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Fess up. Who's got one?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an author profile but that's probably not what you're referring to

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I meant the personals.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I have considered putting one up, but I don't have any photos of myself that I'm happy with. And other things.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

that's what I figured. (but here's mine anyway: http://www.nerve.com/aboutus/contributors/m.asp#matos)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

and I've also considered doing a personal, just haven't had the gumption or time yet

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Because I think I just wrote one.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

That site is blocked by my employers. And I am too tired to walk to the Internet Cafe next door at coffee time.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

good for you Jody! best of luck!

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 20 February 2003 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

This is gonna be a disaster. I can feel it.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

(It's Nerve. Don't feel too bad and/or exclusive.)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

What is it exactly and how can it go wrong?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually don't care that much. I did this on a dare. But I know that the last time I did something like this, I got a ton of responses and instead of being flattered, I was just reminded that the personals are the last refuge of the pathetically desperate (um, cough cough).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Tsk - repeat to self 'It is a social experiment. It is a social experiment.'

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

And I am too tired to walk to the Internet Cafe next door at coffee time.

Gosh you're keen Lara.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:21 (twenty-three years ago)

We go there anyway. Because (I am told) their coffee is better and they have a range of fruit teas that please my palate. And you can *smoke*.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Back in the pre-Nerve Personals days, I had a personal up on Swoon for some months. I met a few awful/desperate/etc. people; some people who were perfectly decent but just not too interesting to me; some people I liked a whole lot; and a few people who are still dear friends of mine. And I don't think I'd ever have met _any_ of them had it not been for the ad.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

haha i just got my first response

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

the personals are the last refuge of the pathetically desperate

Yes, I have such ads on a few sites. Not this one, as I didn't know it. I might give it a go. Actually, while there have been some pathetically desperate people, I've met a load of really fascinating women through these sites, including for instance an artist who has exhibited in galleries I'd heard of, an award-winning novelist, a director of a city market research firm and lots of others who were wonderful and interesting people, even if not reducible to a career-success phrase. I think the image of it being the last resort of the pathetic loser is, myself probably excepted, largely untrue.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one too. It's mostly good for seamy hookups.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one on the Onion. It's not really good for anything, but I did date a girl for about two months that I met on it (we're still friends).

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

(Onion/Nerve/Salon/etc all share the same database, BTW.)

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

hhahahaha, here's mine:

I am: a man
Looking for: a woman
Interested In: friendship
dating
serious relationship

Age: 27
Location: Astoria, New York
Area Code: 718
Occupation: Something in the 'Financial Services Industry'
Education: college
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Religion: Atheist
Star Sign: Libra
Relationship Status: Single

Height: 6'
Hair color: brown
Eye color: blue

Cigarettes: sometimes
Booze: often
Drugs: sometimes
Self-deprecation: never

you your goods your habits
Age: 22 - 32
Within: 50 miles
Education: college
grad school
post grad

Ethnicity: African American
Caucasian
East Asian
Hispanic/Latin
Middle Eastern
Native American
Pacific Islander
South Asian

Relationship Status: Single

the tip of my iceberg

Last great book I read:
Lately: Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones; William Gaddis, Agape Agape; Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky; William T. Vollmann, An Afghanistan Picture Show oh and Bill Adler, Tougher than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC.

Most humbling moment:
Filling out this damn thing.

Favorite on-screen sex scene:
Is there one in Transformers: The Movie? I don't remember...

Celebrity I resemble most:
Brian Wilson (before the cocaine, steaks and sleeping all day).

Best (or worst) lie I've ever told:
I don't lie.

If I could be anywhere at the moment:
it probably wouldn't be here. Uh, I'll go with any other country besides the U.S. for $300, Alex.

Song or album that puts me in the mood:
Usually anything by Joao Gilberto. Or maybe Nautical Almanac.

The five items I can't live without:
My turntable.
My bike.
My wallet (or the contents of it, at least).
My sense of direction.
My flask (and some bourbon to go in it).

In my bedroom, you'll find:
about 2000 LPs, 300 books, 200 CDs, a desk, a chair, lights, a stereo, a bed, candles, various musical instruments, detritus.

why you should get to know me
In the words of many a Harley-Davidson t-shirt, 'If you have to ask, lady, you just wouldn't understand.'

Okay, maybe you need more information. Here goes: if you're looking for some passive-aggressive dweeb with thinning hair and tiny glasses, there are plenty of other dudes on this site. I am not one of them.

more about who I'm looking for
Someone who can put the 'us' in 'us versus them.'

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone who can put the 'us' in 'us versus them.'

This reminded me of the slogan for my Live365 radio station:

"The us to their them -- and other rockist conceits"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been meaning to set one up, but the only photos of me I have that are recent are either cheesiest-of-the-cheese band promo pics or sweaty onstage live band pics, neither exactly the side I want to put forward in a personal ad.

But once I've got a good self-photo, LOOK OUT NERVE LADIES! MUAHAHA!

hstencil is one cool mufugga! (You live in Lousyville, don'tcha?)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Naw, I'm from Louisville, but I live in NYC. What's this Lousyville bizness? You Lexingtoners still mad we got Pitino?

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

seamy hookups

Whaaaa?

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I was (mostly) kidding.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

That picture of me is from when I was home sick one day. I used to have the one on my web site up.

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

My Nerve profile sez this among other things:

"Tom Verlaine in 1977 is sexy; Taylor Dayne in 1988 is sexier."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

heheheheh, that's pretty funny. Yeah, my profile is totally rockist. Maybe I should make mention of it on there?

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

second respondent: "wow. are you a WIRE magazine aficionado?"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Lousyville = a Lex term trying to cover for our massive inferiority complex as "that other city in Kentucky".

