What do you think about a Singles group/forum on DU?

Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 11:31 AM
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What do you think about a Singles group/forum on DU?

This has probably been suggested before, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

I'm married, but I've noticed more than a few lonely, broken-hearted posters since coming to DU. I thought maybe some of them could hook up...

Sorry, that "Match-Maker" thing comes out in us married women from time to time...

:)

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 11:38 AM
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1. Looky here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=120&topic_id=26336

The entire sex thread scandal last month pretty much shot this one down.

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Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 11:50 AM
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5. Thanks, Longrain; I don't know how I missed it before!

Your suggestions were great! I'm still thinking that there could be a singles group WITHOUT discussion of sexual topics, though...I mean, obviously, it's a very relevant topic for singles, but there's a whole lot more to discuss than sex. Wouldn't it be possible to have a singles group that coexists WITH a ban on sex threads? I mean, if posters want to "go there" they can always take it somewhere else...

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 11:58 AM
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7. Well my ATA thread hasn't been archived yet. Perhaps I'll kick it up

and mention this thread...

In the meantime, I don't know if you've seen this web-site yet...

http://www.democraticsingles.net/home.php

I finally got the nerve to put up a profile there. (Which reminds me I should probably go check it out.):hi:

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Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:07 PM
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9. Well, that's pretty cool...

From now on, whenever I see one of those sad, lonely posters, I'll suggest that site to them!

:hi:

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:11 PM
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12. Thanks it kind of a small site right now

but another DUer suggested it to me, saying she met someone through that site. I haven't had as much luck thus far since most of the matches on the site seem to be more than 20 miles away from me, but you never know...

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Misunderestimator

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:18 PM
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20. More than 20 miles is a problem? Glad I didn't think about that...

when I met mine... about 3,000 miles away. You might want to expand your radius a few more miles ;)

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:23 PM
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21. It's not a problem at all.

I have a car. I'd just prefer someone a bit more local. The last girl I was seriously involved with lived two towns away from me, so it didn't really help us that we were separated by such distance.

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plcdude

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:10 PM
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11. I would say

that a swingers group is going to be out of the question unless you want to PM people.

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brainshrub

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Tue Feb-08-05 11:38 AM
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2. Bad idea.

I have a hard enough time keeping the DU women off me: The constant PMs, the scented love-letters, the tantalizing emails.

Oh, wait... this isn't Dreaming Underground is it?

*sigh*

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Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 11:45 AM
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3. lol!

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 11:45 AM
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4. Unfortunately for me it's true

as soon as I announce that I'm a single guy, all the ladies come out to flirt with me.

Unfortunately they're usually either married women or girls under the age of 21...:-( .

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progmom

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:06 PM
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8. Sorry Longgrain!

Should I stop? :hi:

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:08 PM
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10. Not at all!

Not at all! ;)

(Besides, what make you think I'm talking about you :P )

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progmom

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:28 PM
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15. well, i flirt with you

...and i am married.

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 07:12 PM
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26. I knew that...

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hippiechick

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:08 PM
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19. Beg your pardon ?

I'm neither. 'Course I'm not an over flirt, either ;)

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Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 11:55 AM
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6. Ok, how about a group for delusional males with

Adonis complexes?

j/k ;)

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livinginphotographs

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:15 PM
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13. Take out the delusional part...

And I could join that one. That is, since I'm most definitely an Adonis. Yeah...

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Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:23 PM
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14. Yeah, I guess "delusional" would have to be part of the secret

name for outsiders, because certainly, no one with an Adonis complex is going to consider himself to be delusional...

Oh, hell; now I'm confused!

:bounce:

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 12:38 PM
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16. I often use the term narcissistic for myself

though I'm usually just joking.

Since your newer around here, you probably missed my explosion of Lonely Single Guy vanity posts.

Here's the latest example...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=280x1086#1108

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Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:06 PM
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17. You're braver than I am!

Of course, I'm married, though. If I were single, I might be a bit more bold!

I've always been very self-conscious, and pretty shy. I appear in very few of our photographs because in earlier years, I was the one taking them all, and in later years I've been avoiding the camera since putting on some extra pounds!

I got a digital camera for Christmas, though, so one of these days when I'm thinking about it AND I have makeup on, I'll have to do a self-portrait.

Hey, good luck with your singles post on Democratic Singles Network!

:)

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hippiechick

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:07 PM
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18. That's sorta what the Lounge is, any way ...

or hadn't you noticed ? :freak:

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jswordy

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:26 PM
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22. Equal rights for "sad, lonely" married people, too! Where's THAT forum?

:7 :7 :7 :7 :7 :7 :7 :7

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Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:28 PM
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23. You're absolutely right!

There should be one of those, too!

lol
:)

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Longgrain

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:30 PM
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24. Here you two go

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=105

:P

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Frogtutor

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Tue Feb-08-05 01:33 PM
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25. Whew! I was afraid

you were going to point us to a swingers' forum, like someone mentioned earlier...

:scared:

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