I met my partner on a Facebook group for Britain’s DULLEST men – it proved better than Tinder at finding my match
- Danielle, 32 from Leeds, met her boyfriend James, 36 in the Dull Men’s Club
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Do you get excited about a new way to organise your sock drawer? Do you have a favourite pylon? Is getting the festive TV guide delivered the highlight of your December?
If the answer is yes to any of the questions, you may fit the bill to join Britain’s most boring club – The Dull Men’s Club.
With a motto of ‘celebrating the ordinary,’ the club is a forum, providing a space for uninteresting men to discuss or share any boring information they see fit.
And now, it’s battling Tinder as the place to be for meeting the love of your life, as more women have started flocking to the page to bag themselves a yawn-worthy partner – exciting is so last year.
Danielle Goodyear from Leeds, 32, met her boyfriend James Warbuton from Manchester, 36, through the group and now they’re happier than ever.
Danielle Goodyear, 32 from Leeds, met her boyfriend James Warbuton, 36, through the group and now they’re happier than ever
She told MailOnline: ‘The group just randomly came up on my Facebook. I don’t remember what the post was about but it was something typically dull and boring but also quite satisfying at the same time, like neatly organised sock drawers.
‘People appreciate the boring things in life as they get older. I get quite overwhelmed so the thought of a dull person was actually quite a good feeling.’
James, who works in recruitment, joined the group back in May when it had just 40,000 members.
He’s a regular poster and often shares the mundane details, tips and questions he stumbles across, including the colour of his kettle light and asking other users to guess which train station he’s at based on a photo.
Danielle noticed his posts, particularly one where he talked about the ‘dull result’ of a woman accidentally adding him, then admitting her finger slipped – so the 32 year old thought it would be funny to send him a request herself.
From there, the pair got to chatting and within weeks had met up for a first date in September of this year.
James admits he likes to post ‘boring stuff that’s funny’ on the group – just this morning he shared a snap of a man stood underneath a grab truck, that he thought looked like an arcade machine.
He revealed: ‘The amount of people now that go on there and they’re like, I wanna find a dull fellow, I wanna find a dull lady. We have a laugh, but it’s just normal – not Love Island.
In another post he told the group he recently bought a Lord title: ‘So I’m actually called Lord James Warburton. People know of it in there, and there’s a couple of other people who’ve done the same thing.
Danielle told MailOnline: ‘People appreciate the boring things in life as they get older. I get quite overwhelmed so the thought of a dull person was actually quite a good feeling.’
James, who works in recruitment, joined the group back in May when it had just 40,000 members – he’s a regular poster and often shares the mundane details, tips and questions he stumbles across
Reflecting on the relationship, which began three months ago, he added: ‘I feel like like we’ve got each other as a teammates and it’s really really nice – we’re dead supportive of each other and we understand each other’s circumstances’
‘It’s one of those lockdown things when you bought and like Spare 70 quid, and you think I’m gonna do it. Because my surname is Warburton, I put one on saying here’s the perfect toast’.
He said that people from the group treat it as a ‘genuinely a safe place’ and ‘you can find out the answer to pretty much anything you need. If you want to ask a question about a plug socket or train, or anything, you get stuck. That’s better than Google’.
Adding: ‘Some people in there are electrical engineers, some people are pilots. Some people are train drivers, there is literally every kind of person in there.’
James has a dog and Danielle has two children so when they’re all together it often feels like a ‘mad house.
Reflecting on the relationship, which began three months ago, he added: ‘I feel like like we’ve got each other as a teammates and it’s really really nice – we’re dead supportive of each other and we understand each other’s circumstances.
Before Danielle met her ‘dull’ man, she was on ‘all the dating apps you can think of’ and found it ‘awful’.
She said: ‘Particularly Tinder, I’ve really got a genuine hatred for it, it’s one thing after another and you get to the point where there’s just not genuine people to date’.
Now, the couple even have their own podcast called Mr and Mrs Dull, where they chat all things parenting and ‘daft stuff that happens when you grow up’.
After meeting in the Dull Men’s Club the pair got to chatting and within weeks had met up for a first date in September of this year
Now, the couple even have their own podcast called Mr and Mrs Dull, where they chat all things parenting and ‘daft stuff that happens when you grow up’
The couple received an outpouring of support for their relationship from other group members
Before Danielle met her ‘dull’ man, she was on ‘all the dating apps you can think of’ and found it ‘awful’
The clubs Facebook page has more than 577,000 members from across the world – and going against everything that it stands for, it actually may be becoming cool.
To give an insight to what the group is like, one self-professed dull man wrote: ‘It’s getting very exciting down here in Chichester.
‘Our rainfall bucket is going to reach the top in under two months. Based on average it should be just over half full’.
Another decided to share: ‘At home one of my main tasks or at least one I’ve adopted is the control of the dishwasher.
‘I always fill it in the same way with a view to how I empty it for placing everything back in the cupboards in the same place.
‘I’m determined that one day I will take over the control of the fridge/freezer.’
One proud man revealed: ‘Managed to remove the old silicone seal from around my bath in one entire piece. All 254cm of it. Winning at life,’ alongside a photo of the discarded silicone.
Although, one member replied ‘I’m sorry but this is entirely too exciting for the DMC’.
Another chimed in with: ‘It really doesn’t get anymore exciting than this, a lie down now me thinks to recover from the adrenaline rush!’
One member admitted to making a note of every pub he’d ever been to and compiling the list into a spreadsheet.
James is a regular poster and often shares the mundane details, tips and questions he stumbles across, including the colour of his kettle light and asking other users to guess which train station he’s at based on a photo
James admits he likes to post ‘boring stuff that’s funny’ on the group – just this morning he shared a snap of a man stood underneath a grab truck, that he thought looked like an arcade machine
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Meanwhile, someone else recommended a gift idea for partners of dull men in the group – a battery tester.
They advised: I have here the ultimate stocking filler for your dull spouse. (No exclamation mark – that would remove the dullness.)
‘This battery tester has caused me to delay dinner while I make it my evening mission to test every battery in this house’.
Members often sign off their posts with their age, dislikes and odd details about themselves- sometimes even their shoe size.
One signed off with ’37. Size 8. Enjoys Decaff tea,’ while another ended their post by penning, ’48, BMI still 32.0, keeps a list of every film he’s ever seen’.
Someone else felt they had to end their submission with ’45, prefer to wear socks in my crocs, enjoys tartare sauce on chips’.
With exciting out the window, and boring the new attractive way of living, the group has also started producing their own yearly calendar.
They may not have the rippling muscles and chiseled features of the men on a typical calendar – instead drain spotters, traffic cone enthusiasts and brick collectors are just some of Brits that have appeared within it over the years.
The unlikely group’s 2024 calendar is now available on the US version of Amazon, as well as Stanford’s bookshop in Covent Garden, London – online and in store for £12.99.
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