Oh Gay Cupid! 21 Signs Your OkCupid Date Isn't Going Well

Posted byLizz

on September 12, 2012

Welcome to Oh Gay Cupid! Autostraddle's OkCupid series. We get lots of questions on Formspring regarding online dating, so we finally got a bunch of people together to talk about it. While OkCupid isn't the only online dating site for queers, and maybe isn't even the best, it does seem to be the one we use most often. We'll be discussing all things OkC, including meeting friends, first dates, profiles, fuck-ups, letdowns and more. Even though it's the 'OkCupid Series,' the advice given in this series could easily be applied to any online dating site.

Oh Gay Cupid! illustrations by Rosa Middleton

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Twenty-One Signs Your OK Cupid Date Isn't Going Well
(As Taken From My Life)

Why does this shit always happen to me?

1. "Oh my God, do you want to see the staph infection on my crotch?"
2. She isn't upset that the American Girl Doll Samantha is being retired.
3. You meet her mom and sister in the first two hours.
4. [In bed] "Wow... two girls in bed... it's just so many men's fantasies."
5. A bird poops on your head.
6. "I prefer AfterEllen."
7. "So... are you paying for this or what?"
8. You have to call Rachel to pick you up because your date won't let you leave.
9. "Oh god I hope you're not a theater person."
10. "My date earlier today said..."
11. She's just returned from a month-long european vacation that she went on with one ex and stayed with another ex.
12. "Aren't we a little old for Harry Potter?"
13. "I think our relationship doesn't necessarily need to be super sexual. It can be a deeply passionate relationship of the mind."
14. You both stare in silence at the menu for over 20 minutes.
15. "It's not that I like her better than you..."
16. "I don't usually tell people I'm gay because I don't want them to think I'm a feminist" [eye roll].
17. She open's her wallet to pay the bill and there is still a picture of her and her ex together in it.
18. They decline a ride home during a snowstorm.
19. "I don't really read, you know?"
20. [Post-kiss] "Sorry I just don't feel anything."
21. "Don't worry, if your anus ever prolapses I'll pop it back in for you."

104 responses to “Oh Gay Cupid! 21 Signs Your OkCupid Date Isn't Going Well”

britt
September 12, 2012 at 3:05 pm Permalink Reply

oh my god number 6. hahahahahahaha

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1. jane
  September 12, 2012 at 4:05 pm Permalink Reply
  
  how come I don’t get that joke, would u mind explaining to me?
  
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  1. Allie (member)
    September 12, 2012 at 4:54 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    AfterEllen is another extremely popular (I think possibly the most popular) queer lady website. It’s good but like all other websites it pales in comparison to the glory that is Autostraddle
    
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Kristen (member)
September 12, 2012 at 3:05 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Oh what the helll Lizz. I want to give you a hug and tell you I felt something.

I have used number 10.. But in my defence they were both friend dates. And as it later turned out they were also friends with one another.

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Lister (member)
September 12, 2012 at 3:13 pm Permalink Reply Report user

“20. [Post-kiss] “Sorry I just don’t feel anything.”

OH GOD.

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e (member)
September 12, 2012 at 3:15 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I would have thrown a thing if I heard number 12. Because I’m so mature.

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1. BlueRanger (member)
  September 12, 2012 at 5:07 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I don’t know if I should admit this, but #12 has definitely been a dealbreaker for me in the past…
  
  because PRIORITIES.
  
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  1. Ciara (member)
    September 13, 2012 at 3:51 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    No that makes me love you. I was thinking deal breaker as soon as I saw it!
    
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  2. Lindsay (member)
    September 13, 2012 at 7:14 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    Sames. I had to read this one out loud to my roommates. Let me confirm this is a deal breaker in many social circles.
    
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Tracy (member)
September 12, 2012 at 3:15 pm Permalink Reply Report user

These are hilarious. I recently went on an okc date with a girl who talked about her ex boyfriend the. whole. entire. time. Like, seriously?

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Clare
September 12, 2012 at 3:19 pm Permalink Reply

I went out with a girl who invited both her existing girlfriends along to our first date. I knew she was Poly, and I’d had Poly experience before but it was a bit much on date number one!

…especially as I fancied one of her girlfriends more than I fancied her

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1. Lee
  September 15, 2012 at 3:50 pm Permalink Reply
  
  My date for tonight just text and ask if it was ok if her “friend” could come along. WTF? I said nevermind.
  
