[DollyCali]

All.. This is from a lovely (but shy) Single Freeper Lady.. Wanted me to share with you all…

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Why it takes just 30 seconds for women to date, mate or drift off
By Fran Yeoman
The Times April 14, 2006


HEY baby, what’s your favorite pizza topping? Surprising though it may seem, that question could hold the key to dating success.

Forget carefully crafted compliments and witty jokes, because an inquiry about the merits of pepperoni versus anchovy is more likely to get you that coveted telephone number, according to a study of speed dating.

And men need to get their champion chat-up lines in quickly, because women are even quicker to judge than they are. Almost half (45 per cent) of the women in a mass speed-dating experiment gave prospective partners the mental thumbs down in less than 30 seconds. The men took a minute and a half.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2133772,00.html

[Victoria Delsoul]

That's a very useful link. Thanks Dolly. :-)

[HitmanLV]

Almost half (45 per cent) of the women in a mass speed-dating experiment gave prospective partners the mental thumbs down in less than 30 seconds.

I don't doubt that at all. I think women size up a man very quickly as an appealing man, a dud, or 'friend' material. That's why I encourage many guys who pine over female 'friends' to just start fresh with another woman they don't know nearly as well. Friends to lovers doesn't happen very much in real life.

[Old_Mil]

And men need to get their champion chat-up lines in quickly, because women are even quicker to judge than they are. Almost half (45 per cent) of the women in a mass speed-dating experiment gave prospective partners the mental thumbs down in less than 30 seconds.

...resulting in marriages that last 30 seconds or less, it would seem.