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Topic: Internet Dating: Everyone's still shallow (Read 411468 times)
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bhodi
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No lie.
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The same way escorts aren't, I guess. Nothing explicitly says that they have to sleep with you...
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Der Helm
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The same way escorts aren't, I guess. Nothing explicitly says that they have to sleep with you...
Wow. Some people are really really reeeeeaaally full of themselves. My favourite so far.
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Paelos
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Pfft, if you're willing to go there, the major cities have much better escort services without the question marks.
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Strazos
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Bleh, side-implant.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Der Helm
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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shiznitz
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the plural of mangina
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Is she paying me?
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I have never played WoW.
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Minvaren
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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Is she paying me?
If I understand it correctly, users are divided into "Attractive" (you pay them) and "Generous" (they pay you). She's listed as a "Generous Female."
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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Paelos
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Ironic on several fronts.
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Tale
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I miss this thread and I am messing with internet dating, having sadly lost a good relationship six months ago. To my surprise, most women I am matched with or initiate contact with want to chat. --
Date #1: CEO of a Hollywood-connected company. Dated 3 times. She wants to keep seeing me, but I decided she's absolutely not for me. Big eyes, wealthy, boring, annoying, nothing there. I suck.
Date #2: Cute blonde American living in Australia (where I am), went back to the States for holidays, gave me her number to stay in touch, doesn't reply. That's that.
Date #3: Way too hot to be online dating. Talks to me for two weeks and we arrange to meet. Suddenly she closes her account.
Date #4: Criminal lawyer, champion of lost causes, great person. Spends her day in prisons. Bad dentist extracted her lower canines when she was a kid, leaving her a weird but cute smile. After a great night, she suggests "we need a part 2", I agree. We're leaving the restaurant, she's going to get a cab. I casually offer her a lift, as my car is nearby and she lives in the next suburb. She eyes me like I belong in jail and continues to the cab. No response to my text suggesting restaurant for part 2. Sigh.
Date #5: We hit it off in online conversation. We like each other's photos and what we wrote. We talk on the phone and it's good. I ask if she wants to meet, she says no, she's "afraid of the disappoint". We still talk.
Date #6: Hot, fit, systems engineer. Really tall (1 inch shorter than me). Chats to me for 3 weeks. We arrange a date, 7pm tomorrow. Until a few moments ago, when she emailed that she's "sort of seeing someone" and regrets she must cancel. FFS.
Do you want to know more?
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Selby
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Do you want to know more?
Since I gave up on dating, sure!
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Strazos
Greetings from the Slave Coast
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Sure, do tell. I'm pretty sure I cannot even do internet dating here...if I do, pretty sure the results will be both hysterical (for you) and disastrous (for me).
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Yes but those sites are chock full of laffs
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Minvaren
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And nuts and flakes. I need to revisit this thread while tipsy sometime and post a few of my own Tales...
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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I have no tales... No one seems to communicate with me. Yet, this is not at all unlike real life...
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Samwise
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I am messing with internet dating...
It's sort of comforting to know that there are just as many weirdos doing Internet dating in Australia as over here in the US. Re: a couple of your stories, I've noticed that whenever I meet someone from the Internet and I think to myself "you seem WAY too attractive and together to be fishing for dates on the Internet, what gives?" it turns out they're "sort of seeing someone" and were using the Internet dating thing as a distraction while their other plans firmed up. Not that I can complain too much. There are worse things in life than serving as a temporary distraction for crazy hot girls. But I'm starting to think that if I want "serious" women I need to start trolling other waters.
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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Teleku
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Sure, do tell. I'm pretty sure I cannot even do internet dating here...if I do, pretty sure the results will be both hysterical (for you) and disastrous (for me). I hear there are a variety of Nigerian Princess's looking for husbands! Think of the possibilities!
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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ghost
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I'm glad I'm married.
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MuffinMan
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Two years later now from my only online dating experience and I'm still being stalked.
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I'm very mysterious when I'm inside you.
