Out riding fences

We all know that there are lots of lonely, geeky guys on the Internet who are looking for love and have little idea how to go about it, many of whom remind me startlingly of myself circa ten years ago. In recent weeks particuarly there's been a lot of chatter about and by them. I've often been bothered by the fact that I can't give them much really useful advice about how to deal with their situation, even though I was in it for a long time.

However, I do think they get lots of identifiably bad advice, which I will now critique using the recognized psychological technique of dissecting the lyrics of the Eagles song "Desperado".

( Don't draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy! )