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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 30 2004, 05:19 AM (413 Views) | |
| somerled | Sep 30 2004, 05:19 AM Post #1 |
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OK, I'm assuming we've all heard about speed dating. (At very least seen it on TV on a siccom or some other TV show. I'm curious - anyone here ever actually tried it ? (NO I am not personally interested in trying it now or any time in the forseeable future). |
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| Deleted User | Sep 30 2004, 05:38 AM Post #2 |
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^^^ Then why did you start this poll then?! I don't have anything against it, but i would never try it. |
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| somerled | Sep 30 2004, 06:10 AM Post #3 |
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I'm Curious - I personally can't see how it could possibly lead to a long term relationship. I think the idea is stupid, but I've seen it portrayed in TV a few times over the last couple of years so I am presuming there are speed dating clubs or speed dating services out there and some people actually try it. |
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| Deleted User | Sep 30 2004, 06:12 AM Post #4 |
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Ah, i get you. imyself don't see how you could form a lasting relationship from it. but, at least it gets people talking. |
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| somerled | Sep 30 2004, 08:56 AM Post #5 |
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There is a send up on one the shows I like, one of the pranks they get up to is one of the recent actors who was Doctor Who participates in speed dating and gives the ladies he's talking with some very strange answers (as if he actually is Doctor Who). |
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| Fesarius | Sep 30 2004, 11:49 AM Post #6 |
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I have never heard of it before.
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| Dr. Noah | Sep 30 2004, 01:27 PM Post #7 |
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I think I have heard of it, but can we get a description please? |
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| Fesarius | Sep 30 2004, 01:45 PM Post #8 |
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And make it a speedy one.
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| gvok | Sep 30 2004, 01:53 PM Post #9 |
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Give me a rubber-band sandwich and make it snappy. |
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| Fesarius | Sep 30 2004, 02:01 PM Post #10 |
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^^^ LOL! Good one. Is Robert Young? |
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| Tkeisha | Sep 30 2004, 02:05 PM Post #11 |
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I have heard of speed dating. I haven't tried it but I may one day for a laugh. Very basic explanation (as I am not very good at explaining things that well) You go to one of these places and first you have to fill in a form about who you are, what sort of person your looking for etc. Then you EITHER have to sit at a table and one after the other members of the oposite sex will come to your table and your given say 10 minutes each person to find out about that person, flirt and basically treat it as a 10 minute proper date to see if you like them OR you have to be the one going to one table after the other. |
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| Dr. Noah | Sep 30 2004, 02:14 PM Post #12 |
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Hmm, 10 minutes seems like hardly enough time. If I was single, I would probably prefer the "group dating" scenarios I have heard about. Where something like three men and three women all go out and do some kind of activity like river rafting together and get to know each other all at once. Kind of like a triple blind date. |
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| Tkeisha | Sep 30 2004, 02:23 PM Post #13 |
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^^^ I agree because I very much doubt you can learn much aout someone in 10 minutes esp if you are speaking to one after the other (it would get a bit confusing). The triple blind dating scenarios are a much better way to do it or failing that there is always the "helping" friends setting up dates with someone way to meet someone. |
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| Dandandat | Sep 30 2004, 02:37 PM Post #14 |
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If this is true somerled, then how is this any different then meeting some one at a square dance, which I recall you saying is a great way to meat some one? |
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| somerled | Sep 30 2004, 10:10 PM Post #15 |
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I think all you could possibly get out of it is - she's/he's a hotty , she's/he's not , and maybe you might pick up something in the feramones she / he emits if she is in a receptive stage of her cycle and likes what she sees, smells and is sufficiently plastered by the time she gets to you - from what I've seen, the ladies are plyed with wine. Is heaps different (to SQ D), you are free to mingle between brackets and at supper (there is always a supper at square dances (usually about mid evening or a hour or so before the end of the night , the ladies aways bring a plate - could be a cake, or dip and crackers lamintions, Pavlova, finger food, etc), after 2 or 3 hours dancing you need to recharge the batteries and - for me - mingling at supper has always been the highlight of the night, the goodies on the table aren't bad either - you quickly find out who's a good cook ! ), and you get to talk plenty with people. Nor do you have to get up and dance every bracket (though I tend to dance every bracket, beginners level, mainstream level, plus level, advanced levels, general or couples's or ladies choice roundups, or square ups - I'm pretty much always up there dancing, I'm aways good and sweaty by the end of the night - even in the dead of winter). You can also come and go from the hall as you please without having any obstacles to movement. At the clubs I frequent the people I'm cosey with usually head off for a coffee or tea or a snack after the dance and we just socialise and chew the fat. (the local MacDonald's stays open just for us , the clean up around us), the kiddies with us get the things kids get at Macca's, we adults order OJs , coffees, teas, hot chocs , lateys , Cokes , etc. - we're a bit of a sight - expecially the ladies and girls in the dancing dresses and attract plenty of funny looks when we invade the local cafes or takeaway or chinese restraunt after a dance). A fair few of the couples I know met through aquare dancing, and have been stable for as long as we have or some very much longer - one couple just celebrated their 60yr anniversay - which isn't a bad effort. The met at a square dance beginners' class in WWII (when there were heaps of yanks in Australia). Their kids , and grandkids, and great grandkids are all involved in square dancing and other forms of dancing as well. They are a real tribe when they all show up at a special night or weekend. |
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), and you get to talk plenty with people. Nor do you have to get up and dance every bracket (though I tend to dance every bracket, beginners level, mainstream level, plus level, advanced levels, general or couples's or ladies choice roundups, or square ups - I'm pretty much always up there dancing, I'm aways good and sweaty by the end of the night - even in the dead of winter).
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