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

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xxpost Is that a joke? What is the point?

xpost You mean that there's a whole group of humans with OKCupid accounts who for some reason don't mix with the people you see on the street or in their cars or at work or at the grocery store?

xpost They Live or whatever with Roddy Piper?

only met one girl through that site and she was cool but told me she was depressed about an hour into the date...

So you bailed? Maybe she if she had met someone nice it would've picked her up considerably, and maybe you could've been that someone.

xp - yeah ... joke image to explain LG's statement about how they seem like people he never meets.

I got the joke!

sorry ...

Roxy, I had some tag or description or whatever, that required thing, but I got rid of it with a hundred spacebar presses. It was stupid trying to express myself, to express myself at 1:30 am, to try to describe myself to make myself appealing to people or whatever configuration you can think of.

xpost Oh I was smiling and laughing when I wrote that.

I will say with regards to the what do women want thread, I will almost definitely be skipping the mix tape portion of my next relationship.

the guy i am seeing right now made me a mixed tape, an actual cassette. u would approve

Yeah, def.

It's killing me and I can't move on! What of my picture. It's dire, isn't it. I'm ambivalent about the process. I just need people to hang out with in E. Orlando.

the picture is not bad, you look cute, but it is sure to be misinterpreted as "DRAMATIC", which since i know you i know was not your intention

It actually was a very dramatic moment. I was sweaty but I could have been crying. The other picture's not really better.

I think it's weird that no one has effectively imitated New Order. That came up on some other thread, some other band that you'd think people would try to imitate the sound of, but it was obvious they were inimitable.

It's the drum programming, mostly, but also the keyboards and that bass guitar sound.

tons of ppl have tried to imitate NO, but they arent as good.

who took the sweaty picture? you look as upset as the day is long

the second picture is very myspace, you should get rid of it

Somehow I managed to take the first picture. I used to have a flattering picture of me in b&w and another flattering picture of me holding a real camera, but I have no idea where those are.

Yeah, they've tried to imitate NO, but I've never heard any of them get it sort of right whether they sucked or not. It's like with Pavement. Their imitators, even if they're not as good, totally manage to sound exactly like them. The Volume and Sone albums sound like Pavement tooling around in the studio, same guitars, amps, recording equipment, whatever. With NO thing, I've just never heard anything that'd make me make a mistake.

bernard's singing voice is pretty unique too

Oh, yeah, but with voices then the comparison just becomes unfair.

I'm trying to think of who that other band. It was another case of, This should be doable, but it seems it hasn't been.

science proves that dudes emailing girls from dating sites "u r vry pretty" are perceived as crepey

I've written a few messages in the past and I felt creepy no matter what I said. I always feel creepy when I ask a girl out - it's happened so few times since 9th grade, really about four times of directly asking a girl out, and I think of the four said yes, and of those three none of them gave a crap (or were really worth giving a crap about, to be real).

loool @ 'band' being the highest

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Although that is probably the best way, that rush you get from face-to-face contact and saying, "I saw you and I think you're cute. Would you like to go out sometime?" And then they say yes. In a way, totally worth the not going anywhere.

Literature lowest? Jaysus.

How's it going is an unusual greeting?

xxp - or even on the phone, when you can get something of a read on someone ...

Yeah, yeah, but then you need a phone number . . .

Awkward, sorry, apologize, kinda, and probably all made male messages more successful,

Yeah, I wanted to say something about what the keywords implied, but everything I could think of seemed kind of misogynistic.

I mean, from all of the different charts. They made the process seem as silly as a lot of the profiles do.

I cannot take up Ian's advice and talk to two girls a week. I think I am going more deeply into my shell.

I've never used a dating site, so I have no idea

I mean real life.

He did, too.

Oh, I was saying I have no idea what the profiles are like ...

sarahel basically it is like a world of possibilities, 99.9% of which will not come true, it is ever so fantastical

and yeah I will reply to those emails when I am not shattered after a night out XD

possibilities in that these people get one's hopes up, or the profiles are largely products of delusionality?

both

how depressing.

the former more so. profiles are just whatever information the owner wants to transmit, therefore they represent a true reflection of what the owner WANTS to look like, which is often just as good as an objective portrait

i wonder if anyone gets any mileage out of totally fake profiles ... like presenting yourself as a zombie or something.

There are a few people I've seen who pull that sort of thing off really well. Most don't.

i think KBP tried the zombie thing

what a disaster for zombies.

I actually did a fake Ric Flair profile and zinged Dom Passantino's profile.

I'm still kinda surprised Facebook hasn't come out with some sort of super-scientific dating site that combined common interests, mutual friends, et al. It'd be better than the average because, it being your facebook and not some OK cupid profile you cooked up in two minutes at some sinful hour of the evening, it'd force people into being less creepy and more low-key. You could even have friends set you up. So much sleaze could be lost.

Frankly, facebook already has so much private information, it'd be a little scary for them to even consider this idea. and if it's opt-in, people will change their info accordingly to be sleazy and/or deceptive, defeating the purpose... At least on a dedicated dating site you know everyone is creepy and lying!

They do have a lot of info, but I think that with any site that has to do with meeting relative strangers the key is feeling like you're getting an authentic look at the other person. What gave facebook an early leg up as a social networking site what that you had to be legitimized via school e-mail. You couldn't fake the account early on - and everybody only could make one. Certain incentives for honesty and non-creepiness are essentially for dating sites.

Whatever happened to creepy and telling the truth?