Hey, YB, you should post a link to your Match profile so we can all have the benefit of your sarcasm!
I’m 26, and so is he. The place now sells computers, but they still call it the typewriter store.
It’s this little, old-guy owned, office supply store.
You can say that again! I shake my head at the fellas who say they’re looking for a strong/independent woman, but their turnoffs are ‘sarcasm, power, brainiacs’; oh, so I’m just supposed to keep my mouth taped shut, is that it? Wankers.
And, OHMYGOD, will you bad spellers please just write your profile text in Word, run it through spellcheck and then copy it? Please?? I truly fear that my goal of being a teacher will be futile.
It only took 72+ hours, but Match finally posted my pics and updated profile; w/ the pics on it, I get a ton more guys responding that don’t fit my preferences than before. Still, I’m feeling left out, no one’s yet told me, ‘your hot’. 
Thanks, I would do that, but it would give away my location, and I am paranoid about my privacy. (Paranoia is another cornerstone of my personality!) However, anyone, feel free to email me and I’ll give you my username so you can check it out. (It’s pretty boring, since I’m a chicken and only am seeking friends, but I tried to make it a little quirky, anyway!)
By the way, how do you know how when someone winks at you? How does it show up? I was brave and winked at some guy from my area, because he said that he was going back to school to get a design degree, and I wanted to ask him more about that. I think the guy looked at my profile, but apparently he didn’t want to communicate. Oh well! And after all, I know how some of you feel about winking, but that’s all I can do right now and I can’t see myself subscribing.
We naughty old geezers can’t help ourselves.
We naughty old geezers can’t help ourselves.
PS: Your hot. Feeling fulfilled now?
Portia, your hot. And I say that as a completely heterosexual woman. 
Your hair and eyes are beautiful.
We naughty old geezers can’t help repeating ourselves. A symptom of age.
He worked in a TYPEWRITER store?? Either that was a while back, or more recently but in another dimension.
Still… typewriter store… sounds like a good setting for a quirky movie…
You are quite hot. Damn living-in-random-states-other-than-California hot women!!!
However, something I’m curious about, which you may want to mention in your profile because I expect other people would be curious too…
You’re 33 and a junior in college?
Hmmm… Portia’s got pictures up? Lessee …
Fuck on a Crumpet!
Your HOT!
Sorry, Cowboy hats do that to me. D’ya ever wear that with, like, a cotton sundress?
And boots? Wildflowers?
Post your profile or send me a wink, and I’ll wink back atcha, to let you know what’s what.
For all the ladies in the house.
jay-c, did you take your profile down or change your name?
There’s a link to “Winks”, from the main “My Match.com” page, where you can look to see if there are any there. Also, you receive an email a day or two after it’s received to tell you that you got one.
Thanks! I winked at ya! (I’m the boring one with no photo who is looking for friends only.)
I think I’m going to be off everyone’s radar with this thing, (not signed up for dating, too quirky, too arty) which will not break my heart, but isn’t exactly entertaining, either. But, I do find this whole process amusing!
I scoured the ads last night, looking for someone to at least wink at (just to see how it all goes) and it was tough. Either they didn’t like sarcasm (move along, move along) or were emphatically not someone I’d want to get to know (scary, boring, arrogant, no punctuation). Okay, maybe I should remove the punctuation restriction, but the rest—ooh, scary.
And, so many of the guys want “slender” or “athletic and toned” women, and I ain’t that. Oh, I know I’m only signed up for friends and that’s really all I’m up for right now, but I get the feeling that a lot of these guys are really on a dating agenda and won’t want to “waste” time with someone who doesn’t fit their dating criteria.
I find it a little ironic, I guess. I know that we all are attracted to who we are attracted to (I have my preferences and restrictions too) but some of these people (men and women) are not ragingly attractive, but they only want young, thin women, or tall men, or what have you. What are they thinking?
I noticed a few other things—there is this guy in my area that is signed up at least twice, and I get the strong impression he’s looking to “play around” behind his wife/SO. The word “discreet” was used, and the whole tone of his ad was . . . slimy. There are all sorts of colorful and interesting characters!
Winks away!
What, no mention of Yosemite in your profile? For shame! I would have thought you would at least have said something about your involvement in photography - that would I think garner some looks. I’m not sure if there’s a raging underground photography subculture, but there’s gotta be someone in KCMO who’ll play with you.
