8 of the Most Randomly Peculiar Dating Sites on the Web
Here’s a rundown of the top eight most peculiar online dating sites the Web has to offer.
This dating site is weirdly specialised, but there is sound logic behind the idea of pairing gluten-free followers. Following a gluten-free diet, whether out of medical necessity or as a lifestyle choice, is pretty challenging. Imagine the frustration of watching a partner stuffing their face with a delicious donut, or munching through a whole plate of lasagna. Gluten Free Singles offers the opportunity for relationships to be built on a common understanding of the gut-destroying potential lurking within a humble slice of toast.
2. Singles With Food Allergies
Although this follows a similar format to the laudable Gluten Free Singles site, it raises some questions about the logic of entering a relationship based on allergies. Firstly, if two people with different allergies find love, how will they ever decide on a restaurant that’s safe for them both to eat in? Secondly, if two people with the same allergies go on a date, and are accidentally exposed to an allergen, who will administer the epipen?
3. Clown Dating
This common interest dating site for clowns boasts the least accurate tag line of all time: ‘everybody loves a clown… let a clown love you’. Everybody loves a clown? Really? On the plus side since this site pairs these freaky looking ‘fun’ characters off with each other, it leaves the single scene a lot safer for the ordinary folk with appropriately sized shoes and no desire to don a ‘hilarious’ spongy red nose.
Despite the name, this site is not exclusively for millionaires, but is open to successful, attractive people around the world. The first person listed on the feedback page describes themselves as a ‘freestyle rollerskater’, so it’s safe to say that this site isn’t just for professional football players and movie stars.
5. Purrsonals
Picture the scene. You’ve been on a few dates, you really think this might be the one. Your heart leaps every time they walk into a room, and you feel giddy at the idea of taking it further. But then they make an earth-shattering disclosure. Are they married? No. Leaving the country? No. It’s worse than you could ever have imagined. They don’t like cats. Now cat lovers everywhere can save themselves from this heartache with Purrsonals, as shared interest dating site for cat lovers. There’s no need for the mad cat lady, who lives surrounded by felines to lead a life of solitary cat-servitude, because out there somewhere, is a mad old cat man, just waiting for her email.
This free online dating site is designed for the aesthetically challenged. However, a quick look at the active profiles reveals a large selection of normal looking people, who presumably have cripplingly low self esteem and consider themselves to be ugly.
This dating site lets adult children fill out profiles for their parents and find suitable matches for them. It appears to be based on the assumptions that anyone over the age of 50 is completely incapable of using the Internet themselves, and / or cannot be trusted to choose their own future partners.
8. Tall Friends
A large height discrepancy between partners can cause a number of serious problems: neck injury through awkward kissing angles, difficulty making eye-contact, the never ending embarrassment of complete strangers asking how you manage to ‘do it’. Tall Friends eliminates these problems by helping tall people meet equally lofty companions.
Plenty more weird, wonderful and woeful websites exist. If you go exploring beware anything with the word ‘diaper’ in the URL, there are some things your eyes cannot unsee.