When was it?
Where did you go?
Was it a success?
Tell me more, tell me more
Was it love at first sight?
Tell me more, tell moe more
Did she/he put up a fight?
Apologies for the impromptu musical theatre, please insert gushing, saccharine sweet, candy scented, butterfly chasing, puppy and kitty admiring, secretly wedding planning, Elizabeth Duke 2 part 'broken heart' pendant contemplating, joint Christmas card sending, actually we're going to B&Q this weekend excuse making missives below:
hmmmmm.....
I can't remember when it was but we went to see Superman Returns in the cinema.
nah it was shite.
I was set up on a blind date
as a night out it was good.
as a date it was crap.
come on...
you and luke seemed to get on well..
:D
He's a cock tease!
Never been on one.
I'm cool with that.
i've never been on a 'date'
but i go out for meals and movies a lot with girls, but just ones i'm friends with.. if i meet someone i like it's more random encounters at parties that sets it off rather than actually putting myself out there and asking a girl out on a date. i always thought it was something that happened on Friends more than in real life.
*America
I went to a tea room.
It was really nice but we never actually 'got it on'.
was it Lee Rosy's?
It was
but ended up being a 'tea crawl' we hit broadway and then got real leaf at the malt cross!
Sounds great!
:D
What can I say?
I'm hardcore!
But you didn't get in on
so you're not THAT hardcore! (or something)
Thanks!
No, really, thanks.
:(
Aww.
I'm not really cross!
tea crawl?
i dont like tea, but can we have one of these the next time we meet? ive never been more curious about anything in my life...
You'd make a rubbish detective then!
But tea crawl2 does sound pretty damn ace!
fantastic
valentines day:
you, me, sadpunk, my ex workmate, the van guy and a veritable SHITLOAD of tea...
Deal!
I wont wear knickers!
And no knickers?
and I'll have a green tea!
Wow!
Who WILL be wearing knickers?
Jordan
over his trousers!
This is going to be great!
I love reading late-night grooming
Hooray
for Lee Rosy's!
Has anyone been to the ramshackle new Parisian-esque cafe next door yet? Its really rather ace too
Took a girl to Aldeburgh
It rained. It was a horrific failure. I cried into my cone of rain-soaked chips as I threw them to the gulls.
Well maybe I'm making the last bit up, but it didn't go as well as planned.
It was a very long time ago
I almost went on a date not too long ago but I got stood up. Can't say I'm disappointed- I learned some weird stuff about the guy afterwards, like how he reffered to his dick as his "cucumber."
I've never understood the whole
getting stood up thing.
Either you want to go on a date or you don't. People who say yes and then bail out without alerting the other party are utterly callous, cruel and should remain single for the rest of their lives!
Well, I was sort of doing it for my boss
She said the guy liked me, so I agreed to do it, being a nice person. It then got blown completely out of proportion, and the whole deli staff were enquiring about it. This pissed me off a bit as I tend to be a private person. One of the other girls asked me how I felt, and I said that no, I didn't really like the guy all the much and wished people would stop bothering me about it.
She then took matters into her own hands and called the guy to tell him I didn't like him (without telling me she was going to do this). He assumed I wouldn't show up- though about two hours later came checking with some of the other deli ladies to see if I had. Which I did...I actually had the balls.
And that was the last time I let coworkers meddle in my love life.
It sounds like a pretty messed up
state of affairs to me.
If any good comes of it, maybe it will be that your colleagues do indeed decide to mind their own business!
Out of interest, how do you think dating in the UK differ to dating in Canada?
Do you notice any tangible differences or is it basically the same?
I haven't noticed any differences yet
but I haven't been on any dates yet either. I did read that British guys tend to be a bit more shy than American/Canadians.
Interesting.
I always found dates in Canada to be much more relaxed and generally more enjoyable than here where people are too busy worrying about their hair or project a particular facade to have a good time.
Oooh
I have noticed people here tend to differentiate between "seeing someone" and actually having them as your signifigant other.
weird thing is...
