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nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Well Hello, I haven't had much luck, why? Posted: 4/19/2007 9:53:37 PM
The baby pic makes for a huge negative initial reaction. Also, some of your pics are cute and others are terrible (#5 in particular). As for the written content, your headline is meaningless; your write up is typical of the looking-for-knight-in-shining-armour variety, though the emphasis on sport fandom is unusual. Your first date is also meaningless.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Well I am open to feed back..Hit me with it Posted: 4/9/2007 8:46:10 PM
I think your profile is still mostly meaningless. You need more pics and more personality in your profile. One day my ultimate goal would be to climb the seven summits of the world. How many have you done? You're already 30--better get on that.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Care to review my profile? Posted: 4/3/2007 1:24:24 AM
Lauren, my one comment on your profile is: "Not single/Not looking". Dump that "boyfriend" of yours, onegai shimasu. His profile lists 'single', he lives in another city, and if he is not boning other chicks, he is definitely trying.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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My profile? Posted: 4/3/2007 1:08:14 AM
The best part of your profile is definitely the quote from one of your recent messages where you describe menstration as "chunky vagina barf". Hot.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Why Me ? Posted: 3/30/2007 8:31:27 PM
I am of a mind to seek a mind that truly helps mine unwind, I'd like to rest my weary head in the comfort of the cosy grey matter of a mind that is of a similar mind to mine. I'll blow your mind if you can blow mine. To feel at ease and say whatever I please, vigorous and relaxing exercises and when it's time to sleep, you can have some of my serotonin to keep. Together, we shall forever keep our GABA levels high so we can fly naturally higher. All of that was accidental, and you didn't even notice? I think you might have some looped circuits in that cozy gray matter of yours.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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what do you think? Posted: 3/27/2007 10:27:30 PM
Just don't make it sound like a jane austen novel. Try to demonstrate the adjectives you use rather than stating them (witty, funny, etc). What do you find confusing about my profile?

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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what do you think? Posted: 3/26/2007 11:20:50 PM
First, there are 9.5 times more guys on this site than gals. Keep that in mind. Second, pay close attention to the difference in the following two paragraphs: Hi, my name is nodule. I don't show up here often but when I do I usually make a point of vigorously pointing out the various defects of an individuals profile, as I am struck melancholic by the profile's disenhearteningly-prototypical mistakes. Desidarious, your profile is boring. My ninety-year-old euchre-playing grandmother would blush at reading something so chaste on a dating site. The goal is a date. A date that does not consist of conversations like "so, which of the History, Science, Discovery, Space, and Biology Channels do you watch?", and "so, whaddiyou wanna do?". You sound like you're ghost-writing a self-help book for young adults by Billy Graham. A latin, agnostic, Billy Graham that has somehow lost all his natural charisma and forgotten that capitalizing 'very' does not make the word any less meaningless. You've spent 500 words saying everything but conveying nothing. Start from scratch.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Honest opinions on my profile? Posted: 3/22/2007 12:37:07 AM
PS - No I'm not high in that picture....I was just being a goof...it's my "I'm sooo cool" pose :D It is impossible to tell what picture you're speaking of, as smirky I'm-so-cool describes everything you have up. I'd also lose the paragraph about games.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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think I need a profile and pic review Posted: 3/22/2007 12:29:39 AM
better still, don't say anything about it in your profile and just don't date the chicks with kids

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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think I need a profile and pic review Posted: 3/20/2007 7:28:42 PM
what a downer. at least glue your goatee on straight next time.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Why Am I Ignored? Posted: 2/28/2007 9:52:55 PM
You _can't_ use a pic of you with a hot chick as your main pic. As for the rest of your profile, it is far too timid. Take out references to your lack of confidence. Take out the "dunno, what do you wanna do?" first date, and replace it with something good. This is also quite damaging: What I don’t appreciate is superficial girls who take there looks to the extreme and expect me to look like a model out of a magazine. We all care about our looks, but some are just ridiculous – it’s a huge turn off. The rest of your complaints in that paragraphs aren't so hot, either.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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I need Suggestions on profile or contacting on here Posted: 2/26/2007 9:10:12 PM
see my first response, paragraph two.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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First date section Posted: 2/26/2007 8:33:57 PM
Way, way too much. Being a little random is fine, but you make two big mistakes: first, you talk about the oddness of what you're suggesting. second, you go on for far too long. Contrast: "Well, I think something goofy and clown-like would be nice, even if it sounds strange. We could grab some pies (kangeroo pies), walk around town (on a two-person unicycle), laugh at people who laugh at us and throw pies at them. It is weird, but perhaps fun, and, by the way: artichoke borscht" With: "Armed with cream pies, we will prowl central park looking for worthy victims." Should I mention that... no.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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I would love to hear from the ladies about my profile Posted: 2/22/2007 10:29:52 PM
The yoda quote juxtaposes nicely against the reference to the anatomical area between the scotrum and anal sphincter. Perhaps you could throw in a nod to polonium-210 poisoning. I don't believe that you can make it to a tenth date with a woman without kissing her.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Am I wrong in taking regenge after 18 years? Posted: 2/21/2007 6:18:26 PM
why not? it worked out great for the count of monte cristo

