Price of a date in USA.

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To the contrary. I explain my point of view but I live in continental European culture of dating, dominated by the friendship-first approach.
Your dating culture may be closer to Sly's so your point of view is very valuable.

I hadn't thought of that.

So you are saying you discriminate against your own kind?
Impressive.

Nope, I simply don't do incest.

A fact on blobfish: "Blobfish live a pretty stress-free life. The fish acts like a water balloon, floating in the deep sea, waiting for food to come to its mouth. With little muscle, the fish can not actively swim to capture food or escape harm. The blobfish opens its big mouth, and food filters on through".

What a lucky bastard!

But most of your kind do.

Well, that explains your face.

So,
Not only are you the ugliest beast, this side of the universe,
You are the laziest also.
It is a wonder your kind survive, to this point.

You're just jealous; you have to chase stuff to eat; and even with your glands removed they still evade your odor's reputation.

Now I wonder...if my kind are so lazy, how do we reproduce? I need a blobby sex education.

Thanks magz. I'm really not that bad as some of you seem to believe. Why on Earth has nearly everybody assumed that I meant spending LOTS of money on a date?? Some people can afford nicer dates than others, so what? The men insisting on paying in my experience have treated me and others way better. Maybe instead of jumping to the black and white conclusion that it's materialistic, sexist and bad, end of - look at it another way and wonder why these men WANT to impress their lady. A man ready to say, "If you don't split the bill, then lump it" doesn't sound that interested in the first place now, does he?

Try saltanas or raisens. They are cheaper.

Nice one MG.
How you doing?

To get sex

I didn't think that you expected men to pay a lot, Smudge.

I was referring to the men who think they have to pay a lot.

The typical dates I had are coffee. In the best case scenario we each buy our own coffee (that would be like 1 or 2 dollars), in the worst case scenario I buy coffee for both of us (that would still be under 5 dollars). Or maybe in some rare occasions we would go to a restaurant: in best case scenario each pays for ourselves (that would be I guess 10 or 20 dollars) in the worst case scenario I pay for both (that might get up to 40 dollars). But still nothing compared to what that map shows.

But it is a really nice revelation. I thought I had such a bad luck because I had so few dates. But now it turns out I have good luck since they were so cheap. Or could it be that these two things are two sides of a coin: I didn't have a lot of dates *because* I am not willing to pay? Its hard to believe though: I mean, how do women know I won't be willing to pay those prices, they aren't mind readers. To be clear, no I won't pay 100 dollars for a date, thats crazy. But the question is: how do women know it, if they haven't even asked? Is there a way to look at my behavior to be able to deduce it somehow?

I like to eat food, rather than just have coffee.

Even these days, were I single, I doubt very much that I would spend over $100 for both of us on a date—unless we went to a Broadway show. Most of the time, it would probably be under $50.

I like food too: when I am on my own I go to restaurants quite often. But, for some reason, when I am on a date, it usually happens to be coffee. I guess part of it is that restaurants are expensive so I am not willing to pay twice that price. However, that might be irrelevant because the woman is not a mind reader. I usually wait for the woman to suggest and then go with whatever she suggests. What the women suggest usually happens to be coffee -- although I remember some exceptions and in those cases I went to the restaurants -- whichever ones they suggested (although I was resenting it in my mind -- without saying anything). So I guess the question is: why are they keep suggesting coffee? Is it

a) because they knew I would be the one paying so it is rude to suggest something where they won't be the ones paying for it?

or

b) Because they didn't like me that much (as evident from my not having second dates most of the time) so they didn't want to feel "morally obligated" to go on a second date due to my paying so much for the first date?