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I've thought about doing something ridiculous like this for fame game.

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(12-08-2013 05:28 PM)Peregrine Wrote:  

Quote:He also said he turned down an offer to appear on a US talk show.

Just when he couldn't possibly get any dumber...

Or the whole thing is a hoax that blew up beyond his expectations, and he's now trying to reign it in so he doesn't get rumbled.

Could go either way at this point.

Post: #128

(12-06-2013 12:12 PM)samsamsam Wrote:  Reminds me of this article from a few years ago. He found her I think, dated and it ended.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...ubway.html

But he drew this lol.

Note how his dream girl is wearing shorts, clown-colored tights, sneakers, and has short hair.

The programming of American men to have low standards has been incredibly successful.

"HEY GIRL I SAW U ON THE SUBWAY TONITE AND UR SO BEUAITUFUL I JUST HAD TO DRAW U PLEASE LET ME FIND U!"

Post: #129

The guy who 'had love at first sight' with the girl on the subway is quite interesting.

For a start he is pretty good looking (in a boy band kind of way).

Also - he seems to be projecting alot on to the girl. Because she has a quirky style and was jotting notes into a notebook. This projection is pretty common among betas. They see a chick with a notebook or taking photographs - an in their head she becomes some incredibly gifted artist who is totally unique. I dunno' what it is - but little touches like this get the hamster spinning in the mind of the beta.









They split up after a couple of months.

Personally I like the girls style. She is a good example of a '6' who has worked enough on her style and look (with feminine touches) to pass herself off (to some) as an '8'. I think that is commendable - I wish more girls would make an effort.

Note: Whilst the subway story was probably genuine. It is the sort of media hack which would be easy to fake if you are trying to generate publicity for yourself or something. This has all the hallmarks of the perfect 'viral' media stunt. This is exactly the sort of the story that media gobbles up with no questions asked.

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(12-08-2013 07:32 PM)houston Wrote:  I've thought about doing something ridiculous like this for fame game.

What do you think the chances are that this is a well-established forum member with a high post count, plenty of rep points and he's laughing his ass off right now, but can't say anything because he doesn't wanna give the game away?

Post: #131

(12-06-2013 03:38 AM)bachelor tax Wrote:  According to some of the comments they found a possible match on facebook, twitter, linkedin and instagram. The owner has since deactivated all of them. Bad sign for homeboy!

(12-08-2013 03:33 PM)Bricks Wrote:  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl...d=11169158

Here is the updated article

"We found the girl ... She is from DC, she's not there at the moment, but she's sorta taken all her public profiles [offline] for a little bit."

lold at "sorta"

He hasnt even talked to her yet, she hasnt "sorta" done anything.

This story fascinates me.

*ahem*

(12-05-2013 02:48 AM)Enigma Wrote:  She probably saw the Facebook page already and deleted her profile.

Post: #132

Here in BA we had a herb like this, but he found his "dreamgirl" in the bus. He filled the city with photocopy adds.

Source - In spanish

Post: #133

Only in NYC does that Subway fairy tale fly. It's a market skewed in a mans corner.

Post: #134

I cannot begin to grasp just how retarded this is, it just reeks of desparation How a woman would not be repulsed by such overt betatude is incomprehensible

Post: #135

A young man meets a young woman on New Year’s Eve. She’s crying in the street and he takes it upon himself to cheer her up. Some hours later, after they’ve reconnected with her friends and had a night on the tiles, they part ways at 6am. “Find me,” she says, and disappears into the night.

No, it’s not the synopsis for the new Julie Delpy/Ethan Hawke vehicle Just Before Maccas Opens, but rather a tale spun by Reese McKee, a New Zealand bloke who is trying to find a woman he thinks might be The One.

"I got the idea to use Facebook in June but the timing wasn't right,” he says of his newly minted Facebook-assisted campaign to find his ‘Katie’. “I think this time of year people have hope for the magic (of Christmas). If nothing else, it would just be great to get in touch with her and say 'thank you'. To say 'Hi, how are you doing?'."

A Facebook page set up by Reese McKee to look for Katie.
A Facebook page set up by Reese McKee to look for Katie.

McKee made sure to decorate his search for love with details of his own romantic misadventures. He’d given up on love, see, until he met this girl. (Nobody seems to question the fact that this burning desire to meet her again was lukewarm enough to take almost an entire year to get cracking.)

