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Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by p4wnc6 on Monday April 11, 2016 @04:59PM (#11475053)
I agree that friend networks can be a good pre-filter. Unfortunately for me, I live pretty far away from my closest friends, and I may be moving even farther away, so it has been hard. Once I am settled, I will have to invest in finding more friends in order to have the network. It's easy to let the salience of online dating seduce you in this kind of situation though ... but really it's like going for a candy bar when you need a meal.

I find your wording very cute: "the climbing man had consistently impressed me" -- I'm imagining some kind of Tarzan character who happened to be out with you when all sorts of freak occurrences happened that were perfectly suited for climbing: getting a cat out of a tree, getting a ball back for some children, getting back into an apartment when you've locked yourself out.

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Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by jakobegger on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:31AM (#11477617)
It's funny, when I read "the climbing man had consistently impressed me" I had a completely different image in my head. Rather than a show-off, I imagined a polite and friendly man, that showed genuine interest in the poster, struck up conversations about interesting topics, etc.
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Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by p4wnc6 on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @12:41PM (#11481098)
It's quite weird to me that the unusual adjective 'climbing' had no impact on the way you pictured it. Of course your description is more likely the real outcome, but it's a very unlikely immediate picture to have when the person describing it is making use of a bespoke aspect of the person (that he climbs) as the primary means of identifying him.
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Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by jakobegger on Thursday April 14, 2016 @02:50AM (#11494748)
I just realised that a bunch of people I like are into rock climbing, which might be the reason for the different association I had. Climbers are nice people, in my experience.
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Re:Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness'... by p4wnc6 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:42PM (#11498220)
I agree, and a number of my grad school friends were into climbing. I would never have identified them as "the climbing man" or "the climbing woman" though, since it was just one aspect of their personality. If someone had introduced one of them to me as "the climbing man" then the climbing stereotype would have obviously had some effect on my perception.
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