I didn't think this casual drink in the pub with a guy I kind of know constituted a 'date', but I got there and *just knew*. Strange, isn't it? Anyway, he got too excited when I said I was drinking doubles (I always do, whatever the occasion)- that was off-putting. Then my friend turned up and kind of made me feel so relaxed that it wasn't a 'date' anymore. But surely, it's better to just be yourself?
^ha
^
an excruciating 'ha' in retrospect, as I suppose I could have been nicer
Probably a good 3 years ago.
I don't really have date or relationships or sex or things like that.
Meh
I'm keeping quiet. But I will tell you about my friend's date last Friday night.
It was his first date with a new lady. They went to a bar somewhere in Newcastle. He consumed two pints of lager. They were going to move on and had to queue for a taxi. The taxi driver kept letting scantily clad ladies jump the queue, and as he'd been there for 30 minutes in the cold, he lost his patience with this a little, and confronted one of said cabbies.
A few words were said and that was it.
They got into a taxi.
Taxi driver drove for a minute or two, then locked the doors, pulled over, and called the police.
Police turned up and arrested him for drunk and disorderly.
He left the girl in the taxi... spent the rest of the night in a police cell. They didn't even breathalise him.
It's certainly one she's gonna remember for a while.
Did she ever check up to see if he was okay?
Yes
They spoke the next morning. She was as gobsmacked as he was and still wanted to see him again.
In a weird way I think these things can bring people closer together...
Dunkirk spirit!
.
Hmm
- maybe. I don't know. He said he just wanted to forget the whole incident, and as she was obviously associated with the night, perhaps it was best he didn't see her again. He's a bit down at the moment so is finding things a bit difficult to cope with.
The weekend before he drove 4 hours to spend the weekend with a girl he'd got really close to, only to be sent on his merry way that same night. Two nights of hotel wasted, on the phone at midnight in tears.
*Sigh* - anyone know any lovely girls in Newcastle?
He's not having much luck!
So, when was your last date then?
Ah, that's top-secret.
Never know whose eyes are a prying!
Indeed, careless talk costs lovelifes!
.
dates generally go okay, it's getting them to see me again that's the problem
the last date i went on i was really skint, had about £12 to my name, so i took her to wetherspoons and kept getting myself cokes and her vodka's. we sat near the toilets because it was quite loud elsewhere, but eventually the smell of shit forced us to leave. on the way out a tripped on a kerb and landed on my face, she found it funny but i was quite hurt as my hands were in my jeans pockets at the time. anyway, it worked we had sweaty sex and sat up all night talking sweet nothings. i made her breakfast in bed and we talked about music and life for hours, she said she had to go home and get showered and changed but she'd come back for dinner. i gave her enough money to get home and back in a taxi and went and bought some food and a nice bottle of wine. she never came back. when i phoned her the number didn't exist. sob. i felt so used.
Oh no!
That's really sad, by which I mean genuinely sad rather than scale model of the USS Enterprise attached to the ceiling sad.
That would be 'Cool'
:-(
sounds harsh.
I see lots of pictures of dates in glossy magazines and free newspapers
they all seem to involve women with their hair done all shiny and styled, breasts ever so slightly out, and sheer tights covered legs crossed with high heels at the end, raising one eyebrow accompanied with a coquettish smile directed at prospective lover boy. They're always sitting up pretty damn straight and have their nails done. Lot's of lip gloss. Wine glass in hand. Unremarkable but undoubtedly expensive dress.
I don't think I've ever been on a date.
Jesus!
Neither have I! :(
me neither :(
My last proper date was early November
....2006, pretty slack.
She was very friendly, but, we really didn't have much in common, we went for some drinks then went off to see The Departed.
She managed to lose her phone and was in a massive panic as it belonged to her mum. We went for some more drinks, kissed, but, it was all a bit unremarkable.
