If only I had know, I could have gone over to Iceland last year as a missionary

You... owe me a keyboard and monitor!

He nicked that idea. When he was a teenager, someone else had already reached the same conclusion:

http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why...e_a_Girlfriend

The depressing thing is, even if you start lower down in the chain (ignoring, for example, the number of people in the world.), you still end up with the same odds.

Right, so we have approximately 302,800,500 males hunting these 18,726 females.
Yeah, that explains a lot. I understand the world much better now.

Ok, whos having dating problems? What are we going to do about it?

Too much politics and history is doing my head in... need some cheap thrills now

Considering Zurich has an abnormally high amount of stunning-looking women, many of whom speak English... it shouldn't be that hard to find a date here... surely? I'm not talking about 1-a-week or anything silly like that... but at least once every couple/few months?

I can't help but think that statistically, the chances of getting a good-looking girlfriend must be as good here as anywhere, language barriers notwithstanding. I wonder how many people complaining of never having had a date here have regularly hit on Swiss women with a vengeance, or if they stick to the ex-pat community and then have the odd "flutter" on a Swiss girl, and when unsuccessful think "Hmph, they must all be like that" and voila, an entire nation is labelled.

Hey man...I have been forced to learn how to ski from social pressure. I dont mind it but im not crazy for it. We should meet up (esp as I live in Morges)

Pahh...
I don't touch skis, and it doesn't seam that it matters to guys who have shown me some interest. Doesn't matter at all.

I'll learn eventually, but for now the spine as been more useful than the skiing skills.

Oh well...if you don`t get a sporty girl with that one... obviously its not just the girls who are having dating problems

When you say you don't touch skis... does that include the poles too?










Ok i'm sorry, i'm sorry.

No, it means that one person in 3493 fits all the criteria as a partner (and the list is fairly reasonable).

So no matter how big a pool of potential partners you start off with, if you date one person a week, it could take you 67 years to find the right partner.

And if the pool is smaller than 3493 persons, then the chances increase that a suitable partner may not even exist.

EDIT: His sample is in the 17-21 year old range. As you go up in the age range, the number of committed persons goes up way higher than his 50% estimate. Factor in the "set in your ways" argument, and additional filtering criteria must be added.

richdog - are you getting some? you seem to be spending too much time here commenting.

isn't his logic flawed? if there are around 240k women who are beautiful and single and there is a 7% chance that any one from this 240k will be both intelligent enough for him and like him back, then after dating 1 from this pool he will have 93% chance of failure.

after dating 2, 86% chance of failure (or 14% chance of success)
after 10 dates, 48% chance of failure (or 52% chance of success)
after 20 dates, 23% chance of failure (or 77% chance of success)
after 30 dates, 11% chance of failure (or 89% chance of success)
after 40 dates, 5% chance of failure (or 95% chance of success)

so would take 2.5 months of dating to get better than 50% chance of success. if you had 3 dates a week, you'd be at 50% after 3 weeks of dating.

calling MathNut to verify.

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I do alright for myself.

Soggy biscuits all round! Huzzah!

I'm sure that's the third reference to soggy biccies from you i've seen. Something you want to share?





Preferably a moist ginger nut.

it's a euphemism for a gay sexual act.

Thanks for the explanation Phil, I never would have guessed...

(hence the white text)