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

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.

i went like three months before realizing i'd accidentally answered a question wrong saying i was currently unemployed

There was a question that used the word "retarded" and my answer was, "You did not seriously just say retarded" and now it reads "mentally disabled" or something, but I haven't updated my answer. NB it is a terrible question.

Some nice guy wrote to me just to tell me that he thought I'd clicked the wrong button for a question because that answer didn't stack up with the rest of my answers, and that the same thing had happened to him so he wanted to let me know. He was totally right (it was the one about whether creationism and evolution should be taught in schools).

maybe they do change them then! I noticed two or three that have the same spelling mistakes that they did last year though.

That would be a p useful option irl

wow, saying you want someone to go see the new Wes Anderson movie with is an unexpectedly winning strategy!

until you actually go see the movie *heyo!*

don't worry, if it's terrible that just means we can start making out

There's someone who, listing directors, just writes "Kar Wai" and It's bothering me enough to consider sending her a message telling her that it's "Wong," because surnames go first in Chinese, but can I do this without coming of as either a total asshole or as if I'm coming onto her (since I'm not actually interested).

I think you're just going to have to content yourself with projecting waves of angry mental force at her profile.

I'll take one for the team and do it for you ed.b xp

just make light conversation with that as the opener. people seem to do that a lot on okc, just do it

I think about messaging folks who emphasize the important of spelling but can't even spell Dr. Seuss right, but I'm never gonna do it.

importance... heh

Maybe they actually *do* like Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes?

This is one of those moments where I can't even get my head around the idea of how *different* an experience OKC is for dude-presenting people than for female identified people.

I imagine an unending torrent of messages that are terse, crude, and misspelled. Meanwhile, I get Christians trying to convert me. Which, for the female-identified population, is pretty flattering in comparison.

dude-presenting people get no messages. we're just expected to be the message-senders.

rejections 4 ever <3

they can sense you don't like Wes Anderson!

heh

dude-presenting people get no messages. we're just expected to be the message-senders.

― have a nice blood (mh), Monday, 3 March 2014 14:58 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this isn't always true btw

and framing it as 'rejection' doesn't really allow that the receiving party is under no obligation to reply - less rejection, more refusal to respond

you're right, more accurately, like throwing playing cards into a bottomless top hat

having to paint it as not _always_ true almost says more about the situation than how I put it!

they added a slot for "relationship type" under "my details" where you can specify "mostly/strictly monogamous/non-monogamous"

Finally. Now I can really winnow down the people I'm interested in but will ignore anyway.

I think I'm getting better at this.

also, hello 2014: "I am hooked on Game of Thrones. (Sentences about movies, music). I don't watch television."

http://hd-report.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/hbo-itsnottv-itshbo.jpeg

I guess I will add "no STDs please, including viral marketing" to the looking for section of my profile.

*eyerolllllll*

maybe I'd try harder if i had a sponsor

saying you want someone to go see the new Wes Anderson movie with is an unexpectedly winning strategy!

unless they make you build a tent outside the theater tonight.

one interested party was disappointed it isn't screening here until the 14th, but we went and got milkshakes instead and ended up making out in the parking lot, so I'm keeping this strategy in the plus column.

i too deployed operation grand budapest and it netted one date this saturday

lol

caek! you're back. u and i have a date this sunday...with destiny