G’day, DateSpacers!
In thinking of how to charm you into visiting, posting on, and promoting the site this week, we came up with a novel idea: when you read this week’s edition of Thursdates, give your Internal Reading Voice an Australian accent. (Name him/her Simon or Shelia. It helps.) People love Australian accents. Try it. Say: “Crikey!” right now and tell us it doesn’t make you happier than a dingo in a maternity ward.
No good at accents? No worries, mate! Turns out Americans—which most of you are—are terrible at distinguishing between accents. Let’s face it—to us, all people from non-U.S., English-speaking countries sound the same. Here’s an example of beloved Kiwi Jemaine Clement playing an Aussie in a television commercial. Could you tell he wasn’t the real thing? And if Jemaine can fool you, think how easy it will be to fool yourself, clever as you are! (Note: This is not a slam on New Zealanders. DateSpaces.com is adamantly opposed to any and all discrimination against New Zealanders. Contrary to the belief of the ill-informed, New Zealanders are people, too, and they don’t ride around in their kangaroos all day.)
So give it a whirl. Just keep it to yourself. We can’t have everyone running around flooding the market with Australian accents—the novelty would wear off. and our fake accents would no longer be enough to get people to go out with us.
1. DateSpace of the Week
For a “super sexy” time, Larry suggests Shalel Lounge.
Been on a really great date lately? Suggest next week’s DateSpace of the week by emailing eric@datespaces.com.
2. This Week at The Daily Dater
This week, dating columnist Erin Hicks contributes a story regarding her adventures into the upper-echelons of the 1-10 Hotness Scale. She claims that hotness and literacy have an inverse relationship, and that once you move past a 4, you’re in trouble. We take offense, since were all at least 8s and have all read The Da Vinci Code, but we ran the column anyway. For the full article, click here.
Also this week, we discuss the issue of dating your beau’s friend. Yikes. Well, who knows… it may just inspire Ric Ocasek and The Cars to write an upbeat, new wave song about you. Read all about it here.
Send your dating queries and conundrums our way by emailing charles@datespaces.com.
Hooroo and Happy Dating!
The DateSpaces.com Team
XOXOX
