June 14, 2013
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Channel4′s Dates is currently on its 3rd episode, next one is Tuesday? As the site says, Modern Dating. It’s complicated… Yes it darn well is… And dates starts to do it justice. Spoilers below… you were warned! Episode 1: David … Continue reading
June 11, 2013
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I just saw SingleBlackMale.org is looking for new writers… We Need New Writers! Do You Want to Be One of Them? http://www.singleblackmale.org/2013/06/11/we-need-new-writers-do-you-want-to-be-one-of-them/ My instant thought is yes I would love to be one… SBM for me is sometimes a little … Continue reading
June 11, 2013
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Angie was the first person to tell me about Channel4′s Dates… From the creator of Skins, a witty, sexy and emotional drama series about the complicated and hilarious ways that strangers interact on dates in their quest to find love … Continue reading
June 10, 2013
by ianforrester
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So I have been meaning to blog about Northern Lass 32 for a while, since Josh or Tim pointed me at it… She’s started writing a series for the Guardian which has got me going a few times. Northern Lass, … Continue reading
June 5, 2013
by ianforrester
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I was reading this piece in the guardian written by Twist Phelan about the amount of dates she went on. I was a dating novice. I’d recently emerged from a 20-year marriage, and the last time I’d been single the … Continue reading
April 21, 2013
by ianforrester
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I saw this on single black male the other day, and honestly laughed to myself then tweeted it out, kind of knowing the outrage it might cause… Let’s crunch some numbers. According to the most recent Census data, the median paycheck … Continue reading
April 10, 2013
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Josh sent me a link to this survey of people in the UK and more interestingly the height factor. “Love the way you (don’t) lie: Manchester men among most honest online daters in UK, survey reveals” Dating site WhatsYourPrice.com, which … Continue reading
April 1, 2013
by ianforrester
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I said in the last post about how I spent some time looking at OKcupid with my mother on Easter Sunday. There were some interesting insights to be learned but also we came up with a list of things you … Continue reading
April 1, 2013
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Spent some lovely time with my parents and godchildren over the Easter holidays. On the Sunday night me and my mum was sitting down after our lovely cream tea for supper. I was showing mum some stuff and somehow got … Continue reading
March 28, 2013
by ianforrester
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During Future Everything I took part on Chattr. My instant thought was to share some gems I’d learned from dating. But after reading Trueview’s blog I started thinking heck I could easily share some pearls without upsetting anyone. Now I … Continue reading
February 23, 2013
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People who have been in a relationship of what ever kind for more that 5 years are lucky. Yes they are matched with someone significant but they don’t have to go through the fuss or even hell of announcing it … Continue reading
February 14, 2013
by ianforrester
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When Imran sent me this piece of dating data, I thought on first look… “here we go with the stereotypes…” and is sub 10,000 really enough for a decent amount of data about online dating? I guess theres so little … Continue reading
February 4, 2013
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If you don’t already know my own personal experience of BBC Three’s year of making love and the crazy things which have followed… However last night it was time for the whole thing to be played out on BBC Three. … Continue reading
January 30, 2013
by ianforrester
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Well here it is (sent via a email to me this morning)… The programme maybe they shouldn’t have made (imho). Monday 4th February 9pm on bbc three, hopefully I wont see myself in the crowd because there’s certainly no way … Continue reading
January 16, 2013
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Off the back of my blog post about online dating… Imran added a little more context by pointing at some more related stuff by Dan. There was quite a few things I wanted to talk about when reading “A Million … Continue reading