Year: 2009

How To Write the Perfect Online Dating Message

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 19, 2009

One of the more popular – and free – online dating sites, OK CUPID, wants to be sure that you are able to land the date that you’re trying to get.

It makes their site more helpful, and drives more traffic to them. Can’t blame them for trying.

So after analyzing over 500,000 “first contact” messages that passed through their site, here’s OK CUPID’S TOP SEVEN TIPS FOR LANDING THAT FIRST DATE.

In other words, follow these rules and maybe your first message to that potential new BFF may actually get a reply. Be sure to click through to the OK Cupid site for all the detailed charts, graphs, and percentages:

Tags How To, Internet, Relationships

How To Websites

What Missing Tupperware and Missing Pants Have in Common

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 18, 2009

You know the drill: somebody borrows your favorite cookbook, DVD, hammer, or pair of pants and keeps them for a while.

Maybe you’ve forgotten who you loaned things to.

Maybe they’ve forgotten who gave them things they have on the garage shelves.

Web Watch has books and DVDs that we know belong to other people, but we can’t keep track of who we need to give it back to.

We also know who we loaned our Tupperware out to a few years ago… and they STILL haven’t returned it.

This makes us angry. DVDs, books, and pants are easily replaced. Good Tupperware, not so much.

Tags How To, Pants, Tupperware, website

shopping

Why Does The Express Lane Sometimes Suck?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 17, 2009

Have you ever gone to the checkout lane at the store and wondered whether it was worthwhile to get in line behind the one lady with the full cart and the screaming kids, or join the longer “10 items or less” express line?

And without fail, you will always choose the wrong line.

It ends up that the grocery stores have checkout times down to a science, and it took a high school math teacher to figure out which lane is going to be the best choice.

Tags shopping, survey

News

Have You Ever Been Propositioned in Church?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 16, 2009

Baylor University just finished conducting a survey of over 3,500 adults that related to Clergy Sexual Misconduct.

The question they asked was whether the RESPONDENT HAD EVER BEEN THE SUBJECT OF A SEXUAL ADVANCE BY A RELIGIOUS LEADER.

Tags News, Penn & Teller, survey

News

The Hot Waitress Economic Index

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 15, 2009

Remember the Men’s Underwear Economic Index that Web Watch mentioned the other day?

Have you heard about the HOT WAITRESS ECONOMIC INDEX?

As the creators of the index note, it is similar to the Overeducated Cabbie Index or Speed at Which Contractors Return Calls Index, both of which should give the casual observer some indication of how desperate for work some people are during certain economic times.

Tags business, News, restaurants

food

What’s The Highest Blood Alcohol Content YOU’VE Ever Had? Can You Beat .91%?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 14, 2009

Everybody should have access to a portable Blood Alcohol Tester when they go out to a bar or a party.

That way, you’ll know whether you can drive home, take a taxi/stay the night, or go straight to the hospital due to alcohol poisoning.

And since you really shouldn’t have a BAC higher than – oh, let’s say 0.08% – having yourself tested once in a while really isn’t a bad idea. Remember, kids – a BAC of 0.4% or higher is really, really, really bad.

Here’s a list of 15 people who have had RECORD SETTING BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELS where such a device probably would have helped them:

Tags beer, food, medical

How To TV Websites

How To Find Your Favorite NFL Team on TV

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 13, 2009

When you are a fan of a particular NFL team and don’t live in that city’s local viewing area, you really only have these choices for being able to watch your favorite team play on TV:

Hope that your team is playing in one of the weekly nationally-televised games (Sunday night football, Monday Night Football, one of those Thanksgiving games, or that random Thursday or Saturday night game that gets national coverage)
Hope that your local FOX or CBS affiliate is carrying the national 4p game that week in a double-header and that your team is in it
Get DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket, so you can pay more money than you should just to watch that one game every week
Go to the local smoke-filled sports bar and watch the game on one of the bar’s big screens… and if you’re lucky you’ll get the game audio instead of having to watch it with closed captions
Watch the game later on a replay aired on the NFL Network
Follow along online via nfl.com’s game stats/scoreboard page

Or you have the most common option: rely on your local CBS or FOX affiliate to decide which games they’re going to air in their markets. The worst part is that they don’t have to make that decision until late in the week preceding the game date.

Tags football, How To, TV

10 Things

The 11 Most Titillating(!) Famous Bras, Ever

Post author By web gangsta
Post date September 12, 2009

Quick – can you name 11 SUPER FAMOUS BRAS?

How about 5?

One? Web Watch is sure that you can think of one bra that is more famous (notorious, even) than any other bra out there.

We’ll start you out with the easy one: #2 on the list is Princess Leia’s metallic bra when she was tied up to Jabba the Hut in the third Star Wars film.

Tags bra