Actually, I generally refer to it simply as "The 'Ville", but that's getting confusing now that my band rehearses in another "The 'Ville" (being Nicholasville).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

(JBR I don't know if it's the same in NYC but all the people I'm meeting on this thing are turning out to be local journalists. Seriously, all the Canadian media mastheads might as well be Nerve dating bingo cards...)

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

i have seen the ad, [and the green flashing on-line indicator]

In my bedroom, you'll find:
hipster detritus

[I am concerned, does that mean: Nate is in jbr's bedroom? ha !]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

My username is chronochromie.

I have gotten no responses and I've had up my ad for several months now.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Melissa change yr "why should get to know me"!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Melissa: you are an utter cutie & deserve plenty of responses. Another suggestion (which worked for me): change "why you should get to know me" and "who I'm looking for" so they're things people can respond to directly--maybe even ask questions people will want to write you answers to.

Also, I bet you can think of a better "is sexy/is sexier" than that--there are already 2 other Radiohead refs in the ad, & another kind of hook is always good.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 20 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one (which I think only Ally has seen), but I hid it due to recent developments...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 February 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

perhaps I'll turn it back on for a day or two...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I really can't think of anything else. I'm limited that way.

And I don't know why people should get to know me or who I'm looking for.
Actually, that's not true.
I don't think people should get to know me, and I'm looking for Jonny Greenwood.

Neither are very good answers, methinks.

I honestly don't know why people should get to know me, though. I'd have to make things up.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it's endearing how hstencil and JBR are like "nice personal ad, that sounds like something I'd write... eh, good luck old chum!"

Matos your link is categorized as "Nudity" by my office proxy

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

It'd be more endearing if I got more emails from foxy women.

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I am... spencer5000

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

*falls off chair*

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Melissa, I think the problem is that you are in Wheaton. Most people that I know in Chicago set their "range" within 10 or 25 miles--I think Wheaton is out of that. You should pretend you're in the city for the purposes of the web site.

I know at least two people who met their long-term SO's through this site, not that I think either relationship is necessarily a model of communication and common interest. I've also been to bars where I've witnessed people on Nerve-inspired dates that appeared to be total trainwrecks.

The idea of *advertising* myself fills me with such horror that I have never been able to make my ad "public." I don't like the think that I am the sum total of my likes and dislikes (or rather, I sometimes fear that I am) but the personals template encourages that kind of presentation. And I too have no idea why anyone "should" want to meet me. There are specific people I meet where I can think, "I know you'd be really happy hanging out with me" but I can't project that kind of thinking to some amorphous blob of similarly-located hipsters.

Anyway when I first discovered this site, it made me happy that there were so many people who (superficially) seemed interesting and decent, but like anything else I've become supersensitive to the cliches (most of them self-aggrandizing) of the format and now it just sort of depresses me that everyone sounds exactly the same--what's more depressing is I know everyone, including myself, imagines that their ad is Totally Different from All the Others.

What was that about staring into the abyss and the abyss st--

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Felicity, are you OK?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:18 (twenty-three years ago)

No offense spencer, but you're not the type of foxy woman I had in mind. Mainly because you're a man.

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

and by "more emails" I mean "some, any."

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Melissa, I think the problem is that you are in Wheaton.
Understatement of the year.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Felicity, are you OK?

She just realized what a fine hunk of man Spencer is, is all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I always knew that. It was the height that surprised me.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I did too, but I didn't fall offa my chair!

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, here's a question:

Do you think the Nerve "ads" are but an extension of the sort of presentation one gives when meeting a stranger at, say, a bar; or is it another thing altogether?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(Falling off of your chair: arguably a great play for attention in a crowded bar.)

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

jody plz keep in mind you promised last night to share ALL of your responses with us

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

(Against my better judgement, I'll admit that I'm aquarius24.)

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

It's like the presentation you get at the bar only without the pie charts.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I know I'd get like zero responses, coz I come across as boring or 10 years old.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Do you think the Nerve "ads" are but an extension of the sort of presentation one gives when meeting a stranger at, say, a bar; or is it another thing altogether?

If it was the same, I'd probably go to more bars.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:30 (twenty-three years ago)

heh, jel, well the only person that's said that I'm "cool" is some baggy-pants-wearin' dude from Lexington!

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I shall wander off and complete one and report back, probably.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Spencer and mark, you're both h-o-t!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

It was the height that surprised me.

do I write shorter?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

That's it, I've done it now!

The nickalicious now has a nerve profile of his own as: "nickwonder".

God help us all.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

no, I was just back-pedaling.

― felicity (felicity), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, I've done one - martinsk, imaginatively (I'm on a few other dating sites with the same name). I'm slightly embarrassed to admit to it, as I'm obviously writing to try to present myself in a particular way, and not the way I'd try to appear on ILX (which I think is pretty like real-life me, but others here can judge that better).

So I did a quick search, and the first woman that came up chose the same favourite sex scene as me (Don't Look Now), so I was going to write to her (what more do you need for the perfect relationship?) but that costs money. So can anyone tell me if it's worth paying here? It's obvious on some sites that there are loads of ancient profiles where you'll get no response, so has anyone tried spending money here?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Martin's profile is very nice. :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, JBR. I already worship you of course, but I will up the volume of the praise songs, etc.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Martin, I've spent money on nerve. The response rate for me was about 50 percent.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

response = actually meeting someone in person

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 20 February 2003 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

everybody should be getting more dates now! seriously, ilxor's are smart and sexy and seeking same! I need to make mine more clever now.

also Melissa, you need to update your ad often. You should go in once a week or so and just switch a word or two around and then update it. That way you get matched more often. and you might want to change your area to closer to Chicago propah.

also, I don't think online personals are pathetic at all. There are an extraordinary number of attractive intelligent people on nerve/salon/onion - and it's a great filtering system.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh all right. I wasn't gonna post my name but it's "syrrendermynci" -- and I'm gonna change the Merzbox reference because it's a joke, it's misleading (haha I've never heard the Merzbox!!), and I've already gotten two responses from experi-mentalist noyzeboi pigfuxors and that's two more e-m.n.p.'s than I care to date. And my Verlaine/Dayne answer is (almost) completely genuine -- if someone doesn't step up to praise Long Island's own Miz Leslie Wunderman I think I shall cry!!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't Look Now has a great sex scene.

