#577

:blush::hugs:

#578

Dinner?

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#579

If someone can love and adore me despite all my many, so many, faults then it can happen for anyone.

Well, with a bit of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

For instance, the day that I met my current partner of getting on towards four years was a Friday. I was going home from work. I encountered a friend on the street who lived locally. He’d just moved there so he invited me in for an after work bottle of ale. (He’d stocked up at Clapton Craft, bottles and growlers.)

While we were at his house, still drinking and chatting, another friend phoned him to say that it was his girlfriend’s birthday and his flat was starting to fill up with women so did we want to come round and keep him company. Being a pub manager, he had a large collection of bottled beers. So of course we said yes.

By about 10.30 or so the girls decided to go to a local bar. Us three blokes went with them. Why not? And that’s where I met my now partner. On a night where I was going to go home and spend a Friday night alone but random circumstances led me to do something else instead.

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#580

Aw what a nice story :slight_smile:

#581

The point of the story, though, is to illustrate how a change in routine, a spontaneous decision, saying yes instead of no, and so on, can end up making a huge difference in your life. And how you never know - and I had at the time decided to never actively look for a new boyfriend after the last one fucked off - what is possibly right around the corner. What might happen tonight, tomorrow or next week.

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#582

Getting really quite lonely now but in no position to do anything about it.

#583

that’s probably true for people with jobs or a social life or in a city, I think my best bet is to continue working on coming to terms with and accepting my loneliness.

#584

My friend met her partner after we decided at midnight to phone a taxi and go to a club - complete spur of the moment decision. Anyway she met him in that club and they’ve been together for 12 years. Often wonder who she would’ve ended up with if not for that last minute decision.

#585

:musical_note: And when we woooooke up that morning we had nooooo way of knowing :musical_note:

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#586

Same. Wish I was a robot and I could turn my love protocol off. Would just prefer not to feel anything or be able to notice it around me.

#587

I reactivated my OKC profile at the weekend to see if there were any nice Dutch people who might want to meet me and marry me and teach me Dutch and give me a job and help me move there.

Then came home (without much luck) and saw a really nice person on there, but was in dire need of updating my awful (and outdated) profile so held off until the next day.

Then I went to message her and she’s gone :’’’’(

#588

Saw the strangest profile ever

‘on here to make asian friends i’m not racist just obsessed with the language’

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#589

Narrator: they were racist.

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#590

The Asian language?

It’s a good language, tbf.

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#592

Have you seen some of the Arrested Development clips that haven’t got Ron Howard’s voiceover on yet? It’s a completely different and far worse show.

#594

CWBAFT

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#595

Genuinely considered swiping right on the strength of this profile pic

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#596

If he’s the bird you’re into a winner. Not so much the beardy guy.

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#598

I sent a few messages out recently but no one seems to be interested. I may have to release trailers or an alternate reality game tie-in to my profile