Criteria Included Nightlife, Single Population and Rebecca Ramsey
Talk About Town reports, about a month after the term “Michigan hookup” was coined, that A2 is now the eighth best U.S. city for dating.
Talk About Town reports, about a month after the term “Michigan hookup” was coined, that A2 is now the eighth best U.S. city for dating.
Its great here if you dont mind yer date wif a few dozen extra pounds of undigested dairy fat flab, and the dairy fat stench to boot.
posted by Morbidly Midwestern on March 16th, 2004 at 7:58 amThis might not be the most scientific of lists if CO Springs also made it - that’s Focus-on-the-Family-ville.
posted by Nick on March 16th, 2004 at 8:16 amThe stats just indicate a preponderance of single people. They don’t explain the many excellent reasons these people are alone.
So wallow in your lonesome shit, Ann Arbor pigs.
posted by DetrOIt on March 16th, 2004 at 8:43 amYou should blame UoM for class after class of ugly, ugly students.
posted by Leighton on March 16th, 2004 at 10:29 amUgly and dumb. Especially the grad students.
posted by detrOIt on March 16th, 2004 at 10:53 amAhh, fresh vitriol — now *this* is something we can work with.
posted by Anna on March 16th, 2004 at 10:59 amWhat’s #1, Leavenworth?
posted by Alex on March 16th, 2004 at 11:18 amHey, give AA some credit - if I weren’t too old to date 17-yr-old undergrads and too young to date 50-yr-old divorced soccer moms, I would call this singles’ heaven.
posted by Nick on March 16th, 2004 at 11:49 amMaybe they meant “Best Cities For Date Rape.”
posted by js on March 16th, 2004 at 11:53 am(And we see that detrOIt– whose name I can only assume comes out of some deep love for third-wave ska bands– is only bitter due to the “dearth of 18- to 25-year olds.”
js
“too old to date seventeen year olds?” Whatever does that mean?
posted by Lukcy Jackson on March 16th, 2004 at 12:51 pmCan’t speak for Michigan, but dating 17-yr-olds is illegal where I’m from.
posted by Nick on March 16th, 2004 at 12:53 pmThis is your lucky day then, dude. The age of consent is only 16 in Michigan. Have yourself a blast.
posted by detrOIt on March 16th, 2004 at 1:12 pmJust a typical Simpson’s quote sorry, but it’s true.
posted by Leighton on March 16th, 2004 at 2:00 pmSo wallow in your lonesome shit, Ann Arbor pigs.
Posted by DetrOIt at March 16, 2004 08:43 AM
lemme guess, you live in Farmington Hills ?
posted by Dan on March 16th, 2004 at 5:36 pm>So wallow in your lonesome shit, Ann Arbor pigs.
I give up. Louisa May Alcott?
posted by Boris on March 16th, 2004 at 7:09 pm>So wallow in your lonesome shit, Ann Arbor pigs.
No, that’s from Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl.” The problem here is that detrOit failed to consider the context of the surrounding lines, which change the meaning entirely and add to this little quote a nuanced joie de vivre.
posted by Laura on March 16th, 2004 at 8:09 pmHey I like oi! Don’t lump me in with detrOIt. Anyway, I think you all are blind and/or high. There are 5 gagillion 18-24 year olds here. There’s just slim pickins for us 30-somethings. Especially if we don’t have a hankerin’ for midwestern porkbellies. I like my porkbelly salty and coastal.
posted by Alex on March 16th, 2004 at 8:39 pmSlim pickin’s indeed for us 30-somethings…but at our age, Alex, the first wave of the divorced are reentering the market. Which doesn’t make the pickin’s much plumper.
posted by Laura on March 16th, 2004 at 9:40 pmIn the words of Gang of Four: damaged goods, send ‘em back.
Just kidding. I love divorcees.
posted by Alex on March 16th, 2004 at 9:44 pmHey!
posted by __earth on March 16th, 2004 at 11:53 pmMichigan students aren’t dumb. At least aren’t as dumb as those students in Lansing. +)
Yes, well, Alex, divorcees tend to have a bit of carry-on luggage…I’d say things to avoid are: kids in tow, acrimonious ongoing relationship with ex, debt. Other than that it should be peaches and cream.
posted by Laura on March 17th, 2004 at 1:28 amOh, c’mon, that’s the case of anthrax everyone wants to catch.
posted by js on March 17th, 2004 at 8:29 amMaybe it’s because I’m from her (or something) but I’ve never had any real problem meeting and dating people. Of course, I know during those periods where I’m not dating someone that I am an unsufferable whiner (at least according to my friends in relationships) about that fact.
Singles misery as universal?
js
Clearly you are way more studly and Darwinianly successful than we are
posted by Alex on March 17th, 2004 at 9:20 amJS, I think being from here helps a lot. That was my experience in Pittsburgh, which is decried as singles’ hell by an awful lot of people.
posted by Nick on March 17th, 2004 at 10:31 amI thought Pittsburgh was a dater’s paradise, actually — of course I worked at male-dominated CMU….
posted by Anna on March 17th, 2004 at 10:42 am“…why are all the other 30 something’s undateable except for meeeee?”
The ability of people to ignore the obvious amazes me. You might as well ask, “Why am I the only kid on the short bus who’s not retarded?”
Folks, you’re all undateable. And you’re all on the short bus.
posted by detrOIt on March 17th, 2004 at 11:08 amoh yeah, I’m totally short. do you think lifts in my shoes will help?
posted by Alex on March 17th, 2004 at 12:02 pmDetrOIt’s just bitter that his ad to be whacked in the groin with a wifflebat by an Opera singer that he posted to the Casual Encounters part of the Detroit Craigslist hasn’t been answered. Maybe if he didn’t give his location as “Downriver”…
posted by js on March 17th, 2004 at 12:58 pmjs
Alex,
Don’t find Gang of Four quotes too often.
