ElGuapo
3681
“Hey, nice to meet you finally! What do you want to drink?”
“A beer’s fine.”
“Cool, so what are your hobbies?”
“Rape, murder, arson, and rape.”
“Ummm. You said rape twice.”
“I like rape.”
JoshV
3682
Again, master criminals have better things to do than try to rob lonely hearts too cheap to even use a paying dating service. And petty criminals aren’t all that skilled. That girl would most likely be a horrible actress(if she was any good at it, she’d work as an actress instead) and you’d sense something is wrong. And if she didn’t exist, it would be fairly obvious at the first public meeting. =)
Have you read the comments in the Movies forum? Some of the folks here wouldn’t know bad acting if it smacked them in the face. :)
Shadarr
3684
Stranger danger!
Seriously, the level of paranoia in this thread is getting bizarre.
Would the police take a report like that seriously? In college, we had someone prank us and have the cops show up because they got a call ‘a girl was being held.’ My minor roommate opened the door with a beer in his hand. Cops asked if they could poke around, walked around with their hands on this hips, then left. Seems like a ‘real-live!’ serial killer wouldn’t sweat at that.
Lorini
3686
Sheesh, I guess I’ll post the nearly daily police reports we get around here. I guess you guys don’t lock your doors and go around with your wallet hanging nearly out of your pocket too, huh? The person I know this happened to was in DC by the way, but I don’t know where EG hangs out.
It’s very simple to do particularly with free online dating. I don’t know why people think that only ‘master criminals’ (wth are those anyway) commit crimes???
Where do you all live anyway? I must need to move or something.
OKTrends has a new post up:
Take home message: If dating is a numbers game, liberals are fucked. I especially love the two grids at the very end that show that liberals are generally poor matches with with each other, even based on non-political questions.
I’m going to use “caucus-blocked” in every political discussion from now on.
JoshV
3689
Master criminals: folks who plan shit, steal alot of money and get away with it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8594764.stm
I’m not saying one should relax and head over to people’s houses who they have never met, but you should be able to meet someone in public and not worry that they are awesome actors and totally luring you into stealing your kidneys. (And like i said that kidney stuff is a myth, if rich people want kidneys, they go to third world countries)
It’s really just a matter of common sense safety that’s being blown a little bit comically out of proportion. You should not meet somebody that you have only ever exchanged text with in a dark alley until you know that this person is 1) a person; and 2) the person you think you are meeting. My requirement is either one hell of a lot of email correspondence or talking on the phone, and even then I like to meet in public not just for my own safety (I’m reasonably certain that I’m evil enough that my natural inclination toward dirty fighting would get me out of most situations where there is a sensitive area on my attacker that I can grab, twist, smash, or pin), but also so the other person can know that I’m not some creepy nerd who wants to sneak over to her house to play hide the salami. If she’s really, really, REALLY adamant about not meeting in public, well, okay - we’ll give that a shot, but I don’t suffer from the same social inhibition that keeps some people from saying, “You are a crazy and dangerous stupid and now I am going to go out that exit hole from the domicile.” If you’re afraid to be impolite, when you go to meet the hot lady that you thought you were meeting at her house and find out that she has an extra leg that she carefully avoided snapping photos of and a small army of cats, you might end up spending a lot of time in a situation that you don’t want to be in.
Gwende
3691
For most women, the idea of Schrodinger’s Rapist is pretty easy to accept (I’d link but I can’t yet!), because even if you’ve never heard the concept given a name, it’s a feeling you’ve probably always lived with.
Creole Ned, did your date on Sunday happen to take you by the Sea Wall? Because I was over there with my kid after a visit to the aquarium, and while we were looking at the empty pool we saw two nice looking young men stroll past and almost, but not quite, bump hands, as if they might be about to hold hands but suddenly remembered it was a first date and perhaps thought better of it. At the time I thought, aww, wouldn’t that be cute if one of those men was the person from QT3 who started the dating thread? :)
On the way home, my kid asked me what all the rainbow pictures in the West End were for (we’re a little new here), and I told him, “That’s to tell everyone that this part of town is proud that no matter who you are, if you want to have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, that’s cool. You’re welcome here.” He accepted this without comment and went on to talk about what the differences in the Mark IV trains on the Millenium Line vs. the Canada Line, while I then became very smug about my parenting skills, having given this answer off the top of my head. Mostly that’s because it was so much easier than when he’d asked me out of nowhere, “Mommy, how does a baby get out from inside the legs, anyways?” while we were having lunch next to two childless couples at the Aquarium a few hours earlier.
Let him watch Alien, he’ll never ask again.
Shadarr
3693
Considering the prevalence of ceasarean births, that would be pretty accurate.
Nope, my date was on Saturday, not Sunday, though we did actually stroll by the empty pool at Second Beach. :)
That one turned out to be someone who had just become a permanent citizen after four years of the usual bureaucracy. He’s only been here a month, having arrived from Bangkok. It was quite interesting to chat with him and see the perspective of someone from an entirely different part of the world. He said he grew up watching American TV, hence his already solid grasp of English (though he still had an identifiable accent). I asked him why he chose to live in Canada and the two reasons he gave were 1) it’s a lot easier to be (openly) gay here than it is in Thailand and 2) Canada was the easiest of the countries he considered when it came to becoming a citizen (he had looked at Canada, the U.S. and Australia). He said he rejected Australia mainly because he couldn’t understand them.
I doubt we’ll meet again because he was nice but not my type.
I have yet another date with someone new tonight, though he is on-call so it may get postponed. We’re lined up to meet at one of my favorite sushi places, so it’s already set to be a win regardless of how the rest of the date goes. In honor of this thread, I shall keep a hand over my kidneys the entire date.
Well, my kidneys are still intact and the sushi was good, as always. But after a scant 45 minutes, we left and the date began walking downtown instead of toward the usual park/seawall/hey-let’s-go-chat area. I asked him if he had a destination in mind and he said he was going to go over and check out the new toilet at a friend’s place that the friend was having trouble with (“I’m handy with that kind of thing”). Then he said we could chat online and stuff and was that OK? I looked at him and smiled and said, “Sure.” If he has any perception at all he should have noticed that I was being a lying liar in reply. I can only assume he even offered the possibility of chat later to be “nice”.
I have to admit, I’ve never been passed over in favor of a toilet before.
kerzain
3696
Okay, this is officially the saddest post in the thread. I hope that guy drowns in a puddle of shitty 2000 Flushes blue water.
Damn, that’s rough, Ned. It’s a battlefield out there! Keep on truckin’ though, buddy.
fire
3698
Man. I thought it was hard to date, but sometimes, it’s even harder to watch your friends* date.
- Internet (QT3) friends count
A internet dating girl refused to go down on me last night because she gave up giving blowjobs for Lent.*
*Handjobs still ok by God
When does Lent end? Sunday?
Well, we did eventually manage to get through Part 1 of The Color of Magic.
Eventually.
^_^
