Smart Phones Killed Dating?
I read a pretty compelling argument on a blog recently that said smart phones killed dating. Wait, is dating dead!? I can agree that smart phones have given dating a nasty virus. To some, they may have even put dating in the ICU. I think it is self-inflicted and it can be corrected, though!
With technology, social networking, social media, how can we harness all that cool tech stuff to actually enhance our dating experiences? What are clearly defined challenges that smart phones and technology bring? What are ways we can creatively handle those challenges?
In your own experiences, would you say that your smart phone has added to your game? Taken away from it? No change at all?
Happy Monday everyone!
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Comon ¢
November 6th, 2012
11:58 am
swiss~ Buckshot Pryor might be one of the greatest porn names of all time. I think you missed your calling. (Or maybe not?)
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
12:00 pm
Let’s see, i’ve been to:
Strokers
Magic City
Pin Ups
Goosebumps
Dancers Elite
Some spot with Candy in the name – forgot
Pink Pony South
And I believe there is one more I can’t recall.
disco
November 6th, 2012
12:00 pm
dag. strip clubs. only y’all. gotta few memories. not many. some chicks tricked me into going to one on my bday a few years ago. yep. I said tricked me and yep, they did trick me. boy I was full of patron that night and to this day I can’t listen to maxwell’s this woman’s work the same. some little fellow who looked like andre 3000 danced off of it. a time or two in my youth I hung out with guy friends at the strip club.
Leggs
November 6th, 2012
12:04 pm
SlimNu ~ you know better than to use Dick and Gulp in the same sentence!!!
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
12:07 pm
I’ve never been to an actual male strip club…but i have gone to the male review that Wanda Smith usually host for Luscious.
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
12:10 pm
Leggs – DOH! You’re right..ooops. I surely don’t want to put that visual out there.
HST
November 6th, 2012
12:12 pm
Patrick Mustang is showing his obligues off…
Charlie Pine is working dat gurl…
Yes, it was more fun using “statistical stripper names” in a sentence.
Leggs, that’s pretty pricey for used fox-body. If it has more than 50K miles, it’s not worth the $. Besides, they are absolute terds, compared to modern cars. I have an 88 5.0 convertible (15K on the ODO, and I’ve put 9K of that on it), because it was like the car I had when I was 16. I paid 12.5k for it, and it’s truly mint, but it’s still an absolute terd. I could probably sell it for what I paid, or the smallest profit, but I keep it for sentimental reasons. “25% of the price on a Fox-Body Mustang is sentimental.” – Mustang Magazine
disco
November 6th, 2012
12:13 pm
slim – too late. the guys will be back after they take care of something right quick.
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
12:16 pm
disco – Well in that case, get the warm towels ready
Jake-SPJTWB
November 6th, 2012
12:21 pm
Andre Absyousee
Comon ¢
November 6th, 2012
12:25 pm
disco/Leggs~ Where are your stripper names? Come on wit it!
Anything to make my day go by faster… 
Comon ¢
November 6th, 2012
12:26 pm
Charlie Pine
Well, now we know why the ladies like HST…
disco
November 6th, 2012
12:29 pm
CC – it seems like at some point in my life I had a stripper persona/name. guess I haven’t been getting my stripper on in so long that I forgot all about her. wonder where she’s at and what she’s been up to. hmmm.
slim – you nice. warm towels? I’d let him use his shirt tail. now ain’t that nasty? lol.
Leggs
November 6th, 2012
12:31 pm
HST ~ I was simply putting in on the blog. I have no idea how many miles it has on it. I know the body is in mint condition. I haven’t looked under the hood. No need.
What are we supposed to use for stripper names? Pet’s name and what else, or street address and what else?
Buckshot Pryor
November 6th, 2012
12:31 pm
“I think you missed your calling.”
Comon — Buckshot never misses, boo.
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
12:34 pm
I used to call myself Mimosa lol
disco – Well, a shirt tail ain’t half as nasty as a dirty sock…be walking round smelling like toe jam, weenie and ball juice
disco
November 6th, 2012
12:34 pm
y’all talking about strippers. I have a co-worker walking around straight looking like one right this minute. of course, she usually does at least once or twice a week because she thinks she’s all that.
buckshot – when I think buckshot I think about beady beads or the kitchen at the back of the neck. seems like we used to clown and call it buckshot when we were growing up.
