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

My username is lixenixen, and right now I'm scared of logging in to OkCupid, because I haven't checked it for a few days, and now I fear there's yet another bunch of messages waiting for me, and I have to reply them all, because I feel like a bad person if I don't reply. I'm such a wuss!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link

On the positive side, lately I've been chatting with this Irish girl who plays in a punk band and seems very nice.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 25 July 2004 09:59 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

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

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 25 July 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

holy crap.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 25 July 2004 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

that dude is how I imagine nickalicious.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry dude.

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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

x-post.

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Roxy, he sounds like a treasure. Why resist?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooh. That ruins it.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 25 July 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 25 July 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Welcome to my world, starry.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

there needs to be more cutting involved in the profiles.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

and you wonder why they don't reply.

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link

how many of those 70% mentions antidisestablishmentarianism?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

yes

xpost

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe they prefer bukkake stories to golden shower stories.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 26 July 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Why do you like us?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 26 July 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Skipping 11067 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

let alone one promoted by someone featured in a thread like this

Most Hilarious Way for Toby Young to Die Although God Forbid It Should Ever Happen

― mookieproof, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link

the gradual sanding-down of OKC was one of those long slow bummer demises of the Old Internet, or in this case the Internet of the Mid-00s. gradually the site became incredibly square in tone, policing out a lot of weirdies/kink profiles etc., the clampdown on usernames in favor of real names, and with the interface meanwhile becoming so simplified and tinder-like that having more than a few sentences in your profile came to look absurd. i'm sure they culled a lot of the questions and quizzes and stuff too. it basically just got a lot more generic, slowly.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link

Every 6 months they get rid of another feature people liked, people complain, life goes on. As with all sites, doing what your userbase wants or retracting a bad change is completely off the menu.

― With deep regret I remove my bookmark from this thread (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link

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