So @catches_stars on Twitter is pretty hilarious. She’s also got an OkCupid account, and regularly posts snippets of her conversations with some of the more problematic dudes who contact her, some on her main Twitter account and some on @okcupid_TXT. With her permission, and because I’m too lazy to actually write a post today, I’m passing along a few of my favorites.
This overeager fellow has a rather sudden change of heart when his stated plan runs into an obstacle, that obstacle being that @catches_stars finds him completely repulsive.
This guy is either totally high or trying some weird and misguided PUA wizardry on her. (It does not succeed.)
This foot-obsessed fellow spammed her with the same message from several different accounts.
This guy, who seems to be shirtless in his profile pic, gets what I assume is, to him, a very disappointing answer.
As does this fellow.
Romance is hard.
Talacaris WOULD pretend not to know what fuck off means.
DId we have all the trolls in this thread?
Did the naïf stop by? All the other trolls where here though.
@hellkell
I’m pretty sure Martyn just made it feel like that. By my quick scan, we are missing NNY and Abnoy. (Dragon Slayer was banned, right?)
Between this one and “Getting their PUA Hate on,” though, we got everybody (except Dragon Slayer if I am wrong about the banning).
I forgot Diogenes the Forgettable. Although, really, Martyn filled in fine.
I’m still not entirely convinced that it’s not 3-4 guys with endless sockpuppets and that’s why they all sound the same.
Where Brz, NNY and ABNOY another thread? Because all of them were on a thread together.
And was dragon slayer banned? I didn’t see it if so, I think he just wandered off.
I don’t know. Even if we accept pure mathematics as an abstract theory, it still has to be internally consistent and logical to work, and modern electric/semiconductor computers rely on electromagnetic and quantum mechanic theories to achieve the practical forms we use now.
That’s right, Dragon Slayer got moderated and peaced out. I don’t remember when though.
Figures the one time it would be cool to have Diogenes show up and he lets us down.
Abnoy, Brz, and NNY are all on the most recent thread.
He pouted off after he realized he was being moderated.
It is Babbage, not Turing, who is considered the “father of computers”. Ada Lovelace was also before Turing’s time.
Ah okay, that sounds familiar, I think I thought he was whining abut a post being modded for the usual reasons (eg slurs or too many links). Didn’t realize he was being moderated in general.
I guess Marty just made it feel like they were all here.
Also, not sure which thread it was, but that whole thing about the original meanings of eugenics and n****r? Spot That Fallacy!
Etymological fallacy – which reasons that the original or historical meaning of a word or phrase is necessarily similar to its actual present-day meaning.
How was everyone’s Saturday? I felt better today, so we went to some garage sales and found neat stuff. I got a really cute mirror/hook thing for the bathroom, and some giant wood candle sticks that I think I’m going to paint after I clean them up. Of course I will put scented fucking candles in them when it’s done.
Mr. HK found a metal tribal looking mask that will go in the backyard with all the other weird shit that’s there.
Dave mentioned that yes, Dragon Slayer is Arks, and presumably moderated him then. He did a 1/10 flounce when he realised.
Diogenes the Dumbass popped up somewhere (as well as doing his lone hero schtick in the glossary) but merficully didn’t hang around long. Abnoy made one or two comments.
My Saturday was okay. On the upside, I got some miniature finishing help from a guy I met at the game store (woot meeting people places!). On the downside, I’ve had the sore throat from Hell for more than 24 hours and none of the usual remedies are working, not even my nuclear option.
Katz, what’s the nuclear option?
A shot of straight vodka.
Usually that’s a guarantee that your throat won’t be feeling anything for a while.
We planned meals for well over a week, got a rather epic grocery shopping trip done (I planned, boyfriend enacted) and got the fridge cleaned out. Other than that, I talked to a bunch of people (including y’all), and just generally had a nice slow Saturday.
The movies we planned to rent will have to wait until tomorrow as other people apparently had the same plans we did. Too bad there is no Rifftrax of the latest Twilight or we could have picked that up. It languished in the Redbox for most of the day (thanks you Redbox app).
How’d I forget that Dragon Slayer was Arks?! Also, while doing an accounting of the trolls, there was that drive by Antz comment.
All we need now is Owly and we’ll have a full collection of trolls! (One of the current set must be Mr. Al right?)
I am at work still and I am watching Star Trek TNG.
Yay for working overtime!
I tried and failed to hang venetian blinds all day, and then I tried and failed to video skype with my folks with my babbies on my knee.
They got a little video, but it was more like a slide show. I think my computer’s running too slow :/
@Argenti
Brz?
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Brz is Mr Al. It’s the sort of elaborate, OTT thing he went in for – that “my Frenchness” blather the other day seemed very Mr Al-ish to me, so ridiculous it was almost tongue-in-cheek.
Speaking of Owly, he’s even more of a Great Inventor than we knew. It’s not just milking machines!
Is there some sort of therapy that can tackle compulsive need to troll/inability to let go of the fact that a certain group of people just don’t like you?