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27 January 2009

Trying to come up with stuff for !@#$ing match.com profile. To quote Weird Al, I'd rather rip out my intestines with a fork than try to answer some of their questions!!→[More:]They ask, "Describe yourself and your perfect match to our community."

WHAT KIND OF A STUPID QUESTION IS THAT?! HOW THE !@#$ AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT MY PERFECT MATCH IS?! IF I KNEW WHAT MY PERFECT MATCH WAS, I'D HAVE FOUND HIM ALREADY! UM, I DUNNO, A NICE GUY? SOMEONE I CLICK WITH? SOMEONE WHO JUST FEELS RIGHT? SOMEONE WHO HOLDS DOORS FOR ME, OR LOVES STRING MUSIC? ANYTHING I PUT IN THIS SPACE WILL COME OUT AS EITHER DULL, DORKY, OR INANE (SEE ABOVE). IF I MAKE IT TOO MAINSTREAM, PEOPLE WILL IGNORE IT. IF I PUT DOWN SOME OF MY WEIRD HOBBIES (LIKE DIRECTING A HANDBELL CHOIR), PEOPLE WILL THINK I'M WEIRD AND STILL IGNORE IT.

I HATE DOING THIS!! HATE HATE HATE HATE IT!! WHY CAN'T I MEET SOMEONE THE NORMAL WAY, LIKE AT WORK OR AT A MEETUP?! *BREAKS DOWN IN UNCONTROLLABLE SOBBING*

AND I'M A PROFESSIONAL WRITER, TOO...

post by: Melismata at: 23:51 | 11 comments

That would annoy me too, M.
That's why I'm on okc and not match.

posted by special-k 28 January | 00:07

I'm pretty much happy with not meeting anyone since I've finally realized that anyone nuts enough to have some kind of interest in me must be nuts. And, nuts people shouldn't meet because it would cause some kind of interspacial sub contraction, and possibly end the universe. So I embrace my singletude and my incompatibility. I'm a left foot in a right footed world, and so be it. My life isn't defined by social norms. It's defined by what I think is right, and I'm completely fucked up by that or any definition. So there. That's all besides the fact I'm a blue collar knuckledragger. Who wants any of that? Yeah, that's right, no one. No one wants crazy blue collar guys. It even gets worse, but I won't go there. So wondering how to answer a stupid question seems like a pretty small problem in the grand scheme of things.

Good luck!

posted by eekacat 28 January | 00:39

So I embrace my singletude

I am almost there.

posted by special-k 28 January | 00:44

Back when I was doing the online dating thing, I briefly took a gander at match.com.

I answered some of their questions and then I encountered this one:

Intelligence is:

a.) A turn-on
b.) A turn-off

I decided that I didn't want to share a website with people who thought intelligence was a turn-off. I have to deal with too many of them in real life.

Which is a roundabout way of saying: match.com BLOWS. Don't let them get under your skin. Good luck!

posted by jason's_planet 28 January | 00:44

I don't like match. But I did meet my boyfriend on okcupid. I think it varies by city, though. OKcupid is the main site for 20s and 30s aged folks in my area. I know other areas where it's match, and some where it's plenty of fish.

posted by kellydamnit 28 January | 02:11

A website that seems to be great at hooking together intelligent, articulate and weird people is this site I go to called metachat.org. You should all sign up for accounts there. And spend time in #bunnies too.

posted by seanyboy 28 January | 03:02

An intelligent friend of mine is having a baby with an intelligent man she met on match.com... and is happy about it. She's near London, though, so there's a big pond of men there.

I'd say mention the handbell choir - if someone's turned off by it, you didn't want to get together with him in the first place.

posted by altolinguistic 28 January | 04:06

I found the match.com questions to be unbelievably stupid as well. It was easier to get back together with my ex.

posted by JanetLand 28 January | 08:16

2 things:

1) I embraced singledom as well and was just cruising along when Jumbo, who was somebody I worked with occasionally, started to just look really good to me. I started noticing how smart he was, how quick and how kind and then I started lusting after him and having erotic dreams about him. And then one day I told him this and he moved in with me and we got pregnant and got married. I was 44. Moral: You never know.

2) What you wrote about liking string music and holding doors sounds pretty good to me. Can you keep going with that kind of thing? I mean just with the string music alone, you'll thin the herd of a whole lot of people who either don't know what that is or aren't open to finding out. But you're right about dating. It's hard and sometimes it really sucks.

posted by Kangaroo 28 January | 09:00

plentyoffish.com is a free site with a lot of participation. It has its share of dumb questions but hey, you gotta introduce yourself somehow. Besides. it's the picture you post that gets the hits, not the words you write. I cannot believe some pictures people post of themselves.

posted by Ardiril 28 January | 12:03

/favourites Janetland's comment.

posted by richat 28 January | 12:35

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