For Brits: Does anyone ask people out on dates anymore (when sober!)

Generally the only place I meet people is online and fleetingly in my local Supermarket… that said, I do see potential suitors in parks and walking down the street etc.

I have recently been contemplating asking a couple of people out on dates..but when the opportunity presents itself I just simply cannot do it. I just end up thinking.. No-one asks people out on dates unless you’re in a bar and several beverages down the hatch… Certainly no-one has ever asked me out on date anywhere other than a bar (and even then I can only think of one occasion on which that happened!)

I watch American programmes like Sex in the City, House M.D. ... which I know is not a true represetnation of life but… Americans seem to do it much more than we do.. it just not the done thing in Britain?

Or is my perception totally wrong?