July 2012
1 post
OK Cupid Shares the "Love"
Refinery29.com shares some similar beautiful moments. Like this gem:
“Hi dear..Checking through profiles for the right one for me, I came in contact with your profile and I must let you know that you have really got me on the neck with a hook. I will really love to get to know you better and take it more from there maybe a drink will be fine…Check through my profile and please tell...
September 2011
1 post
Been There, Done That
“Just received a suggestion that was not their fault, they couldn’t have known, but unpleasant regardless. Suggestion to a man I had already casually dated in the past. Too bad you cant “X” people on this thing. Would save a lot of time and energy on their part and emotions on mine. “
August 2010
3 posts
"Online Dating Is Nothing But Losers Like You" →
Rule: Don't Assume
The date started out good—he was cuter in person than in his pictures, we were laughing and talking about our interests, and then the conversation took a turn for the worst.
All of the sudden out of nowhere, he started asking me about my past relationships, and he mapped out, in detail, his past 3 relationships and why they didn’t work out. (Keep in mind he is a tad older and never failed to...
June 2010
2 posts
1 tag
The Catch
THIS WAS MY VERY FIRST EMAIL ON THE DAY I SIGNED UP. NOT EXACTLY ENCOURAGING.
RE: Hey I’m actually still not comfortable talking to my fellow human beings about ‘The Ice Cream Incident’. I mainly discuss my deepest secrets with small animals. Over the years I have developed a rapport with squirrels, possums, and pigeons. In many of their communities these gentle creatures...
Featured Couple
Congrats Carli!
April 2010
4 posts
To Whom It May Concern
A JDATE PROFILE: Misses, company GIN TONIC recruits: If you are between 20 and 35 years old, you have a pleasant physical appearance, a good sense of responsibilities, and you like to raise to the challenge, then this job is for you!!! Your role: charm the young man on the attached picture. Serious references required in the fields of seduction, feminism, the art of risk and subtlety. The job...
“ Eat out often, but the best steaks are served on the deck at my apt.”
Compares Himself To The Situation
About Me
Sometimes I wake up and have a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, sometimes I will go with some cereal, a banana, and a hard boiled egg. I have been to almost every New York Knicks home game this season that I can make it to. If I am in a good mood I can be extremely funny, Like funny to the point that you will ask me to become a professional comedian so that I can earn us both millions...
WatchVideo of a bad jdate explained.
Looking For Stories
Anyone have any good stories to share? I wanna bring this baby back!
March 2010
5 posts
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
Generic
Is there a template for people when you decide you dont want to date them anymore? These are two different emails from two different guys at two differen time, basically saying the same thing. Is there a feature on JDate I dont know about?
hey hope you had a good weekend. so wanted to be honest with you and sorry i am typing this and not telling you…but i am much better putting thoughts...
November 2009
2 posts
Looking for
FROM A MALES PROFILE: Misses, company GIN TONIC recruits: If you are between 20 and 35 years old, you have a pleasant physical appearance, a good sense of responsibilities, and you like to raise to the challenge, then this job is for you!!! Your role: charm the young man on the attached picture. Serious references required in the fields of seduction, feminism, the art of risk and subtlety. The...
September 2009
3 posts
What I Want To Write
Between 24-28 years old, between 5’5” and 6’4”, no living with parents, no living in a suburb, no owning anything im allergic to aka cats, must have a job, no smoking, no bragging about money, no ex drama, no guidos, no metrosexuals, no fantasty football obsesees, no douchebags, no Israelis, not super religious, no smartasses.
His First
This guy messaged me on jdate, eager to start a conversation. He worked in the city where I live, but lived a distance away.
For our date, he told me he would borrow his mom’s car to drive to the city and pay to park in garage, just for me! We had scheduled to meet around 7:15. I got a text message from him at 6:00, saying he was done with his workday, and I wanted to be meet earlier...
Generic Letter or Just A Weirdo?
You have much more than just a beautiful face. It’s the kind that makes someone want 2 trust…to try again to love. To believe that all men aint the same, sorry for getting off there, i didn’t mean 2 sound so intense, pls don’t get me wrong, i just want 4 now 2 be Ur friend for starters. getting to know u more will be a pretty good test of my instincts for searchin out what...
June 2009
10 posts
From A Profile
About Me:
Most girls think that I have a very nice body. I am the captain of a softball team in the Boston burbs. I also lead one of Bostons Biggest volunteer organizations with 18 assistants and 779 members. . I have a great job and work assiduously. I had a girlfriend very recently and she thought I had a great body (so did she). I like to cook (but am pretty bad at it), and love doing pretty...
This Isn't For Me
When he first suggested going to check out some furniture during the day on Saturday, because he just moved into his new studio, I thought that would be nice and different. But I was wrong.
NEVER consider doing this if the only thing you plan on talking about is money. Wheather its you showing off or being cheap, its a turn off either way. My case happened to be the latter. All he cared about...
SOS
This wasn’t actually my date but I was out with my husband and the tables in the restaurant were very close. If you wanted to spy, you could, so we did because there was a very uncomfortable situation going on next to us.
This couple was clearly on their first date and it was not going well. The girl looked so concerned and the guy was just out of it. He kept checking his phone, sniffing...
Not Just JDate
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/06/brooklyn_man_sues_matchcom_for.html
NYC Aint So Big
When I first moved to New York I thought I would give JDate a try. I didn’t really know what I was doing and I hadn’t quite learned how it worked yet. I went on a few dates pretty quickly. First one good went OK and we are still friends today. The second one was creepy, the third was OK and the fourth one will go down as the worst date in history.
