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People are ‘deleting the apps’ so they can meet someone the old-fashioned way – 17 funniest meet cutes

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Deleting the apps so i can meet someone the old fashioned way (visiting Rivendell, and singing the Lay of Lúthien, and then seeing my sort of boss's daughter and its as if Lúthien walked before my eyes and I call out "Tinúviel!" to her as Beren did to Luthien in the woods that time.)

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— The Oldhammer Fiction Podcast (@oldhammerpodcast.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM

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Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old-fashioned way (pricking my finger on a spinning wheel, falling into a deep sleep for decades, waiting for a prince to come kiss me).

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— Kate Tuttle (@katekilla.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM

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Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (eloping with the third son of a lord, even though both our families disapprove of the match)

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— Emma Thane of Cawdor (@redwellyfeats.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM

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Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (get hired as a nanny and illicitly teach their 7 children to sing before fleeing the Nazis)

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— Alex Kitson (@alexkitson.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM

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deleting my dating apps so i can meet someone the old-fashioned way — getting kidnapped twice, once by mercenaries trying to start a war and again by a pirate who used to fetch my water pitchers and shine my saddle til I could see my face shining in it by morning

— Meghan Winch (@winchmd.bsky.social) November 13, 2024 at 2:38 PM

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Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (dancing at a masquerade ball and taking him to my room only to reveal hes actually the son of my fathers sworn enemy)

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— kiri (@nightfurycyare.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM

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Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (places one solitary pea under gigantic pile of mattresses and waits…)

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— christhebarker (@christhebarker.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM

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Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way. (Selling my voice to a sea witch so she'll turn my fish tail into legs.)

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— Allie Morgan (@grumpwitch.bsky.social) July 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM

‘Must have a GSOH’.

Deleting the apps so i can meet someone the old fashioned way (“casually” mentioning that I’m single in every stand up set).

— Arielle Dundas (@arielledundas.bsky.social) January 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM

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