Why is HeyJude still single?
I'm suspicious that's the way match.com is right now. Out of 64 messages I sent out, 39 have yet to even be read. Women keep using the same exact descriptions, two of the popular ones:Quote: odiousgambitI got a big kick out of it when that "cheater's" dating site Ashley Madison got hacked and a bunch of names were revealed. Turns out that the ratio of men to women is like 10 to 1 or even worse.
If you figured out how many were "Hey Jude" types then it might go to 100 to 1 ?
"People say I'm quiet-natured, but I'm actually just a really good listener. I don't talk as much, because I like to process and think before I offer my opinion."
"I consider myself pretty dependable. I place a huge importance on keeping my word and honoring my commitments."
There are a few others which circulate. The women will either just have those as a description or have a little added to it. I'm still trying to get to the source, big surprise, the women I've messaged about this that I'm investigating, have not replied. My response rate on replied messages is pretty low, 2/25, which includes communications a reply wouldn't be thought necessary, such as a comment on a photo.
Quote: onenickelmiracle"People say I'm quiet-natured, but I'm actually just a really good listener. I don't talk as much, because I like to process and think before I offer my opinion."
"I consider myself pretty dependable. I place a huge importance on keeping my word and honoring my commitments."
How could women where these statements are true still be single?
I'll tell you a sincere thing that is repeated, women nearing 40 saying they want to be with their best friend. I doubt what they say they want is really what they want, at least not wanting it outright as a top priority.Quote: WizardHow could women where these statements are true still be single?
I really do like dependable women though, the thing about them listening, not that important, because I know they're lying. I guess a woman being dependable depends on what they think about you and how much they respect you. If they lose interest or respect for you, they'll stop being dependable, probably have switched their interest to another man.
Quote: JoeshlabotnikMaybe you're in luck after all. She's actually a 58-year-old transgender software engineer from Gary, Indiana. She is 6 foot 2 and her right leg is shorter than her left. The photo doesn't show it, but she currently wears a beard with a stylish goatee. Her scary.com profile says that she is looking for someone who "likes violent women" and that her favorite activity is "going out into the woods with a gun and killing stuff." Her favorite color is blood red.
Don't look now, but that's not her "right leg."
Ashley Madison was a site that had zillions of males but most female posters were hookers who had purchased the response stream for a certain geographical area.. The other female profiles were largely padding to make it appear that those profiles represented real people.
I don't know why this thread appears to have been resurrected some time ago, its all nonsense to assume there is some sort of kernel of truth out there in the internet dating world or even out there in any internet world.
Quote: FleaStiffits all nonsense to assume there is some sort of kernel of truth out there in the internet dating world or even out there in any internet world.
I met my wife online. It was through yahoo personals, which eventually got bought out by Match. Now, this was 13 years ago, so perhaps things have things, but there were plenty of real women I went on dates with.
Quote: FleaStiffI'm not even sure what this old thread is about anymore.
Ashley Madison was a site that had zillions of males but most female posters were hookers who had purchased the response stream for a certain geographical area.. The other female profiles were largely padding to make it appear that those profiles represented real people.
I don't know why this thread appears to have been resurrected some time ago, its all nonsense to assume there is some sort of kernel of truth out there in the internet dating world or even out there in any internet world.
Actually, the people who met their spouse/SO via the Internet is reportedly somewhere between 5% and 1/3, depending on your source. It skews young (see charts and factoids here for a general idea (IMO Pew research does some decent polling on topics)).
Many more have tried at least some in-person dating from the internet, and apparently 1/3 more than that put up a profile but never met someone in person.
I have good friends and a married brother who met via a dating site. It used to be people didn't admit to it, but it's become much more mainstream.
Pew did note that the most popular way to meet a spouse is still through friends. I would have guessed it would be through work or church, but friends make sense.
People are still meeting online, particularly in the large urban areas- but they're mostly using phone apps which are free.
I trust you were using a dating site rather than a "hook up" site such as Ashley Madison. I recall, prior to the internet boom, college mixers in Boston which were used as a sort of singles bar with high grade ore, but graduate mixers in which the girls often just came right out and said to a guy "we each have invested a great deal of time and effort into getting in to a graduate school, there is too much reading to do to have a decent social life so why don't we just have an agreement to take care of each other's basic biological needs without any time-wasting preliminaries?" Some of those one night stands evolved into marriages.Quote: VCUSkyhawkI met my wife online.
The best internet dating profile I ever heard of was the one where the man posted about his dedication to participation in the annual Canadian seal pub hunting. It was so contrary to his actual values that a woman laughed and phoned him but a few hours after his posting it.
