Dinhternet

I’ve joined another online dat­ing site. The con­cept is that guys only make pro­files, and gals make the first move. That’s pretty good for me, since I tend to make a pro­file and then never look at the site again.

But any­way, since I hate writ­ing about myself, who wants to make my pro­file page for me? I need a “head­line” (2–100 char­ac­ters), an “about me” (150‑1000 char­ac­ters), and an “ideal match” (150‑1000). You could help me find my lob­ster! (I still don’t know what that means, by the way.) If you write some­thing for me, I’ll post it and keep it until some­one sug­gests some­thing bet­ter. (And this site gives me met­rics to prove it. In fact, I think a big part of why I’m even con­sid­er­ing a pay site is that met­rics feature.)

in love and war, or so they say. But when asked on Form­Spring,

“If you could make one per­son fall in love with you who would it be?”

I have to go with the Aladdin school of thought:

I actu­ally enjoy rules-lawyering to a cer­tain degree in games, but that’s because every­one else has the same lim­i­ta­tions and oppor­tu­ni­ties. In real life, there are no lim­i­ta­tions, and unin­tended con­se­quences abound, so I think it’s best to play things straight.

That’s why I would not choose to have any­one fall in love with me against their will, no mat­ter what genies, potions, arrows, or mind-rays I might have at my disposal.

Guys love to rate girls on attractiveness.

We’ve got every­thing from the basic 10-point scale to some pretty com­plex coör­di­nate sys­tems:

And we’re con­stantly cre­at­ing and dis­sem­i­nat­ing new ones because we’re afraid the “code” has been bro­ken. (If only we had hotty windtalk­ers.) I’m reminded of a quote from a TV show I saw a long time ago when two guys are rat­ing a par­tic­u­larly hot co-worker. They agreed she was an 11. A third guy comes over and says he would rate her 8.5. The first two turn to him incred­u­lously and he explains, “I use the Richter scale.”

Of course, some scales (like the above graph) were cre­ated because guys felt the need for more infor­ma­tion that just appear­ances. Don’t hold your breath though, ladies, this added infor­ma­tion is usu­ally still pretty shal­low. Con­sider the Hot/Crazy Scale or the Attractiveness/Accessibility Scale. A while back, Jeremy J told me about the “Area Code” sys­tem, too.

We also try to make games of it. Will N intro­duced me to “Color/Time/Number”, where you name the color of the shirt, the clock direc­tion, and the attrac­tive­ness of a given target.

So now that you know all this, I wanted to ask… do girls have a rat­ing sys­tem? I’ve seen when two (or more) girls will spot a cute guy, share a know­ing glance with each other, gig­gle, and lean in to whis­per. What is it that you whis­per about? And is it in Gib­ber­ish?