TheGintheCity
TheGintheCity
TheGintheCity

@MySandwich: Nerve has like 10 categories, one of them is definitely "in an open relationship"

Pleat your lips together — I feel like this is the word I see in Allure and such.

@CKD1: Mine was silly too; in answer to whether I have pets I said, "I live in the city, I'd rather not pick up poop." It took me weeks to figure out why my profile wasn't getting approved. I emailed them like 3 times and they didn't answer. (I also said, "if you're shirtless or holding a guitar in your profile

@WhoGonnaCheckMeBoo: Haaaaa! I went out with a guy from Match who was a pretentious ass, too! I proceeded to get drunk, tell him to his face he was a pretentious ass, and then made out with him anyway. His answer to nearly every question was, "Well, I have an MFA, after all."

@isacloud: Ha! I'm convinced some of these sites keep your name on the books if you complain and then tell you have no matches, out of spite!

@pursedangler: Yeah, I took myself out of the Nerve pool when I began to contemplate putting "If you want a woman whose record collection is more obscure than yours, I am not your gal" in my profile.

@clyderambutt: Good point — my brother met his soon-to-be fiancee on Craigslist. They were both in some kind of "bored. wanna chat?" type forum.

As a seasoned online dater with 3 sites under my belt and a 7-month relationship off of Match.com now underway, I offer the following observations:

@TheGintheCity: Ha ha, I totally wrote this before I saw NotoriousNewt's comment below!

Kate Gosselin photo bomb!

Ugh, am staring at a shelf full of "Dr." Laura books right now (work-related).

Sitting here today, itching the scaly, chafe-y spots I got from my sports bra while running last night, I give this news a rousing BOO!

@magnets: In fact, I have only heard of Kings of Leon because when I saw the Strokes, Kings was the opening band.

Oh man, Moon Pies. I am from a mountain state but we definitely had these in many vending machines.

@JulieSunday: I have several pairs of "cheap" shoes that I love (ie: $10 payless stuff), and I have paid probably 10x their value over the years in having them repaired. Manhattan sidewalks are murder.

@LadyTudorRose: Library Sales—thank you. I cringe when people buy used books. Your favorite authors (and your lovely neighborhood publishing friends, some of whom may be Jezebels *cough*) do not get paid when you buy used books.

@lunchcoma: Hear hear on the "consultations" — I got a Groupon for a "facial/peel and consultation" which turned out to be a 5 minute facial, and then a 25 minute product spiel ending in "buy our sunscreen, it's only $80 for 1.7 oz!"

@Sin DeRolla: Good to know — I eat Cheerios for breakfast every day, and when I grocery shop, that box is inevitably the most expensive item on my receipt unless I'm buying cleaning products or a big bottle of laundry soap that trip.