somehow I think we lost our topic. And I am rather sure I contributed. 
Okay: I am currently active on several flirting- and dating-websites. One of those is more for flirting, the other is for searching a partner and building up a relationship.
On the first site every user has a set of photos, so I can immediately see whether the girlās face pleases my eye or not. On the other site you get to know the personality of a user first, before you can exchange photos.
My question is: What kind of photos should I use for such a purpose? I want to make the best possible impression. Job application photos show me in a suit jacket, with a white shirt underneath and a āridiculousā tie 
Most other photos show me with my ex fiancƩ, or were clearly taken by her, because I am looking as if I am in love with the camera, which looks dumb, I have to say. Most of my other photos are too old and show me in my early twens, among buddies, drinking beer and doing stupid stuff.
What could I do to make better photos for that purpose?
Also: What kind of information would you girls & women like to read about a potential partner on an internet dating website, in the first e-mail? And what kinds of questions would he have to ask to get your attention?
Sorry mate, but I sincerely doubt that using an internet dating site is the best course of action for finding someone to engage in a relationship with.
crap. Those questions are way out of my league. I will try tho, just dont hold me to it. (And internet dating is perfectly fine in my opinion.)
Pictures: I would say have pics done of you doing your favorite hobby. Are you a hiker? Then have your buddies take a ton of pics of you hiking. Do you have a pet? PETS ARE A PLUS so perhaps have a bunch of pics taken with your pet. Perhaps some pics lounging in the hammock out back? Pics of you cooking dinner? Obviously make sure you are dressed approprietly and you have your hair combed, but for goodness sake do NOT pic a picture to post that is only a headshot! It screams āMy head is the only think that I am not ashamed of. The rest of me is fat and I dont want you to know it!ā If you are fat, be proud of it! (Double points if you are fat AND you are cooking in the pic!)
Information: You want to include things you do for fun and things you do for a challenge and things you do for work. You want to include how a woman might fit into all of this. You also want to make it clear that you are not looking for āMrs. Rightā and feel no pressure to settle down but instead you are only looking for āMiss Lets go DO something today!ā
In an email you can expand on these things but then also let her know what you feel your strengths and weaknesses are. Let her know what you feel you bring to the table in a relationship and what you feel is an opening for HER to bring to the table to make your weaknesses better. āI enjoy cooking and would probably be the main feast provider in a given relationship, but I hate laundry.ā āI work later than most 9-5 folks, but I do have a lot of hobby time on the weekends that I prefer to not spend alone.ā
Hopefully some of this gives you some good ideas.
Thanks, Catz! That was very useful advise, and much appreciated!
Yeah, well - itās not like I am able to go out much as of now, so this is really the only thing left to do. Also, I know several people who have found together this way. Seems to work out for them, so it could also work for me.
now POST YOUR PICTURE FOR THE GALLERY DERN IT!
Corporate shills.
Yeah, turns out putting your hands into a plug-socket isnāt the best thing to do. Luckily I didnāt do it.
Nah, Iāve had so many cases of waiting a week wether she was pregant or not (Iām paranoid) and at some point I just though āFcuk, I donāt want to go through this each timeā and just saved my money up for it.
nvm
Trivia question for Catz:
If you and your friends were allowed to choose how tall you were, what height would you pick?
Also: Hai Black Mesa forums!
/lurks
Edit: Thankyou Comrade Tikiā¦ errm. Lets assume that it is genetically imprinted.
I think you should specify whether or not the custom height would be genetically imprinted or not. Thereās a difference between being over 6ft and passing the same tallness to your kids, and being over 6ft while your kids remain shrimps.
But donāt make it a āstagedā headshot! :3
No-one wants to see something that looks like a passport picture.
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yeah, natural pictures are always best. And yes I am purposely ignoring that other question.
Alright, just thought you might have an opinion on such a subject. Always hearing about how girls want to be taller and I wanted to test the theory =P Oh well. My bad.
Girls donāt want to be taller. They want their boyfriends to be taller than them. You gotta pay more attention, bro.
No, I hear both. Also I am female, sorry that my name (?) mislead you. Being 5ft 9 I donāt really see what all the fuss is about being tall and I wondered whether Catz would share a more enlightening opinion. ~<3
So basically, we should take her refusal to answer as her wishing her husband were taller?
Brilliantly combined, old chap.
OH okā¦ If you wanted to know if I wanted to be taller then why didnt you just ask if I wanted to be taller? Sorry. I didnt originally understand where the question was going.
I am 5ā7" and feel like a freekā¦ I had a huge crush on a guy in high school but he was shorter than meā¦ and I was humiliated when he called me an amazon.
For years I walked around in flat shoes and very short heels cuz I wanted the guy to be taller than me but didnāt want to narrow my dating chances. Any decent shoe/heel is at least 3 inches so in order to be with a guy he would hafta be 5ā10" or more.
See the problem? Till one day I realized I didnāt want to hafta slump my whole life. (see katie holmes.) So I purposly wore high heels and stood tall.
It got me my hubby at 6ā1".
So no, I do not want to be taller. Shorter is better than taller.