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Naturally, the citizens of the internet have reacted with a chorus of “aww” and vowed to help McKee track down his mystery lady. Gawker and a variety of other news outlets have helped McKee’s story circulate. “This is beautiful! The world needs more magic, I hope you cross paths with this lovely again, she left footprints on your heart and that is enough reason to be reunited with her,” writes one fellow Romantic™ on McKee’s Facebook page.

Through all this, however, few people have stopped to consider this very real possibility: what if “Katie” doesn’t want to be found?

A woman’s saying “find me” in real life is quite different to what that might mean in a romantic comedy context. Who’s to say that “Kat” didn’t say “find me” in the same way one might give out their long-since-disconnected home phone number or an email address with one letter missing?

That may seem unnecessarily brusque but sometimes it feels kinder than saying, effectively, “have a nice life” after an evening that was reasonably diverting but not in any danger of becoming something more. Generally speaking, if a woman really wants a dude to “find her”, she’ll give him her mobile, home phone, email and friend him on Facebook.

One of the few voices of dissent amid the “greatest romance ever”-type frantic “sharing” comes from Amanda Hess at Slate’s XX, who posits that we (“we”) are just as guilty as McKee of glorifying creepy behaviour as something touching or romantic.

“It’s about all of us concocting a real-life Love Actually plot in the service of facilitating some guy’s international womanhunt,” Hess writes. “If Reese had just been like, ‘I am looking to hunt down a woman. All I have is her name, general location, and this photograph she never consented to be blasted across the Internet,’ we would all probably be like, ‘Dude—leave Katie alone.’ But thread in a few personal details about hurt, heartbreak, and personal discovery, and we’re all asking, ‘Do you recognize this face?’ in the service of remedying Reese’s (deeply thematic) sense of loss.”

Whatever this mystery woman meant by her sign off to McKee, she now finds herself (sorry) in an untenable position: if she does reconnect with McKee, only to demur, the great rom-com-brainwashed horde will likely decry her as unfeeling, even ungrateful. She must be some sort of cold-hearted cow if she doesn’t appreciate that sort of huge romantic gesture, right?

Perhaps you remember the granddaddy of “man seeks mystery woman” stories, back in 2007: Patrick Moberg set up a web presence in order to track down the “NY Girl Of My Dreams” (dot com), who turned out to be Australian expat Camille Hayton. When the couple broke up - of their two-month-ish relationship, Hayton said, “The situation was so intense that we bonded in a way that you could mistake for being more romantic than it was” - more than a few commentators sniffed that Hayton, not Moburg, was a cruel opportunist (among other less printable epithets).

Stunts like McKee’s and Moburg’s, and all the ones that came in between them, go beyond a “missed connection” listing or newspaper personals ad and shoot the search for romance into the stratosphere, inevitably because the searcher didn’t have the gumption to ask a person on a date - or simply say “hello” - without thousands of internet users to back them up. They are “romantic” in the same way that showy wedding proposals are “romantic”: they’re all about the spectacle (Guy Debord would be proud), and the entitlement of the searcher.

Most of all, though - just like the rom-com situations that inspire these kinds of stunts would be if they lept from the screen into reality - they’re just creepy, and the sooner the internet stops rewarding creepy behaviour with misplaced celebration, the better.

Stop rewarding 'romantic' behaviour online

Post: #136

This average DC 4.5 had probably tons of dicks in her all year long.

Girls these days are simply disgusted with romantic gestures of any kind

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...found.html

Post: #137

(12-12-2013 08:41 AM)fortyfor Wrote:  This average DC 4.5 had probably tons of dicks in her all year long.

Girls these days are simply disgusted with romantic gestures of any kind

I wouldn't be surprised if Gmac hit it at some point.

Post: #138

(12-12-2013 08:41 AM)fortyfor Wrote:  Girls these days are simply disgusted with romantic gestures of any kind

The Female-dominated media in my country seems to have all decided that this is 'stalking' rather than 'romance'.

I think girls these days are all emotionally-depressed and disconnected enough that they no longer believe in romance, and even the possibility of lasting relationships. I've had 17 year old girls offer up anal on the first night. That was something us older guys used to have to work for. My young cousins only talk about their boys as 'my hookup', never 'my boyfriend'.

