eHarmony.

Heh, I do have a unibrow and I asked if that's what she meant and she said she meant the whole thing.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Shit, eHarmony charges $50 a month? I guess that helps weed out people that don't have a somewhat decent form of income (poor grad students being left lonely again ).

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

50 bux for what?! Imaginary people? I guess I'm still confused as to what this site is all about, because all I got was some lame-ass thing telling ME what I'M like. I don't see profiles, or shit.

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Well, if you managed to join the site, then it must not be entirely full of imaginary people. Perhaps other real people are there as well.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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Why the hell would I care what works for you people anyway? I don't get a commission and I could give less than a rat shit about most of your love lives. I'm confident in my opinion. If that bothers you, you know where to stick it.

If you don't care then why are you still here telling people they're luddites if they don't care for a fee-based dating site? Or are you just here to mock those who don't share your views?

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Shit, eHarmony charges $50 a month? I guess that helps weed out people that don't have a somewhat decent form of income (poor grad students being left lonely again ).

I was not aware of a $50 monthly charge on top of the $110 entry fee. Like I said, getting fat off the hopes of the desperate. This is only slightly less distasteful than televangelists convincing people to send them money in the name of Jesus.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I fucking love Monkey. ;_;

I think theres something fundamentally fucked up about online dating services - be it a local service, a large internet service, or otherwise.

What happened to "getting to know a person" and failing a few times for experience purposes? Doing the work yourself and being able to determine whether or not a person is for you? This service just encourages those who are already socially inept to become MORE socially inept.

There's nothing terribly "biological" and "scientific" about what they're doing, guys. Don't think there's something special and awesome about it. Its the same old singles ads, except this time, theres a robotic Jewish yenta.

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There is no entry fee, and I don't care about people who don't want my advice (namely you). I'm here sharing my opinion for people who are actually interested (the thread creator).

In fact, if you hold out and don't sign up immediately, they will send you an email giving you 3 months for 40 bucks. If you can't afford that, what the hell are you doing to do with a woman on a date?

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I fucking love Monkey. ;_;

Oh, you would.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Minion

Oh, you would.

I generally appreciate intelligence, yes.

Don't hate me because I know how to socialize with actual human beings. ^_^

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You seem to appreciate people being a pain in my ass.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Minion

You seem to appreciate people being a pain in my ass.

I fail to see how he's being a pain in the ass, sir.

I share his opinion that you get upset with people when they just don't agree with you. At least I can admit that I have the same problem.

I don't think eHarmony is the best thing since sliced bread. It may be a temporary fix for the people who can't seem to meet others in any other form - but I don't think its right to encourage it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I got upset because Lehah was being as obvious goddamn troll for no reason. Then this guy chimes in beacuse he's got some kind of problem with me.

I can sorta see how I caused this, yeah..

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Originally Posted by Minion

I got upset because Lehah was being as obvious goddamn troll for no reason. Then this guy chimes in beacuse he's got some kind of problem with me.

You got upset over LeHah? Wow, Minion. You should know better than that.

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I can sorta see how I caused this, yeah..

O quit your bellyaching.

I think you're overly defensive, Minion. Relax. People aren't always going to see things the same way you see them.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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I got upset because Lehah was being as obvious goddamn troll for no reason.

Now if he was actually trolling, I wouldn't have felt the need to jump in here. But you started waving your badge around because he said mean things to you on the internet. You were so busy being outraged by his personal attack that you were oblivious to how he was shooting down your flimsy arguments.

I don't see anywhere in the board rules where people have to be nice about pointing out how someone is full of shit. It really sounds to me like you're just crying "troll, troll!" because you're lost an argument.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Could you please just read the entire thread before posting? I mean, in general too. It never ceases to amaze me how confidently people will post without knowing what the hell is going on in the conversation.

We were talking about meeting people online and Lehah started saying something about being a shut-in and looking at porn, which was completely off-topic. He probably didn't read the thread either. If you have a problem with me calling people on trolling, then I don't know what to tell you, but I'm not going to argue with you and ruin this thread. This is my last post in response to you.

