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

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My matches get up to 87% at most around the world. Locally, it's never more than 74%, and no-one's really all that interesting. Maybe I should be kinkier and hornier, because everyone I get matched with is really tame, safe, and inoffensive and I'm not. I'm just typically polite.

Compared to other males my age I'm apparently:
less aggressive
less ambitious
more artsy
more compassionate
less geeky
less capitalistic
more progressive
less selfish
more indie
less kinky
more literary
more loving
more pure
less Republican
less sex-driven
less spiritual
more emotional
more political
less competitive

No surprises there.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 8 August 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

what is it?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 8 August 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

I was just gonna point out that I have an above 80% match with Mandee, but Andrew already did that. Don't worry Mandee, you're still unique, it's just that I wasn't particularly picky when answering the questions. (Does she like anime, or know what becomes of hydrogen when it's burned... who cares?)

My number one match in the world used to be Martin Skidmore (95%), but I can't find his profile anymore.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

I am still there - perhaps we are no longer so well suited, sadly. My best used to be RickyT, as I recall, and we do seem pretty compatible to me (which might disturb the fuck out of him, of course). Except perhaps for a lack of interest on his part in unattractive middle-aged men, I imagine.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I should sign up again. But then again, I only ever get bogged down in the "oh my god, there are no good photos of me, ever!" quandary. Sigh.

― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

i am having trouble choosing the best 5 for my profile (they're all so prettyy!)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Last night, after signing up, the *best* match I could get within 100 miles was only 15%. I didn't try worldwide matching, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

how many questions have you answered? (you get crap matches if you havne't answered enough questions)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

i wish tuomas and martin would date

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

aw love through shared interest in photography.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've never come across someone with just a 15% match with me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)

Huh? I don't even own a camera.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

how many questions have you answered?

About forty, I think.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

funny thing is, ive seen my #1 match at a party before.. he kept brushing his hair... and swishing it around... and I was drinking a Zima XXX and he put his fingers up to me crossed (like I was a vampire) -- I knew then we could never find true love

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Because you don't want him to suffer the same curse and become a member of the nonliving?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm giving match.com a try. Have messaged 5 different guys today, does that make me a slut?

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

no but i did like in the okcupid test, it asks you "do you have STD? if so click here"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

nothing like a bit of good rivalry

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I never found that out, 'cos I NEVER CLICKED!

Care to share with us, Ken?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Having read exactly what I just posted there, I predict it'll take 10 seconds for a snappy comeback.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I didn't click either - but I hovered over the link to see where it led to :-)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

You a ghost or something?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

(I just thought it would lead to extra questions.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

i can't think of a single snappy comeback at all!! at least none that wouldn't be inviting sex and so i shall refrain.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Hovered *my mouse pointer* over it :-P

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Your mouse a ghost or something?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I also own no camera. Haven't done for years.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Your camera a ghost or something?

― matlewis (matlewis), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

OK, I've filled my profile out, I've answered lots of questions, I'm getting matches in the 70-75% range, I've left it a day or so, and an impressive total of ZERO email. Clearly either:

a) it's crap
b) nobody likes me
c) both of the above.

My money's on C, but I could be wrong.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Ahh, it's fine. I haven't had any mail in a while. It's weird, though, because sometimes I'll get several messages all at once.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

sing it sister

crosspost

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Found you ken! Do I get a prize?

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I am caffypeach. woo me, ILE!

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

excellent detective work! prize is in the post.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Best prize ever!!

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Hoax or not? She just messaged me and I had the most confusing conversation ever.

http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=8386974580582591271#topofim

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

"I don't really read fiction (does Harry Potter count as fiction?)"

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

HARRY'S 4 RILZ BRO

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

favourite films:

... Matrix (obviously) ...

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

but all I really want is to get married to a well-dressed intellectual, and live in a stable environment in which to bring up able children.

THESE WORDS ALL PERFECETLY DESCRIBE MY PERSONALITY AND MY PROFILE.

Maybe in between learning how to run science by herself she didn't bother learning how to read.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

live in a stable environment

she's a horse!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Warning: will consume your brain during sex, stick insect style.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

She favours intellectual stimulation and yet reads and watches that drivel? No wonder you're confused. I would be too.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

seems like a particularly awkward geeky profile to me. i don't think that most ppl with the offhand knowledge to pull off a joke profile like that would also have the subtlety to make the "jokes" fall so pitch-perfect flat.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 18 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=8386974580582591271

This alteration has occured so that people reading my profile will no-longer become intimidated.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

She speaks LISP. She may not be intimidating, but she's likely to be boring.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 28 August 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Girls who speak LISP: Dud.
Girls who speak with a lisp: Classic.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Er, what's LISP?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

A programming language, much hated by me when I studied it (badly).

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

LISP looks very intimidating to me: (it's written (like this (with (brackets (around everything))) to show (structure)))

I'm on OKCupid's Stranger Arranger list this week. Matched up with someone who, according to their main comparison, is only a 13% match. What's that all about then?

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 29 August 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

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