Or worse...
Five-four, long blonde hair, blue eyes, 34-24-36, ...
;o)
Posted on 08/24/2005 8:09:41 AM PDT by billorites
Reminds me of the story of the guy who spent years looking for the "Perfect Woman" and at last found her.
Too bad for him she was looking for the "Perfect Man".
If a woman is fairly thin to maybe a tad chubby (which doesn't bother me), say at or under 145-150 pounds depending on height, she's usually pretty honest about her weight and height.
Once you break the 150 mark...they start "adjusting" and once she hits 200 she'll usually lie through her teeth! This one girl was at LEAST 274...and her bio (which had been written only a month prior) said she was 165-which at her height of 5'10 (which turned out to be 5'8) would have been "thick" but not overly fat. This chick looked like a (slightly) less hairy Michael Moore...
I would never have enrolled at 'dating' sites, but not for the same reason you judge them... For me, it's not because I feared them lying to me, but more because I don't have the kind of personality that could write an ad for myself or respond to one. It seems to me to be a very loaded place to say "hi" to someone. The way I did it, I began flirting with someone here I already knew as a friend, our relationship did not begin as dating screening, it began as good conversation.
But, for more outgoing personalities, it ~can~ work. I know someone who met and married through an online singles service.
I've done it. I've even found pictures. But, now I've gotten to the point where I don't bother anymore because I expect blind dates not to work out and most of the fun is in the surprise factor. But, I'm a guy though. Would definately do a quick background check if I was a woman going on a blind date.
Arrrggghhh!
That's it. I am cancelling my blind internet date.
LOL!
I actually met several top-notch women through match.com. The problem is, I also had to suffer through some disasters. I remember one time, this "petite" woman and I agreed to meet for a bike ride. I drove up to the designated meeing place and all I saw was an SUV with a bike on the back and this HUGE calf sticking out the driver's side door. I considered turning around and going home, but being the gentlemen I am I suffered through a two hour bike ride with the hog.
I have to say that your arrogant and mean spirited writing here reflects the kind of person I'd steer ~way~ clear of if I were checking up on someone on the internet.
Some people lie about who they are on the internet. Some gain weight, and some are more than a little embarrassed to come to grips and show pictures of themselves that show without uncertainty their actual weight. After seeing how they would be described by you if they did I DONT' BLAME THEM A BIT. Get rid of the chip on your shoulder. It's giving you an ugliness that is worse than a hundred pounds.
These people lied to me, thereby wasting my time and money. Enough said.
I dunno. I don't like an overweight woman myself. So is it horrible that I have my preferences?
I'm actually finding that I like 'em outright skinny, which is new. I've never liked skinny women before, but lately I do.
I just recently signed up to an internet dating service. So far it's going pretty good. It's not as scary as I thought it would be.
It's not about likes and dislikes. I'm responding to the meanness in the writing of these two. It's ~their~ personality that is a red flag to me.
Good luck with it! It just seemed so loaded to me. I'd have never had the guts to hit 'send'.
Good luck to you.
Well, I wound up marrying a 5'2", 100 lb, blond-haired, blue-eyed Norwegian beauty, so apparently she thinks my personality is okay.
Incidentally, I did not meet her through an online service.
Oh, okay. From me you aren't sensing any meanness.
Believe me, I was sooo nervous. I still can't believe I did it. Actually my brother-in-law wanted me to do it so he filled out most of the information. All the information is true, we did not put down anything that would be misleading. In fact my title is 'Nice Conservative Girl'.
Not yet, no... :~D
I heard an advertisement on WABC radio last week (I think it was during Levin's show) for a service where you can buy a kit to "swab your mouth and the baby's mouth" and then return the samples for a DNA test - - results are returned within two weeks.
Think about that for a minute.
Good for you. Really. You called a woman a hog. I merely pointed out what that said about you.
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