'First Date Hell' on Twitter sums it up swiftly

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

'First Date Hell' on Twitter sums it up swiftly

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 ANSOR No comments

By Suzanne Choney

You can listen to your friends' long-winded sagas about their horrible first dates — or you can get a quicker fix about the rigors of modern romance on Twitter. There, with posts limited to 140 characters — characters, mind you, not words — very succinct portraits are being painted of the real characters out there in the dating world. And it's not pretty.a

Some of the tweets on FirstDateHell are funny — "Had a terrible first date but now he's my accountant and quite a good one" — to creepy - "He got hammered, (urinated) against a tree in a park, and proceeded to tackle me to the ground ... when my back was turned" — to downright mean — "She said "I really hoped you'd be someone else,' and left."a

Then there are incidents involving passing, er, gas:a

And the strangest of the strange, including:a

Many of the tweets have a distinct British sound to them — "took me to his local, then asked if I would mind helping behind the bar so the landlord could play darts with him & his mates," and "Told him I liked reading, he said he wanted to burn all libraries and then talked about football for hours. I hid in the loo."a

That's because the Twitter account was created just last week by British writer Rhodri Marsden, who tweeted about a miserable evening out when he walked past a pub that "reminded me of a bad date I went on. I tweeted about. This is what ensued," he says on his website, FirstDateHell.com.a

He's asking suffering first-daters from anywhere to send their tweets to @firstdatehell. And, he's also asking for a little discretion — and decency.a

"Considering sending bad date' stories that involve mental or physical disability? Don't bother. Take a long, hard look at yourself instead," he says in one of his own tweets.a

— Via Business Insidera