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Whats going wrong, please review. Posted: 2/20/2007 8:43:19 PM
your first date idea consists of something you admit sounds boring. add that qualifier to the rest of your profile too, and you're all set.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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New longer profile Posted: 2/19/2007 11:19:57 PM
There is a certain kind of crap that people like putting in their profiles. "easy-going guy" counts; "not into sex/games" qualifies; "positive attitude" is also up there. It is all utterly meaningless, but everyone accepts a few sentences of that in a profile, since it indicates that the author is somewhat normal. And you've managed to fill three pages with the stuff. People will not read that much text. It doesn't matter how good it is. As it turns out, this is okay. Almost no-one (myself included) can do a good job giving a written description of themselves. People can learn a lot by reading the description, but it is mostly inferential and subconscious. It is much easier to be yourself than you describe yourself

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Where can I get some plastic surgery? or does my profile suck? Posted: 2/19/2007 9:30:07 PM
taisez-vous, "profound insight"! Ce n'est pas la faute des femmes que vous avez de bernaches sur votre pénis.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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I need Suggestions on profile or contacting on here Posted: 2/16/2007 9:34:19 PM
You look grumpy in photos 3 and 4, melancholic in 2 (the only one you should consider keeping), and you can't see your face in 1. I'm not going to tell you "how" they look grumpy. Reading emotions in faces is a skill that most people learn at 2 months.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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I need Suggestions on profile or contacting on here Posted: 2/16/2007 9:12:31 PM
I'm not insulted, I'm just not sure how to get better photos, I don't smile in photos or a least i don't show my pearly whites. You have you smile in photos. And take them outdoors.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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critique my profile please Posted: 2/16/2007 8:40:54 PM
Eventually, I would like to get married and have children, when the right girl comes along. I wish everyone had same courage to admit their freakish desires as you.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Anything wrong about me? Profile review please. Posted: 2/16/2007 8:33:33 PM
For example it says in your profile your 5'6 believe it it or not there are a lot of woman who are that shallow. How shocking it is, that women aren't willing to give a chance to people they are unlikely to be attracted to, just because society says they ought to! Alack, why could they not be like men? Why can't they look past physical beauty and pierce through to the inner core? Why do we men throw ourselves at the feet of a woman, rapturously extolling her virtues, her moral fibre, her erudition, her patience, her graceful wit... only to be spat on due to a crooked knee or deformed nostril? We truly are becursèd.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Ladies Please Help: anything wrong with me? Profile Review Please!! Posted: 2/16/2007 8:17:47 PM
I'm very spontaneous and clean,like to keep an eye on hygene. Wait--doesn't your spontaneous nature sometimes conflict with your hygienic nature? Oh, it does! I won't even think twice to dive into a pile of mud upto my waist Your profile is bizarre, man. Coherence is a virtue.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Not sure what others are percieving Posted: 2/16/2007 8:11:23 PM
Add to your profile: "As an orthotics student, my job is to fashion anatomically-realistic items from various materials. Pliant, rubbery, tough, flexible, bumpy, hard, motorized... you name it, I can make it."

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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I need Suggestions on profile or contacting on here Posted: 2/16/2007 7:59:17 PM
"Nice guys finish last" is an autoerotic chant of the cult of guys who blame everyone but themselves for their lack of success. Unfortunately, this site isn't great for such folk. It is much harder for guys here--even good lucking guys with great profiles. 90-95% of messages sent by guys on this site are not responded-to. My advise would be to concentrate in the real world. Not the bars. Just people you meet from day to day. Anyway, if you want to have more success on plenty offish, I suggest the following changes: - don't post angry pictures - don't post melancholic pictures - don't post depressed pictures - don't sound angry in your write-up - don't sound unfun in your write-up - don't sound melancholic in your write-up - don't sound uninteresting in your write-up - don't use meaningless clichés - don't use self-pitying headlines - don't use: I don't know why but a lot of woman on here don't like me, because any messages I write gets ingored or deleted. I'm not sure if it's because a lot of people on here are fake or just rude, or if it's because I'm not interested in anyone who has children. I'm sorry if you take offense to that, but thats just not the kind of relationship I'm looking for right now.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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WEEEE Profile review? Posted: 2/15/2007 10:19:34 PM
there are three obvious changes that will dramatically improve your results

