12 October 2007

Dating Sites and Hadrian's Wall

First of all the Parship datingsite is a mega rip off! I was curious how this stuff works and made an account several months ago. Occasionally I received email that new interesting people were added blahblahblah... I wasnt quite interested and only had an active account. That is until october 9th, I received an email that someone had contacted me. Meeting new people is always fun so I opened her profile. Parship had given her the boring nick of NW6KMC0W (I hope that's a server at work) and told me a message of 174 words was waiting for me. *And I can only read this message if I upgrade to a premium account costing 40 euros a month with a minimum of 3 months* Thats a fucking 120 euros! I can hardly afford my weekly groceries let alone 120 euros for a date! The annoying thing is that after checking her profile she seems an interesting person... but there is no way I am going to make a choice between having dinner the next 3 weeks or reading a 174 word message... The system will only let me reject her, postpone a reply or pay up to read and send a reply.

So I decided to beat the system.

Now I know I could attempt to break the parship site but that could cost me days and currently time is in as short a supply as money, so that one is out. Instead I changed my profile to send her a message... the annoying thing is that the people at Parship check changes before they are released on the web. So to send a message I had to hide it :) If she is smart she might figure it out, if not I at least gave it a try. I am not counting on anything.

Anyways, the top part of the profile is called 'A day is perfect if...' in which wrote the following:

I think of weird stuff. That *real* life for example can be put into one word which sneakily isn't one real word but at least it is a whole: 'TheFabulousJourney'. TheFabulousJourney can really be found by a bit of googling and magic. You only have to do it! Before you know it you have traveled with Verne to the Middle of the Earth or are introduced to Narziss and Goldmund by Hesse.

I hope it is clear that you can search google for TheFabulousJourney and stumble upon this blog and my deviantart page. Leave a message if you do.

Anyways, on a different topic. Tomorrow I will be leaving for England and a 140 kilometer hike along the Hadrian Wall. I have packed my stuff and kept my backpack below a reasonable 17kg. See you all in 10 days time. I will put up pictures etc.

*waves*