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The art of (internet) dating - year 2020
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VK3DRB:
Internet dating can be summed up... "You want fries with that?"
Cheap fast food, bad for your health.
Cheap fast relationships, bad for your wealth.
(Just kidding. I am sure there are some successful marriages spawned from state machines and 3.3V logic - I just have never heard of any.)

On the other hand, a lot of electronics engineers lack the social skills to meet a partner by traditional methods. Most I knew at uni were emotionally retarded compared to those who studied other disciplines, but that was a good thing because they could concentrate of semiconductor physics rather than reproductive physiques. They could spend their student allowance on 2N3055's, 555 timers and 7812's rather than throwing money away on flowers and chocolates. Many didn't find their first girlfriend until well in their thirties or even later.

One electronics engineer I know was 48 years old when he asked me, "How do you get a girlfriend?" I felt a little sorry for him, but his abrupt personality and extreme nerdism did not exactly allure himself to the opposite sex. One mechanical engineer I know was at a party and he met a really nice looking girl who seems quite interest in him as they were chatting. She asked him what he did for a living to which he replied he was a mechanical engineer. To his shock, she immediately turned around a walked away without uttering another word.

So maybe there is a place for Internet hookups, where you can apply a band pass filter to the market. It would be interesting to compare the divorce rate with those who met on some Internet site and married with those who met conventionally and married.

Mind you, one of the reasons I studied electronics engineering was I thought the chicks would easily fall for an electronics engineer. I was somewhat misguided, but admittedly I met my future wife in 2nd year. She even bought me a ETI-650 Stac Timer kit from the famous Ellistronics store for my 21st birthday, which I built and still have today. https://www.scribd.com/document/428529087/ETI-1978-11-November, page 52.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on January 30, 2020, 10:47:30 am ---[...] I thought the chicks would easily fall for an electronics engineer. [...]

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The kind you want, do!  :)
Ed.Kloonk:
 :-DD

Weird science.

If what you want doesn't exist...
james_s:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on January 30, 2020, 10:47:30 am ---Internet dating can be summed up... "You want fries with that?"
Cheap fast food, bad for your health.
Cheap fast relationships, bad for your wealth.
(Just kidding. I am sure there are some successful marriages spawned from state machines and 3.3V logic - I just have never heard of any.)

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Well, I mentioned already I met my partner of 10 years on an internet dating site, I have several friends who met their wife/husband/long term partner the same way, so now you've heard of some. Internet dating has been mainstream for a decade or more, there is an entire generation of adults now who have never lived in a world without the internet. It's not 2001 anymore, everybody uses the internet now, not just socially awkward dweebs.
james_s:

--- Quote from: eti on January 30, 2020, 01:43:37 am ---You need to be able to tolerate someone in your presence, 24 hours a day for the rest of your life; you get married because you have space in your life FOR A WIFE, not because you're obsessed with the romantic fantasy world of permanently being in love. If you don't have room in your mind for an "other" to fit in and share life with you, then what are you thinking?

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She and I would both lose our minds if we had to be in each others presence 24 hours a day. I enjoy time spent with my partner but I also cherish time spent alone and the occasional evening hanging out with the guys doing guy stuff like drinking a few beers and wrenching on old cars. I think it's important in any relationship to maintain some personal space and some of one's own identity, separate interests and hobbies are a good thing. Quite a few evenings I'm doing my EE hobby while she's working on her latest quilt. Other nights we'll do something we're both interested in together.
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