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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What's wrong w/ my profile?? Posted: 2/15/2007 10:12:41 PM
The unabomber manifesto-style text graffiti isn't going to win you any favours.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Seriously speaking... Posted: 2/15/2007 8:52:43 PM
do so. it matters

nodule

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flirting advice Posted: 2/14/2007 12:15:50 AM
If a man is talking to you when he doesn't have to be, he is flirting. Note that this doesn't mean he is single. There is one essential test you can apply immediately. For a hetero guy, flirting is any behaviour or conversation that wouldn't occur with another man.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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something fishy here Posted: 2/14/2007 12:06:40 AM
The Princess Bride is not a "chick flick".

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Seriously speaking... Posted: 2/14/2007 12:01:14 AM
Do you wear anything other than a pharma-uni-suit?

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Struggling...slipping...help! Posted: 2/13/2007 11:13:06 PM
I'm a logical guy, not after sex I hope that brain puzzles aren't a usual part of your pillow-talk routine.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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C'mon... I'll Be Your Friend... Posted: 2/13/2007 8:04:29 PM
Your old profile used to be confident tinted with giddiness, this one is melancholic sprinkled with nonsense. But who are you? You'd think you're my girlfriend, right? No. You're a stranger I've never met, most likely. I don't know your name, and I might never see you again. Who thinks she is your girlfriend? What are you talking about? I have a loving heart, and I wish to share it with another, similar heart. I have a giving soul, and I hope to give it with another, similar soul. I have a hard life, and I want to live it with another, similar life. Repeated sentence structures don't make clichés poetic. I want a woman who cries because she still remembers being left by her lover. I want a woman who desperately needs companionship, and has been denied it for too long. This will go over terribly. You're looking for a desperate girl on the rebound?! A larger question is why you are changing your profile so frequently? What do you think the old one lacked that you are trying to attain? Results? A better reflection of your personality? Determining that would be a more fruitful tack, I think. Your redos have felt increasingly manufactured and distant to what was there originally.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Opinions? Posted: 2/10/2007 12:57:59 AM
More pics, baby, more pics! I agree with Ophelia. More baby pics! You've got a few issues with the writing, like beginning most of your paragraphs with "I", some spelling and grammar slippages, and repetition. You should list more interests. I don't keep track of sports, don't listen to rap or country (with a few exceptions) and know next to nothing about popular celebrities and the status of various sports teams, which leaves me at a loss in most conversations I encounter. However I am immediately in my element if the conversation turns to new scientific discoveries, wierd science, religion, world events or just about anything that has popped up in a magazine like 'Scientific American' or 'Discover'. This rarely happens. If you take yourself just a tad less seriously, you can convey the same point in a more entertaining way (you can use this, if you want): I don't keep track of sports or listen to rap or country music. I know nothing about popular celebrities, unpopular celebrities (more importantly), television, miniskirts, minidogs, or what-you'll-never-believe-she-did-yesterday. Since I also have no clue as to the current weather conditions, traffic, time of day, or when the next bus arrives, I'm at a loss in most conversations. Should, however, a conversation turn to weird science, religion, world events, just about anything that has popped up in a magazine like 'Scientific American' or 'Discover' or 'Toejam Monthly', phrenology, subpoenas, the colour 'chartreuse', words rhyming in 'newt', Peruvian zoology, or being chased by timber wolves in your sock feet on a newly-waxed hardwood floor, I am immediately in my element. This rarely happens.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Will my profile find a similar mate? Posted: 2/10/2007 12:18:52 AM
I once heard of a hermaphroditic thesaurus-toting korean exchange student whose sentences all translated into English phrases with strange sexual connotations. Did you learn from him?

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Is this any good? Posted: 2/9/2007 6:51:46 PM
Yeah... so... don't include pics of friends who are hotter than you.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Tear it apart Posted: 2/8/2007 9:33:43 PM
I live a very empty life That's fine. It is very possible to make a dispassionate evaluation of your life and still proceed. However, be aware that most people will recoil from that statement as if bit by a viper. If your goal is to "meet someone wonderful", remove it.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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An unusual profile -- take a look and tell me what you think... Posted: 2/6/2007 9:57:50 PM
Using "historically" to describe your own past means either that you're too old to get it up, or that you've got a thesaurus stuck up your butt. Since the referred-to cavity is already chock-full of obdurate opinions, slashes, and yourself, I'm going to go with the first option. Both, though, are problems. But what would I know?

