Match.com (Volume 6)
Discussion
mjb1 said:
NRS said:
escargot said:
Scientist (student), pilot (flown a glider a couple of times. And a kite, don't forget the kite.), racing driver (spent £90 on a red letter experience day. Once). Good times guaranteed (cringe).
If you were trying to get a guy those would interest them, but the few hot girls that are into that stuff really are not going to need dating sites unless they want someone different from that world anyway.
Matt did ask for constructive criticism (and early responses were, in the main), but now it's descending into the usual bashing (not aiming that at you NRS).
NRS said:
However in the consideration of fairness will post my own one. Unfortunately the phone won't screenshot in higher resolution, but would be interesting to hear any views/ slating of it! Because a bunch of larger-sized middle aged men who can't get dates is an important reference, naturally! 
Pictures look fine to me - smiling, looking comfortable, not forced, varied and some interesting back drops. The tag line is rather cheesy though, unless you can come up with something stunning (that will provoke a cheeky message back if nothing else), then Tiggsy is probably right. Ok, will cut off the tagline - it is pretty bad, had just put something in there to make it a bit more complete,
Ikemi said:
Having trouble dating? Buy a hedgehog. Seriously. I've never had so many women instigate the conversation first! It's the perfect ice breaker. However I guess a combination of me being a bit rough around the edges, with a well kept short beard, then ... BAM! this ...
... helps.
So you're attracting women who have a hedgehog fetish? Kinky ....... helps.
Edited by Ikemi on Tuesday 6th January 20:00
HerrSchnell said:
Ikemi said:
Having trouble dating? Buy a hedgehog.
Tempted, but: said:
..some can tolerate handling, but there are also many who are vicious bombs of prickles, with sharp teeth that they are only too eager to sink into any available flesh...
They also tend to poop as they run and end up smearing the wheel and themselves in faeces that will need to be cleaned up every day.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2014/jun/10/prickly-issue-african-pygmy-hedgehog-pets-european-hedgehog-wildlife-conservationThey also tend to poop as they run and end up smearing the wheel and themselves in faeces that will need to be cleaned up every day.
In all seriousness though, I've owned my hedgehog for around 4-5 months and he has never bitten anyone; not even when woken up! He's actually a rather sociable animal. However they do poop whilst running in their wheels ... a lot. It never ends up over his quills, but I do need to clean his wheel out every week.
I should also state that my profile picture on Tinder is of me, not my hedgehog
However it's a good ice breaker, and I've found more women message me first asking about him (and hedgehogs in general), which then leads onto the usual conversations. In most cases, men have to send the messages first and hope for a response. Not always the case!
I have never been in the Match thread before, but like quite a few bystanders, have just read quite a few pages up to where we are here.
I'll quite happily say that throughout school I was a geek, probably not dissimilar to Matt in some ways. Liked going to computer club, club for rebuilding vintage tractors, club for remote controlled cars, raced go karts. That kind of thing.
I hate plenty of friends and was quite happy, but aged 18 I had begun to become quite frustrated at being the nice polite chap who girls would happily approach and chat to but then immediately insert into the friend zone.
I had noticed that copies amounts of beaver was passing me by and I wasn't going to allow that to continue into University.
I decided to change myself to attract more girls.
I was a build like Matt, not big, not skinny, just wimpy looking. I had glasses and a bit of a 'curtains' hairstyle (it was 1999). I dressed quite sensibly and often just with stuff my mum still bought me.
My outfits screamed 'polite young Man'.
I got contact lenses.
Cut my hair short.
Started shopping in more trendy clothes places where you would expect a 19 year old uni student to shop.
Started hitting the Uni gym, started taking it seriously, decent diet, protein milkshakes, creatine... And eventually dabbled on steroids a couple of times to speed things up.
I decided to change my persona as well, seen as how as I was away at Uni and no one knew me, I could freely do this.
I Bought a mk2 Golf GTi 16v.
I indulged my love of House music and bought some decks and learned to DJ. Then managed to get a few gigs at student nights and other house music nights in the City.
Rather than being the quiet chap who waited to be spoken to, I made a concerted effort to get amongst it and make myself stand out a bit and get the banter going.
It was quite incredible... All the changes added together suddenly made me attractive to girls for the first time.
