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

All the messages I've replied to make reference to & usually expand on something in my profile. Paying a compliment can be nice, too, but don't overdo it. xpost

is "you should message me if: you're a feminist" too much of a double-edged sword?

good q

really feel like i'm getting the hang of this website, got a very positive email today:

http://i.imgur.com/tDQmQiJ.png

hahahaha

so bad

suspended account, psychically drained. going to focus on night swimming and reading surrealist novels.

^ good goals imo. i've gotten nothing but "waste of time" and "heartbreak" from this website.

I wouldn't call it a waste of time, as I did get a lot better at asking out women, going on dates, etc. but something about the process just drained all the limerence out of me.

so, reading foam of the daze and the book of monelle.

I have a copy of L'ecume de jour I French! I got told it just doesn't translate well thanks to the wordplay. I wish I could read French :/

In French, Christ, I don't make out with novellas.

My French ex made me buy it after we broke up, but I never read it. I like the idea of reading various translations of a single work though. The Posies translation is called "Frosting on the Beater."

tonight i answered ~350 questions just for fun and omfg okcupid i'm pretty sure i'm not THAT laid back, even if lots of real life people think so too. RECOGNISE THE TURBULENT ANXIETY AND TENSENESS OF MY INNER SELF FFS.

also not entirely cool with being almost as sloppy as i am laid-back.

what else is there to do for fun?

finding your highest matches with a global search is good if you're the fantasy-prone type and you like to travel.

for example I have a couple of 99% matches in Scotland.

ooh that is fun. lots of hippie types from california, new york, and massachusetts, it seems.

ha, if i search for within 25km of my hometown the highest match is 55%. who knows why i moved.

I'm back in my hometown and only one person's over 80%. And she seems like a type-A personality in yoga pants. This whole half of the state consists of hard-charging extraverts in yoga pants tbh.

My top worldwide matches are all scientists who talk about how funny and sarcastic they are in their first paragraph. And I don't have a 99% match in the whooooole world. 98% is my limit, apparently. (I met my 99% match here in the city where I live and there were a lot of very long silences).

the dream is better

My housemate's a 99% match but he doesnt show up in my matches. I dont know why? Maybe the system knows we know each other in some crepey way.

the matches are coming from inside the house

lool

Hahah :D

hm i have a few local 99% locals and they seem nice, oh no i may have to actually use this site now.

i found a 99% match who's an MTF trans in LA

most 99% matches are like, the other side answered like 10 questions and matched up with you on all of em? thats how i feel

That shouldn't be possible. Few questions answered means that the percentage can only be so high. I deactivated my account in December, so maybe there's a new algorithm, but when I went through the questions I was always being shown what the highest possible percentage would be.

Huh - my highest match (98%) is right here in Chicago.

Should burning your country's flag be illegal?

Yes

Really??

you don't understand. your country's flag is the name of my dog.

hahaha wtf:

i had my eye on this girl this week, and noticed her little message light go from red/very selective to yellow/selective to green/frequently

i figured damn she must have stepped her reply game up, time to make my move....

http://i.imgur.com/JV3F0GN.png

did you pay

maybe just bypass the whole thing and show up at her house

gr80 do u browse anonymous??

2nd account for that http://i.imgur.com/rDVfRb2.gif

lmao

Back on here after a several month break--please please plleeeeease stop telling your readers that you're "fun." Or "funny." OR ANYTHING. There is no room for anything but self-effacement here, no, sorry, you may think, how can it be bad to tell women how nice I am? but you are mistaken: it is bad.

^^^

fortunately, i am not fun

Yeah, me neither.

message me if you want to watch me refresh ilx all day and not go out

I do have an okc crush on someone's prof though after like AGES of being underwhelmed. He's way out of my league, of course, but I updated my photos today to try to cast a stronger net. Also I broke down and changed my body type to average; I was enjoying being "curvy" but it's...not really fair to actual curvy people, for one thing, and I know readers in general assume that everyone portrays themselves as an improved version in their profile so the subtract accordingly blah blah.

xp lol yes

I have to get back into this while I'm still kind of buzzing from a very busy two weeks in which I accomplished actual things. Also I need to continue accomplishing things, which this weather should help with.

thinking of doubling down on my OKC profile deletion and ditching facebook too. accomplishing actual things sounds good.

I don't feel good about my body-referencing language in those posts. What I mean is that I think I can reasonably use "curvy" to describe myself but I'm aware that the popular understanding of it is as a euphemism for "fat." I want to be like FFFFF UUUUU to anyone who has a problem with either the facts or the language used to describe them but I suspect it's not doing my response rates any good. I put up a full-body pic, maybe I'll change back to curvy and be like, this is curvy, you asshole.

Gosh I'm so pleasant and accommodating, it's amazing that I don't have dates just every day of the week.

From having looked at a bunch of women's profiles, the terms "curvy," "a little extra," and "full-figured" seem pretty much interchangeable (and "average" probably could be included in this as well) and have almost no predictive value at all. But I'm focusing on the photos and answers to questions first anyway.

I mean, stuff like height has an easy objective measure, but what a complete minefield coming up with non-relative classifications for body type is. "Average" seems super-problematic, doesn't it?

Yes. I hate it as a category. You're convincing me, I'm going back to curvy.