I'm beginning to wonder. :P

So, for anyone who isn't familiar with how OkCupid works, every day you get sent three matches in your "Quiver". These are typically users who meet your search criteria and have a fairly high match percentage with you based on questions you've both answered. A while back a guy popped up in my Quiver that had a 93% match with me, and I noticed he's from a town where my car once broke down, so I sent him a message about it. We started talking, and I realized, I have no idea how our match is that high. Even by just reading his profile and having a brief conversation with him, I'd already decided I could and would never date this guy. Hell, I wouldn't even want to be friends with him.

First off, OkCupid doesn't take into account your physical preferences for a partner unless you pay for a premium membership. I was not even remotely attracted to him. He looks a lot like this guy I know who pretty much always smells horrible, so I'm sure that didn't help his case. He does have a pretty sweet picture of himself dressed as Billy Mays, though.

Secondly, the second sentence of his profile states he's an "average 24-year old guy", and talking to him pretty much confirmed it. I hate average. Average bores me. As I read through the questions he answered, I realized we had a lot of things we disagreed on completely. He read the question, "For people who are in exclusive relationships, is masturbation a form of infidelity?", and answered that, yes, it is. When I asked him about it he explained that he interpreted the question to mean that you're masturbating in front of other people. From my interpretation, the question in no way implies that, and I explained that, but he wouldn't change his answer. That bugged the hell out of me for some reason. He also expressed that he believes all people in America should speak English exclusively, which I find to be rather ignorant. He also said he has no idea what fetishes are.

How does a grown man with the internet not know these things?!! He even says he watches a LOT of porn. WTF does his watch? Is there a vanillamissionary.com?

Anyhow, let's see, he also said feminism has had a negative impact on society overall, a kilometer is longer than a mile, he would immediately leave a date if he found out the other person had any sort of weapon on them, he wouldn't be comfortable marrying a bisexual person, he would never date a pagan, he hates horror movies, he'd have sex with someone who was overweight but never date them, and if he had a psycho-ex stalking him who was historically violent, he wouldn't tell a new partner! I kind of hate this guy just on principle.

Then in conversation, I asked him what the worst date he'd ever been on was (it tends to be a good icebreaker). He replied, "She was like late to the meeting place, then I had to leave like 10 minutes after that to get home for dinner (because my mom was cooking it). So we didn't get to spend to long with each other and get to know each other and that's probably why 3 years later we broke up." See, let that be a lesson to you all. If you don't get to know each other on the first date, you WILL break up three years later over it.