YourNameHereMeet dot com

August 20, 2006 12:12 AM

Lonely? Online? Unwilling to fuck people that aren't exactly like you? Good news! The PeopleMeet Empire has a dating website custom designed specifically to fit your needs, whether you're Italian, Jewish, Divorced, Marriage Minded, Asian (nonspecific), Asian (specific), Old, Really Old, Christian (Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentacostal, Born Again, Mormon or Other), Republican, Democrat, Midget, Fit, Fat, the Outdoor type, the Indoor type, a Pet lover, Professional, some kooky Black variation of the earlier types, or even (gasp!) Californian.
posted by jonson (64 comments total)

For those lacking the patience to open multiple links, click here.
posted by jonson at 12:12 AM on August 20, 2006

pepsi blue, dr pepper blue, sprite blue, coke blue, mountan dew blue! So blue!
posted by delmoi at 12:16 AM on August 20, 2006

Friendfinder does the same thing, although I think they're a bit bigger. The midget one was kinda funny though.
posted by delmoi at 12:18 AM on August 20, 2006

Yes, well, I don't know about those kinds of people. What if, despite being a democrat and a Californian, a guy was unlike me in some way?

I'm holding out for SelfPeopleMeet.
posted by Methylviolet at 12:20 AM on August 20, 2006 [2 favorites]

heh. republican and democrat links are identical apart from the colour. obviously we can find common ground in our desperateness.
posted by wumpus at 12:21 AM on August 20, 2006

I love the repeated use of the same tired stock photo images; the examples on DemocraticPeopleMeet & RepublicanPeopleMeet are the exact same people - and they say our country is a nation divided!
posted by jonson at 12:23 AM on August 20, 2006

All I know is white girls get on my damn nerves.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 12:23 AM on August 20, 2006

D'oh! Beaten to my own punchline by a wumpus, no less!!
posted by jonson at 12:23 AM on August 20, 2006

re: the fat link, does bb mean big-boned? i've never understood what bb means; only that i've always been dissapointed from the tgps.
posted by wumpus at 12:23 AM on August 20, 2006

MeetFilter.
posted by wendell at 12:29 AM on August 20, 2006

big and beautiful?
posted by yodelingisfun at 12:30 AM on August 20, 2006

All of these lame stock shots have at least 2 figures in them, except for the shots in Little People Meet, which just have single person portraits. What kind of message is that sending the desperate midgets?
posted by maryh at 12:30 AM on August 20, 2006 [2 favorites]

If it's the first BB of BBW, it stands for Big Beautiful Women. I've found from bitter experience that women touted as BBW often have misunderstood (or taken liberties) with the second B.
posted by jonson at 12:30 AM on August 20, 2006

wumpus, "bb" stands for "big beautiful"...
posted by wendell at 12:31 AM on August 20, 2006

Alright, now, let's not everybody answer at once...
posted by wendell at 12:32 AM on August 20, 2006

...and of course, we're all hanging out on MeFi as Saturday Night turns to Sunday Morning... Have they got a LOSERPEOPLEMEET.com? Or just LPEOPLEMEET?
posted by wendell at 12:34 AM on August 20, 2006

The other thing that makes me chuckle about this whole cheap repurposing is which sites they've decided NOT to pursue. I mean, Asian People meet covers off on ALL non-Chinese Asian online dating for them, no JapanesePeopleMeet, no KoreanPeopleMeet, etc.

Better still, the selection criteria in the dating forms ("i'm an X looking for Y") is pretty much the same in all of them, which is just lazy. I mean, sure, the midget one has a lower range on the height section of your Personal Info Profile, but otherwise, it's excellent use of a central db with a minimum number of fields.
posted by jonson at 12:34 AM on August 20, 2006

But I'm a xenophile.
Oh well, back to the bar.
posted by zoinks at 12:36 AM on August 20, 2006

You're turned on by Xeni Jardin? Eww... and I thought that sperm eating monkey was gross. Uncool, dude.
posted by jonson at 12:39 AM on August 20, 2006

PatheticPeopleMeet.com
DesperatePeopleMeet.com
PeopleWithoutALifeMeet.com
ItDoesntMatterWhatYouLookLikeJustAssumeThePositionPeopleMeet.com
posted by wendell at 12:40 AM on August 20, 2006

