Couple’s trips are just for happy couples, right? I recently acquired insight about a woman who divorced her husband because he refused to look at her tomatoes. No, that’s not a euphemism, but a genuine reason why couples part ways. This woman had spent months carefully growing and nurturing her plants, and was very proud
Every April, people band together to attempt to pull off the best prank. Frankly, it’s shocking that it was never a plot point on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but perhaps this was because they knew that they would never beat the BBC, who successfully convinced a swathe of the British population that spaghetti grew on trees. Nevertheless,
Remember how, just the other week, I proclaimed with wide-eyed innocence that there wasn’t a dating site for vegans? How wrong I was. Long-maligned for their sanctimonious nature and their fervent belief that what you eat determines who you are on a spiritual level, it actually makes perfect sense that vegans would establish a dating
If you’re keen to find the next Tinder, you might well spend your time scrolling through badly constructed websites and downloading apps that nobody had thought to optimise for Android users. Finally, you might just traipse back to Bumble – you’ve been there before, but at least it actually has users. If this sounds exhausting,
You can go on virtually any corner of the internet and find much written about the stresses that come from online dating. However, for women, these stresses are typically much greater than those experienced by men. Women are much more likely to deal with issues such as internet scams, threats, dating violence, revenge porn, and
If you decided to stand in the street and ask people which social groups they found most annoying, they would probably answer “people who stand in the street and ask questions”. If you managed to convince them to continue the conversation, they might answer “vegans” or “fitness buffs”. Whilst there isn’t, to my knowledge, a
It’s not uncommon for dating app websites to have reviews and love stories from happy clients. What is unusual is for anyone to say that they want to thank the app, because without it they would, quote, “die of loneliness”. What a way to introduce potential new users. But let’s scroll up, read the headline
People celebrate Valentine’s day in many different ways. Perhaps with a romantic dinner with a lover, or by sending roses to a crush, or (according to all romcoms) by getting drunk and hanging out with your cat. The least romantic thing I can think of, however, is downloading a dating app. Allow me to emphasise:
In May last year, I wrote about a new dating app called Qemistry. I believe I used the term ‘gimmick’ only once, but the entire piece was firmly against the app, which seemed to genuinely believe it was heralding the next sexual revolution by replacing photographs on dating sites with short videos. I published the
“Happy Valentines” may be a thing we hear less and less frequently as the next few years pass by. This is because many people are choosing to avoid the holiday altogether. However, this pushback against celebrating Valentine’s Day is not due to unhappiness with love but rather the opposite. Many couples are focusing more on
