OKC has re-jiggered its matching system:
When I do a search using ‘match’ as the sorting criteria I now get:
3 96% matches
2 95% matches
2 94% matches
4 93% matches
3 92% matches
5 91% matches (the previous highest before the change)
Of course, some of these uber-matches haven’t logged in since 2007, so color me skeptical.
I haven’t heard a peep from PoF guy in nearly a week. I think Aaron and I are working on keeping the dating continuum in balance, just on opposite ends.
Meanwhile, funny Kickball team names.
Sorry, Ned. When you were having good luck, my luck was stinky! :(
I’m fond of Kick In A Box, myself.
Those are actually pretty tame. We had a Multiple Scoregasms and a Smack My Pitch Up this season, too.
Other favorites from the summer season:
You Look Like I Need a Drink (my team)
Menace to Sobriety
Dixie Normous
Balls Deep
Pitching Without a Rubber
Two Girls, One Flip Cup
Bangin’ Pitches
Bustin’ Rubbers
99 Problems But a Pitch Ain’t One
WAKA Shame
We Got The Runs
Looking to Score
Pitches Be Whack
The other team names were…lame.
My team is Kickin’ Impossible. We may not have the coolest name, but we have the coolest soundtrack.
Your definition of lame is exceedingly generous.
Well, in this case, “lame” = no attempt at a cheesy pun.
A girl messaged me on OkCupid towards the end of my birthday (last Thursday). Only the second to do that unprompted, and unlike the other one she a) doesn’t have kids and b) has responded promptly to every reply I’ve sent. Apparently she just moved here from Arizona to complete her doctorate in clinical psychology but has tons of free time until her internship starts.
We messaged pretty steadily over the weekend. Today I was on writing a lengthy reply to her most recent message and she IMed me over the site. This led to discussion followed by an agreement to go out to dinner on Wednesday and a further hour or more talking on the phone during which I think I actually sweated out every single drop of water in my body because my reception is crap in my apartment and it’s -really- fucking hot upstairs where I get a quasi-decent signal.
We’re both clear that it’s too early to tell if romance will bud, but friends? I think there’s a darn good chance of that.
Sweet that was the name of my dodge-ball team last year.
In that case, I withdraw my comment as these are clearly punariffic.
Hurray, malkav! I eagerly await your circumlocutions around what exactly happened after dinner.
Zylon
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You want him to be intentionally vague?
Not necessarily, but it’s pretty standard to do so if the date goes very well, right?
Zylon
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That’s an excellent point.
I am seriously getting to the point where I might stop even checking my Quiver matches.
90% of the time, it’s women who have no redeeming qualities; neither intelligence nor attractiveness colors their soulless profile, nor do their pathetic attempts at cuteness or humor (you like fun and good times? GEE, NO SHIT!) serve to actually say anything about them.
I mean, if I wanted to get seriously inebriated and have mediocre sex, I’m sure one of them would be more than happy to oblige. That’s just not my thing, you know?
And to top it off, the first actually interesting Quiver match I’ve had in weeks has her mailbox full, which means she’s not even active on the site. And a pity too, because she has really dorky glasses, she’s really cute, and she’s a scientist!
Anyway!
Why the hell does OkCupid even send me these quiver picks? Most of them have a Match% lower than their Enemy%, some of them are 80+ miles away, some of them haven’t been online in months… there are dozens of better Match results if I just do a friggen search.
Aaaaargh.
Yeah, mine’s down to the 65% and lower category, and blatantly ignoring the “please do not show that to me at this time” settings. Lately there have been a decent number of email/IM conversations produced, but nothing’s panned out for an actual date or casual meeting.
Oddly enough, I’m not too bothered by this - at this point, decently intelligent (if aimless) email conversation is preferable to the frustrating all-or-nothing viewpoint I once possessed.
I don’t even get Quiver picks I’d be interested in conversing with.
I never actually use OKCupid – signed up for an account years ago, when friends were passing the quizzes around – but my top matches are rarely of the “I like to have fun!” variety. Instead, they all seem to have an affinity for Neil Gaiman novels, Wes Anderson films, and board games. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I believe only A-LIST members get to see the full disclaimer:
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Brilliantly played, sir. tips hat
