| | Your favorite essay cliches!Page 1 of 2 (1, 2) | Mine are:
"Looking for Mr. Right" (I should copywrite the name, make a million)
"Looking for a *real* man/woman"
"No game players"
"No Liars/Cheats"
The funny (and I honestly do get some giggles) thing is that 50% or more of a given essay, or even a tag-line, will be comprised of the above. Are we to presume that the person is one big generic date? Excitement/interest factor: 0.
Clearly "game players", "liars/cheats" are going to ignore the warning, if they even consider themselves as such. Mr. Right: well, not a single person defines what Mr. Right is, as it is a subjective thing, right? Real Man/Woman: last I checked myself (er...) I was; a term which requires more explanation.
Way back when, in the olden-days of online dating, the ultimate cliche was "Italian food". You could 100% seperate the interesting people from the dull people by the question which asked the favorite food type. Italian food was a clear sign that the person was set in their ways, didn't venture out much, or was about as worldly as whitebread toast (And yes, some people even ellaborated on that and stated their intense love of Olive Garden- doh!) | |
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| Your favorite essay cliches!
Posted: 9/24/2006 9:11:10 AM | | meesterjojo...................you are in a very elite class and I'm trying to understand what makes you tick. Very interesting indeed. | |
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| Your favorite essay cliches!
Posted: 9/24/2006 9:58:59 AM | he's too intelligent and bored ...just my guess *teasing meester*
Now i have to go look at my profile and see if i made a blunder and im clicheish... << i know thats not a word, but sometimes its more fun to make up your own. | |
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Posted: 9/24/2006 11:02:46 AM | You forgot the part about wanting a "real man" who "doesn't play games" and is "not a liar". C'mon! Sheesh!
I have another theory, that the more confident and untypical you are in your essay the more you'll get looked over.
I did forget a special sub-grouping of people, women as it were, whom list the fact that they have several cable sports channels in their essays. Yes, there are multiple, and more than 1 has actually stated they don't know what's on them. That's like some old leecher offering candy to a young girl to get in a car.
Mmmm. Candy. | |
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Posted: 9/24/2006 11:52:28 AM | YUMMY CANDY............
Or what about............body type? You've got SLIM, ATHLETIC, AVERAGE and A FEW POUNDS OVERWEIGHT? Same principal.........it's like the old leecher offering candy to a young girl to get her in the car.  | |
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Posted: 9/24/2006 2:06:11 PM | 
committed and loyal seeks the same ?? (sure)
Thats why they never even bother to send a email or something
saying sorry busy leave me alone.
sports - they have channels just for that ?? (lol) | |
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Posted: 9/24/2006 4:10:49 PM | You know that the Olive garden is like the McDonalds of Italian cuisine restaurants?
I usually will not go back to a restaurant if the salad you are served with ice berg lettuce; experience has taught me not to expect much for the rest of your meal at these places. However, I have found a few exceptions where the entree was out of this world. But the first impression is a hoohum meal.
I have snickered at the same cliches you listed:
"Looking for Mr. Right" What about Mr Left? You are on a dating site I would like to think nobody is looking for Mr. Wrong are they?
"Looking for a *real* man/woman" If you were looking for unreal you would be shopping an adult toy store wouldnt you and not trying out online dating?
"No game players" Is there something wrong with checkers or Yachtzee? Nothing wrong with a little competitive spirit in a relationship. Nothing like an evening pitting yourself against a significant other trying to win. Just dont let it get too out of hand, checkeers might start flying 
"No Liars/Cheats" This is a given, nobody in their right mind wants one of these.
Food for thought: They may try to date you thinking this comment shows you have fallen for a liars/cheats ploys in the past and you just might with them. What they might call an easy mark. | |
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Posted: 9/24/2006 7:07:49 PM | "You know that the Olive garden is like the McDonalds of Italian cuisine restaurants?" Exactly, and thus the note about looking out for those people. When I lived in NY it always amazed me at how many tourists would go to the huge Olive Garden in Times Square as opposed to going to Little Italy and finding one. Wow.
Heh- Mr. Left. Right on. er...
