"Six two, 195 pounds,
run 3 miles per day, currently
training for triathlon."
Posted on 08/24/2005 8:09:41 AM PDT by billorites
That's his story and he's stickin' to it.
I sure hope they really do destroy those juvenile records.
Nothing like starting a relationship with trust, is there?
Speaking of internet dating, I did try the internet personals route for a while.
I learned a few things. If a woman says she is 5'4, she's 5'2. If she says she weighs 140, she weighs 175. If she says divorced, she means separated. "Fun loving" means she's a drunk. "Music lover" means she lives and breathes Celine Dion. "Young looking" means she could pass for 60 (and she's 41)...
"Six two, 195 pounds,
run 3 miles per day, currently
training for triathlon."
"Music lover" means she lives and breathes Celine Dion.
And if she fancies herself musically "cultured" it means she's a Yanni fan.
I disagree. If I were a woman and agreed to a blind date, I'd want to evaluate the odds of a dangerous encounter as closely as possible, especially if it weren't a double-date.
In fact, I wish the Internet had been around back when I met my ex-wife. Sure could've saved a lot of trouble, heartache, and money.
This is a good news - bad news situation.
The bad news is for young people starting out dating and doing this kind of thing before they get to know somebody and build some type of 1st level commitment.
The good news is that if somebody like me (married 20 years + 2 weeks) ever lost my husband, the first guy that comes sniffing around would be googled in a heartbeat...being I'm older and wiser with assets to protect. ;D
Maybe they just can't keep a secret as well as men. :-)
It's a blind date. There's no relationship ~to~ trust in. The lovely ideal of trust in strangers gets you murdered and dumped in a ditch.
"Meesa your blind-date..."
Blind dates are not too smart these days. Anyone who would want to date from the internet must be missing about half their brains.
Well, that kind of equal and opposite extreme is just as silly as your first response that we should just ~trust~. I met my husband on the internet, right here on Free Republic, incidently.
People are potentially a lot safer meeting and getting to know someone in the relative safety of internet, than they are meeting someone in the same town who knows where you live and can follow you there. But, either way you meet someone new, it's not unwise or unethical to do a little checking up to see if he's who he says he is.
Well, I guess I'm safe so long as the woman doesn't know my other screen name of KingBoomBoomSexyMan.
Oh Oh.
Agreed,
The internet (used wisely) is a great place to meet people and make friends.
And like you said, they won't follow you home if they turn out to be a creep.
Checking up a bit is just common sense.
One thing I learned from internet dating: "Petite" means short. In other words, when a prospective date describes herself as petite, it is possible that she is 5'1" and weighs 185 pounds. Most men do not know this and need to know it if they are entering the world of internet dating. The consequences of not knowing can be severe.
Meeting someone through FreeRepublic makes sense. At least you are more likely to be conservative... What I should have said was meeting people "blindly" on the internet, such as through one of those money mill sites. Finding people through common interests makes perfect sense.
I did meet one girl on there I was impressed with. This was about 2 yrs ago right before I started dating my current girlfriend.
She was cuter than her picture, a conservative-libertarian Reagan Republican...loved 80s metal, was a movie buff like me...funny, smart, almost perfect in my opinion...but she never called me back after our first meeting. Maybe she thought I was boring, I dunno.
Women. Go figure!
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