{"id":165,"date":"2005-02-01T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/02\/zero-rating-dating\/"},"modified":"2005-02-01T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-01T09:55:00","slug":"zero-rating-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/02\/zero-rating-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero-Rating Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"


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14 DAYS LEFT<\/font> before the winged nutcase seeks out your wallet on the pretext of stimulating romance, 14 long days and nights of pressure from the magic Kingdom of Coupledom<\/font> upon ALL SINGLE PEOPLE<\/font> everywhere who SHALL BE DEEMED WORTHLESS<\/font> unless, come Feb 14th, they are seen in the right place with a person of gender appropriate to their sexuality in the annual HERD-INSTINCT mass clinch.<\/p>\n

Cupid was hijacked<\/font> long ago to make money from loneliness, and the nonsensical nature of human attitudes towards love – finding love and falling in love and being in love and being loved – are exposed once a year in a blizzard of single stem roses, restaurant bookings, pink padded cards, threadbare lingerie, alchohol, sweets, and expectations racketed up to the moon, underneath which we are all supposed to pay homage to a chubby little bastard with a bow and arrow and bad eyesight.<\/p>\n

Everyone is hung up about this dating business. There’s a lot of stupid pressure put on “success” in dating – and what the hell is that when it’s at home? It turns love itself (and the pursuit of love) into a competition where success is measured by Richter-scale levels of interest, how much cash was spent, whether favourable sexual activity was achieved, and how enhanced either or both of your status is as a result. I know, I’ve been researching it, and I will reveal how later. In the same way that a fool and his money is soon parted, a lonely fool and his heart is soon wired up waiting for the surgeon. And yes that can be her heart too<\/b>, I just wanted to use that traditional gender-imbalanced phrase to MAKE A POINT.<\/p>\n

It’s alright for you, Deek, nobody said to me, you’ve FOUND love. But what about the rest of us poor souls, struggling to make a life out here on our ickle own, nobody to hug and kiss and eat chocolate with? Did I say, don’t try to get what you want? Did I say, sit down and remain in your cubicle? Did I? Ever? And what do you come up with as a solution? DATING? Time to turn up the heat.<\/p>\n

Basically dating is very simple<\/b>, but made complicated by the mixed messages about love that are perpetrated by our insane culture, gender polarisation, lack of self-esteem. <\/p>\n

We should not even use the term. There is a proper word for dating. It’s “associating”<\/font> – that’s all you are doing, associating. Hanging out. Because it’s nice to do. Insurgents do it all the time, and look how successful they are.<\/p>\n

Two clicks away from this very page, lives the Hopeless Romantic<\/a>. He’s a nice guy with a good blog. He has a date he’s nervous about. He feels silly. I left him some advice. Go read it.<\/a> No really, you’ll be surprised. I didn’t want to sound churlish on his page. He has sweet imaginary girlfriends. The heavy stuff is here. Cupid=Stupid. Remember that, it could save your love life.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

14 DAYS LEFT before the winged nutcase seeks out your wallet on the pretext of stimulating romance, 14 long days and nights of pressure from the magic Kingdom of Coupledom upon ALL SINGLE PEOPLE everywhere who SHALL BE DEEMED WORTHLESS unless, come Feb 14th, they are seen in the right place with a person of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}