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Anna
September 12, 2012 at 3:25 pm Permalink Reply

Hilarious and sad, I’m sorry you’ve had so many weird and awful dates. Just to hand out a spark of hope for anyone who’s just been on a horrendous OKCupid date. I just went on a really great date with someone I met on OKCupid.

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1. Krissy (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 8:11 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  And I just celebrated my 1-year anniversary with someone I met on OKCupid. So there’s hope!
  
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2. Kosher Spork (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 10:55 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I’m going on two years with my OKCupid beloved! There is hope, indeed!
  
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3. brzy_baby (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 10:24 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  To jump on the band wagon here, I also met my partner(we are registered) on OKC. We are going on 2 years in December. May seem quick to some, but when you know you know!
  
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4. Stephanie
  September 15, 2012 at 6:14 am Permalink Reply
  
  I am also celebrating my 1-year with someone I met on OKCupid next month! It can definitely work out
  
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Michelle
September 12, 2012 at 3:31 pm Permalink Reply

13, if you’re out there, you should call me (maybe).

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Mia (member)
September 12, 2012 at 3:34 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Love the illustration and the waitress with the phat (yes, I just said that) ass. She just dgaf.

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julie
September 12, 2012 at 3:45 pm Permalink Reply

Currently in my social psych class…

This is highly relevant.

Also, if one my dates said “arent we a little bit old for harry potter?” I’d happily walk outta there before she could say quidditch.

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Sarah
September 12, 2012 at 3:46 pm Permalink Reply

I was on a date with a girl. She was telling a long anecdote…a very, very, very long anecdote. And at one point she said “Now, here is something you don’t understand” and before I could stop myself, I said “How you could just kill a man?”

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1. Blue
  September 12, 2012 at 3:54 pm Permalink Reply
  
  I would ask for the check and go home with you immediately of I heard that. Most excellent reference.
  
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Olli (member)
September 12, 2012 at 3:57 pm Permalink Reply Report user

you know what I miss more than anything? Formspring friday. I have relationship issues and i feel like crap and only autostraddle can help!

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b
September 12, 2012 at 4:00 pm Permalink Reply

hah! however; what’s so terrible about being friends with your exes? isn’t that a grand old lesbionic tradition?

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Rebecca
September 12, 2012 at 4:18 pm Permalink Reply

…and here I thought I’d had a disastrous time with internet dating. Maybe it wasn’t so bad after all…

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Evidux (member)
September 12, 2012 at 4:31 pm Permalink Reply Report user

If you go home with someone and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them. That’s rule number 1.

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1. Erin
  September 12, 2012 at 11:33 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Remember to check if they have an e-reader…
  
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2. JMo
  September 15, 2012 at 12:45 am Permalink Reply
  
  Having books doesn’t mean they’ve ever been read.
  
  I’m speaking for myself here.
  
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Cashew
September 12, 2012 at 4:40 pm Permalink Reply

oh wow. 21. seriously? was this really said? really?

(the world is gross, and I can’t even look at pictures of cute animals to get rid of the grossness, because upon reading that sentence I had to go immediately to wikipedia, which is full of pictures of animals with various kinds of prolapsing happening and it’s not ok)

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1. Alo (member)
  September 12, 2012 at 4:50 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I have a feeling that could have been like a suave line from an EMT. Perhaps said with a wink. Sometimes these people lose sight of what is normal and appropriate in the outside world.
  
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2. vanessa (member)
  September 12, 2012 at 6:22 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  personally I think 21 is hilarious…that line would have sealed the deal for me
  
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  1. Emily (member)
    September 12, 2012 at 8:41 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    This! Seriously, someone who will replace a prolapsed anything for you is not to be cast off so easily. Even if you don’t fuck her, this is a super handy friend to have! Just sayin’.
    
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    1. DC
      September 13, 2012 at 2:19 pm Permalink Reply
      
      Possibly would have been going too far if they then explained that sometimes they use sugar to reduce the prolapse…..just a spoon full of sugar….
      
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      1. Kate (member)
        September 14, 2012 at 8:06 pm Permalink Reply Report user
        
        Did you learn that from ‘All Creatures Great And Small’ perchance?
        
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Ernie (member)
September 12, 2012 at 4:40 pm Permalink Reply Report user

#12 and #19 go hand-in-hand for me. Haven’t read Harry Potter? You may as well have not read much else. You won’t get a fair share of my random awkward references anyway.

