# How you doin': the Doper romance thread.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 5, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231 "2010-08-05T04:31:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/141 "2012-08-22T23:35:09Z")
> [@brainstall](#):
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> Chubby, middle aged, childless spinster, spend too much time with my dogs. Otherwise charming, witty, clever and passably pretty. Domestically skilled in many things, but not housecleaning. Mostly straight. Southern Ontario, Canada
FYI - I am mostly straight myself. in fact, you pretty much described me except I am domestically skilled in many things but not cooking.
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### Author:  [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/142 "2012-08-22T23:36:47Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Not, alas, for me. Much as I love cats, their dander makes me sneeze and my eyes stream.
FYI - I am allergic to cats but I successfully lived with 2 for many years after hypnosis.
I figured, an allergy is my body screwing up: hypnosis should help that. and, for awhile, it did.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/143 "2012-08-23T07:30:31Z")
> [@Corcaigh](#):
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> Fat, 50 year old virgin,
You can’t be that fat if you ride. My niece adores horses so I guess I’ll be learning to ride soon. Good thing I like them.
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> Owns a horse, sci-fi nerd.
That’s all good.
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> Non smoker, non drinker. Can cook, willing to relocate (will not be bringing mother, but will be bringing horse and DVD/Blu-ray collection).
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> oh and I’m 'bout 6ft tall. and no, I don’t date short guys
Good thing I’m 6’4" in the morning.
It’s so much easier to look someone in the eyes when you don’t have a crick in your neck. 🙂
Oh, there’s now a direct flight between Aberdeen and Dublin.
So, how you doin’? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/144 "2012-08-23T09:48:07Z")
I’m 29, male, a sad, lonely alcholic with an extra toe and itchy pants. It also burns when I pee. My home is a slovenly mess. It looks like a pig exploded in my living room. I’m also fat and homely looking.
My favorite hobbies include stockpiling weapons and army surplus rations, dodging tax collectors, and writing angry, confusing letters to the gummint and the korean controlled media that is trying to brainwash us into becoming pinko commies.
My goal is to have the largest, heaviest, and most cirrhotic liver in the world.
My ideal mate must have breasts 1/4 of her entire body weight, has an income sufficient to keep me in the lifestyle to which I am accustomed, and who’s life’s ambition is to perform oral sex and clean house. Ability to cook me dinner every night a plus.
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### Author:  [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/145 "2012-08-23T14:20:31Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> So, how you doin’? 🙂
I’m doin’ fine baby, how you doin’ 😉
(and I’m not in Dublin!)
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### Author:  [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/146 "2012-08-23T15:09:20Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#):
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> I’m 29, male, a sad, lonely alcholic with an extra toe and itchy pants. It also burns when I pee. My home is a slovenly mess. It looks like a pig exploded in my living room. I’m also fat and homely looking.
> My favorite hobbies include stockpiling weapons and army surplus rations, dodging tax collectors, and writing angry, confusing letters to the gummint and the korean controlled media that is trying to brainwash us into becoming pinko commies.
> My goal is to have the largest, heaviest, and most cirrhotic liver in the world.
> My ideal mate must have breasts 1/4 of her entire body weight, has an income sufficient to keep me in the lifestyle to which I am accustomed, and who’s life’s ambition is to perform oral sex and clean house. Ability to cook me dinner every night a plus.
Well played.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/147 "2012-08-23T15:44:53Z")
> [@Corcaigh](#):
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> I’m doin’ fine baby, how you doin’ 😉
Much better now!
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> (and I’m not in Dublin!)
No, but that’s where the flights go and there’s an intercity train every hour from Dublin to your home town.
Or one could travel KLM, but the layover situation is rather iffy.
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### Author:  [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/148 "2012-08-23T16:19:58Z")
> [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](#):
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> Well played.
I put that up on an actual proper datiing site, just to see what would happen 😛
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### Author:  [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/149 "2012-08-23T16:31:06Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#):
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> I put that up on an actual proper datiing site, just to see what would happen 😛
And?!?!?!
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### Author:  [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/150 "2012-08-23T17:59:28Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Much better now!
Grand out altogether!
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> No, but that’s where the flights go and there’s an intercity train every hour from Dublin to your home town.
ah roight, I’ll put up the spare bed, so. What time will ye be here?
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> Or one could travel KLM, but the layover situation is rather iffy.
Don’t Ryanair do flights to Cork from the UK?
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/151 "2012-08-23T18:22:12Z")
> [@Corcaigh](#):
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> Grand out altogether!
Quite. 🙂
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> ah roight, I’ll put up the spare bed, so. What time will ye be here?
You’ll have to curtail your passion for the moment: my shift starts early on Saturday morning.
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> Don’t Ryanair do flights to Cork from the UK?
They do, but Aberdeen to Dublin by plane then train to Cork is actually quicker. Not to mention more congenial. Plus it’s Aer Lingus rather than Easyjet and Ryanair.
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### Author:  [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/152 "2012-08-24T01:18:37Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#):
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> And?!?!?!
Funnily enough, no takers.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/153 "2012-08-24T13:30:40Z")
> [@Corcaigh](#):
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> Grand out altogether!
Check your email.
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### Author:  [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/154 "2012-08-24T13:44:34Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#):
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> Funnily enough, no takers.
I’m still betting on at least a 50/50 chance for a response. It is sad that my cynicism has progressed to the point that I can even see it as a possibility, but that is the state of the world in which we live. 😉
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### Author:  [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-you-doin-the-doper-romance-thread/549231/155 "2012-08-24T18:09:45Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> They do, but Aberdeen to Dublin by plane then train to Cork is actually quicker. Not to mention more congenial. Plus it’s Aer Lingus rather than Easyjet and Ryanair.
Congenial?! I’ll have you know they cleaned those trains last week!!
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Check your email.
Duuuude, that looks infected…
😉
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