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Maybe it's because I settled before online dating but I just don't feel comfortable with idea of online dating. Firstly how on earth do you trust someone who more than likely is doing everything in their power to make themselves more appealing than they actually are. In person you get a split second to reply to a question and you can read body language to see if someone is into you. It would be so annoying spending the time to get to like someone only to find within 5 minutes the person you'd been speaking to every night for a week was actually nothing like they'd played it out. Secondly, this is the key one for me, I'd hate to be messaging someone, thinking all is going well, whilst knowing she's more than likely talking to 10 other guys at the same time. Nah, not for me. Even if I was born when it went boom I think I'd trust my personality and looks to get me someone I actually meet in person first.

I'm trying to go to the gym 4 days a week at the moment plus a minimum 5 k run every week. Also swimming once a week.

Spinach Lasagna. Need a few veggie days after eating so much meat on Christmas.

Would make sense, especially since Jung's contract is expiring next summer, too. Probably similar quality as Jung, but younger and faster, so no complaints there if he comes on a free transfer. Hopefully, Buchanan develops properly and becomes a regular LB though.

Werder are interested in Hertha's Mittelstädt. Apparently there are talks about a free transfer in the summer.

I get your point, but on the flip side, how many poor sods ended up with traumatic brain injuries for simply looking at a bouncer the wrong way? Whilst it’s still on the whole incredibly rare to be knifed to death inside a club (I know numbers have risen), kickings from doormen were a dozen a night and often resulted in horrendous life changing injuries. Source: best mates mum head of A&E at the time (late 90’s/early 00’s).

Oh and Happy New Year everyone!

Never compare your life to someone on social media. We are all different, we all prefer different things. There should be no judging for how someone lives there life as long as they don't hurt anyone.

Online dating is not something I would ever consider. Fair enough if it works for others, though.

'Pakistan went through a ball-tampering scandal a while back, how about you come home with me after dinner and tamper with my balls?'

To be fair I do know a fair few people who are already divorced or broke up with their partners from a young age after a fair few years - but the same goes for those who met later, or there’s those who met young and are together. It’s a bit of everything! Generationally things have probably changed a bit and it wouldn’t be as common now as maybe the generation before me to meet and marry young. Maybe that was the point.

Me and my baby girl... she will always be my baby girl

I really should get back into swimming. Such a good physical activity.

Arms, chest and shoulders done today, followed by a short burst of cardio that nearly killed me after the last few days.

reminds me of olaf from frozen for some reason oh yea because he says he likes warm hugs, similar eh

I hear Tahith Chong is free this time of year……

Thanks @CaaC (John), they are aware.

Exactly, no shit went down when the Salford firms ran the doors in Manchester. Imagine trying to explain why you have a knife hidden on you to 4 or 5 absolute lunatics wanting an excuse to send you home in an ambulance. You just wouldn't bother would you. Hence why clubs are now weak as shit and stuff like you mentioned is happening more frequent.

Bring back the Salford firms

That's very unfair to the child.

Yeah, and that's very weird, because I would imagine that the question of "do we want kids and if yes, how many" should be one of the key things to discuss before getting married...

Oh I was not talking about your friend specifically as I don't know anything about him. Just a general observation, both from personal experience and from observing others.

To be honest there are details I would prefer to not go into on an open forum. I get where your coming from totally but I obviously know him on a personal level so it's difficult to explain if I don't feel I can post about it. I get where you and @nudge are coming from but I seen how depressed losing his girlfriend made him and how much of a strain it was for him not living with his son so now I feel he's continued living the way he is because of that rather than wanting to fully. The current girlfriend is completely independent and never had intentions of children, so this life is exactly what she wants. She's not a very nice person in truth, I don't know any of my social groups partners that like her and not many other people do either. She's a proper stuck up self indulgent bitch.

I generally think that people who are not very family-oriented should not marry and have kids with people who are very family-oriented (and vice-versa), because in most cases, that's a straight-out recipe for disaster. Both sides expect the other one to change or adapt to match their expectations, and that's not really going to happen, is it.

To be honest with you no I don't think he's happy. I don't believe the relationship he is in will ever go anywhere, they spend so much time apart it's suits him. I'm convinced its a convenience relationship. He sees her at the weekend they go out get pissed do whatever they do and she goes down to London to work throughout the week. She's still got her own apartment, he's got his own house. To me that's not a relationship but I suppose to others it is so each to their own. I don't personally like her either as she's just not my type of person so she basically driven a wedge between two best mates. It's a shame because he had the house, a lovely girlfriend and a child. I tried to tell him when they had issues he needed to stop going out with the lads so often but he was always finding events and stuff to make excuses to go out. In the end she just had enough and he couldn't understand why.

He's my best mate and was my best man at my wedding. We've been friends since we were 13 years of age. I can have an opinion on his lifestyle if I want it's not like a complete stranger. I do wonder if he's truly happy with the choices he made.

As they say "There is no place like home", off topic a bit but if me and the wife go visiting family or friends we always look forward to getting home and doing our own thing like you always did in the past, like just sling your coat on the sofa and think I will put that away after, slipping into your old glad rags, stick your slippers on and open a can of lager or a bottle of wine and just relax reading a book or watching tv.

They have a problem for me. If they go truly democratic you get the Muslim Brotherhood and that leads to possibly supporting Assad and Iran which is probably why their Arab Spring was crushed. They may have trouble anyway due to hydroelectric dams being built in countries upstream in the Nile reducing their ability to obtain sufficient usable water in the near future.

100%

If I was him I’d start with “Wasim Akram was a left arm fast bowler who took 414 test wickets. Wanna see how fast my left arm is?”

Nah, ask @Beelzebub. 'hi'

Ask @Gunnersaurusfor great opening lines.

@nudge

Haha i can relate we only have him and we have our hands full. I imagine it is double trouble with two, and seen your girls on FB they are adorable.

I used to try online dating, but I always got annoyed when someone actually wanted to talk to me.