Comments on: TKOG Who writes the most absurdly specific personals ad in history

By: NoviceWorldTraveler

NoviceWorldTraveler — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:53:54 +0000

“Words make life taste better” made me fall in love all over again.
“You do not play World of Warcraft” HELL YEAH!! I am a former WoW widow. Ex couldn’t understand why I was so upset. Well, when he played for more hours than he spent at work, I felt it was an addiction. I’m just sayin’…

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:59:26 +0000

This made me really happy, this is pretty much an exact description of the guy I’m seeing right now.

By: Lala

Lala — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:42:03 +0000

ha ha ha! too awesome for emoticons so i’ll just laugh out loud.

i’m smitten by your damn blog. like i need more addictions in my life.

By: Michael Stypulkoski

Michael Stypulkoski — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:07:21 +0000

I actually had a pedophile dentist. I only went there twice, in an emergency.

I was more bothered by the fact that he voted Perot.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:38:02 +0000

…And by “jaded” I clearly mean “on tons of drugs”.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:36:40 +0000

Have you found that a lot of the replies have been a bit, shall we say, “over the top”? It’s been my experience that the #1 most effective method for eliciting poorly executed attempts at clever humor is to ask people to be intelligent and witty.

But maybe I’m just j-j-jaded. Like Steven Tyler.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:02:02 +0000

This sounds so much like something that I’d say. No lie.
And the title says it all. Good luck!

By: That Kind of Girl

That Kind of Girl — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:57:38 +0000

I was going to say — if your comment had been made in earnestness, I would have been disappointed in your extreme defensiveness. Because girlfriends didn’t have a problem that boyfriends got together to play their silly games. Girlfriends had a problem that boyfriends: 1) tended to make the plans spontaneously, not leaving girlfriends — who tend to put more stock in scheduling — time to work out their own evening plans; 2) invariably ended up staying out two or three hours later than they guessed the would and only very grudgingly responded to girlfriends’ texts and phone calls asking what time they thought they might be home.

No, I am not just using the royal plural. I’ve heard these complaints from lots of girls. There’s an epidemic amongst you boys, I suppose.

A big difference to me between nerdy board/card/computer/video games and life-suckers like WoW: the former category is used as a supplement to the player’s social life and a means of bonding with friends. I mostly have a problem with things like WoW when they dominate the player’s social life slash the player considers the game to be his (or her) major social outlet.

Not that this is necessarily a 100% terrible life decision but, dude, it’s my personals ad so I’m allowed to say that a guy like that could never fit with me. I have too many cocktail parties to go to.

By: The Ex

The Ex — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:52:08 +0000

Aw phooey, the blog comment form ate my pseudo-HTML. That first paragraph was supposed to read:

[defensiveness] [sarcasm] Yeah, those dumb, selfish boys, with their outside hobbies, interests, and sources of gratification, “leaving” their girlfriends.[/sarcasm][/defensiveness]

By: The Ex

The Ex — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:53:18 +0000

Yeah, those dumb, selfish boys, with their outside hobbies, interests, and sources of gratification, “leaving” their girlfriends.

About WoW in particular, I do agree — I steer clear of things requiring that level of timesink, and I’m friends with a lot of former WoW addicts who agree that its effects were pernicious. So if you really just meant those 50-hour-a-week obsessions, I’m with you. But I was disheartened by the implication of the line in the Craigslist post, which is born out by this comment. Anyway…

Good luck to you, sincerely. <3