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4thofelevenSo I ended up with an account with one of those eharmony-type dating services; don’t remember why or how – think it was when I was trying to register for something else. Anyway, I’m far too lazy to actually get my email taken off their list, and the spam-filter catches most of their junk.
Anyway, one managed to slip through today, and I glanced at it briefly before deleting it. It’s a list of ‘available’ women that they’ve matched me with through their brilliant algorithm (Is female? Lives in or vaguely near Australia? 100% MATCH!). What caught my eye was one of the women’s three words to describe themselves. She’d picked ‘safe’ as one of them.
Safe? Who on earth uses dodgy online dating services to meet people who are ‘safe’? You may as well choose ‘boring’ and ‘dull’ as your other two words. How little must someone have going for them that they’ve decided ‘safe’ is one of their top three attributes?
Then again, now that I think about it, someone who goes out of their way to reassure people that they’re ‘safe’ probably isn’t boring at all. Not someone you’d want to spend time with, of course...
Anyway, one managed to slip through today, and I glanced at it briefly before deleting it. It’s a list of ‘available’ women that they’ve matched me with through their brilliant algorithm (Is female? Lives in or vaguely near Australia? 100% MATCH!). What caught my eye was one of the women’s three words to describe themselves. She’d picked ‘safe’ as one of them.
Safe? Who on earth uses dodgy online dating services to meet people who are ‘safe’? You may as well choose ‘boring’ and ‘dull’ as your other two words. How little must someone have going for them that they’ve decided ‘safe’ is one of their top three attributes?
Then again, now that I think about it, someone who goes out of their way to reassure people that they’re ‘safe’ probably isn’t boring at all. Not someone you’d want to spend time with, of course...