Tinder

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:20 am

I figure this is has good Swamp potential, right?

You married people probably haven't used it, but I'm guessing you've heard of it. I haven't downloaded it, nor do I plan to (as I understand it, it uses real names, so that's a dealbreaker if I was considering it).

There's a great article in this month's GQ about it, but it's not online. It's fascinating to me -- and admittedly, it's not much different than a match.com or something -- especially about how inhuman it can be.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:29 am

Why would real names matter on Tinder? The only people who can see them are other people using their real names.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:36 am

Gunpowder wrote:Why would real names matter on Tinder? The only people who can see them are other people using their real names.

I'm paranoid!

(That's really it, honestly)

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:39 am

Just about everybody here is on it. I wish it came out three years ago so I could have used it for some easy J's.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:42 am

Gunpowder wrote:Just about everybody here is on it. I wish it came out three years ago so I could have used it for some easy J's.

Yeah, I think it's much more popular than I realized. Most of my friends are married, so I think I'm a little late to the party.

It seems like it'd be a good barometer of what level you can realistically aim for.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:53 am

I thought there was a Nickelback-esque music group you were talking about because that's what "Tinder" sounds like to me. (In the realm of Buckcherry, Chevelle, Fuel, Trapt, Hoobastank..etc)

Between the dialogue and a Google search, it's a dating website? I guess between my year in Korea and my 8 months (shit, already?) here I've missed out.

The video makes it seem like you can't live without it:

(Not for nothing, and I admit I'm the most oblivious guy of all time, but when a girl smiles at you like that, just go up and talk to her. Why the app? See, I'd never notice the smile at all. But he did so I'm kinda like "wtf?")

ZMan · Post by **ZMan** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:57 am

I'm not having luck with the online dating, but I'll check this one out as well. Zoosk, OKCupid, and Plenty o Fish all have similar matching systems where you decide yes or no, and if the other person matches it alerts you. The problem I've seen with those other sites is that you can be saying yes to someone 150 miles away and you don't find out until a "match" is made. Which is a fucking waste of time.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:05 am

You give us old married guys too much credit. According to the title of the first article that stood out to me on Google, it will get me more ass than the L train. The L train never did much for my love life, but the PATH train... that was a goldmine. Actually, I did get laid off the L-train once. Ha! Brooklyn girls, ammirite? Anyways, this app seems to take all of the effort out of getting laid, especially for an uber-attractive guy like myself. I was born 10 years too early.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:05 am

I don't get it. How did they find each other on the app if they don't know each other's name?

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:16 am

I'm on it. Talked to a bunch of chicks but have never met any in real life. It works well for my friends who are on the better-looking side. It helps to have a big Facebook presence (which I don't) since it notifies you of mutual friends. But really it's just something to do while on the shitter.

These can be funny though: tinderlines.com

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:17 am

Jerloma wrote:I don't get it. How did they find each other on the app if they don't know each other's name?

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 12:30 pm

Never heard of it until just now but, damn, it looks like each iteration of this stuff that comes along is aimed at (or is creating) shorter and shorter attention spans.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:07 pm

Scottie wrote:Never heard of it until just now but, damn, it looks like each iteration of this stuff that comes along is aimed at (or is creating) shorter and shorter attention spans.

TL;DR

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:35 pm

This particular app is all about people trying to bang. Probably why it's so huge in South Florida.

And there's always gonna be a market for that.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:50 pm

Gunpowder wrote:This particular app is all about people trying to bang. Probably why it's so huge in South Florida.

And there's always gonna be a market for that.

I'm guessing the the male to female ratio is skewed male. Even after accounting for all of the inevitable fake accounts for porn sites, webcams and escort services

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:49 pm

The Sybian wrote:
Gunpowder wrote:This particular app is all about people trying to bang. Probably why it's so huge in South Florida.

And there's always gonna be a market for that.
I'm guessing the the male to female ratio is skewed male. Even after accounting for all of the inevitable fake accounts for porn sites, webcams and escort services

Yeesh, it's probably 80/20.

Maybe I'll just create a Stan Brontoburglar Facebook account with a bunch of tight shirt pics.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 8:09 am

The Sybian wrote:
Gunpowder wrote:This particular app is all about people trying to bang. Probably why it's so huge in South Florida.

And there's always gonna be a market for that.
I'm guessing the the male to female ratio is skewed male. Even after accounting for all of the inevitable fake accounts for porn sites, webcams and escort services

It's not too bad from what I've seen and I know a bunch of people that clean up on it. I also know many females that use it. Of course, we're basically a separate country here.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:01 am

Gunpowder wrote:
The Sybian wrote:
Gunpowder wrote:This particular app is all about people trying to bang. Probably why it's so huge in South Florida.

