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Some judge by what we say, others by how we look. And still others by what we do.
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You find the cool people simply by looking for the ones with goat pictures. Oh great, now I have to switch back to the paramecium or something. |
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Yes, it's so sad that there isn't anybody out there that is perfect, original, and up to standards. ....or who gets the point of the OP. Oh well.... 
Maybe it's a lack of writing to your audience. |
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Profile police????? Cliches or not, everybody says what they wish....... 
Yeah, but if they "wish" to say the same things everyone else says, then that tells me everything I need to know.... They could save everybody a lot of time by just typing the word "Ditto" in their profile and leaving it at that....of course, if a few of them do that, then 85% of them will be like that in a month....! It's still theres. Not everyone is a Rhodes scholar. To imply someone is not intelligent or worthy by the words they choose is the same as judging someone by a picture. Screams judgemental to me... Oh, please. You're telling me you can't discern more about a person's intellect from their words than from their picture? Call it judgmental if you want. We're operating in a written medium here. The only way we CAN say anything about ourselves here is through our words. If someone doesn't care enough about how they present themselves to make a minimal effort to be clear and coherent, or to say something that hasn't been said exactly the same way by 100,000,000 other people, that tells me something. And we're ALL judging all the time. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous. That is my point. Not everyone knows how to do that. To make fun of them is wrong....
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But really, when you think about, profiles are the articles in Playboy. No matter how cerebral... -Kerry O, "Survey says: It's the pictures!" Hey, it's been a LONG time since I read Playboy, but if there's an article in there that consists entirely of "I don't know what to write here," then they need some new writers! Somehow, I don't envision its readers throwing down the gauntlet and saying, "That's it! If I have to read one more article like that one, I'm going to cancel my subscription." C'mon. This is a dating site. The date doesn't always go to the one with the best picture or the one with the Platinum Visa card, but that's how the smart money bets. -Kerry O. |
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That is my point. Not everyone knows how to do that. To make fun of them is wrong....
We'll just have to agree to disagree on that one. I never name names, I just comment on the cliches, the laziness, the illiteracy, and the seeming lack of concern on the part of those who don't want to be bothered with saying anything about themselves. I would contend there's a huge difference between making fun of individuals and making fun of a circumstance that is so unquestionably prevalent that you can't spend more than a few minutes on most sites without it slamming you over the head 14 times. To me, that's a significant distinction. Have you ever said anything about "bad drivers" or "politicians" or "those rotten kids who hang out in front of the 7-11"? Not that it matters much -- humor is a very subjective thing. Not everybody agrees on what's funny and what isn't. And that's OK. |
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Somehow, I don't envision its readers throwing down the gauntlet and saying, "That's it! If I have to read one more article like that one, I'm going to cancel my subscription." C'mon. This is a dating site. The date doesn't always go to the one with the best picture or the one with the Platinum Visa card, but that's how the smart money bets. -Kerry O. Well, I was just trying to do something with the profile-article concept!
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Yes, it's so sad that there isn't anybody out there that is perfect, original, and up to standards. ....or who gets the point of the OP. Oh well....
Maybe it's a lack of writing to your audience. Probably. Because the "bad profile" types never post in thr forums. I suppose they could be lurkers, but it's just as likely they don't use the forums at all. Still, I have had many people write to me and say "I saw what you wrote about profiles and I decided I should change some things in mine to make it sound like it wasn't lifted directly from somebody else's." So that makes this a sort of public service. |
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Yes, it's so sad that there isn't anybody out there that is perfect, original, and up to standards. ....or who gets the point of the OP. Oh well....
Maybe it's a lack of writing to your audience. Probably. Because the "bad profile" types never post in thr forums. I suppose they could be lurkers, but it's just as likely they don't use the forums at all. Still, I have had many people write to me and say "I saw what you wrote about profiles and I decided I should change some things in mine to make it sound like it wasn't lifted directly from somebody else's." So that makes this a sort of public service. Good lord man you don't really believe that???? |
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Yes, it's so sad that there isn't anybody out there that is perfect, original, and up to standards. ....or who gets the point of the OP. Oh well....