And Lizz, if you survived these….you’re a trooper. Give the girl a badge.

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1. Mariah (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 10:51 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Forget the badge, give the girl a vadge.
  
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terracottatoes (member)
September 12, 2012 at 4:54 pm Permalink Reply Report user

“I don’t usually tell people I’m gay because I don’t want them to think I’m a feminist” [eye roll]

GODDESS HELP US

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1. Sar (member)
  September 12, 2012 at 5:43 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  that’s the best part! amirite? jk. but not really
  
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2. Erin
  September 12, 2012 at 11:37 pm Permalink Reply
  
  What. Is this for real??! Srsly
  
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B$
September 12, 2012 at 5:29 pm Permalink Reply

and I thought i couldn’t love AutoStraddle anymore…best series yet!

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Girl Sleazy (member)
September 12, 2012 at 5:33 pm Permalink Reply Report user

7am after a sleep-over date…”So…I think you should leave cuz I have to be somewhere by 2pm.”

fml

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1. Jay (member)
  September 12, 2012 at 9:38 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I had my really good friend of 13 years that I see like once a year tell me that once. Let’s just say she isn’t my really good friend anymore.
  
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antiant (member)
September 12, 2012 at 5:43 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I will never understand the concept of dating or how people could put themselves through that. To me it’s akin to jumping through hoops with fire, while you have a piece of raw meat tied to your leg and some pitbull chasing after you while you have one shoe on (and that shoe is a high heel!)… um yeah, no thanks! #channelingmyinnerDaria

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1. L
  September 12, 2012 at 8:10 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Agreed… best to get drunk and make out with the friend/cute girl you’ve had sexual tension with for a year. Then keep making out with her till you break up… and repeat.
  
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  1. Mandy
    September 12, 2012 at 10:36 pm Permalink Reply
    
    Yeah cause waiting a year to hook up with someone is definitely less effort…;p
    
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  2. antiant (member)
    September 12, 2012 at 10:53 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    Haha… that’s even worse. The capacity for potential drama exceeds the capacity for sanity, therefore multiplying the cycle of bullshit to the nth power. If you divide that by the common denominator aka alcohol + sexual tension, you get x, where by x is an unknown variable. This “unknown variable” or “x” or even “ex” will constantly throw multiple curve balls at you. In the mean time, you’re still tipsy or drunk, trying to solve “y” or “why” these “word problems” or “x” or “ex” in your life keep popping up and repeating the same old predictable patterns that you can’t seem to get out of. Then you realize that you are, FOREVER ALONE with your bottle of liquor as you lay spread eagle on your bed with no more fucks to give, but still have enough liquor to “lick her!” *wink wink nudge nudge* #Datingandhookupwordproblemsandsoulutionsforsimpletons101.
    
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Erica (member)
September 12, 2012 at 7:09 pm Permalink Reply Report user

#12 “OH NO SHE DID NOT!”

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giles (member)
September 12, 2012 at 7:47 pm Permalink Reply Report user

#12 would probs feel different once she’d seen me in my Sirius get-up

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JoYo (member)
September 12, 2012 at 7:57 pm Permalink Reply Report user

These all are horrible.
My worst OKcupid date: It involved a girl with the same name as me. We met at a wine bar and she kept saying my name/her name and laughing. Always followed by awkward silence. She proceeded to then me she was on anti-depressants to explain the reason she got drunk off one glass of wine. But continued to drink throughout the night. At a club she quickly lossed her balance, pushed over a table breaking glasses and trying to make out with me drunk, as, shit. Soon after she began crying on my should and breaking down about a recent ex-gf that she’s still in love with. I’ve never been on a gayer or more awkward date. Thank you Okcupid?

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Colleen (member)
September 12, 2012 at 8:15 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Oh my God, number 2! AMERICAN GIRL DOLLS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT, EVERYONE!

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1. Colleen (member)
  September 12, 2012 at 8:20 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  And now that I post this, my obsession with American Girl folks probably is a factor in my lack of dates…
  
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  1. K (member)
    September 13, 2012 at 9:26 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    I just spent way too much time on the American Girl website. Did you know that in their “Doll Hospital”, they’ll now give dolls hearing aids or make them bald? Way to embrace disability/illness!
    
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    1. Colleen (member)
      September 17, 2012 at 4:49 pm Permalink Reply Report user
      
      My sisters doll has braces! Little, awkward Colleen would have loved a doll with braces!
      
