# Article on Dating Warning Signs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840 "2013-04-04T17:38:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/21 "2013-04-06T05:44:17Z")
Hi (the former) Mrs. digs! ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/22 "2013-04-06T05:59:52Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Why would anyone date a warning sign? Is that even a real fetish? [#5. Street signs.](http://www.cracked.com/article_17098_the-6-strangest-objects-people-were-caught-having-sex-with.html) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/23 "2013-04-06T06:19:52Z")
Rule 34 strikes again. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/24 "2013-04-06T07:14:24Z")
Any woman (or man for that matter) who wants to regulate where I go on the internet on my own time is a control freak I’m better off without in my opinion. I’m not a child. > [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > If I were a woman, and if I found that “my man” had porn in his history, I’d consider dumping him. Not because I would hate porn, but because he should’ve learned to clear his damn history at 12 like the rest of us, and so it says things about his smarts. :dubious: Actually for quite few people on this board, there was no Internet when they were 12. And I’m not entirely sure how I’d clear the history on my computer; I’ve never bothered, so I’ve never looked it up. There’s a clear history menu button somewhere I think… ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/25 "2013-04-06T07:37:07Z")
ccleaner will fix the history problem ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/26 "2013-04-06T07:59:01Z")
my imagination, upon discovering ccleaner or other such third-party software, would be worse than happening across your weird browsing habits. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/27 "2013-04-06T08:35:10Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Actually for quite few people on this board, there was no Internet when they were 12. And I’m not entirely sure how I’d clear the history on my computer; I’ve never bothered, so I’ve never looked it up. There’s a clear history menu button somewhere I think… Yep, I realize the everybody isn’t the same age or enjoying the same lawn. But “the internet” has been older than most people think, even if it was all ASCII porn. I remember as a early 30 something having to print my ultra-softcore but good enough porn, because the printer did more colors than the monitor. I also remember learning how to crash the parent’s monitoring software. The point: hide your tracks, it’s easy, even if your parents think that it’s weird that it clears every day. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/28 "2013-04-06T09:18:07Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > [#5. Street signs.](http://www.cracked.com/article_17098_the-6-strangest-objects-people-were-caught-having-sex-with.html) A part of me just died reading that linked article. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/29 "2013-04-06T16:01:04Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > A part of me just died reading that linked article. When will people learn? Stop means stop. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/30 "2013-04-06T16:19:49Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > my imagination, upon discovering ccleaner or other such third-party software, would be worse than happening across your weird browsing habits. It couldn’t possibly be. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/31 "2013-04-07T07:26:12Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > So you just gave up? Why? Do you think this article represents even a minute number of women out there? Or that women are more likely than men to do this? > > This is a stupid article for stupid people. Find a smart person, treat her right, and you won’t have these problems. Now THAT is comedy! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/32 "2013-04-07T12:07:14Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Any woman (or man for that matter) who wants to regulate where I go on the internet on my own time is a control freak I’m better off without in my opinion. I’m not a child. I dunnabout “regulate”, but once they tracked through your browser history and found out you believed you should be able to secretly record your sexual encounters to prove it wasn’t rape I suspect they’d be out of there in a New York second. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/33 "2013-04-07T21:21:54Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > [#5. Street signs.](http://www.cracked.com/article_17098_the-6-strangest-objects-people-were-caught-having-sex-with.html) haha I totally forgot about that article; thanks **MEBuckner**! Ddamn! [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com) may now qualify as a scholarly reference site! Who would have ever thought that Sylvester P. Smythe would go so far in life? ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/34 "2013-04-07T21:48:14Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Why would anyone date a warning sign? Is that even a real fetish? Maybe they should. When I was a kid, a family with a deaf kid moved into the area onto a main street. They got the city to put up a **Caution Deaf Child** sign. It has been hanging since before Nixon resigned. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/35 "2013-04-08T06:04:17Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > I dunnabout “regulate”, but once they tracked through your browser history and found out you believed you should be able to secretly record your sexual encounters to prove it wasn’t rape I suspect they’d be out of there in a New York second. :dubious: You mean, when I used that as a counterexample to women who think it’s OK to treat every man alive as a rapist. And then people like you decided as is the norm to shout me down since we aren’t supposed to point out that demonizing men is neither ethical nor reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/36 "2013-04-08T08:29:28Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > You mean, when I used that as a counterexample to women who think it’s OK to treat every man alive as a rapist. And then people like you decided as is the norm to shout me down since we aren’t supposed to point out that demonizing men is neither ethical nor reasonable. Most people who shouted you down on that one were and are nothing like me, and I’m not shouting you down, merely pointing out what your chances of a relationship would be like with any woman who found out what you’d posted on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/37 "2013-04-08T08:53:17Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Most people who shouted you down on that one were and are nothing like me, and I’m not shouting you down, merely pointing out what your chances of a relationship would be like with any woman who found out what you’d posted on the subject. I’m not familiar with the thread in question but if Der Trihs’ characterisation of what occurred is correct it sounds like he was posing a hypothetical in counter to positions he didn’t agree with expressed by others. Personally I wouldn’t want an SO who took every hypothetical I posed in debate as being an expression of what my actions were likely to actually be in real life. I’d hope they’d be waaaay smarter and/or less strategically obtuse than that. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/38 "2013-04-08T08:56:29Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > my imagination, upon discovering ccleaner or other such third-party software, would be worse than happening across your weird browsing habits. Er… what 😕? CCleaner is perfectly good software. I use it to fix and backup my registry and free up disk space by clearing caches and such with it (though I rarely if ever clear browser history or cookies). A lot of that stuff I could do on my own, but CCleaner speeds things up immensely. Pretty much every tech support and computer repair person I know recommends it. As for unscrupulous, questionable, or benevolently secretive (i.e. gift shopping) internet surfing? That’s what Google Chrome’s incognito mode is for. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/39 "2013-04-08T10:19:04Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > As for unscrupulous, questionable, or benevolently secretive (i.e. gift shopping) internet surfing? That’s what Google Chrome’s incognito mode is for. Yeah Honey. I was “gift shopping” thats why I always clear out the cache. Gift shopping…yeah thats the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2013, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-on-dating-warning-signs/654840/40 "2013-04-08T13:03:58Z")
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