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Don’t Date Him Girl

Filed under: Insane Tripe — Matthew at 8:35 am on Wednesday, March 8, 2006

On the radio this morning, I heard about this website called Don’t Date Him Girl. It’s a site that allows women to post warnings, and photographs, of men that women should not date. This is a pretty ingenious site, even if it is probably prone to fraud.

The entries are what you might call the reverse of a personal ad. Take poor Jonathan Clark. From his picture, he looks like a handsome college dude. Read the description, and you soon come to believe the guy is a real sociopath:

You’re dating this guy? DON’T. About 99% of everything this guy has ever told you is a lie. Everything he claims to be and do is fabricated by his own overactive imagination. He says that he played football at Virginia Tech. Never happened. He never even went there—or to any real college. He gets girls by telling them that he is going to be a superstar NFL Punter soon, but until then, you’re just gonna have to buy him everything his little heart desires.

Ultimately, there is no way to verify whether this information is true, but it seems to me the real point of this website is not only to identify players, but to give women a forum on which to vent. Also, one cannot discount the fun factor in reading these hatchet jobs. It’s a humorous way to pass a few minutes on your lunch hour.

I hope none of you singles find a man you’re currently dating listed on this site.

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Comment by Dawn

March 12, 2006 @ 1:41 am

Ingenious indeed! Though what are the chances of actually finding the guy you’re dating of here? Pretty low, I suspect. I looked up my first “boyfriend” here, just for fun. Didn’t find him.

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Comment by Matthew

March 13, 2006 @ 12:54 pm

Did Todd or Dawn write the above comment? Assuming it’s really Dawn, you should create an entry for your old boyfriend. What kind of dirt would you dish up?

And if you created a “Don’t Date Him Girl” entry for your hubby, what kinds of things would you write?

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