Trends change and often people's attitudes change about "meeting at the Opera" versus "meeting online".
Rather than write a detailed response I photocopied a cartoon pic from an old psyche text book, depicting a cop propping up a skinny man while saying "I found him starving in the streets, your honor" and mailed it to her (no e-mail back in The Day).
She called me after getting my response, saying mine was the only ad she responded to.
Quote: MrVBack in the seventies I was perusing the classified section of a Philadelpia alternative paper, "The Drummer," and came upon an ad by a lady looking to meet a fellow: nothing weird about her ad.
Rather than write a detailed response I photocopied a cartoon pic from an old psyche text book, depicting a cop propping up a skinny man while saying "I found him starving in the streets, your honor" and mailed it to her (no e-mail back in The Day).
She called me after getting my response, saying mine was the only ad she responded to.
So did you take your covered wagon over there and hit that, or what?
I had a friend who did online dating back in the 90's when it was still considered super-creepy, and we always teased him about it. But he did hook up with a lot of women, and of course now everyone is online dating, so I guess he got the last laugh.
Quote: SOOPOOHow long do you think you can fool a girl who is looking for $$$?
If you can fool her for at least one night you've already won...!
Quote: RogerKintSo did you take your covered wagon over there and hit that, or what?
Are you kidding?
They hadn't been invented yet.
I took my car.
Quote: JohnnyQSad to say, I vaguely remember watching this once upon a time. Yabba dabba doo !
I asked the name of the Flinstone's cat, seen in the opening and closing credits, in the last WoV trivia challenge.
Nobody got it.
Quote: WizardI asked the name of the Flinstone's cat, seen in the opening and closing credits, in the last WoV trivia challenge.
Nobody got it.
Dating sites are for the birds...
Bonus: What pop culture reference did FRANKLIN come from ?
Quote: JohnnyQWe have two cats. ROXIE and FRANKLIN. You have my permission to include that in your next trivia challenge.
Bonus: What pop culture reference did FRANKLIN come from ?Arrested Development
In your generation, maybe. In mine, FRANKLIN as a bare question like that is the black kid among Charlie Brown's crowd. Ben Franklin next, Franklin Roosevelt a poor 3rd.
But maybe Roxie is after Roxie Hart, of the musical Chicago? If so, total redemption.
The Peanuts character was the first FRANKLIN that came to my mind as well, Babs. Although (without any direct knowledge), I always assumed I was closer to JohnnyQ's generation than yours.Quote: beachbumbabsIn your generation, maybe. In mine, FRANKLIN as a bare question like that is the black kid among Charlie Brown's crowd. Ben Franklin next, Franklin Roosevelt a poor 3rd.
Quote: JoemanThe Peanuts character was the first FRANKLIN that came to my mind as well, Babs. Although (without any direct knowledge), I always assumed I was closer to JohnnyQ's generation than yours.
Ya know, if the cooperation game isn't entertaining enough, we could kinda do a Match Game knockoff thread. Generational or something.
I am watching an Air Fryer Informercial and WoV for Entertainment.
About a wash.
No Offense intended.
I do not know why Jude12345678 is still single.
There is a wealthy gentleman in my department at work who is still single.
Who cares ?
Quote: JohnnyQWe have two cats. ROXIE and FRANKLIN. You have my permission to include that in your next trivia challenge.
Bonus: What pop culture reference did FRANKLIN come from ?
I can think of two possibilities for Roxie:
#1 - she has a twin brother named Chip
#2 - you might expect to see her in Summerlin
Quote: ThatDonGuyI can think of two possibilities for Roxie:
I get a complete and utter glaring at for not knowing the obvious one, given there's a different source for Franklin:
Roxie Roker and Franklin Cover played the parents of Lionel Jefferson's girlfriend (later wife, still later ex-wife) Jenny on The Jeffersons.
Quote: JohnnyQWe have two cats. ROXIE and FRANKLIN. You have my permission to include that in your next trivia challenge.
Bonus: What pop culture reference did FRANKLIN come from ?Arrested Development
Franklin is Gob's puppet, right?
Quote: WizardWe haven't checked in on HeyJude for a while. According to her Facebook page, she is still traveling the globe looking for love. However, she hasn't updated it since 2014. I wonder what became of her since then.
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I think a road trip/search party is in order.
Quote: WizardWe haven't checked in on HeyJude for a while. According to her Facebook page, she is still traveling the globe looking for love. However, she hasn't updated it since 2014. I wonder what became of her since then.
Maybe she's been finding a whole lotta love in all the wrong places.
