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

It's almost as if people, mostly dudes, are unable to establish that there might be a difference between "sex without commitment but with mutual consent" and "totally indiscriminate sex with anyone". Who knew?

if a guy sends out 1000 messages like this and it works once, it was like totes worth it

mostly dudes

right, but if I check it meaning the former, women are going to think I want the latter

i have been told by some that "for new friends" is used as code for "relationship-free fun (sex)" without stooping to actually declaring "casual sex"

now that one is a cryptic use I had not heard

yeah the 'friends' check is the weirdest one.

i've seen that on people who are new to town, additionally. i've also (via friends) seen it as the only thing checked on people with queer identification. so yeah idk people must be using it for a variation of meanings.

the distinction between short- and long-term dating is another oddity when you think abt it

Ive used it at bingo but its not working like id hoped

it was a dark day when "look at my etchings" expired

short-term dating, meaning "I'm leaving town," "I'm not looking to get serious in any short order," or the classic "I get bored really easily"

long term dating "you must agree to a minimum 6mo relationship if we meet for coffee this week"

why should we even eat a whole meal unless you're serious

i'm looking to settle down, if that's not what you're interested in i'll just have the cheese sticks

you will take my seed with this anchor steam or you will have neither

think I'm going to dive back in in March

None of the people in that article are attractive, what the hell humanity.

short term dating only, "you can hang with me and my friends but I'll never call you my girlfriend and I'm going to stop calling in a month"

I always liked the futuristic perfect society sound of "activity partners"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isrd7E5nzIQ

lol "activity partners" is either the most innocuous or most suspicious one

trayce u crazy!

Well ok, tatts chick isnt bad, tho she has a slight air of drag about her face to me.

See nothing appealing in either of the guys pictured, I'd pass em by without a second thought.

http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/vg/image/1378/14/1378144654283.jpg

I've been noticing a lot of my matches turning up in comments on my friends' Facebook statuses... might be time for a PSA about the privacy risk of using the same photo across web sites.

xpost hehehe

tatts chick is the least imo. the gay girl is way cute. dudes look ok to me, but i'm less expert there.

i forget you're upside down tho

to really know they would have needed to be a row of icons across the bottom of the photos saying if they like cats or dogs, cigarettes, or moulin rouge/ultimate fighting/etc.

needed to *have*

Hey there Mister Goole. What sort of trouble are you getting into this week? :)

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

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

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

http://www.okcupid.com/profile/vibes4dayz

goole otm mostly

all four pretty hot, but i imagine we could all look awesome in a New Yorker photoshoot

all four of those probably would have looked hotter in a New Yorker photoshoot

does the new yorker do photoshoots? I thought they did long-form articles and dumb single-line comics

Richard Avedon yo

oh sure

From a local person's profile:

I am Welcoming a man who has or is willing to step forward into his greatness and to share , grow and evolve at this current rapid speed of love, light , bliss, and to show up and be present holding that space and being that safe container when your mate needs that.

No pressure!

what about healing powers, should he have any healing powers

Does he cast magic missile.

Help! I'm being messaged by an exceptionally attractive woman with (wait for it) a bulldog puppy (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Even though, or maybe because, I'm pretty sure there's little to no potential, I have no idea what to do with myself.

say the dog is nice, ask if you can pet it

offer a safe container for the bulldog puppy

Help!

whatever you do don't say 'you know i just have to tell you you're exceptionally attractive'

just chat a bit and go have coffee with her! you can figure out potential in person much better. see if her dog likes you.

OK, let's see if I can follow my own advice.

weird, i just got messaged by a girl who has a photo of a cake shaped as a bulldog puppy

Ugh, I keep getting high matches who answer yes to "Would you strongly prefer to go out with someone of your own skin color/racial background?"

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that racists are lacking in social intelligence, but still...

i see that answer often enough in high matches that i've come to assume people are misreading the question somehow? but i don't know how. nevertheless, i take it as a very good reason to immediately click off of a profile.

i think we're all better off if these people answer the question honestly, even if they're not straight-up racist

that question is such a bummer. i want to believe a lot of people misread it as "do you tend to date people of your own race?" but who knows.

yeah, some of them have clearly contradictory answers... I assume in some cases they are misreading them? or simply clicking in the wrong place. it's interesting that OKC never, ever seems to change or update these questions.