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Meeting a fat, ugly girl on Tinder

2017-04-04 · 5 min

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  1. Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba. So you might be

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  2. wondering, what am I doing outside my

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  3. room? Well, actually, a few days ago I was

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  4. on Tinder randomly swiping right on

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  5. everyone, and someone actually swiped

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  6. right back on me, and she was really

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  7. interested in meeting me. So I thought,

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  8. why don't I just get on the train and go

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  9. and meet her? She doesn't live that far

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  10. away. She lives about 2 hours away from

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  11. where I live. It's closer than Japan,

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  12. isn't it? So A lot of people have been

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  13. telling me why don't I meet up with local

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  14. girls, and I don't know, why don't I give

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  15. it a try? So see what happens.

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  16. There's no one here.

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  17. Hey, so it's been a few hours later and

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  18. I'm at Margate. I haven't actually met her

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  19. yet. She said that if I wanted to go and

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  20. see the sea, I have to go by myself

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  21. because she doesn't want to come. So I'm

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  22. walking around the beach for a bit by

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  23. myself and then I'm going to see her. I

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  24. think we're going to go to the arcades and

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  25. then we're going to go to see Ghost in the

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  26. Shell in the cinema. Which should be

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  27. interesting, I guess. I'm really nervous.

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  28. I've never done this before. I've never

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  29. met someone using Tinder before. I've

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  30. never met a British girl before, to be

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  31. honest. All my past relationships have

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  32. been with mostly Japanese girls and Asian

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  33. girls, so this is a first-time experience

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  34. for me. And I've never actually been to

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  35. Margate before, so it's interesting.

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  36. Anyway, I guess I should go and see her

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  37. now. I'll tell you what happens later, so

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  38. see you later. So it's 8 PM in the

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  39. evening. We just finished, um, and she

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  40. dropped me off at the station.

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  41. I'm so disappointed. The, the second I saw

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  42. her, the instant I saw her, I was

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  43. instantly turned off. She was just

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  44. completely unattractive, so different to

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  45. how she looks like in the picture. It was

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  46. just like this terrible combination of

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  47. looking really ugly and being really

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  48. overweight. I never felt more turned off

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  49. in my life. And now I've got to wait a

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  50. whole hour until the next train comes,

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  51. and then it's going to take me about 2

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  52. hours to get home. So definitely not worth

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  53. the trip. I really regret coming, and it's

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  54. kind of made me scared about going to

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  55. Japan even more. I mean, what if I go to

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  56. Japan, I meet this Japanese woman, and I

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  57. don't feel attracted to her either? It's

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  58. not like I can just go home. I'm stuck in

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  59. Japan for 2 weeks. At least here it only

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  60. takes a few hours to get back home by

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  61. train, so it's not really a huge loss.

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  62. What am I going to do if the same thing

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  63. happens in Japan? It was so awkward. The

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  64. instant I saw her, I felt like I wanted to

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  65. go home. I really didn't feel like talking

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  66. to her. We just got something to eat. We

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  67. had this horrible meal which tasted

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  68. terrible. I had salmon and she had some

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  69. kind of burger, and we just sat there

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  70. eating. It was, it was so awkward. And

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  71. then we went to the cinema to watch Ghost

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  72. in the Shell, which was pretty good. I

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  73. quite enjoyed the movie. The cinema was so

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  74. small, it was like smaller than my living

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  75. room. It had about 25 seats, and there

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  76. were these fat people sitting behind us

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  77. eating popcorn really noisily. That's one

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  78. of the main reasons why I hate going to

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  79. the cinema. I don't even know why I came

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  80. here in the first place. I saw a few

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  81. pictures of her and I thought to myself,

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  82. she doesn't look too bad, she looks kind

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  83. of attractive. But I didn't feel like she

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  84. was amazingly attractive. But I didn't

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  85. think it would be as bad as it was. I

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  86. didn't think she would look that bad in

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  87. reality. That's the tricky thing about

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  88. online dating. Even if you've seen the

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  89. photos, even if you've seen the video of

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  90. them, when you meet them in real life,

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  91. they always look entirely different. The

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  92. funny thing is she's the same age as me,

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  93. but she looks 10 years older than my

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  94. Japanese girlfriend, who is almost 10

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  95. years older than both of us. It's really

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  96. strange how English people seem to age

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  97. really badly compared to, compared to

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  98. Asian people. My Japanese girlfriend,

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  99. she's 37, and this girl I just met today,

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  100. she's only 28, the same as me. But my

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  101. Japanese girlfriend looks at least 10

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  102. years younger than this girl I just met

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  103. today. Oh, freaking freezing.

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  104. I think this whole experience is just kind

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  105. of reconfirmed how much more attracted I

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  106. feel towards Asian women. The women here,

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  107. they just don't do anything for me. I

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  108. don't feel anything when I see an Asian

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  109. woman, even if she's not very attractive.

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  110. My heart kind of skips a beat and I feel,

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  111. I feel drawn to her. But the local girls

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  112. around my area, around my part of the

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  113. country, I just, I don't find them

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  114. attractive at all. And people ask me why I

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  115. keep going to Japan or why I keep going to

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  116. Asia, but that's why.

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