i've only met you a few times in the pub, and you seem alright to me. but since you're looking for clues... if anything, you're quite intimidating at first, you seem like you might be quite stern and not appreciate people flirting with you. also, you don't have an obvious 'status' that says "i am single and looking" (that's alright though - that is often received ambiguously with lechery), nor "this commonly-defined sexuality is part of my public persona feel free to interact with it" what i mean by this is you're fairly inscrutable on first impressions. you aren't obviously straight or gay or whatever, nor transmit sexuality vibes generally, which is no bad thing at all, but probably has an influence on how comfortable people feel flirting with you. sometimes people completely ignore lack-of-sexuality-signal (even if you're trying very hard) but i think you don't put yourself in those situations. i don't know if what you're after is exclusively a proper romantic relationship, or whether you want to act on feeling horny on a friday night. i think people probably are interested in you (i don't know specific people but you are attractive), but in terms of proper romantic relationships, luck really is a major factor. like me you tend to go for people you already know, so the pool is small (and remains so unless you want to go and meet new people and socialise like crazy - but then how do you spend the time getting to know them and then fancy them...) and then they might not be available, or not really looking etc. if you want to get some casual practice in, that's much easier to solve but you're probably hanging out in the wrong places (not enough clubbing with horny/drunk people) . are you meeting enough new people for opportunities to arise? or even, are you doing enough new things with the people you already know? the obviously-sexual-being thing is tricky if it doesn't come naturally. perhaps you need to become master of the ambiguous suggestion (that might be innocuous but is enough to raise the possibility of you being sexually/romantically available), y'know the way of asking someone if you can buy them a drink, or telling them that they look good, without being a blatant chat-up line, but you might mean something by it. or if that's too difficult - well even telling someone you fancy someone else (like off the telly) tells them that you are interested. it's hard to explain, you need (some) people to see you in a certain sexual light. or you could start a witty and fabulous comic, gain legions of adoring fans, and become powerfully desirable...
if it's bothering you it really wouldn't be better to just go and hide. rejection is hard but much less so if you start to test the waters before you are totally committed to the idea yourself. this may land you sticky situations with people you later decide you don't really fancy, however. (i am probably not telling you anything you don't already know here so i'll stop)
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but since you're looking for clues... if anything, you're quite intimidating at first, you seem like you might be quite stern and not appreciate people flirting with you. also, you don't have an obvious 'status' that says "i am single and looking" (that's alright though - that is often received ambiguously with lechery), nor "this commonly-defined sexuality is part of my public persona feel free to interact with it" what i mean by this is you're fairly inscrutable on first impressions. you aren't obviously straight or gay or whatever, nor transmit sexuality vibes generally, which is no bad thing at all, but probably has an influence on how comfortable people feel flirting with you. sometimes people completely ignore lack-of-sexuality-signal (even if you're trying very hard) but i think you don't put yourself in those situations.
i don't know if what you're after is exclusively a proper romantic relationship, or whether you want to act on feeling horny on a friday night. i think people probably are interested in you (i don't know specific people but you are attractive), but in terms of proper romantic relationships, luck really is a major factor. like me you tend to go for people you already know, so the pool is small (and remains so unless you want to go and meet new people and socialise like crazy - but then how do you spend the time getting to know them and then fancy them...) and then they might not be available, or not really looking etc. if you want to get some casual practice in, that's much easier to solve but you're probably hanging out in the wrong places (not enough clubbing with horny/drunk people) .
are you meeting enough new people for opportunities to arise? or even, are you doing enough new things with the people you already know?
the obviously-sexual-being thing is tricky if it doesn't come naturally. perhaps you need to become master of the ambiguous suggestion (that might be innocuous but is enough to raise the possibility of you being sexually/romantically available), y'know the way of asking someone if you can buy them a drink, or telling them that they look good, without being a blatant chat-up line, but you might mean something by it. or if that's too difficult - well even telling someone you fancy someone else (like off the telly) tells them that you are interested. it's hard to explain, you need (some) people to see you in a certain sexual light. or you could start a witty and fabulous comic, gain legions of adoring fans, and become powerfully desirable...
if it's bothering you it really wouldn't be better to just go and hide.
rejection is hard but much less so if you start to test the waters before you are totally committed to the idea yourself. this may land you sticky situations with people you later decide you don't really fancy, however.
(i am probably not telling you anything you don't already know here so i'll stop)