Brilliant :lol:
I dearly hope he gets somewhere with that profile!
Me and Mrs R met through online dating. I'd been trying it for a couple of years, with a profile set up in what I considered a truthful and sensible fashion. I'd send a "hi you're nice" message if I found someone I liked the sound of. I'd maybe get replies to 40% of them, usually a polite acknowledgement. Very little ever came of them. Usually when I responded to their reply I didn't get another. I certainly didn't get no wimin contacting me. Then a girl who I did strike up a friendship with pointed out that really early on I went into "Andrew-types-a-lot" mode (which you all know and love on here! :lol:) - and she said a lot of women could be surprised and put off by that. She said she thought it is what a lot of them want, but early on in the messages they're expecting something lighter and bitesize.
So one day I sat down and thought about my profile. I looked at the profiles of blokes, the ones who seemed to be popular. And I looked at the profiles of women who didn't appeal to me.
I realised I had to do two things:
1) Make it obvious in my profile that I was verbose so that no-one would be surprised by a sudden onslaught of text
2) Make myself look like some crazy (but benign) eccentric whose mind went off in all directions and found everything worth taking the micky out of... (this is actually quite close to what I am, but I come across as very serious much of the time).
So I concocted some huge essays and quizzes to put in all the boxes on my profile. And I gave obviously stupid answers to the set questions that I didn't think would affect me badly on searches. And I put what I thought was a reasonably daft photo of myself on there - but one that made me look pretty much like acquiantances thought I looked in real life. The idea behind the profile was to say "this is what you're gonna get if you're stupid enough to contact me...". There was even some vague hint of possible unbalanced behaviour, and I did deliberately include Silence of the Lambs and similar films (that I don't particularly like, or had even seen) at the end of my favourite films, after the real ones (The English Patient and My Fair Lady!).
I launched this profile one friday evening thinking "oh what the hell...". I didn't have a computer at home, so couldn't do anything else until the next Monday when I got back to work. I discovered I had 5 or 6 unsolicited messages from women by then! I'd never had women coming after me before on these dating sites, I was stunned. I had a laugh swapping messages with them. Then after a week or so of practising on them, I set about looking for women local to me that I liked the sound of. In my initial contact message I switched to a "really like your profile, take a look at mine" approach (which had been on average what women had been sending to me).
Seemed to work out quite well. Because my profile had a daft quiz in it (20 or so questions, to which I'd given a mixture of real and silly answers for myself, eg "What's your favourite sex-position?", my own answer "One in which I am allowed to join in"), the initial reply from someone often contained a lot of information because they often got sucked into doing the quiz in a similar light-hearted way.
So, yes, I think this guy's crazy profile might actually be successful. It is cleverly funny and scary at the same time. I assume there's a little more info about him on there somewhere. The page Dave's posted is pretty much a one-story joke/message - if that's all there is on his profile, I'm not sure it will be as successful as it could be.