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2. Samantha (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 9:40 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I just can’t believe they’re discontinuing the Samantha doll. I did not know that. My inner child (that is to say, all of me) is traumatized.
  
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Sarah (member)
September 12, 2012 at 9:36 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Liking AfterEllen more than Autostraddle is as much of a deal breaker as liking Romney over Obama.

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A
September 12, 2012 at 11:44 pm Permalink Reply

I met my girlfriend on okc. #14 and #19 happened but we’ve been together for more than a year. ALL IS GOOD YOU GUYS

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Kelly (member)
September 13, 2012 at 12:39 am Permalink Reply Report user

Some experiences with OkCupid when I could tell weren’t going well at the time:
I was on a date with a guy one time and he said he just found out his friend was in jail and he needed to go feed his friends dog. Thinking back I probably was a really weird date. It was my very first online dating experience and he asked me if I liked bands with horns after talking about ska music for a while but I thought he meant demons. Another time I went on a date with this girl and she ordered a whole beer, went outside of a cigarette and when she came back was like “I’m soooo fulll…. I should go” – I mean we did eat a lot but then never spoke again.

Sort of unrelated but also related – I love when you are on OkCupid and find out people message you and your friends the same thing!! Or one time I deactivated my account and then a few months later made a brand new one and would still get repeat copy & paste messages from the same people.

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1. Kelly (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 12:41 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  PS – LOVE the illustration
  
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2. Daphne (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 7:12 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  AHAHAHAHA the demons thing.
  
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Ratatatcat (member)
September 13, 2012 at 12:47 am Permalink Reply Report user

My fear of meeting people who are more awkward than I am (and not in a fun way) is just one of the many things that keeps me from returning to OkCupid.

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Alice (member)
September 13, 2012 at 12:49 am Permalink Reply Report user

I would add “finding a notebook in her house that includes a list of every girl she’s ever slept with – and you are are number 28 of 32″. This actually happened, and no I don’t feel bad about reading her notebook. Wah!

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1. Erin
  September 13, 2012 at 2:46 am Permalink Reply
  
  Ohmygod that would send me running for the hills lol
  
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  1. Alice (member)
    September 16, 2012 at 2:09 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    Yep yep. Not just a list, but a list she actively updated on a regular basis (we checked again a few days later and new names had been added). By ‘we’ I mean myself and an unbelieving friend.
    
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2. antiant (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 8:37 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  o__0…
  
  Dear Journal,
  
  Victim 3,409 didn’t eat much. She had an alternative lifestyle haircut and was a brunette with blue eyes. Her zodiac sign is Capricorn and she’s about 5’4”. Feelings, I have so much of those for her and we just met on OK Cupid.
  
  Love,
  Woman of the night, who steals dreams and makes you cream, or scream.
  
  LOL!
  
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AddieInsolent (member)
September 13, 2012 at 12:58 am Permalink Reply Report user

Okay, my worst OkCupid date here we go: Girl and I have been messaging back & forth and one evening she texts me to ask if I would like to go to the girl bar with her and her friends for some dancing and you know, finally meet and everything. Having nothing to do, I agree to go, and being unable to scrounge any friends up to go, I go it alone. I walk into the bar, and I could tell she immediately knew I was not cis-gendered. Most of the date consisted of her being unable/unwilling to carry a conversation (it was just me asking question after question and getting one-word short answers), or her going to say ‘hi’to a friend and ignoring me all night.

I peace out and call a friend to give her the date deets outside the bar, and she pops out a second later and says “was that weird? im sorry I wasn’t expecting you to be trans and I’ve never dated a trans person and didn’t know how to act”. She wanted to start it all over as friends and said she would call again, but I never answered.

That was the one and only time I didn’t disclose my trans status in my profile.

A date later, I met my current gf. 98% match yeeeeah.

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Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
September 13, 2012 at 2:19 am Permalink Reply

With number 14, although I don’t do it for over 20 minutes, I do stare at the menu in silence for a long time. In my defence, I’m weighing up how hungry I am in my head, coupled with what I’m in the mood for along with what goes best with it, thinking if I want desert later…and half the time my mind tends to go for a little wander as well…it’s doesn’t always necessarily mean I’m not that into her…or maybe it does… *shrugs shoulders*

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Alexandra (member)
September 13, 2012 at 5:38 am Permalink Reply Report user

I started a profile a few days ago and, after much internal struggle, decided to disclose the scarlet “T” on it, even though I really don’t want to be looked on as something “other” than cisgender.