JBR, where are the experi-mentalist noyzegrrl pigfuxors?

Spencer and mark, you're both h-o-t!

and I guess I'm just chopped liver.

*sniff*

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.stagedeli.com/gallery/Catering/thumbnails/Chopped_Liver_Platter.jpg

Chopped liver is hott!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

JBR, where are the experi-mentalist noyzegrrl pigfuxors?

GEETA TO THREAD

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Huh, I even bought geeta a beer the other night, but I didn't know she was an experi-mentalist noyzegrrl pigfuxor. Learn somethin' new every day.

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Nickalicious would date a four foot woman!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the idea of posting profiles for everyone to critique is a great one, but yet somehow I'd rather jump out a window than do so myself.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I almost filled in the form, but then I saw "print publications" and changed me mind. I think a picture of me at a Star Trek exhibition is too much for this world.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't look at hott boyz I am in an open office :(

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I almost filled in the form, but then I saw "print publications" and changed me mind.

You can opt out of that.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 February 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Now is when I'd rush in and say no no, you ARE hot, I just forgot to post it cos I looked at Spencer's and mark's one right after the other and I'm at work and was a little distracted, and oh, I'm sorry... but that smacks of insincerity to me and makes me feel worse.

hstencil, I am sorry to have left you off the list, it was truly an oversight and nothing more. (If I mail you $20, will you forgive me?)

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 February 2003 23:13 (twenty-three years ago)

What is all this "everyone on ILX is hot and sexy" bit? I'm skeptical.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

PayPal works for me.

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 February 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Seek out the 'Ah fuck it, what do you all look like' threads and you'll see that, the odd balding old guy excepted, virtually everyone on ILX is really hot. It's extraordinary.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 20 February 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

shush Martin - I really like the picture you posted on nerve!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 20 February 2003 23:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I got a lot of repsonses from mostly lame people off mine. I did make two good email pals (so far) off of them. Both are making plans to come visit (they aren't in Dallas). I took it down b/c I got tired of feeling bad for not answering people who were really lame.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 20 February 2003 23:30 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah Martin, no more self short selling.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 February 2003 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and two friends here have met a couple of *really* hot guys through their ads. One of them is going to Paris with her match during Sprng Break.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 20 February 2003 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Shorting the market is always risky.

When you have fixed expectations, your losses are finite, whereas when you have no expectations . . .

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 21 February 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

...you end up wasting your time and money on a lot of bad dates?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 February 2003 00:22 (twenty-three years ago)

haha yes, or falling off a chair.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 21 February 2003 00:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Not only are people saying Spencer is hot on this thread and others; people have told me that in person. I am burning with curiosity! And am blocked from the Nerve site (at work anyway)...

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 21 February 2003 00:28 (twenty-three years ago)

btw, I haven't used Nerve or Salon personals, but I have met a heap of guys online. All kinds. Nice ones, even. Cute ones too.

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 21 February 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread reminds of thespark.com's personals. I met some cool/fun people. they were a little sillier than salon/nerve etc. but actually Produced good Matches. It's gone now.

salon/nerve = go-getters

― Aaron A., Friday, 21 February 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm home now. How do I get on this hot nerve thing? Alternatively, could Spencer, I mean all you hot guys, just post your pictures right here?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 21 February 2003 02:56 (twenty-three years ago)

for various reasons (I don't want anyone else falling out of their chair etc), I'm just not into posting pictures of myself on this thing...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 03:05 (twenty-three years ago)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 21 February 2003 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary, you can go to http://www.personals.nerve.com and click on the "search profiles" button. then in the "search by nicknames" field, you can enter any of the profile names mentioned above....

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 03:33 (twenty-three years ago)

But they want me to join and sign up and stuff :(

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 21 February 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

whoops, try http://personals.nerve.com

you shouldn't have to join...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

even better:
http://personals.nerve.com/personals/search_ads.asp

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Awwwwwww thanks Spence! I didn't know you were a Houellebecq fan.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 21 February 2003 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha, someone else who likes that sex scene in The Night Porter!

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

has this ever happened to you? i took a screenshot the exact moment i saw it. i felt like i'd passed some kind of internet milestone. ex-gf!!

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3237g/images/ex-gf.gif

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)

He is the morning person strangler. He is TRACER HAND.

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:26 (twenty-three years ago)

i know i was like no way, i wasn't THAT bad!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:31 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm not so sure about the not-wanting-to-be-strangled part either btw

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:40 (twenty-three years ago)

too - much - information...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:49 (twenty-three years ago)

is it?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

as for Houellebecq, I thought I posted on your thread Mary, perhaps I was intimidated at that point in my ilx career...

and as for The Night Porter, perhaps it deserves its own thread...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:59 (twenty-three years ago)

is it?

actually, not for this board. carry on Tracer.

So, did she have a deathwish, or was she just into Death in Vegas?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I nearly answered an ex's pictureless ad. (That was a bullet dodged.)

