# The Ongoing Online Dating Advice Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978 "2010-05-27T18:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 109
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2162 "2011-09-01T21:08:47Z")
> [@stpetey77](#): > > Creepy I guess it’s official. This is the second time you’ve called me that, and the second person to do so in this thread. I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2163 "2011-09-01T21:10:45Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here. Whatever makes you happy. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2164 "2011-09-01T21:23:56Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Whatever makes you happy. You’re so fucking special. I wish I was special, but I’m a creep. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2165 "2011-09-02T01:04:24Z")
We need to end this hijack now, please. If the two of you have personal business to attend to, you should attend to it off this board. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2166 "2011-09-02T01:22:34Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > We need to end this hijack now, please. If the two of you have personal business to attend to, you should attend to it off this board. > > Thank you. Are you talking about **SFG** and I?! We have no issues that I know about. We were quoting the song, “Creep” by Radiohead. I was riffing on **stpetey77** calling me creepy. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2167 "2011-09-02T08:37:31Z")
Yea that was a weird, I was mentally singing “Creep” by Radiohead then suddenly a mod note of STOP FIIIGHTINNNNGG appears! ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2168 "2011-09-02T13:33:21Z")
to be fair, it was more like “stop hijacking” which i took to be “get a room, you two” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2169 "2011-09-02T13:37:43Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Yea that was a weird, I was mentally singing “Creep” by Radiohead then suddenly a mod note of STOP FIIIGHTINNNNGG appears! Me too. In fact I was about to mention the time when I noticed my 5 year old daughter singing along with that song. She has a habit of echoing songs. That is, if the singer leaves enough time between lines to repeat them, she sometimes does that. We were driving and all of a sudden I hear her, from the back seat, say “I wish I was special/but I’m a creep” It was…strange, to say the least. I tried to get her to do it again later so I could record it, but she declined. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2170 "2011-09-02T13:43:22Z")
Well sorry, then! I don’t know the song and it appeared hostile to me. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2171 "2011-09-02T13:49:17Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Yea that was a weird, I was mentally singing “Creep” by Radiohead then suddenly a mod note of STOP FIIIGHTINNNNGG appears! To be fair, if you don’t know the song, I can see how the lyrics, taken out of context, could appear. But it’s not an obscure song. It was a pretty big hit back in 1992. > [@pancakes3](#): > > to be fair, it was more like “stop hijacking” which i took to be “get a room, you two” If we stayed on topic all the time, this humongous thread would be 1/2 the size, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2172 "2011-09-02T13:58:37Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Well sorry, then! I don’t know the song and it appeared hostile to me. I mentioned not too long ago in this thread that I have been dealing with depression lately. If it makes you feel better, you made me laugh pretty hard late last night when I saw that. I went to bed with a smile on my face. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2173 "2011-09-02T14:10:00Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > To be fair, if you don’t know the song, I can see how the lyrics, taken out of context, could appear. But it’s not an obscure song. It was a pretty big hit back in 1992. [Here’s a link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1K8t3BtNaw) to the song. IC, even if you’d heard the song, if you weren’t a Radiohead fan, it’s very possible you wouldn’t know the line. BTW, the link, while more or less SFW, if you are at work, you might want to keep the volume down just because of a swear or two. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2174 "2011-09-02T14:33:13Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > [Here’s a link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1K8t3BtNaw) to the song. IC, even if you’d heard the song, if you weren’t a Radiohead fan, it’s very possible you wouldn’t know the line. The only two Radiohead songs I really know are “Creep” and “Fake Plastic Trees.” Your daughter knows it, ffs. I suspect it’s simply that **Ellen** is a little bit older than the rest of us in this thread, who were just the right age when “Creep” was huge. I might even say **Shot From Guns** was too young then, but she’s a precocious lass. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2175 "2011-09-02T14:37:59Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > The only two Radiohead songs I really know are “Creep” and “Fake Plastic Trees.” Your daughter knows it, ffs. I suspect it’s simply that **Ellen** is a little bit older than the rest of us in this thread, who were just the right age when “Creep” was huge. I might even say **Shot From Guns** was too young then, but she’s a precocious lass. I thought that said precious…nevermind. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2176 "2011-09-02T14:42:57Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > The only two Radiohead songs I really know are “Creep” and “Fake Plastic Trees.” Your daughter knows it, ffs. I suspect it’s simply that **Ellen** is a little bit older than the rest of us in this thread, who were just the right age when “Creep” was huge. I might even say **Shot From Guns** was too young then, but she’s a precocious lass. Nope, **Guns** and I are about the same age, and I know Creep pretty well. Still, that threw me for a loop too. Had to think about why those words sounded familiar. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2177 "2011-09-02T14:45:15Z")
Back on topic. I thought I was going to finally get my first date off OkC, with a 99% match from Milwaukie(NOT Milwaukee). She suggested via email that we meet on Monday for coffee or drinks. I asked her to call me on my landline last night (I don’t have a cell right now) because I was planning on staying home. No call. I don’t know if I will be home tonight. I will definitely not be home for most of Saturday and Sunday. I will still have email and OkC, but I wanted at least one phone call before we met. My profile is more popular than ever, at exactly the wrong time in my life. I got a message last night, “hi.” That was all. She was wrong, it’s “Good bye.” Seriously?! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2178 "2011-09-02T14:46:23Z")
Well if I made you smile, **Chimpie** , then I’m glad. And to redeem myself, I will wow you with the knowledge that Radiohead got their name from the Talking Heads song, which David Byrne was inspired to write after Stephen Tobolowsky told him about his weird extrasensory experiences in college. _bows_ And yes, I’m older than you all but I’m still cool. Get off my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2179 "2011-09-02T14:49:16Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Back on topic. I thought I was going to finally get my first date off OkC, with a 99% match from Milwaukie(NOT Milwaukee). She suggested via email that we meet on Monday for coffee or drinks. I asked her to call me on my landline last night (I don’t have a cell right now) because I was planning on staying home. No call. I don’t know if I will be home tonight. I will definitely not be home for most of Saturday and Sunday. I will still have email and OkC, but I wanted at least one phone call before we met. > > My profile is more popular than ever, at exactly the wrong time in my life. I got a message last night, “hi.” That was all. She was wrong, it’s “Good bye.” Seriously?! Maybe you should have a subscription fee for viewing your profile. Might as well make some money on your popular profile. Then you wouldn’t need to get a job AND you could tell the ladies about how entrepreneurial you are!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2180 "2011-09-02T14:50:25Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Nope, **Guns** and I are about the same age, and I know Creep pretty well. > > Still, that threw me for a loop too. Had to think about why those words sounded familiar. Aren’t you a year older? That doesn’t mean a thing now, but it makes a world of difference when you’re a kid, which we all were in '92. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978/2181 "2011-09-02T14:53:55Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Aren’t you a year older? That doesn’t mean a thing now, but it makes a world of difference when you’re a kid, which we all were in '92. “About.” Besides, it got a lot of air time and not just in '92. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-online-dating-advice-thread/540978.md?page=110)