HST
November 6th, 2012
12:35 pm
A sentence with the name help us know the mentality of us in stripper form.
Here I was thinking that Charlie Pine was not as cool as Patrick Mustang; but now I see the ambiguous or double entendre meaning of both.
I’m surprised the blog is letting us comment today.
disco
November 6th, 2012
12:36 pm
ewww. a nasty sock is bad. that’s real bad. what’s even worse is I’m sure the blog gents could tell us some trifling type things that guys they know wiped off with. note I said guys they know. we know the blog gents would never get down like that.
Single and Happy
November 6th, 2012
12:38 pm
Stripper names, Mine would be Black Card, because that’s what a girl told me I needed to get with her, I didn’t even know what that was at the time (LOL)
Buckshot Pryor
November 6th, 2012
12:39 pm
disco / Slim — Re: Nasty wiping habits… If you ladies just swallow, there’s no issue.
HST
November 6th, 2012
12:41 pm
Gotcha Leggs, just wanted to give ya a heads up, JIC.
Disco, there’s so many of those types around. Why anyone other than a stripper would want to be viewed as a stripper in the workplace is beyond my thought. Curious – no dress code where you’re at, or the person just barely meets the required attire?
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
12:43 pm
If you ladies just swallow, there’s no issue
Leggs – There’s that ‘gulp’ karma coming back to me
disco
November 6th, 2012
12:44 pm
HST – there is a dress code. it’s just rarely enforced. she’s the only one who ever looks hookerish. the others just often look way too comfortable for work. lol. don’t know if you know but I am the fashion/dress code police in my own mind.
HST
November 6th, 2012
12:45 pm
Single and Happy, neither did she, because it’s always been called the Centurion. The J.P. Morgan Palladium is where it’s at today.
Tatson Friendly aka Comon ¢
November 6th, 2012
12:47 pm
Slim~
Gulp karma made me giggle…
disco
November 6th, 2012
12:48 pm
slim – re karma. not really. he just wasn’t keeping up. we were talking about dudes jacking and I think it’s safe to assume that we meant jacking alone. lol.
do y’all remember a rap song from back in the day? it’s the world’s biggest D, don’t matter just don’t bite it… she swallowed it. lol.
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
12:48 pm
Speaking of the chick at work looking like a stripper, have any of you watched the first episode of Housewives of Atlanta??? That Kenya Moore chick was over the top in her rudeness to the models that tried out for Jet Beauty of the week…I’m wondering if they prodded her to help compete with the drama of the Love & Hip Hop show.
Tatson Friendly aka Comon ¢
November 6th, 2012
12:48 pm
I need MsAtl to back me up, but my favorite is the female attorneys who suits say “Ann Taylor” but their shoes say “Dollhouse”
HST~ You might be able to speak on this subject.
Willie Dynamite
November 6th, 2012
12:49 pm
Blacky Fowler
Disco-When she went into the bathroom I used her pillowcase then turned it over so she couldn’t see it. I felt bad until this trick didn’t even think to get me a washcloth or nothing.
Leggs
November 6th, 2012
12:49 pm
Stripper name = Misty Franklin
SlimNu ~ knew it as coming back….gulping always seems to have that boomerang affect (lol).
HST
November 6th, 2012
12:50 pm
“Don’t know if you know but I am the fashion/dress code police in my own mind.”
I am too, and don’t care how g@y, metro-sexual, or whatever that makes me sound. My favorite fashion quote is “Just because they make it in your size doesn’t mean you should wear it…”
Single and Happy
November 6th, 2012
12:51 pm
HST, when I did ask someone about a black card they were telling me how you could go buy a car or a house with it, I was like so it’s like any other American Express card, they knew nothing of the perks that came with it (LOL) or how to get it at the time (LOL) I know she didn’t was just one of those things she heard in a song (LOL)
disco
November 6th, 2012
12:54 pm
HST – I have one friend who I’ll shop with occasionally. it never fails she’ll pick up something to show me talking about “isn’t this cute” and I usually end up replying “girl that looks like pajamas”. lol. she wears a lot of tights and leggings and baggy tshirts and all that. sorry that look is just not for me. for me, tights are for jogging, working out, hanging around the house. they just aren’t my wear for real clothes. now, don’t get me wrong. I have invested in a couple pair of “jeggings” but in my mind (lol – always in my mind) that’s not the same.