Against considerate odds, I became that guy at uni who DJ's in a club, is pretty physically fit and well dressed, drives a Golf GTi and loves a good laugh at a party.
I even had a threesome a few times as well which is probably the pinnacle of my train-wreck dating years.
I think I was probably lacking in confidence as well having had so many knock backs, and once you get some confidence,it just breeds more confidence. Once you've banged a few attractive women, you start and look at others and think 'no problem' and when you approach them they sense your confidence and seem to find that far more attractive than some quiet bloke politely asking them out on a date, who had clearly not had much luck with women.
Sorry for all the waffle, but the stuff that people like Tonker is saying is correct. To get the girls you need to mould yourself a little into what the girls want.
Yes, it's a bit shallow, but as a young man, it gets you off to a good start in the world of women and you can always un-shallow yourself at a later date
I'll quite happily say that throughout school I was a geek, probably not dissimilar to Matt in some ways. Liked going to computer club, club for rebuilding vintage tractors, club for remote controlled cars, raced go karts. That kind of thing.
I hate plenty of friends and was quite happy, but aged 18 I had begun to become quite frustrated at being the nice polite chap who girls would happily approach and chat to but then immediately insert into the friend zone.
I had noticed that copies amounts of beaver was passing me by and I wasn't going to allow that to continue into University.
I decided to change myself to attract more girls.
I was a build like Matt, not big, not skinny, just wimpy looking. I had glasses and a bit of a 'curtains' hairstyle (it was 1999). I dressed quite sensibly and often just with stuff my mum still bought me.
My outfits screamed 'polite young Man'.
I got contact lenses.
Cut my hair short.
Started shopping in more trendy clothes places where you would expect a 19 year old uni student to shop.
Started hitting the Uni gym, started taking it seriously, decent diet, protein milkshakes, creatine... And eventually dabbled on steroids a couple of times to speed things up.
I decided to change my persona as well, seen as how as I was away at Uni and no one knew me, I could freely do this.
I Bought a mk2 Golf GTi 16v.
I indulged my love of House music and bought some decks and learned to DJ. Then managed to get a few gigs at student nights and other house music nights in the City.
Rather than being the quiet chap who waited to be spoken to, I made a concerted effort to get amongst it and make myself stand out a bit and get the banter going.
It was quite incredible... All the changes added together suddenly made me attractive to girls for the first time.
Against considerate odds, I became that guy at uni who DJ's in a club, is pretty physically fit and well dressed, drives a Golf GTi and loves a good laugh at a party.
I even had a threesome a few times as well which is probably the pinnacle of my train-wreck dating years.
I think I was probably lacking in confidence as well having had so many knock backs, and once you get some confidence,it just breeds more confidence. Once you've banged a few attractive women, you start and look at others and think 'no problem' and when you approach them they sense your confidence and seem to find that far more attractive than some quiet bloke politely asking them out on a date, who had clearly not had much luck with women.
Sorry for all the waffle, but the stuff that people like Tonker is saying is correct. To get the girls you need to mould yourself a little into what the girls want.
Yes, it's a bit shallow, but as a young man, it gets you off to a good start in the world of women and you can always un-shallow yourself at a later date
NinjaPower said:
I have never been in the Match thread before, but like quite a few bystanders, have just read quite a few pages up to where we are here.
I'll quite happily say that throughout school I was a geek, probably not dissimilar to Matt in some ways. Liked going to computer club, club for rebuilding vintage tractors, club for remote controlled cars, raced go karts. That kind of thing.
I hate plenty of friends and was quite happy, but aged 18 I had begun to become quite frustrated at being the nice polite chap who girls would happily approach and chat to but then immediately insert into the friend zone.
I had noticed that copies amounts of beaver was passing me by and I wasn't going to allow that to continue into University.
I decided to change myself to attract more girls.
I was a build like Matt, not big, not skinny, just wimpy looking. I had glasses and a bit of a 'curtains' hairstyle (it was 1999). I dressed quite sensibly and often just with stuff my mum still bought me.
My outfits screamed 'polite young Man'.
I got contact lenses.
Cut my hair short.
Started shopping in more trendy clothes places where you would expect a 19 year old uni student to shop.
Started hitting the Uni gym, started taking it seriously, decent diet, protein milkshakes, creatine... And eventually dabbled on steroids a couple of times to speed things up.
