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Millennials are killing the dinner date
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Posted on 12/29/2016 11:31:21 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“eating is too intimate.”
what a joke, they will hook up with strangers.
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posted on
12/29/2016 11:56:49 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Blue Jays
“Given the likelihood an individual online date will not lead to a long-term relationship, this does not seem surprising.”
In many cases this is true. However, my wife & I have been together for 20 years. We met in a IRC chatroom in the Windows 3.11 days. We married in 1997. We have a dear friend who met his wife online as well. Folks can & do meet their spouse online.
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posted on
12/29/2016 11:58:13 AM PST
by
TheStickman
(And their fear tastes like sunshine puked up by a unicorn.)
To: rarestia
not necessarily. many will not get married. less mismatched marriages will lead to less divorce.
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posted on
12/29/2016 11:59:01 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
This has nothing to do with boredom and everything to do with the massive cost of eating out.
If you go to a decent place, order for two, drinks, tips, taxes, you don’t leave without spending $75 to $125 dollars.
Try adding up the cost of dating someone these days. It’s downright prohibitive.
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posted on
12/29/2016 11:59:22 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night...)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I lose interest when someone suggests meeting for drinks only.
- Drinks are expensive, might as well have a meal. And I don't drink.
- It tells me they aren't interested enough to invest the 30 minutes to an hour to talk over a meal. Why would I waste the time and effort to go meet someone who is going to down $5 to $10 in drinks and not even talk to me very much.
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:01:20 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: faithhopecharity
My eldest nephew just turned 30. He’s had one short-term girlfriend in his life, and not because he’s homosexual or ugly. He’s got a good personality, but gives off a sort of “don’t expect anything of me, I’m not really mate material” vibe. Stunted somewhere in his teens, it seems. Pretty sad.
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:03:08 PM PST
by
jagusafr
To: discostu
No sense of adventure huh?
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:07:07 PM PST
by
Az Joe
(11-8-2016-----We're still here President Reagan!!)
To: jagusafr
Yes. It sounds quite sad. Apparently there’s a lot like him too
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:07:14 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Putting up this sign at the local Valero which always works for me:
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:07:45 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Coffee date is the best way to go. No more than a 45 minute commitment, cheap, and easy to depart. If you click, you can make plans from there. If you don’t click, you have a ‘prior commitment.’
To: DannyTN
These Millenials will never cut it in business.
I’ve lost track of how many dinners I’ve eaten with clients and potential customers whom I didn’t even like.
To: LydiaLong
Coffee date is the best way to go. No more than a 45 minute commitment, cheap, and easy to depart.
A guy I know who is dipping his toe back into the dating scene, six years after his divorce, is doing this. He makes sure to meet the women at a coffee shop far away from where he lives. He is fearful of any of them turning into stalker-crazies.
Also, don't meet them at Starbucks. They play lousy music, and crank it WAY too loud to have an actual conversation.
To: DoughtyOne
You are completely correct, DoughtyOne.
I have spoken with men and women friends and work colleagues with a $1000+ per month dating habit.
These are good, decent, and honorable people who go on many dates because they (paradoxically) do not wish to go on lots of dates.
I am glad to have a fantastic partner...contemporary dating would be brutal and expensive at this time!
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:12:32 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Blue Jays
According to princess riverdawg, the whole concept of a one-on-one dinner date is an anachronism. Dinners are now almost entirely group events comprised of approximately equal numbers of the opposite sex, with perhaps some (and maybe none) of the opposite-sex pairs attracted romantically. And Dutch treat is the rule. Times have certainly changed since my dating days.
To: Buckeye McFrog
Your friend is wise to arrange dates 5-10 miles from home.
That is just reasonable basic safety measure for both genders.
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:16:03 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: Az Joe
Plenty of sense of adventure. No desire to spend money to lie to somebody for 2 hours hoping for sex afterwards. Two people pretending to be somebody they’re not is simply no way to figure out if they’ll like each other.
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:16:31 PM PST
by
discostu
(Alright you primative screwheads, listen up!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Dating now means screwing. So dinner is optional.
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:18:44 PM PST
by
bigbob
(We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
To: rarestia
Disagree. It looks like this article only interviewed women in New York City. Add to that the fact that they are women using online dating sites and that means they are the most stuck-up, pickiest women in the world. As they say in the article, they don’t want to waste 5 minutes of their life with a guy who isn’t their perfect ideal mate. Most women on online dating sites think they’re God’s gift to men and are looking only for an ideal of perfection that does not exist and would not want to be with them if it did.
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:18:58 PM PST
by
JediJones
(We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
The online dating “hook up culture” doesn’t exist. Online dating is 99 men searching for the proverbial hook-up for every 1 woman who is searching for a billionaire who looks like Brad Pitt to cater to her every need.
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posted on
12/29/2016 12:21:31 PM PST
by
JediJones
(We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
To: DoughtyOne
This has nothing to do with boredom and everything to do with the massive cost of eating out. If you go to a decent place, order for two, drinks, tips, taxes, you dont leave without spending $75 to $125 dollars. Try adding up the cost of dating someone these days. Its downright prohibitive.
If they're not down for the BOGO coupon special at Bob's Big Boy, I'm probably not their guy anyhow.
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