But Dopers, let’s face it. Today’s society is not conducive towards dating. Why? Well, let’s look at our options:
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[li]Smelly, Smokey Bar[/li][li]Loud, Dark Dance Club[/li][li]Produce Section[/li][li]Laundromat[/li][li]Bowling Alley[/li][/ul]
Now, these settings do not at all promote the effective meeting of, and dating, new people. Sure, you can pay money and use a dating service. But why should you have to?
That’s why, fellow Dopers, it is up to us to produce a new type of atmosphere that is conducive to meeting new people and effectively start dating. So, unless you want to feel pressured into dating your hairdresser’s brother, we need to solve this problem. Pronto.
I personally have no suggestions. I want to see what others have to say.
Personally I like smelly, smoky bars and dark discos…great for sleezy sex.
But I know what you mean.
The new 10 minute dating thing looks good…where a bunch of people go to a room and have 10 minutes to talk to each other and then go on to the next person for 10 minutes, etc. etc. and at the end of the night, have the chance to call up someone they met and liked. Cool idea.
Also, there are the “group dates” where you and a bunch of friends all bring another person (who you are not romantically involved with) to a party. Mingle and nice stuff happens.
And say what you will, I know a lot of happy couples who have met on-line…my brother married a woman he met on line…granted, my brother was a turd and left his wife to marry this woman, but the two of them have been happily married for almost 10 years (which is an all-time record for him. He has been married eight times!).
Let’s set up some sort of network, whereby people with computers can connect with other people’s computers, and they can, I dunno, send text-based messages back and forth to each other…
Wow, they could even make some sort of permanent location on the internet, where a lot of people could communicate with each other at once, like a big room for people to chat in!
Oh! Oh! Oh! I got it! A website that, somehow, stores a lot of messages from a lot of people, and organizes them by topic, so you could, like, post a message, and other people could respond to it?
How about some sort of system whereby you could, I dunno, set up a description of yourself, maybe even include a picture, and put it in a big database? Then you could search through that database, until you found someone you thought was interesting, and send a message to them!
Would that be like a Flash Orgy? 10,000 people (maniacs) all show up at the corner of Haight and Ashbury and just start screwing? Sanguine, start the thread to organize that.
Personally, I like Kalhoun’s suggestions.
Now, I get to share how I met my wife. Doing volunteer work. I had just gotten out of the USMC. I had some money and a lot of free time on my hands, so I did some volunteer work at the local Science Center. I was outside all day in the summer, swinging a pickaxe to put down some cement blocks. She worked there and was oogling over my sweaty body. Everyone should do volunteer work.