I decided to change my persona as well, seen as how as I was away at Uni and no one knew me, I could freely do this.
I Bought a mk2 Golf GTi 16v.
I indulged my love of House music and bought some decks and learned to DJ. Then managed to get a few gigs at student nights and other house music nights in the City.
Rather than being the quiet chap who waited to be spoken to, I made a concerted effort to get amongst it and make myself stand out a bit and get the banter going.
It was quite incredible... All the changes added together suddenly made me attractive to girls for the first time.
Against considerate odds, I became that guy at uni who DJ's in a club, is pretty physically fit and well dressed, drives a Golf GTi and loves a good laugh at a party.
I even had a threesome a few times as well which is probably the pinnacle of my train-wreck dating years.
I think I was probably lacking in confidence as well having had so many knock backs, and once you get some confidence,it just breeds more confidence. Once you've banged a few attractive women, you start and look at others and think 'no problem' and when you approach them they sense your confidence and seem to find that far more attractive than some quiet bloke politely asking them out on a date, who had clearly not had much luck with women.
Sorry for all the waffle, but the stuff that people like Tonker is saying is correct. To get the girls you need to mould yourself a little into what the girls want.
Yes, it's a bit shallow, but as a young man, it gets you off to a good start in the world of women and you can always un-shallow yourself at a later date
Spot on. Its not rocket science.I'll quite happily say that throughout school I was a geek, probably not dissimilar to Matt in some ways. Liked going to computer club, club for rebuilding vintage tractors, club for remote controlled cars, raced go karts. That kind of thing.
I hate plenty of friends and was quite happy, but aged 18 I had begun to become quite frustrated at being the nice polite chap who girls would happily approach and chat to but then immediately insert into the friend zone.
I had noticed that copies amounts of beaver was passing me by and I wasn't going to allow that to continue into University.
I decided to change myself to attract more girls.
I was a build like Matt, not big, not skinny, just wimpy looking. I had glasses and a bit of a 'curtains' hairstyle (it was 1999). I dressed quite sensibly and often just with stuff my mum still bought me.
My outfits screamed 'polite young Man'.
I got contact lenses.
Cut my hair short.
Started shopping in more trendy clothes places where you would expect a 19 year old uni student to shop.
Started hitting the Uni gym, started taking it seriously, decent diet, protein milkshakes, creatine... And eventually dabbled on steroids a couple of times to speed things up.
I decided to change my persona as well, seen as how as I was away at Uni and no one knew me, I could freely do this.
I Bought a mk2 Golf GTi 16v.
I indulged my love of House music and bought some decks and learned to DJ. Then managed to get a few gigs at student nights and other house music nights in the City.
Rather than being the quiet chap who waited to be spoken to, I made a concerted effort to get amongst it and make myself stand out a bit and get the banter going.
It was quite incredible... All the changes added together suddenly made me attractive to girls for the first time.
Against considerate odds, I became that guy at uni who DJ's in a club, is pretty physically fit and well dressed, drives a Golf GTi and loves a good laugh at a party.
I even had a threesome a few times as well which is probably the pinnacle of my train-wreck dating years.
I think I was probably lacking in confidence as well having had so many knock backs, and once you get some confidence,it just breeds more confidence. Once you've banged a few attractive women, you start and look at others and think 'no problem' and when you approach them they sense your confidence and seem to find that far more attractive than some quiet bloke politely asking them out on a date, who had clearly not had much luck with women.
Sorry for all the waffle, but the stuff that people like Tonker is saying is correct. To get the girls you need to mould yourself a little into what the girls want.
Yes, it's a bit shallow, but as a young man, it gets you off to a good start in the world of women and you can always un-shallow yourself at a later date
NinjaPower said:
I have never been in the Match thread before, but like quite a few bystanders, have just read quite a few pages up to where we are here.
I'll quite happily say that throughout school I was a geek, probably not dissimilar to Matt in some ways. Liked going to computer club, club for rebuilding vintage tractors, club for remote controlled cars, raced go karts. That kind of thing.
I hate plenty of friends and was quite happy, but aged 18 I had begun to become quite frustrated at being the nice polite chap who girls would happily approach and chat to but then immediately insert into the friend zone.
I had noticed that copies amounts of beaver was passing me by and I wasn't going to allow that to continue into University.
