Unmatched someone: I was talking about how the movie Avatar is a blatant allegory for native/indigenous populations and the person got offended that I would “put real life events into a movie about blue people”

Been unmatched: the person had a series of 4 almost identical selfies but each one had different anime boys edited in as if they were hanging out (amazing bit. Perfect joke) and my opening line was “i hate when people have only group photos. It makes it so difficult to tell when one I matched with”. I was called an idiot and unmatched within 5 minutes.

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    A girl canceled a date once because I’m not on Facebook or anything else. (I asked her out in person).

    She combed through socials as a kind of background check and interpreted my absence as suspicious. Modern problems.

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      What’s interesting is that both perspectives are valid. Of course she could have asked why you don’t have social media, and when you spout off about privacy and big tech then she would cancel for a different reason.

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        Yeah this is legit a thing cheaters do apparently. I just don’t want patients finding my favorite cafe in my likes ok 😭 honestly sometimes my husband pisses me tf off but at least I’m not rummaging in the mystery grab bag anymore.

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          Internet is a hostile enough place that not having a social media presence is a valid lifestyle. Like, I don’t want to be assumed as a cheater just cause I’m trying to preserve my sanity😭.

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    In her introduction she made it a point to mention that she’s an INTP and wanted to know what type I was. I simply said that those types of personality tests aren’t really my thing. I got a reply back, something to the effect of “Well thanks for showing up front what a toxic and hateful human being you are!”

    So yeah guys, sorry about being so toxic and hateful for not being into personality tests.

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      Lol, I used to work for a big corporation which made these tests (16 personalities in specific) mandatory during job training. After I debunked that shite as bogus I got the afternoon off.

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        I worked for one of those companies that paid like 15k per employee to spend like half a day figuring out which of 5 types you are. Somehow I got all 5 and confused quite a few people.

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      Even if you were, you’d probably still get rejected for not being whatever arbitrary letter combination she was looking for.

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        While I agree those ladies were a bunch of loonies, I don’t think the test is supposed to be predictive (this is how you will be), rather descriptive (this is how you are).

        Although I’ve had this same argument with people over the function of dictionaries being descriptive (this is how words are used) rather than prescriptive (this is how you should use words).

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          I don’t think this is comparable to descriptivism and prescriptivism in linguistics.

          The predictive power of a classification doesn’t have anything to do chronological order of what you are now and how you will develop, but about if knowing one thing (the MBTI) allows to deduce another (age, socioeconomic status, interests, vocational suitability, whatever). In other words predictive power is about correlations and testable outcomes.

          If a psychological test leads to a result that does not predict other statistical values about a person, it does not actually capture anything that person is, at least nothing that’s verifiable or falsifiable.

          And if it’s not verifiable or falsifiable we might as well use zodiac signs.

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          It’s about as descriptive as an astrology sign. Self-fulfilling prophecies are a helluva drug

          Edit: Sorry, meant to respond to the person above.

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      Even if I wanted to play along, I wouldn’t be able to answer immediately and have to take the test just to find out.

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      16 Pesonalities probably? It depends on your mood of course, which answers you choose. But given that, and two runs, the two profiles were surprisingly accurate in my case. Even learned a few new things about myself. If you take it with a grain of salt, it’s not a bad thing.

      This person took it too seriously, obviously.

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        Depends on moods, and also, many people have issues at making the difference between what someone is and what they’d like to be. Like many people want to be helpful, but not many are helpful outside their own social circle. (Which is fine, but not the same as being helpful towards everyone.)

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    got a match and first question was if I was an EU citizen, I am, but decided to reply “no” just for fun. Then she asked me if I was here legally and on the path of citizenship, I replied yes just to see where this was going.

    “alright, contact me again when you’re an EU citizen”

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      Shit, this girl worked at a police station and got upset, nearly canceled our meetup because I had no criminal record.

      When we met up, she refused to go get food or drinks. Instead, she took me to a secluded park and let me know she was carrying two guns.

      I said a shootout was a weird first date activity and I would have rather gone bowling. She took me back to the hotel, but offered to get me Taco Bell on the way back.

      She then wouldn’t respond the next day, which the entire point of the trip was to go to a museum I wanted to see.

      It was my birthday trip and she just happened to be along the route. I went to the museum alone and had a blast.

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        “She took me back to the hotel” could mean two wildly different outcomes. I can’t tell if you mean she ended the date immediately or you two had sex in a hotel and then she ghosted you.

