This. Fucking. Ad...

People are... Creative... These days...

https://singleguyfromadelaide.com/

I've got a bigger stack with my RPi 😏

Time to flaunt some.... oh wait, the misses might find it 😔

Someone else pull out your larger junk and do this!

More of a Neckbeard vibes. @rutee07

Super cringe

One of his other sites ... not wrong :D

Has "hello my future girlfriend" vibes

@molaram Jail*

Nothing wrong with using ads for dating when you can afford it.
Not that different from using a dating app and the old way (going to places where people drink and dance) isn't really working when you search for someone who likes to talk about IT stuff.

But:
The target group most likely only sees ads for the first five minutes after starting to use a device...

@Oktokolo except the ones who suck

@electrineer
Yeah, i wouldn't want a girlfriend not even using an ad blocker...

@Oktokolo @electrineer Don't use an ad blocker my self. I myself run websites that rely on ads 😅

People are spoiled Disney characters these days, feeling entitled to their perfect prince/princess.

"Highly intelligent"

"Has never had a partner"

-- so she's either a 12 year old prodigy, or has escaped some conservative abstinence cult?

Let me guess, she must also look like a glossy magazine model, have no morning breath, enjoy exactly the same humor, love the same series on Netflix, etc.

At work there's this large group of single people, all complaining that dating is incredibly hard.

And when I talk to either side (M/F), all I hear is lists of near-impossible demands, and no awareness of own flaws.

Gonna sound like an old guy, but I feel like the generation after me fucked themselves over, breaking the social contract, regarding the dating ritual.

In my time it definitely felt easier to date, because everyone had lower standards. And I don't mean "I date any random thot" kind of low standards, just "We both accept each other's oddities" kind of tolerance.

@ScriptCoded
Well, i heared about a single guy from Adelaide not caring about his future girlfriend's web hygiene standards...

@bittersweet “or has escaped some conservative abstinence group”

…. Oooh, a Mormon!

@bittersweet firstly, I disagree (since your views are rather strong - correct, but strongly expressed) - it's reasonable for a person to be single-mindedly focused on academia/art/etc even till the age of 25 and beyond.
And it's okay for people to be specific in whom they're looking for, it's perfectly reasonable to plan your future methodically, and exercise choice when we have so many people out there.

Now, I agree. With everything. You can and should be able to practically put up with any reasonable person out there. For life. Sometimes the clicking is better than usual.

About this guy, well, asking for someone "intelligent" will definitely attract people who do consider themselves so, or will to do so, which shows a good chance of other (undesirable) traits in their personality over what is above-than-average intelligence. Also leaks about the dude's way of thinking. So he's weird.

Read a matrimonial listing in an Indian newspaper some time, you'll really enjoy it :)

@amorphousjax

Just ranting a bit about all the millennials/zoomers around me complaining about their lack of a love life.

Kids these days just start listing their self -diagnosed mental disorders, then their pronouns, then their trigger foods and which Harry Potter house they're in, then a bunch of obscure kpop fandom references — And then when I say "Well if you act like a super special snowflake, don't complain about being unable to find friends" I'm just being a "hater" and they go back to Instagramming pictures of vegan banana bread to their 3 followers for a dose of safe-space-filtered attention.

@bittersweet yeah it's something I've noticed as well. I suffer from the same, at least a bit. I'm trying to get over that and find someone I can get along with well, without placing dumb unreasonable expectations on them.

Went out with someone the other day and haven't heard from her ever since. She either realized she was too pretty for me or I fucked up in my attempt at conversation hah! Had s good time though. I find it that if I just try to get to know people, the rest progresses on its own.

@ars1 The trouble is that the phenomenon reinforces itself.

If you try to climb out of it, if you try to widen your net and build relationships with people who force you out of your comfort zone a bit — that means other people have to be open to that as well.

If they aren't, it's easy for both sides to glide back into cynicism about friendships & dating.