And there's always gonna be a market for that.
I'm guessing the the male to female ratio is skewed male. Even after accounting for all of the inevitable fake accounts for porn sites, webcams and escort services

It's not too bad from what I've seen and I know a bunch of people that clean up on it. I also know many females that use it. Of course, we're basically a separate country here.

My impression, based on nothing, is that women in South Florida are much quicker to put out. It just seems like a one night stand kind of place.

Gunpowder · Post by **Gunpowder** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:21 am

It's not difficult, that's for sure.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:42 am

in the GQ article, the guy quoted said that Midwestern girls were nicer than in other places. Maybe we have lower standards, or are "classier" or something.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:38 pm

Brontoburglar wrote:in the GQ article, the guy quoted said that Midwestern girls were nicer than in other places. Maybe we have lower standards, or are "classier" or something.

Maybe the midwest farmer's daughters just really make you feel alright.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:06 pm

Olympic Village Hookups? Everyone's Using Tinder in Sochi

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:08 pm

The first email system I ever saw was in the Olympic village in 1984 LA. Yes, they were used for hookups. The public could send messages to athletes. Yes, I used it to try to hook up (until I did meet Cheryl Miller in person--no thank you.)

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:24 pm

Johnnie wrote:Olympic Village Hookups? Everyone's Using Tinder in Sochi

One of the funnier and lesser known bits about Vancouver 2010 is that the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee supplied free condoms for the athletes, by the box load, and ran out! They had to cut a deal with a local medical supplier to get a bulk shipment "ASAP" about ten days into the games. Let's just say that the hormone level was rather heightened among athletes during that fortnight when you consider that VANOC ordered 100,000 condoms for the athletes to begin! That's about a dozen per.

ETA: A report on it in case you don't believe me. Heh.

Post by **brian** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:39 pm

Seems like maybe they should ban condoms and then every four years we could have a wave of genetic super babies.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 5:06 pm

That's just a fuckton of condoms for everyone to burn through in 2 weeks. I think there was an article on espn a couple years back that kind of tried to pry some info out of a few participants but they wouldn't confirm anything that couldn't already be inferred. It's basically the Playboy grotto and Las Vegas combined under the shroud of omerta during the Olympics.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Wed Feb 12, 2014 11:14 pm

Are there any markings on the wrappers? Because if they are, I'd imagine they'd be fun "souvenirs" to take home and utilize at a later date.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 2:40 am

The condoms in Vancouver didn't have any Olympic markings on them. None at all. And that's why. They didn't want them taken home as souvenirs, they wanted the athletes to actually use them. The initial supply in 2010 was a generic no-name looking condom in a sort of barely blue tinted transparent package that came from a national (or maybe provincial? I forget) center for disease control. I think they were manufactured by Durex. So they were "bulk", as it were. If the packages even listed a manufacturer it would have been imprinted on the edges along with an expiration date.

The transparent sleeve packaging is to remove all doubt as to what is in the wrapper. This remove-all-doubt universality works well when dealing with thousands of people speaking dozens of different languages. It also helps when dealing with the lowest strata of local society (the local junkies, not the athletes, obviously) to whom these are ordinarily dispensed, presumably to prevent them from procreating, along with their weekly supply of sterilized heroin syringes.

One other thing I remember about all that, back when I was working for VANOC before the games began, was the running joke (for a little while anyway) that 100,000 condoms seemed "excessive" for what was effectively only a two-week event, which is why the athletes were given about a one-per-day supply with the reasoning being that, hey, nobody could need any more than that (right?) and they can take the rest home for future use. Apparently not! Nobody, and I mean nobody, imagined that VANOC would run short and have to order another 20,000 or so more. And apparently, too, London 2012 had more per athlete than Vancouver and Sochi has more per athlete than London.

So I figured, hey, how often am I going to have the chance to bang an Olympian every night?

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:44 am

brian wrote:Seems like maybe they should ban condoms and then every four years we could have a wave of genetic super babies.

Heh.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:30 pm

Scottie wrote:The condoms in Vancouver didn't have any Olympic markings on them. None at all. And that's why. They didn't want them taken home as souvenirs, they wanted the athletes to actually use them. The initial supply in 2010 was a generic no-name looking condom in a sort of barely blue tinted transparent package that came from a national (or maybe provincial? I forget) center for disease control. I think they were manufactured by Durex. So they were "bulk", as it were. If the packages even listed a manufacturer it would have been imprinted on the edges along with an expiration date.

The transparent sleeve packaging is to remove all doubt as to what is in the wrapper. This remove-all-doubt universality works well when dealing with thousands of people speaking dozens of different languages. It also helps when dealing with the lowest strata of local society (the local junkies, not the athletes, obviously) to whom these are ordinarily dispensed, presumably to prevent them from procreating, along with their weekly supply of sterilized heroin syringes.

