Monthly Archives: March 2011
Dating Motivation
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. from Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson You’ll be hearing this a lot in 2012, as it will be a recurring theme in the London Olympics, but if you ever … Continue reading
Movie Clubs as a dating device
Bullit is cool because it has Steve McQueen Ford Mustang Aviator Sunglasses Lalo Schiffrin soundtrack really, nothing to do with dating here, but an assessment of the factors that make this movie a legend. The dating lesson in this: OK, … Continue reading
The Big 4
The Big 4…not to be confused with the Big 5. I had breakfast at a cafe in Cape Town and they offer two variations – Big 5 (sausage, bacon, egg, chips, coffee) and Healthy 5 (muesli, orange juice, yoghurt, fruit … Continue reading
The definition of insanity…
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Now I have seen that quote attributed to various thinkers though history: from Benjamin Franklin to Roy Keane, via Einstein. or to put it another … Continue reading
How often should a man change his socks?
Well, indeed, how frequently should a man change his socks? There is no doubt that there are men that don’t really have an answer to this that is going to be of benefit to them, but they are reluctant to … Continue reading
Lessons in Love, Actually: Part 2 (It’s not a chick flick)
I should really have gone to bed, but I foolishly played remote control roulette. You know the one, where you pick up the remote and flick through the channels “just to see what’s on” before you switch it off. James … Continue reading
Lessons in Love, Actually: Part 1 (James Bond, move on)
Timothy Dalton was a very unfortunate James Bond. He played Bond after Roger Moore and before Pierce Brosnan, in two great movies “The Living Daylights” and “Licence to Kill”. At that stage, Roger Moore had probably stayed longer in the … Continue reading
Finding girls that you want to date
So, single guys of the world unite. Dating awaits us. But where are we going to find these girls? I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills, when all at once I saw a … Continue reading
Trust your emotions to tell you how you really feel, trust your reason to tell you what to do with it
I got a card at Christmas from one of my greatest unrequited loves. Ben Elton once said that if unrequited love was reciprocated, then all marriages would truly be made in heaven. But it isn’t, and we have to deal with … Continue reading