John Jones

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John Jones is to dating what Jedward are to the world of music - despite being painfully keen to impress the women of the London suburbs, deep down he's aware that it's all bound to end in failure. Purile and misanthropic to the core, this Charlie Brooker wannabe won't stop until he's trawled the best and worst corners of the London dating scene, hopefully meeting that special lady along the way (you know the one – the girl with the Irish accent, celestial beauty, insatiable sex drive and love of fajitas).

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Found 6 stories by this writer:

Portuguese pleasures - Meeting your match overseas
Fresh back from his summer holidays John examines if the holiday fling is for him.
22nd September 2011

John dips a toe back in the dating pond
The times they are a-changing, or so they say. The resentment from a past relationship has slowly but surely melted itself away and John is ready to start dating again. Read on to find out how it went.
5th July 2011

Wing Man or a Wing Woman? Which is best for dating success?
There's merits to both but John Jones asks which is best, the wing man or the wing woman when it comes to going on the pull...
29th June 2011

What makes the perfect wingman
They say a person never forgets their first love, their first kiss, their first naked game of Buckaroo. Now I'm a sucker for relationship nostalgia, but there's one other thing that I'll have to add to my list of important 'firsts': my first wingman.
8th June 2011

Why being just friends doesn't work
Being friends with an ex-girlfriend doesn’t work - it just doesn’t. It’s the emotional equivalent of two pilots sitting in their cockpit, having a chinwag as the charred remnant of their plane slowly goes up in smoke...
31st May 2011

John Jones: Learning to be happily single before you start dating
Former dating columnist at the Wimbledon Guardian John Jones joins Dating Trail as our latest dating blogger. He starts by with sage advice that if you're sincere in wanting to start a relationship, you need to learn to be happily single first...
24th May 2011

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