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Paelos
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Ah let's see. I have a few of these: First of all, I've gotten to the point where I never trust a chick with no pictures of herself that don't show her full body. Too many women just post a bunch of head and shoulders shots and when you get to the actual date, SURPRISE, very overweight. I went out with one girl recently from Buffalo. She was a nice girl with a good family and she enjoyed talking. Things seemed to go well. I sent her a message saying we should get together for a second date at dinner. She says that sounds great. She suggests Wednesday. I say I can pick her up and go to a place around her area. She says it might be easier due to traffic to meet me there. Day of the date she cancels with some bullshit about travelling earlier than expected and needing to pack. I'm like .
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Raging Turtle
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So try to reschedule? It's not like she stood you up.
Tale, I'm not sure what you're complaining about. You've had a string of dates with some very attractive, successful women that you probably wouldn't have met offline. Not finding the right one yet is a reason to keep looking and having fun, not to give up.
Strazos, are you still in DC? Since you're a liberal future/current FSO, you're really doing yourself a disservice by not checking the DC Okcupid crowd. The government attracts some very interesting people of all types, and there's always new people coming in. Also, lawyers. So many lawyers.
/resident Okcupid fanboy
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Paelos
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So try to reschedule? It's not like she stood you up.
Cancelling day of is pretty much standing someone up. Also, I sent her a message and got nothing back. It was the obvious non-confrontational blowoff.
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Ironwood
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It's probably because you're ugly. Or Poor.
I wouldn't worry about it.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Paelos
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It's probably because you're ugly. Or Poor.
I wouldn't worry about it.
And now I'm sad.
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Margalis
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Nothing sounds more enticing than dating in a pool dominated by lawyers.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Ironwood
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It's probably because you're ugly. Or Poor.
I wouldn't worry about it.
And now I'm sad. Hey, Chin Up; All I'm saying is that if you were Hawt or Rich, you'd have been met. Women; can't live with them and there are laws against stringing them up in your garage with piano wire.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Paelos
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You make a solid point.
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Selby
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/resident Okcupid fanboy
The SF Bay Area Okcupid group was utter shit.
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Minvaren
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OKCupid seems to be great if you're either under 30 or poly. Otherwise, you get what you pay for.
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"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to remain ignorant." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strazos
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Strazos, are you still in DC? Since you're a liberal future/current FSO, you're really doing yourself a disservice by not checking the DC Okcupid crowd. The government attracts some very interesting people of all types, and there's always new people coming in. Also, lawyers. So many lawyers.
/resident Okcupid fanboy
Unfortunately, I mostly didn't have the time. I was working too much, and then near the end of my time there the relationship wouldn't have gone anywhere...which can be fine, but I had more important things to take care of.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Merusk
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OKCupid seems to be great if you're either under 30 or poly. Otherwise, you get what you pay for.
Heh, true. I've had and OK account for years to do some of the silly tests. Last time I logged in I got some poly girl who was actually pretty cute checking me out.
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Raging Turtle
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So try to reschedule? It's not like she stood you up.
Cancelling day of is pretty much standing someone up. Also, I sent her a message and got nothing back. It was the obvious non-confrontational blowoff. Sometimes things do come up at the last minute. You're probably right if she ignored your text, though. Nothing sounds more enticing than dating in a pool dominated by lawyers.
I like smart, ambitious women. Yeah, they're busy and stressed, but that means they often just want to go out and have fun. The SF Bay Area Okcupid group was utter shit.
It's hard to imagine two big America cities more different than DC and SF. Anyway, you're mostly screwed living in California. But not literally
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« Last Edit: December 27, 2011, 02:10:56 PM by Raging Turtle »
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Paelos
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My city does have a ton of chicks in it. Crazy, crazy chicks.
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Trippy
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Huh, I'm surprised Los Angeles is so unbalanced.
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Tale
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Tale, I'm not sure what you're complaining about. I'm not complaining, I'm venting. I regard this as a perfectly normal way to meet women nowadays. My ex, for example, was an internet date who turned out to be a friend of a friend, with other acquaintances in common, so perhaps meeting online was just a way to accelerate what could have happened without the internet. But combining dating with internet-style information overload is an emotionally draining experience and there's some relief in posting about it. You've had a string of dates with some very attractive, successful women that you probably wouldn't have met offline. Not finding the right one yet is a reason to keep looking and having fun, not to give up. Exactly.
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« Last Edit: December 27, 2011, 02:59:48 PM by Tale »
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