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

The thing is - people have their good sides and bad sides, and a lot of behavior, personality, etc. is contextual.

When I said that K and the dude that sent the really long email might be too similar, there was no good/bad value judgment involved, just that it appears that both of you seem to share certain sensitivities to language, articulate an ambivalence to your own self-worth, have a tendency to overanalyze things, and are wary of relationships with new people based on a number of bad experiences. These are not inherently bad traits.

I really don't think I should be giving this guy any more thought. It was unpleasant, it is enough.

good thinking!

"In relation to hooting" was my favorite turn of phrase.

The guy is nuts, but let us agree to treat each new dating experience as a fresh start and not weigh it down with the baggage of previous failures and nutcases. Nothing worse than being on a date and all she's talking about is all the shitty dates she's been on!

that can be funny sometimes - if the person tells good stories.

Right, Sarahel, this guy is perfect for you. All you have to do is dye your hair red, become a vegetarian, call yourself Kate and move to the UK.

I didn't bring up any previous dates. I asked if he had a girlfriend. In Mongolia.

Coz, quite frankly, dude having a girlfriend in Mongolia is in hindsight the funniest thing that's happened in my whole OKC experience. But, mind you, maybe I just find Mongolia funny. I blame the Mungolian Jetset.

no the Mongolia thing _is_ hilarious!

Were the stories of the previous dates good stories or were they boring/ranty? If they weren't good stories, he would definitely not be perfect for me.

I just found them a bit weird, to be honest. Like, ridiculously over-detailed in a way that I couldn't work out if it was meant to be sad or funny. And one or two of them would have been fair enough, but, like, eight of them was really a bit much. And not even in a funny entertaining "Scott Pilgrim vs The World" set up but just... why are you telling me this? I've only known you three days?

I think you have to refer to it as Outer Mongolia for greatest effect! Like "darkest Peru".

the brief duration thing wouldn't bother me, but the ambiguity of the intent - the was it meant to be sad or funny part - that might weird me out, I think.

I'm gonna steal it as an excuse to get out of bad dates from now on. Like, if the date isn't going well, I'm going to carefully explain that I'm sorry, I can't actually date you, I have a boyfriend, skydiving, in outer Mongolia.

maybe it should be something even more absurd than skydiving? Like building yurts out of 100% recycled materials - but i think it should involve yurts - because the word yurt is inherently funny to me.

Whenever I see that word I immediately think of a hut made entirely of yogurt. With, I don't know, a sort of igloo-like internal space, maybe some sturdy struts holding up the yogurt?

I did not say I thought this through properly.

it makes me think of yogurt, too - i think that's part of why it's funny.

This dude is not what anyone wants or needs in a partner, Kate. ENBB OTM, you dodges a bullet here.

Your boyfriend should construct artificial islands out of discarded soda bottles on Lake Khövsgöl, Kate.

The word yurt is hilarious. Your boyfriend is teaching the indigenous Mongolians how to make yurts out of...plastic grocery bags, because the non-recyclable grocery totes were starting to clog the steppes, collecting into giant balls that would blow across the landscape like tumbleweeds. Which was bad for the...rare Siberian crane, because they kept trying to build nests in them but the bags sink when they get waterlogged, drowning the eggs.

My god, Lake Khövsgöl is so beautiful. What am I doing here in this city?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/BlueHovsgol.jpg

eating a more varied diet?

RIP rare Siberian crane

haven't been msgd on here in more than a week, kinda don't care (but kinda do), going to a poetry party tonight

^^^this except fuck I envy your poetry party man oh man fucksake I HATE BRITAIN

j/k britain but more poetry parties plz

is it real poetry or slam stuff?

lol

it is "real" "poetry"

my editor is introducing me to some of the other people he's working with and we're all gonna get drunk and read poems

cool! I have issues with slam poetry that this is obv not the thread to get into -- i heckled a slam poet once, he totally deserved it.

my editor is introducing me to some of the other people he's working with and we're all gonna get drunk and read poems

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haha, obv this is not the thread, but if he couldn't stand the heckling he shouldn't have been on stage

part of my slam education was learning how to freestyle a heckler diss into the middle of a piece

xp

guy was a total douche - the kind of douche that always has girls clamoring to date him - he was going on about how he was so "wild" and "dangerous" because he was a Scorpio - and I said something along the lines of "So am I, get over yourself dude!"

lol i love self-aggrandizing stuff when it's surprising, but he's awesome because his parents fucked 9 months before the fall? lololol

yeah, really - i think he made his career off of crap like this, and being L R0n Hubbard's grandson

But back on topic, K - he's a redhead - you should totally track him down! (j/k)

we're all gonna get drunk and read poems

― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, September 15, 2010 7:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

um so

there was this girl, guys

and like

ask me in a week?

.................but there was this girl (,....................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

like, in a way there hasn't been a girl in a long time?

^^^this except fuck I envy your poetry party man oh man fucksake I HATE BRITAIN

― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 19:38 (Yesterday)

but wtg zorn

^

^ cosign

oh yeah that

she lent me a barthelme book!!!!

Which one?

weren't you going to move to NYC, louis?

"sadness" xp

^ totally read that as emoticon and was all 'wtf type of sadface is that'

damn, joined this and all the coolest/ceutest/funniest/snarkiest/most stylin ladies are in london, and i'm stuck oop north :(

if i liked girls with purple hair i'd be in heaven tho.

move

a guy messaged me today... tho i only reactivated my account to hunt around.

eh, i fucking hate the internet.

that's it. this guy's profile turned me gay, i want to marry him.

http://www.okcupid.com/profile/jumpskip

(go to photos, btw)

:D :D :D