Flirtomatic and many other (clearly inferior!) sites, as I’m sure we have all gathered, are fantabulous places for meeting new people. Flamboyant flirting and cheeky chatter with fresh faces can be found in abundance. It rocks.

Many of us find that we eventually want to meet our favourite flirting chums in the flesh (mostly to make sure they don’t have a pair of bizarre chicken feet, an extra boob or perhaps chronic ear wax). Perfectly sensible we’ll all agree. But I have recently discovered that there are a group of topsy-turvy dudes that like to perform this ritual in reverse….

Their initial meeting is of the usual face to face type – be that in a bar, at a gig, or on the number 42 to Stanmore – but rather than arranging their next date at the cinema or over dinner, they have a kind of ‘pre-date’. …on the internet!

At a pre-set time they go to a site, such as our dearly beloved Flirtomatic, and spend time getting to know each other online before deciding whether they want to actually meet up again for real, despite already having met in the flesh?!

Yep, these people are barking.

Or so I thought…

Like the proverbial worm I have wiggled my bottom 180 degrees in the opposite direction and am now beginning to see the logic.

Think about it. We’ve all met someone new, chatted to them, detected a connection and fancied the raw-hide off them… But the next time you meet they turn out to be a complete and utter pleb and you’re stuck on a date wishing you were at home with a giant Kinder Egg and the washing machine on spin cycle!

There are lots of reason why this might happen – if you meet in a bar alcohol may well have affected your judgement, or it could be that their pretty face initially overshadowed a multitude of personality sins, which, on further investigation, become far too hideous to ignore – but happen it does. And in my case, with terrifying regularity!

Tell me if I’m wrong but spending a small amount of sober and lust-free time chatting to your new ‘friend’ before deciding whether to waste time on another date suddenly sounds like a darned fine idea. Yes? Exactly.

So excuse me if you find yourself on Flirtomatic, fancy a small nod and a wink with yours truly … and I ignore you.

It’s not because you’ve got a face like a vat of boiled shrimps, no no, it’s just because I’m busy flirting my little heart out on one of these new-fangled ‘pre-date’ thingameebobs.

Give it a whirl fellow flirt fans, after all it’s just common sense!

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