I'm with you Jackie.....we should be ourselves and if the world don't like it..too bad. A friend of mine went through the personal adds looking for a bloke while she was living in Edinburgh and turned up some horrors and a couple of nice ones. She would read out prospective dates to me and I would translate them back......saved a bit of time. Bit like the adds placed by estate agents ie compact...small etc. As for the age thing..we'd add on at least 5 years to whatever they said and found we were nearer the mark.