<p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Tomorrow’s the day when loved-up couples exchange roses and chocolates and rejoice in their good fortune, while singletons lament their lot, hope for Valentine’s cards — and, perhaps, desperately swipe right on their iPhone dating apps.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Right means you like the look of them, swipe left and it’s thanks but no thanks.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Around half of all 18 to 34-year-olds use dating apps, there are more than 1,400 in the UK alone — and only this week, 우리카지노 the founder of the Bumble app, Whitney Wolfe-Herd, became a billionaire at 31 after floating the business on Wall Street.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>She created a new app that ’empowered’ women, with only females able to make the first move and men banned from contacting them unless they approved.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Tomorrow’s the day when loved-up couples exchange roses and chocolates and rejoice in their good fortune, while singletons lament their lot, hope for Valentine’s cards — and, perhaps, desperately swipe right on their iPhone dating apps</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>A triumph for the sisterhood.

Or not, as I discovered using Bumble — for research purposes only!</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Like most dating apps, Bumble turns out to be a meat, not a meet, market. As a recent survey revealed, men want long legs, while women want long commitment and a man who can make them laugh.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>But it was the men having the laugh.

Like the guy I met who said he was an SAS officer but turned out to be a former cop whose job was handcuffing migrants on planes to send them home. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Or the Harvard professor who asked me if I had a spare £20,000 to help with the palliative care of his son who had an inoperable brain tumour.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The high end of the dating world is no better.

Unlike Bumble, which is free but has introduced creeping fees for an ‘enhanced’ service, they charge thousands for an introduction.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>At one such agency, during a two-hour interview to see if I was suitable, I was asked if my breasts were my own as opposed to implants and if I’d ever had Botox or a face lift, as suitable suitors didn’t like that.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Then they showed me pictures of old goats who’d never see 80 again parading as wealthy, fit 50-year-olds.

I made my excuses and left.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>After these experiences, I find it depressing that one of the world’s only self-made female billionaires made her fortune from it. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Happily married Whitney Wolfe-Herd may be.
But, in my view, she is in the business of promoting false hopes of happiness.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Frankly, any woman with sense would take one look at what she offers — and swipe left. Even a singleton on St Valentine’s Day.<span class=”mol-style-medium”><span class=”mol-style-bold”> </span></span></p><div class=”mol-page-break”><div class=”pageBreak”> </div><div class=”clear”> </div></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-medium”><span class=”mol-style-bold”>Poor Petra, such a hard life </span></span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-medium”></span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>How noble is billion-heiress Petra Ecclestone. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>While travelling to seven countries during lockdown to avoid Covid due to her crippling anxiety, she and fiance Sam Palmer found time to share their emotional struggles raising their children via their new podcast P.S Say Cheese.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>I’m guessing P.S Pass The Sickbag was just a tad too long for a hashtag.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>How noble is billion-heiress Petra Ecclestone.

While travelling to seven countries during lockdown to avoid Covid due to her crippling anxiety, she and fiance Sam Palmer found time to share their emotional struggles raising their children via their new podcast P.S Say Cheese</p></div><div class=”mol-page-break”><div class=”pageBreak”> </div><div class=”clear”> </div></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-bold”><span class=”mol-style-medium”>Sofa so bad for 우리카지노 Naga… </span></span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>BBC Radio 5 Live’s new morning presenter, Naga Munchetty, attempted to captivate her now stupefied audience by running a phone-in celebrating ‘Mundanity’ in lockdown.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Nags’s great revelation was that she mixed things up at home by trying to sit on a different part of the sofa to watch TV but only managed two minutes before reclaiming her normal place.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>That would be a whole minute longer than listeners took to switch stations.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>BBC Radio 5 Live’s new morning presenter, Naga Munchetty, attempted to captivate her now stupefied audience by running a phone-in celebrating ‘Mundanity’ in lockdown</p></div><div class=”mol-page-break”><div class=”pageBreak”> </div><div class=”clear”> </div></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-bold”><span class=”mol-style-medium”>A bunch of fossils</span></span> </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Creators of the movie Ammonite, about the brilliant yet rather self-effacing British geologist Mary Anning who discovered fossils of prehistoric beasts, have been scratching their heads as how to make it appeal to a wider audience.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Their solution was to throw in totally invented lesbian scenes between Kate Winslet as Mary and her lifelong friend and fossil finder Charlotte, played by the sublimely sexy Saoirse Ronan.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Which just proves that those who made the film are a bunch of dinosaurs.</p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Creators of the movie Ammonite, throw in totally invented lesbian scenes between leading characters played by Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan (pictured) </p></div><div class=”moduleFull mol-video”><div class=”item”> <div class=”vjs-video-container vjs-fixed vjs-span-two-col debate” id=”v-2164986578423858530″> <video controls=”” class=”video-js vjs-default-skin” website Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star in trailer for website is a trailer for upcoming film ‘Ammonite.’ The movie, which stars Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in the main roles, tells the love story of paleontologist Mary Anning and Charlotte Murchison, played by the former and the latter respectively.website preload=”none”> <source website type=”video/mp4″></source> </video> </div> </div> </div><div class=”mol-page-break”><div class=”pageBreak”> </div><div class=”clear”> </div></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-italic”>Princess Eugenie follows the celebrity trend of posting the first picture of her first child in black and white, headless, a tiny hand clutching his parents. </span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-italic”>Mystery still surrounds the child’s name.

In these days of workshy royal hangers-on, who cares — now that it doesn’t have a royal title before it.</span></p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Princess Eugenie follows the celebrity trend of posting the first picture of her first child in black and white, headless, a tiny hand clutching his parents</p></div><div><div data-track-module=”am-related_carousel^related_carousel” data-track-selector=”.rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])” data-dm-rotator-rotate=”false” data-track-pos=”static” data-dm-rotator-auto-init=”” id=”p-31″ class=”related-carousel with-fb-or-tw debate half” data-dm-rotator-active-class=”active” data-dm-rotator-page-count=”1.0″ data-dm-social-article-auto-init=”” data-dm-rotator-page-size=”1″> <div class=”rotator bdrcc”> <div class=”rotator-title”> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class=”rotator-pages link-xocc”> <li class=”rotator-prev”>Previous