Post: #1

Behold the latest Datelab. Warning-Cringeworthy!

Summary: DC Guy gets setup with a woman who is much older, ultra SJW, communist and snarky.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle...fd38fab84d

Of all the days in 2018 for a man and a woman to meet on a blind date, few have been as fertile or even as potentially fraught as Sept. 27. That’s when psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It’s also when Bob Lynch and Kim Lehmkuhl met at Centrolina, an Italian market and restaurant in CityCenterDC. Imagine the Very Special Episode™ of Date Lab that could ensue. Imagine this cultural moment crystallizing here. Imagine how satisfying it could be if they really got into it, whether by vociferous arguing or emphatic agreement.

Well, you’ll have to keep imagining.

The hearing was clearly on Kim’s mind. A 38-year-old self-described “law-school dropout,” she is temping at a nonprofit, identifies as an anarcho-communist, and is a proud member of Democratic Socialists of America. She says dating often “feels like work,” and the hearing put her in a bad mood on a day when she’d already woken up hung over. As the date started, she was still feeling the previous night’s drinking, and she told Bob as much soon after they sat down.

“I liked how frank she was with that,” recalled Bob, a 32-year-old management consultant for the federal government. He entered the restaurant with his own baggage — the sopping wet variety. En route to Centrolina, he’d been caught in a downpour — a tonal complement to the day’s political tumult.

Bob may have appreciated Kim’s candor, but he wasn’t as willing to put himself out there. Soon after sitting down, Kim mentioned Kavanaugh so as to acknowledge the elephant in the room. But Bob was all, What elephant?

“Bob was very, very committed to keeping it very surface the whole time,” Kim said later.

“I avoided trying to talk about it, and I think she did, too,” said Bob, who believes that talking about politics on a first date is impolite. “I think I said, ‘Yeah, I watched that while I was at work today,’ and it was a kind of, let’s roll our eyes and talk about something else type of thing.”


Kim Lehmkuhl and Bob Lynch. (Daniele Seiss/For The Washington Post)
Outside, it was rainy and wet. Inside, however, Bob described the first part of their date as “dry,” saying at one point the question-and-answer rhythm felt like that of a job interview. Their conversation about travel went on a little too long for Kim’s liking, and she even compared it to a “pissing contest” of all the cool destinations they’d been to. “It wasn’t said meanly, it was just to laugh off: Okay, let’s take a different tack,” said Kim.

They both enjoyed their shared apps of ratatouille, roasted cauliflower and artichoke salad (and then an additional beet salad with homemade pesto that the restaurant comped), and mains of ravioli (for her) and gnocchi with sweetbreads and pancetta (for him). There was also a round of mid-date Negronis (Kim rallied), and things became progressively comfortable in Bob’s view, particularly when they realized they had a mutual acquaintance (a neighbor of Bob’s, whose Advisory Neighborhood Commission campaign Kim was helping to organize).

“I was having a nice meal, it was nice to get inside from the rain, I looked cute and had my makeup on,” said Kim.

She described Bob as “nice-looking,” but even though they tacitly agreed to bypass the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, politics ended up interfering with attraction. She found herself clearly to the left of Bob, and “I just don’t care to do that kind of emotional labor of pretending that your very cagey views are interesting.” For example, when she brought up Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans having afforded white nationalists a private Metro car for a rally this past August, “it seemed like he felt it didn’t impact him directly, and that’s where my politics come from,” she said.

Bob called Kim “attractive,” adding that her naturally gray hair was “unique” (it’s hard to see in the photos, but she has gray hair) and that she was very well dressed. “She’s clearly a smart person and could hold all sorts of conversations, and I found that refreshing,” he said.

After Centrolina, they walked to the Metro together and Bob asked for Kim’s number. And that’s when the awkwardness came to a head. “How long have I been alive that I [still] don’t have a response [to that question]?” wondered Kim, who forked over her number reluctantly. “I always feel like a jerk in that situation. But yeah, I’m not into it.”

“When I asked for her number it felt like, Okay, maybe she isn’t as interested in seeing each other as I thought,” said Bob. “That’s totally fine! It’s not going to break my heart, I promise!”

