Internet dating

[GK]

This hottie who fancies me just requested a personal live chat with me on a well known internet dating site!
She looks amazingly youthful for a 37 year old, me thinks.



Here is a cut and paste of our chat:


----------- June 15, 2015, 6:07 PM -----------


"hello" "are you still there?"

Me: "Hi, yes, I only just noticed this now!"

"oh okay my dear friend " "how are you doing today?" "oh okay how are you doing today?"

Me: "I am fine, how are you?"

 "I am doing good " "nice to meet you here" "i am a new member on this dating site "

Me: "It's nice to meet you; I just joined up yesterday"

 "the same to me here " "but i am here for only one man who is interested for us to build good relationship for the rest of our life " "hello" "hello"

 "Sorry"

 "hi"

Me: "I'm doing a few things here at the moment, including preparing dinner"

"oh okay my dear friend " "okay then i am willing for us to know each other well if you have a personal email address okay "

Me: "Hmmm..... you can email me through the website. BTW, is that really you in the profile photo?"

 "no my dear i dont know much " "that is why i am asking for a personal email address okay "

Me: "Hi. On my profile page, below the photo, you just have to click on the "Email Him" button."

 "my dear i will not always be here so if you are interested let us know each other on our personal messenger okay " "this is my email address is **removed**" "and you?"

Me: "OK, I'll think about it. I'm sorry but I have to leave as my pasta is boiling. BTW, is that really you in the profile picture?"

 "yes but we cannot build a relationship here okay " "that is why i am asking for your personal email address"

Me: "Why can't we build a relationship here?"

 "here is a dating site and also i am here for only one man " "many people are willing for us to talk but not interested dear"

Me: "That neither makes sense nor answers the question"

"no if you really want us to know each other then you can send me email okay"

Me: "Hmm OK, bye"


LOL, I think I'm in love.

Beware of scammers - though this is the stupidest and most incompetent that I have encountered so far.

 

[Halcyon]

Maybe you need a copy of Dave's book 'The Art of Internet Dating'. Available on Amazon or through Dave's website: http://artofinternetdating.com/author.htm

I'm sure Dave would be kind enough to autograph it for you :-)

[Deathwish]

hahahaha I looked at that page, look at Mr Cool in his shades. John Travolta eat ya heart out. I wonder if he sings staying alive whilst playing with high voltages as well.

[george graves]

Maybe you need a copy of Dave's book 'The Art of Internet Dating'. Available on Amazon or through Dave's website: http://artofinternetdating.com/author.htm

I so want to read this, just for the chuckles.

[GK]

I think I'll pass on the book -  though I guess that since the forum host has written such a thing this isn't too far off topic 

Funny, less than 20 minutes after that chat I got a wink from a brand new member who was also drop-dead gorgeous. Her profile was replete with pseudo philosophical/non-nonsensical drivel written in barely decipherable English. I did a Google image search of her and it turns out she (the woman pictured) is a Brazilian model/wife of some soccer player and the exact same photo featuring in the profile is all over the net. I've reported both. It's an absolute joke because profile pictures and written text aren't visible to the public until approved by a person/site admin., and this stuff is flagrantly fraudulent. I've also been bothered on this site by women living in China that look like super models!

The dating site is Match.com - I suggest to be avoided like the plague. I've deleted my profile and have requested a refund in writing for my 3 months subscription, though I might be out of 80 bucks in the end.

 

[sleemanj]

The dating site is Match.com - I suggest to be avoided like the plague. I've deleted my profile and have requested a refund in writing for my 3 months subscription, though I might be out of 80 bucks in the end.

Since this is EEVBlog, you should have a look at OKCupid.com  - while it is owned by Match.com these days, it has a basis in a somewhat scientific (mathematical, Myers-Briggs etc...) approach - not in a religious-plenty-of-fish way.

Once upon a time they used to produce some really interesting blog posts about statistical stuff gleaned from their database....then Match bought them and started a transformation into their usual photo-gallery pick-the-pretty-lady deal.  But they didn't go full out so there is still some of the original concept of OKC left.

Once upon a time I was tasked to write an online match making site and had to do some research on the various players, the site I wrote of course went nowhere and folded within a year, usual story, customer had a "build it and they will come get on the gravy train" mentality.  Sigh.

Now, where did I put my robe and wizard hat.

