Posted on 11/22/2022 2:16:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
Swiping, benching, ghosting… Dating apps can be so cold. Now that disgruntled singles are realising the best way to meet someone is in real life, will a new world of ‘offline dating’ bring people back together
can’t remember how we started talking, only that we were sitting on the rooftop of a friend’s house with the fake leather of the sofa underneath us tacky on the back of my thighs. He wasn’t my usual type. In his vintage football shirt and mullet he looked a bit like an art school student, but he was funny enough to make up for it. We spoke about the benefits of dating posh people and he said they always know good restaurants and then offered to take me to the pizza one his ex showed him. I joked that pizza is never that expensive even when it’s fancy and he said, “Exactly!” We talked and talked until the sky turned raspberry ripple colour and it was time to go home and I jumped in an Uber and he texted me on the way home saying that he liked my snake print boots. We messaged for a couple of days after that, until eventually he stopped replying.
A few years ago a situation like this would have materialised into a date. As would that guy I kissed all night through club smoke a week later. The teacher I met through Hinge would have actually taken me to see the new Bond film we talked about. But this stuff doesn’t happen any more, we find connections and then we let them fall through our hands,
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The best way to buy a car is to take it out and put your foot in it.
I hadn’t realized just how shallow, inane and vapid the new generation is. Kinda explains why so many are drugged up.
You want to see something sad and cold? Me, trying to make the disco scene back in the 70s.
Any pics or vids? What was your sign anyway?
I really like the design of the author’s dress, but not the colors. If it was in orange and red, or lavender and plum, or blue and purple, it would be great.
That made me laugh. I was right there as well.
I don’t recall ever meeting a young woman as stupid and soul-less as the writer of the article.
Apparently they are out there....
;-)
Oh, they get much worse.
Perfect...Laz might want to consider your post as a new tagline
I do have an idea for these young people. They have "no phones" get togethers. They will learn how to talk to each other again rather quickly.
Back in the day, whenever a girl at the bar asked me: “What’s your sign?” I always replied: “I’m a Feces.”
Try it, it’s a really good conversation starter.
My single days were in the 1960’s when one could actually carry on a conversation while dancing foxtrot :)
Then in 1970’s music was so loud, it must have destroyed hearing of young people.
Lol, your comment made me actually click through to read the article. I agree on the dress.
I agree. That yellow and green is hideous. And that was her money shot attire.
More proof America is more than ready to take on the Chinese army. /s
Those colours would be quite popular in Australia or Brazil.
Social media apps are destroying society.
When asked what my sign was, I would say “Keep Right”, but that didn’t work so well.
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