Silent dating!
‘What on earth is that’ I hear you say. Well, in Shanghai, China, they recently held the world’s first silent date.
Here’s what happened: In a similar way to speed dating men and women sat opposite each other for a short period of time. No words were allowed to be spoken and all they could do was to scribble on a bit of paper. These folk were mostly working professionals between 20 and 30.
The introductions agency behind it say that “It’s inviting users to have blind dates without conversation.”
How’s your Chinese?
Li Wenlong, Founder of dating Website 2BWM.com, said “There are a lot of people who aren’t good at expressing themselves verbally but are good at writing out their thoughts, particularly people who spend a lot of time on the Internet so it really suits them.”
The organisers insist on strict rules for the date. The male participants start the session by playing musical chairs to select their female partner. And anyone who breaks the no-speaking rules has sticky tape placed over their mouth.
“Musicman” a 29-year-old professional, said “We have to communicate through the written word and body language and that makes it really interesting.” None of the silent daters has yet announced plans to marry. No doubt, if any do marry life will be very peaceful!
One thing is for sure… at least they won’t be able to call you a ‘W*nker’ if you draw a picture of a giant penis!
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READER COMMENTS:
Sorry, but this was not the “world’s first silent date”. Silent Dating was started in the U.S. years ago at something called “THE QUIET PARTY” from this organization:
http://www.quietparty.com
Posted by Jenna on Thu 5th October 2006 at 09:23 AM | #