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Go out to your bars etc, just avoid the young ones! To be fair, there are piles of bars in London that most Uni students can't afford to drink in - so I have to question your hangouts?! Are you specifically targeting student-rich places?!
I honestly can't believe you can't find hundreds of stunning women in their 20s in London. I see plenty every night on the tube on the way home (never mind when I go out!).
:yes: Again.
You have to give them a chance. You may have made you mind up that she's the girls of your dreams, but she probably hadn't.
How early do you tell them this?
Honestly, you have never heard of playing it cool, have you? Even if you're leaping like a spring lamb inside, you need to play it coooooool. Not cold, not arrogant, just cool.
Chill the fuck out, dude.
No, she wouldn't. Think of a DOG, to make it very easy. If there is a dog and you sprint towards him shouting "CUTY WOOTY DOGGY", he will be scared off before you can pet him, and he will be suspicious, even tho you just wanted to be nice.
Think of Obtrusiveness as a continuum, with being cool and laid back on the one side, the "girl of your dreams"-confession somewhere in the middle and offering her to come every sunday to hand wash her cashmere panties on the whole other end. Don't you get it? She wouldn't say "friends for now", because that would still keep your hopes up and after 2 days of no facebook message you would write "HOW ABOUT NOW!!!??!?"
I was just like you years ago, but I luckily had friends who understood those girl mechanics a bit better than I did.
The important thing is that not everyone actually needs to like you. There isn't some perfect formula that's going to make your personality somehow really attractive to everyone. You seem to be hanging out in the same places, trying to pull people of a certain type and wondering why it isn't working. Isn't mental illness defined as repeatedly doing the same thing expecting a different result?
But two main things - you live in London and you can't find a place outside of clubs full of single women? No offence mate mate, but if you're making up your situation then please just be honest. I really can't imagine any value in going through all the 1000's of different social settings you could find yourself in, outside of clubs, in London. Seriously, be honest - you're a uni-grad in London who earns 80k a year with over a 1000 female facebook friends and you can't find anywhere to go where there's single women?
If that really is true start a thread in going out and people can suggest places to meet people, because there ain't no shortage in London.
I mean, 80% male co-workers, you're a catholic bishop priest right? That's the only situation I can imagine that being true. I know you can't be working in the city because of your previous posts and even then none of that would be true.
On top of that, you haven't once mentioned a girl's name or really described what you liked about her. Every girl you mention just seems to be this generic person you're trying to pull. Maybe spend more time to figure out why a person in particular is attractive to you - because at the moment you seem to want a relationship not to be with a particular girl, and that's unfair on yourself and unfair on anyone you would be with.
It certainly doesn't make you sound like a guy who would be nice or friendly, and I'm curious - how many female friends, all the women who 'just want to be friends', do you go out with at night - you might find doing that lets you get to know some people.
Oh and maybe calm down the :banghead: symbol
:yes:
And as for people who say their interests include dancing, im sorry but do you mean that wiggle shaky shaky grind stuff people do in clubs.
Come back when you've all done exams in something along the lines of latin american dancing, or ballroom. Those of you who go even to salsa classes i commend you.
Yes i have just openly admitted i can 100% bonafidely dance!
*snort*
Seriously, even if I liked you I would run speeding in the other direction if I read that. I'm sorry but that's just pure creepy. What you should have said (which, incidentally, says pretty much exactly the same thing) was:
Hey, I had a really great time with you at the weekend, fancy meeting up for lunch/dinner sometime this week? Let me know and we can arrange a time.
Something like that. Don't ever go in headlong like that because it really does just reek of desperation. 7-8 hours isn't nearly long enough to know whether she's the girl of your dreams or not. Incidentally, there's nothing wrong with being friends first. I was really good friends with my fiance for about 8 months before we got together and we've been together now for over 2 years.
EDIT: And I'm currently in my second year of uni (am 20), and we got through a Newcastle-London LDR for my first year of uni.
Exactly what I was thinking Gareth! Seems though he's changed his tune a little though...
Dunc, I'm not going to waste my time saying things that have already been said.
There's a cracking place for meeting single women around your age. Do you know the Devonshire in Balham? Ideal place for meeting young (24-28) professional single women. For some reason, they all seem to flock there. Dress nice, get some mates and head down there on a Friday or Saturday night. There's a disparate amount of single women there and not your average club quarry.
Plus there's a lovely bar in Clapham South (have forgotten the name) which does wine-tasting-cum-speed-dating. There you should be able to meet an altogether different type of lady, plus they always have a surplus of guy tickets.
Failure lies not in falling down but in not picking oneself up again. Best of luck dude.
I soooooo misread that at first
And there was me thinking I'd be all fancy and show my education by throwing in a bit of Latin! Dirty boy Gareth!
..........................nothing has changed then.
Everywhere I go, a variety of places, is cock-heavy, ie 70% male, which makes it so hard to meet women. What chance do I have of getting with one of the very few single girls there when there's plenty more better-looking / taller etc alternatives? Tell me a venue which is female-majority and I'm there!
Stick with it.
Then you run the risk of being mistaken for being gay (not neccessarily a bad thing, a woman might see you as a challenge then -
The only clubs you get the 'no all male groups' shit are the crappy touristy clubs, or the cheesy clubs. Go to a 'proper' club like The End, and there is none of that bollocks.
London is NOT fucking 'cock heavy', FFS. You just *think* it is. Some bars/clubs, yes, but from my experience, not that many - unless you like your shitty RnB clubs. There are SO many women here it's unbelievable.
This is true. I work in a dev environment and there is not a single woman in the department. Not one. Then again, you don't dip your pen in the company ink.
OK that was an exaggeration but seriously, what they say about Nottingham certainly seems to be right, there were loads of single ladies (or at least, women on their own) in the place. Friendly city too - the bouncers would shake your hand before kicking the snot out of you.
Hmmm - I was there on a stag do... Yes, there were a lot of women, would I touch half of them with a barge-pole? Unlikely.
:yes: Agreed.