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:09 (twenty-three years ago)

the tracer hand legend grows

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:27 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm a mystery wrapped in a sweater inside kevin bacon

ew ew ew

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, here's mine: Tigermilking

Anyways, I've only gotten four responses. Before I put up my photo, I got a response from one of my friends who didn't know it was me, and another who DID know it was me and so cleverly sent me a ransom letter style note in the post saying "I KNOW! I KNOW! I KNOW!" with letters cut out from a magazine. I was sort of freaked out for awhile. Bitch.

After I put up my picture, I got one from a high school girl in Michigan, one from a dirty old man who said he wanted to "milk my tiger". But I suppose I was just asking for a response like that.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:48 (twenty-three years ago)

phil-two, before I even read your profile, I thought Chow Yun Fat had joined Ladytron!

also, anyone who thinks that personals are for weirdos and the desperate, just take a look at the featured personals this week. These people are beautiful and/or interesting and/or plain sexy (and representative). However! I have never gone on a date with anyone from this thing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:57 (twenty-three years ago)

phil-two, before I even read your profile, I thought Chow Yun Fat had joined Ladytron!

Uhhh, something in the back of my mind tells me that I should remember, but still... what the hell are you talking about?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, more things about nerve:
my ex-roommate who hasn't been on a date in something like 4 years met a really cute/interesting girl from Nerve, and they've been dating for 6 months. I think they're going to get *married*...

also, a friend had set me up with a guy from jersey city. we had gone on a few dates, and it seemed okay and all... but after the first time we had slept together, he stopped returning phone calls. But I guess I found out it was over when my roommate found that he had just posted an ad on Nerve... asshole. i got DUMPED via nerve.com. like its my fault the sex was bad - he had a cast on his broken arm!! what was i to do? i'm no gymnast.

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:24 (twenty-three years ago)

nice Barcelona reference in your profile there

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, come on, Martin, you're the foxiest grey panther in town!

Also, Tracer, did you know Kevin Spacey has a stalker who's a hand tracer? She goes up to him and demands that he let her trace his hand. He offered his feet once but she declined.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:33 (twenty-three years ago)

But it only lets you browse people in the US! I looked, and the only guy even close to a DDB in there lived in LA. Why can't I EVER meet a nice dirty dronerock boy online who doesn't live in bloody California?

― kate, Friday, 21 February 2003 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

phil-two - from the picture. I think the smiles are similar?

none of the ladies from ILX has even collect-called me yet. oh well.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate are you sure? must be a bunch in NYC and SF

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

YES, BUT WHY CAN'T THERE BE ANY IN LONDON?!?!?!?

― kate, Friday, 21 February 2003 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Should I take one out? Does it costs money? Can I say "Dirty dronerock girl seeks Fr33 Ja22 Boi to make beautiful music together?"

― kate, Friday, 21 February 2003 10:01 (twenty-three years ago)

It's free, but then you have to pay to contact people ($2?). However, it's free if they contact you first.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 10:02 (twenty-three years ago)

spencer! thats the nicest thing anyone has ever wrote about me, thank you!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Favorite on-screen sex scene:

!!!!

does that not strike anyone else as being quite a.... DEMENTED question?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 21 February 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Greg, have you looked at the rest of the nerve site?

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 21 February 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

nope, i take i shouldn't?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 21 February 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

But they also share the same personals from the Onion and Salon don't they?

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 21 February 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One day my profile is up and the nickalicious already has a response! Wowwee zowwee!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 February 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dirty dronerock girl seeks Fr33 Ja22 Boi to make beautiful music together?"

kate I live in NYC.

― hstencil, Friday, 21 February 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, phil-two has one of my favorite movie-scenes EVAH as his favorite-sex-scene-from-a-movie!

*actually still a little stunned to find someone else who's seen Tampopo...what a great flick!*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 February 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

why does everyone on this site say that the last great book they read is fucking david sedaris?!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and the spelling! egads!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

David Sedaris must be getting some hellacious paper cuts right about now.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, I've never even heard of David Sedaris!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan your joke was lost on me, please explain.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

"why does everyone on this site say that the last great book they read is fucking david sedaris?! "

"David Sedaris must be getting some hellacious paper cuts right about now. "

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I totally want to make a fake one and post all the results on here.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, the scariest thing I've noticed is the number of LA women who are reading Ayn Rand...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I posted a fake robot one under the name bleep_bloop. It got no responses.

I'm convinced all the women who list David Sedaris are robots. Nothing against him or his writing, but jeez talk about hive mind! Double for women who list Sedaris and the makeout scene from "Top Gun!"

― hstencil, Friday, 21 February 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Thats a great scene.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe so, but does it have to be everybody's favorite?

I think the best sex scene in "Top Gun" involves volleyball.

― hstencil, Friday, 21 February 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I totally want to make a fake one and post all the results on here.

I don't recommend this. I made profiles for famous dead people (Marie Curie, Buster Keaton, et al) and wrote an article about the responses (from people who obviously didn't recognize these people, despite my best efforts to make the profiles as ridiculous as possible). I received some really creepy responses and feel kind of bad about the whole thing. *atone, atone*

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I always flex before I serve.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah it would be kind of mean.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

ernest-
please link article.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 February 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

You can search for people in London, Kate, in that I did so by putting in London as the city and UK as the country. Except I did have to join first. I think it's one dollar to email someone, except it's actually one token, and you seem to have to buy 25 for $24.95, rather than 1 for a dollar.

Thanks for the kind words everyone, but I am nonetheless balding and short and funny shaped. I see myself as very unattractive, but I do keep reminding myself that I have found quite a few attractive people who clearly thought otherwise.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:14 (twenty-three years ago)

why does everyone on this site say that the last great book they read is fucking david sedaris?!

David Sedaris isn't a book!

You're OTM though. Most of these people don't read, and they either steal their "last great book" from other profiles or they've pretty much ONLY read David Sedaris and maybe a self-help book or two.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

please link article.

