“No First Date”: An Experiment in Getting Weird on Dating Websites

we're all losers in our own special way

It’s the single-serving sites with the simplest premises that work best.  At Wal-Mart, you don’t necessarily have to wear what some dictionary would call a “shirt.”  Hipsters always have to make a contest out of being terrible.  And most men will overlook virtually anything to bed an attractive woman.  That’s what drives No First Date, a series of conversations on a free dating website between a man posing as a pretty lady and his/her numerous gentleman callers.  In each, the writer sees how weird his female avatar can get before her suitors disengage.  It plays out like a cross between Boiling Point for desperate men and To Catch an Idiot.

Some of the victims are creeps, some are nice guys who are probably too naive to be using the internet, and some are simply fools, but this is pretty no harm, no foul all around I think.  Be sure to at least read the top few “Most Popular” ones.

No First Date.  Thanks to Jessika for the tip.

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Soulja Boy Faces Grown-Up Problems

at some point you must accept your responsibilities as a soulja man

Here is the problem with having millions of dollars when you are 19: you don’t know what to do with the money.  I mean, you certainly think you know what to do with the money, and you do that accordingly, but what you did with the money was not, in fact, the right thing to do with the money.  So you have Soulja Boy (Tell Em), a 19-year-old who has probably made more money than you or I will ever see in our lives, turning his debt on.

SB is renting out an apartment in L.A. and according to his landlord he’s been skipping out on rent. The property owner has filed paper work against him alleging that he owes over $9,300 in unpaid rent and late fees.

Rent?  Late fees?  ”Paper work”?  Look, he’s not billing himself as “Soulja Adult Tell Em.”  There will be plenty of time later for rent and late fees and divorce and getting into wine and complaining about taxes and grappling with the deaths of family members.  When you’re 19, you should be free to spend your allowance on popsicles and remote-controlled cars and the cinema and low-quality condoms.  I fear we’ve all deprived Soulja Boy of a childhood, by buying his ringtones.  We probably should not have done that.  Pertinent: a video of Soulja Boy’s diamond-studded toy Lamborghini, after the jump (has swearing in it!).   Continue »

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Important Spice Girls-Related News

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Just thought you should know: possible Spice Girls reunion.  According to The Sun:

Mel B has confirmed the Wannabe singers are planning an “exciting” comeback.

She said: “We are definitely going to be doing something together again soon.

Uh oh, but then today The Daily Mirror quoted her thus, from her Twitter page: “About singing, don’t know where that came from!”  Take that, The Sun. Newspaper fight!  Really though, talk to me when a Spice World sequel is in the mix.  This time with a bigger role for The Wire’s Jimmy McNulty, please.  You don’t remember Jimmy McNulty in Spice World?  After the jump.   Continue »

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Miss Plastic Hungary: An Honest Beauty Pageant

she had to defeat Miss Iron Hungary in a space battle for material dominance

A few months ago, I posted about an odd spin on the typical beauty pageant: the Miss Plastic Hungary contest, a celebration of augmentation, an undertaking of self-remaking, overachievers… under the knife.  Etc!  Well, the pageant finally took place.

To qualify for the pageant, the 18 Hungarian residents had to prove they’d gone fully under the knife — mere Botox or collagen injections did not count. Nearly all the contestants showed off augmented breasts, with reshaped noses also popular. One finalist had surgically adjusted toes.

And yet if you can imagine it, one plastic surgeon claimed, ”Plastic surgery has a bad reputation in Hungary but it’s mostly due to the exaggerations.”  Pics, video, and more details, after the jump.   Continue »

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POWER LUNCH

nice shirt

The Daily Bikini: Cecile de Menibus. (Celebslam)

WTF? Model Does Black Face for French Vogue. (Bossip)

Megan Fox Killed in Transformers 3?? (FilmDrunk)

Congratulations to Miss Homeless Belgium. (Guyism)

Sexy Baseball Illustrations. (Gunaxin)

Pamela Anderson, What Are You Wearing? (HQ-Celebrity)

Courtney Love Banned From Twitter. (Anything Hollywood)

China Thinks Sweden Has a Mythical Lesbian Town. (Guyism)

Bullets Hitting Things at 1,000,000 FPS Is Crazy. (Epic Carnival)

Best of the 2000s: The Top 100 T-Shirts. (Complex)

Shauna Sand Unfortunate Sex Tape of the Day (NSFW). (Drunken Stepfather)

The Pillow Fight (NSFW). (DRW)

Olga Kurylenko – Campari Calendar 2010. (Totally Crap)

Video: Cheerleader Comes Crashing Down After Teammates Run Over By TD Scoring Running Back. (Busted Coverage)

The Worst Princess Leia Costume of All Time. (Uncoached)

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Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Jessica Marquez

jessica marquez

Yikes, been a little light on the pedal with posts these last two days.  I have been a bit under the weather with something, probably something boring, but I swear, someday I will earn myself a Swine Flu Survivor tattoo (a pig with fangs biting down on a double-helix made out of barbed wire – literally, it is sick).  So I’ve been busy frowning about how bad I feel, punctuated by occasional breaks to swig brandy and watch On the Road, With Charles Kuralt, like I did as a kid.

However, here is Jessica Marquez.   Continue »

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Harpoon Car Literally Punches You With the Long Arm of the Law

This is ostensibly a device developed for state troopers in Finland, for the purpose of catching fleeing speedsters with outstanding arrest warrants on Finland’s Deadliest High-Speed Chases.  It’s a harpoon that attaches to the front of a patrol car, and it spears and secures the offender’s car.  Oh, and then it pumps tear gas into the haplessly skewered vehicle like some kind of poison SuperSoaker or sexual metaphor performed by Volvos.

This weapon never really went into production.  Maybe it seemed excessive.  Or maybe filling a vehicle with a cloud of blinding smoke at 100 mph caused unforeseen traffic problems.

Via UniqueDaily.

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Al Pacino, Hollywood’s Least Likely Prostitute

the world's oldest profession

Whenever the economy dips, you resourceful young people turn to unusual outlets in search of sustenance.  Perhaps you wait tables and submit scripts until you are old enough to recognize what failure is.  Perhaps you make and sell your own jewelry, or record and produce a rap single at Aunt Trudy’s house, or commit insurance fraud.  Or you could do what Al Pacino did:

“At 20, I lived in Sicily by selling the only asset I had – my body. An older woman traded food and housing in return for sex. I woke mornings not really loving myself.”

Remember: ”You gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”  Scarface director Brian De Palma probably had to do a few takes on that line.  ”Come on, Al, say it like you mean it.”   Continue »

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Video: The ’90s, When New-School Rap Was Founded

Rap Darth Vader?  What is that guy even supposed to be?  Rapping Madonna lookalike who also digs Jose Canseco?  2 real 2 b denied.  The ’90s were so different!  LOL :-)

“They didn’t have Ice Cube, so he bought Vanilla Ice.” -The Offspring, 1999.  I remember when that meant something.

Via Everything Is Terrible.

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Afternoon Pick-Me-Up: Brandy Amber

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Model and singer Brandy Amber today.  To remind us that though it may be October now, it will be summer again in like a year.   Continue »

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