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	<title>Free Online Dating Sites Discussion</title>
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	<description>Finding free dates one site at a time.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Summer Time&#8217;s Comin&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just had a great weekend of slightly over 20 degree Celsius temperatures and that really got the people out in droves. The ladies were out in fine form and quick to dress down in their attempts to attract ogles from the guys and some women. I headed to the beach to relax and watch [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We just had a great weekend of slightly over 20 degree Celsius temperatures and that really got the people out in droves. The ladies were out in fine form and quick to dress down in their attempts to attract ogles from the guys and some women. I headed to the beach to relax and watch the mating games begin. I think I&#8217;m going to take a few weeks off from the free online dating sites and take in some real action around town through bars and grocery stores. I was never very good at the bar pick-up, but I think I&#8217;m going to work on that with some lines picked up off the net like &#8220;I was wondering if you have a moment to spare for me to hit on you?&#8221; which is one of AskMen.com&#8217;s biggest winners. Actually, I never really understood the whole pickup line thing. Why do you need some kind of line in order to initiate a conversation? Why not just approach the girl and say hello? These are the kinds of things that you get used to doing when using free dating sites because that&#8217;s usually what it&#8217;s all about - just saying hi. Conversations usually start off quite easily on <strong>free online dating sites</strong> probably because everyone&#8217;s there for the same reason and there is really no game playing, for the most part&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve encountered a few women who really just want to talk and saying hi gets their attention pretty quickly over using some creepy pickup line. Although I&#8217;m not really interested in just talking, for very long that is. Nothing wrong with getting to know someone and it&#8217;s the best way of knowing if there is any compatibility off the bat or if you&#8217;re both just wasting each other&#8217;s time. It&#8217;s also a great way of dealing with that first date because you already know a little bit about each other and conversations usually go in a more natural direction based on that knowledge. Free dating sites can be a lot of fun in that sense, although if you&#8217;re planning on starting conversations with more than one woman you&#8217;d better start taking notes because you&#8217;re bound to confuse one or two of them and get yourself into some hot water, as previous experiences have shown me! Now that I&#8217;m talking once again about <em>free online dating sites</em>, I think I&#8217;m going to get back into it rather than waste time watching other people getting to know each other. The free dating sites game is really a whole lot of fun and doesn&#8217;t cost a penny, so why not join a bunch and see where things go?</p>
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		<title>Is it all worth it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a girlfriend, having a relationship, getting married, having kids the end. I believe having kids usually marks the end of your life and the beginning of having to take care of someone else&#8217;s life, for your entire life, and then you die. Is it all worth it? The diapers, the crying, the tantrums, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finding a girlfriend, having a relationship, getting married, having kids the end. I believe having kids usually marks the end of your life and the beginning of having to take care of someone else&#8217;s life, for your entire life, and then you die. Is it all worth it? The diapers, the crying, the tantrums, the whining, the messy house, the added expenses, the lack of social life, the early mornings 365 days a week, the getting up in the middle of the night - every night for years, the constant fatigue, the loss of mental state, the broken toes on toys left out in the open, the stress it puts on your marriage - and if I had a few more seconds to think, I&#8217;m sure I could come up with 100 other reasons why it&#8217;s not worth it. </p>
<p>So why do so many masochistic people do this to themselves? Is it hard wired in their brains? Is it society? </p>
<p>Whether you want to torture yourself by meeting someone through <em>free dating sites</em> or at the grocery store, in the end you&#8217;re going to wind up in the same place - hell. Sorry but if your idea of heaven isn&#8217;t all of the above, then you&#8217;re screwed.</p>
<p><strong>Free online dating sites</strong> can help speed up the process of getting you to your eden though - so get started today and enjoy the rest of your life, which has just been shortened by 50 years.</p>
<h2><strong>Free Dating Sites</strong></h2>
<p> or pay dating sites will either kill you or make you stronger, so get in the game today and see where you stand and how long you can last! Good luck to ya!</p>
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		<title>Spring: The Fever is Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting to get some Spring Fever over here! I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s good or bad but it kind of takes control of you and leaves you only thinking about certain things that might not be appropriate for this blog as I&#8217;m sure it has become quite popular with the youngn&#8217;s. 
