Online Dating Sites, and other Catastrophies
So how many people have been doing this online dating thing? I started it a couple of years ago, and almost immediately I met a truly wonderful person, and we ended up getting engaged. Sad to say it didn't work out for one reason or another, but since those 3 years ago, I've only dated one person who I met online. I've talked with a lot of people who've seemed to like me, but most of the time they stopped contacting me before we even went on a date. Some have even deleted their profiles from the dating sites. I know I'm a bit awkward, but I hope I haven't been creeping anyone out!
Has anyone else had similar experiences?
Here's a brief rundown of my last two dates, both of which weren't people I met online, but attempts by friends to set me up.
One date was going decently well until the girl insulted a friend of mine, then proceeded to get drunk and puke all over herself and the walls of my friends house where we had dinner.
The other date was apparently a surprise to the girl I was supposed to meet, because the woman who was setting it up forgot to tell the girl I was coming to dinner. The girl came to dinner in a sweat suit, with the side of her face all puffy because she had a tooth infection. She was also drugged up with pain medication, and kept falling asleep at the table. Sweeeet.
Anyone else have fun/horrifying stories? :surrender:
hi, i am new to this site, and i have never dated someone i've met on the internet.I heard about many veggie sites which are popular.
Internet Dating
Roger, WELCOME!!! Please feel free to look around, and don't hesitate to introduce yourself in the ROLL CALL thread so that we all can get to know you better!!
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=13109.0
Which is why I didn't click on it! ;)b
The moral - online dating may lead to hard labour.
hehehehe....you mean subsequent labour associated with pains or labour pains...?? :-\ :whatever: Buddy...you had me in splits. :-D
I'm glad this thread got revived. I have been having huge successes with online dating. There is one guy I get along with very, very well. We are getting together soon and I am so very excited. :iloveyou:
hehehehe....you mean subsequent labour associated with pains or labour pains...?? :-\ :whatever: Buddy...you had me in splits. :-D
Well :P :P :P
I just asked a client when she fell in love with her partner and she said, 'well we had a few one night stands first, then I got pregnant, then we fell in love' :)
Now let me think... :hrmm:
Can we call this an occupational hazard? :P
NJA
ok, I think I'm done with veggieconnction.com. nobody likes me on there! well, one person does, and he is 64 and his pic looks like a mugshot. He looks at my profile every day, but no one else!!!!! wth??? I got brave and sent one guy a nice casual message, and he replied..."thanks, but I don't think you are my type"
awe lubi! that sucks! hmmmm......i think my friend found someone on green singles. dont know if thats any better!
awe lubi! that sucks! hmmmm......i think my friend found someone on green singles. dont know if thats any better!
I really wanted to reply back to that guy something like, I'm really pretty cute, you asshole!!! lol
Maybe he's omni Lubi... Anyway, I've met some nice people on veggiedate.com I haven't actually gotten a date from there yet, but I've been chatting with some people. Sorry, no new crazy internet dating stories from Cammy yet. I'm sure it'll happen though, I do tend to make things awkward at times =P. Good luck everyone!
Ok maybe my problem is I am in the advanced age bracket now where I only attract married women.
It seems that way I met a girl about 6 years ago and shortly after that I found out she had a live in BF. Then the best part is we remained acquittance's since we worked together. After 2 years I found out she was married also. Nice to know I was number 3?
Second gal I met about a 1 1/2 ago. Not sure what is wrong with her. She is top secret chick.
We still hang out from time to time.
On-line dating lately is not working out for me. Looking for a veggie mate and that is near impossible where I live.
Time to move.
To clarify advanced age bracket.
I am at a age where dating is more of a challenge.
When I was in my 20's much easier than now.
Looking for a mate with no kids in my area is impossible.
Strong Catholic area where women breed in large numbers.
So for the time I am on my own and not worried about it.
Yikes! After reading this thread I think that my 12 month moratorium on dating may extend indefinitely. Time to accept destiny and become the crazy cat lady. :cat2:
How many cats are required to be a crazy cat lady? I've always wondered. My mum has four.
I'm crazy and I have a cat....does that count?? :D
The idea of online dating baffles me! It's like, in theory it sounds good, you can filter out exactly what you're looking for and find a "perfect match" buuuuut the problem is SOOOO many people aren't exactly honest! (To put it nicely) ;D
Of course there is sure to be some who are sincere, but I certainly wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
I've never dated anyone I met online. Even meeting people just as friends, I'd hesitate. Sign me up for crazy cat lady too! (And mdvegan, your description of the standards is priceless! LOL)
but I certainly wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
easy, look for the person that doesn't seem to know who they are or how to describe themselves as well as gives you their negative qualities as well.
In regards to the matching aspect, I have had luck with okupid. It matches based on your responses to questions along however many personality parameters. It also matches based on key words in your profile, I think. The people who come up as matches for me really do tend to be similar, I've found. Often, they are vegetarian and have similar views on, like, everything. okcupid tells you in what percent you are a match, a friend, and an enemy. Like, 80% friend, 75% match, 4% enemy based on your responses to the survey questions. It doesn't give you high percents unless you and the other person answer lots of questions, too. And it's free.
In that respect, it's really awesome. You can filter out the douchebags after a bad online conversation. Like, ya know how vegweb is kind of a sorting hat for friends? And whenever you meet a vegwebber in real life it feels automatic that you should be friends? That's what I have found with online dating.
Hmm... I guess since Josh and I met in a video game online, it doesn't really count as "online dating"... because I never had any of these problems!
We met, we killed some monsters together, got to talking...
4 1/2 years later we're still doing awesome. Actually, I think we're way better now since we actually live together and not in different parts of the country.
Although, I have also dated a guy in England, one in Indiana, and I even had a little flirty thing going on with an Australian.
Love knows no boundaries. The right person could pop up anywhere, including on the internet! I'm really glad I didn't hold the belief that it would be too difficult or risky to find someone online. I wasn't particularly looking, but I also didn't have any inhibitions about it. When I started falling for this guy (who I only knew as an elven knight, by the way)... I refused to think it was weird. I'm not one for stereotypes. I've been insanely happy since the first time we chatted*.
:)>>>
*okay, okay, so we've also had some bumps in the road... who hasn't? Most of them were due to distance, and the rest due to lack of maturity. Both issues have gotten much better with time and patience.
One question; what video game was it?
It is cool that it worked out for you!! :)
Oh, hey, looky here, I didn't notice this question!
We met in Lineage 2 in June 2004. We moved on to Guild Wars from there, and now we are playing World of Warcraft. Except.... now... our computers are right next to each other instead of in different parts of the country, so it cuts out the whole typing part, and I can just yell at him if one of us is about to get eaten by a monster.
;)
Ok, so based on KMKs recommendation somewhere on this thread, I have signed up for okcupid.com. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it. I just don't know another way to meet people right now...and I want to meet people. So. That's that.
Ok, so based on KMKs recommendation somewhere on this thread, I have signed up for okcupid.com. I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it. I just don't know another way to meet people right now...and I want to meet people. So. That's that.
You'll like it, I hope! There is also plentyoffish dot com or something like that.
have you ever tried greensingles? maybe youd meet more like minded people there.
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