And don’t be afraid to put down your past relationships. Having a bunch of “No Answer” columns can be sketchy (except for on income - I think that’s a tacky question). You only have a handful of blanks, which is ideal.
Well, you know, being hot burns out brain cells, it’s an exponential thing…The hotter, the dumber, don’t tell me you haven’t noticed.
No, seriously, here’s the short version - all through h.s., planned to be career navy, a week before graduation found out that would never happen, had no college prep or SAT/ACT scores, went straight to work instead. Took one college course at local C.C., wasn’t mature enough for college, quit. Fast forward 13 years; I’m tired of working toward nothing, figure out that I want to teach, return to school. I’ve been full-time since May 02, on the Dean’s list.
See, even that short version would be too long for the profile, and the truly interested/non-judging will ask, just like you did.
Oh, and Furt, that’d better be one strong crumpet, or there’ll be a crumby mess on the kitchen table.
Thanks so much! Now I know what a wink looks like! 
Yeah, I’ll fix that. I’ve already re-edited the profile, but I think that Match is going to be slow in changing it for me.
I’ll have to contemplate that some more. I kind of felt that since I was only seeking friends, my past relationships were no one’s damned business! But then again, I suppose that people will still wanna know… Hmmm…
All right, here’s a question for you guys. How honest do you think a woman is when you read her profile? Do you assume that anything other that “slender” or “athletic and toned” means grossly fat?
I’m one of those people who carries around a few extra pounds. It’s just my build. At the moment, I could stand to lose 15, but I will never, ever, ever be ‘slender’, especially because I’m, er, well endowed. I have never had trouble meeting men. My friends have this running joke about how I’ve never been in a bar more than an hour without a man buying me a drink (this is actually pretty true, apparently I’m extra hot in dim light). Now that I’m a workaholic, online dating seems like something I’d like to try again. I had success with it when I lived back east.
But I find myself stumped by the body type question. “A few extra pounds” would be right. So would “curvy”. However, the last time I did that, the man I met commented, “Wow, you are WAY thinner than I thought you’d be”. I said that I’d put a shot that showed most of my body in my profile. He said that pictures were often deceptive.
It’s like, so many people lie that you get punished for trying to be honest. I really want to post a profile, but I’m also afraid of ending up with one of those guys who thinks ‘about average’ is a size 4 and will end up bitching in the pit about how his date was 20lbs heavier than he thought she’d be.
I would say to put ‘about average’, because the average American is a few pounds overweight. If they’re (Match) only going to allow subjective terms, people are just going to have to figure things out on their own w/ educated guesses. I’ve seen pics of guys w/ developing double chins who list themselves as ‘about average’, and I have to assume they’re thinking along the same lines rather than knowingly lying.
And I don’t have to tell you what most people’s opinion would be of any guy who pitted someone about such a thing; I doubt we’d piss on him if he were on fire.
Obsidian, I hate to sound all ooey-gooey but it’s unavoidable - no one’s right for everyone, but the one you’re right for will love you for all of you, flaws and strengths. Trite and true! So, post a profile so we can all critique it for you. Out of love, of course…
This is an excellent question, and I await an answer too!
I guess if I were to choose my body type (which I’m not, since it’s not really relevant at this point), it would be “full-figured” or “stocky.” But I hate the word “stocky.” I’m fat, I’m a big girl, I’m a BBW (Big Beautiful Woman) but I ain’t “stocky.” Stocky to me implies some sort of shapeless bigness, and I’m not that. I lean more towards the Dolly Parton/Delta Burke type of big (some degree of curviness, more evident when I lose weight). But even if I lose weight, I’m never going to be slim. I’ll always be “curvy/a few extra pounds,” probably at a size 12/14 at my thinnest. Would I always be “stocky” (ugh) or “full-figured,” or could I call myself “a few extra pounds” or “curvy” at that point? I have no idea.
Another thing—some of the guys in these ads are pretty overweight. Like, really, really overweight. And that’s fine, don’t get me wrong. But they put down that they have a “few extra pounds,” which to me, is wildly inaccurate. They also state that they are looking for a woman with “a few extra pounds.” Hell, by that criteria, I also only have “a few extra pounds,” because from the looks of it, I’m not as overweight as these guys. So what would happen if I went on a date with them? Would they bitch that I had more than “a few extra pounds”? Or would their self-delusion be so complete that they wouldn’t get it?