| Life
isn't always as you expect it when you meet people through the internet:-
Date the UK conducts regular
surveys of what people expected from internet dating sites. The results
are quite suprising.
VALENTINE SURVEY QUESTIONS & RESULTS SUMMARY
1. What are your tried and tested pulling techniques?
Making eye contact 8%
Deliberately bumping into someone 15%
Buying them a drink 25%
Cheeky chat up lines 52% - Some examples
• I am doing a survey on men’s underwear
• Buy me a pint or give me a kiss
• Can you cook? Good you can make breakfast in the morning.
• God had a field day when he made you
• How much?
• I am going to kill you
• I can read your mind, but don’t worry I have got protection
• I’m not Wilma Flintstone but I’ll surely make your
bed rock
• You have something stuck on your lip, shall I suck it off?
• Hey I’m a film maker – do you fancy being in a film?
2. What’s the best or most unusual gift you’ve
received from a partner/admirer?
Flowers 11%
Sexy underwear/toys 15%
Jewellery 12%
Romantic break 18%
Something she/he knew I really wanted to do 44%
3. What do you initially look for in a perfect
partner?
Great personality 50%
Good looks 20%
Size of wallet 1%
Chest size 1%
Sense of humour 23%
Good lover 5%
4. Reason behind joining Date the UK and what you
are looking for from the site
Friendship 19%
Relationship 76%
Pen pal 1%
Sex 4%
Some other reasons:
• Wanting to meet men/women without going to pubs/bars
• To find someone special
• Too busy to go out and meet people
• Recently widowed/divorced/separated
• Shyness
• Loneliness
5. What’s the most depressing time of year
to be single?
Christmas 42%
Valentine’s Day 30%
Summer holiday 9%
Your birthday 8%
Other 11%
6. What’s the worst way you have been dumped
or dumped someone?
Text message 15%
Phone 12%
Through a friend 4%
Caught them cheating 32%
Email 10%
Other 27%
7. Who would be your ideal celebrity mate?
Brad Pitt 10%
Jordan 3%
Kylie 23%
George Clooney 18%
Kim Catterall 4%
Robbie Williams 12%
Other (please name) 30%
8. Where would be your perfect romantic date?
Quiet evening in the local pub 7%
Candle lit dinner at home made by your date 26%
Meal in a top restaurant 15%
A walk on the beach 39%
Other 13%
9. What is your ideal place to make love?
In bed at home 11%
In front of a roaring log fire 37%
In a grand hotel in a four poster bed 27%
In a field 3%
On the beach 9%
The back seat of a car 1%
Other 12%
10. What’s the best thing about internet
dating:
• Meet a lot of interesting people
• Being able to chat until the early hours of the morning knowing
you are safe
• New people join every day
• You can switch off when you’ve had enough!
• Being able to learn a lot about each other before deciding to
meet up
• Anonymity
• You can view and chat to as many people as you want
• Mystery and excitement
11. What’s the worst date you have had from
the Internet?
• To find out he was married after being
together 8 months
• I met someone online, chatted every day for 6 weeks, met up, only
to find out that he was married with a child. I wished I could tell his
wife (cheating scum bag)
• Met her in a pub, got on really well, invited me back for coffee!!
Went to her house, kiss and fondle in the car and the porch went into
the house, ready for anything and............obese husband was sitting
there, in his boxers, stroking himself and wanting both of us!
• Made someone a meal, and while preparing dinner, he disappeared
• When the first girl I ever kissed whilst on Holiday age 16 tracked
me down 10 years later and turned out to be a bit of a psycho
• When the guy asks if you’re horney or something stupid like
that!
• Met a transsexual but only found out after we had met...
• A girl who I had a brief lunch with and then wouldn’t stop
calling me for three months with "why do you hate me" etc etc'
• A guy came down to London from Norwich, dullest guy I have ever
met after two hours he said he wanted to marry me |
