DATING IN IRELAND is hard. Everyone knows everyone and you’re always at least two degrees away from accidentally dating your third cousin. If you’re LGBTQ+ then the pool is even smaller and you’re at least one degree from your ex at any given moment.
And so we turn to online dating in the hope that we’ll find someone that’s a little different than the others. Some of us choose Grindr, some of us choose Bumble and most of us turn to Tinder.
Here’s 8 things that have definitely you’ve definitely thought to yourself while using it.
1. ‘Is that a dick pic?’
Nine out of ten times it is. For god’s sake WILL YOU PUT IT AWAY.
2. ‘Which one are they?’
If every photo on your profile is a group photo then you don’t deserve to find a date. Sorry.
3. ‘Please don’t open with a line’.
‘Hey baby, did it hurt when you fell from heaven?’
FFS.
4. ‘I wonder if they like more than food and movies?’
And then you ask them what they do in their spare time and they just reply with ‘food and movies’.
5. ‘I seem to have something really good with this person’.
Then it turns out they’re only here for the summer or they’re about to move to Siberia or something.
6. ‘Oh Tinder isn’t as bad as everyone makes out’
*You mention that you’re interested in feminism*
‘Oh so you want women to be BETTER than men?’
7. ‘I want someone I can talk to for ages’
*Writes a small paragraph as an introduction*
Them: ‘Same’.
8. ‘I’m not going to use to it anymore’
Mam: ‘So have you got someone special in your life?’
Me:
