I tend to ask them out within 10-15 back and forth messages. Not a hard rule since each interaction is different. Plus it's a good idea to try and get away from the platform as fast as possible.
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Dating Age |OT$6| Just ask her out already
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I tend to ask them out within 10-15 back and forth messages. Not a hard rule since each interaction is different. Plus it's a good idea to try and get away from the platform as fast as possible.
what about women who want to be friends for a while before going out? Thats total bs or a real concern?
ZackieChan
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I mean, maybe they do. But you shouldn't give it the time of day. Either be friends with them because you want to be friends, or be honest with yourself and your desires and move on. Currently in this situation with the girl I met last night. I'm fine being friends, but if she wants more, I'm game. Either way I'm happy. But I sure as hell ain't waiting for her.
But if you want to date her, make that known. Then if the friends first thing comes up, act according to how you want to play it
but don't avoid making an initial move or asking her out because she might this or that.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
This is always mebut forever
Why not just be friends for a bit?
From your past posts it sounds like you've had the worst possible luck dating.
always crazy bacon
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This Pun needs a lot of love!
always crazy bacon
Banned
Nope attraction does not work that way. I'd say that translates as "You're a decent guy and I like the attention you give me. Let me make a potential relationship a carrot on a stick so you keep giving me that attention to validate myself and at any time you try to move things forward I'll keep you in your place as we are just friends/I'm still not ready".
Anything that is not a hard yes, IS A NO.
ZackieChan
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This is always mebut forever
Why not just be friends for a bit?
Because they don't want to be friends. They want a romantic partner. If I go to Burger King, I want a Whopper, not something from McDonald's. "Why not try it?" doesn't cut it. It's not being honest with yourself.
Similarly, if you're looking for friends, going on Tinder and other "dating" apps isn't the way to do that. It's counterproductive.
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Tried being "just friends" with girls I've met via OKC. Fucking confusing. We're hanging out one-on-one, getting dinner and doing stuff around town...like they're dates...but they're not. And since we met via a dating site, I don't know if we're staying just friends or if its more of an audition.
I do have platonic female friends, but they were either met in a group setting, or we dated and just didn't work as a couple.
I'm not giving anything rock hard "lots of love"...
Using dating sites for friends first is stupid. It's fine if it doesn't work out and there's a mutual interest in friendship though.
It's especially frustrating in Japan because some people really do use sites like Tinder to meet foreign friends - a gay acquaintance of mine, for example, met a guy on Tinder and was completely baffled when the guy was surprised at his sexuality. Then again "language exchange" can also be code for "let's fuck", so it's a minefield I hate navigating.
My very first Tinder experiences in Tokyo were with people who genuinely wanted only friendship. It was pretty confusing and frustrating.
It's especially frustrating in Japan because some people really do use sites like Tinder to meet foreign friends - a gay acquaintance of mine, for example, met a guy on Tinder and was completely baffled when the guy was surprised at his sexuality. Then again "language exchange" can also be code for "let's fuck", so it's a minefield I hate navigating.
My very first Tinder experiences in Tokyo were with people who genuinely wanted only friendship. It was pretty confusing and frustrating.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Good to hear positive impressions in here. What's the Nottingham escapology like? Worth it?
always crazy bacon
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I've run into this a lot on dating apps in China. That and girls wanting to have an English teacher. I just respond directly I am here for a girlfriend not a friend as I have lot's of those already and I am not a free English teacher. Block, delete move on.
Just speak in all the latest memes
DrewScanlonBlinking.gif all day. Or is that done already? I'm not as with it as I used to be.
Anyways, here's something weird:
A cute 24 year old and I have been messaging back and forth for a while. She's too young for my tastes but I thought it would be fun. Did a bit of teasing on how I don't normally engage with girls younger than 26. Long story short, she suddenly dumps a whole incoherent paragraph about religion, emotions, supernatural stuff, good vs evil and a Ouija board.
Me: DrewScanlonBlinking.gif
Count Dookkake
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lol at agreeing to meet up to be friends.
They should call you Mr Diarrthea, because that is the softest shit ever.
I'll be friends with an ex or a girl I meet in IRL, but this is ridiculous.
They should call you Mr Diarrthea, because that is the softest shit ever.
I'll be friends with an ex or a girl I meet in IRL, but this is ridiculous.
always crazy bacon
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Undecipherable Emoji strings and links to funny video clips. Once you have received enough LOL Emojis just ask to Netflix and chill.
Wtf
Count Dookkake
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How old are you?
I find that as I get older, that language barrier becomes an asset.
It's not like they don't know that you are old. It's what they want.
Messofanego
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So worth it. Especially if you're into Gothic/Victorian period and horror.
Messofanego
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Copy paste it here lol
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
What does everyone think of that catcalling thread?
Count Dookkake
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Not a fan of catcalling, but I have no interest in the thread.
