So it’s multifaceted. Polyhedral. Some other word that means that too?
Hmm. Interesting.
I agree. I met my wife online. So did two cousins and several people I know. My bro met a serious girlfriend on there.
It’s an internet forum. If we don’t focus on your language, what are we supposed to focus on? I can’t read your body language from this distance
Did we not do this? I feel like we did this. Is there a glitch in the matrix again?
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Friend of mine met his wife on line as well. Match iirc.
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God bless you @dt79 for summoning me here. Is off topic usually this much gold?
I still can’t figure out why the marriage fell apart. She must have made weak sandwiches
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I wonder how long it’s going to take for this thread to reach 10,000 posts and get locked. When this happens, I will make a new thread and tag all the participating T-Nationers. Who’s in?
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It was before @newbatman’s thread died.
Don’t know and don’t care. I just can’t figure why a dude that couldn’t manage to stay married keeps bringing up my marriage and sandwich making. My wife cooks and cleans all the time… I guess he thinks he’s getting under my skin, which is hilarious, but if it makes him feel better whatevs, man.
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Sometimes lol.
Serious Zep logic going to unfold soon.
Zep math:
“10 separate, random guys each claim there are hundreds to thousands of success cases for stem cell treatment”
equals:
“There are 10s of thousands of success cases for stem cells treatment!”
So a journalist wrote a story about a topic and included anecdotes from people that support the topic. Wild shit. To be fair, I didn’t and don’t intend to read the article.
How is this thread still a thing??
Also
What was the point in that?
Cuz he knew you had to paint a whole house just to get yer damn sammich.
Alphabro flexing.
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Which is hilarious considering my wife does all the painting.
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Shit… Is it more alpha if you have her do it for you? Or is it less alpha because it’s a ‘manly’ task that she’s doing for you…?
And how the hell are we getting any fuckin sammiches if she does the painting. Now I’m all turned around.
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Maybe, just maybe… affluent cultures have less children per capita and less sex in general. We’re very affluent in the US.
And we’ve been warning kids about HIV/AIDS/Hep ABCDEF etc… for a long time.
The rise of Tinder caused a spike in VDs. Cochella caused a herpes outbreak this year.
Maybe kids are pumping the breaks a little. Perish the thought! We need MoAr HeDoNiSm! That doesn’t prove a wider trend of uppity women excluding low status men from sex.
Also like the move where @greenboy posted an article with unsupported claims and then exhorted us for reading said unsupported claims. The gaslighting continues.
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that’s what you think ?
see this is why I never posted anything. people would have dismissed or countered it with their own bullshit.
I explained why my ‘marriage’ didn’t continue. Maybe the lack of nutrition is fucking you up man.
Do you want me to order you a pizza?
Obviously, otherwise I wouldn’t have written it.
SAD!
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What are you talking about? What else do you need? Did you not read the part where he said it was written by a JOURNALIST?
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Hahaha, YEAH, it’s obvious that the steroids are responsible for any success you may have had in that realm, @flipcollar . Well, just don’t think for a single minute that ANYONE willing to poke the bum-bum couldn’t have the same level of Tinder selfie and get the girls. It’s not even hard! It’s just that not everyone is willing to juice to get women willing to spread their legs.
In all seriousness, I hear this a great deal, and I will tell you that it’s not just the women. I used - and loved - online dating and experienced not recognizing the guy I was meeting because his profile pic was probably 10 years old. Another guy had an absolutely smoldering pic. There were others that were less flattering in the body of the profile, but that was the initial impression. I messaged him because his profile was really interesting to me and I just wanted to chat about it - but I started with something along the lines of “hi, we’re not a match, I’m not looking for that” because of the pic. He was a 10 in it. In talking about that he was very honest that “no, no, it’s an exceptionally good picture!” and we did go out a couple of times. (He turned out to be really kinky - which I know because he told me, we never kissed - and he’s a doctor in my community, which is really weird. He’s also pretty fun and bright, though, and was honest about it up front, so whatever, I guess. But, like…really kinky.)
Anyway, flipcollar is right. Dating apps are a tool and people either learn to use it well or they have disappointing results. My work partner and I keep toying with the idea of starting a dating support group because I honestly spend significant time walking people through dating profiles at work and the group would probably be really fun. But how to bill is an issue, and we don’t want to create a meat market.
My husband says that if I hadn’t worked out, he’d planned and give up on it. Who knows if that would have happened or not, but he reports the same thing you report. Deceptive profiles, deceptive pics. But here again I will point out that thoughtful, driven people make good dating profiles. My experience with the kinky doctor taught me that I wanted the absolute real me as the profile pic, with anything that looked especially good buried in the body of the thing. I focused on the reality of me, so had a pic that showed that I’m in shape along with a picture of me in baggy overalls making a giant paper mâché volcano. My profile pic for a while was of me at the end of a 10 hour work day, wearing a hoodie and snuggled up to a cardboard thing (more art projects at work). I liked it because I’m beaming in it and it’s just really happy. Makeup, which I wear minimally, was long gone and my hair was a wild mess. But the pic was appealing. All of my pics were dated and captioned, which I learned somewhere along the way from looking at others’ profiles (probably the kinky doctor again). The response I got in person was of happy surprise because I probably looked better for dates than for the profile pics.
Completely agree, it’s stupid and self-defeating. I’ve walked guys through their train wreck profiles, too, though. Serial killer-looking profile pics and then in the body we have a motorcycle and a dog. Mmm-kay!
I would point out to you that in this case as others your attitude is A) very black and white in that this describes all online dating, and B) specifically about women’s shortcomings rather than that the average person is going to make a shitty dating profile, so you have to wade through unless you have qualities that make you exceptional enough to pursue the exceptional profile people. You don’t seem able to push through difficulty, which may be something you want to work on.
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