Kalle
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I just spotted a new feature on OkCupid called My Best Face. I uploaded a couple of pictures of myself and I got to see how they matched up. It takes a bit of effort as you have to rate 80-ish pairs of other pictures before they’ll give you a report on your pictures but it wasn’t too bad and the stats at the end were pretty neat.
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s crap. The best photo of me, according to that feature, is one where 30% of my face is obscured by the beer in my hand.
Then again, that could possibly be a vote for its accuracy.
The biggest problem is a lack of a “neither” option in MBF.
I gave up on the name/year of birth thing after every variation using my first and middle name was already taken. Besides, being born in '64 makes anything I come up with either sound like an OS or an old video game console.
Today I simply re-enabled my existing profiles, chopped them down to the basics and waited to see what would happen.
On one site I got a ‘wink’ from a 27 year old guy who is ‘looking for guys who are into underwear, speedos, jockstraps… etc.’
On OKC my quiver (which is I believe is Latin for ‘device that provides mirth’) I get a 40 year old guy in Vancouver (good) who notes “First off - to make sure we’re all on the same page - I’m one of those ‘poly-people’ who’s happily married in an open relationship to a beautiful and wonderful woman” (not so good). This is with ‘Gay Guys Only’ set as one of my criteria. Perhaps, similar to quiver, ‘Gay Guys Only’ actually means ‘men who are mirthful’.
PoF’s interface remains largely inscrutable.
The coming days and weeks shall no doubt prove fruitful.
I got an email over the weekend from OKC, telling me that I have been deemed “attractive” and thus will have more attractive women in my quiver and showing up randomly wherever random people appear. I haven’t logged in to see how true that is.
Huh. Well. I guess I’ll just be pissed off at OKC from now on. Assholes don’t think I’m attractive. I’ll show them who’s attractive. I don’t need them anyway. I’M A PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS.
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I have found all of the sites that try to find you a match yield results that are random and wrong, even OKC with its “answer 1,000 questions and we’ll find your soulmate!” approach.
This morning I got a message on PoF from a 57-year old accountant in Nelson (700 km east of Vancouver). In his profile he writes that he is 55 and likes YouTube and pick-up trucks.
On the other hand, K and I are still seeing eachother, after meeting on OkCupid. In fact, we’re going on a three-day hike in Shenandoah National Forest on my birthday!
Your path is clear: search up some sexy pickup truck YouTube videos.
I have nowhere else to post this so here goes:
Amazing.
I wouldn’t say it’s random, OKC’s matching seemed a lot better than POF (which is the only other site I used). Certainly, women who were above 90% were generally women I would get along with even if they weren’t The One(s), and anyone rated below 60% seemed mentally deficient, so they’re doing something right. Conversely, I looked at someone POF said was a 100% match and she was about as incompatible as a person could be. After that I stopped looking at the match list, which is just as well since it was really hard to find.
Yeah, I should have said “mostly random and wrong”. It could just be I’m hard to match up with, which could very well be true based on a few of my experiences. :P
I did meet someone on OKC who turned out to be a good friend, so it hasn’t consistently misfired. I mentioned this long ago in the thread but I think the demographic I’m in (mid-40s gay man in Vancouver) is just woefully under-represented on OKC, which seems to skew younger, straight and American.
Also, I didn’t click on the YouTube link for fear of my faith in humanity being lowered just a little more.
I assure you, it’s very tasteful. Even the part with the ratcheting. The tender music really helps.
Shadarr you need to paste in the hilariously douchey text from the email!
Hahahaha, go ask an ugly friend and see.
Also, I have a dating question! It’s kind of weird and is mostly directed at our younger posters.
I just recently starting dating a girl in her 20s (I am in my 30s). It has come to my attention - not recently, but regardless - that shaving one’s junk is pretty much de rigeur. Certainly for females at any rate but my question is, does the the standard apply for men as well? Note that I am not particularly hirsute, but I still have a fair amount of undergrowth as it were. I don’t to come off as some kind of hairy wildebeest of a bygone era.
So I ask you, Pogo, Demon, whomever: do you shave your cock and balls?
At some point, I got fed up with the veritable forest I was sporting getting caught in zippers and whatnot, so yes, I keep it mostly trimmed because it’s just more convenient. I also assume that, given the fact that I would at some point prefer that my intended place her mouth in that general area and I don’t particularly like pulling coarse, wiry Brillo fiber out of my mouth that it’s just polite, but, and I know that this is a shocking revelation, I am often too concerned about ensuring that other people approve of me, so I have no idea whether that’s accepted common knowledge or just me being crazy.
I think, and I could be wrong, but regardless of age, hair down there is simply a matter of preference on either side.
So if she wants you to, she’ll ask probably?
There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum–it’s breathtaking. I highly suggest you try it.
Careful. Stating that you prefer it shaved will result in you being accused of being a pedo. Just saying…
I am not completely shaven. I tried it once, but it stands in stark contrast to the rest of my body, which is laden with hair from the mid back down (Seriously, there is a visible edge to my hairline on my back. It starts mid back, and goes down all the way to my ankles).
However, trimming is apropos, as no one likes an errant pube to the back of the throat when getting their oral on. It’s courtesy either way, and few seem to break this courtesy (I had a girlfriend recently who was a hippie and refused to shave any of her hair. What. The. Fuck.). I’ve never been asked to trim, because I think that wild undergrowth is pretty gross/unnecessary. I don’t prefer completely shaved (All the time, every once in a while is a nice treat but it also causes rugburn when it gets stubbly), but a nicely trimmed coiffure is almost a must. Edit: I have never shaved my balls. They aren’t very hairy to begin with, so if I wanted to I’d probably try to pluck them before I’d ever let a razor on the sack. Though, to be honest, I don’t even know how you’d go about shaving your sack. Stretching it out and then attacking it with a razor? Dangerous. It’s also common practice to make sure that any of the hair directly at the base of your schlong is trimmed back so as to eliminate hair in the mouth during oral, more specifically.