I saw her once more, truly meaningless one night stand on the second occasion and then that's it.
i went on a date with a terror once
she looked like a skinny version of wayne rooney, with a perm. i was going through a really complicated time in my life. i met her on uboot (the original myspace/facebook). she had a VW Golf and could get served for beer, we agreed that we should probably meet and have sex. she didn't look anything like her profile pic, but she paid for me to get into the pictures and bought me a KFC so i felt kind of obliged. she was HORRIBLE, half-woman half-sloth. literally a few seconds after i'd slept with her she told me she was pregnant, i was baffled to say the least. turns out she was actually pregnant from another mug and i didn't have supersperm. i washed myself lots afterwards.
Beautiful
10/10
More stories, please
:-D
^ Brilliant!
I enjoy your anecdotes a great deal, they conjure up this tremendous imagery of a very English type of urban decay and general disappointment.
The upside though is that at the very least you get a killer story out of occasions like that and *hopefully* you learn a little bit more about yourself along the way.
supersperm
well i was comin home late one dark afternoon
a reporter stopped me for a interview
she said she's heard stories and she's heard fables
that i'm vicious on the mike and the turntables
well this young reporter i did adore
so i rocked a vicious rhyme like i never did before
she said damn fly guy im in love with you
the casanova legend must have been true
i said by the way baby what's your name
she said i go by the name of Lois Lane
and you could be my boyfriend you surely can
just let me quit my boyfriend called superman
i said he's a fairy i do suppose
flyin through the air in pantyhose
he may be very sexy or even cute
but he looks like a sucker in a blue and red suit
i said you need a man who's got finesse
and his whole name across his chest
he may be able to fly all through the night
but can he rock a party til the early light?
he cant satisfy you with his little worm
but i can bust you out with my supersperm
twee_loser, I think you might be my hero.
Spectacular!!
"she paid for me to get into the pictures and bought me a KFC so i felt kind of obliged"
I'm actually crying with laughter :D
good work :)
i'm an ugly fat dude but
i'll take you for a cheesy chip naan sometime, no worries.
smooth
:D
cheesy chip naan
would win me over...well, thats not entirely true, i'm just hungry and missing the wonders of english takeaway cuisine
hmm
i think ive been with my gf for about three months...so a couple week before that..
a plate of nachos in the pit n pendulum in nottingham, our hands met in amongst the cacophony of tortillas and chilli. cost under £10 altogether too, mint!
Beautiful! :D
Has anyone...
...got to whereever you're supposed to be having this date, and within seconds realised it's all wrong? I have this all the time. I conclude I've not be on a pain-free date.
once
the most painful two hours of my life probably.
How many times have I told you???
Don't do anal on the first date!
DON'T do anal
in a way it makes sense..
get...
...what you can, i say.
if you were a guy
you would have passed the 'sadpunk bloke test' with flying colours..
Is this...
...a compliment?
I was kind of joking. But on the other um, hand, anal sex is usually the jackpot in a sexual relationship right? If you can get it on a terrible first date, at least the pain of will have been worth it (obviously, I mean the pain of being bored/repulsed/forced to watch some terrible innocuous date film etc)
of course its a compliment!!
Damn straight!!!
check it!
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/2598701
^^ results!
I'm a third of a man...
Which ones did you pass?
*embarrassed*
I don't want to say - they involve cars and falling asleep. I've said now. Oh, well. You can't think less of me. I assume you've passed all six?
"passed" seems a little too positive!
;)
Oh god yes!
....and the worst part of it is the knowledge that you'll more than likely have to play along with the poorly conceived charade for at least 3 hours or so.
Yep
I always tell myself 'the next few painful hours will be character-building'
I no longer know what counts as a date
so I'm not going to say anything on this subject.
not...
1) sexing them (whether I like them or not)
b) yawning
c) going to the local pub for fear of going to a nice place which might highlight how bad the date is (if it goes badly)
d) getting absolutely wankered (whether I like them or not)
i mean...
...those are my standards for a good 'date'/meeting.
I'm not asking much of myself, just some self-respect and more alcohol tolerance.