Comments for Smart Dating UK Blog

Comment on Valentine’s Day nookie – how to ruin your chances by Jane Marshall

Jane Marshall — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:36:54 +0000

Ha ha, hilarious! Come on chaps, time to think of something different this year. You can do it!

Comment on Valentine’s Day nookie – how to ruin your chances by Jaiden Bird

Jaiden Bird — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:21:01 +0000

Oh that’s so funny, I need to make sure I think of a better present for Valentines Day now…any suggestions???

Possibly need to not book the same restaurant as I took my ex to last year.

Comment on Does Magic ruin the magic? by Dating Savvy

Dating Savvy — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:40:28 +0000

The ‘requirement’ to add any information at all puts a lot of people off! Many are very wary of displaying thier photo and lots of information on the internet, let alone the more ‘obscure’ info you mention. Many also prefer to keep their profiles brief as it gives them plenty to chat about when someone does contact them. I think we deserve the choice over what and how much info we disclose.

Comment on How do I know I’m ready to date again? by George Pirintzi

George Pirintzi — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:09:51 +0000

Also something else to think about is “When should I be ready to date again?” Allow yourself upto 1 month for each year your last relationship lasted to grieve and heal yourself and if after that time you are still pining for your ex, consider getting some help from a counsellor or coach.

Comment on Grindr gaydar dating app goes straight by Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:22:21 +0000

This is just going to be a meat market for women like all dating sites. why bother

Comment on Facebook v Shagbook by Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:50:05 +0000

Not sure that easyShag would go down too well.

Comment on Online dating success stories by Eleanor Gasan (nee Miles)

Eleanor Gasan (nee Miles) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:53:51 +0000

Two and a half years ago I went speed dating. Last Saturday (23rd July 2011) I married the man I met there!

I actually met my husband Simon at two speed dating events – the first time I wasn’t confident enough to put yes so I just selected friend, he put yes. Unfortunately we never made contact because he thought I wasn’t interested as I didn’t put a firm yes. The second time though, seven months later, I was brave enough to put yes and this time he contacted me. The second time may indeed never have happened – I had just been “dumped” by someone I had been briefly seeing and had been quite upset, Smart dating happened to text me an offer and I thought “well, what do I have to lose?”. Simon received the same offer as well, although was unsure about trying it again – luckily for me he did and the rest is history!

We are now both very happy together, living in our house with our two Labradors. We look forward to our honeymoon in the Maldives in just over a weeks time. We are very grateful to Smart dating and the chances we both took in order for our fate to finally collide.

Eleanor and Simon Gasan

Comment on Grindr gaydar dating app goes straight by Ed Kapitan

Ed Kapitan — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:37:27 +0000

“I feel that the tongue-in-cheeky name will be especially off-putting for the heterosexual female market.”

That’s women’s whole damn problem – they are too superficial about what’s ‘acceptable’ ‘normal’ and such social image-based thinking! That means lowest-common-denominator rules, which is pathetic, and limiting! I curse evolutionary group psychology! Then I imagine a lot of the same women turn around and complain that men are only into their looks or similar… well… what goes around comes around, en masse!

But for open-minded, open-legged (read: higher testosterone level, more adventurous) females, this might be useful. But then again, they don’t tend to have a major problem these days, so it would only be the icing on the cake, unlike the situation for many (semi/closeted) gay men, I imagine.

Comment on Speed dating tips for men by Foxy Oxy

Foxy Oxy — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:05:05 +0000

Very funny. You should write a book to warn all the single ladies out there! I once made smalltalk with a man at a buffet table at a party who said, ‘actually, I only talk to women at parties who have at least 100,000k equity in their own house’. Apparently, he confused my basic politeness with a burning desire to marry him. Keep up the good work! I look forward to reading your next missive

Comment on Are Irish men really the joint ugliest in the world? by Foxy Oxy

Foxy Oxy — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:00:07 +0000

Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne, Errol Flynn, Dermot Mulroney, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Owen McDonnell, Colin Farrell… yeah, all hit with the ugly stick, all right!

I would suggest this online dating service which, by its very nature deals in superficials, has also succumbed to peddling physical stereotypes (Irishmen are red-headed leprechauns with a potato balanced behind one ear, perhaps?)