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	<title>Desperate Dating - a blog on online dating</title>
	<link>http://www.desperatedating.net</link>
	<description>a humorous and satirical look at the world of online dating through the eyes of a 30 something year old man struggling to get a date using various online dating services.</description>
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		<title>the goodbye note: &#8220;Let us Not be Friends&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description>	Voyeurism at it&#8217;s best:)
	Setting: &#8216;The Commitment Phobe&#8217; writes me 5 months after things fall apart the SECOND time, feeling me out for friendship&#8230; here is the response:
	&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure how to respond to this.  It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s unexpected, it&#8217;s just I never made up my mind. I don&#8217;t ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/43</link>
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		<title>Only after this 80 yr old woman asked me on a date, did it finally occur to me&#8230;</title>
		<description>	&#8230;so this really hot 80 yr old at MySpace ended up at my doorstep, when it finally occurred to me to do a search on girls between, say, 60yrs and 100yrs, and see who&#8217;s lying about their age. Yep&#8230; all the hot girls.  Same is true on the young ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/42</link>
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		<title>dating related: a new STD blog&#8230;</title>
		<description>	My buddy started a new blog called STD Circus,  which was inspired by the following classic post: 
	To cut a very long story short, I got semen in my mouth from a used condom on the floor. I am worried that I am at risk of getting the HIV ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/41</link>
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		<title>Even the dating services are desperate&#8230;</title>
		<description>	I was just reading in reuters.com an article (see the comment to this post) that said that both Match.com and Yahoo were &#8220;accused in [seperate] federal lawsuit[s] of goading members into renewing their subscriptions through bogus romantic e-mails sent out by company employees.&#8221; It goes on to say that they ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/39</link>
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		<title>Tales From the Dark Side&#8230;</title>
		<description>	As I mentioned in the &#8216;Pickle&#8217; post (hehhehe that was such a funny title, BTW) I signed up at this &#8216;adult personals&#8217; site last week.  I was just bored as hell and figured I&#8217;d drop the 20$ and just see if there were any closet normal chicks in there, ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/37</link>
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		<title>An &#8216;intimate photo exchange&#8217; with a phone sex operator</title>
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		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/36</link>
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		<title>A Desperate eBay Auction</title>
		<description>	What follows is an actual ebay auction that I lifted for your enjoyment because it&#8217;s far funnier than anything I can come up with at the moment&#8230;
	&#8220;You are bidding on a mistake. We all make mistakes. We date the wrong people for too long. We chew gum with our mouths ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/35</link>
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		<title>It started out so promising&#8230;</title>
		<description>	A 34 yr old woman writes in her profile, &#8220;My favorite topic is sex. [OK, you have my undivided attention] My best friend always knows if I&#8217;ve been seeing anyone because my topics change before I even get a chance to tell her, but my topics haven&#8217;t changed for quite ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/34</link>
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		<title>local newspaper confirms: I&#8217;m rotting on the vine</title>
		<description>	We have a local newspaper in town, with a &#8216;Ask a Question&#8217; blog component online; so I asked the following 2 weeks ago&#8230;
	Q: I just moved here, I&#8217;m 34, I&#8217;d like to meet people my own age&#8230; the bars here seem to be full of kids spilling drinks on themselves&#8230; ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/33</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I can open a jar of pickles in the shower&#8221;</title>
		<description>	Well, after trying to find a &#8216;nice&#8217; girl to date for over a month, I decided to, ah, &#8216;do some research&#8217; on some &#8216;not so nice&#8217; girls at a few other kinds of personal sites. I&#8217;m compiling a list of recommended online dating services with a little (and I do ...</description>
		<link>http://www.desperatedating.net/archives/32</link>
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