The Girls Who Broke Your Heart Thread

[Sutekh]

If you beat a dog enough, it will stop pissing on the carpet, ya know?

P.S. Let the ghetto dudes date the ghetto chicks.
Talking from a personal stand point, Self-control is probably the best trait any person can have. Without it you'll basically be a child for the rest of your life.

[TheCutlery]

Originally Posted by Sutekh

If you beat a dog enough, it will stop pissing on the carpet, ya know?

Actually if you beat a dog enough, it'll piss on the carpet any time you even fucking walk near it, kind of making the whole interaction pointless.

Just sayin'

[Ronaan]

Originally Posted by Sutekh

Well, in order to determine she has problems, you've got to determine what actually is a "boyfriend"

She hasn't had a relationship in over 10 years. Not even one of those "I tried for a few weeks and found out it wasn't going to work" things. Nothing.
Does that sound better?

Originally Posted by brekk

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

I lol'd

Originally Posted by Heylel Teomim

She might actually be reasonably well adjusted until the possibility of a break up occurs. At that point, hide the knives and prepare for some fatal attraction level crazy.

She actually told me before that she can be a real bitch sometimes, but I still have to see it to believe it.
And to tell the truth, after my crazy ex, this will probably look like kindergarten. She also said she's not going to throw things (after I jokingly asked if she was going to throw dinner plates at me), so I guess I'm somewhat safe

[Haka Shakamalakabalsaka]

Fuck I hate writing online dating profiles, is there any way to write these things without coming off as a) a conceited jerk b) a sappy romantic The Notebook loving emotional trainwreck c) a huge nerd with terrible jokes

I've written mine over 3 times and I have no idea if I'm even close yet. I keep adding to it and it gets longer and the I realize I've written a book, and have to delete it all and try again.

I need a magic formula / copy Eomer's online profile plz plz. All I need to to do is change Edmonton Oilers to Vancouver Canucks and successful entrepreneur to broke student and I think everything else is the same, or close enough.

[Eomer]

I have spent many an hour perfecting mine, you may not have it!

Seriously though, I hate writing them as well. No idea if my current one is any good or not.

[Dabamf]

I look forward to the day Ronaan discovers she's a post-op tranny or something equally weird as fuck to warrant 10 years without ever dating.

Does she have a giant goiter on her neck?

[Etoille]

Originally Posted by Dabamf

I've always wondered if in-your-face attacks like Etoille is dropping ever inspire any change. At first they always create defensiveness and make the listener close off completely, but after a time and some distance I wonder if they inspire any change. Tactful approach is pretty much always more effective, but obviously that didn't work in this case so the only option is directness (but damn Etoille take it easy!), but I'm uncertain if that's possible. Every time I've been direct with someone they just get defensive and burrow into a hole.

100% agree with everything you just said.

Only reason I'm heavy handed is that theres solid proof that coddling him has gone nowhere. There's a child involved and it doesn't sound like either one of his parents know what it means to put that child first. I'm a random chick on the internet but if thats the only advocate the kids got well *shrug* its better than nothing.

[Heylel Teomim]

The in-your-face approach certainly doesn't work with my family. I used to be able to make a well reasoned, honest argument and my dad would eventually come around. Now he just thinks I'm after his money.

[Tenks]

Originally Posted by Haka Shakamalakabalsaka

Fuck I hate writing online dating profiles, is there any way to write these things without coming off as a) a conceited jerk b) a sappy romantic The Notebook loving emotional trainwreck c) a huge nerd with terrible jokes

I've written mine over 3 times and I have no idea if I'm even close yet. I keep adding to it and it gets longer and the I realize I've written a book, and have to delete it all and try again.

I need a magic formula / copy Eomer's online profile plz plz. All I need to to do is change Edmonton Oilers to Vancouver Canucks and successful entrepreneur to broke student and I think everything else is the same, or close enough.

Keep it short. Add only qualifiers, no disqualifiers (for both yourself and matches.) Put things in list form. Funny and enjoyable. Keep all arrogance and smugness out of the profile. Do not tell them things instead show them (ie: Don't say "I'm funny" but have a bland and dry profile.)