[Stonent]

I met 3 girls on match. Dated one for 9 months another for a month and had one date with one. Got 3 hits on okcupid. One was a one dater. Another was 6 months. And the last one I married.

Plentyoffish.com got me lots of hits with girls willing to go on a date but they always came up when I was dating someone else. So they ended up being just chatting.

I tended to spend about a month chatting with them before going on a date. Moreso to make them more comfortable with the potential serial killer on the other side

[GK]

I currently have a paid subscription to the pretentiously named "Elite Singles". That site is very tightly controlled and your profile is only made available/visible to other members strictly matching your selected criteria (ie not women that remarkably all look like super models with professionally taken glamor-type portrait profile photos from either interstate, China or Russia). It would take a particularly dedicated scammer intent on communicating only through your personal email address to get him/her/itself into there.

That site is the least awful of all I've checked out so far. It also claims to be one of the more "scientific" sites and the sign-up process includes a million questions from which a "personality profile" is eventually generated. I have my doubts though about how these results are applied in practice because the personality profiles of my supplied matches pretty much vary all over the place. E-Harmony appear to be based on the exact same engine as when you sign-up you are asked the exact same questions for personality profiling. The actual site format of E-harmony though is beyond awful and I deleted my (as of then unpaid) account nearly as soon as I had completed it. The site appears to be optimized for tablet viewing and ones ability to express oneself intelligently in the written word is even more restricted.

I honestly thought that the pinnacle of spaghetti-brained web developers were those responsible for producing on-line electronic components stores. Then I decided to give internet dating a go.
 
 

[amyk]

If you doubt whether someone actually exists, it's quite simple to confirm: just ask them to show a picture of something that they probably don't have already - like putting your name and the date on a piece of paper.

[steve30]

Some fake profiles are blindingly obvious. As for people who can't spell or type etc, I just tend to ignore. After all, I can't make sense of what they say anyway .

Don't think I've ever really dealt with these fake profiles much myself. I am on dating sites for 'alternative sexualities' though, and that probably isn't a big enough market for most scammers.

[dfmischler]

Shouldn't the site managers be ensuring that everybody can pass a Turing test?  In English?

[GK]

I pains me to say this, but there are so many genuine women on the internet dating scene that are so f$#@ing stupid and inarticulate it can be difficult to tell straight away if you're up against a poser or not. If someone incompatible expresses their interest in an email I do endeavor to somehow reject them with compliments rather than just rudely ignoring. Sometimes it might be an ethnic chick, and you're left wondering if English may be her second language; it could be construed as rude to ask if it turns out that it isn't! Dead giveaways of a potential fraud are pleading to communicate via personal email only on the first contact or a woman from an address 3000km away stating that she is willing to travel anywhere for love.
 

[TerraHertz]

One side benefit of signing up with any international dating site (eg chnlove.com) is that the targeted advertising you receive on unrelated sites suddenly has a lot of very pretty women. It's a big improvement over the usual crap.

Something to bear in mind is that only a very small percentage of people (M or F) can actually write coherently and expressively. Add in 2nd language problems (or worse, using machine translate or paid interpreters) and figuring out what people are really like is a somewhat doomed process.

[Asmyldof]

I still have an OkC profile, though the whole enterprise was doomed for me** before Match bought it.
Now that it has become theirs I have resigned to not dating until such time I have the time and resources to move to a better city for it, because even though I generally get slightly nervous about it, I work better live.

It was instantly obvious that Match bought it though, within days the option to search "including people without a picture" disappeared. Pointless idiots. Plus, of course, the general.... eh... how does one say it politely... level of linguistic coherence?? dropped to the gutter...


((**: I'm a professional over-thinker, both literally and figuratively, so I don't really manage to come off as... well adjusted on-line to people not inclined to technical side-avenue thought processes. I need a room to be able to play to the audience, basically. Most of my non-tech friends appreciate me greatly, but that's quite pointless if the F variants are in committed relationships  ))

[John Coloccia]

This hottie who fancies me just requested a personal live chat with me on a well known internet dating site!
She looks amazingly youthful for a 37 year old, me thinks.



Here is a cut and paste of our chat:


----------- June 15, 2015, 6:07 PM -----------


"hello" "are you still there?"

Me: "Hi, yes, I only just noticed this now!"

"oh okay my dear friend " "how are you doing today?" "oh okay how are you doing today?"

