What's your biggest turn-on when it comes to dating profile pictures?

[pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@alice I tried, for years, to talk to the "guys holding fish" about if they would take me fishing as a date and it was always: "oh that was one time on my buddy's boat" or "oh, that was from a trip" or "we were on a charter boat"

They NEVER actually FISH!!!!

[sarae@ecoevo.social]

@jef @alice I would have totally swiped right back in the day, since he's obvs a pro and I would have a lot to talk about with a fish bio

I used to swipe left if guys had photos where they were using a chainsaw with inadequate PPE

yes this meant that I got a variety of "sexy selfies" when my now-husband got a new pair of saw chaps

(I swiped right on him bc he had what I thought might be a Labor Notes reference on his profile AND IT WAS)

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@eruonna both.

[nilajones@zeroes.ca]

@alice

Photo taken inside a car!

WTAF???

And, if this is your only private space, does that mean you are married and cheating?

[pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@jef @alice

[sarae@ecoevo.social]

@eedly @alice I would have swiped right for the first one

I used to make sure I had pix of myself in field gear and a hard hat because it thinned out the guys who could not deal

[damonhd@mastodon.social]

@rupert @alice define "properly"!

[sarae@ecoevo.social]

@pencilears @alice IDK I matched with a guy who was an actual fishing guide once

but I was like six inches taller than him and not Roman Catholic so it wasn't going to work, alas

[Gæst]

@alice This sounds cursed. I wanna draw it

[eruonna@lgbtqia.space]

@alice or doing dick lips with its duck out?

[mikal@sfba.social]

@pencilears @alice

Similar experience matching and chatting with women who have a picture of themselves river rafting/rock climbing/skydiving/outdoorsy-ing. I now subconsciously caption those photos "here's that one and only time ever I did [activity] that I have no intention of doing again but posted because I want you to think I am adventurous. Also, it was eight years ago."

I am betting that straight men do this constantly. Seems very much like a dude thing.

[ripp_@chitter.xyz]

@alice Was looking for Blahaj, but then I see wrong anwsers only.

I am taking this literally

[pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@sarae @alice yeah, you need somebody who actively likes tall women, just not worth it otherwise.

[shadow53@floss.social]

@pencilears @alice Well clearly you never met *this* guy (satire): https://archive.is/2e9sf (archive/unpaywall of https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-a-tinder-guy-holding-a-fish-and-i-will-provide-for-you)

[pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@Mikal @alice yeah, I learned the hard way that people mostly falsely represent themselves as outdoorsy because that's a way of trying to avoid fat people.

Jokes on them, I'm fat and outdoorsy.

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@pencilears @sarae @alice
OMG.
You all really want the fisher people?
I can't NOT meet fish heads in my line of work.
Even *I'* have caught a few.

[pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@ohmu @sarae @alice the situation is dire out there if you're looking for a person with any kind of hobby

[clew@ecoevo.social]

people who like the same kind of fishing should hang out yesno? Save friction with other people

I know someone whose second marriage, late in life, was happy while they could both go bass fishing all the time and be silent together. Then they got too frail to do that and everything fell apart.

@ohmu @pencilears @sarae @alice

[didthat1957@mastodon.social]

@pencilears

Fishing is just an excuse to drink beer

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@alice [•] it’s on a dating site that would have me as a member