So #4 asks me out right after work one...
Awkward Doesn't Describe
My friend told me this one.
A boy, who is a friend, who actually ended up coming out recently, was telling me about when he used to date girls from JDate. This was his favorite/least favorite story.
He picked a girl up, and they went on their date. Dinner was fine. She seemed normal. No spark but it wasn’t a bad date.
He drove her home and he thought the house seemed pretty nice for...
Brotherly Love
We dated for a few months and the feelings were very mutual, so I thought. However, he did a few things that were pretty shady. He never introduced me to people, after a few months we never went on dates. Our relationship basically existed within the 4 walls of our apartments.
The relationship didn’t work out. While I had very strong feelings for him, his feelings seemed to change. He still...
Straight From A Profile
About Me: “I don’t even know why I am on this thing. Everyone is always crazy.”
Mr. Perfect Not
I usually don’t have the instant “spark” with a guy from jdate. It’s hard to find your exact counterpart on a website. Especially when most of the guys are just looking for a fling. I considered myself lucky when I found this one.
Older (30 to be exact), also from a big ten school, smart, funny (just as sarcastic as I am and can dish it just as well as he can take it). We hadn’t even...
http://shankman.com/how-not-to-act-on-j-date/ →
May 2009
7 posts
Still Confused
I had been talking to this girl for a couple days and we finally decided to go out. She seemed a little crazy/hyper but I thought it would be really fun. She was way hotter then any other girl I had met on the site too.
We met at Dave and Busters for some good old fashioned fun. That wasnt crazy enough for her so after that, she still wanted to party and suggested we go to a strip club. I...
Clueless Lonerbater
First 5 minutes of a convo. JDaters are pretty horny but seriously, sometimes they can really cross the line. Why are some of these people so sick?! This is NOT KOSHER.
He Said: i disagree. i think it’s a great way to start off getting to know each other He Said: how often you do it He Said: when you do it He Said: etc She Said: ok well, im not looking for a manic masturbater, so good...
You look familiar...
I went on a date. Nothing bad, nothing good. We didn’t go out again.
I went on another date with someone else. Turned out to be date #1’s friend. It didn’t work out. But if it did, that would have been awkward!
Why?
What’s up with the people who make plans and constantly bail? It’s happened so many times! It is so rude.
Passed Out
Went to a party with a dude but I don’t drink. He assumed that meant I could drive him home and got piss drunk. Really angry about the situation but the bigger problem was that we were in his car. I decided I would just drive him and let him crash at my house. It took me 30 minutes to get him out of his car. I don’t know how I got him upstairs. He took a couple swings at me in...
No No No
Some people just don’t understand the concept of the other person saying no. I went on my first date with this boy and we decided we would go to the movies.
When I got there, he had already bought the tickets to the movies. Normally a cute gesture, except he never asked me my opinion which also wouldn’t bother me except he just went ahead and got the one scary movie that was playing...
Rationalizing The Past
“Somewhere right now a guy is on a JDate with Monica Lewinsky. Nobody’s perfect.” - Jack on 30 Rock
April 2009
7 posts
Quickie
My date never even began. We had met a year ago, no big deal, but then we stumbled upon each other on the site as well. He was also a friend of a friend so I knew it wasn’t going to be sketchy. Well, I was wrong.
On the night of our dinner date he calls to tell me he was on his way and wanted to check his directions. He even called to tell me he was halfway there. I was excited and...
Overstaying His Welcome
I had been talking to this guy for a couple of days. I was comfortable enough meeting him by a bar a couple of blocks from my house and we decided on the following Saturday night.
The day of the date, I wasn’t feeling too great but I was really anxious to meet the guy so I decided to go through with it. We met and things were not ok. He was way more obnoxious then I thought he would be. ...
MishMosh of Dates
Does a guy hitting his head against the wall anytime I said something funny count?
Or one that couldnt chew his steak and kept going to the bathroom to spit it out until I traded w my salmon?
Or the guy who cleaned up the table by flinging shrimp tails at me?
There was also a guy who remembered me from college but didnt tell me, and then wrote me 4 hate emails when I told him I couldnt see him...
No Manners, Shellfish or Chicken
My friend decided to take her chances with a guy she was talking to on JDate for a while. She didn’t want to go alone so she invited me and told the guy to bring a friend. I was kind of excited because I never did anything like this before.
When we got to the restaurant, the guy my friend was supposed to meet was probably 60 pounds more then his photos. “Fit” =...
Banned
I automatically get signed into it on my computer and when I went to check it the other day, I was signed off. Thinking something was a little strange but putting what I thought was my password only to find it did not work. Perhaps I put in the wrong password, as I generally have 2 go to passwords I use on everything. I tried and tried and finally it was reported to customer service, or whatever....
Not So Smooth Moves
After breaking up with my boyfriend of almost 2 years, I decided it was time for me to get out there and meet new men. Since i was living in a city where I knew very few people, I reluctantly turned to JDate. I started talking to this guy in law school about 3 hours away from me, but he was coming home for the summer and home was about 20 minutes from where I lived. We talked for a good 3 weeks...
The Dealio
Disclaimer: This is not affiliated with the dating website JDate.com and is in no way an anti JDate.com site. It’s simply bad dating stories. People have been on some ridiculously unsuccessful dates that deserve some postage. This is just a place for those stories to go and hopefully you can get a laugh out of it. This is purely comical, and in no way shape or form anti any person,...