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
12:55 pm
I felt bad until this trick didn’t even think to get me a washcloth or nothing</em.
WD – So it was her fault huh?
Hollers!!!
Leggs – Misty Franklin sounds like a p0rnstar known for s q u i r t i n g
Buckshot Pryor
November 6th, 2012
12:55 pm
“When she went into the bathroom I used her pillowcase then turned it over so she couldn’t see it.”
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
1:01 pm
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night because you scratched your face on your pillow case
That’s almost like using a towel to wipe up…letting it air dry overnight, then using that same stiff towel to wipe your face in the morning.
Tatson Friendly aka Comon ¢
November 6th, 2012
1:07 pm
Y’all just reminded me of that episode of Family Guy where they go to move Chris’ sheets and they shatter.
I am ALOL!
Willie Dynamite
November 6th, 2012
1:08 pm
Slim- that was kinda trifling but I found a way to justify it in my mind. She never mentioned it directly but she did say we messed up all the sheets and pillowcases. Hahaha. We had a few more sessions and luckily for me no more pillowcases as she eventually came around to promise land for the finish.
Single and Happy
November 6th, 2012
1:09 pm
Okay, what yall putting on these sheets and pillowcases (LOL)
HST
November 6th, 2012
1:11 pm
Common, this is a huge issue with/for me right now – I can not stand the h00ker heels anymore. An Ann Taylor pant-suit with those heels is an atrocity.
I am currently in negotiations with my GF to rid herself of all those heels. They absolute kill her feet, and unless you’re a h00ker, stripper, or NeNe Leaks (even she shouldn’t wear them either) then these types of heels should be off your shoe rack. Really, I’m having arguments about these heels with my GF currently. She’s like “They cost so much – you used to love them – they’re CLB, JCs, and such.” but I can’t stand them anymore. However, whatever makes her happy, but I just don’t see how she’s happy in that much pain. Let me add gel inserts to my $1k shoes. Unfreakinbelieveable!
Single and Happy
November 6th, 2012
1:17 pm
HST have you seen the women walking in them and you can tell they’re in pain, and if they’re not they sure look like it.
HST
November 6th, 2012
1:23 pm
I am certainly from “Morning Wood Academy,” and have to threaten from time to time that her pillow may get more than head if she’s too negligent.
How bout’ dem entendre’s…
Leggs
November 6th, 2012
1:24 pm
What would you do if you found out a good friend of yours has never voted???
Leggs
November 6th, 2012
1:26 pm
I like the name, Misty Franklin with a trick or two up her sleeve!
Single and Happy
November 6th, 2012
1:28 pm
Leggs, did you read my mind, I was just reading an article about that. I know several people that have never vote, and it’s their right not too.
http://blog.al.com/archiblog/2012/11/why_i_will_not_vote_today.html
SlimNu: Life always happens
November 6th, 2012
1:29 pm
Leggs – I’d probably just pick their brain on why they have never voted…but as far as “DO” anything, there really isn’t much you can do with regards to another grown ass person. Did it make you lose a bit of respect for them inside?
Willie Dynamite
November 6th, 2012
1:33 pm
I saw so many heels at the Dome Sunday night. I enjoyed the views as it seemed tight jeans and heels was the uniform that night. The hurt foot walk is funny tho. The things some chicks do for attention.
HST
November 6th, 2012
1:38 pm
Single and Happy, WD, for realz. I wonder if they think we don’t notice, and all we do notice is their legs and a$$.
If I had a friend whom didn’t vote – I’m not so sure we could be friends (minimal close) anymore – I would respect their right not to vote or anyone’s.
Single and Happy
November 6th, 2012
1:41 pm
2 things very hard to discuss religion and politics, great way to loose friends.