InternetTrollMeet.com

SockPuppetMeet.com

NoOneKnowsYoureADogMeet.com
posted by wendell at 12:45 AM on August 20, 2006

Yeah, here at the Mighty Meta, we're all Xeniphobes...
posted by wendell at 12:47 AM on August 20, 2006

Le Petit Monoped.com
Finding Love in the One Legged Little Prson Community

no fatties, please
posted by maryh at 12:51 AM on August 20, 2006

I mean...
posted by wendell at 12:51 AM on August 20, 2006

StockPhotographyModelPeopleMeet.com
posted by milkrate at 12:56 AM on August 20, 2006

Barney: "I'm just saying that when we die there's going to be a planet for the French, a planet for the Chinese, and we'll all be a lot happier."
posted by milkrate at 1:07 AM on August 20, 2006

wumpus: When I first read your question, I thought "big boned." I suppose "big and beautiful" makes sense, but I'll stick with that first instinct.
posted by brundlefly at 1:15 AM on August 20, 2006

Xeni is oddly hot to me, jonson. Perhaps because of her pretention.
posted by brundlefly at 1:16 AM on August 20, 2006

Great link, wendell.
posted by maryh at 1:19 AM on August 20, 2006

I love that the B&B dating site sports stock photos of skinny folk.
posted by brundlefly at 1:32 AM on August 20, 2006

More like most pathetic of the web than best of the web.
posted by Rhomboid at 1:36 AM on August 20, 2006

Uh, xenOphile...what? is a xenI? something about a garden, okay... what?
Again, back to the bar....
posted by zoinks at 1:39 AM on August 20, 2006

where can i meet people who like beedogs?
posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 1:50 AM on August 20, 2006

But do you have to be part of the group you are meeting? If not, it could be a very effective way to bring some variety into one's sex life. Also: what if I'm looking for a senior black homosexual?
posted by beno at 2:56 AM on August 20, 2006

But I'm big and ugly. Where's my site?
posted by pompomtom at 3:04 AM on August 20, 2006

pompomtom, you're looking for quonsarandwendellmeet.com
posted by wendell at 3:12 AM on August 20, 2006 [1 favorite]

Are there really separate databases of users for each of these sites? Or just search filters?
posted by thirteenkiller at 5:12 AM on August 20, 2006

I'm holding out for SelfPeopleMeet.

Jerry: "Now I know what I've been looking for all these years... myself! I've been waiting for me to come along, and now I've swept myself off my feet!"
posted by Servo5678 at 6:28 AM on August 20, 2006

What if you are looking to find fit, young, active, wealthy, attractive people, but you are not fit, active or attractive yourself? And are unemployed, forty five and live at home with your parents? Is there a site for me that person?
posted by Hypnic jerk at 7:24 AM on August 20, 2006

Wouldst thee have a link for AmishMeet?
posted by hal9k at 7:25 AM on August 20, 2006

administratorswhodontunderstandsubdomainspeoplemeet.com
posted by machaus at 7:34 AM on August 20, 2006 [1 favorite]

I'd kill for a nerdmeet.com .

Well, maybe not kill. But I'd pay $5.
posted by ®@ at 8:03 AM on August 20, 2006

"...and of course, we're all hanging out on MeFi as Saturday Night turns to Sunday Morning... "


Sounds like mathowie needs to launch Meetafilter, and soon!
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:11 AM on August 20, 2006

I'm wary of women whose opening line on dating sites is "Must like dogs."
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:12 AM on August 20, 2006

Meet other gamer today!

Just one?
posted by emelenjr at 8:30 AM on August 20, 2006

The OCDmeet.com site is down temporarily. Not a DOS attack. Just too many people refreshing the page.
posted by hal9k at 8:32 AM on August 20, 2006 [3 favorites]

hal9k:
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. That prompted a silence-breaking laugh.
posted by batmonkey at 8:45 AM on August 20, 2006

*heh* Once again, I'm lumped into baby boomer territory. NNNoooo... oh, wait, I don't care.

Aren't these the same guys who had the farmers meeting each other too?
posted by smallerdemon at 8:52 AM on August 20, 2006

What brundlefly said.

