I found two people I was interested in and neither has replied to me. I have a slew of replies from young 'uns but sadly no interest in being Mrs Robinson.
― ljubljana, Monday, 13 October 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I signed up at the end of June and have met a bunch of people irl, all of them cool and most of them no less cuet than their pics. It probably helps that I'm in San Francisco.
― my sweet coconut (rogermexico.), Monday, 13 October 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I deleted my profile last month. I met up with one person last winter who was nice enough, but realized then that I am not confident enough in my real life ability to meet people to be meeting people on a dating site. (You might think "well that's WHY you would use a dating site!" but that's not how the psychology works.) But I'm moving to a city where I'm sure there'd be a lot of interesting people on it, so it will remain a temptation.
― Maria, Monday, 13 October 2008 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Two dates this weekend set up via OKC. Unheard of. Both seem not scary, creepy or anything so hoping it'll be fun if nothing else. It'd better be (see co-workers bitching thread).
― ljubljana, Saturday, 16 May 2009 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
And...?
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Got sick and missed one of them - postponed till next week. Other one was rescheduled for last night. He was a really, really nice guy, and pretty attractive. We had loads to talk about as he'd lived in Serbia for two years, knew Eastern Europe and had just bought a cat. Somehow or other this did not lead to sparkling conversation :-(
― ljubljana, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 23:40 (fifteen years ago) link
The other one is drunkenly messaging me about beer.
― ljubljana, Thursday, 21 May 2009 04:11 (fifteen years ago) link
we have a winner!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 21 May 2009 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm the only saddo still on OKCupid, aren't I?...
― ljubljana, Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I just use it for the tests! </lie>
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm still there but none of them ever date me. maybe we should date?
― ken "save-a-finn" c (ken c), Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
itt: dom passantino expressing the emotion "love"
actually, i'm kinda considering this
― Noodle Vadge (country matters), Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i killed my okcupid account
this means no more mandee's greatest moments on okcupid thread :(
i did make a fake name and now i just edit people's profiles
― homosexual II, Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
dammit WHY ONLY gay straight or bi? is there nothing between straight and bi? no sliding scale?
― Noodle Vadge (country matters), Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry folks, but straight it is. peace god. ;_;
a few months back i tried it and went on a couple dates, one of them turned into a two-week mini-relationship, but eh. i don't think online dating is for me.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
this is a bit innocent smoothie
― Noodle Vadge (country matters), Thursday, 21 May 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
still on it, haven't done anything with it in a good while. I know if I update my profile I'll only get a fresh barrage of good-hearted but uninteresting 19-year-old nerdies looking my way. (I'm 27, so...) Also I'm moving soon anyway, so why bother trying to find romance?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 May 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
xposts
Ken, if you can do better than message 'lol I am buzzed' or talk earnestly about Serbia, or achieve something between the two, you're on. It will be a long distance relationship.
Mandee, I have a fake name too so that I can stalk unseen without messing around with my 'real' (ahem) profile settings.
― ljubljana, Friday, 22 May 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
feeling this
― "l0u1s jagg3r" is now called "Mu." Mu as in http://bit.ly/14Vx (country matters), Friday, 22 May 2009 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Another date today. Don't say 'if this goes well, we could go do X' in the first five minutes for fuck's sake! (Him, not me).
On the upside my next and probably final date has alerted me to this, which at least means he'll have a sense of humour if it all goes pear-shaped.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 24 May 2009 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
here's hoping X was philately or Hornby trainset painting or something
― Local Gouda (country matters), Monday, 25 May 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
X was going to Baltimore, which sent me into a hasty explanation of how much I like exploring cities ON MY OWN
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 May 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
wow! within 5 minutes too! way to blow your load
― Local Gouda (country matters), Monday, 25 May 2009 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link
NB, I do live only 40 mins from Baltimore, so it's not so bad, but yeah.
