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radcliffy = oxbridge

I still don't get this... Could someone please explain it to this poor foreigner?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

okay... I'm FrancesBean with an incredibly obnoxious photo.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 25 July 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oxbridge = Oxford and Cambridge. The elite of British universities. Traditionally deemed snobby as well as brainy.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I knew what Oxbridge meant, but I didn't know it could be used as an adjective. So "radcliffy" = "snobby and brainy"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Well it isn't really a fully functioning adjective, I suppose. You'd have to say something was 'a bit Oxbridge' or 'Oxbridgey' rather than 'it's Oxbridge'. I never knew the word 'radcliffy' before, btw, so I don't know how close the comparison is. Is radcliffy a bit 'preppy', 'WASPy' or 'Ivy League' too?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's in the okcupid glossary, anyway:

radcliffy

adj. Consisting of the broad range of personality traits normally associated with Harvard girls.

Bob's organized, ambitious, and smart. I wish I were more Radcliffy like he, because I can't get a job at Morgan Stanley. He needs to fuckin' loosen up, though

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 25 July 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaron, you're supposed to woo a person.

I don't like this new layout. The most off-putting part is probably the "Real Friends: None (0)" part. Sheesh.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OH MY GOD. MY SECOND LOCAL MATCH IS THIS GUY:
http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=12237521857448720993

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

holy crap.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

that dude is how I imagine nickalicious.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna just copy and paste part of his rhyme, but then I clicked on his whole profile and the landscape of awful just expanded and came into total view and I just put the link there.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry dude.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything about that profile is really fucking funny, except the bits where he raps.

x-post.

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

He's more Republican
He's more capitalistic
He's more socially conservative
He's less thrifty
He's more loving
He's less energetic
He's less ambitious

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He's more Republican
He's more capitalistic
He's more socially conservative
He's more loving

OMG teh oxymoron!11

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how he couldn't be bothered to rhyme the films.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxy, he sounds like a treasure. Why resist?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

But his final words are these:

You should message me if:
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You can appreciate this bizarre social experiment.

Plus he works on the computer field, and has kids. So it's prolly just a joke.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh. That ruins it.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought he was really a terrible conservative white rapper!!

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Just to link this thread to the other ones:

OKCupid.com, Pt.2- Afterparty! Hotel lobby! REMIX!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

A woman I was chatting to (and according to her getting on well) deleted her profile rather than continue.

The punchline, of course, was that her profile said she was looking for someone "who could be honest with (her)".

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 26 July 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm embarassed! I actually mailed one of my matches because he banged on about Richard Feynman and drinking gin... AND HE HASN'T REPLIED, OH MY LIFE, I am that Interweb Nutter, dear lord, help!!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Welcome to my world, starry.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean!! I was bored! I wasn't like, hitting on him or anything!

Loads of you haven't even filled in any information, come on, that's the most interesting bit, not your moody rubbish photos, ch.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

there needs to be more cutting involved in the profiles.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

No no, I never hit on anyone, I just like to talk. I've made a couple of nice friends on there but mostly I find people don't bother to reply even to the most politely worded messages. Very strange.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:08 (twenty-one years ago)

did you put "a polite notice" as the subject line?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried something like that once. Now I usually just go for "a story about my brother peeing on me".

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

there needs to be more cutting involved in the profiles.

true - only about 70% of the profiles I look at involve self harm in the "most embarassing thing you'll admit" section.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

and you wonder why they don't reply.

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

how many of those 70% mentions antidisestablishmentarianism?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

xpost

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe they prefer bukkake stories to golden shower stories.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps, though I doubt it.
http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=11308544320115783978 = my favourite person so far, though she's silly enough to think that Transformers could defeat Smurfs (she referred to them as "a bunch of blue red neck yuppies") and she called me an old fool.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, Andrew F. has sent me a friend invitation! Maybe I should send some of them to you folks, so I won't feel like a loser in the nu-OKCupid.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok, I send one to Starry Sarah, because her profile says she likes Tove Jansson.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've now befriended Ken C and Roxymuzak too, please be my friends...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do you like us?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, because I saw your names on Andrew's friends list, and because you're... nice?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaron, you're supposed to woo a person.

I'm not really active on OKC, maybe someday if I get bored enuff.
Those are funny pictures you posted on yr profile though.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 26 July 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

um so I've registered for this! without taking the test! gonna wait to get some photos where I'm not playing a synthesizer half-naked, covered in blood, or v.drunk wearing eyeshadow/sunglasses/&c.

― etc, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

so how do you search for ppl w/in specific regions? my local matches screen is completely blank! how would I go about, say, viewing everyone in new zealand?

― etc, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, so it's started working. the NZ users for this thing SCARE THE FUCK OUT OF ME.

― etc, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

oh well, put up a picture w/only mild blood leakage. username = pumice-tron

― etc, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

This person got really pissy when I sent them a message saying "For a woman, you really do look like Franki Muniz":

http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=16444105625221119984

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Frankie, even.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i took the initial test a while ago, and they've lost my registration details and stuff, so i'm starting over (i'm bored today. i have work to do, but clearly this is more important)

what do i do now? do you all tell me your names and stuff?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

No, next you agree to go on a date with the first person to woo you, and then tomorrow you have to choose someone to get married to.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

that dude is how I imagine nickalicious.

WTF!?!...*harumph*

FWIW though I do have a freestyle as my 'about me' section on my myspace profile, although it's way less retarded than that dude's:

"i'm a shaved wookiee on fire. check my suave attire. you keepin' it real, i ain't real, i'm a cartoon like yer messiahr. blissed-out mystifier. electric like a live wire. one day your empire will fall to the billions of offspring i will sire."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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