We’ll see how it goes (if it goes). Sigh.

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Daisy Lee Palmer (member)
September 13, 2012 at 6:15 am Permalink Reply Report user

number 11… Ok she actually never did it, but she was planning to! And yes I might be slighlty more jealous than I’d like but please, I don’t mind you’re friends with your exes but don’t go on vacation with them… Specially when you’re not going with me.
(and no, it wasnt a first date when the subject came up)

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Michelle
September 13, 2012 at 7:12 am Permalink Reply

I did have someone message me on gayvox this morning asking where she could find girls.

HELLO I’M RIGHT HERE

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tpain
September 13, 2012 at 7:45 am Permalink Reply

they’re retiring samantha??!?!?

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1. K (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 8:15 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Samantha was apparently retired in 2008!! And Kirsten’s gone now too!! Nooooooooo. They retired them to make way for new dolls- one of which is from the 1970s.
  
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  1. Samantha (member)
    September 13, 2012 at 9:43 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    WHAT FOUR YEARS AGO??? I NEVER KNEW. D:
    
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2. Lizz (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 3:48 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  I know. I’ve been so upset. I have no idea how to handle this.
  
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  1. Vanessa (member)
    September 13, 2012 at 10:18 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    it was really upsetting news. i drowned my sorrows in rebecca, the new jewish american girl doll (she’s no longer new, but her arrival lined up pretty closely to samantha’s retirement).
    
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    1. Lizz (member)
      September 16, 2012 at 9:53 pm Permalink Reply Report user
      
      Why the fuck didn’t Rebecca RUBIN (that’s my last name) exist when I was a kid?! WHYYY
      
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  2. Mari (member)
    September 14, 2012 at 10:37 am Permalink Reply Report user
    
    samantha! how dare they!
    
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Molly
September 13, 2012 at 9:09 am Permalink Reply

It just be nice to at least have had bad dates to talk about. I’ve never been on a date at all.

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1. Molly
  September 13, 2012 at 9:52 am Permalink Reply
  
  To add to my comment: after reading this, I’d be wary of going on a date. I’d probably say a “wrong” thing, and it would end up posted online where everyone can laugh at me.
  
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  1. Kathryn R (member)
    September 13, 2012 at 9:43 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    What is a wrong thing for one person is not necessarily a wrong thing for another! Do not despair! *hugs*
    
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    1. Molly
      September 14, 2012 at 8:39 am Permalink Reply
      
      Thank you, but as I said, it just makes me wary, because many people seem to be very judgmental. I am similar to one of the examples below: I don’t really care about art, and there’s nothing on my apartment walls, and that makes me a bad person to date, someone whose words can be posted publicly so others can laugh at her and tand cluck their tongues in disbelief and so on. I already have zillions of flaws, and reading the stuff here just reinforces to me the notion that I’m not someone anyone would want to date at all.
      
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      1. Sarah (member)
        September 17, 2012 at 11:35 pm Permalink Reply Report user
        
        I think in the end, the people who don’t care about our flaws are the ones that matter. There’s totally a quote for that. These people are just hard to find.
        But I totally get what you mean. When I go on a date I over analyze until the point that everything I did on the date was wrong.
        Oh Hi everyone, this is my first comment!
        
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Sydney (member)
September 13, 2012 at 9:23 am Permalink Reply Report user

At least you haven’t had any encounters with these people
http://www.okcenemies.com/

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1. Mia (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 11:29 am Permalink Reply Report user
  
  oh my god, this is amazing.
  
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fynnie (member)
September 13, 2012 at 11:07 am Permalink Reply Report user

“what kind of car do you drive? my ex drives a pinto. she stalked me. i’m sorry if you have that car. we probably shouldn’t see each other in that case.”

“i don’t know about you but i’m objectifying the fuck out of our bartender.”

(on a first date) “so what are we doing exactly? i mean, is this going to be serious or what?”

“are you single by choice or circumstance?”

but the worst excuse ever a girl has used to end an okc date…
“i’m sorry, i should go home. i don’t sleep well in other people’s beds.”

GURL I DIDN’T BRING YOU HERE TO SLEEP

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1. Mandy
  September 13, 2012 at 2:52 pm Permalink Reply
  
  Hahaha, ok, I really like the bartender one, and the pinto one. I probably would not disqualify you based on these statements. Single by choice or circumstance is kinda funny, I mean, couldn’t either be appropriate no matter why you’re single?
  
