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[-] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 115 points 1 month ago

Now try finding someone you find attractive and who also finds you attractive in return (it's impossible).

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I did a calculation once about my chances of finding a compatible long-term partner, inspired by the Drake Equation and using many many assumptions. The numbers are not good: ~22 out of 8 billion.

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

As a married man, I gotta say you’re probably selling yourself short or have unrealistic expectations of a partner.

Remember that whoever you’re going to date is a person, not a robot. People are not quantifiable. One day they may be a dick, the next they may be pleasant. Some people are willing to compromise and others aren’t. Man, woman, or other, it doesn’t matter. If you’re not willing to compromise something, you’re never going to find someone.

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Post pic or be assumed attractive

[-] Zron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I’d rather be assumed attractive than to remove all doubt.

Go hangout at a Starbucks in a target if you want to meet women, they’re certainly not going to wander into your bedroom.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Not willingly, at least

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[-] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This is weenie shit

[-] WarTowel@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

So you're saying there's a chance

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Yall need to lower your expectations god damn

[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

I like reminding my single friends that 73% of Americans are considered overweight. 41% are obese.

A shocking amount of my male friends are overweight or obese and refuse to date overweight women.

[-] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

We could all lose a few pounds but sharing a meal is a huge thing, take that thicc person out and enjoy meal with another human being you animals. You might even find you have some commonality and you'll feel slightly less isolated when the meal is done.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"that will be $86"

only kinda /s

[-] Atlas_@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

That seems absurdly low. Are you sure that all of your criteria are non-negotiable? And entirely uncorrelated?

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Look I wasn't completely serious about it, there's no way to actually calculate something like that.
For example what's the fraction of people that find me attractive. It could range from 0.05 to 0.5. I have no way of knowing.

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[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I only need to make 1 assumption to solve that equation for me

0% of people would find me attractive

QE fucking D

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'm curious about the math you did to come to that final number

[-] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't be a problem if someone took dating as seriously as Skyscanner takes flight tickets.

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[-] FundMECFSResearch 6 points 1 month ago

Honestly if you lower your standards it gets pretty easy.

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[-] quafeinum@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] FundMECFSResearch 3 points 1 month ago

Give it time. Sometimes they can start out vanilla and warm to the idea of kinks through your relationship. Usually those kind of things aren’t set in stone.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's the boat I'm in, except that I'm also gay and the popular trend is poligamy. :) Fml

[-] Juice260@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

I feel like this meme was made by a gen z kid that grew up with filtered pictures being normal

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

I'm gen z but my problem is mostly that I tend to be attracted to my friends more... Which kinda limits the pool. Whoops.

[-] CandleTiger@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

It limits the pool for sure but when it works it works real good. Good luck to you.

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

True, so far it hasn't really worked out though. And it also makes it much harder to get over someone. In the end I'll probably find someone but with a lot of hurt along the way before I do, I imagine.

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[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 48 points 1 month ago

now imagine being gay and the dating pool is 90% smaller.

[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 45 points 1 month ago

Be ace and the dating pool is 100% smaller.

[-] Krafting@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Be me and the dating pool is 200% smaller.

[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 12 points 1 month ago
[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 17 points 1 month ago

I swear this has the opposite effect. In more than one instance, I've told someone I'm ace and it's made them more persistent, like they're thinking 'Oh, I can fix that.' No, I assure you, you can't. Please stop. :(

[-] LostXOR@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Pull the reverse card on them and treat their attraction like it's something that needs fixing: "Oh, you're attracted to me? I'm so sorry to hear that! Have you tried therapy?"

[-] FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

I miss acedatespace. There's acespace.love, but that's more like people shouting into the void than an actual dating site.

[-] FatTony@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
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[-] Emi@ani.social 43 points 1 month ago

I'm bi myself and a shut in. How do you find people in general I don't know.

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[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Over the years of talking with my wife about who we find attractive, she has realized I find almost all women attractive in some ways and normally the ones that are supposed to be attractive i find less attractive. She hated this realization because she applied it to herself, and it made her feel bad... I just find the good in most people, that's all!

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

There’s a coworker of mine that when the topic arises and he gets asked what is his preference (in terms of the types of women he likes) his response is “women” 😂

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

he likes: big girls, pretty kitty girls, really witty girls, singin' ditty girls; he likes the leggy girls with the nice thighs; he likes a good chest no matter what size; he likes the belly folds, he likes the sixpacks, really tall queens, and the shortstacks, from the mild girls to the wild girls...

yea

he likes girls

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago

Idk i find like 80% of women i know attractive, its just that i have such confidence problems i dont ask anybody out.

[-] DeadWorldWalking 14 points 1 month ago

Remember, if you find them attractive that means they're out of your league!

/s

[-] n3cr0@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The upper one depicts the guys around me. I can go through the lower one, but the result is usually this.

[-] boreengreen@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

If you like each other and you share most values, there is your partner. If your partner is good looking as well; great for you guys!

[-] Nojustice@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

Ah the classic "date someone I don't find attractive", a famously stable long term strategy. We'll just ignore that whole critical issue of intimacy. Right right right.

[-] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Ya, the meme is trash, but attraction is important. It may evolve or surprise you, but it is relevant.

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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Especially since I'm gay

[-] pixeltree 10 points 1 month ago

That's been something hard about transitioning, being aware of how fewer and fewer people find me attractive the further I go. Ah well, it's not like I was going to find a partner anyways, looks really never came into play in the first place.

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

... or worse: becoming only more "attractive" to chasers

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you, standing on a cliff overlooking the horizon, and ten billion light-years away there is a point you will never, ever be physically capable of reaching because the very expansion of the cosmic medium itself will move it further away from you than it already is now even if you traveled in that direction at the speed of light for ten billion years.

caption: finding a girl who finds YOU attractive

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