Ahh yes, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m starting to get some Spring Fever over here! I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s good or bad but it kind of takes control of you and leaves you only thinking about certain things that might not be appropriate for this blog as I&#8217;m sure it has become quite popular with the youngn&#8217;s. </p>
<p>Ahh yes, the warmer days, the budding trees and sounds of Loons migrating north once again. Is there no better time of year for a bachelor? I think not! The big question now is do I pull away from free online dating sites and hit the beach? Or stick with it and hope to find some other introverted, nerdy, computer chick that also chooses to stay indoors and enjoy the warmth of her monitor rather than sunlight?<br />
<img style='margin-right:10px;'  src='http://www.pinpointad.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/loon.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Free Online Dating Sites' align='left'> Speaking of places to go to meet men or women (aside from online dating sites of course) there have been several articles written on this, and one location always comes up within the top 3. Most people might think bars or other establishments where people are of the same mind-set, but no, it has always been and may always be&#8230;. the grocery store! I guess there&#8217;s just something about shopping for produce that gets the juices flowing. I&#8217;m sure we all have a mental image of similar produce, but that&#8217;s not what this is about. It&#8217;s the openness, the relaxed atmosphere and the fact that you&#8217;re not actually there to meet anyone that makes it more appropriate to approach that person you find appealing. Whether they&#8217;re groping melons for firmness or checking cucumbers for rot - they won&#8217;t be expecting you to sidle up behind them and say &#8220;Mine&#8217;s bigger than that.&#8221; The grocery store&#8230; who would have thought?</p>
<p>So free dating sites may have to wait until late for early Fall before I can get back into that game - but then again, it is cheap, friendly and from my experience, very safe. To the dismay of many avid readers of this blog, I have not yet once been asked for my credit card number or social insurance number. I have been asked for some naughty pictures which they may be able to sell for a handsome sum, but other than that it&#8217;s been a great experience. </p>
<p><strong>Free online dating sites</strong> are still a great way to go, plus I haven&#8217;t found a pickup line yet for the junk food aisle which is usually where I shop.</p>
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		<title>Online Speed Dating Sites?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking of trying one of these crazy speed dating things. If you&#8217;re not in the know about these, it&#8217;s where you sign up, usually pay a fee and you&#8217;re placed in a room that&#8217;s hopefully equally matched between men and women. I believe the women sit at separate tables and the guys move [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was thinking of trying one of these crazy speed dating things. If you&#8217;re not in the know about these, it&#8217;s where you sign up, usually pay a fee and you&#8217;re placed in a room that&#8217;s hopefully equally matched between men and women. I believe the women sit at separate tables and the guys move around the room talking to each woman in turn with only 5 minutes to make an impression. They do say that a woman will usually make up her mind in about 30 seconds as to whether or not you&#8217;re a good provider, lover and creative. Man, those chicks really are hard to please eh? I wonder if there is a way to do this through an online dating site? Could be a gold mine I tell you. <img style='margin-right:10px;'  src='http://www.pinpointad.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/speed-dating.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Free Dating Sites - Speed Dating.jpg' align='left'>See, the way it is now, I have to get all dapper, grab a cab downtown to some weird Italian restaurant and be prodded into a room of strange and no doubt carnivorous women. Where if I was to stay at home and casually date online, I could sit in my pajamas not having bathed in 2 weeks, drinking beer at 10 am and telling women on the other end that &#8220;I have to be at a board meeting in 20 minutes because I&#8217;m the chairman and my Ferrari has been acting up lately&#8230;&#8221; </p>
<p>Speaking of Ferrari&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t care what anyone says, women will flock to the guy with money whether he&#8217;s got personality or not and whether the car is rented or not. As an example seen personally, I usually drive a Toyota and going downtown I could wave to all the women I wanted, fat, flat or flirtatious and they would never wave back because I was the poor provider dude in the Toyota. When I drove a friend&#8217;s Ferrari downtown a few years back, every single chick I waved to, waved back with much conviction - one even let go of her boyfriend&#8217;s hand just so she could make sure I saw her! This to me is absolute PROOF and no naysayer can convince me otherwise because I was there, I looked the beast in the eye and I&#8217;m still here to talk about it.</p>
