That Internet dating thing

Creole_Ned · 2010-04-02T11:32:05.000Z

I decided to take stock after the toilet incident and while I have one last date this Tuesday (not with toilet guy, obviously), after that I’m taking a good long break from the scene. I’ve already hidden/disabled my profile on POF, OKC and a few other sites. I don’t know how I may approach things differently when I try again or when that will be but for now it’s going to be all about me, baby.

jerri_blank · 2010-04-02T13:18:44.000Z

AaronSofaer:

Well, we did eventually manage to get through Part 1 of The Color of Magic.

Eventually.

^_^

We are only interested in whether you still have all your internal organs.

AaronSofaer · 2010-04-02T20:43:37.000Z

I do indeed still have all my internal organs. Though I’m sore!

As a first foray re-entering into the dating world, it was a success.

Jackstar · 2010-04-02T20:59:01.000Z

beecubed:

OKTrends has a new post up:

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/03/30/the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-big-tent-can-be-too-big/

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.

This link really doesn’t belong buried on the 92nd page of a 93 page thread. Fascinating stuff.

Jackstar · 2010-04-02T21:06:55.000Z

beecubed:

OKTrends has a new post up:

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/03/30/the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-big-tent-can-be-too-big/

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.

This link really doesn’t belong buried on the 92nd page of a 93 page thread. Fascinating stuff.

That Article:

arctan(x) really has no place in a political discussion

This is what is wrong with the world.

JM1 · 2010-04-03T03:50:57.000Z

AaronSofaer:

I do indeed still have all my internal organs. Though I’m sore!

As a first foray re-entering into the dating world, it was a success.

So all the shrieking about how she wasn’t inviting you over for sex on a first date turned out to be a little wide of the mark, right?

ChrisPal · 2010-04-03T07:34:05.000Z

jerri blank:

We are only interested in whether you still have all your internal organs.

Sounds like she got hold of his external organ though!

AaronSofaer · 2010-04-03T07:43:48.000Z

JM:

So all the shrieking about how she wasn’t inviting you over for sex on a first date turned out to be a little wide of the mark, right?

Who was shrieking?

John_Many_Jars · 2010-04-03T10:22:57.000Z

You were, once she started raping you.

tiohn · 2010-04-03T10:26:39.000Z

You can’t rape the willing.

AaronSofaer · 2010-04-03T10:53:31.000Z

^ There’re plenty of things a partner could do to an otherwise-willing male that would constitute rape.

Demon_G_Sides · 2010-04-03T12:18:19.000Z

People seem to forget that strap-ons aren’t hard to find, and many men don’t enjoy having something put into their rear, it seems.

tiohn · 2010-04-03T12:29:01.000Z

AaronSofaer:

^ There’re plenty of things a partner could do to an otherwise-willing male that would constitute rape.

I didn’t say anything about the otherwise-willing.

JM1 · 2010-04-03T13:51:08.000Z

AaronSofaer:

Who was shrieking?

Well, OK. But you were very defensive.

Me? I’m just happy the emergency nonce response team wasn’t required.

AaronSofaer · 2010-04-03T14:35:33.000Z

I wasn’t defensive about getting laid, JM, I was defensive about being paranoid, even while admitting it was the case. :)

JM1 · 2010-04-03T16:17:55.000Z

Ah, not strictly true. You got defensive about people going “Whoa hang on a second first date AT HER PLACE?”, and a few comments about what that implies to the person she’s inviting over. Remember you claimed it was just for Terry Pratchett…

But not so much that it’s worth arguing over for the sake of a few cheap jokes :)

Creole_Ned · 2010-04-03T16:19:41.000Z

I wrote a somewhat sarcastic “thank you” to toilet guy for being original. He did not seem to appreciate this. In fact, he blocked me!

I feel my circle of dating is now complete. I am ready to fully embrace being the lone wolf once again.

Omniscia · 2010-04-05T07:28:28.000Z

Anyone else noticing eHarmony ads with audio around here, lately?

Gabe_Lewis · 2010-04-05T09:03:12.000Z

Demon G Sides:

People seem to forget that strap-ons aren’t hard to find, and many men don’t enjoy having something put into their rear, it seems.

I don’t know how it got this name, but the consensual version of that is called pegging.

John_Many_Jars · 2010-04-05T10:03:35.000Z

Dan Savage (author of the “Savage Love” sex advice column) had a contest for naming the act, and “pegging” won.

(Back in 2002 I dated a generally pretentious woman who was always trying hard to impress with affected casualness about kink, and she claimed she’d “always” called it that. Mmm hmmmm.)