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The_Face_of_Boo
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22 Feb 2014, 10:51 am

hale_bopp wrote:
I deleted a dating site account with 2000 unread messages from guys I didn't want to date saying messages just like those.

The only way to be interesting on a dating site:

Have good quality photos
Have photos doing things
If you get lucky you will ask someone something they don't just like but are passionate about (random luck whether theyre actually passionate or not)
Be tall
Be good looking
Be rich
Have an interesting profile.
Be charming (Hard if you're not the above)

I mean lets be honest. Not saying its right, but it's the truth.

I find I pay more attention to guys that ask me on a date straight away. That's just me though. I don't do bull sh** small talk, and I respect anyone saying they want to use me for sex a lot more than people lying about it.



And that's probably why you've been single for a long time; and why you hate okc guys so much.
If you are expecting to find flawless princes with flawless height and wealth then okc clearly isn't the place. Why a tall rich and handsome would even need to use okc?



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22 Feb 2014, 10:56 am

It is so nice that you are here, Boo, to tell all us brainless women how we *actually* think. Goodness gracious, all these years I ignored all those good-looking rich men in favor of decent human beings with a brain and a personality. Thank goodness I have you now to point out the error of my ways. What on earth would I do without your divine guidance? :lol:



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22 Feb 2014, 10:58 am

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Those were just possibilities, I couldn't say if any of them had anything to do with you not getting a response. Just some ideas.

1) In response to "I really don't know what to put in messages then", my suggestion would be something that looks similar to the two examples I gave. But of course others will agree or disagree with this, so it's up to you what you try or don't try.

2) "What league sport do you play?" might be better that "league, what is that?". Though we don't really have league where I live so I don't know they proper way to refer to it.

3) Your spelling and grammar are not that bad. I'm a proofreader so I pick up on everything (except my own mistakes!), so I'm a harsher critic than most. I'd recommend learning the basics like the difference between "you're" and "your" as this can be one that irritates people. But like I said, if your message was written the same way as your profile, it shouldn't be a problem if she already sent you a "like".
As for emoticons, expressive punctuation like the exclamation mark can sometimes be used instead of smileys, e.g. the second or fourth ones you used in your message.


Based on describing herself as 'weird' and the assumption that you would just know what league is, I'm guessing it's not a sport at all. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/
It's probably this free-to-play video game that is popular among girl-gamers (in that the ratio of girls/guys who play "L.O.L." is even where in most games it's biased towards guys.)
She might have been trying to call out people specifically from her social niche and conversely expose people who were ignorant of her niche. I did that when I started, imploring profile-viewers to finish a quote from firefly. It doesn't generate much traffic, but then again it's not meant to be a drag-net.


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22 Feb 2014, 11:10 am

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so while I was looking up convos this girl liked me, heres the line

"Do you want to build a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman!"

I told her I was disabling my accnt and got her number... that was fast lol. Though she wont tell me her name still.


update on this.
1) it was my line, my sister/best friend have been either singing longs from frozen or singing their conversations to the tune of those songs and they are permanently stuck in my head. I just said it because standard greetings don't work anyways and I wasn't expecting a reply so I just sent something I could laugh about.

2) we talked for over 6 hours on the phone and she agreed to hang out with me and watch torchwood at a non-specific future date and time (i.e. I'm probably never going to hear from her again). I also still don't know her name but it's become an inside joke.


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22 Feb 2014, 2:38 pm

Eureka13 wrote:
It is so nice that you are here, Boo, to tell all us brainless women how we *actually* think. Goodness gracious, all these years I ignored all those good-looking rich men in favor of decent human beings with a brain and a personality. Thank goodness I have you now to point out the error of my ways. What on earth would I do without your divine guidance? :lol:


Are you hale_bopp?

No, you're not. I was talking to her.

So I don't get your sarcasm, I didn't suggest anyone is brainless nor I told anyone how should think.



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22 Feb 2014, 6:59 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
hale_bopp wrote:
I deleted a dating site account with 2000 unread messages from guys I didn't want to date saying messages just like those.

The only way to be interesting on a dating site:

Have good quality photos
Have photos doing things
If you get lucky you will ask someone something they don't just like but are passionate about (random luck whether theyre actually passionate or not)
Be tall
Be good looking
Be rich
Have an interesting profile.
Be charming (Hard if you're not the above)

I mean lets be honest. Not saying its right, but it's the truth.

I find I pay more attention to guys that ask me on a date straight away. That's just me though. I don't do bull sh** small talk, and I respect anyone saying they want to use me for sex a lot more than people lying about it.


And that's probably why you've been single for a long time; and why you hate okc guys so much.
If you are expecting to find flawless princes with flawless height and wealth then okc clearly isn't the place. Why a tall rich and handsome would even need to use okc?


Actually, I never said I hated ok cupid guys. I said its one of the better dating sites. I don't expect a "prince" and I'm pretty sure anyone whot fits that description won't be single - period - on a dating site or not.
I'm single because I make little effort to put myself out there and meet a lot of people IRL. I go to the work and the gym then go home. And probably because I have had terrible experiences from meeting dating site people that I don't take them seriously.