Post: #139

Actually, the more i think about this, the more suspicious I get:

What kind of girl wouldn't want to bask in the international media attention of this, current boyfriend or not? She could pull the 'you're a nice guy, but I'm in a serious relationship' line, and public opinion wouldn't brand her as a bitch, but she'd still get on 'Today'.

What kind of girl would actually respect her friend's wish for privacy and not throw her into the spotlight to be part of the drama?

It's either a hoax, or she got enormously-fat in the last year.

Post: #140

Lovelorn Man's Online Search for Woman Backfires

Quote:But despite online sleuths finally locating her, a dejected McKee has called off the effort, as it appears the object of his affection does not want to be found.

Once again, this board called it (By the way, "Hello. Long time lurker, first time poster")

Post: #141

Was just about to post the above article.

Poor bastard. Do you see the callous nature of women now, friend? She does not want your affection. She used you.

Shit hurts.

Post: #142

Final chapter in this story

Quote:Unlucky end to Reese's search for love

A lovestruck Wellington man has been spurned by a mystery American girl after sparking a global campaign to track her down.

Reese McKee, 25, met a young woman he knew only as Katie in Hong Kong on New Year's Eve in 2012.

He found her crying on the side of the road and cheered her up. The pair spent the rest of the night together before parting ways at 6am.

Her last words, "find me," before slipping into the dawn of a New Year's Day.

Although he never got a contact number or email address, Katie's final words stuck with Mr McKee.

He then started a Facebook campaign in the hope of tracking her down.

After being catapulted by the NZ Herald, the campaign went viral, attracting the attention of international media, and Katie was found.

Britain's Daily Mail tracked 20-year-old Katie Capp down to a small French town near the border of Italy where she was studying.


However after Katie deleted all of her social media profiles, Mr Mckee shied from the success of the campaign.

He took down the Facebook page he used to launch his appeal and didn't respond to offers to reunite the pair.

"I'm just looking to settle it down," he told APNZ.

"It was a hell of a lot of pressure, after the second day it sort of dawned on me that if I was going through this much, then there was going to be an incredible wave of pressure slammed into her."

Mr McKee then mustered the courage to get in touch with Katie, sending her a heartfelt email.

However the Daily Mail revealed her eventual reply was "lukewarm".

"I just wanted to tell you that I'm flattered, but not interested in any relationship or whatever," she said in her reply.

"It was a memorable night and I'd just like to leave it at that."

Mr McKee said he accepted her decision and just wanted to reconnect and stay in touch, adding: "I don't think I'll hear from her again".

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl...d=11192295

Post: #143

(01-25-2014 05:18 PM)draguer Wrote:  "I just wanted to tell you that I'm flattered, but not interested in any relationship or whatever," she said in her reply.

"It was a memorable night and I'd just like to leave it at that."

Yikes, poor guy. Hopefully he learns from this public humiliation.

Post: #144

(01-25-2014 05:18 PM)draguer Wrote:  u]"I just wanted to tell you that I'm flattered, but not interested in any relationship or whatever[/u]," she said in her reply.

"It was a memorable night and I'd just like to leave it at that."

My original comment was that 'Find me' was a brush-off, not a request. Big surprise. How can these guys have so little understanding of women?

All this fuss over such a dumpy-looking chick.

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(12-05-2013 05:31 AM)RioNomad Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 12:15 AM)Rotisserie Wrote:  I hope he does find her, and gets brutally, horribly rejected to the point of tears. Then finds this forum, and becomes alpha.

That'd be a decent movie.

Am I the only one that wants this to happen, but he never finds the forum and becomes "alpha", he just keeps being a chump for the rest of his life?

I have way less sympathy for these guys than many forum members. I couldn't care less about helping guys like this out. Why is that you think? Maybe it's because I didn't start out like these guys, so I have no sympathy for them? Or maybe I'm an asshole?

It because you know they CAN'T be helped unless they WANT it for themselves. They have to go through shit like this Ad nauseum untill they find the answers they're looking for.. . or rather, are able to hear and see the answers they're looking for.

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The simp got what he deserved.

Post: #150

(01-25-2014 06:45 PM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:  

How do we get in touch with him and get him to join the forum on February 1st?