What should be alarming people reading this thread by now is 1) the frequency in which these statements abound; 2) that Online dating, all those you see, are really just a microcausim of our society at large- These people are the same people you see and interact with daily, just a smaller sampling.
Sports cable channels: Yup, some women actually have it thusly in their essays that they have these channels. "Free with date: ESPN"? | |
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Posted: 9/24/2006 11:04:40 PM | | It's clearly visible to those who choose to see it. Personally, I do go into detail many times, but when a woman says "no game players, cheaters", etc Take it to mean she wants a mature man. If a man KNOWS he likes to go out and get blitzed drunk all the time or sleep around then he knows HE is not applicable. Maturity or lack thereof SHOWS. | |
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Posted: 9/25/2006 3:14:58 AM | Question. Why make a thread laughing at the lists of others? We all have things we want and dont want in our potential mates. What do you gain by picking at or otherwise making fun of people for how they word their likes and dislikes? Where is the point. People speak for a reason. They speak to be heard and understood. We speak because we have a point.
Your speaking... but you have no point. Your only stating the obvious. I Mean... if this was to point out the sheer humor that is quite obvious for us all to understand.... why not put it in the humor section, for one. And two... What did you gain for stating the obvious?
It just seems to reason that if you want to type just to put down your words.. muse outloud, what have you... That you'd write in a journal So other people dont know your laughing at them. You know.. be a little more sensitive?  | |
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Posted: 9/25/2006 3:36:44 AM | | I guess I'd better go rewrite my profile. It doesn't have any of the expected cliche's in there. Mr. Right might not know I am looking for him unless I list it in there. Though I was hoping to find Mr. Right for me, not just an average Mr. Right. I also forgot to specify no cheeters, liars, or game players. I've pretty good instincts and can normally spot those, but what a brilliant idea to include that so I do not have too. Who knew the best chance I'd have here is to make my profile look like everyone else's. I'll have to let all the people who emailed me know that they should not have shown an interests in my uniqueness. It was obviously a big faux paux to do so. | |
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Posted: 9/25/2006 10:13:18 AM | Vera:
"Question. Why make a thread laughing at the lists of others?" A) I'm evil.
"What do you gain by picking at or otherwise making fun of people for how they word their likes and dislikes?" A) Satisfaction for a terrible childhood.
"People speak for a reason. They speak to be heard and understood." A) Actually that was the point- they're not being understood. See "Cliche": www.m-w.com
"Your speaking... but you have no point. Your only stating the obvious." A) That is the point. You're quick. The point was to state the obvious, a thought, a MO, which apparently you've never encountered in your life? Now you have.
"I Mean... if this was to point out the sheer humor that is quite obvious for us all to understand.... why not put it in the humor section, for one." A) It's not for sheer humor, though it is/can be funny. See below.
"And two... What did you gain for stating the obvious?" A) See below.
"You know.. be a little more sensitive?" A) Why? This is part of who I am. I'm a cynical Cubivore, and I'm evil, as stated above.
The point was to present, without calling out specific people directly, that they might want to consider the lack of depth in their essays. To point out how shallow they look, and possibly to give pause to those who might write to them: why are they writing them, specifically, and not the less attractive girl/guy with the exact same cliched essay bits? So many things to look for.
Being obvious is the point- what we consider obvious, others do not. You should have learned that by now. See: My presumption that you *should have* learned something by now. Yet, it wasn't obvious to me if you had or had not. Fun how this works, yes?
Presume nothing. That which is "obvious" is also subjective.
In order that you get ones point across: That if we were to go by the essays of many users, we have a lot of cookie-cutter people on here, and that if you want to find someone/something meaningful it would be better to share with us who you are not who the person on both sides of you are, sometimes you need to approach the subject carefully. I opted to use 1) real essay quotes, with 2) experience spanning 15 years, and 3) a bit of cynical humor (hidden dash, for flavor). Just spicy enough to make some people think about their essays and who they are.
I for one would much rather see people for whom they are than "I want real man *grunt grunt*. Me want no cheat, no liar, no games!" over and over and over and over. It's so common that, honestly, you're just selecting a new face/body with whom to try and find a match, not so much a person anymore. Sad. Cookie Cutter. Life is not a cookie-cutter experience.
