1. Finally get out of debt for the first time in my adult life (I'm almost there and should be done by April).

2. Buy a house, I'm 30 in 2015 and don't want to be stuck at home!

3. Get off my arse and actually do some professional work exams.

They definitely do exist but you do have to travel that's for sure.

It's not nasty. This has been discussed soooooo many times in numerous threads, and long time members do get sick of it! No one owes anything to anyone else on here. If you receive a message, you are not obligated to reply to that message, and it's not 'bad decency' to not reply.

A pretty, young woman on this site can easily receive upwards of 30 messages a day on here. It'd be a full time job replying to all of those!!

If you want a reply, make sure your message is interesting enough and stands out enough to warrant it.

If you don't get a response, chalk it up to experience and move on to someone else. This applies on any form of dating site, not just FF. It's the same everywhere on the net.

Just to add to the above there have been many long term couples and even some marriages and children from people that met on this very site.

Haha alcohol is much much cheaper in the UK compared to the US. Maybe that's why we're always drunk?

Looking forward to FF2!

Personally I prefer.......

Excuse me, do you know how much a polar bear weighs?

Enough to break the ice!

Sorry!

Just be confident and happy. Sure you will get knocked back a few times but the trick is not to let that get you down.

Bars and clubs might be good places to find a one night stand but I think it's rare to meet someone there that you have a real connection with.

It's often the case that people meet in the most unlikely of places without necessarily trying. Say the waitress in your local coffee shop. The girl in accounts in your office. The girl who walks her dog past your house every day etc. Say hello to these people and you never know what might happen!

In the UK most banks will give students a free current account usually with a sizable overdraft. Certainly that was my experience, albeit that was some time ago now.

Is that not the same in the US? Could you not take out your own account and then have your mum pay into that?

Also you're 23, get a job! Even a low hours part time one. A bit of experience always looks good on your CV at a young age.

According to the advanced search feature which displays 20 profiles a page, there are 381 pages of Brits (male and female). That means 7,620 Brits.

Of course not all those profiles will be active, but I think ones not logged in to for over a certain length of time are hidden from the search. I might be wrong on that though!

If the correct chair posture makes no difference, it's worth checking her side of the bed. A worn out mattress or a broken wooden bed slat could be causing problems.

If none of that makes any difference then you should get it checked out by a doctor. The back pain I have turned out to be psoriatic arthritis, and nothing to do with my weight or a lower disc bulge, which is what the doctors / physio's initially thought it was.

An MRI scan is the key to the correct diagnosis if there is a problem.

Good luck!

You're an adult, so your mum shouldn't be logging into your own personal bank account! This is very intrusive and you should change the passwords and be firm with her and tell her to stop.