If someone dumps me on a first date over my phone then so be it. It actually looks like dodging a bullet.
I’d dump you for not knowing the difference between then and than.
SpaceNoodle is the real killer here
I’m sorry, that’s actually a mistake, fixed it
It’s too late, I already dumped you
So no coach co-op?
No coaching, I expect you to already be trained.
On a serious note, Aziz Ansari (Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec) has a pretty good book called Modern Romance that’s worth a read. When he does standup, he’ll have a volunteer from the audience swipe though their Tinder (or Bumble or whatever) matches. The amount of trivial stuff that people dismiss potential partners for is absolutely amazing. People will be like “they’re a Bears fan, swipe left.”
So people could be compatible on 999/1000 different levels, but our methods of online dating almost allow too much choice, because people feel like they should hold out to find someone who matches 1000/1000.
Joke’s on you, that’s basically my only criterion.
Ah, a Packers fan I see.
I don’t get it.
I thought you meant that hating the Chicago Bears was the only thing you were looking for in a partner, so I assumed you were a Green Bay Packers fan.
Oh. No, quite the opposite. That makes me realize I have two criteria: good grammar, and a loathing of sports.
I would love to say “use whatever you like”, but these Apple sycophants are ridiculous. They literally judge people because of the color of a text bubble! It’s like saying “both US political parties are bad”. Like, yeah: one party is flawed, but the other wants to destroy Democracy…
Men, proudly drag that battered and cracked android phone out on the first date, it’s a litmus test for shallow people, apparently.
I went on a first date with a girl I met from work. She farted loud enough to be heard over drunken yelling and music in the steakhouse we were in, immediately after saying “I don’t get embarassed”.
In a couple of weeks, we will have been together for 16 years. We’ve been married for 14 years. We cook together every evening, we hold each other whenever we are in the same room for more than five minutes, and on the rare nights where we aren’t taking each other’s clothes off, we fall asleep wrapped around each other. I would have missed out on a perfect relationship if I had judged her for a phone.
Her origin story:
RIP craigslist personals
In your situation, it had nothing to do with a phone, haha. Swell on you for not judging her though.
Judging someone for a bodily function is just stupid.
But you see, you had genders swapped here. It’s OK for a woman to show hers, just don’t show yours (/s, obviously)
/s but not really. Men aren’t supposed to have standards when it comes to women according to many women
Aren’t allowed to have standards…cuz womenz can do absolutely anything and men MUST luuuurve them…right?
I’m gonna have to get myself an old android phone I suppose
the best move is to show your android phone in your profile pics so you don’t get trapped with someone so shallow
Holy shit I’ve got some boomer energy, here:
The reason to not take out your phone isn’t because someone might hate on your phone.
You don’t take out your phone on a date so that you can be giving that person your full attention.
Yeah, that’s my immediate thought as well. Attention is huge.
So how are you paying?
What do you mean?
You pay for your meal via contactless right? So you have to get your phone out.
No one saying they get your phone out in the meal. It’s just if you get your phone out at any point on a first date, they’ll see it right?
At a sit-down place, you normally give your card to the waitstaff once they bring the check/receipt. There’s no tap-to-pay terminal they bring to you.
You should not ever let someone take your bank card out of your sight! Where are you where this is accepted!?
Yeah, it’s not great if you think about it, but it’s standard. I’m not here to be a prescriptivist; I’m just describing my experience (and it’s a common one in the US of A).
That’s not how it works everywhere in the world. Most places you just pay with your phone or your card.
Card? Cash? I can’t think of the last time I paid with my phone at a sit-down restaurant.
There are lots of reasons for using a smartphone beyond avoiding engaging in conversation though. Looking things up, sharing contact info, planning another date, paying for the meal/event, even going to a movie can almost require an app.
I’m not saying these would be the majority of the time or anything, but not using your phone whatsoever is more of a limitation than you’d think.
People with existing family trying to date, like a single parent checking on their kids. For sure the blanket no phone attitude is unrealistic.
I’ve got some zoomer info for you: We use our phone to check the time
Now tell em to fuck off our lawns!
Alternate take: Buy an Android phone and use your green bubble to weed trash people out of your life.
Pro-tip: I stuck a sticker of a large banana on the back of my android.
Everyone’s a fan of a big banana.
I have no mouth and I must scream.
I am no longer a fan of big banana
Who hurt you
Is there a way to get the green bubbles if you use an iPhone?
