fuckin' eHarmony

Well, did she give any reasons for this?

there's no expansion on it, it's a part of the request where they list "must haves" and "can't stands".

so all it means is that i just hide the mags/pics on my computer.

not that I'm a huge pornhead but c'mon, that's like telling a chick she can't ever watch a soap opera!

It's a christian site, what do you expect?

And I don't think it's a good idea to have a load of bongo mags lying around or pervy pics/vids on your desktop if you have a girl to visit anyway, lol.

Around to visit you, I mean.

lol, yea that's true. Maybe I should have aseparate computer for when the ladies visit which is all clean and has pictures of onion rings and stuff.

but I really don't have much in the way of that on my cpu anyway.....

Maybe I should have aseparate computer for when the ladies visit which is all clean and has pictures of onion rings and stuff.

this is in all for serious a good idea.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=onion+rings

Got rid of all my porno when I married a radical feminist 5 years ago.

hmm....might Freud think the shape of the onion rings might be too similar to....

who'd you give it to?

/dev/null

I haven't bought an actual porno mag for over 10 years. I mean, hello, Internet?

exactly. i mean I guess some pepole prefer print to a computer screen but not sure why, you can't be as discreet about it. if you're reading Penthouse in the office and someone walks by, you can't just throw it under your desk and pull up Better Homes and Gardens in a split second :)

If you are consuming porn at the office, buddy, you got bigger issues than getting a date.

working for a porn site/magazine: kid in a candy store or busman's holiday?

I used to co-lo right next to Danni's Hard Drive, and the cage monkeys who worked there always seemed like the biggest greaseballs.

lol, of course I don't do stuff like that at work. I used to be afraid to go to websites that were even moderately controversial since they track em.

But some idiots just don't care.

They actually fired some moron from my place within a week of him startng because he taped pictures of women in provocative clothing underneath his desk, and would not take it down after he was warned by someone else.

I just reallyreally really don't want to imagine what he could have posibly be doing, since he was a CSA in a call center....

I once got reprimanded for having read Slate at work, because they had an article (unread by me) about Henry Darger.

Bongo Mags is a new one to me.

eHarmony can suck my faggot dick.

Great thread.

i was on eharmony for a month. it's an odd site. i was more amused about its advertising channels, and how my parents found out about it.

TWENTY NINE DIMENSIONS OF COMPATIBILITY

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4332/imageuploadimagelp2.gif

working for a porn site/magazine: kid in a candy store or busman's holiday?

I read an article years ago about some guy who worked for Playboy and whose job it was to scan through various porn websites to make sure that there was no images stolen from Playboy on them. As I recall, after some time on the job the guy had to practically drink himself into a stupor of sorts just to be able to face the tedium of each workday.

I also remember some other piece about a guy whose job it was to edit and string together scene after scene from various videos for compilations. Pretty much the same deal ended up being the case with him...

Yea, ANY job, even in one that SEEMS to be a dream, is shit if it's boring, repetitive crap.:)

not that I'm a huge pornhead but c'mon, that's like telling a chick she can't ever watch a soap opera!

how many ladies do you know who love soap operas?

PLENTY OF THEm. so what if they happen to be 45 years old....

Otherwise, who is watching them?

I don't know anyone who watches soaps (except skot when he was a kid).

Tales from the eHarmony labs

eHarmony labs?

without being able to read the article, I'm fearing that it is suggesting eHarmony created the participants on eHarmony out of frozen embryos.

i used to love days of our lives!

soap operas are often where a lot of Broadway actors get gigs.

If you are consuming porn at the office, buddy, you got bigger issues than getting a date.

-- libcrypt, Saturday, February 2, 2008 7:23 PM

Tell that to my hero.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/albaalba/ilx/Picture1-2.png

as long as it's not scat porn I guess....

Oh, I maybe messed up the eHarmony labs link

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/science/29tier.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

i read the NYT article, this is the part that stuck with me:

The company estimates, based on a national Harris survey it commissioned, that its matchmaking was responsible for about 2 percent of the marriages in America last year, nearly 120 weddings a day.

this guy I know told me he once got a message explaining to him that although it was rare, and only happened to a small percentage of people on the site, that they couldn't find any matches for him.

Wtf do you expect from eHarmony!?!??? The site that won't allow atheists and gay people on, I mean really. And also have you ever met anyone outside of the...'ilx demographic'? ie like people who read & write to Ann Landers? A lot of them think porn by definition "destroys marriages." It's far from an uncommon line of thinking, and at least she let it be known before porn, porn will tear us apart again.

Srsly, you get offended enough to "want to kick the shit out of a woman" who says, in public, she has a pee problem, but are completely baffled by a woman who finds pornography offensive?

Is it even expected today that a woman should just be okay with pornography? Like we've 'progressed' to the point where no one should get upset by it? Was Ariel Levy RIGHT???

It's not my obsession with porn, babe, it's your reaction to it!

: /

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn6Z9djh8eA

is Ann Landers even anti-porn herself?

Dan Savage owns her desk and writes his column from it!

this guy I know told me he once got a message explaining to him that although it was rare, and only happened to a small percentage of people on the site, that they couldn't find any matches for him.

The site told me I was part of a small subset of people they basically consider statistically unmarriageable. Or something.

this guy I know told me he once got a message explaining to him that although it was rare, and only happened to a small percentage of people on the site, that they couldn't find any matches for him.

Because of this thread I decided to make a profile. I decided out of fairness to accurately fill out everything, and while I have what I think many women would like, athletic, religious, well educated, etc. I ended up having no matches.

