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Post by parallax1978 on Feb 4, 2013 11:20:32 GMT -5
Meh people, particularly women like to put on that tough act all the time in online forums for whatever reason, and disguise it as being "real".
My friend and I had a running gag about Myspace profiles back when Myspace profiles were a thing about how every woman's (and a lot of guys) "About Me" was some variation of the following. "I am not into all the drama and games. I am a REAL person. I am not going to sugar coat it for you I am going to tell you what I think and if you don't like it that's on you not on me because I am a REAL person!" it was such a tired cliche that you just knew the person would be a brain dead moron like this girl appears to be.
I guess my moral here is "I am tough" or "I am real" is really code for "I am insecure and potentially crazy I use this line to push people away and create my own self fulfilling prophecy"
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Post by Caliber on Feb 4, 2013 12:40:02 GMT -5
Oh my God. Man, those myspace profiles have gone over to OKCupid. The only thing I see more often than what you described is "I love to laugh!". Are you fucking serious? Who says that? I mean, who doesn't like to laugh? It's like saying "I like to eat food, and breathe air". They're so fucking boring, and generic. Who on Earth wants to date these women?
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Post by parallax1978 on Feb 4, 2013 13:27:59 GMT -5
After Mrs. Parallax1978 and I decided to delete our profiles we went through and looked at our "suggested matches" or whatever they are called. She used to get contacted constantly on dating sites... after viewing the abominations the sites wanted me to date she came to understand why... I agreed with her that this was the reason, what I neglected to mention was that her more than ample boobage and all around hotness probably played a part as well
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Post by scottyflamingo on Feb 4, 2013 17:34:38 GMT -5
I totally like these discussions for some reason. I guess it is cool to see people posting embarrassing stuff and not giving a crap.
The #1 thing to ask yourself about girls you meet online is, "If she's so great why is she online?" Some just are in a crappy geographical situation, but some have some issue. Especially if it is a hot girl.
But the great thing about online is if the girl turns out to be fat and used a fake pic, you immediately get out of jail free with the "I don't put up with lying" defense.
I don't mind bitching about Rock Vs Cena, but you gotta give some good reasons and not just parrot what everyone is saying.
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Post by magoonie on Feb 4, 2013 19:04:47 GMT -5
Yeah Scotty, I really like topics like this, the bad relationship thread, etc on this forum. It's nice/fun to swap bad and embarrassing relationship stuff. This is a good environment for it too. Caliber that girl sounds a bit bitchy, I would at the very least go into it with caution. I could tell your puppy/burn ward line was obviously in a joking way and she went into full on attack mode.ive had women who early on would say they didn't want drama or play games and then would go onto create needless drama and play stupid fucking games. This one girl I was going out with when I was 25, she was 20 but I didn't mind the age difference because she seemed to have a good head on her shoulders. She had a roommate at the time who would flirt with me a little and I would playfully flirt back, it was nothing serious and I always took it as more of a joking thing than anything. A few months into going out I went over to her apartment and she had just gone to the store so her roommate let me in which was nothing unusual as we were friends. The roommate starts hitting on me extra hard, much more than the playful stuff from the past and then out of nowhere starts kissing me. I pull her off and say something like "you are really great blah blah blah but I really like my girlfriend" she says she'll never find out and I said I couldn't do that. With that my girlfriend pops out of her bedroom and starts saying she's so happy and how I passed the test. At first I was very confused then got really angry which led to me yelling. She just could not grasp why this was wrong and it bothered me constantly saying "but you did the right thing".
And Scotty, it's not always that the girls that are online are damaged (although I have seen that be sometimes the case) but that some of them have exhausted their options. If they have gone through guys that have been set up by friends, coworkers or set up by coworkers and aren't into the bar/club scene I can see that they would go to online dating. And the daddy issue thing, yeah there are a good amount with daddy issues but you need to find the ones that don't let those issues dictate their life. You know, we need at least one female influence on this board, maybe The Princess would be up to the challenge.
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Post by ucladavid on Feb 12, 2013 1:06:40 GMT -5
Regarding why people especially females to do the online dating thing: the number one response I have received is that you don't have to go through the BS of the first few dates to realize that the other person does or has "X." For example, a friend of mine dated someone for 2 months until he found out that she has a kid. He was 22 at the time and wanted nothing to do with taking care of another person's kid at the time. My ex-wife did the online dating thing because she lived in a small town 30 miles away from the next closest city. The reason why I have done the online dating thing in the past is because I am exhausted when I get off work and only see teenagers and parents of teenagers at work (I'm a teacher). Plus when I go out, I hang out with my friends and not try to actively search for a partner. Thus, I try the online dating with some success.
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