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Aren’t All Blind Dates Kind of Crazy?

If watching your 401(k) melt into bits of string and space trash has only whetted your appetite for MORE risk, we would like to introduce you to CrazyBlindDate.com. This online sensation differs from other dating websites in that it essentially matches you based upon availability — rather than “49,000 proven measures of compatibility” or whatever they’re all claiming these days.

To explain further: You decide that you want to get a drink, with another human, in about 30 minutes. You can go to the site’s “date wizard,” select some neighborhoods in DC and the amount of time it would take you to get there upon notification of a date. You select what kind of bar you’d like (or coffee house, for lamers), and whether you want to meet a man, woman or either. Then some magical Internet stuff happens, and presumably a few minutes later, you get an email with a blurry picture of someone who also wants to meet for drinks, in your selected time slots/neighborhoods.

Fun? Terrible? Tell us about it. [Crazy Blind Date DC]


3:07 PM on Tue February 17 2009
By Elizabeth Askew
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  1. Serolf Divad says at 3:10 pm, February 17th, 2009

    No it’s great. It’s how I met my first eight wives.

  2. In other words, they’ve given up on the ’scientific’ method in favor of blind chance. Yep, that gets dating about right, but what of the children?

  3. SayItWithWookies says at 3:22 pm, February 17th, 2009

    This is surely going to give RandomTrannyHookup.com a run for its money.

  4. Mr Blifil says at 3:24 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Man, woman or “either?” No option to “Supersize?”

  5. Tommy Says Soooo says at 3:29 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Ha, this redirects from govpaterson.com.

  6. I think a Hell-Orgy snippet of a Bosch painting may be appropriate here. Also.

  7. I’ll stick with the ‘tried and true’…Trekkie Conventions. Bonus points if your neighbor calls the cops because of your Klingon mating ritual.

  8. AngryBlakGuy says at 3:31 pm, February 17th, 2009

    …why does this sound like something that will violate my probation?

  9. snideinplainsight says at 3:35 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Servo: Hey! Klingons! Have you seen Geithner’s forehead prosthesis?

  10. AngryBlakGuy says at 3:36 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: …considering some of the “things” I have woken up next to in bed after a night out drinking, I’m thinking they may need to add a “species” option!

  11. tehbenton says at 3:41 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Hell, a dice roll is better than Match.com most days…

  12. PerhapsSo says at 3:47 pm, February 17th, 2009

    No Philadelphia?

    I haz a spinster sad.

  13. One Yield Regular says at 3:51 pm, February 17th, 2009

    I’m guessing the only reason this service exists is to get the 1-penny-a-click revenue from the Indecent Exposure attorney ad.

  14. I find it easier to skip all the expensive courting bullshit and just bring her an ashtray to throw at me.

  15. CreationSchwarzkopfPalin says at 3:59 pm, February 17th, 2009

    No Los Angeles?
    I has, like, a total sad…

  16. SwamTheRiver says at 4:01 pm, February 17th, 2009

    This is very similar to what i already do:
    I look at the clock; it is 12:00
    I mentally ran through all the bars within a 15 minute radius from my job.
    30 minutes later, an magical alcohol thing happens and
    I hook up with a girl (I hope) who looks pretty darn blurry to me.
    35 minutes after that, I tell everyone at work that I have the flu and
    an important report to work on and go to my office hoping I did not get the crabs.

  17. This is a great way to meet my next crazy psycho ex-girlfriend. Thanks, Wonkette!

  18. jann9884 says at 9:14 pm, February 17th, 2009

    Ha, I just signed up. Who wants to go on a date with me next Tuesday? We can talk about Wonkette.

  19. Dean Booth says at 1:49 am, February 18th, 2009

    A friend told me about a study in which they showed women a movie of bonobos having sex. By measuring the amount of “arousal” they somehow determined that the #1 fantasy of women is to have sex with a total stranger. This bodes well for CrazyBlindDate.com, especially if you can choose Male, Female or Bonobo.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?_r=1&hp

  20. fishno12 says at 1:08 pm, February 18th, 2009

    My roommate used this. It’s funny because she’s actually blind. The dates themselves, apparently, were awkward and terrible.

  21. pastfirst says at 3:30 am, February 19th, 2009

    Sounds interesting. Enough already of the same, old dating sites.
    At least, a site with a difference!

  22. dennymcden says at 1:20 pm, February 20th, 2009

    This is (tangentially) how I met my current boyfriend in New York. No joke.

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