Facebook Fun: Geek Pride
Dot Fischer:: I just got this on OKC: "So what's a hot chick like you doing on a dating website? You shouldn't have any trouble meeting guys?"
Dude! Do you realize that you not only just burned me, but burned yourself in that statement? You're asking me what's so wrong with me that I have to desperately crawl to this site. What--exactly--sent you to this site?
Could it be that you're sending messages to English majors with so many syntactical problems that it literally hurts my head?
Tweety Workman Thompson: /facepalm
DF: Gah! And after my ranty reply to his oh-so-charming come-on, he STILL messaged me back asking if I want to call, text, or meet him.
NO!
TWT: "deos this meen we cant hang otu?"
DF: At least that^ would have proven to me that he had the intelligence to pick up on the fact that I think he's a moron. No, he totally side-stepped it and just kept messaging me as if everything were going so well.
Pac Varas: You should share the rest of the messages
TWT: While you're at it, just give us your username and password. >.>
Yakko Wilkes: The Hopeless never know when to quit. And I'm so glad during our relationship that you tolerated my horrible grammar, my endless use of the elipsis and...other things that besmirsch the language of Shakespeare.
DF: Grammar mistakes and typos I can tolerate--I figure people like me exist because the vast majority doesn't know any better and depend on people like me to give a shit so they don't have to--but stupid douchebaggery, not to mention completely self-UNaware, stupid douchebaggery, cannot and should not be tolerated.
And admit it, Michael, you just really want to know if there's some past FB posts mocking you and your messages to me where I linguistically tear apart your misuse of "there" versus "they're". Admit it!
TWT: Not all grammar mistakes are equal. A missing comma is more of a misdemeanor. Mixing up there/their/they're is a felony. You do, however, get one mulligan. Repeat offenders are beaten with dead babies.
Use of "ur" and "u" gets automatic death penalty and/or death by zombie clowns. Either way, there is death involved.
DF: ...Okay, Jess's grammar nazi-Domme makes mine safeword.
TWT: Make sure that safeword is spelled correctly.
DF: By the by, here was my response:
I don't think that dating sites are necessarily the mating grounds for the socially unfortunate (don't think one would want to or should be on them, if one does).
Mostly, I'm a geek and where do geeks go to socialize? The web. My friends and I realize that the vast majority (something like a third to 7/8) of our social interactions happen on the internet these days. I mean, yeah, we see each other something like 2-4 times a week, but we talk all day on FB at work. That's more than forty hours a week, not even including weekends.
The internet isn't a social medium that can be ignored or dismissed any more so, yeah, it's not an odd choice anymore to look for love on it. Hell, a good chunk of my friends are in relationships that started on the web, from WoW to OKC. My last relationship started from a great message sent on fetlife.
What are You doing on OKC?
Peach Trench: I would be dead from dead baby beatings by now.....
Plucky Davidson: now i want to find you on OKC just to send you bad grammatical statements
DF: I think you should send them to Jess so she can beat you with dead babies