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

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no one ever replies to my messages :(

(but then again my profile is representative of some weird dude who cuts himself)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

haha xpost i bet i sent you one of those leigh

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

It is worth signing up, but probably only if you're actually looking for a partner. It's too much effort to just find "friends", to be honest. And you need to answer at least 1,000 questions for your results to be of any use, but then again, office boredom will see that pass in about three hours.

I recommend it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I was on it last year. And I met exactly one dude. Who, coincidentally, actually had ginger hair and a pointy nose. But it just kind of fizzled out. Mainly because I wasn't feeling very pro-sex or pro-relationship at all.

― Alec Tea-Skirt (kate), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

I've looked back at my deleted mail and they seem to consist of geeky guys in their early 20s with awful taste in music and a fondness for Terry Pratchet.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Now I remember why I deleted my profile... just couldn't be bothered to return any emails. Sigh. I liked the taking tests bit, though.

― Alec Tea-Skirt (kate), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

I do love how it's got my personality down pat:

Compared to males his age:

He's sloppier
He's less trusting
He's cruder
He's less organized
He's greedier
He's more independent
He's more introverted

Don't all rush at once girls.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

stop boasting about not bothering to reply to mail(male) please! dammit i'd be lucky to have any to reply to. :\\

although i actually met up with a girl from there one time (way way back from when it all started though). I wonder if okcupid has lost the momentum.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 5 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I used to get lots of mail when I signed in last spring, but nowadays, nothing. I also met a girl through OKCupid who turned out to be a bit scary, and that got me off it for awhile. But I rechecked it a while ago, and now I've exhchanged mails with someone interesting. Most of my top matches in Finland seem to be Goths and roleplayers, I'm not sure why.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 August 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I just changed my profile a little bit and now a million people are trying to IM me. I guess that's the secret.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 6 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to change my profile to say i'm female to see if my IMs shoot up.

p.s. i just got a woo!

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 6 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

It is worth signing up, but probably only if you're actually looking for a partner. It's too much effort to just find "friends", to be honest.

Funnily enough, I only seem to be finding friends and not partners. Then again, I'm far too bewildering for 99.9% of Tallahassee. I've met one girl on there and we played Uno on a deck at a local lake but it wasn't romantic in any sense. I actually ran into the girl at a concert on Wednesday and after we figured out who we were we didn't speak to each other for the rest of the evening, but personally I was intimidated because she brought along a friend who gave me one really funny look and that kept me from saying more.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 6 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

It's just another of those half-hearted things I signed up to, just to do the tests really - I can never really think of anything much to say if I get rare email or whatever.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 6 August 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

i was really into taking the tests for about a week and after that i lost interest/forgot about it completely until this thread.

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

I just got a woo from this guy but I am too awed by his profile to make contact. He is some kind of amazing-man!
http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=18063704085947318817

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

best message ever:
"wow that is a great picture. . not to be offensive but the way the background looks it looks like yer in what I imagine to be a crackhouse with stuff written on bare drywall. . .which would explain the quality of the picture. . . "

― tehRZA gibbons (tehresa), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

almost unbelievably, i'm already dating my best local match (not because of okCupid of course) so their questionnaire thingamajig just *might* actually work.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I don't know Cathy, there are big flaws there. He names Isaac Asimov among his favourite writers, and the questions he particularly cares about include:
Do you have experience being in a slave/master relationship?
Is your duty to religion/God even more important than your family?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I am an old-fashioned sincere sort of a fellow, who doesn't like mind games in relationships! That's why I've never been in one

I am fine with Isaac Asimov, but for some reason this is the bit that made me go "ok, no".

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone ever written one of these profiles with the line "I am a big fan of mind games in relationships"?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

What does 'mind games' even mean anyway? I mean, no one wants to go out with someone who is cruelly manipulative. I think I interpret "doesn't like mind games" as "scared by and distrustful of women". Perhaps i am wrong.

― Cathy (Cathy), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

As someone jumping into this thread without reading it: I live in a remote, backwards part of northern England, never go out because I don't have any friends within 100 miles, and have given up on ever finding a relationship ever again, mostly because if I ever do find anyone who thinks I look attractive, they will run away from my personal history and list of favoured kinks. Should I try signing up for this thing, or am I doomed?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

There are many women on dating sites saying the same things about mind games. I think there are people who have been fucked around with, or think they have, and are on the lookout for more. Obviously people looking to fuck around with someone are not likely to think "Oh okay, this person is against mind games, I'll look elsewhere..."

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I haven't logged in in ages!

From a guy in my hometown:
t's bump uglies and be discreet, no commitments here, i just want some sex hardcore

robl

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

let's, not t's

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

i think "no mind games" means "i'm carrying loads of baggage! do not approach!"

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 6 August 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

I can see someone who's had difficult relationships being wary of "mind games", but how can you complain about them in a relationship if you haven't had one?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Mind Games = chess?

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

WHERE IS A NICE GIRL WHO DON'T WANT TO PLAY CHESS WITH ME?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

oh wow! i set up a proper profile (rather than a joke one) just yesterday and someone already mailed me telling me my hair is great!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I like the way you can linki-fy stuff now.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

ok cupid seems to be a long winded (but sure fire) way of finding out whether you are ugly or not.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I already know I'm ugly.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

all it's told me so far is that my hair is not ugly - will update soon perhaps!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Username check for those of us sad enough to use the "Friends Network"?

Juror_8

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

cozeny

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

like me, but worse

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Lixenixen.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

I got an email from someone with the header 'time wars' saying 'your profile looks bizarre. i like that'.

GET ONE SOMETHING ANYTHING INTERESTING TO SAY K THX BYE

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Well actually they don't look that bad, but come on.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

This is how okcupid thinks I compare to other males my age or whatever:

He's more energetic
He's more adventurous
He's less methodical
He's more artsy
He's less mathematical
He's more indie
He's more independent

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

when i set up my new (non joke) profile suddenly i'm less horny than the rest of the male population, rather than more horny. either i've grown less horny than when i first took the test or the rest of the population got more horny

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

my matches are a joke :( one guy wears platform boots and has hair down to his bum

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

He's more energetic

Aren't you a stoner hippy?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

what's the new name ken?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

HE'S MORE ENERGETIC:
http://myspace-597.vo.llnwd.net/00005/79/53/5373597_m.JPG

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I wish that was a gif.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

That sounds like the start to a theme song

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

He's more energetic
He's far more indie
He wears linen trousers
and he's coming for YOU!
IT'S NICKALICIOUS

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

this is my #1 match

http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=3148287009413629834

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 8 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

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