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

can't believe i can't find macy skipper's "goofin off" on youtube

If we can't crash b_g's party, where should we go? Somewhere more romantical than out usual east village outings? Like, the king cole bar at the st Regis hotel, or bemelmans bar at the Carlyle?

We should take ourselves out for something nice, yes. I like Bemelmans, everyone likes Bemelmans.

Alternately we could go to the Subway Bar by Bloomingdales. A dive bar home away from our normal home in the EVil.

i am single fyi

my V Day joke is "Or as they call it at my house, Passover"

(old Bob Hope Oscars line)

the constant presence of "make me a sandwich" in the meme arsenal of internet misogyny-lite banter is steadily ruining sandwiches for me tbh. :(

i am thinking of returning to my okc profile just so i can change my description to "five foot five with dimples, potential wife credentials" and veto everyone who seems not to recognise it (i suspect this might be everyone)

Dr. M., will you hang out with us and make my v-day complete?

Maybe we could start at bemelmans and move on to subway after we've thrown all our money away, or the cover starts, which ever comes first.

I have to say, this thread is not inspiring me to un-suspend my profile.

what is the "make a sandwich" thing? i have googled that and "pua" and come across some incomprehensible posts about it

wd hafta check film schedule

xp

it's a dumb thing where guys respond to women making an intelligent point by saying "yeah, why don't you make me a sandwich" i.e. women belong in the kitchen yuk yuk

???? surely no one actually does this

let me introduce you to the internet
http://bitchmakemeasandwich.com/

ok hate everyone now, thanks

Tracer, there was a mini-furore recently when it turned out that if you set your facebook language to 'l33t' the genders were not 'male' and 'female' but 'male' and '54ndw1ch m4k3r'.

ew about this sandwich stuff! i'll find out if party crashers are welcome and let you all know...it should be full of cat-owning ladies in their 30s who spend their weeknights watching downton abbey and cooking lentils (describing self here).

attn mookieproof: i webmailed you re. your trip to seattle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94IdL3djJVU

Uuuuuugh. Fuck that PUA shit so hard. I was so completely oblivious to it as a movement until female friends started pointing out when guys were pulling those particular moves. It was like putting on the They Live glasses.

met someone really nice off of okcupid

Got into a message war with a sleazeball, avoided OKC for a while. I don't know if I'll ever be able to do this dating thing, I can't even chat comfortably.

Lawks, sorry conrad, I'm so busy feeling grumpy at the memory of the skeezedude I'm being rude. Glad for you.

B_g, bring your friends for a romantical gin-soaked evening at the Carlyle.

not at all - sorry the lamers get to you

i think the carlyle is a little rich for their (and my!) blood!

especially with the amount of gin we all likely need to consume on this most alienating of holidays

Wait so is ilx valentining on Tuesday proper? I have to plan.

I think the PUA stuff may work on girls who are really iused to being hit on ALL THE TIME and are super hot and need to be knocked down a peg. However, I am NOT one of those and when someone is being an asshole I generally start to believe that they don't like me.

I think it works for people who are way self-absorbed or just so goal-oriented that they have to be challenged all the time or see all other humans as competition.

The targets are either of a similar mindset, or are easily bullied, or are looking for a "real man" or some horseshit and either need to adjust their viewpoint, or they deserve what they get

the pua stuff i've read makes it all sound so creepy and aggressive and basically trying to trick people into sleeping with you which is barely a step about slipping something in their drink on the sleaziness scale.

slipping something in their drink isn't sleazy

??

I think he means it's rape, rather than 'sleazy'. I think. I hope.

it might be one of those things where you know you're going to think of something funny so you go ahead and get the first half of the sentence out there while you work on creating the second half

he was gonna say it's sleazy 5eva

thanks to ILX i realised a friend of mine was totally on a PUA steez, it explained a lot

shudder

it's rape

BOOM BOOM

I'm thinking v-day proper. B_g, bemelmans martinis last for about and they give you a ton of snacks to go with...totally worth it on a night when you are free. Plus sparkling piano man singing American standards in the background.

i know how you love your standards!

http://www.japanla.com/designs/922/Sandwichclose.jpg

I'm listening to Sinatra singing standards right now. I'm trying to replace my okc obsession with a deep delving into the American songbook. By the way, b_g, you were in my dream last nite. We were both pregnant :0. Also, Ian was our boss and he favored you.

The Bemelman's almonds or mixed nuts/whatever are kind of famous, no?

Oh, freshly fried potato chips, they had those last time I was there.

we've been over this, but I'm not dropping big bucks at the Carlyle

i dearly hope i am not irl pregnant but i had a pregnancy dream last night as well! a friend was pregnant (and also HALF PIG) and not me, though.

They have three kinds of fancy snacks: potato chips, nuts and pretzels, maybe?

Sounds like its going to be an intimate night for laurel and I at the Carlyle:)

Possibly we have one martini at the fancy and then go to Subway for the rest.

do people have to dress up to go to the carlyle?

In our best duds.

xp I was just going to add!

Omg, how strange. You were openly pregnant and I was secretly pregnant and you were the first person I told, due to your experience with pregnancy.

Haha, I think you can wear whatever you want; they're not judgmental at all and they treat you so nicely there however you're dressed. I'll try to step it up a bit though, just for fun.

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