I decided to change myself to attract more girls.
I was a build like Matt, not big, not skinny, just wimpy looking. I had glasses and a bit of a 'curtains' hairstyle (it was 1999). I dressed quite sensibly and often just with stuff my mum still bought me.
My outfits screamed 'polite young Man'.
I got contact lenses.
Cut my hair short.
Started shopping in more trendy clothes places where you would expect a 19 year old uni student to shop.
Started hitting the Uni gym, started taking it seriously, decent diet, protein milkshakes, creatine... And eventually dabbled on steroids a couple of times to speed things up.
I decided to change my persona as well, seen as how as I was away at Uni and no one knew me, I could freely do this.
I Bought a mk2 Golf GTi 16v.
I indulged my love of House music and bought some decks and learned to DJ. Then managed to get a few gigs at student nights and other house music nights in the City.
Rather than being the quiet chap who waited to be spoken to, I made a concerted effort to get amongst it and make myself stand out a bit and get the banter going.
It was quite incredible... All the changes added together suddenly made me attractive to girls for the first time.
Against considerate odds, I became that guy at uni who DJ's in a club, is pretty physically fit and well dressed, drives a Golf GTi and loves a good laugh at a party.
I even had a threesome a few times as well which is probably the pinnacle of my train-wreck dating years.
I think I was probably lacking in confidence as well having had so many knock backs, and once you get some confidence,it just breeds more confidence. Once you've banged a few attractive women, you start and look at others and think 'no problem' and when you approach them they sense your confidence and seem to find that far more attractive than some quiet bloke politely asking them out on a date, who had clearly not had much luck with women.
Sorry for all the waffle, but the stuff that people like Tonker is saying is correct. To get the girls you need to mould yourself a little into what the girls want.
Yes, it's a bit shallow, but as a young man, it gets you off to a good start in the world of women and you can always un-shallow yourself at a later date
Wasn't this a John Hughes film in the mid 1980's? I'll quite happily say that throughout school I was a geek, probably not dissimilar to Matt in some ways. Liked going to computer club, club for rebuilding vintage tractors, club for remote controlled cars, raced go karts. That kind of thing.
I hate plenty of friends and was quite happy, but aged 18 I had begun to become quite frustrated at being the nice polite chap who girls would happily approach and chat to but then immediately insert into the friend zone.
I had noticed that copies amounts of beaver was passing me by and I wasn't going to allow that to continue into University.
I decided to change myself to attract more girls.
I was a build like Matt, not big, not skinny, just wimpy looking. I had glasses and a bit of a 'curtains' hairstyle (it was 1999). I dressed quite sensibly and often just with stuff my mum still bought me.
My outfits screamed 'polite young Man'.
I got contact lenses.
Cut my hair short.
Started shopping in more trendy clothes places where you would expect a 19 year old uni student to shop.
Started hitting the Uni gym, started taking it seriously, decent diet, protein milkshakes, creatine... And eventually dabbled on steroids a couple of times to speed things up.
I decided to change my persona as well, seen as how as I was away at Uni and no one knew me, I could freely do this.
I Bought a mk2 Golf GTi 16v.
I indulged my love of House music and bought some decks and learned to DJ. Then managed to get a few gigs at student nights and other house music nights in the City.
Rather than being the quiet chap who waited to be spoken to, I made a concerted effort to get amongst it and make myself stand out a bit and get the banter going.
It was quite incredible... All the changes added together suddenly made me attractive to girls for the first time.
Against considerate odds, I became that guy at uni who DJ's in a club, is pretty physically fit and well dressed, drives a Golf GTi and loves a good laugh at a party.
I even had a threesome a few times as well which is probably the pinnacle of my train-wreck dating years.
I think I was probably lacking in confidence as well having had so many knock backs, and once you get some confidence,it just breeds more confidence. Once you've banged a few attractive women, you start and look at others and think 'no problem' and when you approach them they sense your confidence and seem to find that far more attractive than some quiet bloke politely asking them out on a date, who had clearly not had much luck with women.
Sorry for all the waffle, but the stuff that people like Tonker is saying is correct. To get the girls you need to mould yourself a little into what the girls want.
Yes, it's a bit shallow, but as a young man, it gets you off to a good start in the world of women and you can always un-shallow yourself at a later date
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