This column first appeared here, in The Sunday Times on 1 July 2018: TINDER BECOMES UNHINGED By Paige Nick I once dated a guy who only had one real-life friend in the whole wide world. That should have been the first sign that something wasn’t quite right with him. There were other glow-in-the-dark red flags…
Category: online dating
Pokemon better than sex
This column first appeared in the Sunday Times LifeStyle section on 7th August CONCH – AUGUST 2016 POKEMON GO BETTER THAN SEX – By Paige Nick Suddenly Pokemon Go is better than sex. I personally do it as often as I can. Not Pokemon Go, I’ve never done that, I mean sex. Bizarrely, three weeks…
On finding the perfect match
Morning all. How much do you have in common with your significant other? Here’s yesterday’s column, in which I investigate. A MILLION MILES FROM NORMAL – By Paige Nick WHAT MAKES A PERFECT MATCH? Of course dating is a numbers game – the more people you date, the greater your chances of meeting your…
No more fish in the sea
Morning, and happy Monday! Here’s the catch of the day, it’s yesterday’s Sunday Times column: A MILLION MILES FROM NORMAL – By Paige Nick FISHING IN THE SHALLOW END It’s official. According to scientists everywhere, there are fewer fish in the sea now than there have ever been. In fact, if we keep going the…
Dating a lunatic
Morning, here’s yesterday’s Sunday Times column. Hope you enjoy. A MILLION MILES FROM NORMAL – By Paige Nick DATING CRAZIES The other day I was browsing what’s available on my local dating website and the distressing possibility started to occur to me that I may have run out of men to date. What if, as…
Dodgy dating sites
I’m here, so it must be Monday, here’s yesterday’s Sunday Times Column, hope you enjoy. xA MILLION MILES FROM NORMAL – By Paige Nick DODGY DATING SITES Since I seem to be the common denominator in all my dodgy dates to date, I’ve come to the conclusion that perhaps I’m doing it wrong, or maybe…
Dating by the book
Did you know that online dating in America is a $1.049 billion per year industry? Yup, it’s actually bigger than the online porn industry, which is a crazy factoid. Although ironic, as the line between the two – online dating and online porn, is often a very very narrow and tenuous one. With that in…
I give up, I'm dating myself.
I’ve found a site that i find astonishing. in a crazy mad fucked up way. Although the more I look at it, the more it makes sense. I guess. I mean a girl or a dude can only go on so many crap, crazy, awful dates before they decide they’d really rather just date themselves….
M.I.L.F Dating
Did you know that in South Africa we have our very own MILF Dating Website? No I did not know that. Every day really is a school day. For those of you who’ve spent the last ten years living under a large boulder whilst wearing ear phones (maybe listening to Celine Dion or Billy Ray…
Crazy psycho chicks from hell.
So for the last year and a bit on this blog, I’ve written many many many posts bemoaning the sad state of affairs on the online dating website I frequent. Married men, freaky deaky men, bad spelling men, lying men, odd men and just plain strange men, I’ve checked out all of them. But I’ve…