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Re-write Profile for Perosn Above You Posted: 2/6/2007 9:44:22 PM
Name: Morning_Glory_ Profession: wanna-be plenty offish forum moderator First date idea: I will review your profile, and you will like it.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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my profile- edit me- PLEASE!! Posted: 2/6/2007 9:33:34 PM
I find it difficult to believe that a college student cannot form proper sentences, spell, or refrain from using obvious slang! The only refrain here is your tired bleating. I could point out petty things like the "thru" on your profile, but the real crime is the limp prose that reads like a third-grader's whatididlastsummer report. It's totally unnecessary to tell someone to give up on their profile. Besides being cruel, there is enough vapidness on this site as it is.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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why don't i get messages?! Posted: 2/5/2007 9:52:17 PM
do you know what "rice king" means? If so, think about what you wrote: "I'm craving chicken balls right now especially ones from RiceKing"

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Profile review please!!! :) Posted: 2/5/2007 9:48:25 PM
username: reads: looking for a lanky intellectual gay man headline: great pics: your main pic is backlit and makes you look like a weenie. Also, you aren't smiling. Your last pic would be much better as a main pic. You're at ease, smiling, and the world map behind you lends a enviable air of gravitas About me: remove fluff like the following: Hi there! I'm a happy and easy-going sort of person looking mostly for dating but possibly friends/hang-out too. Right now I'm just loving life as an active young professional now that I'm done my degree. If you read this far I know you are intrigued... so don't hesitate to drop me a line! Thanks for taking the time to read my profile. Looking forward to hearing from you! You could use a few sentences that bring out your fun side. Perhaps display some perspicacity rather than perspicuity. I personally find the cancer bands extremely irritating, but since I'd be lynched if I advised people to remove them... First date: you have one really great line, which is "Go to some crazy ethnic resturant where we have to sit on the floor and eat with our hands \|_&-?_\|" Replace the whole section with that.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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why don't i get messages?! Posted: 2/5/2007 9:28:34 PM
For posterity: ok....I'm just on here to fack around i'm not really into boyfriends right now or! hookups and sh*tso don't message me if you're into that jeeze BUT! if you're a nugget ...well then (i'm craving chicken balls right now the ones from RiceKing :D) First Date we'd go to the hospital and we'd both have hiv and hepatitis c tests and if were both good then we'd go to macdonalds and he'd buy me the 4 nugget thing with the mcchicken sauce and the bbq sauce , ya know just the two sauces, 2 nuggets for each sauce. what else are ya going to do on a first date?! whiteassswolly: don't feel bad. I suspect that the pool of men into... uh... whatever the frig your astonishing set of chicken-ball-and-sauce-nugget euphemisms is supposed to refer to. It is a miracle that you didn't include something about white/dark meat.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Could someone please review my profile?? Posted: 2/1/2007 9:12:21 PM
(Im a catch and release sort of girl) I can think of any number of meanings to this sentence. Some of which may increase the responses to your profile, but I doubt those are the ones you intended.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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about me section. Posted: 1/29/2007 9:31:00 PM
thanks for the comments and suggestions.First off..Sorry but I am not Immature nor am I shallow..I know how to spell..The only thing I asked was suggestions on the about me section NOT the whole profile! Like everyone I have preferences,but Im not Shallow! "mature" is a word that gets tossed about much without people really considering its meaning. So I won't comment on that. But you do come across as possessing a lot of... youngness. You sound like you haven't done much writing. Oddities like randomly capitalizing words (Immature, Shallow) and not putting spaces after your punctuation don't help, but the main culprit is the shotgun/splatter approach of organizing your thoughts.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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So what's the verdict? Posted: 1/28/2007 1:33:04 AM
Well, I don't know latin, but mustn't it mean "love is necessary for life/to live"? Hey, if it's working for you, don't change a thing!

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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So what's the verdict? Posted: 1/27/2007 12:46:56 PM
I found the latin a bit much, but the profile in general is quite solid. Your first date section is a total cop out; you aren't actually bound to what you suggest here, ya know. Pretend you are describing the second date, if that's how you view a first on.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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Rate my profile (such an original subject title) Posted: 1/26/2007 8:24:17 PM
The hot chick in your main pic coupled with "talk/email" just screams 'available'. Perhaps adding a close-up of your wedding band might help?

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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A Brand New Emotion Posted: 1/26/2007 8:18:10 PM
No-one's really defining the right thing here (namely, the emotion). How about: "racial paint-chip surprise" -- when a bit of the surface level coating falls off, and a non-matching shade of racism is found underneath. May be applied to people or society in general.

nodule

Joined: 2/18/2006

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So women want honesty Posted: 1/26/2007 8:04:29 PM
Huh, I thought that astrology and Christianity were incompatible. Or, did the Christianity come with the cowboy hat?

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