Me: "I am fine, how are you?"

 "I am doing good " "nice to meet you here" "i am a new member on this dating site "

Me: "It's nice to meet you; I just joined up yesterday"

 "the same to me here " "but i am here for only one man who is interested for us to build good relationship for the rest of our life " "hello" "hello"

 "Sorry"

 "hi"

Me: "I'm doing a few things here at the moment, including preparing dinner"

"oh okay my dear friend " "okay then i am willing for us to know each other well if you have a personal email address okay "

Me: "Hmmm..... you can email me through the website. BTW, is that really you in the profile photo?"

 "no my dear i dont know much " "that is why i am asking for a personal email address okay "

Me: "Hi. On my profile page, below the photo, you just have to click on the "Email Him" button."

 "my dear i will not always be here so if you are interested let us know each other on our personal messenger okay " "this is my email address is **removed**" "and you?"

Me: "OK, I'll think about it. I'm sorry but I have to leave as my pasta is boiling. BTW, is that really you in the profile picture?"

 "yes but we cannot build a relationship here okay " "that is why i am asking for your personal email address"

Me: "Why can't we build a relationship here?"

 "here is a dating site and also i am here for only one man " "many people are willing for us to talk but not interested dear"

Me: "That neither makes sense nor answers the question"

"no if you really want us to know each other then you can send me email okay"

Me: "Hmm OK, bye"


LOL, I think I'm in love.

Beware of scammers - though this is the stupidest and most incompetent that I have encountered so far.

Careful, or you'll get roped into helping her uncle.  He's was an army general, but is now in fear for his life after the coup.  He'll be fine if he can only find someone to help him get his millions out of Uhzturkistan.

[zapta]

This forum is a great matching place for single women. Just pretend that you care about electronics (an Arduino will do), join this forum and start shooting single guys in the barrel.

Dave, this is a business opportunity for you, especially that you are already an expert in internet dating and DateAnEE.com is still free.

[Richard Crowley]

Maybe this is a uni experiment trying to make a modern, "dating" version of a Turing Test.   

[Asmyldof]

This forum is a great matching place for single women. Just pretend that you care about electronics (an Arduino will do), join this forum and start shooting single guys in the barrel.

Dave, this is a business opportunity for you, especially that you are already an expert in internet dating and DateAnEE.com is still free.

 

[Deathwish]

I think maybe some of us have watched weird science once too often .. 

[German_EE]

As somebody who tried Internet Dating for some time (and had amazing fun) I have a few words of advice for you:

1) Beautiful drop dead gorgeous women do not post on Internet Dating sites. Use Tin Eye (www.tineye.com) and see if the image has been used elsewhere.

2) If the profile or a message includes the words 'God fearing' or, even worse, 'god fearing' then walk away.

3) If they suddenly change location to somewhere in Eastern Europe or West Africa then walk away.

4) Another red flag phrase, 'I have no child' rather than 'I have no children'

5) NEVER send them any money, if you receive a request for money then report them to the site administrators.

6) Finally, when meeting for the first time (especially if you have to fly to a foreign country) then take great care. In my case the two guys at the airport holding the sign with my name on it looked nothing like the woman I was there to meet and I reported straight to the nearest policemen.

[Deathwish]

As somebody who tried Internet Dating for some time (and had amazing fun) I have a few words of advice for you:
 Use Tin Eye (www.tineye.com) and see if the image has been used elsewhere.

Omg, I checked my profile pic, it says I am not human and I have been used a number of times  . Very unhappy now.

[steve30]

As somebody who tried Internet Dating for some time (and had amazing fun) I have a few words of advice for you:

<snip>

6) Finally, when meeting for the first time (especially if you have to fly to a foreign country) then take great care. In my case the two guys at the airport holding the sign with my name on it looked nothing like the woman I was there to meet and I reported straight to the nearest policemen.

Just out of curiosity, why would you fly to a different country to meet someone? Not saying you shouldn't, but I just thought it sounded a bit much for someone you've not met before.

On a side note, I've just been looking through some personals listings on Craigslist, and there were several posts saying 'ignore such and such a person.. he'll rob you at knife point'. Creepy.