Maybe they're just fat on the inside, y'know?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:02 AM on August 20, 2006

One of the nicest people I've ever met was Mike the Midget. Mike the Midget over the past decade Mike has been the drummer for an untold number of bands in Chicago. The first thing I noticed about Mike was that he was a much better drummer than he had to be, first because of the intrinsic novelty of watching a little person playing a child's drumset and second because he was playing in shitty punk bands that didn't really require decent drumming.

On my 21st birthday, one of his bands was playing at the Mutiny and over the course of the longest string change I've ever witnessed, he told the following story.

Mike: So I've been spending a lot of time online lately. I found this midget dating site because, iunno, midget bitches are lonely and I'm thinking of starting a ranch. It'll be somewhere out on the Illinois/Indiana border where I can do whatever I want and there'll be, like, a stable of midget bitches. I've already started to talk to some of em, there's this one girl and she has some big ass titties...

Guitarist: Dude she's forty-five

Mike: That's okay, she got her own car...
posted by elr at 11:30 AM on August 20, 2006 [2 favorites]

youreagianchickeninabaddisguisemeet.com
posted by generichuman at 12:47 PM on August 20, 2006

It would have helped if I had spelled that correctly. Perfectly good throw-away joke ruined for want of a "t".
posted by generichuman at 12:48 PM on August 20, 2006

stoppedhavingsexin2001cuztheworld'stoofuckeduptoriskaccidentlyhavingchildren.com

I hear there's a lot of babes at that website, but what's the point?
posted by ZachsMind at 12:59 PM on August 20, 2006

The "fat" link made me chuckle...couldn't they have selected other stock model photos? Oh, won't someone think of the BBpeople???
posted by pax digita at 1:06 PM on August 20, 2006

stoppedhavingsexin2001cuztheworld'stoofuckeduptoriskaccidentlyhavingchildren.com

I hear there's a lot of babes at that website, but what's the point?
posted by ZachsMind at 12:59 PM PST on August 20 [+] [!]

Yeah, that's the reason. ;)
posted by nonmerci at 3:15 PM on August 20, 2006

Cool. I've been wanting to meet more black people.
posted by ColdChef at 3:25 PM on August 20, 2006

I hope now that I've made some black friends people will stop saying I'm racist.
posted by Citizen Premier at 4:31 PM on August 20, 2006

Nerd meet? How about Geek to geek, or sweetongeeks.com ,nerdpassions.com, intellectualpassions.com

(warning: I haven't hung out on these above, and don't know which are worthwhile (if any (but my increasing use of multiple nested parentheses indicates that it may be time to do so (if it's not already too late!))) :)


Old joke: geek boys get fabulized, berm girls get de-fabulized
posted by billb at 5:15 PM on August 20, 2006

Im just going to stick to "real life dating v2.0". Ive had good luck with going out and actually meeting people in real life.
posted by subaruwrx at 5:53 PM on August 20, 2006

looks like nerdpassions and intellectualpassions are the same co, and they both suck ass. They don't look all that intellectual, but boy oh boy do they look ugly!
posted by Deathalicious at 6:37 PM on August 20, 2006

Sounds like mathowie needs to launch Meetafilter, and soon!

or Meatfilter...
posted by owhydididoit at 7:31 PM on August 20, 2006

I love that the B&B dating site sports stock photos of skinny folk.
posted by brundlefly at 9:32 AM GMT on August 20 [+] [!]

I'm sure the models all feel fat. That counts, right?
posted by slimepuppy at 3:52 AM on August 21, 2006

This isn't anything new. Seen the stupid signs on the side of the road that say "Single? $CITYsingles.org" - some dating site(s) have registered similar domains for nearly every city name in the US. They all lead to the same damn sites.

The online dating market is saturated. This is just another attempt for it to try to grab new users.
posted by drstein at 11:27 AM on August 21, 2006

And it's not even the first one. See also the Passions Network, which has sites for large people, shy people, smokers, activists, Libertarians...I give up linking, but there's also Passions Network sites for deaf people, Green Party members, the celibate, vegetarians, gay people, tattoo lovers, teachers, geeks, on and on...

The problem with the Passions Network is that if you join one site, you've joined them all, and you can get messages from all of them. So the atheists can message the Latter-day Saints, etc.
posted by etoile at 10:22 AM on August 24, 2006