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always wears a tie - just not around his neck Member  |
This is news that makes me smile and considering the cold I am fighting that helps a lot. Congratulations and thanks Head of internal security of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Catnip Master in the order of the Pineapple. |
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is in perfect karmic alignment Member  |
Welcome back to the world, hon.
G'luck. ~You are a *Taverner*. Sometimes patrons want to go where everybody knows their names, though it helps when half of them are named John. When people want to celebrate, or commiserate, they gather to your establishment. You provide the atmosphere, the warmth, rum, and even an ear to bend. Did I mention the rum? Years before the language will be mangled with terms like facilitator and networking and interpersonal communication, you've overseen it all, and broken up a few bar fights, to boot.~ -Royko |
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Only sounds like Keith Flint Member  |
I recently met a woman off OKcupid. This is date number two from Okcupid which is a lot more than from without. She was nice and funny and I think we had a good time. I did. Anyway, I found out one of the biggest things that most people don't like about my profile is that I'm a highschool drop out.
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has no member title Member  |
Yeah. Maybe you ought to leave that out?
__ The brickchewing, camera flaunting restroom saint formerly known as Babylon the Bride |
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Only sounds like Keith Flint Member |
I thought about that. I dunno, it seems dishonest, but I'm smart and it paints a negative mental image of me, I think. |
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Surprise Inspector Member  |
I don't think it matters what your education is, really. What matters is how you prove that you're smart. Letters after your name, or a certificate somewhere along the way, don't prove that you're smart. They prove that you were able to pass the tests of high school or a degree or whatever. And you might have passed those but in all other senses be dumb as a box of rocks, or you may have passed none of those because that particular way of proving yourself doesn't suit you (guess who's speaking from the heart here, then...).
I'm not putting in my profile that I just failed Uni again and that I'm giving up on it. It might be important in my career, but if someone else is only interested in someone who has a degree, it's them who will lose out. "Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth." -Brian Andreas Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon |
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Only sounds like Keith Flint Member |
I think there is a difference, though, in Highschool Drop Out and College Drop Out. I took it out of my profile, and the income thing too. Hmmm. what do you gals think? http://www.okcupid.com/profile?u=robthedisciple This message has been edited. Last edited by: Eldi, |
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Has no front teeth Member  |
 Welcome back to the world.______________________ “Fandangling across the moony sky, went the Beezee bold as brass, side-saddle she sat, on a big painted bat, shooting moonbeams out of her a(censored)e.” ~Joe ________________________ Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy…ooh ooh ooh…the sky's the limit! |
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has no member title Member |
I admit it, if I had other options available I wouldn't date someone who had "high school drop out" on his profile. Unless his profile 1) was smart, articulate, fun 2) and showed a good reason for dropping out (like having to support your family or opening your own business with 16 or something) That's because one of the most important things for me is that a man is good at the kind of analysis, introspection, questioning and brain wanking that is most commonly practiced at uni. Because that's what I'm like, and that's the kind of conversations I want to be able have with my date. I'm very impressed by street smart, being a bit dopey myself, but it's not what I'm looking for in a relationship. University drop outs wouldn't phase me that much, but high school drop outs would. Because my first suspicion would be "was he mentally or from a standpoint of character steadfastness incapable of finishing something I mastered with ease?" I want someone who is my match in intellectual things. And I wouldn't take the trouble of ploughing through a date that has a big minus point like that just to ASK the guy what happened. Not if I have alternatives. So either give a good reason (I had to support my mom and 12 sisters!) or just leave it out. It's not such a big deal if it comes out during a conversation. But an online personal ad is *advertising*. And presenting yourself as a drop out is bad advertising. __ The brickchewing, camera flaunting restroom saint formerly known as Babylon the Bride |
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Sittin' at the dock of the Bayeaux Tapestry Member  |
 I'm stealing this. "If the conjunction of monarchy and democracy may seem a contradiction, it would be well to bear in mind Freud's aphorism that it is only in logic that contradictions can not exist." - Professor Vernon Bogdanor |
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little. yellow. different Member  |
I was just thinking maybe I should consider internet dating again, what the hell, it may not work, but nothing else does either! So I fired up my OKCupid page (easing my way in with a site that doesn't actually cost me anything!) to find the first thing in 'Questions he cares about' is 'what do you think of male cross-dressers?' !!!
OK, so I must have marked that one as that I care about someone else's answer more than average because I would be more interested in someone who is tolerant and open-minded about things that don't harm others. But now anyone who views my profile and sees that is going to think I am a transvestite! Given what I've just said above I shouldn't care, and I sort of don't, but I think it will work against me, I don't know what to think! Aaaargh. What it definitely is though is misleading, no woman's going to get any style tips (or what not to wear advice) from me! And there's no way I can find of going back and saying that I don't care about someone's answer to that question! ETA - found the 're-answer' function and downgraded how much I care about the answer! Still a bit weirded out by thinking the fact that this matters to me means I'm actually a little less tolerant than I like to think I am! This message has been edited. Last edited by: Psi, __________________________________________________________ Oh you young people. It's all tea and muffins and excitement in your world I expect. |
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Administrator Member  |
see, i wouldn't say that it meant you were less tolerant, just that you care enough not to want to give someone the wrong impression about 'you'...
as you say, you don't want someone coming to you and asking if her shoes go with her handbag...i certainly wouldn't anyway. ~ You are an Accomptant. You keep track of the King's accounts, which is a fairly simplish job: his current holdings is always A LOT, and his expected revenue is always MORE. 'Sgood ta be da King. As long as there isn't a peasant uprising, you're likely to keep your head. Also, you're the only one in the office who knows how to use an abbacus. (Or multiply.) (Or add.) I prefer to live in a country that's small, and old, and where no one would ever have the NERVE to wear a cape in public, whether they could leap tall buildings in a single bound or not. |
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is hogging the Comfy Chair Member  |
I agree with Smaug. I suspect you aren't more intolerant than you think (although I think it speaks very well of you that you considered it may be a possibility), just that you are trying to get across in a short profile who you are. And it sounds like transvestism - either your non-existent cross-dressing, or your (complete lack of) interest in others' cross-dressing - doesn't really feature much in your life, and so it's a giant red herring!
*********************** There once was a bard of Hong Kong Who thought limericks were too long. - Gerard Benson. |
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Has no front teeth Member |
Oh Psi-
You could take a cue from Seinfeld and say "I personally am not a transvestite...not that there's anything wrong with that."  ______________________ “Fandangling across the moony sky, went the Beezee bold as brass, side-saddle she sat, on a big painted bat, shooting moonbeams out of her a(censored)e.” ~Joe ________________________ Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy…ooh ooh ooh…the sky's the limit! |
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Don't. Blink. Member  |
When i see that someone answered that way about alternative lifestyles and list themselves as straight: I always assume they are just open minded.
I would never think that it was because you are a transvestite. ------------------------------ "I claim the capacity to doubt." - Herman Wouk ------------------------------- "They warn you about killers and thieves in night I worry about cancer and living right But my mama never warned me about my own Destructive appetite" - Jenny Lewis "Happy" |
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the colours . . . the colours Member  |
Same here. *** "objective evidence & certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit & dream-visited planet are they found?" William James |
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little. yellow. different Member |
It was more the fact, that directly after my profile, which, I think rightly, portrays me as a quiet, over-english type, that was the *very first* question I apparently care about. But Mark and I have decided that OKC is not the right place for me to be looking anyway...
__________________________________________________________ Oh you young people. It's all tea and muffins and excitement in your world I expect. |
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Sittin' at the dock of the Bayeaux Tapestry Member |
Dating agencies in their entirety seem to be a waste of time, really.
"If the conjunction of monarchy and democracy may seem a contradiction, it would be well to bear in mind Freud's aphorism that it is only in logic that contradictions can not exist." - Professor Vernon Bogdanor |
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Oestre sparagmos! Member  |
going back a bit..
mark, that was a truly good post. i'm glad you're happier *hugs* ____________________________________________________ Did you know? When it snows, my eyes become large and the light that you shine can't be seen. wanted: someone to listen and respond to random opinions from a random personality. not TOO serious, please. people who think they're reeeeeeeally funny need not apply, because they so rarely are. ~ Limertilly http://www.flickr.com/photos/fionchadd/ - there are actually some photos here now (shock!) |
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I am thinking of coming off okcupid...sounds a bit sad but i find it quite hard!
Saying that,ill resign up again in a week. |
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Neil Gaiman www.NeilgaimanBoard.com www.NeilgaimanBoard.com The World's End FLAME WARS Dating websites le deux, Punkyfins reports.
www.NeilgaimanBoard.com www.NeilgaimanBoard.com The World's End FLAME WARS Dating websites le deux, Punkyfins reports.