[Deathwish]

In a lot of cases it is because of abject loneliness steve, the world we are living in as far as I can see is getting more and more insular, people no longer have the time to go out , or fear doing so, people are becoming more and more scared of the opposite sex male or female abusing them or screaming false accusations at them. I suppose once you get to a certain age and are no longer prime material for dating and income and you end up on the scrap pile of life your choices are limited, at such point the users in life will make the most of you by playing you online for cash or a home in a country that is much better than theirs. i was told that a lot of the Russian women are used by the Russian Mafia on those sites, how true i do not know.

[KJDS]

When I was young and energetic I went through a phase of trying to have my way with every woman in England who was into internet dating. Whilst I didn't have any more success with that than trying to rid the world of beer one pint at a time, I did give it my best shot and had a lot of fun too.

Do:
Arrange to meet once the banter gets fun.
Be prepared to spend a lot of time travelling, waiting for them to turn up, to be 10kgs heavier than their photo, (the worst was over 50kg heavier than advertised) and that the phrase "athletic build" usually refers to that era when East German shot putters would consume more steroids than is healthy.
Make sure you have fun, and escape route, if it's a long way away that you have a back-up plan and always always bag up.

Don't:
Avoid banter, or delay meeting.
Take it too seriously

[Deathwish]

KJDS , that analogy or shot putters reminds me, i need to watch jumping Jack flash again....  , but yes, I have been there once or twice, sadly they were some of the nicest girls I ever spoke to, but just too needy for me .

[dds737]

Next year I will celebrate 20 years on IRC - another dating medium where I've dated from dwarf to university professor ;-) Drop these virtual BS, and get real friday evening on local discotheque or caffe..

[nctnico]

As somebody who tried Internet Dating for some time (and had amazing fun) I have a few words of advice for you:

<snip>

6) Finally, when meeting for the first time (especially if you have to fly to a foreign country) then take great care. In my case the two guys at the airport holding the sign with my name on it looked nothing like the woman I was there to meet and I reported straight to the nearest policemen.

Just out of curiosity, why would you fly to a different country to meet someone? Not saying you shouldn't, but I just thought it sounded a bit much for someone you've not met before.

At some point you'll just have to meet... Talking over the phone doesn't go very far.

And if you are serious: make a test plan! Unfortunately mine didn't include cooking. 

[Halcyon]

Next year I will celebrate 20 years on IRC

+1 for IRC! I think I've used it myself now for about 20 years also.

[GK]

Careful, or you'll get roped into helping her uncle.  He's was an army general, but is now in fear for his life after the coup.  He'll be fine if he can only find someone to help him get his millions out of Uhzturkistan.

LOL, OK, so who is she then? Both Tineye and a Google Image search fail to find a match.

[GK]

When I was young and energetic I went through a phase of trying to have my way with every woman in England who was into internet dating.

LOL, compared to here I would figure that in England the Internet Dating scene would be a smorgasbord. Very slim pickings here in sleepy Adelaide and ~70% of what is available is stricken out once the "atheist", "agnostic" and "spiritual but not religious" boxes are checked. Mention in your profile that you enjoy reading and listening to fifties jazz and very few of the rest aren't scared away!

   

[GK]

6) Finally, when meeting for the first time (especially if you have to fly to a foreign country) then take great care. In my case the two guys at the airport holding the sign with my name on it looked nothing like the woman I was there to meet and I reported straight to the nearest policemen.

  I can't see myself flying off overseas anytime soon. And what did the coppers do?

[EEVblog]

Just out of curiosity, why would you fly to a different country to meet someone? Not saying you shouldn't, but I just thought it sounded a bit much for someone you've not met before.

Yup, if you have to fly overseas to meet an internet date then you are doing it wrong.

[KJDS]

When I was young and energetic I went through a phase of trying to have my way with every woman in England who was into internet dating.

LOL, compared to here I would figure that in England the Internet Dating scene would be a smorgasbord. Very slim pickings here in sleepy Adelaide and ~70% of what is available is stricken out once the "atheist", "agnostic" and "spiritual but not religious" boxes are checked. Mention in your profile that you enjoy reading and listening to fifties jazz and very few of the rest aren't scared away!

 

Never ever be choosy, if they have

1 pulse
2 boobs
3 orifices

then they met my criteria to chat online with. If I enjoyed the chat then they'd be worth meeting.

[SeanB]

Don't come here then.....

