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'Never look bored... even if you are': Vintage dating guide
Daily Mail ^ | 5 December 2017 | Hana Carter

Posted on 12/05/2017 11:13:26 AM PST by mairdie

The illustrated guide, which was published by Click Parade magazine in the US in 1938 and recently resurfaced online, includes a string of warnings modern girls would baulk at; from minimising their alcohol intake to always looking interested - even if their date's chat is less than scintillating.

Ladies wishing to touch up their make-up were also warned never to do in front of a man - only in private - and urged not to make conversation on the dancefloor.

Read on for more 'tips' that will make you thankful you're on the dating scene in 2017.

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


TOPICS: Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: dating; etiquette; manners
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Always have 2 shots b4 a date.


21 posted on 12/05/2017 11:33:13 AM PST by Hammerhead
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To: mountn man

I know I don’t know much about your men without women group, but what do women do who hate the feminism scene too?


22 posted on 12/05/2017 11:34:45 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: mairdie

LOL, looks like she's holding a cellphone.

23 posted on 12/05/2017 11:36:02 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: MeganC
....and most women would be offended if they were treated like ladies.

As a 55 year old divorced, single male I can factually tell you that trying to date ANY woman and treat her like a lady is a complete and total exercise in futility.

There is no room for a traditional/conservative male such as myself in this country as far as 99.99999% of the women I've met are concerned.

24 posted on 12/05/2017 11:42:08 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: mairdie

In college, I dated one girl a couple of times. We went back to her place on the second date. She pulls out HER black book. Had phone numbers for 100’s of guys. I don’t know what her point was of showing it to me, but I took it as I wasn’t that special.

Needless to say, I didn’t call her back.


25 posted on 12/05/2017 11:42:33 AM PST by skinndogNN
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To: mountn man

I’ve watched some of the MGTOW stuff. Most of it comes across as Male Feminism or Menism. Meaning it makes broad, sometimes erroneous stereotypes about the opposite sex and that men should mostly just hose and dispose of women, not let them into your heart, wallet or life. That’s the sum total of it. Much better treatise is Dr. Robert Glover’s “No More Mr. Nice Guy”. How men can become more well rounded, self confident, and grounded and become a chick magnet if that is what you desire.

Most of the MGTOW guys on YouTube are mad because they are 46 and some 28 year old fish lipped, siliconed Russian Mail Order Bride HoBag dumped them after she got the engagement ring. Watch the videos, they can be quite funny, reeks of fake Alpha Make whining and penis envy. If you view yourself and act like candy coated crap, you will attract that..aka shallow physically attractive women who are emotional damaged. The sex will be fun but don’t say you have not been warned when she hypergamies your butt for her wealthy boss.


26 posted on 12/05/2017 11:44:29 AM PST by pburgh01 (Negan all the MSM)
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To: skinndogNN

I’m sure you did a million times better!


27 posted on 12/05/2017 11:45:51 AM PST by mairdie
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To: MeganC

Good point.

As that rare, exotic, and occasionally controversial creature, the lifelong straight bachelor, I am perpetually confused over how women insist they want a man who treats them right, then turn around and give themselves to brutes.

I suspect this might have something to do with their most basic urges confusing barbarism with masculinity.

At age 59, I’m content that I’ve put this all behind me. Dating was too often like a really bad job interview — with the main difference being that I had to pay for it.

I’ve always prided myself on being a gentleman of the old school — which, even back in the 1980s and 1990s, I have no doubt women found very boring indeed.

But there was no way I was going to fake a “cool” or “bad boy” persona just to get chicks. Just like I would never date a woman who dressed provocatively.

Of course the ultimate problem is that even the women who seem modest and intelligent, still want to date cads, brutes, and bad boys.

There is absolutely no way you can win with women today — and that goes back to my dating years in the 1980s, and 1990s. How can you win with narcissistic females who don’t know who they are, what they want, and who have been totally confused by a corrupt media?

There are worse things in life than being alone. Being manipulated and being taken advantage of are two of them.


28 posted on 12/05/2017 11:46:59 AM PST by Nothingburger
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To: dfwgator

Minor modification and the guide is good for today!


29 posted on 12/05/2017 11:48:31 AM PST by mairdie
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To: dfwgator

Which I did a double take on too!


30 posted on 12/05/2017 11:49:01 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

I’d say in that day men didn’t like their date to wear a bra.


31 posted on 12/05/2017 11:49:40 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: skinndogNN

Yeah.

I had the same thing happen to me.

Girl pulled out her little black book during the date.

So I pulled out my little black book.

“Rules Of High School Basketball”

She was popular, but I never got called for three seconds in the key.


32 posted on 12/05/2017 11:49:44 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: mairdie
Read on for more 'tips' that will make you thankful you're on the dating scene in 2017.

Um, no. My mother was in her 20s when this guide was published and she passed these tips along to us boys in the 1960s. Nothing wrong with them.

33 posted on 12/05/2017 11:50:31 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Nothingburger

Not true. My heart beat fast for Wally Cox. Nerds are cool!


34 posted on 12/05/2017 11:50:49 AM PST by mairdie
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To: MeganC

You have pretty well summed it up.


35 posted on 12/05/2017 11:51:41 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Nothingburger

Wow, thank you for such a thoughtful post!

- Megan


36 posted on 12/05/2017 11:54:41 AM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: Nothingburger

Generalizations are never correct. :-)

My advice, for what it is worth—live life a day at a time and be involved in activities you really enjoy.

Something good could still happen—without warning or any planning on your part.


37 posted on 12/05/2017 11:55:12 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Nothingburger

From the other side of the gender divide, I agree with you that it’s better to be alone than trapped in a bad relationship. I’d like a good relationship where you live apart and don’t have the right to control the other’s life. Something like when you were 17 and still lived at home, and you got together solely because you were having so much fun. Yeah, I know, wish me luck. I’m not giving up hope tho.


38 posted on 12/05/2017 11:55:17 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: mairdie

No doubt. When you are young, you barely know yourself, let alone what kind of person your mate should be.

My wife is introverted just enough for me.

Any woman who would ever “talk” to 100 different guys socially, let alone date them is not the right personality for me.


39 posted on 12/05/2017 11:55:52 AM PST by skinndogNN
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To: colorado tanker

Then she must have some weird tumors on each breast. Probably it was a cheap bra of some kind.


40 posted on 12/05/2017 11:56:35 AM PST by Yaelle
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