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So, if you have ever been on the internet, you've probably seen those cookie powered adds for "True", the dating service. This is the one that made headlines a while back by A) Screening out any married people or felons, and B) lobbying to make it a crime to be a dating service that didn't have a big warning label that said that you didn't screen as such. In that order.
* How do I know the adds use cookies? Well Kristan always gets these adds telling her how they screen for married jerks and felons. I personally get lots and lots of adds that are in effect close ups of breasts with catchy taglines like "We're busting at the seams".
Anyhow, the point of all this is that they just showed me an add telling me how I ought to go take their "sexploration" quiz and find out... something. They won't even tell me what the quiz would tell me, but with a name like that, it has got to be good. Find out what kind of woman wants to do me or something. In truth, I already have a very good idea, several in fact, but I was bored so I thought I'd fill out the survey, laugh at the result, and then go my merry way.
But remember, they screen for married people, and felons (I'm married, not a felon). It turns out that you can't even take the test. You have to give them a whole bunch of information, and then click a check-box that effectively says that you're not married, and will gladly be beaten with chains forever if you're lying. Now, now you see, I care. I have to! All those single people are finding out... well, still just something, but it's something that I'll never know. I'm few things if not overly curious, and it's going to drive me nuts now. What is it that the single people are learning? Is it useful? Applicable? Accurate? Amusing? If I could take it, would I better know myself? Others? Jesus?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not really interested in any way in meeting people over the internet, and certainly I have no intention of representing myself as single, but still I now feel I'm being discriminated against. Who cares about the marriage tax? I'm being denied to take a pointless(?) magazine style quiz, just because they assume I'm trying to have a secret affair! What if I didn't want to have an affair? What if I wanted to find someone who's interested in dating a married man? What if I want to go to movies with married women?
Next, you see, they'll take more rights from us! We won't be allowed into nightclubs! Bars! Concerts! Bar Mitzvahs!
Well, don't jsut sit there. Go! Write your congress people. Write the company. Write the Great American Novel, and then demand it only be read by married people! That'll show them the dark side of matrimonisim.
* How do I know the adds use cookies? Well Kristan always gets these adds telling her how they screen for married jerks and felons. I personally get lots and lots of adds that are in effect close ups of breasts with catchy taglines like "We're busting at the seams".
Anyhow, the point of all this is that they just showed me an add telling me how I ought to go take their "sexploration" quiz and find out... something. They won't even tell me what the quiz would tell me, but with a name like that, it has got to be good. Find out what kind of woman wants to do me or something. In truth, I already have a very good idea, several in fact, but I was bored so I thought I'd fill out the survey, laugh at the result, and then go my merry way.
But remember, they screen for married people, and felons (I'm married, not a felon). It turns out that you can't even take the test. You have to give them a whole bunch of information, and then click a check-box that effectively says that you're not married, and will gladly be beaten with chains forever if you're lying. Now, now you see, I care. I have to! All those single people are finding out... well, still just something, but it's something that I'll never know. I'm few things if not overly curious, and it's going to drive me nuts now. What is it that the single people are learning? Is it useful? Applicable? Accurate? Amusing? If I could take it, would I better know myself? Others? Jesus?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not really interested in any way in meeting people over the internet, and certainly I have no intention of representing myself as single, but still I now feel I'm being discriminated against. Who cares about the marriage tax? I'm being denied to take a pointless(?) magazine style quiz, just because they assume I'm trying to have a secret affair! What if I didn't want to have an affair? What if I wanted to find someone who's interested in dating a married man? What if I want to go to movies with married women?
Next, you see, they'll take more rights from us! We won't be allowed into nightclubs! Bars! Concerts! Bar Mitzvahs!
Well, don't jsut sit there. Go! Write your congress people. Write the company. Write the Great American Novel, and then demand it only be read by married people! That'll show them the dark side of matrimonisim.