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/lack-of-prosecution-fuels-ukuthwala-1.1872133

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/father-charged-with-selling-daughter-1.1871939

[GK]

Never ever be choosy, if they have

1 pulse
2 boobs
3 orifices

then they met my criteria to chat online with. If I enjoyed the chat then they'd be worth meeting.

That's lovely.

[German_EE]

Some people here have no sense of adventure. At the peak of my Internet dating activity I was living and working in Hungary and I wanted to move out of the country, my profile choices therefore included lots of countries both inside and outside of Europe.

Anyway, back to my initial story. I had met someone on OK Cupid and over a couple of months exchanged lots of emails plus a few international telephone calls, as I said I was in Hungary and she was in Spain. We eventually made plans to meet and so I flew out to Madrid. The two guys waiting in the arrivals hall, one holding a card with my name on it, made me VERY worried so I walked past them to the nearest police officer. As we walked back towards them they both made a run for it and vanished into the crowds. I was interviewed by the airport police and they suspected that it was probably a kidnap attempt.

Three weeks later I met the woman I'm with now. That was three years ago and my Internet dating days are now over.

[dds737]

Three weeks later I met the woman I'm with now. That was three years ago and my Internet dating days are now over.

I hope that you and your partner  hold platinum wedding anniversary, best wishes :-)

[Sigmoid]

When it comes to Internet dating, Tinder is the absolute best. I met my current girlfriend on Tinder. It's not a "sex chat" app as some try to make it out.

It's a lot more like real-life connecting than traditional, "matchmaker" sites, which I never had much luck with.

[Towger]

There is good money in internet dating. A fellow I went to school with moved to Australia, set up an Ozzie internet dating site and sold it for millions a few years later.  I am sure he had no shortage of Sheilas chasing after him.

[gman4925]

http://dating.newscientist.com

Could be worth a shot if you are looking to meet someone more science or engineering oriented, rather than your more generic dating site.
No personal experience at all with online dating though.

[LukeW]

Maybe you need a copy of Dave's book 'The Art of Internet Dating'. Available on Amazon or through Dave's website: http://artofinternetdating.com/author.htm

I'm sure Dave would be kind enough to autograph it for you :-)

Wow, seriously? This is a real thing? I want to read it.

[GK]

Well Match.com refused a refund as predicted, so, having nothing to loose (since I already paid for it), I re-activated my profile/account several days ago. I'm currently getting "likes" and "winks" from either 3 or 4 obviously fraudulent and brand "new" accounts every day. 3 or 4 of those accounts so far were hidden/deleted before I even got a chance to either view or report them myself. I don't know if this is a typical experience or if there is something about my profile that makes the resident scammers consider me a soft target. In any case this dating site is utterly deplorable and seriously mismanaged. However since I am not at risk of getting seduced by anyone with the IQ of a goat anytime soon and since I am getting one or two responses/approaches per day from wholly legitimate looking accounts, I'll stick it out until my paid-up subscription expires.
 

[lewis]

Never ever be choosy, if they have

1 pulse
2 boobs
3 orifices

then they met my criteria to chat online with. If I enjoyed the chat then they'd be worth meeting.

I have all of those things 

[GK]

Never ever be choosy, if they have

1 pulse
2 boobs
3 orifices

then they met my criteria to chat online with. If I enjoyed the chat then they'd be worth meeting.

I have all of those things 

 

[GK]

Just one example, here is a girl that winked at me this evening:



Of course, had I pursued her I'd almost certainly eventually be her "beloved man" after sending over the dollars to fly her out of Christmas Island to live with me 
Though that account featured much better English than most, Tineye gives 55 hits for her profile picture and it is featured in the various photo galleries of the "romancescamsnow" website: http://romancescamsnow.com/dating-scams/know-your-enemy-yahoo-girls/


Each submitted profile picture does not become public until approved by Match.com site administration. Clearly they are employing monkeys. A 60 second image search would fish out most of these scam accounts before any suspicious target/victim has to report it. I even picked out one fraudulent account (a "like"r from yesterday evening) as I noticed just by coincidence that the profile photo was flagrantly pinched from the photo album of another (perfectly legitimate looking) account holder!

[lewis]

You lucky bugger Glen!

[GK]

You lucky bugger Glen!

She wasn't even one of the good looking ones!

[zapta]

Just one example, here is a girl that winked at me this evening:

That was me.