I also would keep it relatively honest. But if you're spending too much time on the profile you're probably laying it on a bit too thick. Mine took me like 15 minutes to write up (granted I modified a version that I had previously) and the #1 thing girls message me about was how my profile made them smile. Humor and self confidence are the two things that are better to show rather than tell. Others you need to tell rather than show (ie: career, family, interests).

[Soygen]

Originally Posted by Ronaan

She hasn't had a relationship in over 10 years. Not even one of those "I tried for a few weeks and found out it wasn't going to work" things. Nothing.
Does that sound better?

No that sounds worse.

Not having a serious relationship in 10 years, but dating regularly, can be pretty normal. Not having any type of relationship in over 10 years could very well be an issue.

[Eomer]

Originally Posted by Tenks

Keep it short. Add only qualifiers, no disqualifiers (for both yourself and matches.) Put things in list form. Funny and enjoyable. Keep all arrogance and smugness out of the profile. Do not tell them things instead show them (ie: Don't say "I'm funny" but have a bland and dry profile.)

I also would keep it relatively honest. But if you're spending too much time on the profile you're probably laying it on a bit too thick. Mine took me like 15 minutes to write up (granted I modified a version that I had previously) and the #1 thing girls message me about was how my profile made them smile. Humor and self confidence are the two things that are better to show rather than tell. Others you need to tell rather than show (ie: career, family, interests).

While we're on the subject, any advice to offer on my profile? I've posted it in the past, and made some changes based upon what people had to say:

See the interests above for further info, no sense repeating myself right? The list isn't exhaustive, but it covers what I got up to yesterday . Ripping around on my crotch rocket is pretty fun as well, although it's always an adventure seeing which soccer mom in a SUV will try to run me off the road. Traveling is definitely something I'd like to do more of, mostly a time issue. I check out concerts as much as I can, big fan of live music.

Oh and since I'm sure you're concerned about my "goals" or not being a "loser", you can rest assured that I have a cousin in Nigeria who has access to an inactive bank account with $45 million that simply requires a blank signed personal check from you to gain access to the funds... of course I'm kidding! I own and operate a mechanical contracting company when I'm not enjoying myself outside of work. Family business kind of thing. Don't worry, I haven't touched a pipe wrench in years, these hands are soft!

Tooling around here to see if it's any better than the usual avenues of meeting someone. Between work, fun, and travels I don't have much of a chance to meet new people, so this seemed like it might bear fruit.

I'm looking for someone who also likes to be active and does some of the same things I do, but at the same time will also show me a new thing or two. If you like concerts, camping, sports, traveling and that kind of thing then we'll probably get along just fine. I can handle a fair amount of maintenance, but you best have a fairly well developed sarcasm detector. Otherwise I may warp your fragile little mind.

The interests section has about 15-20 things listed (camping, skiing, that kind of thing). Reading through it again, I wonder if perhaps the last couple sentences should be removed or changed.

And seriously, I feel sorry for the people who live in areas where PoF doesn't have much selection. There must be hundreds of decent or better looking girls in their 20's on it in my area. And Calgary is double or triple that, there's a fucking TON of hot chicks on it from there. Too bad most look to be super high maintenance, pretentious, snooty, gold digging bitches. Aaaah Calgary.

[Shutup]

I just said fuck it and went look at pof....my area is absolutely turrible. Turrible I tell ya.

[Heylel Teomim]

You want terrible, put in an Atlanta zip code.

[Shanter]

Originally Posted by Heylel Teomim

You want terrible, put in an Atlanta zip code.

Seconded. It's a god-damned tragedy.

[Lefazz]

Originally Posted by Shutup

I just said fuck it and went look at pof....my area is absolutely turrible. Turrible I tell ya.

I'm a short guy -- 5'6". I can understand a woman wanting a man taller than her. But what pisses me off is seeing 95% of their profiles listing height requirements of >=6' for even women shorter than me!