blind dates c/d

(see The Guardian the other day too, the article with the infamous Wearing illustration)

ilxor dating service = most fucked up self-deprecating ironic descriptions imaginable all in one place.

and on it was a website and from there you can see her profile and email her and so he did and apparently went on a date last night and it went quite well!

so there.

well she probably didn't! but what's to lose apart from a card (i think that's the whole idea)

Damnit it should have been me.

Bottom line: I would never go on another blind date.

In theory though, I very much like the idea of them.

-- tigertiger (survivingdesireinthenoughtie...) (webmail), August 22nd, 2006 4:48 AM. (link)

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As you have already made pains to tell us. :p

-- Scourage (papiermachealamphibia...) (webmail), August 22nd, 2006 5:12 AM. (link)

my friend tells me that someone on this board has contacted him with 'concerns' about my amyl intake. when he told me this, me and a couple of others stood, stared, and then burst out into fits of laughter. the stuff you guys assume about my IRL personage is astounding!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0359hSerDeE

My date likes her men with 'a bit of funk to go with it all'. Any suggestions?

I should probably buy a Funkadelic album and listen to it on repeat before going out, or something.

I doubt it - whoever it was probably did it on purpose to try and drop you into shit, as joeks. There are some cunts on ILX who have done this before to other people (just ask Remy!), which IMO is crossing the line.

There is only one way this stops for you Louis - shut up about it, no matter how much people bait you. Just dont say anything. And I don't mean "shut up LJ you nob", I mean stop trying to deflect all this shit with so called "self effacing humour" and whatnot. Trust me, it don't work.

it just seems like such a risky endeavor. like skydiving or something.

ok that wasn't so bad, even though i felt like i was going to explode.

I thought that was a good feeling on a date

^^ I don't mean that in a dirty way

haha right

How blind?

I mean, like, someone you have never met before or even seen a picture of, that was a friend of a friend that you got set up with? Or someone you'd looked at, scoped, checked out on the internets beforehand? There's whole new levels of "blind" WRT "blind dates" these days. Apparently.

literally dating a person blinfolded

hahahaha

it's true. this was internet blind so i wasn't like shocked by anything.

Does it really still count as "blind" when you've read their profile, looked at their pics, and probably googled them and read their blog? I'm not sure about that!

Or these days, does "blind" just mean "I have not met this person in the flesh before"?

maybe you're right. but it's a toss-up -- i tend to think of it as blind if i haven't met the person in the flesh before, cuz it's a completely different way of getting to know someone. at times, i had to remind myself that the person sitting in front of me was the same person i'd chatted with online.

OK, yeah, understood - that can be quite weird, when they are so different in person than they are online. One of the dangers of meeting people on the interweb - especially if you have lovely, free and easy chatting online and they are awkward in person. This is when the British idea of adding lots of booze is very helpful.

Does that mean it didn't go well, and was a bad "explode"? Or am I misreading this due to mine own pessimism about this process (that I'm embarking on myself, eep!)

hehe. no, it wasn't a bad explode. see, i'm always worried i'm going to be the one who's so different in person. cuz well, it's in person. but i think we both just enjoyed being out and socializing, which is pretty much what we both wanted to get out of it, at least to start.

ooh, do you have one coming up??

Not yet, but I'm hoping too, soon... (maybe being overoptimistic - but at least trying to consider the option of this happening and endeavouring to actualise it by, erm, picking up boys on the interwebs, yes. I'm going to shut up now before I jinx anything.)

well, i'm sure you'll have a good time :) if anything it's just good to meet people

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...

OK, he just asked me for a drink.

Half of me is yippie skippie yaying like a teenager who got asked to the prom, the other half is filled with dread that I'm going to have to turn up and reveal that I am actually a fat, ugly, middle aged woman. But! I've been totally honest about the fact that I am a fat, ugly, middle aged woman, so as not to falsely raise expectations.

i'm so tired of trying to meet people through conventional means that i am almost ready to go on a date with anyone, just because.

On Twitter, Rhodri Marsden has asked for, received and RT'd a slew of amazingly horrible blind date stories. Samples:

Mate of my cousin, girl took her back to her flat, said "wanna see something sexy?", put on a gas mask, he ran away.

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met guy at his flat, opened door in blue check fleece dressing gown and an electronic tag on his ankle, "Shall we just stay in?"

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went on date with guy who said 'seeing as I'm paying' . . . 'we won't have starters and we'll drink tap water.'

And there's much more besides.

Better link: http://storify.com/rhodri/your-awful-dates-in-140-characters

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Seriously, this is where we are?

met guy at his flat, opened door in blue check fleece dressing gown and an electronic tag on his ankle, "Shall we just stay in?"

I split my fucking sides and mistook this site for a NY Daily News Comics "fun page" cartoon, all at once.

Bump for today. And you really should all read that link sic posted.

Great. I went on one once. Half hour in one of her colleagues turned up, she ignored me completely and flirted with him outrageously. After he left she spoke to me for a couple of minutes and then noticed her bag had been stolen. I then had to comfort her while she was sobbing in the most distraught way. She wanted me to phone the police and her dad and I had to give her a cab fare. Disaster.

About 8 years ago I got into a long exchange on another web forum with a woman who lived a 10 hour drive away. Our online posts took some interesting turns and we thought we'd like each other, so we arranged over email to spend an entire weekend together, having no idea what she looked like (although another woman on the same forum who knew her IRL thought she was attractive), and also never having talked over the phone. We prearranged whitewater rafting on Saturday and left sat. nite & sunday unplanned!! Was actually quite fun - I felt like we were making a small commitment to each other even before we'd met.

About a year earlier I had another similar weekend date with someone I met online (on a forum about household appliances of all things), again without knowing anything about her looks, although she was only 4 hours away and we met in the middle, so it was only a 2 hour drive home if I wanted to bail out early; less commitment. It must have been uneventful since I recall very little about her or what we did for 2 nights and 2 days.

The only blind date I ever when on was a complete and utter disaster, but at least it was addressed up front so I didn't have to wast much time with it. We met for dinner, sat down, and the about the third thing out of her mouth was, "I normally date much better looking guys than you"... (long, uncomfortable pause)... "in fact, I don't see why I should have to waste my time with someone so ugly". Then she got up from the table and walked out of the restaurant.

Best part was explaining the date to the "friend" that had set us up. "Yeah, I guess I should have mentioned that she can be kind of superficial somtimes". Really, kind of?

That's...that's totally fucking insane. Ugh.

Yeah, I was glad she was up front enough that I didn't have to sit through dinner pretending to be interested in someone so obviously shallow, but on the other hand the experience pretty severely fucked up my self-confidence for a huge chunk of college.

wow. that's awful

"does this mean you're not giving me your number?"

lol, I wish I would have been quick enough to offer a witty retort but I was honestly too shocked that anyone would be that blunt. I mean, I'm all for honesty in relationships, but, uh, c'mon.

no totally

if it was me i would have spent the next five months inventing comebacks

"like, i get you don't like the way i look but i've got a lot to offer. i've got other qualities. if you know what i mean"

"you're going to die alone and in pain like the rest of us, you soulless skank."

the t-bomb option

@rhodri First date, girl turned up with three friends and suggested we go swimming. It was 10pm in the middle of Liverpool. I went home.

epic fail