The Guyliner
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Gay Times and GQ columnist. Freelance journalist. Reformed dating blogger. Fan/foe of Guardian Blind Daters. I'm as reliable a narrator as I dare.
What do spoons mean to you? Nothing, perhaps. Maybe beyond their primary functions of stirring tea, shovelling yoghurt into your mouth or, if you’re so inclined, cooking up your drugs on, they hold no value or emotion for you
I’ll level with you, my heart didn’t exactly lift seventy storeys off the ground when I saw this headline: “Acquired” has to be one of the least sexy words out there. You acquire companies, diseases, not feelings
We return to the scene of our many previous crimes, the mortuary of hope that is the Guardian Blind Date column, to meet two 24-year-olds who have clearly exhausted all other avenues of meeting new people. It is, sadly, a heterosexual date, but I guess we have to let them infiltrate our world every now and again – just as long as they don’t ram it down our throats, eh? Amy is an event producer (lots of clipboards and shouting about ice sculptures I imagine) and Harry is a management consultant (I honestly don’t know what this is – do they come in every new tax year and sack people?)