That Internet dating thing

Cubit · 2010-07-14T12:08:40.000Z

AaronSofaer:

Kickball, huh. muses I wonder if there’s a Baltimore kickball league, and if so, how incredibly out of place I’d be showing up there. ;)

Mightynute:

As long as they don’t have a “must be this high to play” sign…

Does this have something to do with that old saying about grass on the field?

Mightynute · 2010-07-14T12:09:03.000Z

AaronSofaer:

As far as I understand, not even close; it’s majority black, then Hispanic, then crabs, drug dealers, Asians, and whites in that order. That’s for the city itself, of course; not the suburbs.

Note: I could be completely wrong.

It’s been forever since I’ve been to Balmer. I was just going by the NPC ratios in Fallout 3.

AaronSofaer · 2010-07-14T12:09:42.000Z

And yes, the Kickball League does seem to be entirely white, from all the pictures on the site.

Erik_J · 2010-07-14T12:10:43.000Z

AaronSofaer:

As far as I understand, not even close; it’s majority black, then Hispanic, then crabs, drug dealers, Asians, and whites in that order. That’s for the city itself, of course; not the suburbs.

Note: I could be completely wrong.

Wiki says 31% white as of a couple years ago. It’s probably ticked up a couple percents since several neighborhoods have been designated as “up and coming.” I love me some Baltimore.

Erik J.

ElGuapo · 2010-07-14T12:11:11.000Z

AaronSofaer:

As far as I understand, not even close; it’s majority black, then Hispanic, then crabs, drug dealers, Asians, and whites in that order. That’s for the city itself, of course; not the suburbs.

Note: I could be completely wrong.

The city itself, not suburbs, is I think about 85% black, then hispanic, then McNulty and Ed Burns. I used to live on Eutaw St off MLK, I was the only white person in about a 10 block radius at least. When I walked down the street after work sometimes runners/kids would run down the streets going “Narc! Narc!”.

Lunch_of_Kong · 2010-07-14T12:33:08.000Z

Damien Falgoust:

I just want to point out that Kong here was in Dallas yesterday and paid a visit to my kickball league and the scene at the bar afterward. I think he’ll testify that the phrase “target rich environment” is appropriate, and that everything I said about kickball earlier in this thread is 100% true.

Seriously, guys. Kickball. You must try it.

Everything Damien just said is true. I even got a couple long looks from some of the 30+ year olds and I wasnt even wearing a kickball jersey. I guess the point is that it’s not a singles activity, but that it’s an activity with a lot of singles. Everyone is friendly and chatty (this is true of our Austin League too, except our bar is farther away from the field) and you can make as little or as much use of that as you wish.

Damien, I told Amanda you tried to convince me to hit on the women there. Be ready to duck a punch if you ever meet her. :-)

Lunch_of_Kong · 2010-07-14T12:34:46.000Z

ElGuapo:

When I walked down the street after work sometimes runners/kids would run down the streets going “Narc! Narc!”.

Better than “Omar is coming! Omar is coming!”

Damien_Falgoust · 2010-07-14T12:40:59.000Z

Lunch of Kong:

I guess the point is that it’s not a singles activity, but that it’s an activity with a lot of singles.

Quoted for truth. This, I think is key. Activities “for singles” are almost always lame and attract the needy, clingy and desperate. Activities that just attract a lot of singles to participate in them, on the other hand, are awesome ways to meet members of the opposite sex.

Lunch of Kong:

Damien, I told Amanda you tried to convince me to hit on the women there. Be ready to duck a punch if you ever meet her. :-)

I sat here for a good couple of minutes trying to figure out why Chicken would want to punch me for this before I realized you were talking about a different Amanda.

(Only Roger will truly understand that, I’m afraid.)

Damien_Falgoust · 2010-07-14T12:50:00.000Z

Incidentally, here’s Roger and I and one of my better-looking friends hanging out at the bar (there was a naughty schoolgirl theme this week):

And apparently the ghost of George Steinbrenner is looking over our shoulders.

AaronSofaer · 2010-07-14T12:51:07.000Z

Damien Falgoust:

(there was a naughty schoolgirl theme this week)

What do guys show up as on naughty-schoolgirl week? Pervy professors?

Tortilla · 2010-07-14T13:03:58.000Z

Don’t overcomplicate things Aaron. The showing up is the important part.

Damien_Falgoust · 2010-07-14T13:15:06.000Z

I vaguely recall there being a corellative theme for the guys (nerdy schoolboys, IIRC), but it doesn’t matter, the guys almost never dress up. Kraaze has this spot-on.

Shadarr · 2010-07-14T13:19:56.000Z

I’ve heard of dual-theme parties, like schoolgirl/cowboy or nurse/construction worker.

Mightynute · 2010-07-14T13:37:20.000Z

Wouldn’t nurse/construction worker just imply that the construction workers are careless at their job and wind up costing the company a lot of lost time and wages due to their accidents requiring medical attention?

There’s probably a kink for that, come to think of it.

AaronSofaer · 2010-07-14T13:46:25.000Z

Kraaze:

Don’t overcomplicate things Aaron. The showing up is the important part.

Hey, I’m just curious. I went as Snape to Otakon with my girlfriend as Hermione, so it seemed like the assumption to make.

Tortilla · 2010-07-14T13:54:27.000Z

Mightynute:

Wouldn’t nurse/construction worker just imply that the construction workers are careless at their job and wind up costing the company a lot of lost time and wages due to their accidents requiring medical attention?

There’s probably a kink for that, come to think of it.

OHSAphilia.

Editer · 2010-07-14T15:23:43.000Z

ElGuapo:

To keep it on topic, I’m making a girl dinner at my place tonight that I met on OKCupid. It’s our second date, the first one was fun, tapas and listening to a bluegrass band.

She’s vegetarian though. Meatshield flashbacks, meatshield flashbacks!

You need to eat a bleeding raw steak in front of her ASAP. I know that’s harsh, but given your history, this is a critical test.

MatthewF · 2010-07-14T15:25:18.000Z

Fuck that. Kill the cow right in front of her. Then skin it.

Lunch_of_Kong · 2010-07-14T15:53:46.000Z

MatthewF:

Fuck that. Kill the cow right in front of her. Then skin it.

Lay off the Red Dead Redemption.

nixon66 · 2010-07-14T16:12:31.000Z

Mightynute:

OKCupid tends to have a much better quality of humanity utilizing it, but there’s always something, it seems, getting in the way. It seems like 90% of the eligible pool is made up of single mothers whose “kids are their entire world”. To quote the vicar, “Fuck off, grasshopper!”

Hah. Try being the single dad side of that flip. Single ladies ignore you and the single moms are, like you said above, a little odd for many of them.

I realized early on in my OK Cupid start that I wasn’t going to put in the effort that the site would require in terms of writing a bunch of messages to get one or two replies and so while I haven’t messaged anyone in months, I still find it fun to see some of the ridiculous profiles from people out there. Unintentional comedy gold.