I never really liked the term “onion booty”. Onions make you cry for a bad reason, while nice booties make you cry for a good one.
Kael, you have weird experiences with onions.
Not surprisingly, Omniscia had it in one. The full profile:
The same guy has a photo where he is wearing a camo t-shirt and camo pants and you can see a Peewee Herman doll on the mantle in the background. I haven’t reconciled these things yet.
Siren
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This just made me laugh SO HARD.
Kalle
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I’ve been messaging two Danish girls for a little while now but travelling across the border to meet up, while easy in theory, is still too much of a barrier for a casual coffee date. I guess I can give it another week or two but in the end I want dates, not pen pals.
Hey Kalle, what language do you use when corresponding with Danes? English?
Esperanto: the International Language of Love.
Are they the kinda girls that would double up on a guy like you?
Kalle
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Yep.
I can read Danish if need be though I might have to look up a word or two, but I’m much better at English because it’s a language I use every day. I suspect the Danish ladies feel the same way. They could probably read Swedish but they’re better at English.
Andrew
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Yeah, a friend of mine lived there for a while and he said that basically everybody could speak English because they assumed that nobody outside of Denmark will speak Danish.
Ha, yes, that must be it. He is seriously onion. That should be his profile headline: I AM SERIOUS ONION.
I have resumed the process of updating my photos now that I actually need them again. I’m doing this by having ex-dates help out with taking pictures. Nothing untoward or naughty, of course. It’s not as awkward as it sounds.
I’m also compiling a list of buzzwords, expressions and activities to use or more likely avoid in my profile(s). For example, the term ‘straight-acting’ is now generally frowned upon and has apparently been replaced with the somewhat more undefined ‘masculine’. There are others that I find a little too hip to be comfortable with using. I am not, for example, ‘chill’ and I also do not note that I am ‘sane’ because I operate on the (perhaps mistaken) belief that most people are usually sane and do not need to point this out.
‘Normal’ can lead to outright arguments over what constitutes normal. ‘Clean’ is like ‘sane’, I would hope it would not need to be said.
For activities there seems to be a trend toward listing anything outdoorsy and by extension, macho: hiking, camping, kayaking, skiing, swimming, running, mountain climbing, alligator-wrestling and so on. I do a few of these things but I wonder if long lists of rugged activities are really that impressive? Are they preferable to listing what you are like (“clean masculine chill guy”)? If I like the idea of going to museums but only actually go about once a decade can I put it down as a legitimate interest? Can I say I’m into photography if I am inept at taking pictures? What separates a mundane thing you do from something another person might find worthy of discussion? I see music, movies and reading mentioned a lot but aren’t those interests that are so common that they’re kind of assumed? (Interestingly, the guy I just broke up with admitted he does not like reading. so maybe not.)
Man, making a profile is like an onion. It makes me cry.
Wow, Ned. I didn’t know you alligator-wrestled.
Ned - Two things about that,.
First, think of it from the standpoint of what you’re looking for in a profile. Are you more interested in someone if they write about how they’re interested in such and such? What if they phrase it in this way, or in that way?
Second, you can always add qualifiers. “I love photography, but I’m completely inept at taking pictures” is perfectly valid to say, and has a whimsical tinge to it.
I petition you, Ned, to change the thread title to “Internet Dating: SERIOUSLY ONION.”
I can be your wingman…
… what is it a wingman does?
In this case, swoops in and steals the target, I believe.
The time-honored position of “wingman” is one of nobility and often self-sacrifice. Given the predilection of women to attend social events in groups, it is often difficult to isolate one desired woman from the crowd in order to get to know her better, etc. The presence of the desired woman’s friends is often a detriment, as the friend not getting the attention will often attempt to act as a barrier between you and the object of said attention.
The wingman’s duty is to “throw himself on the grenade”, so to speak, and focus on the friend so that his buddy may have undistracted access to the woman he wishes to acquaint himself with. Often times this means that the wingman is tasked with paying attention to a woman he’d often not spend time with, in which case the buddy whose wingman he is acting as is obligated to reqard the wingman at a later date, usually by picking up his bar tab.
Or, in MMO terms - the wingman is the off-tank, tasked with managing aggro for all the adds, while his buddy concentrates focus on the main target.
