Attn: slavetrainingwantd-- I'd love to reply to your message but you appear to have blocked me, which makes it tough to do so.

And the day ends in the usual way: someone sending me a photo they claim is of them, and I find 30 copies of that photo on various adult sites. Sigh.

Impressive. I view a new profile, and I'm blocked before I can even send an email welcoming the person to the site. That's a new speed record, all right.

Well, that was one of the snottier replies I've ever gotten to a query. Good luck to you who fired off a reply and then blocked me, you're going to need it. (And even more luck to the person who enters any kind of a relationship with you.)

Am I the only one who's deciding whether or not to talk with someone based on their declared vaccination status? (And if you haven't been vaccinated yet, please do so. I want you around longer.)

It's amazing how many people on here stop talking to you after you send them a link to the porn site page they downloaded their profile pictures from.

Well, that's a new level of rudeness. Someone who claims she's looking forward to being tranced, but just wants a cigarette before we start. Two hours later, no reply, after numerous IMs and the like, and all the while I can see her on CM doing something else-- including reading my mail.

Usually, the courtesy of a reply is a bare minimum for politeness.

This might be the most depressing thing I've read on here all week: "i'm in callage so i dont have a lot of tim to be on de computr but ill try to rspend kwikly." How does one get into college without even knowing how to spell it?

Amazing how many spammers are 23 year old females that are 5'5.

A different way to tell fakes: the phone in the picture. If the picture is taken with a camera phone or cell phone that looks old or unfamiliar, you're probably right-- the picture is either dated or not from this country. Cell phones are changing quickly enough that you can date photos by them now. So if the camera in the picture looks like it came from 1998-- it probably did.

Latest amusement: a new profile that says: "My name is Michelle" but the picture shows a woman clearly wearing a necklace that says "Lisa"...

Oh, this is horrifying-- from a profile here:

I AM NOT LOOKING AT THIS TIME MY TOO KIDS COME FIRST !

She has two kids and doesn't know how to spell "two". Yeah, she does need someone to take care of her and her kids... 

One more time to make it clear: if your trust issues are such that you have fake pics up on your profile, or you're a man pretending to be a woman and not disclosing that, or any of a hundred other large fibs... what makes you think you will trust me enough to be hypnotized?

Because I will find out.

Here's another hint: when you say you're serious about exhibitionism and humiliation, try using your OWN photo on your profile.

Yet another: it helps to be able to spell the medical condition you have or claim to have. Hint: "scoliosis". Only three "s", one "l", and no "e" in it.

Another note for fakes: nobody has Internet access in Egypt right now. Saying you're there now doesn't make me believe you.

UPDATE: Yes, they have it back now. But the email that prompted this note was from yesterday.

To whom it may concern: You're not the only person who thought of taking a photo from another website and passing it off as your own. And people use http://www.tineye.com to check. So when you post a photo that's not you, you're merely pointing out that you can't be trusted to tell the truth. Never a good way to start a relationship.

Just as a note: don't tell me how smart you are in a message with three misspellings. You'll probably just get angry when I point it out.

The most useful picture I've seen in weeks:

http://www.obsidianfields.com/lj/nonmonogamy2.5.1.gif