How ya doing, buddy?

So I went through their personality test last night (loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooool at asking my interest in "Water Sports") and wound up with three people within my 'metropolitan area' right away (oddly enough, none within the city, all are in the outlying suburbs).

After reading through some of the profiles, I could see how this would work for certain people, though I don't really think I'd be that interested in any of the matches that popped up for myself.

Of course, I also lack a car while at school to actually go out and do anything with people from 15 minutes from out of the city, so it doesn't really matter a whole lot.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You get new matches just about everyday. I think they withold most of them so that you will actually consider the ones your given instead of just treating it like a candystore, like people do with all the other dating sites.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I was just surprised that I'd get three as fast as I did, with how many people in here were complaining about not even getting accepted to the site.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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What happened to "getting to know a person" and failing a few times for experience purposes? Doing the work yourself and being able to determine whether or not a person is for you? This service just encourages those who are already socially inept to become MORE socially inept.

Here we go with this BS once again. Did you even bother to read this thread or did you just jump in? You don't get to know the person THROUGH eHarmony, eHarmony lets you meet someone that you'll have a good chance of liking. How does this eHarmony process have ANYTHING to do with "getting to know a person"? How you get to know that person depends on what you personally want to do after eHarmony gives you a match. And again with calling it's subscribers "socially inept." I'll join the stereotyping and say people who go to bars are abusive alcoholics, yay!

And for Christ's sake, LeHah was trolling, let's take a looksee:

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Look - you want to sit at home and jack off to porn the rest of your life, thats your doing. Don't go blaming the whole of humanity because you're some quack shut-in without any social skills.

Yea, that's certainly what to say in order to win an argument.

*For the record, I've never used any kind of matchmaking service.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by x86

I've taken this (huge) test by the sake of getting the personality report, since I don't believe in Internet matching.

It has an absurdly high amount of questions, and (although I wasn't actually interested on it) I've got no matches. Zero. What a waste of time :lolsign:

You know, if you're really from Spain as your country flag seems to indicate, then it's doubtful you'll get any matches on a US-based site.

No matches for me either, but I'd rather blame France. Since I'm such an awesome dude and all.

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Originally Posted by FallDragon

Here we go with this BS once again. Did you even bother to read this thread or did you just jump in? You don't get to know the person THROUGH eHarmony, eHarmony lets you meet someone that you'll have a good chance of liking. How does this eHarmony process have ANYTHING to do with "getting to know a person"? How you get to know that person depends on what you personally want to do after eHarmony gives you a match. And again with calling it's subscribers "socially inept." I'll join the stereotyping and say people who go to bars are abusive alcoholics, yay!

Whoa whoa whoa, buddy. Before you pull a sixgun on my ass, pull the stick out of YOURS.

I kind of SKIPPED all the bullshit, yea. Because thats not what I was intending to reply to. I wanted to talk about eHarmony. NOT LEHAH.

I said exactly what I meant. You know what experience is? It means going out, testing the waters, and finding what you like all by your little self using that LUMP OF TISSUE 3 feet above your ASS. That requires going places, socializing, and trying to get to know people.

But noooo, if you'd rather sit at home and BROWSE a meat-market of pre-selected candidates for you to "date," by all means, GO RIGHT AHEAD! One less jackass I'll have to deal with out there.

God forbid you'd actually have to go out, talk to a person and investigate what they're really like! You'd rather have a nice spreadsheet and image gallery to chose from, as though you were browsing for a used iPod on eBay!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

What is the difference between randomly meeting people in a public setting and (not so) randomly meeting people the computer picks for you? This is the question that none of you have been able to answer so far.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Minion

What is the difference between randomly meeting people in a public setting and (not so) randomly meeting people the computer picks for you? This is the question that none of you have been able to answer so far.