[GK]

The winks and emails from highly attractive women keep flooding in - five so far today. In all cases these members are ~30 year old's with brand "new!" accounts seeking men aged from between ~35 to as old as ~70 (yeah right!). They all write essentially the exact same thing in their profile introductory text - they want to find and permanently settle down with an honest man. In all cases they are interstate (the scammer can't be local of course because then there is no excuse to solicit money or other personal details before meeting for a date). It's getting more sophisticated now though; The English in the introductory text is passable and the photos used are no longer professional photography shoots that are littered all over the internet and that are traceable with Tineye or a Google image search. They are most likely photos stolen from attractive women of other dating sites. The rest of the profiles are generally incomplete and suspect though - for example "high school" listed as education level achieved but "Executive management" listed as occupation. 

It's getting harder to say for certain that a profile is fraudulent right away, but I could report two of them just now however as these two different profiles used the exact same profile photo! I am absolutely blown away by the level of fraud on this site and I don't know if this happens to every user of if I have been specifically targeted by a group of scammers working together. In less than a week I've seen one dozen fraudulent accounts of members approaching me deleted. I can't see any way to block the visibility of my profile to members not local to me either. Match.com is an absolute scam.

[GK]

I can't see any way to block the visibility of my profile to members not local to me either. Match.com is an absolute scam.

LOL, my main profile photo has just been "liked" by a chick in the Philippines!

[SeanB]

Quick Glen, propose to her, so you can emigrate to the Philippines.......

I can get you some local women, attractive, single and available. They just want a plane ticket and the visa. Plus they can cook, clean and speak English. Some have even danced for the King.

they even have photo's online, just look on the chocklit factory for Reed Dance.

[German_EE]

OK, as an aid to the unwary please consider the following profile on Craigslist and we will see how many things we can spot:

http://frankfurt.en.craigslist.de/w4m/5070819413.html

1) She's slim and pretty, women like this do not need to post on dating sites

2) "sweet, loving, down to earth" How many women do you know who describe themselves like this?

3) "God fearing" At least they spell God with a capital 'G' but this phrase is always a big red flag, especially if they mention it twice.

4) "i am originally from Trinidad but moved to New York with my dad after the death of my mom back home", "i am" rather than I am, from Trinidad which will explain the dark skin (if you ever meet) and the usual story about a death in the family.

5) "i like to go to the park with my man holding hands and smiling at each other" Apart from the second use of a lower case 'i' this just does not sound right.

6) "i am 5'6 tall and 157lbs weight" Well, 157 pounds is 71 Kg and the woman in the picture does NOT weigh 71 Kg.

After a few the false profiles like this are easy to spot and just ignore. Report them to the site administrators if you wish but in my experience they do not care because most dating sites have 80% male membership and they need female members to make the site look good.

[GK]

Quick Glen, propose to her, so you can emigrate to the Philippines.......

I can get you some local women, attractive, single and available. They just want a plane ticket and the visa. Plus they can cook, clean and speak English. Some have even danced for the King.

they even have photo's online, just look on the chocklit factory for Reed Dance.

LOL, but no thanks, I'm not that keen on South African cuisine. There is currently a cute 33 y.o. from Shanghai checking me out.   

[SeanB]

What, you don't like maize meal, walk and talk ( chicken heads and feet), Skop ( sheeps head), pork butt or any of the other hundreds of local delicacies. Then you get to exotic things like mopani worms, pofadder and other tasty dishes.

[Deathwish]

  I just turned vegetarian

[GreyWoolfe]

OK, as an aid to the unwary please consider the following profile on Craigslist and we will see how many things we can spot:

http://frankfurt.en.craigslist.de/w4m/5070819413.html

1) She's slim and pretty, women like this do not need to post on dating sites

2) "sweet, loving, down to earth" How many women do you know who describe themselves like this?

3) "God fearing" At least they spell God with a capital 'G' but this phrase is always a big red flag, especially if they mention it twice.

4) "i am originally from Trinidad but moved to New York with my dad after the death of my mom back home", "i am" rather than I am, from Trinidad which will explain the dark skin (if you ever meet) and the usual story about a death in the family.

5) "i like to go to the park with my man holding hands and smiling at each other" Apart from the second use of a lower case 'i' this just does not sound right.

6) "i am 5'6 tall and 157lbs weight" Well, 157 pounds is 71 Kg and the woman in the picture does NOT weigh 71 Kg.