The article isn't on the web, gygax!, so I'll email you it.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 21 February 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

The best scene in Top Gun involves Iceman's chompers.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 21 February 2003 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

We're talking "Top Gun", not "Top Cum" Daver.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 February 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"we were... inverted"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I always flex before I serve.

Rick Rossovich rules.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 22 February 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh I'm talking to a cute Nerve girl now!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 22 February 2003 08:15 (twenty-three years ago)

yo I've seen that girl around NYC! fuck yeah Jody, go!

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 22 February 2003 08:30 (twenty-three years ago)

that girl is WAY cool. talk to her lots.

she just read the book that I'm reading and loving.

― nellskies (minna), Saturday, 22 February 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Man, she's got the cool pout going on. She should let Jody rock her world. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 February 2003 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think David Sedaris is terrible...but if that's the last *great* book someone has read I feel kinda sorry for them.

― Nicole (Nicole), Saturday, 22 February 2003 17:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I scared the cute Nerve girl off. :-(

Or worse, maybe I bored her.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 08:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Aw. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

In boredom several months ago I used the Mark's infamous baby v. duck photo in my (hidden) profile.

Today I received an email from Nerve (the return address had the word "violations" in it!) which read in part, "thats a cute little [sic] duckey, and an even cuter baby. Although, we would prefer if you would post a photo of yourself."

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Needless to say they removed the photo.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

(This is the post where Dan pouts because no one else finds the idea of David Sedaris getting fucked by randy paperbacks as funny as he does.)

*pout*

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not fair! How do they know you aren't a duck? Do ducks not deserve love?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

"Turn-ons: frightening babies, long walks, anal"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Also needless to say, I replaced it with

http://www.magicalportrait.com/burningman-images/duck.jpg

How long until I'm booted off?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

you could claim that you are standing betwixed (new word), the duck and the egg, and that is your bicycle. Damn their hegemony!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, so I have had so much joy looking at everyone's profiles that I will share mine, even though it kinda makes me cringe: theobjectlesson.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

you are cute Chris.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

In carefully selected photos, yes. (Self-deprication aside, thanks.)

I always worry when I see one of these personals where the photo doesn't look cute (even if it's cute in a way that I'm not all that into). It just seems like there are obvious cropping and lighting techniques to make yourself look cute -- and plus you are trying to advertise your cuteness -- so when someone doesn't look at all cute, it is weird.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

(Yeah Chris, you are cute. Go get em.)

Except can I just express an extreme annoyance w/ people who post exceedingly flattering and/or uncharacteristic pictures? I mean, the point of this is to meet other people in actual real life - why advertise falsely?

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

the same reason aspiring actors get headshots that look like the Cosmo version of themselves—1/2 of them think they actually look like that and the other 1/2 just want a foot in the door. the second one's deluded about other people; the first one's deluded about yourself

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

But Tracer the deluded ones are supposed to go to makeoutclub!

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

For the same reason McDonald's hamburgers look better on TV than they do when you take the Big Mac wrapper off and rotten iceberg lettuce flies everywhere. You have to reel people in somehow.

I think the pic I put up is pretty flattering, and I'm proud to say I didn't Photoshop it at all except to crop out the non-me parts of the shot. It's also fairly recent. So I'm still playing by "the rules," even if people are disappointed by what they see in person. I can't help that.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not suggesting that people post bad or unflattering pictures necessarily; I'm just suggesting they post photos that actually resemble them.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

You hate duckies!

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Why a duck?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate dating duckies.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:30 (twenty-three years ago)

(Anyway, mark, I don't "go get" anyone. I let them come to me.)

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

you are cute Chris.

He's a very attractive young man, he is. And I've had him over at my place along with FIVE OTHER PEOPLE! But all they did was sleep, as they were tired.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I am guessing that the two people on the tour who were an actual couple did a little under-the-covers snuggling. (Not to burst your bubble, or anything.)

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, doubtless. Isn't that what a little stolen time together on the tour is for?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(Anyway, mark, I don't "go get" anyone. I let them come to me.)

Enh. Most of my collect callers are duds.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(Oh, crap, Ned distracted me from finishing my thought. Which was mostly that I try to make it seem like I only "get got" out of some sort of bravado but really it's a cover for debilitating shyness and uncertainty and getting overwhelmed by these things. I know, weep for me, etc., etc. I can dish advice out better than I can take it, sometimes.)

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

My collect callers are, in general, "hotter" physically than the people who have e-mailed me, but also they tend to be young and live in Seattle and I get the feeling that I would grow bored with them quickly.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris, is there a way you can filter out the Seattle people? I swore there was some sort of mileage filter you can apply. Maybe set it to something less than 160 miles. :)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

DB, it's not as if I'm being overwhelmed with propositions, here.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

My best experiences have come when I've done the getting. I don't think I've ever had a collect call result in anything more than an enh-inspiring meeting.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

DB, it's not as if I'm being overwhelmed with propositions, here.

No, I mean filter out collect calling dudes in Seattle.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

..unless they're pretending to be from Portland? In which case, MENTALIST ALERT RUN RUN RUN!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I mean I can filter them out by hand.

Actually I haven't responded to any of the (3) collect calls I've received. I am a cheapskate who clearly doesn't really want to get laid!

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

of all the people i know who have nerve profiles, i dont think any of them have actually paid for nerve credits to contact other profilers. do you have any?

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 06:46 (twenty-three years ago)

no, but i've had plenty of contacts so somebody's paying!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 06:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I've used perhaps two of twenty credits.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I really just don't want to give money to these sites that prey off people's loneliness.

...sigh.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

how is it preying? most ILXers who've posted profiles have had decent responses that they wouldn't otherwise have had. i think it's only fair that people pay for the service.

