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

I am so intimidated by this guy, he is bilingual and an athlete. !! Why is he even talking to me?!

Porque no? Tu eres muy linda.

Awww.

I tried to translate and he wrote back 'jajajajaja' <3 <3 <3

Aw that's either really refreshing or incredibly annoying!

The person I am currently accepting texts from puts one or two words in Ital or Fr, but I think he's just showing off. I suppose I'm suitably impressed on some level.

xp: It CRACKS ME UP when people say "jajajajaj"!

YES! Even better is when there is a facebook post that says ¡jajajaja! and below is a link offering to translate

"¡jajajaja!" is straight up adorable, but so is Crabbits so it fits.

I was thinking "jajaja..." as German and thought it kinda weird, but I guess it's laughter En Espanol, which is cute.

Yes!! I read it as German jajaja for a long time before I realized it was spanish for hahaha. It made so much more sense once I realized that.

Jumped back on board. Messaged a guy. He turns out to represent me in the local branch of my union.

you have nothing to lose but your chains

I like it when Greek people say "xaxaxa".

Not that I have been OKCupiding with any Greeks, you understand. Just wandering through chatrooms.

OK someone pls pep talk me into getting back onto this horse.

I just read so many nightmare stories on this thread that I don't even want to sign back up for it. And my ego has got bashed down so little again I can't take any more rejection.

And yet I feel like the only way to stop bloody obsessing over OfficeBoy is to MEET MORE PEOPLE and maybe meet someone who is, actually, into me, and yet that just feels impossible right now. I don't feel like that sort of person is out there any more. And it's really hard to try to establish something with someone when there is just this unspeakable lust for an unattainable person just bulldozing every other emotion. And yet I don't think this obsession is going to go away until I, y'know, have sex with someone else. Except just wanting to have sex is pretty much the worst reason ever to go on a dating site, right?

Or tell me to just give up and go away. That, too. :-/

Or just ignore it and pretend I never said it, which is what people will do anyway, so never mind. :-(

Except just wanting to have sex is pretty much the worst reason ever to go on a dating site, right?

haha idk it might've worked for me. Not to be gross.
I decided I was just going to do machine gun approach to this, hit up as many cute guys as possible, and say yes to anyone w/out any obvious red flags. It's made me grow a lot I think! Sometimes it's agonizing. But I imagine it as rust falling off my chitinous exoskeleton or something. IDK maybe Gregor Samsa-flavored pep talks are not what you need.

I am still seeing one okc person, very slowly, and getting to rly like him, slowly, and it's working? I keep waiting for him to disappear, actually, but he hasn't--yet. The slowly part has given me time to not be that into him > start to think differently > look again > get attracted > get a terrible crush > get OVER crush > still be attracted > ???

why do you keep waiting for him to disappear?

the "not attracted to her" bit is how every relationship i've ever been in started.

Oh, because it's a very loose association stretching over two months without blowing up into anything more intense. I think we might be out-nonchalanting each other a bit tho not, I think, to ill effect.

seems like maybe LJBF but in a good way

I don't know what that means.

let's just be friends

Ah, no.

oh you meant "in a good way" - i'm not really into you, you're not really into me, but hey we do like eacy other, let's go on this way and see what happens

saw a profile called 'weinventyou' and thought it was Z S and clicked on it and it wasn't

I would do the "machine gun" approach but I literally do not see one single cute guy. Am I in the ugly pool? Also I get grossed out by their profiles, too. I have a couple of deal breakers:

- Guys whose age range starts at 18 and ends at their age (or sometimes, even two years younger)
- Guys who mention their "healthy lifestyle" and how fit they are in the intro paragraph (yawn, talk to me about the books you're reading... not how you're a gym rat)
- Favorite books are Dan Brown, Ayn Rand, The Tao of Pooh, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, or Eckhardt Tolle... or anything that was required highschool reading (Of Mice and Men, etc)
- Six things they couldn't live without and one of them is sex
- I spend a lot of time thinking about: sex
- Answered the question about women being obligated to shave their legs, art being important to them, whether they'd date an overweight person, or if intelligence turns them on with shitty answers (Shitty answer key: Yes, No, No, No)

Sorry, I should say with the above deal breakers it rules out about 90% of the profiles I view.

I'm hate-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now. It is really irritating.

If you're a white dude talking about Zen and your name isn't Leonard Cohen, I don't wanna hear about it.

That list of dealbreakers makes me feel a little better about my OKC experience, inasmuch as none of them apply to me. But maybe those are the dudes who get all of the attention and that's why hardly anyone seems interested in my profile? Saaaaad trombone.

If they are getting all the attn, and I'm not saying they are, but even supposing that's true, they can't be getting it from anyone you'd want to know! I mean look at those qualities.

I'm hate-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now. It is really irritating.

<3

If they are getting all the attn, and I'm not saying they are, but even supposing that's true, they can't be getting it from anyone you'd want to know!

Too true, too true.

i'm trying out a new-ish thing and it's great so far. sorry that is purposefully vague!

If someone answers the question "In a certain light, wouldn't nuclear war be exciting?" with "No, it wouldn't." it ends up being a dealbreaker for me. How would that not be exciting?!

I think I'd be the reverse.

the hazy light of the nuclear winter as the sun tries vainly to penetrate the shrouded shrinking veil surrounding the dying earth

... sounds like a blast!

The aftermath wouldn't be too exciting, but the war itself would be batshit!

I think it's possible to separate excitement from horror and dread and sorrow.

(just droppin' in here guys. not single or anything)

I don't see why it's necessary to separate those feelings. That's just me.

Now I feel like a psycho. Anyway, it won't matter soon as I'm chucking my account. Being on there gives me the willies.

yes it would be v. exciting as in not-boring

Me & Texas both answered yes to the nuclear war question. Probably a big red flag right there.

So you can handle nuclear war, but not the willies. xpost

yes

But willies are awesome. Have we learned nothing from Death Grips?

My okc gentleman caller knows about ilx now, I may have to stop posting even the vaguest of updates. What I get for trying to check the debate thread while on a date.

I think I discovered the perfect first date w/a stranger conversation topic: jury duty.
Yesterday went on a second date w/a dude (not the one who texts in Spanish, he was a little weird in person). We drove out to the San Xavier mission to check all the horror vacui gore, and then ate fry bread and tried unsuccessfully to call 1-800-O-CANADA. We also ate grapes and watched a documentary called Sweetgrass that had a lot of sheep birthing scenes. He has the coolest, yellowest cat ever.

I wish I understood the Death Grips reference. If anyone could help me get over my willies issue it'd be Zach Hill. x-post