Following on from a none diving post, are you single or attached?

[Louby Lou]

Originally Posted by scuba_tart

Right now though unless some perfect guy comes along (which I really doubt) I will be staying single and sticking to sports and flings with who ever I meet on my nights out.

Same here.... single! Ex had a go at diving but wasn't able to grasp the concept of breathing underwater . He let me get on with my diving and that more or less caused the split... he used to complain that he was a 'Diving Widower'... He spent that much time under cars anyway so I guess we were even...oh well! Until Mr Right (who will be a diver... hopefully!) comes along am happy to stay single!

[Bunny]

Originally Posted by dan

Young, free and single I am afraid

To date in all the diving I have done I don't think I had ever come arcoss a single female diver my age group on a dive boat, they don't exsit I tell you, its a myth!


Trying to decide now if its because I am becoming a sad loner or desperation that has led me to post on a dive forum that I single...maybe its a bit of both, oh dear

Hm.. be careful what you wish for. When I was still single I went on an Egyptian liveaboard thinking I'd meet lots of lovely diving boys - 14 women!!! (2 husbands). And half of them couldn't dive for toffee either. I wanted to jump ship by day 2. "Depth guage? Noooo, don't need one of them.. I'll just follow the dive guide". Oh really.

[Mr T.]

Another view
By Oliver Pritchett
(Filed: 10/11/2004)

Footloose but my spring has gone

So far this week there have been just two social trends surveys. One study, from Edinburgh University, showed that men are twice as likely as women to be living alone between the ages of 35 and 43, to have fewer friends and a poorer diet, and to suffer from depression. A second survey suggested that an increasing number of women over the age of 50 like to drink wine and beer, and go to bars and clubs to find eligible men - or, as it was put, "footloose fifty-somethings are clearly embracing singledom".


Here are some other types I identified in my own research yesterday: one is the Play-Doh Away Unattached Toddler. More and more children of playgroup age are prepared to have casual relationships on the slide or in the paddling pool, but are reluctant to settle down with a single partner on the bouncy castle.



The Unattached Toddler is three times as likely to be happy on her own, banging a saucepan lid with a mallet, as she is to be taking responsibility for the teddies in the Wendy House. This toddler also likes to establish her independence from her siblings, leading to what has become known as "single-occupancy double-buggy syndrome". Even siblings of the same age are drifting apart and an increasing number are now pursuing their own agenda and rejecting tripletdom.

The Male Fifteen-something Behind Closed Doors: this is the teenage boy who has not been known to leave his bedroom for the past 18 months. In many cases he may be twice-divorced, but, if so, he has forgotten. He is searching for the Ideal Poster to put on his bedroom wall, but has not found it yet. He is extremely loyal to one particular T-shirt and the only other long-term commitment he is prepared to make is never to tie his shoelaces. Most in this group are described as "shoeloose".

The Loneliness of the Lunchtime Jogger. We are seeing more and more of the ambitious twenty-or-so female executive who has gone jogging in her lunch-hour and can't find her way back to her office because they all look the same. Typically, she will now keep on running until she is twenty-seven-or-so. Relationships are short-lived because the male joggers who draw level with her usually become exhausted and get left behind.

Outwardly, the Lunchtime Jogger is independent and happy in her relationship with her personal stereo, but secretly she longs for a man with stamina who will offer her a swig from his bottle of Evian. Eventually she will end up in a gym and find a mate to take the back seat of her exercise bicycle made for two.

The All Bar Wan. These are the pasty-faced single men, aged between 35 and 43, who sit in wine bars hoping that "Miss Right Researcher" will come along, so that they can tell her about their poor diet, their lack of friends and their tendency to depression.

After living alone on doner kebabs, the All Bar Wan male finds he can only communicate with women who are conducting surveys. His is an endless quest for a female companion who has boxes that need to be ticked.

Tragically, if he meets such a female in a wine bar, the relationship is doomed because she cannot hear what he is saying over the din made by the fifty-something women embracing singledom and laughing and talking loudly with eligible men. The disappointed researcher leaves without completing her questionnaire or finishing her glass of wine. This is now known as the "abandoned Chardonnay syndrome".

The Cavewoman. After a few years with eligible men in wine bars, the somewhat-over-sixty-something tires of the lifestyle. She finds the presence of those pasty-faced men of 35 rather spoils the atmosphere. So she decides to settle down on her own. She can't be bothered with housework, so she goes and lives in a cave. She becomes a hermit and embarks on a search for the secret of true happiness.

The Footloose Seventy-something Male. The trend towards a large number of females looking for caves leads to what is known as "an over-heating situation in the cave market". Many seventy-something male hermits are evicted from their caves and find themselves homeless, as well as ineligible. But at least they know the secret of true happiness.

So this is the present situation: the streets are crowded with Footloose Seventy-somethings who are longing to tell the Lonely Lunchtime Joggers the secret of true happiness, but every time they make the supreme effort to catch up with them they are too out of breath to speak.

[David A]

Single, and remarkably wealthy as a result.

[jamesp]

Do women have a secret handbook of phrases for verbally beating the hell out of guys?
I was recently told I was easy to talk to, this from a really fantastic girl I have known on and off for years. This I took as a good thing. It was damn near the last thing she ever said to me! (i`ve met someone else was sent by text) Does this count as a definition for irony??

For the new year I am taking up misogony.

[Spacehopper]

Originally Posted by jamesp

Do women have a secret handbook of phrases for verbally beating the hell out of guys?
I was recently told I was easy to talk to, this from a really fantastic girl I have known on and off for years. This I took as a good thing. It was damn near the last thing she ever said to me! (i`ve met someone else was sent by text) Does this count as a definition for irony??

For the new year I am taking up misogony.

Easy to talk to - womanspeak for "I'll have no problems tell you to bog off when I want to dump you"

[Lynne]

Single and looking for some tall gorgeous funny intelligent diver to sweep me off my feet (me and dive buddy sheila didnt find any at the dive show!) :-) unfortunately all the divers I get offers from appear to be short fat and balding hehe

[Andy the Coastie]

Originally Posted by Lynne

Single and looking for some tall gorgeous funny intelligent diver to sweep me off my feet (me and dive buddy sheila didnt find any at the dive show!) :-) unfortunately all the divers I get offers from appear to be short fat and balding hehe

Thats Angus and howard out

[Mcnasty]

Originally Posted by Mr T.

That's me now! Still a shame after 17 years of marriage. Oh well, just got to decide diving in Barbados or Maldives

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by Andy the Commie 2

Thats Angus and howard out

Awww aren't they tall gorgeous funny and intelligent then? Think I voted for Angus on the best looking diver thingy lol