edscissors's blog

I e-mailed a guy, Tom, this afternoon: he'd signed on to MF just four hours earlier.

We had a great chat - maybe 50 quick messages - and were ready to arrange a meeting. He even sent photos!

And then he disappeared.

I noticed that a friend of mine had also "favourited" him. I contacted my friend - who had even got as far as actually arranging a meeting ... before "Tom" just ... disappeared.

It's mystifying.

But maybe "Tom" will see this: maybe with a new profile name? Indeed, my friend (see above) had a feeling that the same person had set up a very similar profile a while back ... but again disappeared into the wrestling ether ...

Sad ... and disappointing.

Edward

I contributed to the site this morning: it was a renewal. As I write, I'm still there in the "latest contributors", looking rather red!

It made me look back ... and I see that in a month or two I'll have been here ten years. A decade! How is that possible?

It's a wonderful site and I am so grateful for all the good friends I have made here.

Among so many, there's:

• the famous young Norwegian who was bowled over when the cast of a London play (about the cook Nigel Slater) handed out walnut whips to the audience
• the superb Craig who has probably wrestled almost everybody on the site (here in the UK, we really miss you, Craig!)
• the kind, quietly expert, I.N., the first person I ever met here
• the Canadian film/theme park buff, a long-standing friend, who, just days pre-pandemic, enjoyed a nice, simple bed and breakfast in Pimlico - and some M+S sandwiches for lunch. Oh - and he did some scissors on me!☺️
• the Portuguese guy, now resident in the USA, maybe the most famous scissorer on our site: I met him, several times, in his early days here - such a nice guy ... such strong legs!
• the French guy who makes sure to look so stern and severe in his videos but is actually a complete - smiley - teddy bear (I have photographic proof!) when you meet him
• the awesome English guy with the meteorological username (he's very secret about his work - I reckon he could well be MI5) who has a (to me) regrettable penchant for wearing a thong when he wrestles - but who is nonetheless probably the person I have met most often
• the big, BIG Canadian who turned up unexpectedly to live just down the road from me in Kent: you need to lay down a trail of crumbs if you are ever to find your way out of HIS holds!
• and then, of course, there's that other Craig, a lovely fella from "up north", well beyond the Watford Gap! (No, I didn't fall off the edge, travelling so far North.) You looked good in those shorts (for 30 minutes) - and you're still a "lovely fella".
• and, most recently, the young Estonian "semi-famous" actor with whom I've been chatting for 24 hours ...

Lots of others not mentioned of course but, also, ALL appreciated so much.

I wonder how many long-standing site members will be able to identify my friends? Sorry - no prizes!

It's possible to make such good, tolerant, loyal friends here, even if one doesn't necessarily wrestle all of them.

I want to encourage those who LURK amongst us, often for YEARS without a single meeting. Maybe we chatted for a while, so we still see you log in - sometimes quite frequently (I have one young London guy in mind).

(Watchfighters is probably where you need to be: plenty to see there, often without commitment.)

I do believe TOLERANCE is a hallmark of Meetfighters, so just urge any lurkers who might need a "push" to give it a try. Set up a meeting. Prepare carefully, keep safe ... but DO take the next step! Do it - and have fun. Good luck!