<p>Free dating sites are still a very safe bet and you don&#8217;t have to prove that you&#8217;re rich until it&#8217;s too late - for her! &#8220;That&#8217;s right baby, I cab it everywhere &#8217;cause it&#8217;s cool and I always go Dutch on dates too, so I know the ladies aren&#8217;t digging me for the dough.&#8221; That&#8217;s right ladies, look out &#8217;cause unlike all those other &#8220;rich&#8221; chumps you&#8217;ve been talking to online, this guy is scam your pants off! Or is that wrong?</p>
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		<title>Free Dating Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s time to try a paid online dating site or not, but I may be running through the free dating sites pretty quickly, drying up the trough a little too fast. It seems most of these women join all the free online dating sites and squat in wait for the perfect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s time to try a paid online dating site or not, but I may be running through the free dating sites pretty quickly, drying up the trough a little too fast. It seems most of these women join all the free online dating sites and squat in wait for the perfect man. If they didn&#8217;t think I was the perfect man, than that man isn&#8217;t coming! I feel a little bad for them, but they&#8217;ve really got to lower their expectations for some of these &#8216;other&#8217; saps, or at least take them up on one or two dates to see where things will lead. <strong>Free dating sites</strong> are still a pretty good resource for most people and I do find that there are still many women and I&#8217;m sure men, who take it seriously and really are looking for someone to connect with that they otherwise couldn&#8217;t find in person. So these dating sites do have merit and are worth joining especially for the lack of cost. </p>
<p>I get quite a few comments from folk who think that free dating sites are full of scammers and gold diggers waiting to take all your cash because for some reason you gave them access to your credit cards and made them memorize your SIN&#8230; Scamming can happen anywhere by anyone; it&#8217;s just a matter of taking some necessary precautions that you would apply in any situation anyway! Maybe the bigger scammers are sitting in the paid dating sites waiting for someone who&#8217;s a little more trusting because they paid to be there and think everyone else feels the same way. </p>
<p>Free online dating sites are the best way to find out if online dating is the best route for you and there are basically no drawbacks, you only lose a little time on a possibly bad date.</p>
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		<title>Dating Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s been a few weeks since I&#8217;ve last posted, but with good reason. The free dating scene has taken hold of me and I&#8217;ve been really busy going out pretty much every night, sometimes with the same girl, sometimes with a different girl. Pretty much everyone I&#8217;ve met thus far seem to have their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well it&#8217;s been a few weeks since I&#8217;ve last posted, but with good reason. The free dating scene has taken hold of me and I&#8217;ve been really busy going out pretty much every night, sometimes with the same girl, sometimes with a different girl. Pretty much everyone I&#8217;ve met thus far seem to have their heads screwed on properly and no one&#8217;s really carrying a great deal of baggage. But of course this is all based on just one or 2 dates with the ladies and usually I find it&#8217;s after dating for about a month or 2 that you really see the scary side of most people. So I must choose wisely! Is it wrong if I follow my 2 favorites around for a few weeks without them knowing it? I understand some may call this stalking, but I prefer to call it an investment investigation. Do a little recon work before I truly commit! Seems I&#8217;ve got some shopping to do now. Let&#8217;s see what I&#8217;ll need; some binoculars, night vision goggles, maybe some camouflage gear - I&#8217;ll leave out the duck tape, rope and shovel though. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s enough room on this already 10-foot long blog to describe all these dates, and there really isn&#8217;t all that much of interest to describe anyway. Most of these chicks have been pretty normal, dinner conversation was normal - there is always the good night kiss though! That&#8217;s something of interest. Usually I start thinking about the good night kiss about an hour or two before going in for the kill. I try to read these women by their gestures, facial contortions and if there&#8217;s any sexual innuendo thrown into our conversation. I still have some &#8216;gentleman&#8217; left in me, so I usually walk them to their door where we almost always have that uncomfortable pause just after saying good night. Sometimes we say good night 3 or 4 times just to try and determine what the other person is thinking. So you go in close and see if they pucker up, then back again if it doesn&#8217;t look good, then say good night, then back in until you either get slapped or she concedes. Usually it&#8217;s hit and miss with a 50% accuracy rate! So anything can happen and usually does. I was invited up by one nice lady and we had finished the evening off with some nice wine and conversation with no chance of regret. I think I&#8217;ll grab some wine and call her back for more.</p>