Had em in the jukebox for three weeks. Only two hits…must have been you?!
Are you working at AMG or something?
posted by todd on March 17th, 2004 at 1:44 pmHaven’t been making Stammtisch recently, so it probably wasn’t me on the jukebox. I used to write freelance for AMG a couple years before I moved to AA. SEE: The Gories, Now Time Delegation, “Blastronaut,” and The Greenhornes. I think I did the Samhain box set too…
posted by Alex on March 17th, 2004 at 2:21 pmOh,
You’re THAT Alex. I’m a little on the slow side apparently.
posted by todd on March 17th, 2004 at 2:31 pmthere are actually two of us (Alexes that is)
posted by Alex on March 17th, 2004 at 2:57 pmAlex, get with the program. If you are going to join our multiple personalities, you need to pick different names. Anna and Boris are taken, but I think “Over” and “Rated” are still up for grabs.
posted by Anna on March 17th, 2004 at 6:01 pmand “r”.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on March 17th, 2004 at 6:03 pmoh, and we could also use a “Vera” and a “Ted.”
posted by ann arbor is overrated on March 17th, 2004 at 6:10 pmAnd “O”. I’m glad I got one of the good ones.
posted by Anonymous on March 17th, 2004 at 6:16 pmoh, er right. my name is…. Rita?
posted by Alex (aka Rita) on March 17th, 2004 at 8:39 pmI thought it was Luca. Don’t you live on the 2nd floor?
posted by js on March 17th, 2004 at 9:13 pmjs
OK, I’ll be the humorless one to wrest this thread back on topic: AA was voted the eighth best city for dating.
posted by Laura on March 17th, 2004 at 9:37 pmThe odds are good, but the goods are odd, Laura.
posted by Anna on March 17th, 2004 at 9:55 pmIt’s very very evil to get Suzanne Vega songs stuck in other peoples’ heads.
Actually Laura, I find it quite humorous that AA is the 8th best dating city.
posted by Alex on March 17th, 2004 at 10:03 pmI do, too, Alex–it’s just another example of how meaningless statistics can be. Yes, there’s a giant pool of college kids, and a giant pool of sententious family types, but a great, yawning gulf in between.
posted by Laura on March 17th, 2004 at 11:37 pmSo, there needs to be a program that lets single college kids date an entire sententious family? A gender-neutral system of “mistresses” and harems? That would make our city cool!
posted by js on March 18th, 2004 at 8:22 amjs
Or you could just suck it up, like Nick, and date 17 year olds.
posted by Spanky on March 18th, 2004 at 9:28 amHaven’t gotten around to that just yet, and I grew up too close to Appalachia to associate coolness with the spectacle of late-20s men stalking high-school parking lots. And I’m not old enough or rich enough to be in the market for a trophy girlfriend just yet.
Another possible spin on the list: if AA and CO Springs are really 2 of the 10 best dating cities in the US, maybe the moral of the story is that America is just a really, really, really, really horrible place to be single.
posted by Nick on March 18th, 2004 at 10:43 amAdvice I got on a road trip from a trucker: “Old enough to bleed; old enough to butcher.”
posted by js on March 18th, 2004 at 10:54 amEww.
js
Other truck-driver advice: never trust a critter than can bleed for seven days and not die.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
I dunno, the only thing that actually sucks about being single is the erratic sex schedule and not having somebody to drag to crap you don’t want to go to either. But then again, I’m just a crazy romantic.
posted by Alex on March 18th, 2004 at 11:22 amHey Nick, have you considered (slightly) older women? Wink wink, nudge nudge. ha ha ha ha
posted by Alex on March 18th, 2004 at 11:23 amMore than considered. Let’s just say I don’t share your opinion that dating divorcees can be fun.
Also, I’m older than many people realize. Just terribly immature.
posted by Nick on March 18th, 2004 at 12:33 pmDuh, I was talking about *me*! Ha ha ha ha. Only 30 and never been married. Isn’t that the 21st century equivalent of barely legal?
Considering you were talking about late-20s men in your previous message, I had assumed that’s about how old you are.
posted by Alex on March 18th, 2004 at 3:35 pmAh, so that’s what all the winking and nudging was about, I see.
As I say, yes, I’ve considered it.
posted by Nick on March 18th, 2004 at 6:42 pmWell son, in the words of Anita Ward: ring my bell!
Sorry, I’m being a wanton hussy, aren’t I? This is what AA has reduced me too–making virtual passes at strange economists. It’s all in good fun.
posted by Alex on March 18th, 2004 at 7:01 pmAh, spring…
posted by Laura on March 18th, 2004 at 9:25 pmIf just one person can get laid from this blog, well, that’s a pretty good thing, ennit?
posted by js on March 19th, 2004 at 10:07 amjs
I get laid from this blog on a weekly basis, JS. You must be doing something wrong.
posted by Brandon on March 19th, 2004 at 3:50 pmMy girlfriend hates this blog.
posted by js on March 19th, 2004 at 8:39 pmOn another note, I thought I saw AAIO while I was going to the film fest yesterday, riding their bike.
js
Maybe it’s time to start AAIO personals. “What you’ll find in my bedroom: leaking ceiling, broken radiator. Five things about A2 I can live without…”
I’m ashamed to admit it as an urban planning dilettante, but I don’t actually have a bike.
posted by ann arbor is overrated on March 19th, 2004 at 11:45 pmYou mean “we” don’t actually have a bike.
posted by sammy on March 21st, 2004 at 8:12 pm