Match.com (Volume 6)

[ShyTallKnight]

Tiggsy said:

A question that includes the word "drinks?"

I may have read it on here somewhere previously so can't take credit for it but I said something like "maybe we can continue this conversation over a drink..??" which usually had the desired result

One memorable reply was "yeah sure.... somewhere you will feel safe..!!". I've been seeing her for 4 months now.

To a previous poster who has had no response on Match for 6 months then you've got something seriously wrong with your profile or your approach to it... If a real noob at this internet dating lark like me can have a pretty good success rate then anyone can..!!

[br d]

Can't say I know anything about dating sites but from what I've seen of Matt in his time here he just seems to over elaborate everything. Just be yourself man, you're young enough to enjoy all this without constant nail-biting, you must be surrounded by woman, just talk to them.

I think the whole social media remoteness and two minute attention span is starting to fk with peoples heads now, so glad I'm too old to be bothered by any of it.

Matt, simplify simplify.

[AyBee]

ShyTallKnight said:

I may have read it on here somewhere previously so can't take credit for it but I said something like "maybe we can continue this conversation over a drink..??" which usually had the desired result

One memorable reply was "yeah sure.... somewhere you will feel safe..!!". I've been seeing her for 4 months now.

To a previous poster who has had no response on Match for 6 months then you've got something seriously wrong with your profile or your approach to it... If a real noob at this internet dating lark like me can have a pretty good success rate then anyone can..!!

Local police station?

[jdw100]

br d said:

Can't say I know anything about dating sites but from what I've seen of Matt in his time here he just seems to over elaborate everything. Just be yourself man, you're young enough to enjoy all this without constant nail-biting, you must be surrounded by woman, just talk to them.

I think the whole social media remoteness and two minute attention span is starting to fk with peoples heads now, so glad I'm too old to be bothered by any of it.

Matt, simplify simplify.

Personally I would recommend he wears his ski-goggles when talking to them.

[andy-xr]

br d said:

Can't say I know anything about dating sites but from what I've seen of Matt in his time here he just seems to over elaborate everything. Just be yourself man, you're young enough to enjoy all this without constant nail-biting, you must be surrounded by woman, just talk to them.

I think the whole social media remoteness and two minute attention span is starting to fk with peoples heads now, so glad I'm too old to be bothered by any of it.

Matt, simplify simplify.

It's not that so much, it's the trying to talk on the same level as middle aged men. fking horrific car crash of cringe and despair meeting head on.

Be a young student, drop the 'one does like fine dining' bullst, no-one gives a fk and it's not attractive. Get off the autistic scale as much as possible, stop hanging out with older men, it's weird and girls dont dig it. And for fks sake fking burn these stty ttting steam engines you keep fking about with. Just be cool. Go buy some drugs from someone in Uni, get fked up and stop being a tt

[Vocal Minority]

Alternatively...and less angrily...you could keep doing the things you like, and just accept that - unfortunately - your hobbies appeal to a pretty niche audience.

It may be that Scarlett Johansson loves a scale traction engine. But I doubt it somehow. You'll just have to a). give up the engine or b). make peace with the fact (because to be honest you sound pretty angry about it, about a lot, and that comes across in many posts).

If I may proffer some friendly advice that you will (probably rightly) not listen to: I was I think, not unlike you at your age (20-21 ish I am guessing). Not unlike this guy (whom I still get compared to from time to time, but I have made my peace with it):



You seem to think everything is easy for everyone else, and hard for you. Your posts on here, and elsewhere - usually involving women - generally have the tone of 'poor wickle me'. Well I can promise you the 'lucky' people you refer to with their nice physiques spend endless hours doing exercise and eat very carefully and boringly. I could probably, given time, get a body like that. But I have decided I prefer pies. So have made my peace with the fact I will always be a bit chubby.

If you want it, you will go out and get it. But to be honest it sounds like you prefer making excuses. I used to prefer making excuses too. Waiting for stuff to happen got me the square root of fk all of anything.

Also - Maggie's Angry Warrior is a CATASTROPHIC look on a guy your age - trust me, women just don't get it. I am not saying change it, I am just saying tone it down.

It is a simple choice:

a). Try and be more rounded and change a few things - stop pretending that people who have the things you want are 'luckier' than you.

b). Find yourself a squeeze down the Conservative Club on one of their BYO Steam Engine evenings - just brace yourself that probably will not be Anne Hathaway.

[kowalski655]

ChemicalChaos said:

.....<snip>
Kowalski - it's not my sim, but I do work on it. It belongs to Speke Aerodrome Heritage, come and visit us if you're ever in Liverpool on a Saturday :0

If I was still in Blackpool I would be on that like a dog on a sausage,alas I am in the frozen wastes of Alba now Looks nice though-do you join in the FSRTWR?

Good to get rid of the pic though.Now just dont mention the other hobbies(I suspect Matt is hoping for this on Tinder:

More likely to find this in real life:

[RobinBanks]

Vocal Minority said:

b). Find yourself a squeeze down the Conservative Club on one of their BYO Steam Engine evenings - just brace yourself that probably will not be Anne Hathaway.

He's looking for Shakespeare's wife?

[Vocal Minority]

Takes all sorts to make a world...

[Ikemi]

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.

Edited by Ikemi on Tuesday 6th January 20:00

[NRS]

Do you mind if I borrow that picture? :P

[escargot]

ChemicalChaos said:

Thanks muchly to everyone for the advice. This is my revised profile:

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).

[4941cc]

escargot said:

ChemicalChaos said:

Thanks muchly to everyone for the advice. This is my revised profile:

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).

Nail. Head.

But no matter, CC's busy saving up the next year's gym membership money to spend on a pair of Church's whilst ignoring all the other far more salient advice given.

Can't help those that won't help themselves etc.

[intrepid44]

escargot said:

ChemicalChaos said:

Thanks muchly to everyone for the advice. This is my revised profile:

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).

It's Formula Student, not a Red Letter Day. But racing driver is pushing it a bit, granted!

[HerrSchnell]

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-conservation

[NRS]

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.

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!

[Tiggsy]

drop the bio - you dont need it on Tinder. It will NEVER be the difference between hot or not so it can only hurt. Less is more. None is perfect.

[mjb1]

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.

Are you hinting that he should switch sexuality to get more matches?

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.

[Impasse]

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.

I'm confused. Is that an observation about hedgehogs or girls?

[drivin_me_nuts]

So, does posting a picture of a hedgehog attract more women. If so, how does that compare to other cute animals. Is a meerkat too cute? How about a puppy chow being rescued from a burning tar pit? You see I'm sensing a way part the swipeylikey not being an Adonis with a Dick the size of a dustbin and a dispersal rate more potent than a 50 cal chain gun... Cute wins. Post macho cute. So maybe pose a shot of the racing car skidding to avoid the andrex puppy in the middle of the track, or a plane avoiding the school. It's sexy, cute and more swipey, more likey.