<p>I shall continue my escapades and hopefully find more time between my dating to follow-up on this blog as I&#8217;m sure most of my loyal readers are on the edge of their seats.</p>
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		<title>Did you get your New Years kiss?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you get a New Years kiss? I sure did, but because of my non-committed lifestyle I was able to get numerous New Years Eve kisses. How many people can claim the same? As a loner to the party I attended, I was able to move around the room swiftly between 12:00am and 12:05am in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you get a New Years kiss? I sure did, but because of my non-committed lifestyle I was able to get numerous New Years Eve kisses. How many people can claim the same? As a loner to the party I attended, I was able to move around the room swiftly between 12:00am and 12:05am in order to make the most of those precious minutes before 2008 is already old news and no one wants to make out anymore. I think I did a pretty fine job of it too as I was able to get in the face of quite the gaggle of girls. Although I did not take a single one home, I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll remember me and that kiss well into the next hour or so afterwards, and then I will become just another silhouette in their drunken memories. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not really big on resolutions as I don&#8217;t think my faults are that horrible that I should try to change anything drastically, nor do I really believe that the changing of a date should be the factor that gets people motivated to better themselves. I may just start joining more free online dating sites and seeing where that gets me - there are tons of seemingly lonely women out there just waiting for a guy like me to buy them dinner! And that&#8217;s just what I&#8217;m going to be doing over the next 12 months at least! I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to settle down with any one person until I&#8217;ve made my way through the brunt of them. I am a guy after all and that&#8217;s pretty much all we&#8217;re about - getting laid. So free dating sites here I come - batten down the hatches and hide the children &#8217;cause I&#8217;m going on a rampage! Safely of course&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Christmas Date&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s this time of year that makes you really feel the need to find someone to spend some quality, seasonal time with. I&#8217;ve spent many a Christmas by myself which has been fine in the past, but for some reason this year I&#8217;m yearning for a companion to enjoy dinners and walks and maybe even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s this time of year that makes you really feel the need to find someone to spend some quality, seasonal time with. I&#8217;ve spent many a Christmas by myself which has been fine in the past, but for some reason this year I&#8217;m yearning for a companion to enjoy dinners and walks and maybe even some gift shopping with. There&#8217;s something about getting cozy with someone - going out for a cocktail and enjoying some great conversation by the fireplace. Looks like I&#8217;m going to have to hit the free dating sites hard in the next few days to see what I can dig up. I&#8217;m sure this time of year really brings out even the most hardened anti-free dating site individuals - those rare few that are too hot to be using this type of site, the ones you question because they really look too good to be hunting online - kind of like me! ho ho ho.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not yet quite ready to pay for online dating, but if nothing works out before the New Year, then I may be persuaded to take that next step - but from what I&#8217;m seeing across the few free dating sites that I&#8217;ve joined, there&#8217;s no need for quite some time. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of profiles to go through.</p>
<p>I hope the few readers of this blog enjoy a great holiday season with a new or old companion and are able to keep each other warm through these cold winter nights. I will be out hopefully most nights getting to know some women a little better.</p>
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		<title>Back into the Online Dating Game!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m going to get right back on the horse and jump into another free dating site! I think it&#8217;s been long enough since my last date and am looking forward to expanding to other free dating sites and browsing even more profiles - hopefully I can found enough hours in the day to go [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I&#8217;m going to get right back on the horse and jump into another free dating site! I think it&#8217;s been long enough since my last date and am looking forward to expanding to other free dating sites and browsing even more profiles - hopefully I can found enough hours in the day to go through the tons of profiles available. </p>
