Article: The Dating Game

[Rowsbette]

Many a time have I found myself sneering at vapid chick-lit, or self-help books such as The Rules in bookstores: sorely tempted to purchase them in order to enable me to find out more about the Bridget-Jones-esque dating culture I so irrationally despise. Thoughts of such a book invading my bookshelves like a bad smell (possibly even rendering my wee collection of feminist literature null and void) always convinced me to refrain from wasting my money. However, when I saw a copy of Jo Hemmings’ The Dating Game (a £9.99 book) going for a mere ten pence in Bookworld on Sauchiehall Street today, I just couldn’t resist.

On a positive note, Jo Hemmings isn’t the “how to meet Mr Right and bully him up the aisle” lady I anticipated: her attitude is more “let’s have a laugh for the moment.” It’s still, in essence, a book for women wanting men to like them. As I said in another article, the problem with the flood of relationship self-help books floating about...

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[sithlord]

don,t get it do you . all you can do is brag i can,t remember oh watb a stud not.excuse me i,ll tranlate..cant remember --neverv happenend.. pathetic loser get a lidfe it,s too short to be a penis
find somebody real . i swear to whoever it will last longer and life will be easiier.sorry too drunk to be pissed off take care anybody who cares xxxx.

[*blaine*]

*blaine*'s rules of dating

1. NEVER choose the cinema as first date, unless this is someone you have known for a good long time the cinema is never a good place for a first date, for many reasons 2 being if u dont like the same type of films one may turn round and say it was great whilst the other may turn around and say it was shit thus so much in common turns to not much in common, go bowling or for a meal that way you have a chance to talk and actually see if u have much in common the first "date is critical" (although i have never had a releationship where its started with a first "date" but i dont take em to a cinema neway for the simple fact i work in one and have seen the disatrous consequences of a dayte gone wrong)

2. dont go for dates per say look for people that havethat certain thing when you meet them a spark per say, to me i beleive that communication is a big thing for me (ie if u can talk to the person for hours yet it only feels like 20 minutes) the more you have in common in the first conversation the better chance you have to actually havea chance

3. if your psycho alarm goes of (the part of you that says my god hes a fecking mentalist) goes off then turn around and run, t the end of the day itds not the best thing if you think they can be a psycho to try make a releationship work (IT WONT, beleive me I KNOW)

apart from that id say dont go for physical attraction, go by how much you have in common, how much you agree with, what you dont agree with turns into another hour of talking and listening because for me thats the most important how much you can listen to each

forgive me im in a reflective mood

[Jesus]

Originally Posted by *blaine*

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3. if your psycho alarm goes of (the part of you that says my god hes a fecking mentalist) goes off then turn around and run, t the end of the day itds not the best thing if you think they can be a psycho to try make a releationship work (IT WONT, beleive me I KNOW)

apart from that id say dont go for physical attraction, go by how much you have in common, how much you agree with, what you dont agree with turns into another hour of talking and listening because for me thats the most important how much you can listen to each

forgive me im in a reflective mood

Dont go 4 physical attraction!! are you insane!!! surely you are better off just being friends with ppl who have everything but the physical attraction thing?

I agree with the psycho/mentalist alarm thing in principal, but mad eyes are sexy

[*blaine*]

Originally Posted by Jesus

but mad eyes are sexy

this my friend is shaky ground,mad eyes sexy yes cant deny it, but also if EVEN her friends tell you she can be a bit on the mental side then the best idea is to run like hell

and what i actually meant to say was dont go for physical attraction alone

[Jesus]

im with you on not going for physical attraction on its own
Have you noticed that in glasgow ppl say things like "im/shes a bit mental" and mean it as a compliment?... I think its hard to tell whether sum1s actually a nutter -------> anyone got any good ways to spot scary ppl early other than the eyes or asking her friends?