OK Stupid

[catness]

So, this guy writes to me on okcupid:

Motorcyles have a 90% fatality rate. So those aren't for me. Why do you like them? Red is my favorite color. I love your hair.
Best, Sam

Apparently fact checking isn't for you, either, Sam.

BZZZZZZT.

Comments

[miss_chance]

90% of motorcycles eventually die and have to be replaced; the other 10% are kept running indefinitely?

[rmd]

yeah, that was what I immediately wondered.

[also_huey]

Too low. Way more motorcycles eventually wind up in the great junkyard in the sky than 90%.

[tisiphone]

Motorcycles: as bad as Ebola. ffs.

[c1]

I look at an activity, and basically assume that if it has a robust commercial following, it can't be that fatal: I mean, who in their right mind would start up a company if its clientele keeps on stepping off this mortal coil? You'd go insane trying to drum up new business!

I'd post back: "Walking across chemically fertilized grass has fatal consequences. Everyone who's ever walked across chemically fertilized grass has eventually died, or will within the next century!"

[dr_memory]

"I think your avocation is suicidally stupid. Prove to me that you're not stupid. Wanna have my babies?"

[catness]

He instant messaged me while I was mocking him here. "Why are you caustic and intractable?" (description on my profile from back in the three words days)

I logged out instead of saying, "Because you're 50 years old and dumb as a bag of hammers."

[motomuffin]

I had to deactivate my OKC profile/account because the sheer amount of STUPID was just too much.

OY, PEOPLE.

:-/

[catness]

Yeah. I'm too old to get much play (plus my profile specifically states I'm not looking for dates), but when I *do* get messaged, it's usually made entirely of WTF.