I have Cloudiah to thank (again!) for putting me onto this amazing article about a devious prankster who trolls pickup artists and other lonely horny hearts with a fake OkCupid account … that replies to all come-ons with selections from the ouvre of the legendary horse_ebooks, “the surreal Twitter bot that streams nonsensical snippets of text. The result: dozens of conversations from horny men desperately vying to have sex with a robot.”
And yes, it’s as funny as it sounds, especially when the guys try to use their PUA magic to “game” this imaginary HB10 (Hot Babe 10) – or should that be HRH10 (Hot Robot Horse 10)? – only to receive responses like “VERY SOME VERY NO VERY SOME VERY CHANCE LITTLE CHANCE GOOD CHANCE LITTLE CHANCE GOOD CHANCE CHANCE CHANCE CHANCE , NAVAL” and “CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION Corp. CHAMPION Corp. CHAMPION Corp. CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION CHAMPION.”
And of course the guys keep trying.
(All this made me wonder if anyone had set up a Gertrude Stein_ebooks account, and … yes, someone has! FOLLOWED!)
Anyway, you all need to go read the post. Check out the Okc_ebooks Tumblr blog for more.
Oy vey, that tech article!
In between the “there are more important things to dicuss”, the numerous uses of the word vagina to replace the word women… And why can’t these guys get it through their heads that men actually enjoy being around women as people? That there are men who feel that they know women who have something to contribute besides increased bloodflow to the penile region?
As for the bot, really? Like really? There’s enough crap to wade through on dating sites without the bot screwing around.
pillow in hell – but is the person using the bot targetting anyone except fuckwit PUA bots?
Dunno kitty. Its a good question.
As for the “what will give me a good chance to give you an orgasm” guy? EW.
Him swearing on all the holy things to never contact me again would probably leave me very satisfied without the orgasm.
And why can’t these guys get it through their heads that men actually enjoy being around women as people?
There’s a guy like this who works with my boyfriend. He complained that his girlfriend wanted to spend time with him on weekends, and acted like this was a huge imposition; he legitimately wasn’t sure why you would spend time with a woman other than money or sex.
@Bagelsan – I’d be inclined to ask why on earth his girlfriend would want to spend any time with him, since that’s his attitude. Ugh.
How does this person even have a girlfriend? I’d be inclined to take her aside for a bit of a pep talk.
My guess is that the girlfriend just hasn’t had enough relationships yet to realize what’s going on. I dated a couple guys like that when I first started dating.
It won’t take her long to figure out though.
Or, maybe she was originally looking for just sex and really fell for him…
Maybe his girlfriend’s of the inflatable variety and his mates hid a recording of a woman saying “Let’s spend more time together!” in his house. 😉
Lol Kitteh!
Programming people’s Real Dolls to say all the stuff that they hate it when women say would be the best prank ever.
It’s like all that twaddle the “we need sexbots” idiots come out with. The minute those sexbots had sentience, their little fantasy bubble would burst.
Really really interesting article about why a guy stopped being a misogenist tool. ( of course the thread following was derailed by a misogenist tool). David this is one I think you would be interested in.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2013/02/15/new-required-reading-confessions-of-a-former-misogynist/#comment-134272
About to catch a plane. Kisses all. 😉
Oh, HB10. You’re ten-thousand candles in the wind.
Safe trip, Yoyo!
“Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table”
yesyesyes
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
“I drink, therefore I am”
😀
RE: pillow in hell
As for the bot, really? Like really? There’s enough crap to wade through on dating sites without the bot screwing around.
Yeah, I can see how it’d be annoying, but if I were to run into a bot on that site, I’d probably respond the way I do to all bots that pop up on my IM. Resignation, some annoyance, but I’d figure it out pretty quickly. (And those bots actually TRY to hold a conversation.)
I mean, that’s just GIBBERISH. Half the time, it doesn’t even parse. I would just leave after maybe a line or two of that. If someone just continues engaging, I don’t have that much sympathy for them. (Especially when it’s CREEPY. Like, if it was someone honestly not getting what was going on, I’d feel bad, but when it’s just, “let’s fuck” enh. I guess I’m a callous bastard.)
Same here about being callous where those guys are concerned, LBT. They treat women as some sort of programmable fucktoys in real life, so who gives a damn if they’re stupid enough to be fooled by a bot on the net?
RE: Kittehs
Yeah, I’m kinda curious about what was going through their heads. Were they cognizant they were chatting with a bot, and just playing with it? (People do that. It’s one of those things that really bugs me, for irrational reasons.) Were they so detached from reality that they seriously thought it was a woman just playing with them?
Probably some of both.
It makes sense when you remember that they think women are an alien species. They don’t expect us to make any sense, so the bot is what they assume women are going to sound like, and at least the bot wasn’t telling them to fuck off like most real users probably do.
I don’t think most of the guys realized it was a bot. One guy even mentioned how “all conversations are exactly the same on dating websites”. Really dude? Really? Now I don’t use online dating services, but I suspect that most conversations are not about “shaping the young watermelon”.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/82eac34c2ceefc39ad3462199539b031/tumblr_mhx919NPFv1s460fko1_500.png
Cassandra Says: “Programming people’s Real Dolls to say all the stuff that they hate it when women say would be the best prank ever.”
We need to get these guys on that, stat.
RE: CassandraSays
It makes sense when you remember that they think women are an alien species.
Sometimes, humanity boggles me. I feel this way with people who apparently just float through their early twenties without stress, trial, or poverty, and I feel this way about people who see men and women as such alien entities.
I mean, I realize not everyone has a mother or sister, but surely you knew A woman at some point in your life? Surely you noticed they were behaving like humans, and not a demented sexbot?
How do you navigate through life so completely unaware of shit? (And yes, I know confirmation bias and crap but STILL.)
Did you see the video of Peter Andrew Nolan in the courtroom? I imagine it’s a bit like that, but with random women instead of a judge.
Neurite – the BLO, love it! 😀
LBT – “Sometimes, humanity boggles me. I feel this way with people who apparently just float through their early twenties without stress, trial, or poverty” Well, my twenties were very low stress and nothing much I’d call a trials or poverty. I was working all through them and the trials were minor – I was in the public service and in those days, when departments got closed, they had to redeploy you. Some people’s lives are low-key and pretty much free of the shit stuff. Or is it just the unawareness of your life being fairly insulated that you’re referring to?