        Though either way, her deciding on her own that she didn’t want anything to do with you was a bullet dodge, considering she not only used police resources to try to look you up but even scolded you about it, making it clear she either didn’t think there was any problem with it or didn’t think she’d face any consequences.

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          She tried to buy me Taco Bell and she tried to kiss me. She took me back my hotel room. I wanted nothing to do with that crazy shit.

          I figured the museum would be saner the next day as her daughter was to join us. She didn’t answer, I shrugged and went.

          She texted me the day after. I just blocked her. So it goes.

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      Unfortunately, on dating apps, it kinda is. Lots of people who are looking cheat claim they’re “not into social media” because if they shared their social media, you’d see their partner. It’s BS and unfair, but I can see how people get there.

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    In another life I matched with this girl, picked her up, no joke the first thing she said to me in person after just meeting her was that she loved me. I just picked her up and saw her for the first time. I dropped her off right there. I didnt use it much after that so I never got to shine and have someone unmatch me.

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      A wiser person than I, I would have tried to discuss it and convince them they couldn’t possibly be. All the while thinking I’m putting myself down and saying reasons I’m flawed and them somehow taking it as me being kind and vulnerable. Relatonshps are probably better that way. Where I take the I out of them /s

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    it was a couple. we vibed, i stayed over one night at their house, got drunk at their bar and set a bunch of alarms on their Google nest. it was really nice to experience something that was entirely my fault

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    I unmatched a woman IRL face-to-face because she told me (in one unbroken monologue) that she slept with a co-worker in Sydney while she was visiting a regional office and that she attends SLAA meetings and that was her first slip in 3 months and that she’s also a psychic medium and she’s building a website to list her mediumship services, and she is obsessed with marvel movies. Then she asked me to go get a coffee with her

    No one part of this is too much of a red flag, but all of it together, and she knows I’m good with tech and can build a website with my eyes closed, I probably would have ended up doing a bunch of web work for free. Plus I really don’t think that medium people are talking with the dead, at best it’s a hallucination or a lie, at worst it’s a trickster entity that should not be interacted with under any circumstance.

    So I just peaced out and I feel like I made a good choice.

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      Psychic medium is a huge red flag. They’re the worst kind of grifter, preying on the bereaved and desperate.

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        I just said “Uhh no thanks, I have to go now.” And walked away like homer melting into the hedge.

        She texted me a bunch after that but I just ignored them.

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    Because I was in the Navy at the time. Not wanting to date someone in the military isn’t a bad thing, I get that. But I talked about it in my profile and had several pictures of me on the ship in uniform. Then weird part was that when we met for our first date and it came up in conversation she acted like I had kept it secret. Really fucking weird.

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    This post is making me so beyond grateful that I never had to do online dating, and never ever will, I’d rather die a lonely old spinster than do online dating.

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      Well it’s not that bad xD of course this post is about the bad side of online dating

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    About 3 lines in back and forth the girl said “by the way, I don’t and won’t ever give head”. I said thats kind of a deal breaker and she unmatched me.

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      Seems a good way to make red lines clear, no? Personally i think head is just so… artificial

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        Giving head as a sex act is a physical manifestation of putting someone before yourself. There a lots of valid reasons why someone wouldn’t want to give/receive it, but the mechanic at work here I think is how that was the first thing she decided to share. Kind of a weird line in the sand to draw immediately lol

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          I dunno. Giving head almost feels selfish to me, like I’m vamping their chi and banking it.

          I get direct control of their pleasure epicenter and a front-row seat for every orgasm I cultivate and (harvest? extract? whatever).

          And aside from getting to feast on their pleasure, getting excellent sensory feedback (body, scent, taste, etc), tbh it’s just hugely fulfilling to take the intimacy they trusted me with and give it back as a memorable experience.

          I’m competitive, and basically a succubus, but IMO anything less than partner-centric sex leaves too much on the table to be worthwhile. QED

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          As someone with an Arrow to the knee since basically before tinder existed i thought that’s just efficiency in flirting nowadays haha

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        I don’t disagree with the first part. The second I couldn’t be more on a different page with ya. I like getting head as much as any sex act. More than most other things in fact. I could deep dive into why but absolutely nobody cares.

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    unmatched because i had a verified check mark and they didn’t know how to get one (neither did i)