(i am mr_syms)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I am a hopeless romantic, maybe; or maybe just hopeless. I don't like the idea of people paying money to find a shot at romance (or even just nookie).

I mean, it's not immoral or anything, but it's just Not How It Should Work, you know?

You're right that Spring Street is providing a service and should get paid for it. But... it makes me sad.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris, get with the modern times. If there is a new way to meet people that isn't: a bar, mutual friends, lame hook-ups via friends - then why not take advantage of it?

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I know someone who met a man through personals like these. When he came up to her in the cafe in which they had arranged to meet, she expressed surprise at how little he resembled his photo. He said "Oh, that wasn't me. That was a photo of an actor I found. I just thought it looked quite a lot like me." She didn't hang around. I've met at least one woman where I'd swear the photo must have been ten years old, easily.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I met some guy from nerve who was wearing a tatterred rolling stones t-shirt and black jeans with these odd white splotches on the thigh, but he looked so clean-cut and nice in the profile photo....

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris how are you on paying yr phone bill? Or stamps? Or bus-fare?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris, get with the modern times. If there is a new way to meet people that isn't: a bar, mutual friends, lame hook-ups via friends - then why not take advantage of it?

Because someone else is profiting off it? This is one of the things that depresses me about the bars (by which I mean, the meat markets) (though this is hardly the most depressing thing about them).

I mean yes it's great and rah technology and all.

Chris how are you on paying yr phone bill? Or stamps? Or bus-fare?

What? I don't think these are set up solely to take advantage of people's loneliness.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't most if not all profit the result of someone selling a product that is of use to people? I don't see how this is a bad thing.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Er, I'm not lonely.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Seeing that there are many lonely people and wanted to help out = good thing.

Seeing that there are many lonely people and thinking, hey, I know how I can make my fortune = bad thing.

Part of this comes out of my convinction that personals don't actually work out all that well for all that many people. People have described, on this thread, going on a few dates or getting a little play, but I think there has only been one or two people who have gotten a lasting relationship out of the personals.

And maybe that's a high enough success rate, or maybe a little play is all anyone wanted. But paying a few bucks for a chance at getting laid is like shelling out for some lotto pimp, where you scratch and see if you're gonna get any. Maybe yes, maybe no!

Not that I begrudge anyone who uses or enjoys these services (and clearly I try to use them as well) -- this isn't meant to make anyone feel bad about paying for personals & is more about my hang-ups.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Er... well, lonely in the sense "not having enough company", right? I mean, if you're seriously putting an ad up, then you want more people in your life, and so you presumably feel a lack.

This isn't meant to suggest utter loneliness, complete friendlessness, life as a Beckett character, etc.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris for me it's not an issue of quantity - it's about being at a point in my life where I could stand to meet some *new* people.

Even so, I don't think that the "I could stand to have a few more people in my life" is the type of 'loneliness' (if you wanna call it that) that can really be taken advantage of anyway.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway, there's always gonna be money involved, it's just a matter of how much you'd prefer to obscure that fact to yourself.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but there's a difference between when that money is spent indirectly (I'm going to a show and maybe I'll meet some new people but mostly I'm paying for the show) and directly (I'm paying to be able to send an e-mail to you because you seem kinda interesting).

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:32 (twenty-three years ago)

And how many times have you shelled out money for a show you were less enthused at the thought of seeing because there was the off-chance that you might meet someone there?

I agree that on some level it's not the most romantic way to meet people, but at least it is another way. One which, on a purely essentialist level, probably wouldn't exist unless there was money involved...

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I've actually done that very, very rarely (although I have shelled out money for a show that I wasn't terribly enthused about because a friend or someone I was dating was interested in it, which is similar but I think different).

I mean, yes, you're right, and the more options the better, sure, and I bet there are some people who flourish in the personals. But it still seems like a vaguely weird and perverse way to meet someone. But, yeah, I still have my profile.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I just took a very nice and fun thread and ruined it, didn't I? Dammit. Ignore me.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

For Chris:

http://www.nottinghamevents.org/goosefair/images/lollipop.jpg

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

(That's better than a collect call.)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I swear, that kid has a look that makes me think she's gonna grow up to be the next Dan Perry.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"You want this sucker where?"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I think people meeting via personals come into the situation with a mutual disadvantage in that any pretense of serendipity (one thing that makes courtship so fun) is totally lost. There's something prosaic about it, I agree. But I don't see Nerve as taking advantage of anyone, especially since it's easy enough to post your email address in your profile if you so desire.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 19:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't they delete your profile if you do? Considering the hard times they were giving over duck pix I would think they'd be scanning for e-mail addresses, since that's where their revenue comes from.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

''This isn't meant to suggest utter loneliness, complete friendlessness, life as a Beckett character, etc.''

I've decided to try and live my life like this. oh wait i already do!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't post I'll post.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

BEST PROFILE EVER!!!

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 28 February 2003 08:01 (twenty-three years ago)

So is anyone engaged yet?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

In my ILX dreams they are!

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe no one commented on the profile I posted :-(

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe no one commented on the profile I posted :-(

Actually, I for some reason have a very strong memory of posting simply the word "PIMPTACULAR" in response to this admittedly-best-personal-evah, even with the strange circumstances of the post not actually being here.

Well, anyway, I thought it was "pimptacular", and I wish I had the balls to create a similar one.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, I was speechless

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

i've given up on nerve

pheromones have usurped punctuation usage for the time being

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

pheromones have usurped punctuation usage for the time being

What, you expect someone to put proper usage of commas before their overwhelming need for wang/vaj?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Wangvaj sounds like a proper name, god help me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

wow

that guy's got it made

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Pronglarp Wangvaj, from Thailand of course.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:20 (twenty-three years ago)

eeeeeeewwwwwwww

(ps mark i hear you, i deleted my profile)

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Nickalicious, I kiss you.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

REVIVE!