Rate the date
Bob: 4 [out of 5]. “It was a great meal, she was a great conversation, I had a great time.”

Kim: 3. “As dates go in D.C., this was squarely how most of them go. I’m neutral about it.”

Post: #2

This is one step off of Onion parody.

"It felt like a pissing contest." Honey - the last thing I want to do is have a 'pissing contest' with a woman. Women don't have pissing contests. Stop appropriating my culture. You don't do aggressive, ball-busting well; you're just bossy and controlling, not fun.

Post: #3

You could land a plane on her forehead.

Post: #4

If dating feels like work, it must mean she has a dead pan personality.

Post: #5

I can’t imagine how miserable that date must have been. A woman who calls herself an “anarcho communist” at 38, while living in one of the most expensive cities in the US is so full of shit it’s not even funny. Here’s another thing. She’s a law school dropout. Grad schools typically only accept people who have the wherewithal to graduate. That generally means she’s a fuck up at life.

The only redeeming quality it seems she has is that she’s thin, but I doubt she works out. As someone who lives in the greater DC area, she’s precisely the kind of person who turns up in my searches on all of the “normal” dating sites. Late 30s, plain looking, dresses like a school teacher, talks about all the exotic places she’s been, yet has never ventured more than 50 miles out the city to where the true deplorables live. She’ll tell you why we need to do a bunch of shit for Africa because she’s been there, but says “racism” when you ask her why she thinks people voted for trump.

The whole thing seems like it was awful. I can’t imagine going on a first date with someone like that.

Post: #6

Quote:A 38-year-old self-described “law-school dropout,” she is temping at a nonprofit, identifies as an anarcho-communist, and is a proud member of Democratic Socialists of America. She says dating often “feels like work,” and the hearing put her in a bad mood on a day when she’d already woken up hung over.

Ugh. How many red flags can you fit in one sentence?

1. 38.
2. drop out
3. temp...
4. ...at a non profit!
5. anarcho-communist
6. Democratic socialist
7. misanthrope
8. alcoholic

I mean, he's certainly no prize but goddamn, they don't make humans much more disgusting than her.

Post: #7

(11-29-2018 03:24 PM)Aurini Wrote:  This is one step off of Onion parody.

"It felt like a pissing contest." Honey - the last thing I want to do is have a 'pissing contest' with a woman. Women don't have pissing contests. Stop appropriating my culture. You don't do aggressive, ball-busting well; you're just bossy and controlling, not fun.

I feel like you're lighting a fire under her ass.

In other news, in 2012 she got in trouble because her job as a city clerk in a small town involved taking minutes, but instead she decided to criticize everyone present on Twitter.

For some reason they couldn't fire her, found relief when she resigned, but not before she sent them a bitchy email:

Quote: I wish the City the best of luck in finding some schmuck eager to transcribe every last misogynistic joke, self-indulgent anecdote, and pathetic pandering attempt by Council.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Pl...58201.html

The mayor of the town was less diplomatic than the guy on the date, and succeeded in summarizing the date accurately as well, six years before it happened:

Quote:Our municipal nightmare is over.

Post: #8

I'm so glad to be out of DC. They are nearly as bad down south at this point, sadly.

I try to kill the political conversation with stuff like 'the election is over, there is nothing more any of us can do, time to put politics back in its box' it rarely works. For some girls, political opinions are the only personality that they have, no books, no hobbies, nothing but politics, glam and maybe a cat. I'm looking for something interesting in my next relationship, like singing, drawing, gardening, something, anything. I can't understand how so many people can settle for such empty uninteresting lives.

I too am a law school dropout, I can confirm that it is a massive fuckup at life. My average was a fraction of a point too short to advance and I couldn't stomach another yeah of fuck me in the ass student loans to repeat courses. Lots of other guys in the same situation have killed themselves. Can't say that I didn't think about it many years ago. Thankfully the manosphere was there.

Post: #9

38 my ass. More like 48.

Post: #10

Look on the bright side, she'll never have (her own) kids to raise by telling them disgusting lies.

At least that's a win.