1761

Aww, she’s the Rosemary to your Fred West.

1762

I’m meeting a girl off OKCupid tonight! She’s ahhh, quite a bit younger than me. But we’ll see.

1763

Like 3 or 4 four years younger?

1764

She’s nine.

1765

The problem with those is the conversation. And the inexperience. Oh, and the insecurity.

1766

Either that or a 58 year old obese neckbearded man living in his grandmothers basement with one light bulb hanging from the ceiling and an old mattress encrusted with Cheetos dust and unmentionable bodily secretions.

1767

Okay, that laughing just got me in trouble with my coworkers. Way to go Talisker!

1768

Ok geez. She’s 24 and I’m 34. So 10 years. But, to be fair she seems very mature. Heck, if Salman Rushdie and Harrison Ford can do it, so can I!

1769

It’s ok man, I’m 37 and I dated a 24 year old, she was pretty cool, and we’re still friends, but things didn’t click so we kept it on a friend level.

1770

Yeah, 10 years difference and she’s under 25. I demand that you record the dinner conversation and post the MP3.

1771

I’m 41 and the ex-bf is 31. The only issues we ever ran into was that he wanted to get married and have children (well, for me to have them), but I wasn’t interested in the baby thing. He’s still my best friend and I talk to him every day and have dinner or drinks at least twice a week. I compare everyone I date to him. No one has measured up, but I hold out hope :)

1772

^ Aaaaaaaaaaahahaha

1773

I know, I giggled a little when I wrote it too.

1774

Heh.

1775

I think it’s less the age difference and more the fact she’s only one year older than the “bathroom mirror peptalk” girl from the Facebook thread.

1776

24 should be past the teenage girl issue stage, but it really depends on what she’s been doing with her life. It’s pretty easy for people to get stuck at a stage and not make much progress in maturing for awhile. I can see a 24 yr old grad. making 60+k, vs. a 24 yr. old still in grad school and not having experienced the real world, vs. a 24yr that never went to college, parties every weekend, and is absorbed in all the petty social drama of her circle.

1777

its okay. I’ll take care of Griddle, ifyouknowwhatimean.

1778

So, I put up a profile on a couple of dating sites to see whats out there. The only free site I found was OKCupid and that only has about 5 people in my city and not that many more in the closer surrounding areas, so not much luck there. Otherwise I’ve been pretty much ignoring a profile I’d set up on a pay-site, because without paying there’s not much to do except “window shop” and that gets boring after a while. Seeing as I didn’t actually want to spend money on a dating site, I was going to delete that profile…

As I’m about to kill the account, I notice that a girl has been rather determined to get in touch with me. Over the past month she’s sent me 5 “winks” and 2 emails. Her profile sounds interesting and possibly “compatible”, but there are no fotos… Way back when I was browsing the site, I remember seeing her profile and it had some pics. Not that looks are that important, I find it a bit odd that someone would take down all her pics after having them online. (Unfortunately I don’t actually remember what she looked like…)

Sorry if this makes me look superficial, but normally I’d ignore anyone without a pic. However her persistence has made me curious…

Its an odd question to ask the hivemind I guess, but does anyone reckon I should pay up and see where this leads? Or rather just ignore it as a spammy internet stalker type thing…?

1779

I had someone do that with me on a site that basically crippled the free profiles. I ended up not following it up because the site had otherwise been pretty useless to me. Maybe I passed up the perfect match or maybe it was a stalker. All I can say is I hadn’t thought of it at all until I read your post. Take that as you will. :)

1780

Could be a corporate shill account. Match is pretty notorious for having fake accounts that are basically there to try to entice people to sign up or get them to login again.