I haven't gone back since I took my profile down (it was just so much work, and my curiosity was pretty much sated), but I'd like to know how others are doing.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I gave up.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

that's funny, I just got emailed this past week by a foxy chick. Don't know when we'll meet up for drinks, but it's on the agenda.

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, this was where my big date last week came from. But despite the date going well he is not interested in a relationship. Sigh.

I'm also exchaning e-mails with one of the most pretentious people I've ever exchanged e-mails with. I would quote them here but that seems rude...

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rude shmude, DISH IT!!!! (just kidding...or am I?)

I haven' gotten any replies or contacted anyone or really even logged onto nerve in quite some time now. I wanna make a pimptacular joke profile soon though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I have been sharing chioce bits with people on AIM...

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

*coughspillcough*

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

You forget how googleable my name is. And how small a town I live in. I am not so into burning bridges.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey, don't look at me - I just had something in my throat.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

:: raises eyebrow ::

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

So do I.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

What a downer.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Well keep it up, then.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

*wonh wonh wonh*

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

So yeah, you can see why I'm so incredibly successful at luring people into bed with me.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Enh. Lately I've stopped trying. And unless a drunk girl falls into my lap within the next six weeks, I don't see any reason to start.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I created a profile a couple of months ago, and have had no response. I've found on dating sites generally that the men do most of the approaching still, but I do get some women contacting me first on other ones. I haven't written to anyone on this site, because I would have to pay, and there is enough going on on free sites for me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Now that I've paid, I've got like 24 "credits" left, which makes me think I should go on a wild dating spree!

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:06 (twenty-three years ago)

damn straight, Chris! I'm sure as hell into the idea of getting my $25 worth.

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I was waiting for someone to supply the punchline, but I guess I'll do it mysef:

damn straight, Chris! I'm sure as hell into the idea of getting my $25 worth.

because it's cheaper than a hooker!

― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh I'm so cheap... I had my friend Jay, who had credits, email someone for me, like: "oh, uh, my friend uh wanted me to email you for him. his profile is tigermilking. here's his email"... i felt like i was on food stamps or something

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 18 April 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha no, Phil, it's totally OK! I want to give my credits to friends too! But all my friends are in COUPLES now god damn them fucking gjhklathiotpuy3829ghklsghxnjc....

Anyway I'll give you one of my credits if you find an airport postcard for me. ;-)

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 18 April 2003 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Despite my reservations about spending actual money on this thing, I've already gotten a response. (She's not Jennifer Azzi though.) I think it was this keeper that reeled her in:

Why you should get to know me:
Despite the limpness of the rest of this profile, I am very funny. Women like big words, so I hear, and I've learned a lot. Like: wrap your solipsism around this my pulsating synecdoche.

Thank god for ILX, where I steal all my ideas from.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 06:39 (twenty-three years ago)

What the hell? Collect call? Aaargh! Freeloading gold-diggers! I feel like Joe Millionaire!

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 06:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean, what's to keep me from putting some email addy in one of those fields to circumvent this whole credits biz?

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 06:51 (twenty-three years ago)

You'd probably have to be clever about it, like saying "write to me at (you know what I mean) whatever.com" - they usually forbid it, and their programmes look for it, but I bet the above would circumvent it. Maybe you'd have to say "whatever dot com" instead.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I've seen profiles with e-mails in them, but they probably search for e-mail addys and could dump your profile I guess. Anyway do some search-proofing, I guess: "myemail at yah00" or something.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, is Nerve one of those where your profile, or changes to it, don't go up very quickly? At some I think human beings actually look at the new content. You can test this by making a little change and seeing how quickly it appears. In minutes, it's automatic, several hours and it ain't.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Leee, you sent me a collect call, you big hypocrite! Put that in your pulsating synecdoche and smoke it.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

How do you know it's me, you big stud? Quite a few leee(e)(eeeeeeeee)'s around.

And on an entirely different note, someone spot me a couple credits. I'm totally good for it! You know where I post.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Should I respond to somoene who signed their email as "Your Pal"?

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

NO.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Was it Ma$e?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

but I am your pal, ddg!

― hstencil, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

No unfortunately it was the turntable guy. He's from Jersey. Could that be why?

― That Girl (thatgirl), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:02 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Nerve sucks. The only girl I actually met through it stole my books. I don't know if I've changed or if the profiles have started to suck horribly. Everyone advertising themselves, it all seems like such a joke. Good riddance. I still have $22 in credits, can I transfer them to someone else or get my money back? Or am I just screwed?

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 1 June 2003 05:13 (twenty-three years ago)

She stole your books? That's rough.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 1 June 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

*Revive!*

OK, so I'm back on the Nerve tip after another heartbreak (this time in espanol!) during my adventures in serial monogamy. I've resolved to just date until at least March of next year (my 31st b-day).

So, anyone have more to report on how nerve is going for them. Are you bored with it? Moved on to Friendster? Met the love of your life? etc etc.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Met someone. Time will tell about the "love of life" part but it's been going fairly well for the past few months.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you meet because of photos or because of the profile, and if so which part?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Friendster is better cos you can date Cookie Monster that way, but it's your life.

(Seriously, I just don't like things like that, says the person who is sitting online laughing her ass off at total strangers talking about Ed Wood)

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Profile. Though if there hadn't been pictures up, who knows.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

it was great for me at first because i met a lot of people and pretty much everybody was pleasant. after a while it got less great because it's hard (for me) to connect with somebody in a setting that's almost inevitably like a job interview, sort of. it's time consuming.

when i first signed up i was a writing fool and really tried to find people who expressed themselves well in e-mails and seemed interesting. that was limiting, mostly because a lot of people can't be bothered to write more than two sentences. so i started to focus more on pictures and decide whether "i could make it work" or not. that got me out more, but didn't really work too well. now i spend less time on it and i'm more selective.

