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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Yes, I guess we do.
I used to speak to a man on the phone at work years ago, he had a very attractive voice and a french accent. The picture in my head didn't match reality  "
I have had that soooooo many times  |
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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago
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I don’t know now. The reason I ended up in the South East was being charmed by a man on the phone by his voice (he was a customer of the company I worked for).
I think it’s rare that I think oh wow, you are nothing like I expected and when I get it really wrong it’s usually with women! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Not so much a mental picture if what they look like unless they have public pics then I don't need to.
It's more a feel of what they are like their ideas thoughts the things that they like or dislike and how they relate to others or may even relate to me. In many ways that's the key attraction. Do they make me laugh intrigue me with their mind make me think and get inside my mind.
When I try to visualise someone here I have never seen I usually get the image of their appearance totally wrong...but then the biggest sex organ we all have is the brain so maybe if the brain in connected then the attraction is already developed and what we imagine someone looks like assumes less importance when or if we meet them face to face?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to when I first posted in the forums. I was usually wrong. Now I just don't get a mental picture at all - I think I've been wrong so much that my mind has given up trying. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Form a mental picture of what people look like from forum posts and messages? I do and I'm nearly always wrong "
Yes, and there are quite a few strange mythical beasts on here   |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I used to when I first posted in the forums. I was usually wrong. Now I just don't get a mental picture at all - I think I've been wrong so much that my mind has given up trying."
Same. I lose track of profile names and so many people have the same pics I've given up trying to distinguish anything. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Form a mental picture of what people look like from forum posts and messages? I do and I'm nearly always wrong "
yes but don't know whether I'm right never seen what most look like |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Form a mental picture of what people look like from forum posts and messages? I do and I'm nearly always wrong "
Me too!
I'm wrong all the time.
I got sent a picture recently that actually shocked me 
And peoples voices often surprise me too.
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Thanks everyone for your answers. We get to see very few faces unless they're on profiles that I tend to fill in the blanks . For some unknown reason I imagine everyone as tall, no idea why, even of their dscription says they're not. I also rarely imagine blond hair. |
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"Thanks everyone for your answers. We get to see very few faces unless they're on profiles that I tend to fill in the blanks . For some unknown reason I imagine everyone as tall, no idea why, even of their dscription says they're not. I also rarely imagine blond hair."
I have brown hair 6' and well spoken |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Do you also find that even when you have seen a pboto the real face is much different? Almost always better. "
Yes I find photos difficult for deciding if I'd like someone. That's why I always have a social first. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't think many are surprised by me, I'm boringly predictable.
I was pleasantly surprised at your gentle demeanour. "
Thank you that's nice to hear
I hope that doesn't mean I come across badly on the forums though!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Do you also find that even when you have seen a pboto the real face is much different? Almost always better.
I did find that at the Manchester Social recently. "
Me too  |
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By *adame BWoman
over a year ago
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"Bizarrely I don't on here but do in other aspects of my life, like with people I interact with on the phone, or characters in books etc.
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Same and hate when they make a movie of a book and cast a completely different type to what I had imagined.
Accents and how someone speaks can influence my attraction levels to them
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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago
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I sort of cobble together bits of information... forum posts, photos, profile content and have a vague image of what I think they look and sound like. Once I’ve met someone I start to read their posts/messages with their accent |
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"I sort of cobble together bits of information... forum posts, photos, profile content and have a vague image of what I think they look and sound like. Once I’ve met someone I start to read their posts/messages with their accent "
How good's your Glaswegian?  |
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I'm often wrong too ... sometimes pleasantly and sometimes not! 