<p>Before I continue I have to address a couple of comments that I&#8217;ve received in regards to my previous posts. It seems I&#8217;ve ruffled a few feathers in talking about safety and costs when it comes to free dating sites. </p>
<p>There&#8217;s &#8220;Jack&#8221; who thinks that I&#8217;m promoting the worst kind of evil there is by telling my site visitors about the virtues of free dating sites. Jack has had some bad luck with his free dating site experience where he was blackmailed for whatever reason and may have lost some money to an unscrupulous woman. To you Jack I say that this can happen through any site, paid or not. If you don&#8217;t take the proper precautions beforehand you&#8217;re opening yourself up to potential problems. If a woman whom I just met over the internet asks me for my credit card number, it&#8217;s going to raise some immediate suspicion&#8230; Scammers would do better to prey on people in pay dating sites as they will be taken more seriously and would most likely get farther and more money then they would preying on someone on a free dating site. So safety issues are really not more prevalent on free online dating sites over paid dating sites - especially if your guard is up, as it should always be when dealing with anyone off the web.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s &#8220;Lola&#8221; who sees that my promotion of free dating sites may possibly lead people to their absolute doom, I can only reiterate that one should always err on the side of safety when meeting anyone through online means. Have your guard up, don&#8217;t give away your credit card number to strangers and make sure you meet in a public place until you are completely satisfied that this person is truly sane and on the up and up. There are hundreds of stories from people who have met great men and women through free online dating sites and yes there are an equal amount of great stories from people who have met through paid dating sites. The girl that I first met was almost a great catch if she wasn&#8217;t so hung up on her ex, and Lola, you can&#8217;t tell me that people who pay to join a dating site have any less baggage than people on free dating sites! They&#8217;re people from all walks of life, some choose to pay and some don&#8217;t - you just have to have some intuition to ensure you get the most out of it.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting down with her at a quiet table in the corner, I was impressed with her charm and looks. Great hair, great smile and well dressed for the occasion. We both played the &#8220;I don&#8217;t really do the online dating sites thing&#8221; card, just to get it out of the way. The conversation started out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sitting down with her at a quiet table in the corner, I was impressed with her charm and looks. Great hair, great smile and well dressed for the occasion. We both played the &#8220;I don&#8217;t really do the online dating sites thing&#8221; card, just to get it out of the way. The conversation started out well, but soon it became clear that &#8220;Sue&#8221; was not quite over her ex-boyfriend yet as she made it abundantly clear by bringing his name into pretty much all portions of the conversation. </p>
<p>I did my best to make things go smoothly, trying to talk about things that couldn&#8217;t possibly include an ex-boyfriend, but to no avail. She was a nice gal, but she definitely has some baggage that she&#8217;s going to have to work on before getting back into the online dating market or any other dating market for that matter. I can say that it is good thing she didn&#8217;t spend money on a pay dating site, because that money would have been wasted. </p>
<p>As for myself, using a free dating site really paid off! I&#8217;m glad that I met this woman, I&#8217;m glad that I was able to get back into the dating game again for only the cost of a dinner and not having any monthly fees. If I was paying a monthly fee, I would feel obligated to get right back into it, where as now I can take a couple of weeks off and spend some quality time shopping through the profiles again. No fees = no obligation! </p>
<p>I know many of you may talk about the quality of the person you&#8217;re meeting based on them paying to be involved in the dating world, but I doubt there are fewer people with baggage on pay dating sites than there are on free dating sites. Crazy or hung-up people lurk everywhere, it&#8217;s up to the individual person to weed them out before making any commitments like dinner with bad conversation. Still, this was an excellent lesson and it was fun overall, but not something that can be pursued unless my name was &#8220;Steve&#8221;.</p>
<p>So Sue and I will not be going out for dinner or anything else, but the experience was great and it was a good excuse to get dressed up and head out for a nice dinner - and meeting new people is a definite bonus, even if all they want to do is talk about Steve, who by the way, sounds like a really stand-up guy! Maybe he and I could be friends?</p>
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