Blind Date in the Guardian

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Anyone follow the Guardians Blind dates?
Ive just read this weekends and I think if I had been Eleanor I would have walked out. What a thoughtless selfish bastard he was.

Blind date: ‘Most awkward moment? Me eating alone as he wasn’t hungry’

Jayson, 26, a cybersecurity engineer, meets Eleanor, 26, a fundraising and events manager

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Good table manners?
He didn’t eat much or drink anything, so I’m unsure about his table manners.

So no, fucking terrible table manners.

 

[kebabking]

Anyone follow the Guardians Blind dates?
Ive just read this weekends and I think if I had been Eleanor I would have walked out. What a thoughtless selfish bastard he was.

Blind date: ‘Most awkward moment? Me eating alone as he wasn’t hungry’

Jayson, 26, a cybersecurity engineer, meets Eleanor, 26, a fundraising and events manager

www.theguardian.com

I think you're taking 'person didn't eat anything because they weren't hungry' a bit far.

Sure, break bread, maybe grab a starter for the vibe, but thoughtless, selfish bastard, particularly given the woman's view that he was perfectly nice bloke, despite the date being a bit awkward, is silly stuff.

 

[paulhackett]

Having a massive breakfast at 3pm before going for dinner in the evening where you don't eat marks you down as a something..

Not as good as the greatest date, which was this one? Blind date: ‘I left my knickers at a house party we crashed’

 

[Silas Loom]

Who are these people who are happy to have their appearance and table manners critiqued in a national newspaper just to get a free meal? Surely no-one in their right mind would sleep with any of them?

 

[brogdale]

Anyone follow the Guardians Blind dates?
Ive just read this weekends and I think if I had been Eleanor I would have walked out. What a thoughtless selfish bastard he was.

Blind date: ‘Most awkward moment? Me eating alone as he wasn’t hungry’

Jayson, 26, a cybersecurity engineer, meets Eleanor, 26, a fundraising and events manager

www.theguardian.com

No.
It just seems exploitative and intrusive.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Who are these people who are happy to have their appearance and table manners critiqued in a national newspaper just to get a free meal? Surely no-one in their right mind would sleep with any of them?

Has Laurence Fox hijacked your login again?

 

[JimW]

So this would be vicariously spending an evening with a couple of Guardian readers?

 

[Silas Loom]

Has Laurence Fox hijacked your login again?

You can’t deny that it’s odd. There are online sites for singles to approach each other and arrange assignations, these days. Nobody needs to be subjected to this sort of thing any more. Cilla Black is long dead.

Something must be awry in the minds of people who sign up for Grauniad blind dates, and it rules them out as romantic interests for the sane.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I misread this thread as Blind Dates in the Garden. Which sounds much nicer.

 

[JimW]

I misread this thread as Blind Dates in the Garden. Which sounds much nicer.

Led up the primrose path. Ooer.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Anyone follow the Guardians Blind dates?
Ive just read this weekends and I think if I had been Eleanor I would have walked out. What a thoughtless selfish bastard he was.

Blind date: ‘Most awkward moment? Me eating alone as he wasn’t hungry’

Jayson, 26, a cybersecurity engineer, meets Eleanor, 26, a fundraising and events manager

www.theguardian.com

Rule number one: never go out with someone who can't spell his own name.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

You can’t deny that it’s odd. There are online sites for singles to approach each other and arrange assignations, these days. Nobody needs to be subjected to this sort of thing any more. Cilla Black is long dead.

Something must be awry in the minds of people who sign up for Grauniad blind dates, and it rules them out as romantic interests for the sane.

I’ve no idea, would guess it’s just that everyone wants their 15 minutes these days and this is an opportunity for it.

 

[kalidarkone]

Who are these people who are happy to have their appearance and table manners critiqued in a national newspaper just to get a free meal? Surely no-one in their right mind would sleep with any of them?

I would!

 

[oryx]

Who are these people who are happy to have their appearance and table manners critiqued in a national newspaper just to get a free meal? Surely no-one in their right mind would sleep with any of them?

Says a lot about the Guardian that they ask about table manners!

 

[Idris2002]

If these thoughts interest you for even a moment you are lost.

 

[Gerry1time]

I kind of regret not applying for Guardian Blind Dates when I was doing online dating and so forth. Largely because I was getting rejected constantly across every dating site and speed dating event I went to, so the completist in me would have liked to have been rejected publicly in the middle class slightly left wing paper of record.

 

[tommers]

Not as good as the greatest date, which was this one? Blind date: ‘I left my knickers at a house party we crashed’

Hahahaha. What a night.

 

[surreybrowncap]

I misread this thread as Blind Dates in the Garden. Which sounds much nicer.

That's what I thought...
Regards,
Jesus
Gethsemane

 

[tim]

Rule number one: never go out with someone who can't spell his own name.

Rule one: never read twee shite in the Guardian. It's even worse than the Urban75 Suburban forum.

Rule number two: post this kind of rubbish in the Suburban forum. It is neither news nor current affairs.

 

[PR1Berske]

Having a massive breakfast at 3pm before going for dinner in the evening where you don't eat marks you down as a something..

Not as good as the greatest date, which was this one? Blind date: ‘I left my knickers at a house party we crashed’

And the very funny Guyliner article about it:

Joanne and Morgan

As we approach the concave middle of January, land of detox, naked trees and dark evenings, December and its joyous lights, capitalism-based optimism and mountains of cholesterol seems another worl…

theguyliner.com

 

[nottsgirl]

I get up and read Blind Dates and Tim Dowling with my coffee every Saturday.

 

[planetgeli]

I get up and read Blind Dates and Tim Dowling with my coffee every Saturday.

Swipes left

 

[spitfire]

 

[Elpenor]

I get up and read Blind Dates and Tim Dowling with my coffee every Saturday.

I quite like the blind dates column too. Bit of a guilty pleasure

 

[oryx]

I get up and read Blind Dates and Tim Dowling with my coffee every Saturday.

My Guilty Guardian Saturday Supplement Pleasure is 'Dining Across the Divide', which can often be quite interesting.

 

[nottsgirl]

My Guilty Guardian Saturday Supplement Pleasure is 'Dining Across the Divide', which can often be quite interesting.

Oh I love that too.

 

[pbsmooth]

I get up and read Blind Dates and Tim Dowling with my coffee every Saturday.

while i can’t quite match your enthusiasm they are certainly two of the only things I make a point of reading.

 

[Silas Loom]

My Guilty Guardian Saturday Supplement Pleasure is 'Dining Across the Divide', which can often be quite interesting.

It’s all very inefficient.

There should be a unified system where exhibitionists sign up for Guardian-funded meals a deux, which might develop into a date or a political argument as circumstances dictate.

 

[hash tag]

I get up and read Blind Dates and Tim Dowling with my coffee every Saturday.

This is online and you don't get it delivered?