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

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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)

You'll find us, Colette! For some reason Tuomas, Rick and I come up high on everyone's match lists!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Colette, here's an OkCupid username list copied from the previous thread:

nickdastoor: ra-ra-ra
dog latin: akendoha
kathryn m: birthdaycake
lauren: missbrooke
carey: hidethehead
aldo_cowpat: aldo_cowpat
mandee: mandalion
roxymuzak: roxymuzak
melissa w: radioreverie
ronan: mr_lamouche
mark p: apropat
cozen: cozenx
davidr: draconn
carsmilesteve: carsmile
ricardo: rubalcohol
ste: bonesboy
bryan: snackwich
liz: wintryme
crackity: indieboy83
andrew farrell: andrewfarrell
dom passantino: journalis
jon w: supershine
tracer: FondantUnctious
Martin Skidmore: MartinSk
teeny: teenydreams
Ally: allyzay
Matt DC: racingsantander
Gregory Henry: 9kyuG

I'm lixenixen. Anyone who's missing from the list can post their username here.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

nickalicious = nickalicious

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, you left me out! I'm TheManthony

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I'm no longer journalis. I'm now juror_8. Dunno why.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Also: out of the, what, 1,000,000 profiles on this thing, my 17th worst possible match on this thing is an ILXor.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

There aren't a million profiles. That's just how many people have taken the test.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i done joined but haven't answered most the profile questions. I am rainermrilke. no emo dates yet :(

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Are the questions on anyone else's profile changing? Just now, the question in my profile that, when I answered it, read "What 6 things couldn't you live without?" said "What do you think about when you masturbate?" And the trade brains question is now "I spend a lot of time thinking about..."

I'm confused.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow - I think it's just you Cathy. I put 'my family' as one of the things I couldn't live without, so I'm glad they haven't meddled with mine.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

How very strange. I'd put food, music, books, the internet, pens and libraries. No wonder I never got any woos.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I would be attracted to a woman who masturbated about food.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 08:48 (twenty-one years ago)

They must have done it because the "Person you'd like to swap brains with" question is dumb. Now my answer looks REALLY dumb.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

They've changed mine as well. It might have been nice to have been warned so you didn't look like a moron in your profile.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Not from OKCupid, but I got a message on one dating site yesterday from a woman who claims to be a real princess!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that 'a real princess!' or 'a real princess'?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I left this because the central PA OKCupid scene is sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, sad and I probably wasn't helping.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Cathy - I have looked at your profile and there is nothing about masaturbation. Perhaps your computer has caught some bizarrely specific virus.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

she actually was claiming to be royalty. She was in Nigerian but her profile said South African, so I've no idea what kind of princess she might have been. I was not interested because a) she is thousands of miles away and b) her profile went on about God a lot.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps it was part of an elaborate scheme to defraud you. Did she mention anything about having to move royal funds out of the country?

I like the idea of OKCupid being hijacked by Nigerian criminals.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

it's much, more interesting, especially if you think of them hijacking it by force (with masks and kalishnikovs and things) although how you'd take a website by brute force i'm not sure.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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