This may turn out to be a long opening post, but what the hell, I want to type to let out some steam.

I am single, and often lonely, but I find it hard to speak to women because I know that they see me as a joke. I am well overweight and about as good looking as a squashed tomato, so what chance do I ever stand of finding a partner? Or, following on from that, being a daddy? At 31, I feel my biological clock ticking!

So I thought it might be a good idea to join an online dating site. I was wrong. It just served to prove what I had always believed - ladies simply turn their noses up at me. Email after Email I sent to dozens of women... you guessed it, not a single response. I tried to be fresh and funny, tried to show a positive outlook on life (I admit that was a blatant falsehood). They say men are shallow. Well, so are women.

Hah! What am I thinking of? Charles Darwin knew what he was talking about. Survival of the fittest. The good looking and/or confident will survive and reproduce; the runts of the litter will die out and thus only the best genes move forward. I have to find a way of coming to terms with the fact that I am in the "runts" category.