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  1. fynnie (member)
    September 13, 2012 at 3:01 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    the pinto one kind of weirded me out. my date actually wanted to physically see my car before they believed that i didn’t have a pinto….why would i lie??
    
    the bartender one was funny, but kind of awkward. there was no segue, just “OUR BARTENDER HAS A GREAT ASS.” i made out with my date anyway though. she was pretty cool.
    
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taylor (member)
September 13, 2012 at 11:26 am Permalink Reply Report user

#12….straight up deal breaker!

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SuperNaye (member)
September 13, 2012 at 2:13 pm Permalink Reply Report user

12. “Aren’t we a little old for Harry Potter?”

Oh hellz no. You’re never too old for Harry Potter. Total dealbreaker.

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1. Ratatatcat (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 6:27 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  Same goes for people who can’t muster genuine enthusiasm once in a while. It is okay to love things non-ironically people!
  
  Also Harry Potter is awesome.
  
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novastar (member)
September 13, 2012 at 2:20 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I’m afraid I’m probably the disaster date people tell stories about. When I’m feeling awkward or anxious, I turn into fact-reciting robot.

“Clocks in advertisements are always set to 10:10.”

“Did you know humans can remain conscious for 2-10 seconds after decapitation? Studies involving other small mammals have shown consciousness for as many 27 seconds.”

“The French name for Passover, Paques Juives, basically means ‘Jew Easter.’”

:S

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1. Michelle
  September 13, 2012 at 3:04 pm Permalink Reply
  
  If we dated, our dates would be FILLED with interesting but mostly useless information, as I also do this.
  
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2. Caitlin (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 6:15 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  The Spanish name for Passover also means “Jewish Easter”! What the fuck, right?
  For what it’s worth, I do the same thing when I’m nervous.
  
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3. lilyv (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 11:33 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  this makes me want to go on a date with all three of you. i love information
  
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Layla (member)
September 13, 2012 at 3:17 pm Permalink Reply Report user

WHY WOULD YOU EVER OFFER TO SHOW SOMEONE YOUR STAPH INFECTION.*

*unless they’re your doctor

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1. Lizz (member)
  September 13, 2012 at 3:49 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  In their defense, I was applying to med school at the time.
  
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  1. Layla (member)
    September 13, 2012 at 6:21 pm Permalink Reply Report user
    
    Even if I was on a date with the world’s foremost expert in staph infections, I would not utter the words “do you want to see my staph infection?” to someone I wanted to get busy with.
    
    It’s just wrong. I’m so sorry this happened. For you, for the world.
    
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Kate
September 13, 2012 at 5:10 pm Permalink Reply

I have been on SO many bad okcupid dates this past year. I recently froze my account because it was getting boring. Damn you, Boston.

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Steph M. (member)
September 14, 2012 at 4:44 am Permalink Reply Report user

At the end of a date with a girl, she asked me to go out again. I suggested the new exhibit at the local art museum that I really wanted to see, and she said, “oh, I don’t like art.”

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But, what do you put on your walls? I went on the second date, where we stopped by her apartment briefly to pick something up, and it turned out – nothing. She put nothing on her walls. She really didn’t like art. I’m a designer… That just didn’t really work for me. We were friends for a while after that, and then I lost track of her.

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Anna
September 14, 2012 at 9:34 am Permalink Reply

You really need to add my experience to this list which is:

Finding out your date’s ex is dating your ex.

Hella awkward.

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1. Olivia (member)
  September 14, 2012 at 9:39 pm Permalink Reply Report user
  
  oh god. that is terrifying. I am sorry you had to go through that.
  
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Steamcurl (member)
September 14, 2012 at 3:26 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Most relevant and timely! OKC date for next wednesday, woot woot!

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tiana (member)
September 16, 2012 at 9:24 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Check Please @ number 13 …

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A. (member)
September 17, 2012 at 1:23 pm Permalink Reply Report user

Am I the only one who sees nothing wrong with #11? Sometimes exes can be people you don’t click with romantically but work great as friends.

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Cinzia (member)
September 21, 2012 at 3:59 pm Permalink Reply Report user

I’m going to start using #6 as a filter for my dates. First question asked: so, do you think you’re too old for Harry Potter? No? alright then carry on.

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