I even went back to fiddle with some settings to be more accommodating (e.g. would move if I met the right person).

I’m curious what the male/female ratio is. Or, what women who have dating profiles are looking for ...

What kind of questions does eHarmony ask? I LOL at the notion that a -- what, 24 question -- online compatability test can pinpoint your soulmate.

oh it's like 300 questions with the optional shit.
it's a typical personality profile, geared specifically towards long-term hookups or what have you. they give you an adjective or a descriptive statement and you rate from 1 to 7 how it relates to you, for most of it anyway.

at no point did they ask me how I feel about my notional SO's propensity for typographical errors, an oversight which reared its ugly head almost immediately

everyone i know personally who has tried eharmony has gotten that "statistically unmatchable" result. it was really kind of a downer for some of them, who already saw online dating as a sign of major desperation.

I don't understand how you get statistically unmatchable if I can't swing it. Maybe I'm really not crazy.

And hey Paul Potts met his wife online, look where he ended up.

Some of my matches:

'i like to think outside tha box'

'girl who my friends say thinks outside the box'

'outside the box thinker'

First thing you'll probably notice about X when you meet her:

* People probably notice how I seem to stick out like a sore thumb wherever I am.

aw

is eharmony or match.com the Christian-y one?

match.com lets you be queer

where does adultfriendfinder.com fit into this?

nowhere. AFF and its dozens of affiliates just pay for your free porn via referral fees

mildly bogglin' that people would use this

at no point did they ask me how I feel about my notional SO's propensity for typographical errors, an oversight which reared its ugly head almost immediately

haha

RIP BJO ;_;

He will rise again

-- W4LTER, Monday, February 4, 2008 7:36 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

I like the way this thread kinda came full circle with the porn talk and all.

I call it "the real internet" and people go "oooo wow" but I tell them it's a secret then they check my history and I get caught for strokin' to porn at work. :(

-- dean ge, Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:54 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Link

exactly. i mean I guess some pepole prefer print to a computer screen but not sure why, you can't be as discreet about it. if you're reading Penthouse in the office and someone walks by, you can't just throw it under your desk and pull up Better Homes and Gardens in a split second :)

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, February 2, 2008 7:22 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

hmmm

yeah I thought about that for a second like "where's the dating service for freaks who get bounced from eharmony and such" and then instantly "craigslist ilx oh god"

-- El Tomboto, Sunday, March 23, 2008 11:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

fixxxed

I'm probably not unmatchable but where is box for "Do you like other people y/n?" Yargh.

Sounds like the dude I knew in college who was assigned his own private room in his freshman year.

On the housing form we got over the summer, where it asked "Do you smoke? Y/N", he checked "Yes".

Where it asked "Do you mind if your roommate smokes? Y/N", he checked "Yes".

lol ethan fuck you

seriously though what have I done. some ladies be bored at work filling my inbox with photo requests. should I scare them off with my glum, fatigued shot from the wdyll thread

WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Send them this picture.

I refuse to click on that

you really should

ok haw

i'm going to put some onion rings on my desktop background.

lolllllll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTTwcCVajAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkbJdTeU-SM

o_O I have no memory of ever creating this thread - aww boogers!

ha I feel like I got into it with you a lot in 2008 – it is amusing to me now.

haha yea.

You are like the only person on ILX like that! WTF was my deal????

heh, I WAS kinda asking for it with some of the ridic shit I put up back then.

so i feel like I should watch these vids

the eHarmony ceo is creepy. stop leering at those happy couples, eHarmony ceo.

this one chick on there has said she can't stand anyone who views/reads pornography.....

guessing this match is closed....oh my fuckin face

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, February 2, 2008 1:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

smdh

this site was seriously horrible the last time I used it, mostly cos it set me up with really straight-laced people that I had very little in common with. I've noticed the paid sites (including match.com) tend to have an inordinate amount of Bible thumpers. OKCupid tends to have scrubs like me so *there I go*

Match/eHarmony are more or less Xtian mingle sites - not sure why they're not just open about it

fuckforjesus dot com

this site was seriously horrible the last time I used it, mostly cos it set me up with really straight-laced people that I had very little in common with. I've noticed the paid sites (including match.com) tend to have an inordinate amount of Bible thumpers. OKCupid tends to have scrubs like me so *there I go*

― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Sunday, April 27, 2014

but aren't there special online hookup sites for the seriously religious, like christian-mingle.com or whatnot? i didn't realize these online dating sites were such a big deal.

The fuck is a mingle site??

but aren't there special online hookup sites for the seriously religious, like christian-mingle.com or whatnot? i didn't realize these online dating sites were such a big deal.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, April 27, 2014 2:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there totally are! but these folk often are on multiple sites. I remember being on match.com a few months after my last fling ended and reading through profiles and being like 'oh cool this person seems down to earth think I'll msg them' and then I'd read further and they'd say something like "I have a deep relationship with my Lord and I expect my man to, too" and I'd do a Groundskeeper Willie "ACH!" and move on

unless they were talking about their landlord and like that's just some freaky shiz I won't do

Time to start heathen-mingle.com

already exists, commonly known as 'Cannibal Corpse concerts'

"mingle" is a Flanders-y euphemism, so seems about right.

not that I'm a huge pornhead but c'mon, that's like telling a chick she can't ever watch a soap opera!

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, February 2, 2008 6:57 PM (6 years ago)

women be soapin'

Ugh pls forgive me for my past sins