That Internet dating thing

JMR · 2010-08-25T10:47:59.000Z

ABailey · 2010-08-25T10:58:41.000Z

Bahimiron:

Quiet you, Captain Power was awesome. And you’re a big B5 fan, right? Captain Power’s also a JMS thing. Though it kind of got canned because apparently kids shows where suicides occur don’t get picked up for a second season.

I thought Pilot was awesome. At least until her horrible death.

Tortilla · 2010-08-25T11:02:44.000Z

JMR:

Man talk

Oh wow, that’s a great link.

jerri_blank · 2010-08-25T11:05:57.000Z

ElGuapo:

I didn’t even know ABailey was a girl until a few posts ago, for what it’s worth. When jerri tried to seduce her.

Well, get yourself a hat and hold the fuck onto it, because next I’m going to recruit Gwendraeth. My power grows with each new ElG post.

Gwende · 2010-08-25T11:09:53.000Z

You had me at ‘brown rice’, baby.

(Celiac girls are easy!)

ElGuapo · 2010-08-25T11:13:19.000Z

jerri blank:

Well, get yourself a hat and hold the fuck onto it, because next I’m going to recruit Gwendraeth. My power grows with each new ElG post.

You had me at ‘brown rice’, baby.

(Celiac girls are easy!)

Hold up, let me grab my camera. It’s barely been used.

Tortilla · 2010-08-25T11:17:50.000Z

Am I witnessing the formation of a QT3 lesbian gang?

Will there be gang colors?

Mightynute · 2010-08-25T11:19:39.000Z

Kraaze:

Am I witnessing the formation of a QT3 lesbian gang?

Will there be gang colors?

Dykes on Bikes?

jerri_blank · 2010-08-25T11:21:19.000Z

Kraaze:

Am I witnessing the formation of a QT3 lesbian gang?

Will there be gang colors?

Womyn of the gang, please print this out and take it to your favorite local tattoo artist:

Cubit · 2010-08-25T11:21:56.000Z

Do you have to be a lesbian to join, or can you just be someone who likes lesbians?

Zylon · 2010-08-25T11:24:11.000Z

Kraaze:

Am I witnessing the formation of a QT3 lesbian gang?

Will there be gang colors?

Plaid, silly.

jerri_blank · 2010-08-25T11:24:13.000Z

Cory:

Do you have to be a lesbian to join, or can you just be someone who likes lesbians?

You just have to think ElGuapo is ridiculous.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, people - let’s form an orderly, single-file line.

Andrew · 2010-08-25T11:25:12.000Z

I think even ElGuapo thinks ElGuapo is a little ridiculous.

ElGuapo · 2010-08-25T11:29:03.000Z

I know I’m ridiculous. It’s part of the fun. Oftentimes in life I look around and go “this is ridiculous”. Usually when looking into the mirror in the bathroom while peeing and laughing.

AaronSofaer · 2010-08-25T11:31:31.000Z

Oh man, I missed a good pile-up when I was on a date. What a shame!

Saw A. last night. It doesn’t seem real that we’ve only seen each other three times; we’ve been talking pretty constantly for months, and yesterday was the first time we got to spend more than a couple hours together.

As an amusing aside, people love to rag on the OkCupid Icebreakers, but I like them. When you get an Order of the Stick icebreaker, you might just get lucky! :)

I’ve noticed that my time spent on OkCupid has gone way down, and my time spent on POF is exactly zero nowadays. I think my patience for wading through the hordes of alcohol-and-sports-loving ditzes is pretty much gone now. Ah well.

Hans_Lauring · 2010-08-25T11:33:52.000Z

Wow. Leave this thread for a few days… and this?!

I had the multiquoting ready and was going for “Does agreeing with Mmalloy and Jerri make me a humorless lesbian or humorless archeologist?”, but since you guys are already forming a gang, that joke’s all played out.

Bahimiron:

“This is the story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down. The story you are about to hear is true. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. Swinging, the final frontier. Hi, I’m Supersport and these are a few things you ought to know. The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of America’s deep marriage probes. Theorizing that one could improve ones marriage within its lifetime, Dr Supersport stepped into the swinging accelerator - and vanished. His creed: to protect all life. His promise: to end Lord Dread’s rule. There is nothing wrong with your television set. Like sands through the hourglass, I’m Mike Rowe and this is my job.”

And this was pure awesome.

Mightynute:

Dykes on Bikes?

Well, I once saw Gaye Bykers on Acid perform a whole show in drag as Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds, so there’s another name with a history they coul take…

Eilonwy · 2010-08-25T11:42:07.000Z

Hans Lauring:

I had the multiquoting ready and was going for “Does agreeing with Mmalloy…make me a…humorless archeologist?”

I definitely do need to get on the guy up there that used “Philistine” as an insult because as it happens the Philistines were probably what was left of what we think of as the Greeks (though they weren’t Greek at the time) and–

Haha I’m not really going to do that. Though I thought about it :(

Matt_Bowyer · 2010-08-25T11:51:57.000Z

mmalloy:

I definitely do need to get on the guy up there that used “Philistine” as an insult because as it happens the Philistines were probably what was left of what we think of as the Greeks (though they weren’t Greek at the time) and–

Haha I’m not really going to do that. Though I thought about it :(

Matt Bowyer:

Yep. Fresh Prince, Star Trek, Outer Limits, and that last one is Dirty Jobs on Discovery. In my defense, I’m 28 and have never seen Dragnet, Quantum Leap, and Buck Rogers. I am also a philistine.

Man, I just cannot win today!

Flowers · 2010-08-25T14:37:38.000Z

Lesbianism is the Steely Dan of sexual activity. No, not the Steely Dan from Yokohama, which lesbians probably actually do like, rather Steely Dan the band. There are diehard fans, and there are those of us who just like Dirty Work. I hereby form a gang for dabblers. We appreciate and endorse your sexual activity, but would find it hard to leave our daytime jobs to embrace your Ten Percenter lifestyle. Please do not mock us for driving Hondas, because we can’t afford an authentic Subaru-Davidson. This is the end of my tortured metaphor.

Creole_Ned · 2010-08-25T14:47:04.000Z

I brought out a camera on a date once.

To take pictures of scenery.

Today I got an e-mail from PoF. I was excited because I was hoping it might be an announcement for Plenty of Fish 2.0, with a brand new user interface designed by someone who didn’t drop out of a college CSS course because he liked tequila better. But no, instead it was notification that someone had added me as a Favorite. This is a rare occurrence – it has only happened once before on PoF* – so I was eager to see who had marked me as such.

It was a 37 year old guy looking for…guys. So far, so good. He is interested in ‘intimiate encounters’. Uh, not exactly what I’m after but maybe the profile is promising…

37 year old guy:

First Date:

love morning jo or sex!!!i dont mix well with Scorpios

Well. He certainly seems excitable, if nothing else. Unless you’re a Scorpio, I guess.

Back to asceticism!

the most boring date I have ever had, as it turned out