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

Thanks In Orbit! :) You too!

I probably should spend some time reading this thread. Today I just made my first selfie, lol. Is that OK to use as a profile picture? otherwise I'm screwed, being as I'm the least documented person I know.

I'm actually off okc now bc I'm dating someone I met on there! Uh like 3 months now, I guess? So while there's still plenty of time for it all to end badly, at the moment I feel like I can offer some hope.

Today I just made my first selfie, lol. Is that OK to use as a profile picture?

There are many people who will scream "NO!" to this and think your profile should be full of pictures of you that your friends took, pictures of you and your buds getting drunk, pictures of you camping, pictures of you petting a tiger, whatever. These people are best avoided anyway, so slap that selfie up there.

Haha, will do, thanks GOTT. There are those kinds of photos of me out there, but they belong to friends. I just never take pictures.

That gives me hope, In Orbit!

xp lol otm

The phone selfie is better than the obvious "Staring into my laptop cam at 2am" selfie though. Also try to avoid the thing where you clearly put on a bunch of different outfits on the same day and took pics in front of your mirror. I mean it might work for someone but in general if you think changing your clothes is going to make it look like you didn't take them all at the same time on Tuesday night, you are not correct.

The phone selfie is better than the obvious "Staring into my laptop cam at 2am" selfie though.

exception that proves the rule: people who are so good looking that they can afford to post ostentatiously unflattering shots.

Good luck! Also don't worry about it, I'm 38 and I've been internet dating since the nerve.com days--2001?

srsly, the other day i saw some people who've been on there in my area since 2001 and i was like, at least I AIN'T LIKE DEM I'M VERY DIFFT

Definitely a cellphone selfie. And the fourth or fifth attempt at that as well :) I only did the one photo, though. Will work on others later.

As a general rule, and forgive me for not reading this astonishingly large thread, should I invest some money into this site? For anyone that has paid, do you believe, based on your personal first-hand experience, that it was worth it? I'm not cheap, I'm just trying not to get suckered into something that most people feel isn't worth it.

my advice would be spend a few weeks/months on the free version of site before you get a feel for how the site works/what the pool of potential matches in your area is like, and most importantly, what the a-list $$ will buy you and then decide whether its worth it yourself or not

buying a-list doesn't put you in front of more people (the one-time "boosts" supposedly do that), it only really lets you creep undetected, as well as find out 100% of the people who rated you 4 or 5 stars (though, if you have your notification set properly, OKC will give you a few of these for free anyway, so long as you are a high match percentage)

creeping undetected is the name of the game, son

wtf is with people on okcupid who seem like amazingly good matches until that last picture or line at the end of the profile that enthusiastically states they are getting really good at playing the ukulele?!?

I have definitely seen these ukulele people.

you're living in a uke generation, deal with it

explain what is so terrible about playing the ukulele

awww here it goes

lol I posted that mostly so gr80 could ask that very question

lol full disclosure i went on a really great 2nd date with a ukulele player this past weekend

I feel like being able to see your 4 and 5-star ratings is the important advantage here (I used to check my app daily because even if you didn't pay it would tip you a new person every so often). It's the equivalent of being able to see who's smiling at you from across the room or w/e.

In my experience, I have never once been pursued by, nor ever pursued anyone, because of a 4-5 star rating.

ugh ukulele people just no

TS: ukes vs tigers

one of my friends was playing a few years ago, and i even got her a book of how to play some taylor swift jams on the uke for her past birthday

it's sad to see people here still don't know what they're talking about, but i'm not even supposed to be lurking now, so

http://i.imgur.com/FR1339A.gif

i don't remember that scene from The Dark Knight Rises

it's so twee and annoying and LOOK AT ME I AM CUTE AND QUIRKY WHEEEE!

it's sad to see people here still don't know what they're talking about

markers, are you really telling people you know the right way to do dating again?

I'm sorry, Markers. I just hate a lot of things.

Including the ukulele and the fact that Taylor Swift for the ukulele books exist even though I love TS herself. <3

I hate the idea of a world where I can't crack jokes about being repulsed by trivial details only to be questioned by gr80

searching this thread for "what is wrong with" or "what is so terrible about" is its own reward, really

In my experience, I have never once been pursued by, nor ever pursued anyone, because of a 4-5 star rating.

― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Monday, July 7, 2014 4:03 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

several 4-5 star ratings have wound up becoming really good friends of mine!

why do you needs dates when you have ilx?

― markers, Thursday, August 1, 2013 7:45 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you have ME

― markers, Thursday, August 1, 2013 7:45 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

i feel like i shouldn't really tell the thread that this girl also has purple hair but there it is

mh, obviously we are expecting a hilarious diatribe about why ukes are awful. you're putting out the line!
case in point E's conflicted love of Taylor Swift vs. the Swift Ukulele Brigade. relax and accept.

gr8080 GO ON.

http://i.imgur.com/3iTFgBY.jpg

purp dat dat dat woohoo

I hooked up with someone with purple hair once. I think she has a blog but no ukulele.

it's so twee and annoying and LOOK AT ME I AM CUTE AND QUIRKY WHEEEE!

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, July 7, 2014 11:18 AM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is pretty much it right here.

Who among us will turn away the next purple-haired ukulele playing twee harlot?

i cannot muster any enthusiasm whatsoever for cute ukelele performances. believe me, i have tried.

I feel like ukulele playing young people of a certain age is so obv annoying that it's like bacon/mustache how is this even a question territory.

btw there is also the chance that i have misread this entire thing as I only got 3 hrs sleep so i'm sorry if that is the case

Can you only see who 4/5'd you when you sign up and pay?

just when you thought it was safe: return of the IA

Oh no I think this is very rational thank you v much. ;)

I know so many ppl w/ ukeleles it's risky to make fun of them. seems to be a chink in many otherwise untwee ppl's armour. this photo of rob newman put me off checking him out for a while

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2013/6/4/1370366410055/Robert-Newman-010.jpg

you can trump the ukulele players by taking up the accordion

Can you only see who 4/5'd you when you sign up and pay?

― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, July 7, 2014 12:04 PM (50 seconds ago)

iirc this is the case

(i assume you are asking if it also shows you who 1, 2 or 3-starred you, which it does not)