Yeah, you can disable iMessage in the Messages settings.
The funny thing is a lot of people in Europe do this anyway because imessage is incompatible with everything else, and for some reason no one cares about message bubble color in Europe.
I don’t think I would want to date a woman who cares what phone I use.
I dunno, I think it would be fun to discuss parts of AOSP my date and I are both familiar with.
These men dodged a bullet.
Better advice: use an android phone to filter out the reactive dipshits.
I’m 100% okay with being rejected for my Android phone. My dick doesn’t fit in women that shallow.
I think all this tells us is that Katarina here hangs out exclusively with basic bitches
Back in the days, basic bitches would dump you because you didn’t drive a german car. Now they judge you on your phone. Times are hard for everyone it seems.
Seems like they are making it easy…show the phone instantly. When they show distaste for a brand, just leave.
Let’s face it: If they were that superficial, they wouldn’t have dated me to begin with.
If they are that superficial, you dong want to date them. Use every effective “shitty person” filter you can, as quickly as you can.
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Shit advice. If my date dismisses me because of the phone I use, they are not worth pursuing.
If you are that desperate to get laid that you start tippy-toeing, consider paying a whore. Better for your mental health.
Use the android phone as a filter.
100% this. If they’re judging you based on your fucking phone, then THEY are not worth pursuing
I feel like using it on the first date is actually better, as a form of litmus test to find out of your date is trash (bad).
Does this really matter that much in the US?. Here in the Netherlands about 70% of people had an android phone in 2022. Nobody really cares what you use, as long as you’re happy using it.
Apple people are weird, it’s best to avoid them when possible.
*American apple people. No one else on earth gives a shit.
It was only six months ago that I learnt they were getting their knickers in a twist for years about the colour of text messages
I had absolutely no fucking clue that text messages had different colours
How. Fuckin. Infantile is that?!?
If you think it’s the color of the bubble that is the problem, you might be the infant
I’m not the one paying a grand for a phone that doesn’t support basic SMS functions and reduces the quality of MMS for goodness knows what reason but probably money
Laugh at the Apple user
No that is the reason. There is nothing intellectual about the position. It’s just moronic.
Yeah, no one claimed it was intellectual, stop putting words in my mouth.
All grandma knows is when we add cousin Linus all the bubbles turn green and the photos look terrible, so she leaves him out and only emails him later if she remembers.
Also, yeah that’s Apple’s fault. Never said it wasn’t.
But to imply that there is, like, bubble racism or something going on, ie it’s purely over aesthetics, and that people are being “infantile” because of it, is ignorant reductance of such magnitude that you basically burned your own strawman down.
Except it’s not the color, it’s the feature set that the colors represent.
You don’t know what you’re talking about then, since Android has exactly the same feature set as iOS (I mean why wouldn’t it) it’s just that Apple refuses to use a universal standard that’s compatible and as per usual insists on using their own made-up proprietary nonsense, see charging cables, iTunes, the Apple watch, and air tags. So Android phones have to default to SMS to send any messages to iPhones. Between android devices the feature sets are there.
It’s called RCS, look it up it’s interesting.
I remember when the iphone first came out. A guy in my country flew to the US to buy one then came back to brag that he’s the first one in the country to have one and he couldn’t even use it here.
iPhone is dominant in the US, but I can’t believe people give enough of a shit about which smartphone someone uses for it to be a dealbreaker in finding a significant other.
Oh they definitely do, especially among young people. They even get bullied over the color of the iMessage text bubble which shows up in different color if the message was sent from a phone other than iPhone.
Well then, this might just be a good way to filter out dipshits.
I blame dating sites to be honest.
For a large portion of women they can have almost anyone at the push of a button and so they start rejecting people for the most absurd things.
I imagine the same could be said for the “chads” on dating sites, but I think they care more about the pump and dump than being superficial about anything because they aren’t in it for a relationship.
Then there is me, a literal joke of a human. My phone would probably be the last thing I’d get rejected for as you won’t even get that far before swiping “not ever.” Lol
I really hope you know better to take shitty Twitter memes at face value. This isn’t a thing.
I’m a Finn, not sure what the apple % is here, but I’ve never met anyone who isn’t either a child or atleast slightly retarded that owns one.
About 70% of men are considered below average by women
Why would even want to be with someone so shallow in the first place ? If they ghost over a phone then good riddance.
