Tag: dating

Crowdsourced dating

McCarthy sets up dates with men using OK Cupid, and uses her phone to stream a live video feed of the outings to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. The turkers observe the interaction and text realtime suggestions on what McCarthy should do in order to have an optimal date.

Smell your date

Humans receive important information about a potential partner’s immune system from their body odor. A partner is chosen on the basis of whether they offer the optimum complement to the individual’s own immune genes.

Bigotry

First Date Hell

usually twitter is just a bunch of illiterate nonsense, but it turns out that you can summarize bad dates in a few words.

Extreme Dating

DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork: Chocolates. If that doesn’t work, try roses. Don’t make a complicated plan on how to win their heart – just think of something simple and honest. RefactorMercilessly: If your date is less than impressed with your appearence or your PC vs Mac jokes, you’ve obviously done something wrong. Work to readjust their expectations of a date to something simpler and more reasonable. If you dare. Change your strategy if it’s going badly. Change yourself if you can’t see how to proceed.

chuckle

Best First Date Questions

funny as always. i hope they don’t get silenced with the boring.com merger.

Dating Tropes

If I had to choose overarching themes for white people’s lists, for men, I’d go with “frat house” and for women, “escapism.” Whether one begot the other is a question I’ll leave to the reader.

Dating Lies

80% of self-identified bisexuals are only interested in 1 gender. The primacy of America’s most popular threesome, 2 dudes and an Xbox, is safe.

lol

Japanese marry older

In Japan, 47% of men and 32% of women in their early 30s were unmarried in 2005.

contrast with the us, where people get married far too young.

Terminal Dating

Till-Death-Do-Us-Part.com is unlike any other dating site. It has been created for people who are living with a terminal illness–and who realize that the quality of life is profoundly affected by how we choose to face the inevitable.

How much time do you have left? How would you prefer to spend that time, and what kind of person–or persons–would you like to spend it with? Let us help you find a singing partner for your swan song.