One other thing I remember about all that, back when I was working for VANOC before the games began, was the running joke (for a little while anyway) that 100,000 condoms seemed "excessive" for what was effectively only a two-week event, which is why the athletes were given about a one-per-day supply with the reasoning being that, hey, nobody could need any more than that (right?) and they can take the rest home for future use. Apparently not! Nobody, and I mean nobody, imagined that VANOC would run short and have to order another 20,000 or so more. And apparently, too, London 2012 had more per athlete than Vancouver and Sochi has more per athlete than London.

So I figured, hey, how often am I going to have the chance to bang an Olympian every night?

I read an article that after Vancouver, London decided that they had to plan for a lot more condoms than they initially thought. I have been seeing these articles for years, probably since Sydney in 2000. I have always been greatly intrigued, as since I was a boy I was intrigued by girls from other countries. Add in the fact that every single one of them is a world class athlete, filled with the testosterone of the pinnacle event of their athletic careers... It is inevitable, really. I always felt bad for the athletes whose competitions were held towards the end of the games. How great would it be to finish up a few days in, then party your ass off for 10 days in the Olympic dorms? Some great stories came out from London. Some names were named. Lochte was supposedly a big winner. Hope Solo talked about sneaking an A-list celebrity into the village and banging him in her dorm room. The US Women's soccer team supposedly had a raucous party after their Finals. Lots of stories about sex going on everywhere, including outside in plain sight. Another US men's swimmer talked about how he had a girlfriend at his first Olympics, and decided never to make that mistake again, and made sure to be single for his second Games.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 4:51 pm

I also think I'd be more surprised if Tinder wasn't being used heavily

And since the Russians are hacking everyone's phones, are they keeping data on who is getting the most Tinder connections? That'd be awesome.

Brontoburglar · Post by **Brontoburglar** » Thu Feb 13, 2014 6:34 pm

The Onion fucking nails it.

Scottie · Post by **Scottie** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:33 pm

More . . . Sex and the Olympic Village

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Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:44 pm

I downloaded the app. No matches yet. If you're in a major area then this app would be awesome. In Germany it's meh. I have to set my radius at 40 miles most of the time.

cerrano · Post by **cerrano** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:41 pm

Johnnie wrote:I downloaded the app. No matches yet. If you're in a major area then this app would be awesome. In Germany it's meh. I have to set my radius at 40 miles most of the time.

if you're a major in the area, the app is probably pretty awesome too, eh, airman?

Post by **brian** » Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:59 pm

cerrano wrote:
Johnnie wrote:I downloaded the app. No matches yet. If you're in a major area then this app would be awesome. In Germany it's meh. I have to set my radius at 40 miles most of the time.
if you're a major in the area, the app is probably pretty awesome too, eh, airman?

That's sergeant to you, peckerwood.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:14 am

Naturally, I didn't even think about using this app to get laid at Coachella this weekend until right now.

I was using it for the few days I was in Phoenix just being bored (to no avail), but not during the biggest music festival of the year.

I'm so stupid.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun May 17, 2015 5:15 am

Reddit's r/Tinder subreddit is awesome:

This was excellent.

Start with the photo, read the comment, and the two below it.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 5:37 pm

bump.

It would appear from this interview that Tinder's CEO/co-founder, Sean Rad, is a conceited moron.

...He’s desperate to impress on me how gallant he is, citing the fact that a “supermodel, someone really, really famous” has been “begging” him for sex “and I’ve been like, no”. She’s “taunted” him, he says, and “called me a prude”.

“She’s one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen but it doesn’t mean that I want to rip her clothes off and have sex with her. Attraction is nuanced. I’ve been attracted to women who are ...” he pauses “... well, who my friends might think are ugly. I don’t care if someone is a model. Really. It sounds clichéd and almost totally unbelievable for a guy to say this, but it’s true. I need an intellectual challenge.”

He continues: “Apparently there’s a term for someone who gets turned on by intellectual stuff. You know, just talking. What’s the word?” His face creases the effort of trying to remember. “I want to say ‘sodomy’?”

Rosette [his PR person] shrieks: “That’s it! We’re going to be fired” and Rad looks confused. “What? Why?”

I tell him it means something else and he thumbs his phone for a definition. “What? No, not that. That’s definitely not me. Oh, my God.”...

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 3:56 am

The word is actually sapiosexual.

Tinder seems to be working well for a friend of mine here. Not so much for me. Oh well.

But there's a new app I've heard of called Happn. Basically you turn on the GPS setting and others with the app do the same and you'll get those that have intersected with you.

I guess the idea is you are out bar hopping so those you intersect with are already out and you can get together that way. I heard about it on the podcast The Tasteless Gentleman.

I'll give it a shot when I get back in the States.