I won't make a long post asking why you opted to even comment, I'll just ask you: Why did you feel the need to comment? | |
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Posted: 9/25/2006 3:45:06 PM | Your not evil, your pathetic.
Your terrible childhood is not my problem. Thats what psychotherapists are for. I suggest you see one.
They are being understood. They spoke plainly without clouding their words... unlike some .."cubivores"
People who state the obvious only like to hear themselves speak (in this case, see their words on screen) Egocentrical? Pompous? those words ring a bell?
Cynical, Evil people Die alone. Have fun finding no one on this site then? and... Evil cynical people dont believe in love in the first place, so why the hell are you here? go back to your cave?
And think about it. Maybe some people enjoy being decent...Cookie cutter human beings, As opposed to being a cynical ***hole who degrades people on the internet for their choice of words in a profile.
Good for them for making their point without a whole lot of effort or wording. Shame on you for being so ticked off that you had to make a post to try and show other people how smart you are, and how pathetic THEY are. I've got nothing left to say to you. Not in this post or any other.
You ARE the company you keep. And even people you converse with, become your company.. And i want no part of you rubbing off on me | |
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| Your favorite essay cliches!
Posted: 9/25/2006 4:19:20 PM | jojo - I'm interested in hearing more about cubivores
I might have met some of them and not sure.
And I have to admit sometimes the profiles do say the
same things over & over | |
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| Your favorite essay cliches!
Posted: 9/26/2006 3:50:20 PM | | Vera, mostly meester likes to be a goof, and he's tugging hard on your leg right now and your falling for it *smiles* | |
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Posted: 11/16/2007 9:18:42 PM | I would like to take some of these cliches & corrupt them just for fun,
so here we go! Nuthin' like havin' a lil bit of fun folks. 
1. Cliche : I view the glass as half full.
Me: I view the toilet bowl as half full.
2. Cliche: I like to laugh.
Me: I like to laugh when I f*rt.
3. Cliche: I look just as good in an evening gown as I do in jeans.
Oops ! I am a guy, I can't do this one.
4. Cliche: I am down-to-earth.
Me: I was down-to-earth, but my friends dug me up.
This is appropriate for Halloween.
5. Cliche: I have lots of integrity.
Me: I have lots of integrity, but only with people I like. | |
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Posted: 11/17/2007 6:16:35 AM | Thank you , Dave for my morning smile. I enjoyed your profile also.
A sense of humor is the one of the best personality traits anyone can have. Ohhhh.. and that includes being able to laugh at yourself.
I wonder if anyone has written a profile with just cliches? It could be done. | |
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Posted: 11/17/2007 6:58:47 AM | hmmmm......have none
not kidding, really do not repeat myself, sure there are some stuff I say more often than others, but try to be ___dynamic___
when you use cliches, it's too static, must put yourself in motioooooooon!
when you get older, watch out and avoid getting "too fixed" | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 6:22:35 PM |
Clearly "game players", "liars/cheats" are going to ignore the warning, if they even consider themselves as such. Mr Right[ And, by the way is anyone actually looking to meet game players and/or liars/cheats. Is this verbiage necessary at all?
One of my favorites is when someone uses words similar to "I can go from jeans to black tie in less than an hour" Does this take a particular talent? Is there anyone under the age of eighty who can't accomplish this? | |
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Posted: 1/28/2008 1:44:08 PM | | Yeah, I justed timed myself doing that. 10 seconds to lose the jeans,but the tie was a ****,it took about 2 minutes. LOL. | |
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Posted: 1/30/2008 3:42:25 PM | I always get a chuckle outof girls who say:
"I want a real man".
Leads me to believe they got fed up with the blowup kind.
:-)
Stray | |
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Posted: 2/3/2008 10:28:00 AM | | One other - "I'm a professional woman". If she's talking about the oldest profession, there are better web-pages for advertisement. Getting by that, I start thinking that opposites attract, and I should email that I'm an amateur man and we might complement each other. | |
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Posted: 2/4/2008 11:32:09 PM | I find it funny reading profiles women saying they're happily married but looking for their dream guy, or they just want to have some fun. | |
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