Jul
08
The singles pin
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Isn’t this a bit like the idea two women had on Dragon’s Den some time ago? Wear a pin that marks you out as being single. The idea was that if you’re out on the town and spot someone you like but aren’t sure if they are single, the pin would be the green light to make a move. The multi-millionaire investers on the BBC programme thought the idea was ridiculous, as I did.
The idea has been thought of before though and is available on Talktomepin. Go visit, you’ll love the music, if nothing else :-) I think it would make a very suitable theme tune for a sitcom.
5 Comments
July 8th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
didn’t you make me a badge for my blog a while back? single and looking? hmm?
July 8th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I did, but I never made stickers or badges and suggested you start wearing them at the weekend. valid idea for blogs and online world – ridiculous idea for the “real” world.
July 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
When’s Dragon’s Den coming back?
July 8th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
just like the idea that Gaeilgeoirí would wear the “fáinne”…
July 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
AJ, you could have also called your post “On the pull”.
The subject touches a bit of a raw nerve with me. I truely hope that whether I am single or not won’t stop people interested in me approaching me – and, heaven forbid, even in these enlightened times – to let a friendship blossom. It most certainly has never stopped me. I think it sad that so many people always assume there is a sexual element to a relationship between a man and a woman. Most of my best friends are men; I have only ever bedded one of them – I was married to him at the time.
Admittedly, it takes a strong woman to allow another woman a friendship with her partner/husband; just as it takes a strong confident man to let his partner have a relationship with another man.
Just now I have struck up a somewhat unusual association; I was told in no uncertain terms that if we got together the first thing he’d do is to “forbid” me any further indulgence with male friends – whether in person, by email, or commenting on a blog; mind you, I dare say, being as extreme as that is a cultural thing – my sister has strongly advised me not to board that train; and I won’t.
AJ, when I come and see you in your dusty bookshop I won’t wear a pin but I most certainly will speak to you. I am actually writing a paper on the subject of friendship between a man and a woman – will let you see the draft when it has taken shape.
U