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21 Feb 2014, 3:57 am

World Travellers means she is open to the idea that YOU pay for her visit to your country.

I'm doing it right now. 2nd time I'm meeting her. She gets a holiday and I get to have someone for 2 weeks.

First when we met she had high heels on but quickly realised she was towering me with it. So stopped wearing it.... in relation with men's height.



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21 Feb 2014, 5:26 am

Stalk wrote:
World Travellers means she is open to the idea that YOU pay for her visit to your country.


Or it just means she likes travelling and being interesting.



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21 Feb 2014, 5:31 am

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It's just one of those things people feel compelled to put in their profile, like "I love to go out, but also enjoy a night in watching a DVD". Take it with a grain of salt, I reckon.


I also agree with this.



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22 Feb 2014, 9:45 am

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Note to any single women reading this thread: if you even ATTEMPT to show how you would make a great Girlfriend (and at my age eventually Wife and Mother) you WILL get plenty of interest from decent men like myself. I literally have NEVER seen a single profile that actually said what the woman will bring to the relationship. Hate to say it, but with all the interest in travel, saving the world, etc I wonder how the heck they will ever find the time to care for a child(ren). Most of them look like they would be terrible mothers and at my age that is one of the biggest properties I am looking for in a mate. I'm so sick of the "I'm-so-independent-and-perfect-and-backpack-around-the-world" profiles my eyes just glaze over. The woman who wants to settle down and start a family cannot be extinct, can they?


I figure I need to be honest about who I am or else even if they message me and we do finally meet up - we are not going to get along and it is all in vain.

of course this means no one has wanted to meet me yet.

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Yuzu is correct about OKC being loaded with left-wing vegetarian hipsters. I'm pretty solidly left-wing, but neither vegetarian nor hipster. And my world-saving tendencies are severely limited by my sensory processing issues. :lol:


strange I can't seem to find any even though that is exactly what I am looking for


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22 Feb 2014, 10:04 am

I had it pounded into to me so hard when I was a kid NOT to brag about myself. So for me to say something along the lines of "I am warm, caring, nurturing, honest, loyal..." etc., absolutely skeeves me out. Even reading a profile structured like that makes me want to gag. I suspect most other women were taught the same lesson, so I wouldn't be offended that the women aren't trying to "sell" themselves.

To be honest, I'm not sure that my profile says much at all about me (aside from some likes and dislikes), but it is apparently at least somewhat entertaining, since I get quite a few messages.



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22 Feb 2014, 10:19 am

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To be honest, I'm not sure that my profile says much at all about me (aside from some likes and dislikes), but it is apparently at least somewhat entertaining, since I get quite a few messages.


Dear, not denying your humor value or trying to put you down or anything like that, but on dating sites even a profile of a female goat would get quite messages, so it's not an achievement per se.



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22 Feb 2014, 10:33 am

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To be honest, I'm not sure that my profile says much at all about me (aside from some likes and dislikes), but it is apparently at least somewhat entertaining, since I get quite a few messages.


Dear, not denying your humor value or trying to put you down or anything like that, but on dating sites even a profile of a female goat would get quite messages, so it's not an achievement per se.


and this is exactly why I have mine set so straight people can't even see my profile, keeps men from messaging me, gay men tend to respect "leave me alone I am here to meet other womyn" better than straight men do


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22 Feb 2014, 10:36 am

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To be honest, I'm not sure that my profile says much at all about me (aside from some likes and dislikes), but it is apparently at least somewhat entertaining, since I get quite a few messages.


Dear, not denying your humor value or trying to put you down or anything like that, but on dating sites even a profile of a female goat would get quite messages, so it's not an achievement per se.


I'm not counting the "hi how ar u" messages. All one needs for plenty of those is a photo. I suspect the fake profiles with stolen photos of models and porn stars get way more responses than mine does. :P

Speaking of those, I suspect the OP is running into quite a few. I "moderate" a lot of them, and they all sound very much the same - most in their early to mid-20s, outgoing, very social, usually working two jobs or going to school and working full time, lots of sports and travel, all have kind of a "hip b***h goddess" vibe to them.



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22 Feb 2014, 10:45 am

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The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
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To be honest, I'm not sure that my profile says much at all about me (aside from some likes and dislikes), but it is apparently at least somewhat entertaining, since I get quite a few messages.


Dear, not denying your humor value or trying to put you down or anything like that, but on dating sites even a profile of a female goat would get quite messages, so it's not an achievement per se.


I'm not counting the "hi how ar u" messages. All one needs for plenty of those is a photo. I suspect the fake profiles with stolen photos of models and porn stars get way more responses than mine does. :P

Speaking of those, I suspect the OP is running into quite a few. I "moderate" a lot of them, and they all sound very much the same - most in their early to mid-20s, outgoing, very social, usually working two jobs or going to school and working full time, lots of sports and travel, all have kind of a "hip b***h goddess" vibe to them.


This is the inflated ego due to the countless of compliments they receive, they are there mainly for this rather than dating.



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22 Feb 2014, 10:52 am

Uhhh.....they're fake. As in scams. Probably set up by men. They're looking for money, not ego strokes.



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22 Feb 2014, 10:58 am

I am talking about real profiles - I have my tools to check if pics are genuine.



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22 Feb 2014, 11:11 am

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
I am talking about real profiles - I have my tools to check if pics are genuine.


really? what tools? that would be handy


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22 Feb 2014, 11:16 am

Well, we're talking apples and oranges here, if you're talking about real profiles and I'm talking about fake ones. I honestly don't know what real women's profiles in your age group in your part of the world are like. I pretty much only see the fake ones from the U.S.

If I had to describe men in your age group based on the profiles I've seen, I would have to say they are all egotistical, arrogant, self-absorbed, mostly illiterate, and ridiculously prone to posting nearly-naked pictures of themselves. :twisted:



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22 Feb 2014, 4:48 pm

Soccer22 wrote:
Gosh, I can relate to this. I tried match.com for a couple months and every single man said one of these things: "I love to travel" or "I plan to travel here" or "I want a driven woman" or "I love my career" or "I love an active lifestyle and want someone that does too".


Yes, these are really good points. I've giving 'Match' a go and have probably fallen into the same trap of saying I'm keen on travelling, which just seems like saying something vaguely glamorous for the sake of it. I'm off to change my profile :lol: