Author: TSO

NOTE: Answers need to be in by 3:30 today as I am heading out to wedding cake shop, and will be out golfing tomorrow!

It’s like a retarded Where’s Waldo, but you know you love it. When I saw this thread I just knew it would be full of win. So, first let me set the stage, and then 4 responses to the original post. One of them is not a DUmmy, but our own Brown Neck Gaitor. The topic for this Juicey Bit of Awesome: Stay away from Match.com.

I’m commuting back and forth between Orlando and D.C. for my new job and I don’t really know anyone up here in D.C. and I’ve never had a lot of luck trying to get girls phone numbers in the first place. I’m average looking, 5′-11″, 43 years old, a degreed engineer with a good job who is successful professionally but not really so much with the women….

It didn’t show any promise at all and it is rather obvious as someone who has 1400+ friends on FB and has seen and rejected a lot of fake FB profiles that a lot of the female profiles I saw on Match.com just can’t be real – the language is extremely boilerplate and says little that is meaningful (e.g. I’m fun, funny, fun loving, like sports, camping, anything an average guy might want to hear, blah blah blah) and they have a lot of very incomplete profiles – nothing about education, income, occupation, kids, religion, previous marriage, etc…

Based on my criteria (age 28-40, 5’3″ to 5’11”, college educated, non smoker, social drinker, no kids, never married, makes 50,000 a year or better, and thin, athletic or about average) there were only 3 matches in Orlando and those didn’t change at all and while there were about 40 in D.C. those didn’t change either.

Didn’t get any replies (assuming they were even real profiles) to the ones I did try.

In less than one week, I got “winks” from two clearly FAKE profiles (profiles had no pics and no info and just how many 30-something women are interested in men from age 35-80?) these were clearly just phishing for personal info / emails.

OK folks, here are your 4 options:

DUmmy 1:

I don’t think he was wrong to have a criteria, It just might be too selective.

I had a very simple criteria on match a few years ago and it worked out pretty well getting them interested, keeping them is another issue.

I didn’t specify salary, because chemistry is more important to me.

Now, my story. I think I put 18 to 64 🙂 . I did put that liberal political views were a “must have”. I had this grand fantasy about doing political things together. But, when one looks like “conservative” (what ever that means), I have a hard time keeping my type of ladies interested. I have a thing for the light skin, dark hair woman, so I seemed to gravitate more towards that look. That goup appears to want to date someone that is more like them.

DUmmy 2:

I did the computer dating thing for a bit.
Match.com and OKCupid got me laid with surprising frequency but I never met anyone on either site who I wanted to date for more than a few weeks. This is not a slight to the women I did meet — they were all great, but chemistry shouldn’t be forced; we weren’t feeling it, so we moved on, always quite amicably.

There’s a certain desperation that is evident in the online dating profiles of people who are “looking for love” and it frankly creeps a lot of people out, men and women. I avoided those profiles like the plague, and from the conversations I had with the ladies I did date it was clear they did as well, perhaps even more religiously than I.

Frankly the money part of your criteria may be the culprit — in this economy even many professional women aren’t pulling down fifty grand+ right now. Also the “never married” part seems just a bit absurd — marriage is something almost everyone tries once (not me, but I’m an asshole ), so I’m not sure why a past experience matters that much. The no kids thing totally makes sense, of course.

DUmmy 3:

No, his first problem is using an internet dating service
They’re scams. They charge you a fee for nothing. As he describes, most of the replies will be phishing attempts, and, not to be too down on anyone, but i’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be looking to spend any real time with someone else I find on an anonymous matchup system.

I’m no Don Juan myself, but i figure it’s simple lack of effort on my part. The key to meeting someone is actually meeting them. Anyone would be better-off just spending a day in the park or even, heaven help us all, visiting a local club. Frankly, I’m of the opinion that one doesn’t go “hunting” for someone, unless you’re just looking to get laid. every decent romance i know of starts off as simple casual acquaintance.

Borrow a puppy, take a sunny day off, and someone will talk to you.

DUmmy 4:

I think having some preferences is more than reasonable
Think about it this way: If your cute 18 year old daughter were to put up a profile on a dating site, would you not agree that she should have the right to exclude, say, men over 30, men without high school diplomas, men with kids, 400 pound men, smokers, or men making less than 20K a year?

If your daughter doesn’t want to wind up with some middle-aged loser, then why does the author of the OP not also have every right to be selective?

He might be TOO selective and he might never meet someone who fills all of his criteria, but I think being selective is okay

OK Dummy detectives, ferret out the phony DUmmy!

Seriously guy?

Um, Really?

Love me some Olberman Watch.

DHS (and Sniper) inform me that the chance of drum circles is elevated.

IVAW representing at the US Social Forum
by Adrienne | Sat, 06/05/2010 – 4:04pm
The US Social Forum is taking place in Detroit, MI from June 22-26, 2010 and IVAW will be there!

I know what you are thinking: where can I get a good Taco, and what in the holy hell is a “US Social Forum.” Well, I’ll tell you what it isn’t, a conference.

The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a? conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the ?economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our? struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational,? diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and? changes history.

We must declare what we want our world to look like and we ?must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn ?from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems ?our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international ?brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.

Yeah. M’kay.

I would pay good money for this one:

Building the GI Resistance Movement

Participants will be engaged through testimony and a question and answer session with the panel following the presentations. Testifiers will include Camilo Mejia (the first combat veteran to publicly refuse re-deployment to Iraq), Travis Bishop and Victor Agosto (Iraq veterans who publicly refused deployment to Afghanistan), and Robin Long (the first soldier to ever be deported from Canada after seeking political asylum).

If it is just a space to come up with people’s solutions, why do you have Participants and Panelists? Ah, you’ve fallen into the old trap laid by the paternalist women hating haters of the Capitalist Pig establishment.

One wonders if Adrienne isn’t in charge of this due to some moistened bint throwing a Scimitar at her.

BTW- For all those who thought that the world was either Gay, Strait, Bi or Assexual, add a few more to the list:

Demographics of Presenters:
identify as women
identify as LGBTQQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex)

What exactly is “queer” if not the previous thing. So you can be “queer” which is clearly a noun and not a adjective in this case, without being those other things? And what is intersex?

OK, this grew out of my previous post, and it seems that jonn may be AWOL again today, and lord knows I am the comic relief on this blog. So, help me to classify these three songs. They are my current favorites, which is saying a LOT for a guy whose top 3 bands are Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys and the Young Dubliners. Anyway, my specific question is this, I have heard all of them on Country Music stations at one point or another, and I only listen to Country when I am being held hostage and/or Caro is driving the car. (He who has their hands at 10 and 2 controls the radio, so sayeth the Burean of Motor Vehicles as stated by their disciple, my Child Bride.) Anywhoo, are these songs country?

Anyway, in no particular order I give you Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, Old Crow Medicine Show and Kid Rock. I’m guessing they are some form of “Bluegrass” or something, but I don’t really know what that label means. I’m told I listen to “Ska” music, but I just thought it was pissed off Irish folks.

First Gordon Duff:

An American teenager was murdered by Israel commandos, pirates really, this week. He was shot in the abdomen and, instead of being given medical aid, he was held down on the deck of a ship, probably by multiple pairs of combat boots and shot four times in the back of the head at close range.

I’ve requested an artists rendition of how combat boots night hold a firearm, but have not heard back yet. Either way, nothing scares me like a pissed off set of combat boots. They are actually piratical combat boots to be precise.

I noticed that Helen Thomas is still taking a ton of shit if the plethura of links on Drudge are to be believed. And all because she said that the Israelis should go back to Poland. It is times like this where I like to consult my bible.

Gen 15:18: In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Oder unto the great river, the river Vistula.

Zechariah 12:3 And in that day will I make Krakow a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Genesis 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Gdansk, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

I still haven’t gotten over my abject disgust at that jackass PHD (from Harvard!) Craig Hooper. Anyway, I was thinking about how numbnuts was accusing Crush from Blackfive of advocating violence, and it occured to me: You know who advocated some serious violence? Bocephus. Hell, that dude wanted to spit some Beachnut in a dudes eye and then shoot him with a .45.

Anyway, I remember waking up to this song when I spent one ill-fated year at UMASS. We would wake to this, punch each other, spill a beer down our chest while guzzling it, and prepare for another intellectually stimulating day at the World’s Center for Communist Thought Massachusett’s finest place of higher learning. I won’t dime out my sort of housemates from there, but there were like 11 of us. (Not all lived in the House at 66 Squire Village in Sunderland) One is now a nuclear engineer, one some banking mukkitymuck in New York, one a Sheriff of a very large city in Massachusetts, one a lawyer, one high up in the NRA, one an Executive Director of a Congressional Commitee, and one was a campaign guy for Buchanon before he (Pat) jumped the shark. (And one a no talent assclown blogger.) I don’t know where the rest are.

Either way, Conservative National Anthem?

Somewhat oddly, our only other wake up song was “The Soft Parade” by the Doors.

If all else fails, we could whip the horses eyes.

A great piece that I heard him discussing today at lunch on the Smerconish show. (Never listened to Smerconish, but was enroute home to let my puggle out to water the lawn.) My position is EXACTLY the same as his: perfectly legal, also, not the brightest way to handle it.

Although the wisdom of Israel’s actions in stopping the Gaza flotilla is open to question, the legality of its actions is not. What Israel did was entirely consistent with both international and domestic law….

The legality of blockades as a response to acts of war is not subject to serious doubt. When the United States blockaded Cuba during the missile crisis, the State Department issued an opinion declaring the blockade to be lawful. This, despite the fact that Cuba had not engaged in any act of belligerency against the United States. Other nations have similarly enforced naval blockades to assure their own security…

The act of breaking a military siege is itself a military act, and those knowingly participating in such military action put in doubt their status as non-combatants.

It is a close question whether “civilians” who agree too participate in the breaking of a military blockade have become combatants. They are certainly something different than pure, innocent civilians, and perhaps they are also somewhat different from pure armed combatants. They fit uncomfortably onto the continuum of civilianality that has come to characterize asymmetrical warfare.

Seriously, go read it. On the radio Dersh was suggesting that perhaps sending in the IDF with paintball guns (FN 303’s?) wasn’t the way to handle it, that they should have used some other means. He was suggesting some chemicals that make you blow chunks etc. I don’t know about all that, but the international response has been……exactly what one might expect.

Woe be unto Turkey if they actually decide to have their navy escort the next batch of these idiots.

ADDED: I’ve talked before about how I never use FoxNews as a sole source on anything, and they once again prove to me why I can’t trust their reporting.

Second Aid Ship Reportedly Headed Toward Gaza

Note to Fox, there were 6 vessels in the first flotilla, making this the seventh ship.

From CNN:

In the weeks since an oil rig exploded and later sank into the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama has dealt with the tragedy with his signature cool, calm and collected approach.

But with the oil still gushing in what is now the worst spill in U.S. history and the environmental devastation coming ashore, the president is becoming a target of the anger that was originally directed only at BP.

“One time, go off!” director Spike Lee urged on CNN’s “AC 360°.” “If there’s any one time to go off, this is it, because this is a disaster.”

Go off? What do you want him to do, call on the power of Grey Skull? Become Captain Planet? I’m not going to defend Obama, but damn, what exactly does “Go off” mean? You want him to go Medieval on the pipe? I’m unaware of his nascent talent as an deep sea diver and welder. Does Spike Lee know something I don’t?