Good UK dating sites for people who can spell?

July 14, 2009 12:26 AM

Good UK online dating sites for people who can spell?
posted by humblepigeon to human relations (14 comments total)

Intelligent People.
posted by fire&wings at 12:37 AM on July 14

okcupid is international, the only caveat being a rather loose understanding of "nearby". I signed up to check it out and get information about new/interesting listings "around Warsaw, Poland" from Romania, Sweden and Hungary.
posted by jedrek at 1:42 AM on July 14

I've heard good things about the Guardian site from friends. As long as you can tolerate the Guardianista types...
posted by Dan Brilliant at 1:56 AM on July 14

I dunno what the hit-rate is like, but god-damn, is there anything funnier (and more literate I might add) than the London Review of Books' Personals?.

(btw, the answer is no)
posted by smoke at 3:00 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]

I met a lovely lady on the Guardian Soulmates site. She's not even a Guardianista type.
posted by Edwahd at 4:15 AM on July 14

Guardian Soulmates does indeed have a very good reputation in that respect. It's not got a great range outside London in my experience though.

MySingleFriend tends to have well written ads in my experience too.
posted by edd at 4:49 AM on July 14

I joined that Intelligent People site just to see if I could pass the test. I did, but you get no score. This is just a warning to anyone else who does it just to see how well they score - you don't find out :-(
posted by wackybrit at 7:14 AM on July 14

Thirding Guardian soulmates, as I met Mr Augenblick there and married him a mere 12 months later. It's not all woolly socks and birkenstock types, though Mr Augenblick does have a very fetching panama hat.
posted by Augenblick at 9:17 AM on July 14 [1 favorite]

jedrek: okcupid seems to understand what "nearby" means for me, in Philadelphia; I suspect that the issue is that there aren't that many European users.
posted by madcaptenor at 9:16 PM on July 14

Also, I just remembered Ivory Towers which sounds offensively elitist but a good friend has recently had great success with it (at least they've just got pregnant and bought a house together).
posted by Dan Brilliant at 4:34 AM on July 15

I met MrMippy on Guardian Soulmates. It took us four years to actually get together, but that's where it all began. Mind you, he does eat muesli.

I joined OK Cupid out of curiosity, and found it very depressing. An ex of mine used to go on there to meet (his words) 'vulnerable women', so make of that what you will. I read a lot of success stories from people in the States, though - maybe in the UK you need to take that Metafilter $5-keeps-it-noise-free attitude to dating.
posted by mippy at 9:29 AM on August 4

(Augenblick, I think I know Mr Augenblick in an internetty way - there can't be two men in London with a fetching panama hat! Glad everything worked out for you guys.)
posted by mippy at 9:30 AM on August 4

Oh, if it helps, I never joined dating sites with the serious intention of finding a partner, more a 'let's do this and see if it's interesting'. If you are gung-ho about finding someone to settle down with, you probably want to find something specific to that.
posted by mippy at 9:31 AM on August 4

Further to the above: me and MrMippy were arguing about what we would need when we get a place together, and he told me that a local post office was unnecessary as 'you can get postage online'.

'What is this brave new world where you can get everything online? Can you get dogs online? Can you get love online? I don't think so.'

He replied 'Where did I get you from, then?'

I think this makes us a Guardian Soulmates Success Story.
posted by mippy at 9:33 AM on August 4 [1 favorite]