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screw you and your loopy down under weather patterns. Just entering the below freezing levels here on the EST :/ Saw Looper with my friend tonight. Good movie, saw the plot coming from a mile away, but that's alright. I'm always up for a dystopic future movie featuring Bruce Willis (ie: all of them)

Curious how you answer the question "so what have you been up to this week" on these dates. Certainly you don't say that you've been on a date every other day... Perhaps he meant not traditional? In certain ways, online dating is unnatural because there are no visual/sensory/auditory cues that show how attracted the other person is, which are some of the many factors that the human mind uses to gauge attractiveness. If you look at it this way, the brain was never meant to handle dating in this environment, which is why it can be considered "unnatural" as well as "untraditional". Couldn't have said it better myself. EDIT: unrelated: (dude is my new hero)

IDK how I missed this. Sorry muggi! :( No, I feel you were being deceptive because of your personality, regardless of what you put in a little disclaimer. Well again, my personality and my profile are very "congruent." It's not like I'm posing as a completely different person. My female friends who have read my profile and the messages I send out don't have any objections to it because nothing seemed "wrong" or "deceptive" to them. Also regarding deception, keep in mind as Randox pointed out, basically every person in a relationship has technically been guilty of deception at one point or another simply by not being 100% honest right off the bat. It'd be different if I was claiming to be a Hollywood movie star that earns millions of dollars per year, but I'm not doing anything like that. Not even close. Finally, keep in mind that I did a poor job of actually stating what my profile says and what I say in my opener on here. I'm being honest more than anything else with my profile text; many girls message me back complimenting me on my honesty. Well I am kind of the black sheep of the group when it comes to this sort of thing :P Not really playing a role... it's like the resume analogy that was brought up earlier. I'm just emphasizing my strengths within the context of dating on my profile. My goal is simply to have romantic, exciting relationships with beautiful women; with minimal effort, drama, and sacrifices; and without having to promise monogamy. There's a reason why I'm treating the online dating aspect like a numbers game: because it is a numbers game! :P I've sent out 134 messages this week and scheduled 11 dates as a result. Can you even imagine how long it would take if I messaged those girls one a time, waiting for a response? Or how long it would take if I only talked to one girl at a time once I was getting responses? Or how long it would take to schedule a date with a girl, see how it goes, then wait until we either enter the relationship phase or lose interest before moving on to the next girl? Or how susceptible to neediness (bad for both sides) I would be if I was doing this all with one girl at a time? Again, am I being politically correct here? No. Am I being rational and smart about this? Yes. :D No worries, though. Once I'm in actual relationships with these girls, it'll be much more "natural" and no longer a numbers thing. Also, you need to define what's "meaningful." Most people seem to think that behaving irrationally and making huge sacrifices just for that "special someone" is meaningful. It isn't. It's stupid and equally damaging to both sides in the long run. I just hope you're not falling into the trap of thinking, "only low-quality girls will go for you if you behave like that!" or "only low-quality women have sex before the third date!" All untrue. I see no problem running an "unnatural" numbers game in online dating which in of itself is "unnatural" @Noxx Claire's the one playing games, not neighbor girl. This is the "problem" for poly for those who are not properly committed to the lifestyle. You already came to the realization tha tyou have to break things with Claire. It will make you unhappy, it'll make her unhappy. But it needs to be done. Sooner is better. @Ezkaton I wouldn't do the "are we together" question out of the blue, but rather make a date out of something you both enjoy, regardless of what it is. Maximize physical touch and gauge her reactions to it. If positive, compare her initiation to yours. if all things look good, then you can ask about commitment and togetherness.

The reddit layout takes some getting used to after bring on TIF for so long, but it makes sense for what it is. Otherwise you'd have to read like 15 pages every 2 minutes. Subreddits have their own regulars, like r/askreddit has TrappedinReddit, Susan_is_a_[bleep], and Apostolate. But everyone else is rather faceless. The bonus is in the novelty accounts, like Shitty_watercolour. But I love knowing everyone and recognizing their av/sig so I remained in TIF OT even if it means watching some old friends "graduate" and leave.

yknow what works real good on windows? coffee filters. That shits magic.

I live within 20 minutes of Philadelphia (fairly major US city, if you're unfamiliar) and I found a good sum of attractive women, but I wouldn't say 100. Using what I think is the same site (okcupid). Not that it matters i guess.

