07/2024 at 6:57 PM, Nathg said:

Your persistence deserves a positive result. I look forward to one day reading about your wedding, that he/she will organise on a derby grand final day, and you’ll have to decide on which to attend

Just catching up on this thread after a hiatus from the forum. I see nothing has changed in like two years, so I obviously didn't miss much.

But I laughed at this comment because I was genuinely so afraid picking a wedding date in late October that would potentially clash with a Derby. Given I had quite a few WSW people attending, I knew there was a chance I could piss off a lot of people 

So imagine my relief when the fixture was announced and the Derby was in Round 1, the week before my wedding 

[Smoggy]

50 minutes ago, CaptainJess said:

Just catching up on this thread after a hiatus from the forum. I see nothing has changed in like two years, so I obviously didn't miss much.

But I laughed at this comment because I was genuinely so afraid picking a wedding date in late October that would potentially clash with a Derby. Given I had quite a few WSW people attending, I knew there was a chance I could piss off a lot of people 

So imagine my relief when the fixture was announced and the Derby was in Round 1, the week before my wedding 

Tbh…..had it clashed  with the derby it wouldn’t have mattered so much 

Edited November 1 by Smoggy