So I caved in and got into a dating app (one that only offer a handful of matches a day... To men anyway.) a few days ago. Not much to say so far except it's humbling for the most part, also hilariously diabolical in how it nudges you to pay for tokens.
Only ray of light has been a very cute 25 years old US expatriate (wayyyy out of my league socially, I suspect, she graduated from a worldwide famous university) who apparently digged my photos. Trying to get in touch with her because, who knows, maybe she fancies the idea of flirting with some french blue collar schmuck ? Or her finger ripped while ranking me

Otherwise women who liked my photos are fairly unattractive so far (that's cruel but true and not in a sharp knees way) and several are teachers (?). I guess I look homely and that wouldn't be unfair a characterization. I don't really have fancy photos of myself and I hate selfies (and they're always more merciless than the plain good ones I have) so I decided to be forward and honest, disclose that I'm a happy smoker and a drinker. Apparently NO ONE ever drink or smoke more than "socially", color me skeptical.
My other thoughts :
- The fuck at people putting photos not even showing their face properly or those horrible filters ? Not to mention the abuse of soft lighting, blurry (or artefacted), night scenes, gaudy make ups, duckfaces, super claustrophobic closeups or horrible Snapchat dogface filters. I get women wanting to look their best but I do need to see you to have an idea.
- Plenty of cute & attractive women still, so I just need to luck on one eventually.
- Lots of people in marketing, HR, IT, sales, engineers plus teachers and nurses. All perfectly fine jobs, mind you, but there's definitely a very middle class / upper middle class club feel going on.