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Dating Tips from Your Favorite Television Shows

By Alison Nastasi on

He’s a womanizer, a parkour-crazy spaz, and the reason his roommates invented a Douchebag Jar, but the real-life Schmidt (played by Max Greenfield) on Fox’s New Girl is a pretty cool guy. The Emmy-nominated actor — who also just launched his six-episode web series, Finding Susan Glenn — is actually married, although he admits he used to find it tough to talk to women, because he was extremely shy. Huffington Post recently caught up with Greenfield to find out what kind of dating tips he had for singles searching for a love connection. The advice is a far cry from something his Casanova alter ego might say, which got us thinking about our favorite TV characters and the dating tips they’ve shared over the years. Dig into some handy — and not so practical — dating tips from television’s finest after the jump. … Read More

Web

What's On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds In Our Office

By Alison Nastasi on

Today at Flavorpill, we found out about a dating site for rural folks. We hung out with DJs Tater Tots and Pizza Slut. We had an honest conversation about our Mad Men dating style. We explored an interactive museum of Soviet arcade machines. We watched a rare… Read More

Dating

The Culture Vulture’s Guide to Online Dating

By Romy Oltuski on

While viable options abound on dating sites like Nerve and OkCupid, weeding through all your non-negotiables can be quite the task if you’re determined to find a date whose cultural priorities — not to mentions likes and dislikes — match up with your own. So we’ve rounded up a list of niche dating sites — not including the veggie site that Gawker recently busted for omnivorousness — that’ll help you find that wine enthusiast, bearded foodie, or Ayn Rand fan that you’re looking for. … Read More

Pop Culture

Video of the Day: Dating Dos & Don'ts from 1949

By Emily Temple on

Not sure what to do if a random chance to go on a date falls in your lap? This instructional dating video from 1949 will tell you! Gee, it used to be swell how teenagers got voiceover films explaining all the problems in their lives out for them. Now no one tells those rascals anything except how fun it is on the Jersey shore. The video offers some important lessons for both boys and girls. Boys: when choosing a date, know that pretty girls are terrible, and polite girls are boring. But the perfect girl “knows how to have a good time, and how to make the fellow with her relax, have fun too. Yes — that’s what a boy likes.” We’ll bet it is. Girls: just make sure to be a cheap date so you’ll be asked out again. That seems right. Watch the video after jump. … Read More

Web

15 Pickup Lines to Use on Gawker’s New Dating Service

By Judy Berman on

Lonely concern trolls and single snarksters, rejoice! Gawker has just announced #gawkerdating, which may well be the world’s first hashtag-based dating service. This suggests an entire universe of sarcastic jokes about nasty comments sections, infamous bloggers, and other media wonkery. So, guess what? We’re going to make all of them. Without any further ado, we present to you 15 pickup lines to use on the new Gawker dating service. Prove you’re wittier than their commenters by adding your own. … Read More

Web

Awesome Infographic: Can We Date?

By Caroline Stanley on

The Morning News’ Can We Date? flowchart is a rather epic response to a reader who wrote in asking if it was socially acceptable for him to date his brother’s wife’s cousin. It skillfully answers his question about kissin’ cousins, and probably a few that you’ve had at one point in your dating… Read More

Daily Dose

Daily Dose Pick: I Don’t Care About Your Band

By Chelsea Bauch on

In I Don’t Care About Your Band, Julie Klausner turns the clichéd dating-misadventure memoir into a hilariously self-deprecating romp through the pitfalls of modern romance.

The New York-based comedienne, writer, and standup performer presents a chronological overview of her failed dalliances, from early adolescent experimentation to getting bedbugs after an obligatory post-coital sleepover. But rather than whining and wallowing over these mishaps, Klausner revels in her experiences with a self-amused candidness that speaks to everyone — whether single, attached, or somewhere in between. … Read More

Film

End Your Long Distance Romance, Save the Planet

By Caroline Stanley on

We predict that this SLATE piece making the environmental case against long distance relationships will get heavily forwarded — hopefully not in lieu of actually breaking up with someone. Our favorite part is the call to action for lauching “a robust Date Local movement.”

We have but one question for the author, Barron YoungSmith… Read More