Maybe it's a lack of writing to your audience. Probably. Because the "bad profile" types never post in thr forums. I suppose they could be lurkers, but it's just as likely they don't use the forums at all. Still, I have had many people write to me and say "I saw what you wrote about profiles and I decided I should change some things in mine to make it sound like it wasn't lifted directly from somebody else's." So that makes this a sort of public service. Good lord man you don't really believe that???? And there should be a Secretary of Dating Site Profiles in the President's cabinet. If I wasn't so busy writing, I'd be glad to accept the position. |
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Somehow, I don't envision its readers throwing down the gauntlet and saying, "That's it! If I have to read one more article like that one, I'm going to cancel my subscription." C'mon. This is a dating site. The date doesn't always go to the one with the best picture or the one with the Platinum Visa card, but that's how the smart money bets. -Kerry O. Well, I was just trying to do something with the profile-article concept!
I call dibs. :) -Kerry O. |
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Somehow, I don't envision its readers throwing down the gauntlet and saying, "That's it! If I have to read one more article like that one, I'm going to cancel my subscription." C'mon. This is a dating site. The date doesn't always go to the one with the best picture or the one with the Platinum Visa card, but that's how the smart money bets. -Kerry O. Well, I was just trying to do something with the profile-article concept!
I call dibs. :) -Kerry O. OK, it WAS your idea....!! |
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Okay, Lex.. Now I'm curious. Just how many cliches do you see on my profile? Wow, that is one hell of a profile! Really get a sense of who you are and what you are about. |
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Somehow, I don't envision its readers throwing down the gauntlet and saying, "That's it! If I have to read one more article like that one, I'm going to cancel my subscription." C'mon. This is a dating site. The date doesn't always go to the one with the best picture or the one with the Platinum Visa card, but that's how the smart money bets. -Kerry O. Well, I was just trying to do something with the profile-article concept!
I call dibs. :) -Kerry O. OK, it WAS your idea....!! Welllllll... as long you don't scratch it and promise to bring it back in good shape, I guess it wouldn't hurt for you to take it out for a spin. Just don't press that lit button up there on the.... -Kerry O. |
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Okay, Lex.. Now I'm curious. Just how many cliches do you see on my profile? Dammit, Sully, I read the whole thing and didn't see any! I think maybe this explains why you never showed up in my Mutual Matches! Seriously, I don't often look at guys' profiles (well, maybe Fear's) but yours is superb. Everybody should read it; maybe then they'd get a clue about how a profile looks when you're actually saying something substantial about yourself! (It's too much to ask, I know....they won't look at anything that has more than three sentences....) Superb? Holy Crapola. I would have settled for a "meh". lol |
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Edited by
elwoodsully
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Sun 08/09/09 05:19 PM
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Okay, Lex.. Now I'm curious. Just how many cliches do you see on my profile? Wow, that is one hell of a profile! Really get a sense of who you are and what you are about. It's been a work in progress since I erased it all back in November or so. Thanks for the kind words. Maybe I can be the Secretary of Dating Site Profiles flunkie?  
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Okay, Lex.. Now I'm curious. Just how many cliches do you see on my profile? Wow, that is one hell of a profile! Really get a sense of who you are and what you are about. It's been a work in progress since I erased it all back in November or so. Thanks for the kind words. Maybe I can be the Secretary of Dating Site Profiles flunkie?
I don't know about flunkie...it is kinda long but so full of info. Way better than my short paragraph. I didn't think anyone would read a long profile - just lose interest, so I kept mine short and tried to avoid the cliches. |
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Maybe they did it just to annoy you?
 
Well, that's a possibility. I tend to think that it's unlikely though, because I'm not famous enough to where annoying me would have any real entertainment value, TMZ or no TMZ. Authors are more or less at the bottom end of the "celebrity pool," kind of on the same level with mimes, Dave Coulier, and the San Diego Chicken. Are any of us really worth irritating? Hey I used to work with a gal that was bangin' the San Diego Chicken!! |
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I guess I don't read enough profiles. What are the regular cliches?
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