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

Hope I didn't scare LJ off but he is probably just engaged in florid coquetry in an OK Cupid window somewhere

― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Friday, November 1, 2013 11:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I am meeting 3 ppl from OKC over the next 2 days :-/ :D

(admittedly one of them is an old friend I bumped into & may in fact have been mentioned in this latest revive)

Everyone otm though, at least that searching exclusively for Pynchon fans is silly. I was only, I protest!, having a poke around.

I did that and I'm going out with Tom Pynchon next week, ymmv

http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/10/how-tinder-solved-online-dating-for-women.html

on my way to my first tinder date right now :)

I'm pretty bad at Tinder. I match with interesting-looking women but apparently my opening lines need work. (They're pretty basic, "oh nice I like that thing too, hey this thing happened [attempted humor], how's your week?")

You have to decide if you want to sleep with them, and if you like the way they talk to you.

This is more complicated when those two traits are mutually exclusive.

― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Saturday, November 2, 2013 12:23 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's not complicated, just a rarity

lj I am super-freaked out by your dn - pls explain

lol I don't even care anymore, I'm just writing people whatever pops into my head when I see their profiles. Like "You have a good face" and "Did you seriously mean to be a dick with that answer?" I might as well have fun, right?

"did you seriously mean to answer that with your dick?" -- tinder version of q

Oh it's a pun on Diamanda Galas :D why freaky?

Luckily, most of my friends are very much in tune with the arts, especially when they realise women who are in IT kind of...are...meh.

fuck yooooooooooo

a friend of mine went on an okcupid date with a guy from IT and he was a total douche and she actually walked out on him. This conclusively proves ....

America seems to have, in general, a greater wealth of people into High Art & avant-garde music rather than yr usual drippy indie bollocks

haha I'm not looking for an exact taste-match! just giving an example

― diarmuid o'gallus (imago), Friday, November 1, 2013 12:55 PM (Yesterday)

dude, me & my friends are hardly a representative sample of Americans as a whole

Luckily, most of my friends are very much in tune with the arts, especially when they realise women who are in IT kind of...are...meh.

fuck yooooooooooo

― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Saturday, November 2, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm sure a lot of people say the thing about me, "CHEX IS SO...MEHHHH".

I found possibly my favorite profile ever, from a attractive young female butcher.

What I'm doing with my life: "grinding up meat and bones by day, getting my grind on at the club by night!"

The most personal thing I'll admit: "I have deep sexual fantasies involving my trade"

:D

she sounds dope tbh

not sure about chex trying to treesh himself

I appreciate your perceptiveness, sic.

To be honest...no, I won't say it.

Thanks.

when she grinds at the club she really grinds at the club

butcher? i haven't even met her!

I'd forgotten some gems.

The first things people usually notice about me:
My bloody hands and apron. But also my beautiful smile and well-conditioned hair!

I spend a lot of time thinking about:
My mom, she's dead!! :(

i somehow found imago in the results of a 'girls who like guys' search i did. think i need an hour or two to recover from his profile.

:D

it's marvelously on-brand, that's for sure.

the butcher chick sounds incredible

Guy I just left on a street corner: I hope that secret libertarian thing doesn't work out for you. Peace.

Also, note to self: next time it's okay to call it when they call people "bitches" instead of waiting until you have to be like "Let me out of this booth right now, this isn't fun anymore."

Aw L :( That sounds positively horrid.

It wasn't tho! I was having fun until we started not finding common ground wrt smoking in bars, employee protections, right to a safe workplace, sex workers, sexual harassment, and finally I had to call it off and go. But that took like 3 hours! Better 3 hours than 3 months.

are there not more "niche" dating sites? Asks someone not in the game

My profile already says, "Don't message me unless you're committed to dismantling the patriarchy," I put that shit right out there. Come the fuck on.

i somehow found imago in the results of a 'girls who like guys' search i did. think i need an hour or two to recover from his profile.

― Merdeyeux, Saturday, November 2, 2013 7:24 PM (Yesterday)

if the hypothetical CardiacsPrincesse69xxx discovers ilx through lj's profile, i think it would be hilarious!

I found possibly my favorite profile ever, from a attractive young female butcher.

What I'm doing with my life: "grinding up meat and bones by day, getting my grind on at the club by night!"

The most personal thing I'll admit: "I have deep sexual fantasies involving my trade"

Ha, profiles inhabited by characters from early suede songs.

six visitors gave my profile a high ranking like tihs past weekend, only to find out they were all girls from Georgia cuz OKCupid recalibrated my location when I went to ATL this weekend. :/ oh well maybe that suggests I need to move! :)

did you use the mobile app while you were there? it's likely they just swiped right in the "locals" thing and never even saw your profile.

yeah that's what I think it was cuz I did use the local app.

question--is it weird to ask a woman on okc to go hear a band she likes? i have an extra ticket and figure what the hell (i've only been on the site for a couple weeks, sent a couple hi, how are yas, got nothin')

I wouldn't ask that as a first date, no. Because then you're not just seeing if you even like the person, you're the gatekeeper of this experience for them? Also frankly you both deserve to be on a date in which the other person is really trying to hear and see you and like, decide whether to do it again...not watching the stage.

tbh as a trial run for a relationship having them rather be focusing on something else isnt a bad shout

thanks folks--i thought it was a little weird so glad i asked...thanks again!

i dunno, i thought it was a pretty good idea
but as usual, all ppl are different and like different things. i also would rather see a band than talk to a stranger in more than 15 min bursts.

If you have a bad experience it could poison the well wrt band forever

how bad could it be? you're just going to see a band.

nothing ventured imo, but would go better if you'd "spoken" to her already

What if he developed a massive unrequited crush and also got food poisoning

don't listen to them Iago, i would love to go to the Cardiacs show with you!!

btw srs advice i thought it was a neat idea

:D matt!

you guys are nice...it's destroyer at bowery ballroom, btw!