After a few the false profiles like this are easy to spot and just ignore. Report them to the site administrators if you wish but in my experience they do not care because most dating sites have 80% male membership and they need female members to make the site look good.

I wonder if the person who wrote this add is the same person that writes all the Nigerian lottery scam emails.   The grammar sure reads the same.

[Mechanical Menace]

3) "God fearing" At least they spell God with a capital 'G' but this phrase is always a big red flag, especially if they mention it twice.

God isn't a proper noun or title so shouldn't have been capitalised unless it started a sentence, like you don't capitalise the word human. With the big two monotheisms (and Judaism) I can understand why a lot of people do, but technically the people who don't are more correct.

I wonder if the person who wrote this add is the same person that writes all the Nigerian lottery scam emails.   The grammar sure reads the same.

They do that and the dubious spelling on purpose, even in otherwise convincing looking scams. If it doesn't put someone off they're much less likely to get cold feet.

[German_EE]

Strange, I was always taught to write the word 'God' with a capital letter, in English lessons and from my father who was a lay preacher although I don't view this issue as much of a problem as I'm not religious. The grammar used in the scam posts is certainly easy to spot though.

[zapta]

God isn't a proper noun or title so shouldn't have been capitalised unless it started a sentence, like you don't capitalise the word human....

"God is capitalized when it functions as a name. In this use, God is a proper noun like any other name and does not take a definite or indefinite article."

http://grammarist.com/style/god-capitalization/

[Richard Crowley]

We have been spotting scammers for so long by their poor language skills, we are really going to be in trouble when they start using "copy-writers" whose native language = the language of the victims.

[Mechanical Menace]

God isn't a proper noun or title so shouldn't have been capitalised unless it started a sentence, like you don't capitalise the word human....

"God is capitalized when it functions as a name. In this use, God is a proper noun like any other name and does not take a definite or indefinite article."

http://grammarist.com/style/god-capitalization/

Yeah, but a believer in that particular god shouldn't really be referring to it by any of it's many names, so when they do use "God" they are either breaking capitalisation rules or the rules of their faith

[SeanB]

I just turned vegetarian

This was part of the menu tonight........

Just some ribs, chops and Ostrich wors.

[lewis]

That looks lovely!

I had 'lamb sweetbreads' the other night, which is a lamb's Thyroid gland. Absolutely delicious!

What's Ostrich wors?

[nctnico]

What's Ostrich wors?

I think sausage made from Ostridge meat.

[GreyWoolfe]

I have wanted to try sweetbreads but haven't had the opportunity to do so.  I have no problem with offal with the exception of beef liver.  I have tried many different recipes from different people and haven't yet found one that is palatable.

[SeanB]

Liver is nice, I quite like it, particularly grilled or crumbed and deep fried.

Long ago in the military went to lunch, and the meat was crumbed liver steaks. 90% would not take them, so when I came to the server and asked ( he was the first in the line) he loaded up the pan with them, around a dozen. That was a good meal, sitting with the other half dozen who came from rural areas, where that was a delicacy. City people don't like it for some reason.

[GK]

That looks revolting. I'd rather just eat plain stale bread 


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The fraudsters at match.com after a ~7 day full-on assault have suddenly abandoned me en masse - not a single peep, email, wink or like today. I guess this should have been predictable. As an account holder you can't contact another until you've paid up. Makes no sense and you'll get no return on your investment by hanging around someone not biting or even worse, reporting you so that your dodgy account is suspended. Match.com suspended every active account that I reported for being obviously fraudulent, but that is no excuse for them for approving such accounts without any rudimentary inspection in the first place. It would be easiest of all for them to spot a typical fraudster just by tracking the I.P. address of each new user. A beautiful single female living in Queensland Australia (just for example) with a Nigerian I.P. address would clearly be suspect. But I guess that kind of diligence that would swat the majority of scammers dead would eat into Match.com's profits.
         

[SeanB]

Stale bread! At least just give that to the flying rats outside, and get something decent to eat.

Hints here......

https://www.youtube.com/user/MoshDubber/videos

[GreyWoolfe]

Liver is nice, I quite like it, particularly grilled or crumbed and deep fried.