AGGREGATESSS

Something tells me of the 177+127 girls contacted, not all of them are the "attractive girls I'd hit on in the bar" Not to diminish your work, I actually find it fascinating. And I'm glad your taking statistical recordings. For science.

I am clearly not doing enough with my life.

what does said qualification look like? You're making me want to restart my online dating experiment haha

How does one continue a conversation on sites like that though? Surely you can go "oh you like this band? me too!" or "i like your taste in movies" but I get more of a "you're hot wanna date?" kinda vibe from you

All barber shops close on Mondays. No idea why. Angers me though. Also: Happy belated genocide celebration day!

What? :? My reaction exactly. maybe i looked at the wrong date of the post, but as I was looking at my post history I came across one of My_Eggs 's stories about how his girlfriend went nuts, then disappeared for like 2 months. I don't recall him ever coming back the second time it happened, although I do remember he said he moved.

This is indeed what happened. You posted outside your time zone, so whereever you live, it was actually the day after according to the TIF server. I'm a GMT -5, but I've played with people that are GMT +12. Astounding really. Damn holy lord that's old school. In other news one year ago today My_Eggs was murdered by his psycho ex. Kinda forgot about that :oops: Today I taught the groom of the party I was working how to Gangnam Style. Made my night.

happy birthday Gabe! Many of my posts were bad and I should feel bad. Oh lord, I posted like a dumb kid back in the day. I actually lurked TIF (mostly the market and gallery) for a few months prior to my join date. I remember the amount of nostalgia threads in '07-'08 and I guess now it's our turn. Thank god there's still some of us left <3: And good for you Hedgehog, for remembering we were birthday buddies :P now let's all talk about the paperclip revolution to really confuse the noobies.

Goddamn, now I have one too. I also wonder where Lent went off to. Now it's going to spawn into 6 pages of the older posters talking about them, and all the newbies scratching their heads and not posting. so where's HP2M? His .gif misses him

You look pretty as you want, but if you sound annoying I'm not watching.

That would be Alona Tal. And yes she is. <3: I actually posted that exact same picture in this topic back in September of '09. Didn't realize how old this topic was until now... It's second only to Today... in front-page position

which is still a useful skill. The end of a relationship is still part of a relationship. now that sounds lazy :P And who else is better versed in this stuff than this thread? We take ips and bits from all these books/articles/videos and combine them into a more intuitive guide. I think this thread (being interactive on a personal level and all) is 100x more useful than the standard Alpha-male PUA-bible jargon.

I'll skip over my nostalgia boner over Sumpta talking about Goddess... Today I failed my first College Exam pretty miserably, which is pretty brutal but whatever. I'm also fairly convinced the mods are following my posts closer than usual. Or maybe I've just gotten lazier at watching my "tone and language" while posting. I've had like 3 warnings and 2 edits in the past 45ish days. By my estimates, don't quote me on that. PARANOIA LURKING OVER MY BACK

I propose we work on a base line guide to relationship building in different scenarios. Chapter 1: confidence Chapter 2: expression Chapter 3: social skills & tips etc IamDan already has a guide to flirting, which I know a few people have reported as being useful, I think as a pooled effort we could really make something happen. Obviously everyone's situation will call up specifics that can not be generalized in a book or guide, but that's why we're here. But Ginger has been on this thread longer than I have, and even I have racked up a solid 5-6 years of experience on this thread. We could do TIF a great service.

woah woah woah, he asked what your first job was, not whether or not he should destroy his first born. :P My first paid job was raking leaves and mowing lawns. My first real job was in Catering, which I still do full time. It's exhausting, but it puts money in my wallet.

we are so meta

It's more like a blog for him and some sort of a case study for us. And this thread has evolved LONG past the point of "wanting a girlfriend". Whenever a new poster comes 'round, it's like a race to see who can yell at him first for being emotionally immature. That being said, Noxx - I also have a .1000 batting average with women. I just don't try for them very often.

bis(2-chloroethyl) sulfide is my drinkkkkk but seriously if I'm ever in ...Australia (right?) I'm absolutely hittin you up. And that goes for you too, champion. Where ever the hell you live at. Sxqpower can come, too :P And I hope that if any of you ever make a trip to South Jersey, you'll give me a heads up ;)