LegendofDragoonLives
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I can't tell ya what to do my man, just base it off my perspective. No. Tell her no. If you're into her, tell her you'd like to go out with her. I personally have only two good friends that are girls that I genuinely hang out with regularly. If I hang out with someone of the opposite sex on several occasions, something will generally happen or I will cut off contact and not bother.
I still have plenty of friends that are girls, but not ones I actively hang out with.. since as I said that generally leads into something (which includes some of those girls that are friends). A lot of people are different and different things work for different people, but to me it's a terrible idea to be friends with someone you're into. Just awful. I couldn't do it, but then again I've forward/up front when it comes to this stuff. :\
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Gotdatmoney
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This is always mebut forever
Why not just be friends for a bit?
If you want a SO why are you going to spending dating time being friends? Why not spend that time trying to you know, find someone who wants to actually date?
Plenty of people have already answered, but I don't waste my time on women that want to be friends first. I'm on the service to date.
I'm assuming it's filled with all kinds of stupid.
On the topic of meeting friends over apps... it's possible, but it's insanely difficult from my experience. As someone who used to be completely friendless 3 years ago, I started using apps to make strictly friends without benefits or any attachments. I tried to message mostly profiles that also seemed to genuinely want friends as well. It went well at first, but out of the 20 guys I've met, more than half of them either confessed they liked me or made sexual advancements. ONE however did turn out to be a good friend and as a result of him I became friends with his friends and now I have a group of friends for the first time in over a decade. This one friend has never been inappropriate at all either and is now happily in a long term relationship. I think most people on apps have the same goal regardless of what they say.
Move
Messofanego
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It predictably went into "whaaaa now I can't have any social interaction with women on the street?!" and "is catcalling really sexual harassment?" line of arguing. But most of the bad posts have been called out, especially by women.
What is catcalling?
EchoChamber
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Saying pervert stuff to women in the streets.
Verbally sexually harassing people on the streets
always crazy bacon
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Are you "hot"?
On the whole friends thing, the only time I've hung out with a girl I met on a dating site purely platonically was when I was living overseas. Making friends in a foreign country is always hard, but having her around (she's a huge nerd, so we went to all the nerdy movies together) was a huge help. We're still friends and occasionally connect to talk about Black Mirror or other stuff.
There are times and places for that kind of connection, but I definitely am on dating sites to date.
There are times and places for that kind of connection, but I definitely am on dating sites to date.
It gives me a nice list of people to add to the ignore list.
I agree with the majority here that going on dating sites for friends is weird. I've converted two dates that didn't work out into friends but I sought them out as more than friends first.
Unfortunately, I deleted the conversation. I pondered pushing forward for a day but deleted it this morning after getting hung up on that Ouija board. Haha...
Unfortunately, I deleted the conversation. I pondered pushing forward for a day but deleted it this morning after getting hung up on that Ouija board. Haha...
Planning on it. Minneapolis.
Ive been regularly told by attractive women I've dated and been friends with that I am, so I guess.
Lone_Prodigy
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Speaking of making friends on dating sites...
When I first started online dating I somehow matched with a girl already in a relationship, but I just sent her a message anyway and we had a good conversation. Met up once but eventually ceased contact.
A few years later I had gotten out of a relationship and was back on the dating sites, and matched with a girl. We exchanged a few messages, and when we traded names, she mentioned how my name sounded familiar (I have a fairly unique name). It was at that point that I realized that it was the same girl I met years before.
Needless to say we didn't exchange any more messages.
When I first started online dating I somehow matched with a girl already in a relationship, but I just sent her a message anyway and we had a good conversation. Met up once but eventually ceased contact.
A few years later I had gotten out of a relationship and was back on the dating sites, and matched with a girl. We exchanged a few messages, and when we traded names, she mentioned how my name sounded familiar (I have a fairly unique name). It was at that point that I realized that it was the same girl I met years before.
Needless to say we didn't exchange any more messages.
Messofanego
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And then banged...?
Insane Metal
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She's already doing that
And not many fish for me unfortunately. But idk I don't think I can handle this.
Met this girl 2 days back and had a really nice chat with her. I had to rush off so I asked her a number and she gave it to me after saying, "I don't normally give out my number." Anyway I texted her and asked her out to get some coffee.
Here's the question, she replies saying that she'd love to hangout but she doesn't do dates.
Not sure how to respond to that, should I specify that I want to go on a date, not hangout? Or should I just go hangout with her and if I think we have a connection ask her on a date then?
Here's the question, she replies saying that she'd love to hangout but she doesn't do dates.
Not sure how to respond to that, should I specify that I want to go on a date, not hangout? Or should I just go hangout with her and if I think we have a connection ask her on a date then?
ZackieChan
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Brad_Pitt_Rule.rar
Open WinRAR
Un-RAR file
Brad_Pitt_Rule.txt
Open WinRAR
Un-RAR file
Brad_Pitt_Rule.txt
Nobody compresses just a text file. What else do you have in there? Something lewd no doubt.
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