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 May 2009 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
lol "I will explore my local city ALONE, thanks"
dude should have been all Euro capital on you
― Local Gouda (country matters), Monday, 25 May 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm the only saddo still on OKCupid, aren't I?...― ljubljana, Thursday, May 21, 2009 6:14 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark
I'm on okcupid but every time I use the browse feature it's the same old girls in my area that I don't want to date.I haven't had any luck on dating sites for over 25 years now.
― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 01:36 (fifteen years ago) link
I had a marathon 'match' session recently and I really do think I've met the only two guys I was interested in meeting (of those that that 'match' is finding for me in the top, you know, ahemthreehundred or so), with a third later this week. And that's in DC! I really fancy the third based on his picture so I'm kind of stupidly optimistic about it.
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 May 2009 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
captain lorax you have not been using dating sites for more than 25 years
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
NB, I am now sending stupid messages to the third guy in order to fuck things up in advance. Fucking things up when really interested must be hard-wired in.
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 May 2009 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Am yet to gauge quite how immersive this website can be, but it seems to contain multitudes of wasted time
― Local Gouda (country matters), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link
multitudes of time
― the starring role in tostitos way (roxymuzak), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
like 'a myriad of options'. That drives me up the wall.
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 May 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago) link
you know, you don't have to bite the apple ljubljana. you could set an example for women everywhere (because obviously they are all sinful snake listening apple biters)
― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:16 (fifteen years ago) link
whaaa
― Local Gouda (country matters), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Eh? (I'll consider it, but I'll have to understand it first).
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 May 2009 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
you don't have to fuck things up
― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh. Well, I'll try not to. But it's amazing how your instincts, which seem not to be fucked up at the time, drive you to write very convoluted things in the pursuit of a good impression.
― ljubljana, Monday, 25 May 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link
thank you
― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i fuck things up too
― people come from a can (Mulvaney), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, that was... better than the other two dates... a bit trying-too-hard-talking-too-much (him), nodding, smiling (me)
― ljubljana, Friday, 29 May 2009 05:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I went on a OKC date tonight. At some point in the evening, the three dudes next to us at the bar engaged us in a conversation, which started out okay. But at some point one of them started going on and on about Freud, so my date ripped into him to the point that the three dudes left the bar in a huff. It was very strange, and honestly I was pretty impressed.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 29 May 2009 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
3 ILXors going on dates on the same day was evidently too much for the server facility
― sad blue nose hybrid with shit football crew (country matters), Friday, 29 May 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
you too Louis? Spill all, though Freud-pusher-bashing is going to be hard to beat.
― ljubljana, Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
aw i just met up with a cute and extremely open american chick (born within 2 weeks of me) and wandered round london's great parks for about 4 hours, was swell :)
we had much to talk about, and talk we duly did
― Shtick Monthly (country matters), Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh that's luuuuuuuurvely! Seeing her again?
― ljubljana, Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
of course! she has big plans for me. possibly involving her male friends. lol but seriously, yeah! it's only taken us a week to become good friends...and there's obvious mutual attraction too. might not be romance of the century, but it's definitely not a prospective fuckbuddy thing either...we're tight.
― Shtick Monthly (country matters), Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
tight Adj. 1. To be frugal or not generous. {Informal} 2. Drunk. {Informal}
― Iniesta, I Can Boogie (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 May 2009 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i.e. a good friendship, with maybe a bit of sex (rather than the other way around), which might or might not develop into stronger things, but which won't prevent either of us dating/seeing others
anyway i find the best thing is not to think or talk about it too much but just to enjoy it as it comes, which is what i shall now do :)
― Shtick Monthly (country matters), Saturday, 30 May 2009 02:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean, on a final note, the golden A+ number one rule to how well these things go is obviously communication, conversational compatibility, and meeting someone awesome and on-yer-wavelength for the day is worth ten thousand empty shags
if you end up shagging* them then like haha yeah that's pretty much why i joined this website
*if they're REALLY, like, whoa-where-have-you-been-all-my-life, upgrade to dating, but hey you're only young once
― Shtick Monthly (country matters), Saturday, 30 May 2009 02:10 (fifteen years ago) link