Alternative, quirky geeky, indie metal, beta male type required

Age: 28
Location:
Leeds
Posted: 02/08/2009 23:11

I’ve just turned 28 but I think I’m 22. I wear bbycks with a small amount of irony. I say “brap brap”, “triple bosh” and “innit”. Skins is my favourite programme. I like music made by 20 year olds (think Enter Shikari, Rolo Tomassi, Lady Sovereign, Hadouken!, iwrestledabearonce). My favourite band of the past year or so is A Day to Remember. You should check them out.

On the other hand, my geeky hobbies are attending classic car shows and postcard fairs where I’m the only person under the age of 50. Outside of age brackets, I have a fascination with the ‘80s or anything vintage, kitsch or lo-fi.

In a rather contradictory manner, I eat fish but not meat; I don’t wear leather or suede but I never bother to check packets for gelatine

This is how my friend has described me:
STARTS - This young lady is twenty-seven [28 now] with a kindly, curious type of personality. She is about 5'5" [5’6”] and I think a smaller size fourteen, with lots of blonde hair that gets all over the place and comes in a variety of unusual and sometimes retro styles.

She's an independent, free-thinking woman who holds down a couple of part-time jobs while also studying. She's into feminist ideology, but isn't like some hardline lesbian-type. In fact, she often wears pink and she kicks back with a bit of self-parody - enjoying Sex and the City and hilariously un-feminist things like Paramore. She drives a car that is as old as me [24].

Her ideal man is slender and dashingly handsome, well-spoken and can give her his spare thoughts and spare weekends curled up on the sofa introducing each other to movies that have good acting. This gal ain't interested in a sponge, but she doesn't want some guy to be all overbearing and try to impress her with his masculinity. In fact, she'd like a slightly girly type of guy who isn't afraid to take the piss out of himself (think quirky... in the sense of a genuine oddball, like Ichabod Crane, NOT with that indy ego thing like those Russell Brand types).

This dream candidate finds it easy to talk to people and will chat openly about silly obsessions, while going to see bands with her that most people have never heard of. He can lend her hardcore metal CDs and is enthusiastic about her borrowing things he thinks she ought to read or listen to. Again really with a sense of irony and a bit of genuine interest in the things she likes. No bigots or purists or people interested in head-butting (she is all about getting along with people), you should approach this person as a new hobby and a bit of escapism!

It doesn't matter if you're a bit younger, if you can't drive or if you can only see her once every week, but she DOES need someone that isn't going to play games with her and who she can trust not to use her for a stupid short-term fling.

It would help if he was vegetarian [maybe], because so is she.

You must also like cats [true story]. ENDS

You will be: aged 22ish to 32ish, 5’6” or taller, thin / skinny / average build (am not attracted to overweight/ obese men, sorry). I don’t smoke but I’m not bothered if you do or if you eat meat.

Definitely no squaddies, fascists, compulsive liars, chavs, sixth formers, illiterates, alcoholics, timewasters or gutter snipe.