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Gay dating app crashes as Olympic athletes arrive
The Sun ^ | July 22, 2012 | News

Posted on 07/28/2012 7:09:04 PM PDT by kevcol



AN ONLINE gay dating service CRASHED seconds after the first Olympic athletes touched down last week due to massive increase in demand.

The mobile phone app - Grindr - lets gay men zero in on potential partners nearby using GPRS in their phones.

Experts on the site believe the arrival of the Olympic teams on Monday sparked a flood of new customers - and crashed the service in East London.

One frustrated Londoner said: "It happened almost as soon as the teams got here.

Either loads of athletes were logging on to meet fellow Olympians or were looking to bag a local."The Grindr system obviously couldn't cope.

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2012olympics; biathlon; celebrateperversity; chickfila; gays; grindr; homosexualagenda; hookupculture; kenyanbornmuzzie; london; olympics; partisanmediashills; perverts; randomsex
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To: kevcol

Cruising? There’s an App for that.


21 posted on 07/28/2012 9:55:51 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: ilgipper

Reporters too...


22 posted on 07/29/2012 3:05:01 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Tzar

Promoting the gay lifestyle as worldwide and mainstream


23 posted on 07/29/2012 3:47:44 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: PGR88
Note: London is a city of 8,000,000 million.

Eight Trillion people live in London?

24 posted on 07/29/2012 5:32:43 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: kevcol

Full Olympian conformity. The first Olympic athletes were a bunch of filthy sodomites. All the Greeks were two-backed beasts.


25 posted on 07/29/2012 7:23:50 AM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Disambiguator

I’ve heard that England is very crowded!


26 posted on 07/29/2012 8:47:21 AM PDT by PGR88
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