A SCOT has revealed her most awkward date ever – when a fella said her accent sounded ‘poor.’
Writer and actress Isla Fairfield entered the online dating world when she left Limekilns, Fife for the bright lights of London in 2022.
But her search for romance was far from easy thanks to the rude people she met along the way.
Her experiences were so weird that she’s even wrote a one-woman play for the Edinburgh Fringe partly based on her own experiences.
She told Edinburgh Live: “I’ll be honest, it genuinely is hard to decipher which of my dates has been the worst because I’ve had so many bad ones.
“I would say one of the worst was when I went out with this guy who was a bit of a finance bro from London. It didn’t take him long to tell me that I gave him ‘poor vibes’.
“I asked him to expand, and he told me that I just sounded poor. I was like ‘ah, because I’m Scottish’.
“My reaction was like ‘what the hell?’. I didn’t really know what to do, so I went to the toilet in the bar and told some random girl in the toilet.
“Then I pretended I had a sore head and left. I wish I’d given him a piece of my mind, but I didn’t – I just went home.”
Isla’s Hot Girl Summer show is on at Edinburgh’s Symposium Hall from August 19.
The show is dubbed as the story of a single in her mid-twenties who, post-breakup, jets off on a girls’ trip to Barcelona and impulsively lands a job in London.
Like Isla, the main character leaves behind her small-town life in Scotland, and dives into her new life, and begins the treacherous journey of navigating life in The Big Smoke.
It’s described as being ‘hilariously tragic and amusingly relatable’.
Meanwhile, a singleton has revealed that dating has become harder since she transformed her physique with over 150 pounds of weight loss.
She shared the red flags that she now looks out for when trying to find a committed life partner.
New Yorker Sophia Roses has almost 31,000 subscribers on YouTube, where she shares her love of beauty and wellness.
Speaking to The U.S. Sun, she shared how undergoing Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery (VSG) has impacted her love life.
She revealed that dating with a slender figure is hard because men act on their “best behaviour” and are reluctant to reveal their intentions early on.
She said they “immediately” put in effort but as things progress it lessens, whereas when she was bigger they would show minimum effort from the beginning.
“I’ve also noticed that some men’s insecurities are pretty evident,” she said.
“I dated a guy for about 10 months and thought everything was going great.
“But, as I kept losing weight, getting more attention and opportunities because of my newfound confidence, he said ‘I should find someone better off in life.’
“Those were his exact words to me: ‘But we can continue to hang out.’ That was a first for me.”
