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Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.

This is your Quicky, your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna White House,

the founder of Mother Pucker, and my best friend, my BFF, Polly Hazelwood, Poldolp, Dog in the

house. Wow, what an introduction. And I'm back to being your best friend. So thank you for that.

You are indeed. Or I say that, your second in command to my boyfriend, who I met met on Hinge which is what we want to talk about today online dating the good the bad and the plain ugly it is uggers out there it is augurs oh it is so my first foray into online dating was dating direct in i think it was two thousand and six dating

direct it was one of the early doors ones you know like plenty of fish no my single best friend dot com

no do you know i've never really dated fact you just went for whatever i just came along just used to pick

them up on the street and take them home with me.

You're down in Weatherspoons doing a two-for-one beer and a burger.

That was your pick-up joint, wasn't it?

So that was my first foray, and I didn't understand how it all worked.

And my age range, I think we've mentioned how we've got it wrong before,

went from like 18 to 100.

And I was really pulling in all the old codgers out there.

And I gave up after a while,

because I was like, this is just not for me.

And it was the early days of online dating,

but there was quite a lot of shame around it.

It was crowded in quite a lot of awkwardness.

And like, why on earth earth you on a dating app you know no one good

was on a dating app then okay 17 years later yes she is she jumps off that diving board into hinge

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