hi

Hello.

Hello.

Hi.

so the second i tell her i spend most of my time with computers, she stops responding to me

typical :-)

Have you tried Tinder?

oh well, expect nothing and you won't be disappoint.

You have to learn to lie better than that.

nah, that's kind an fuck thing isn't it?

Uhh no?

@Robusto no point... if we got together she'd notice

@Jez Who said you had to stop lying once you got together?

The advantage of Tinder is that you "like" someone, and you can only start sending messages once she has "liked" you too. You are not told if she "disliked" you, you just don't get a match.

@Cerberus and that "like" is pretty much based solely on looks?

So at least, once you have a match, you know this person is kind of interested in you and your looks. You can put something about computers on your profile.

@Jez Well, you can put up photos and a text.

anyway, if it's anything like online dating, guys always have to make the first move

also, is tinder free? whats their business model?

Yes, it is free.

They sell your data, like all dating sites.

You should make a fake Facebook profile to link to it.

why?

@Jez Maybe, but at least you know she is also interested in you, before you send your first message!

@Jez Well, unless you want Tinder to see your real Facebook profile.

Make sure you use your real first name, though, in a fake profile.

i dont have facebook. does tinder require facebook?

And you need about 40 friends, it needs to look like a real Facebook profile.

Yes, it does.

well fuck it then

Well, Facebook is free, and you can put anything on it that you want, none of it real.

i dont have anything like 40 friends

No, silly.

not even "facebook friends"

Fake friends.

You don't want actual people know to be on your fake profile.

so then she'd ask "where's $fake_friend_a?"

You go to Mafia Wars and add 10 people per day as friends.

doesnt that make a mockery of the whole thing?

No, the other person cannot see your friends unless you have friends in common.

The Facebook part of Tinder is stupid anyway, so you lose little by circumventing it.

funny, i always though it was a mobile app, but not linked in with facebook

how dumb

The only other thing it does is show you common "interests". So you can add some real interests on your fake Facebook, that can be nice: "you both like World of Warcraft" can be nice.

It is a mobile app.

so it's kind of formalizing the "i just joined Facebook to get hooked up" statement

It's just linked to Facebook.

Yes.

linked to facebook AND a mobile app

so 2 unnecessary dependencies

I've never had anyone propose or suggest any short-term sexual hook-ups on Tinder.

no

i just mean "get into a relationship"

Oh, then yes.

You can set Tinder to match only people within, say, 50km.

i can do that with okcupid

Sure.

So the big advantage of Tinder is the matching system.

The other person never sees if you reject her, and, if it says "you have a match!", that means she is at least interested enough in you to not swipe you away, based on your profile.

So there is less frustration: people who are not interested never appear in your list of matches.

And it is even somewhat easier for girls to message boys first, because they already know the boy must somewhat like their profile.

@Cerberus Why the real first name?

@Alraxite Because Tinder shows your first name from Facebook to the other person.

My first name is now "John", which I am unable to change, so that is annoying.

@Cerberus But you can have a fake first name on Facebook too? What's wrong with having a completely fake name?

Unless you plan to use it to meet them IRL

@Cerberus from my experience on okc, it wont matter. women exchange a few messages and then ignore you

@Alraxite Well, you don't want people to think your name is John when that isn't your real name: you have to explain it every time.

@Alraxite That is the idea!

pretty much 100% of the time

At least the women in your list will all be interested in you on Tinder. That is all I can give you.

Use it or not.

@Cerberus Oh. Then, yeah. You'll probably also have trouble with your other fake details then

Omegle is better.

All you do is 'asl'.

@Alraxite No, because people can only see your age and first name and interests in common + friends in common.

Hmm how does Omegle work?

@Cerberus Ah, I see.

i'll tell you what's better. accept that you're single and if you manage to get into a relationship, so much the better

I have heard the name.

but dont waste anymore time in bloody online dating

omegle.com

Hop right in.

Haha.

> The Internet is full of cool people; Omegle lets you meet them. When you use Omegle, we pick someone else at random

But the thing is, you should use whatever is popular, so you'll have a large pond.

how is that different from, like, IRC

People here all use Tinder.

do you use it?

@Jez 'Cause it's random.

Click on the 'Text' button and you'll be chatting with a random guy on the internet.

> Stranger: Hi I'm Chris. 21 m. Call me and listen to me cum. Ask for my number

@Alraxite But...those people will be in faraway countries?

first thing i got on omegle

@Cerberus They could be from anywhere. Yes.

hahahahaa

@Cerberus Keep the interests field blank.

"hi, m/f?" "m" "Stranger has disconnected"

I suck at this!!

People don't like me!

@Alraxite But...I don't want to!

Yeah, I don't know why people disconnect a lot now. A year or two back, I usually got to have a conversation with more than 5 lines 3 out of 5 times.

It's too popular now that it's filled with spammers.

Or people who disconnect...

Hmm.

Perhaps it used to be only known among a certain kind of people?

I find that people using Tinder here are...more like me than the average person.

First try.

this biatch who contacted me on OKC has now stopped msging me even though she's online

@Cerberus Well, 2 years back, I think the number of people online were about 10k.

Or maybe 20k.

Actually I don't remember.

so obviously ignoring me after... 4 messages. that's about average

Now, it's 37k.

but that's why i just ignore okc now. i'll respond if they msg but it's nothing but a disappointment

@Alraxite Haha nice try.

Probably got annoyed because he wasn't a he.

@Jez Oh, that is annoying.

yup

Perhaps you need to think of different things to say?

Like broaching interesting topics?

i try to

Are you specifically looking for women? @Jez

so many women just apparently cant be bothered to reply

If not, then you can play some MMORPG

yeah, well depends how yiou define "looking"

You can easily end up with a friend circle there

Though, possibly not looking to date

and you know what? deep down, my brain is now constantly hoping she will msg me even though my higher reasoning tells me to give up on it

that's the worst part; you can't avoid getting your hopes up even though history tells you it's a fool's errand

Good morning!

Morning!

How is all going?

I hope there is someone who talk a bit spanish.

I only speak a few words, I'm afraid.

Tchrist speaks it better.

It is ok.

I want to know which would be a good phrase for "work on team" on English.

In spanish it is "trabajar en equipo" but as a not English native I can't find a good translation.

Should I create a new question here?

@tchrist: Now I'm reading Tolkien's scholarship on Beowulf and I find it fascinating. When he started talking about kennings it knocked me back a few decades to when my OE prof lectured on the subject. I wonder if the good professor cribbed from Tolkien, because it sure sounds as if he had. Quite an eye-opener. I'd say the scholarship is what I really paid for in this book, and most of the joy I'll get out of it will likely come from there.

Do you think? It sounds great for me.

Here you can see numerous examples from books: google.com/…

Oh, nice query!

You can be on/in a team, but you work in a team, I would say.

Because work on already has a different meaning, probably.

But work on a team sounds like talking about a specific team

@Lucio We work on a team. Don't listen to @Cerberus.

You can also work in a team, but that has a slightly different connotation.

lol

That is right.

I want to mean something like "work on team to achieve goals" not referring to work on a specific team

That seems to be a good phrase to use.

@Lucio Use on. Nobody will have a problem.

Oh, I see. I think you're right, am going to use on

@Robusto Well, you say the hits from Google Books...

xD

I wouldn't say on is wrong, I'd just not use it myself.

Could be a regional difference.

@Cerberus Yes, the difference between the Netherlands and a legitimate English-speaking country.

ROTFL

It wasn't my intention to mess up this room :)