Maybe some people get off on the possible(?) excitement generated from randomly walking up to someone and trying to score with them, instead of being matched up with a person you have a better chance than not at being compatible with.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Sure, but the has nothing to do with the effectiveness of eharmony, which is what this thread is actually about, I think...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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I said exactly what I meant. You know what experience is? It means going out, testing the waters, and finding what you like all by your little self using that LUMP OF TISSUE 3 feet above your ASS. That requires going places, socializing, and trying to get to know people.

LOL I actually laughed at loud when I read that. It's so GRRRRR (though I guess my post earlier was as well)! Anyway, you don't socialize with the person through eHarmoney, you get to know they exist through eHarmony, and then you go out somewhere to socialize with them, get experience talking to someone new, etc etc. Hell, you could even go to a bar together if you want! All you naysayers are claiming this service replaces the experience of meeting someone, but it doesn't. All it simply does is make you aware of people that exist whom you'll likely have common interests and goals with.

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God forbid you'd actually have to go out, talk to a person and investigate what they're really like! You'd rather have a nice spreadsheet and image gallery to chose from, as though you were browsing for a used iPod on eBay!

Well, I'm not sure of all what they tell you about the person if you get matched up, but I doubt you get access to the surveys they took. eHarmony likely just says "hey, you'll probably like this person, go check them out," not "hey, you'll probably like this person, here's their entire profile." It may give you general things like "enjoys excercise" or crap like that, but any idiot knows that you'll have to actually meet the person to find out what they're like no matter what the survey says. Regardless, it's undeniable that eHarmony is a useful, and most likely a more successful way of finding a relationship than hoping to meet someone at a random bar or bookstore.

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Originally Posted by Minion

What is the difference between randomly meeting people in a public setting and (not so) randomly meeting people the computer picks for you? This is the question that none of you have been able to answer so far.

I think we've answered it about a million times by now, sweetcakes.

Y'see, if you guys could actually ACCOMPLISH going out and meeting people on your own, what the bloody hell purpose does eHarmony serve?

Let's use a metaphor, shall we? Maybe I can make my point better that way.

People. They like food. Most people NEED food a lot. Some people, they go out all the time, and expect someone else to cook for them. They can't cook for themselves.

Other people know that cooking is pretty important. Sure, you can get by without any knowledge on how to cook. But you're a lot better to know how to do it yourself, see.

Bad analogy. Alright. What I am saying is that you're having people PRE-SELECTED for you to meet by a robot, essentially. That is NOT HELPING YOU AT ALL.

Originally Posted by FallDragon

LOL I actually laughed at loud when I read that. It's so GRRRRR (though I guess my post earlier was as well)!

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Anyway, you don't socialize with the person through eHarmoney, you get to know they exist through eHarmony, and then you go out somewhere to socialize with them, get experience talking to someone new, etc etc. Hell, you could even go to a bar together if you want! All you naysayers are claiming this service replaces the experience of meeting someone, but it doesn't. All it simply does is make you aware of people that exist whom you'll likely have common interests and goals with.

Yea, see, what aren't you getting about "defining a pre-selected group you get to know."

How about you get out there and be your OWN goddamned eHarmony.

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Well, I'm not sure of all what they tell you about the person if you get matched up, but I doubt you get access to the surveys they took. eHarmony likely just says "hey, you'll probably like this person, go check them out," not "hey, you'll probably like this person, here's their entire profile." It may give you general things like "enjoys excercise" or crap like that, but any idiot knows that you'll have to actually meet the person to find out what they're like no matter what the survey says. Regardless, it's undeniable that eHarmony is a useful, and most likely a more successful way of finding a relationship than hoping to meet someone at a random bar or bookstore.

Yea, maybe you guys should stop relying on your computers and actually go talk to some strangers. Not PRE-SELECTED strangers from group A B and C, or possibly the combination of one of the three.

Hello. Human interaction. You're not going to like everyone you meet. You need to be able to GET OUT THERE. You need to do it YOURSELF.

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