Just when you thought it was safe - OK CUPID PART 3: The Return of the WOO!

setting your camera up on a timer also gives the illusion that you have friends who would take photos of you. it is an important illusion. really though. i had to have a recent photo for a site i'm writing for and the process of having a friend take it, photo-shoot style (tho just w natural light), ran the gamut of emotions, lol it is weird and disconcerting having yr photo taken over and over, but did end up with some nice, truthy photos in the end. anyway i can't really deal with okcupid and etc but this is my pro tip regardless.

xp

I flounced for a 2-3 months at one point after I got frustrated in this thread (this thread being a symbol of my own frustrating non-existant love life)

I'm gonna try to get some good photos and maybe even have my friend e-mail me a photo like he said he would a year ago. I have been dieting long enough now that I can finally be photographed for a decent full-length photo. Plus I started going to the gym as of yesterday (and I plan on going back tomorrow)

However maybe I should try Match.com
How is the variety of people on that one?

I might try meeting girls at the gym as well

pathos levels have now exceeded 'caution', full red alert, pity masks compulsory

while i wish you the very best of luck lorax i still suspect you need a minor attitude adjustment

Today is the two month anniversary for myself & the wonderful Mahler-as-first-date lady friend...
It's also my birthday.
Excuse me being so happy. :-D

― krakow, Tuesday, 11 May 2010 10:51 (3 hours ago)

What about the...um...ummm...

― coalition to me (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 14:05 (Yesterday)

Um?

Still trying to find or take a profile picture that doesn't come off as "slightly confused lesbian." It's not going well.

Lorax, maybe you're focusing on finding a girlfriend too much? Usually these things happen when you least expect them to. Also, having a partner does not solve any unhappiness or dissatisfaction with life long term. It does for maybe the first three months but then the old problems will slowly rear their ugly head(s). I have come to terms with being happy while being single - I have great friends and family, though, so I consider myself lucky, but finding someone is not much of a priority for me.

But, yeah... I mean, good luck with Okcupid.

http://imgur.com/DpGem.png

edited to protect the guilty but c'mon lady...

I might try meeting girls at the gym as well

homosexual II otm

FWIW en i see kay, I'd totally go on a date with you if you lived anywhere near me. Just sayin.

/lolcrepey.

Oh god, I need to read my okc inbox more often.

When i looked at your pics it reminds me of my mom, how she has the beautiful face of your and the skin too.

....

o_0

Anyone who laughs is a communist.

Not laughing so much as backing slowly away and dialing the police

All my matches are either:
- polyamorous fat roleplayers
- musclehead guidos with their shirts off (ugh)
- kind of stuck up looking graphic designer/lit types (not so bad, but hm)
- my close friends (wtf!)

lol melbourne nerdz

so i signed up for this out of curiosity and one of my first matches was my roommate. :/

If you are seeing someone and it's going well but slow, how to decide whether to take the initiative and sign off OKC?

I am still going on there to read messages only. OK, and to see if he's been on there. He is on there every few days.

God, does this have to be discussed *explicitly* at some point?

i ignored a guy's instant message the other day and got the following 'missed messages' today:

xxxxxx: fook man whats wrong with me :\
xxxxxx: even ugly guys do not respond to me :\

xxxxxx: even vaguely goofy lesbians do not respond to me :\

Im wondering wether I should update my profile to say I am actually single. I'm just worried I'll get even MORE crepes.

who wouldn't want free crepes! sorry

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/16/okcupid-hiding-hotties-fr_n_614149.html?ref=email_share

It appears that OK Cupid is going to start hiding the hotties from the algorhythmically determined less attractive users!

We are very pleased to report that you are in the top half of OkCupid's most attractive users. The scales recently tipped in your favor, and we thought you'd like to know...

Your new elite status comes with one important privilege:

You will now see more attractive people in your match results.

This new status won't affect your actual match percentages, which are still based purely on your answers and desired match's answers. But the people we recommend will be more attractive. Also! You'll be shown to more attractive people in their match results

I don't think that many people use this site ("attractive" or not)

http://celticrebel.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/g2hbrave2.jpg

ya - wtf!
haven't checked my OKC for a long while - but the title of their latest email certainly got my attention: thermosokcupidname, we have data on your attractiveness

Did anyone not get the email?

um...

I thought everyone got the email

lol if you didn't and it was some computer error or lazy person error

oh shit i didn't get it. confirmed epsilon status ;_;

crisis averted. email received. system works. screw you uglies.

this bullshit underlines why I need to delete my profile. the only thing preventing me is that there is some salvageable stuff in emails I've sent there - I could compose my memoirs from stuff written in emails to girls over the past year

this bullshit underlines why I find OKC hilarious and fun. I really want to know what science project they're up to with this.

I imagine that when told they're attractive people send more messages.

good point - would very much be in tune with their sorts of shenanigans

Argh wtf how do you turn this shitty IM thing in the corner off? I went into my profile and in 2 secs flat some prick messages me "isnt trayce a bit of a bogan name?"

Way to sell yourself, twat.

$10 says it was pato

If it was he's using a fake pic (it shows the profile pic when u msg ppl and I didnt recog whoever it was).

what is - "bogan"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan

everything you need to know, and lots you don't

In New Zealand, Waikato University postgraduate student and self professed bogan Dave Snell was awarded nearly $100,000 in 2007 to study the bogan lifestyle. Snell's stance is that enjoyment of heavy metal music is a key element of the bogan lifestyle. Snell explains that bogans express their identity through visible tattoos and clothing choices.[13]

Can we get this guy to post here?

Anyone with the stupendous talent required to get $100,000 to study the bogan lifestyle obv has more lucrative ways to employ his time.

We called 'em booners where I grew up (or "westies" which was the sydney term)

techno/house bogans

There's been times in the past when I've e-mailed (not IMed) girls to point out outrageous things they put in their profile. Like some 4chan type girl wrote that sometimes she gets mistook for being a twelve year old and I asked "are you sure you are not a 12 year old?", and she replied "95% sure". I didn't pursue any further.

were you hoping she actually was not sure?!

No, I wouldn't have ever pursued her. But I impulsively felt the need to tease her for being a dysfunvtional 4chan creep... she deserves for people to think that she is a 12 year old (but she probably only got a kick out of me telling her so... Bleh! those terrible /b/tards)

that's one of those... "the only way to win is not to play" kind of situations