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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Crap Dates - Rhodri Marsden</h1>
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2021-03-19
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2021/">#books:2021</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18152436-crap-dates">GoodReads Summary</a>:</p>
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<p>A good date can be exhilarating: a shared joke, an improbable spark, long
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moments of gazing fondly into each other's eyes. Not so for the dating disasters
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featured in this collection of laugh-out-loud actual tweets about the most
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terrible evenings imaginable. From seriously unwelcome confessions, to dousing
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dates in wine, to bringing them back to creepy apartments to meet favorite
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stuffed animals, here are the funniest and most alarming reports from dating's
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front lines. Along the way, author Rhodri Marsden offers tips on how to identify
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and avoid the worst of the bad daters, including married men, blatant liars,
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deluded optimists, and more. This harrowing collection of real nightmare dates
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will amuse anyone who's suffered through one of cupid's off nights.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>Ok, so not much as "offer tips", but mostly "these are things that people
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replied to me when I complained about a bad date".</p>
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<p>Not that the topic doesn't have a merit -- I mean, who doesn't want to know that
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they weren't the only ones in a bad date -- but it felt like there was some
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lacking of research. And I don't mean field research, but actually talking to
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people instead of capturing their tweets and putting them in book form.</p>
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<p>For example, you have this:</p>
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<p>A 23 yr old girl. “I think for my age I’ve achieved a hell of a lot.” she
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said. Then talked for three hours about her internet business.</p>
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<p>Sure, that's a huge presumptuous comment to make in a first date, but "yr"?
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Couldn't we edit this so at least it looks correct? Couldn't we do a research on
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how the date went, how they met, how they picked a place and so on? Just the
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tweet, then?</p>
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<p>I mean, sure, the tweets tell a lot about how bad things went, but at least more
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details would be nicer, specially when you go to a book format.</p>
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