Thoughts and ideas of a dyslexic designer/developer
I have expressed my opionion on this for many years and it seems more and people are catching on. Maybe Ngunan will catch on too… till then, here’s some sensible rules for those who are a little more liberated. The thing you should always do on a first date if you want a successful love life Leave gender stereotypes…
Rob pointed me at a piece by David Mitchell in the Guardian about who pays on the first date. He called it my favorite subject, although to be clear its not, I just find it fascinating the social, society and gender pressures at force. I’m not the only one to notice this… Why do we…
After my blog when I mentioned the programme where the Japanese were not having babies. Pete Aka @binaryape wrote a tweet to me a while back related to who pays on the first date…. Which you can see is related to the Japanese crisis in the lack of babies. @cubicgarden You might be interested in…
So many people say, who cares who pays on the first date. Is it really a issue at all? Well I’d direct them to the story of IT worker – K****** N******. Found via Tim Dobson Mr N*******, from Leyton east London met Ms Sultana on dating website Zoosk. They arranged to meet-up for drinks…
What can I say…? Time flies… What was I worried about ? It was fun to be honest… Thanks to Ngunan Adamu, Northern Lass and the rest of the radio team. I forgot how much I love Radio. Its so simple and so flexible. Me and Northern Lass turned up about 30mins beforehand. Spoke the…
Who pays on the first date? from Ian Forrester Well its finally happening… This Sunday (18th August 2013) evening on BBC Merseyside Radio, myself, Northern Lass 32 and Ngunan Adamu will battle it out to understand who should actually pay on the first date. Of course I’ll be arguing that we should go dutch, while Ngunan…
So there’s something I’ve been keeping a little secret… I met Northern Lass 32 from the article which irked me a while ago. When she first contacted me, I was thinking this has got to be a wind up. But she convinced me she was actually real and it was actually her. So we agreed…
Ok you know I’ve covered this subject to death but found it interesting to hear the view from a bi-sexual woman on Channel4’s Bi-Curious show. The suggestion is that woman dating woman is so much easier because they just go dutch/split the bill… Don’t know if this is true overall but I can believe it…
Who Pays On The First Date (Ian Forrester) from LSx on Vimeo. Imran just uploaded the video from LSx’s ignite talks back in February. In my memory it felt like years when I accidentally removed the VGA connection while demonstrating the dodge, but in reality it wasn’t so bad on camera. But it certainly did…
Slideshare seems to like my presentations… My Ignite Leeds talk is featured on the home page of Slideshare as was my TedXManchester talk: the story of me, earlier in the month. I’m actually wondering what happened with the video which was shot for it…?
I very recently got this through my contact me form on my blog, This is Josh Neicho from Letters at the London Evening Standard, I hope all is well with you. I wanted to forward you our piece today in which two writers address the question of who should pay on a first date. Following…
Who pays on the first date? View more presentations from Ian Forrester In my first talk in 2012 and first of a few this month (#smc_mcr and #tedxmanchester to come). I spoke at the excellent igniteleeds. Unusually I didn’t talk about technology or social change, instead I did a 5min talk about who pays on…
What you can see is a slide from my presentation which is all about who pays on the first date. I’m going to give a balanced view on the topic at Ignite Leeds on Wednesday 18th Jan. Of course once I do the talk, I’ll post the who presentation on Slideshare along with all my…
For those who can’t read the poll, 100 people answered from around the world via Qriously the question of who should pay on the first date? Something I talked at length about before. 60% said the man should pay on the first date, 27% said the woman and only 13% said go dutch (thinking I should have…
So where did it all start? Well we needed a blogger app for staff and students to blog from anywhere in the college. And our college has the additional problems of using mac as well as pcs and laptops not only desktops. So how would we do this? Well I evaluated many blogger apps but…