(i'm "kelly23" and i need better pics.)

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i have 22 points that i can't get back. i wish i could give them to someone else who is bolder than i.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

ooooh, are they transferable?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

no, i asked.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

What do you get points for? Not murdering your date?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

so you can write to people or IG (Instantly Gratify) them.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I need some instant gratification, dammit. I SAID NOW!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 04:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to 'unhide' all my friendster bookmarks! yay assertive!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait, why can't you send e-mails for your friends and include their e-mail address and profile name in it? Like, "Hi! I have a bunch of credits (already found someone, yay!) but my friend walks_with_dogs thinks you're interesting and would like to talk to you about tacos. His e-mail is [email protected] and drop him a quick e-mail and he will write back." etc. etc.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

His e-mail is [email protected]

I really want this email now. I don't know why, I just do.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

What do you mean, you don't know why?

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, I know why.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

My penis would totally surprise people.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Coulor me surprised

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

See? It's working already!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna, grab that addy before Oops does!

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you for registering the following e-mail address as your Microsoft® .NET Passport:

[email protected]

Remember:
Sign in with your .NET Passport e-mail address and password wherever you see the .NET Passport sign-in button.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

too late

(worst x post ever)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

oh chris, I heart you.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Now remember, you have to use it, or they'll take it away from you in a few months.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

she's using 'it' already!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm crying I'm laughing so hard.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm feeling guilty cos someone sent me a Nerve 'collect call' a few months back, and I haven't read it. I have 0 credits, and no way to buy any.

The Guardian had an article the other day about how Friendster is much better for socially-inadequate British people than sites like Nerve, because it replicates the British vagueness about dating, meeting people and so on.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

What are these bookmarks? Do people really meet anyone on Friendster, seriously?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I've totally been meeting people on Friendster. and not just Camel-Toe and Joan Jett!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but people you want to meet? I get loads of messages but almost all from guys who fancy themselves the "mack daddy", so to speak.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, there are so many hotties on friendster, it's scary. Should I send you examples?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, cos I don't believe you.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

let spencer reveal his bookmarks. let the coyness come to an end

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

No! They are my secret bookmarks! Coyness is nice!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I would totally make out with TWO of Spencer's bookmarks!

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

told you.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, true, but that doesn't really address the factor of the weird mack daddies who send me messages about how they want me to secretly come to some bar and watch them for an hour but not talk to them.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

whoa. y'know the world is so messed up. See, I would probably do that if someone asked.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but it was way the hell out in NJ, I wasn't going to go there just for that. The funny thing is, I changed my profile to no longer indicate single and that made it worse. I think they find that refreshingly abrasive and challenging? Or they are illiterate? I'm not really sure.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I think my testimonial only excites them all the more < /pally>

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

*sigh* You promise to marry me, then mack out on all these other girls...it's so typically male.

This isn't pally anyway, we are being HELPFUL to other people trying to PICK UP PEOPLE. The key is to mark yourself as taken! Wear an engagement ring, for example, this will improve chances tenfold, again in my experience.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I now have this terrifying/hilarious image of myself wearing some big rock engagement ring and pretending like it's nothing as I talk to people while I'm out.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: dress like '70s era Elton John, it goes good with the Tiffany's bling bling ring.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i feel totally gay having one of these

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 July 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

jess otm. wait, i don't have one any more. phew.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

also do people honestly pay for "credits"?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i want to see jess's profile. cut and paste?

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 18 July 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

don't have one but i have had thoughts abt it. the ''credits'' bit just makes me laugh really.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 July 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I've still not paid for credits. Also, one of my friendster bookmarks wrote to me! Unhide those bookmarks!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

jess writes:
i feel totally gay having one of these

is it men seeking men?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

you anti-credits profile-havers are total dating hypocrites!

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 18 July 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

''profile-havers''?! ;)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 18 July 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Profilians.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Profilactics.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Profilgators.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

REVIVE!

So has Friendster killed Nerve? I suspect I'm developing a prejudice that women who write to me from Nerve are kind of uncool and too obvious. Am I insane? Do I really inhabit an interwebbed world where I consider myself and others superior simply because of hipper access? Am I forgetting that there are wonderful people to meet who barely check email? Do I even have time for those people?

Perhaps I should Ask Chaki... moderator, can we put Ask Chaki in the upper right of every page?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Revive.

I'm down on Nerve right now. This cute little number gave me a Collect Call, so all excited and having some disposable income I went and splurged on credits to respond. It's been over a week and I've yet to hear a reply, and to top it off, the one time I tried to invite her to an IG chat, *poof*, offline she went. Sure, people change their minds and get indecisive, it happens all the time... but only on the Internet does someone's indecisiveness cost you twenty-five bucks. Argh.

So what the hell do I do with these 24 credits? I'm tempted to write a handful of surrealistic poems to people whose profiles seem interesting, out of sheer curiosity and mild ill will...

― justin s., Wednesday, 1 October 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Something similar happened to me; something similar happened to my boyfriend. Well, you have a bunch of credits now: Go start up conversations with strangers you think are interesting!

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

if friendster killed nerve and myspace killed friendster and facebook killed myspace, what will kill facebook?

― omar little, Friday, 12 December 2008 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

My penis would totally surprise people.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:31 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― jaymc, Friday, 12 December 2008 00:50 (seventeen years ago)

ahahahaha

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Friday, 12 December 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

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