Main benefits imo are being able to change location in advance of a trip and having unlimited likes. Thinking about buying it before I travel to Poland for a week and swiping a couple days in advance.

Anyone noticed a trend of girls sat on the edge of/close to gigantic precipices in their pics?

Yeah, they're so edgy and original.

Can't get a match for love nor money on tinder right now. Swiping fatties too, nothing. How the fk is anyone supposed to understand this algorithm.

I cracked it:

Thanks bro. My comment was clearly not at all relational to how I was doing before.

Just a joke, best of luck

I can't even be bothered to spend the 90 seconds daily to use up my swipes on Tinder. It's crazy how season-dependent it is. I'll be back when the cold weather returns! The sites have been way better for me than apps since March anyway.

First date tonight. One of those ones where everything goes well, but the girl is packing 15-20 lbs. more than I'd like and I don't think it's something I can overlook. Otherwise, conversation flowed, and she's cute facially, has adorable micro-expressions, and I think she's really into me. I don't know, probably I am way too shallow, but I don't mind waiting a while for a girl who checks all the boxes.

I got accepted into a university program here in Lyon where I'd have 1 year to go for a bachelor's. I studied for 2 years way back in 2004 and then quit to play poker, which I've been doing since. Now I'm using studying as a way to stick around in France, but also think it will be an interesting challenge. I'm 33 now and I think everyone else in the class will be in the 20-21 range. Probably should have thought of this plan 5 years ago to have better chances with some of the older girls in the class.

WTF is a micro expression?

Facial tics, fluttering eyes, the way her dimples become more pronounced while giving you a beej, etc

I was just swiping on bumble and a girl came up who I'd matched with before and had moved to chatting on WhatsApp.

So I looked at the conversion we had on the app and her profile had since been deleted...

So unless she deleted it and signed up again, bumble could be keeping 'deleted' profiles on the app right?

It's a cry to be pushed

While you wait for the cold weather, buy a scale and offer to bone her once for every pound (or kilo) she loses. See if you can incentivize her.

Seriously though I read this whole thread this past week so I have seen all your posts and yours are pretty interesting. Waiting for someone to check ALL the boxes before pursuing a LTR seems like self-sabotage. It's not like it's settling and every one of your checkboxes can not be created equally. People will change and grow and you have to give them room for that. If a person literally checks all your boxes to start they have no where to go but down.

Yes, I deleted mine a while ago and heard it was still up. I think you have to do some sort of special uninstall.

Pretty ambitious on your part! Yah, it was an eventful first year for me here in France. Great year for my sex life, but not so much for finding a LTR. I feel like I had a shot with a couple really great girls, but probably self-sabotaged a bit through overthinking, impatience, and showing my cards too soon by expressing feelings when it's usually better to maintain an air of mystery.

My comment about checking all the boxes was perhaps a bit strong. I meant more that I'm in no huge rush to find a LTR so I have the luxury of at least waiting for a girl who I find attractive, smart, and interesting. I think my prospects will only get better as my French improves and I can display a bit more of my personality, so I don't mind holding out a bit longer and seeing what develops in my 2nd year here.

Your date reports and experiences in France were some of the best part of the thread. The short reign of the date rapist was pretty interesting as well.

I would say those who regularly have shared their experiences made for some interesting reading.

Thanks, I'll be sure to keep the thread abreast of my continuing dating adventures in France. Probably gonna take most of the Summer to travel a bit though. Couple weeks back home in the USA, and I'd like to visit Strasbourg, Germany, Prague, and Krakow.

When people travel, by themselves, for example as you are doing to the places above. Is it mainly to look at things and eat, things you might have some idea of what might be there? I'm probably a boring mofo but I can't imagine what I would possibly do in [insert foreign city] and why I'd be excited to do them, and it makes me wonder a little about what I'm missing out from.

This is so interesting to me because it's the exact opposite of how I think and feel. I would go and meet people, see how they live life. Do the things they do, see the things they see. I would be so beyond excited to live a life I've never thought about...

4 year update.

So I've been on-and-off banging a woman I met on OKC back in November. She occasionally gets emo because she wants a relationship but I've repeatedly and clearly explained to her that it is not what I'm interested and if that is what she wants she ought to move on because she's going to get / continue to get hurt. She came over Saturday night and we ****ed all night and into Sunday morning.

I've also been off-and-on banging a woman I met on Bumble back in February. She also occasionally gets emo for the same reasons and I've been transparent about my expectations with her as well. She came over Sunday night and we banged all night and again this morning.

I am a slut but it's just too easy. Apparently so many guys lack the emotional depth women crave and the combination of tilting more emotional than the average male but also being emotionally unavailable on an exclusivity-basis is a sweet spot if you're looking to hang and bang nice looking, good-to-high quality females.

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I read this post and felt a bit weird because back in the day when we were posting at the same time I remember scoffing at everything you wrote and thinking you were a douche. I was pretty sure a LTR was for me. Now , not so sure and can identify with the above. Being emotional unavailable often works like a charm because women are just too curious and insecure not to wonder if it was something they did, or if you're just that in demand etc.

Hopefully you don't get rapey again though.

Like Malucci, I'm fascinated by seeing how different cultures live their lives, walking around a city and soaking in the architecture and the history, eating the food, perhaps meeting some locals. For me, there's not much more to it than that. There's nothing wrong with you if it doesn't appeal to you, some people have the travel bug, others don't.

This just makes me sad and infuriates me at the same time.

I just hope his 10s are my 5s...

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For the first time I met someone from Tinder who I had already met in person briefly. Both of us didn't realize it until we started talking about playing pickup volleyball in the park nearby.

I also recognized someone I didn't date irl from their OK Cupid profile a few weeks back. I didn't message her because I was iffy on the pics but because of her profile I liked her to see if she would make a move. When I showed my pretty (but toxic) ex the profile and pointed out the girl she noticed and said "How could you like that?" in her accent.

Now that I've had her and the other attractive one this year I'm getting more superficial. I keep hearing that "How could you like that?" play in my head when on dates with (significantly) less beautiful women.

Had a date Saturday that I was kinda excited about, but eventually her mouth tasted bad and she kept trying to force the hookup into a fetish she has that I'm not all that into (nothing abnormal, just a breasts vs. butt thing), and I got completely over it after some time. Whole thing was enough to make me disinterested in dating probably until I go to Vegas in a few weeks.