Yahoo Personals helpfully offers us keyboard tied types a list of useful conversation starters, which actually aren’t that useful if you want to sound genuine and look more like dumb questions to ask the other person. The Unique to you section suggests talking about your most embarassing moment. No-one gets to know about my most embarassing moment until I’ve known them for the best part of a year.

Or the first time we go to the pub, whichever comes first.