All Date Wrecks are wrecks. Their personal ads or online profiles are terribly written and/or have horrible pictures.

Are all Date Wrecks bad people? No. Some Date Wrecks are just hopeless dudes or broads who are clueless about what attracts the opposite sex.

Do I think this guy is a terrrrrrible person and should be flogged? Of course not.

Would I sit, bare-assed on anything in his apartment? Absolutely not.

They’re mutually exclusive.

How does commentary about information that is found publicly online violate a copyright?

I came across this site looking for the definition of “squicked out” of all things and really felt sorry for how this guy was being trashed.

When I read through his profile and saw he was an engineering student everything in his profile fell into place, even that (initially) weird comment about giving advice about robbing banks and torture techniques. As LichPrincess says, he’s nerdy and probably nervous, so .this was his way of being sarcastic, not realizing it would “squick out” the casual reader.

I worked with engineers for several years and was absolutely amazed at how guys who could get their heads wrapped around thermodynamics and differential calculus struggled to spell the simplest words (like… um … “tree” ). OK … maybe not that bad, but I think that’s more a comment on an educational/industrial system that puts a premium stuffing guys heads with data about hyperbolic functions (so they can design novel ways of dropping bombs on people) instead of learning how to communicate with their fellow human beings. Most of these guys were basically decent—and more importantly for our poor profile writer Johnnyobinome, married—in spite of their occasional lack of style, and I enjoyed working with them. I’m sure this guy will find someone.

One thing that squicks me out just a bit (aside from hyperneat people) is a Web site dedicated to slamming folk’s personals profiles. I’m as shocked as LichPrincess is that someone I personally know could get publicly slammed on the Internet just because some “squicko” they don’t know has too much time on his/her hands. What’s up with that? Aren’t personals covered by copyright?

Given that a different group of total strangers on the Internet are going to be looking at these profiles anyway, it seems to make sense.

I can see it now: sliding scales rating a particular entry’s appropriateness or grammar skillZ, and comment sections full of 43 people all screaming, “Don’t take a picture of your toilet, dude” and “WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN..PUT SOME CLOTHES ON,” et cetera.

Heh. Love this site.