Long ago in the military went to lunch, and the meat was crumbed liver steaks. 90% would not take them, so when I came to the server and asked ( he was the first in the line) he loaded up the pan with them, around a dozen. That was a good meal, sitting with the other half dozen who came from rural areas, where that was a delicacy. City people don't like it for some reason.

I enjoy deep fried chicken livers and gizzards with plenty of hot sauce.  Gizzards aren't chewy if prepared properly before deep frying.  The rest of the family looks at me funny when I do that.  Never tried the beef liver fried.  I might have to get some and see how it goes.

[Macbeth]

Ox Liver is pretty strong, reminds me of 1970's school dinners. I prefer lambs liver. Sometimes I really crave liver, bacon and onions, served with mash and gravy. Lots of pepper too. Yum.

[miguelvp]

Fresh liver with onions is amazing, too bad my wife hates it, it's a good source of iron for her but she detests it. Then again what she got wasn't as good as I had before, so the liver has to be really fresh before you cook it and it has to be cooked right, otherwise it's terrible and puts people off.

I have similar experiences with other foods, it's all about finding the good quality otherwise you'll just write it off for good.

I'm a cheapskate at electronics but on food I rather have quality over quantity.

[GK]

Yet another email proposal from China:

Asian nice girl seeking for love
I am a kind-hearted, sweet , honest, loyal , health Chinese girl, and wanna to meet my Mr.right here, and fall in love, and get marry, live togehter happily for the rest life. life is short, and I will cherish you and your families, and our family. Hope you are the same to me. Are you here? My love. I am here. I don't mind where we will live, if you could move to my country, that would be better. If you are not willing to come, and I will follow your choice. Only we are togetgher, that's the most important.

"My love"? She hasn't even told me her name yet!

[Deathwish]

"My love"? She hasn't even told me her name yet!

Careful or we will have to start calling you both Mr and Mrs twohunglow 

[KJDS]

Never ever be choosy, if they have

1 pulse
2 boobs
3 orifices

then they met my criteria to chat online with. If I enjoyed the chat then they'd be worth meeting.

I have all of those things 

You have three orifices?

[ivan747]

Never ever be choosy, if they have

1 pulse
2 boobs
3 orifices

then they met my criteria to chat online with. If I enjoyed the chat then they'd be worth meeting.

I have all of those things  [emoji14]opcorn:

You have three orifices?

Industrial accident -don't ask him

[TerraHertz]

Yet another email proposal from China:

Asian nice girl seeking for love
I am a kind-hearted, sweet , honest, loyal , health Chinese girl, and wanna to meet my Mr.right here, and fall in love, and get marry, live togehter happily for the rest life. life is short, and I will cherish you and your families, and our family. Hope you are the same to me. Are you here? My love. I am here. I don't mind where we will live, if you could move to my country, that would be better. If you are not willing to come, and I will follow your choice. Only we are togetgher, that's the most important.

"My love"? She hasn't even told me her name yet!

Having been to China and met a pen-pal lady I'd been emailing with for a while, after meeting through chnlove.com, I can tell you that will very likely have been written by a matchmaking agency's interpreters - and many aren't very proficient. Low pay.
Most of the women are genuinely looking for someone, but the agencies are a money-grasping cold business.
Generally, the situation is if you're a Chinese female and divorced, or not married by 20-something, you have virtually no hope of finding a husband in China. To say nothing of the shitty living conditions and poverty in some places.

Btw, the misspaced commas, stops, word gaps and capitalization are a near-universal signature of Chinese people learning to write English. I guess since written Chinese doesn't have much punctuation, and no capitals so the concept is unfamiliar to them.

[Halcyon]

Fresh liver with onions is amazing, too bad my wife hates it, it's a good source of iron for her but she detests it.

She might like to try Kangaroo meat. We're lucky enough to have it at our local supermarkets in Australia (it's as common as beef). Some people find the flavour a bit "gamey" but I don't think it's all that strong at all. If you buy steaks, please don't over-cook them! Medium at the absolute most or they'll be tough. You might also like to try Kangaroo mince in a Bolognese sauce with pasta to start off with.

Kangaroo is cheap (at least in Australia), very low in saturated fat (<2% total fat content), very high in protein and a good source of iron and other good stuff. Great in a marinade (I had a really nice Roo steak in a plum sauce, it was so tender and delicious). Of course no one food is a "super food" so everything in moderation (including a nice Aussie red wine... cheers!)