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

I had a friend who equated "mountain climbing" with "rock climbing." I feel like this is similar.

if u guys wanna roll your eyes at hiking being a dating profile cliche that's fine but insisting that ppl aren't actually hiking due to improper footwear, non-strenuousness, or brevity, it isn't just needlessly pedantic, it is wrong

In the United States, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and United Kingdom, hiking refers to walking outdoors on a trail, or off trail, for recreational purposes

verifying this as good info

getting to my place from downtown is quite a hike, imo

fwiw I was poking fun at the mention of hiking in the context of okcupid, I am not actually that pedantic. at least I sure hope not.

just realised that gr8080's DN depicts undulating terrain

When I take a hike, it is just as long as I choose it to be. Neither more nor less.

what we talk about when we talk about talking about hiking

lolololol a good friend of mine went on a date w one of my exes last night without knowing it, and then texted me about how bad he was, STILL WITHOUT KNOWING IT. Oh ok cupid.

People on OKC tell me to take a hike all the time, appears to be quite a popular hobby

sort of on topic:

https://twitter.com/stevekovach/status/509421194651529217

in denver, a hike usually means a pretty strenuous walk up a 14,000ft mountain trail at high elevation and fucking A it's exhausting. I hiked the piddly Mt Falcon last weekend and wished I could take my legs off.

get me at sea level and I feel like an athlete

You might be…
average

more trusting

less arrogant

less adventurous

so fucking lame

welcome home pal

okcupid scares me

old friend who knew my open relationship status via okc just spontaneously sent me a poem to the effect of 'i'm leaving the country, let's you and me get it together'

pleasant side effect of a mostly unattended okc profile

:D hoos i think i have fully come around 2 ur braggartry

o no bragging meant i'm just excited, have crusht on her for ages

imago & hoos ilx poetry crew <3

can't remember if this was posted upthread, not gonna load 10000 messages to check but

http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/380086/the-uncomfortable-data-behind-online-dating/

video (auto-playing, arg) of okc dude christian rudder riffing on the data he's been using for all his psych studies, his book, etc.

he seems weirdly and charmingly self-deprecating about his empirically-sanctioned cynicism about humanity

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014/

I guess this ^ is probably mentioned in the video?

hmm the only trend i noticed moving the slider five years forward was that both white men and white women were rated steadily less and less attractive. their losses don't seem to be being pulled from any race in particular either, just kind of evenly distributed among the other races. also asian women rapidly start rating asian men between 2011 and 2012, the year of jeremy lin and... psy?

that's a nice thing i suppose

http://mathbabe.org/2014/09/16/christian-rudders-dataclysm/

mathbabe >>>> foodbabe

daaaamn mathbabe i haven't read her in a minute

fucken disabled my account, feel such relief rn. think i can get on w life

they did or you did

i did

'shit this guy's got too many words. smartarse gonna pay'

a lot of the people on okcupid are actually really nice

tru

so, it's maybe just me, but no one on this site is for me. At all. I remember when I was on the Nerve personals in 2003-2004 there were a ton of cool single people. In my area, or my matches, or SOMETHING, no one seems like they'd be even FRIEND material. I get really gross sexual messages, and just... icky dudes 'liking' me. I feel like even having a profile on there is lowering my value. I'm disabling again, I think.

Is there an alternative to OkC that isn't Match and isn't Zoosk or EHarmony or whatever? I feel like it's all just a big list of duds.

I felt the same way about the nerve.com/Spring Street dating site from the same era fwiw. I've never been sure if online dating actually got worse or if I just got older & wiser/less attractive or my dating pool all got married or something.

Still, at least for the time being I'm an okc success story.

I just think back then online dating was pretty niche and attracted savvy, smart people who wanted to meet other smart people. Now it's a total cesspool, present ILX company excluded of course!

sorry to sound basic here, but have you tried tinder? that's sort of jumping fully into the cesspool tho

deleted my profile after having coffee with someone i wasn't vibing with and also feeling pressure to respond to too many people who i might have been interested in but wasn't sure and then feeling guilty for not responding.

i was really on the site mostly to make friends, i think. maybe i'll try striking up conversations with people in the library or something.

also feeling pressure to respond to too many people

Braggin' 2014

treesh is a baller no two ways about it

A like to live life to the fullest and go hiking with my dog. If I have a kid, it means the world to me.

my profile's gone (relatively) conventional. this is my most daring experiment yet!!!!!

i've been seeing the same person for 2 months now after meeting her on OKC

we both had Monday off from work and i suggested taking a nice long walk through some nearby neighborhoods and she agreed. it turns out my definition of a long walk was not the same as hers and she didn't really enjoy the 2nd half and was worn out by the time we were done.

i apologized and said i really thought i'd made it a point to see if she was down for a long walk and she she said its ok, it was an easy miscommunication, but "that wasn't a long walk, that was a hike".

how many miles was it you think

tragedy et grady

xpost: approx 4.5mi

Well, we're all on the same page now :(

hope u bore her on ur back for the last 0.5m

4.5 miles, wtf is wrong with you dawg

hiking in his blood