Makes you wonder whether lovetastic has read through some of the comment threads here.

That questionnaire at ArabLounge is out of control.

Isn't that the same questionnaire as at that Iranian personals site ogged linked to a little while ago?

They use the same one (same everything, in fact) at iranianpersonals.com.

EgyQueen seems pretty cool, actually. Too bad I'm Jewish.

Cheech and Chong, "Up in Smoke".

This lady is diverse.

See, Moqtada al-Sadr is proven right yet again. Persians and Arabs can constructively influence each other's culture and interpersonal networks.

needy lumps of flesh.

Sounds biblical, but I don't recognize it. The Koran?

No, John, "Cheech and Chung."

Oh, I get it now.

Confidence: Somewhat Cocky
Thought Process: Very Analytical
Tolerance: Average

One out of three isn't bad, right?

I don't trust the pics where they've messed with the contrast to make themselves look better.

gswift, you're married with children. Why are you a connoisseur of online dating pictures?

Sorry. That was an impolitic question.

I don't know why people think only people who want to date look at personals sites. I've always loved them, even when I wasn't single.

There was such a time, you know!

There was too!

Sorry. That was an impolitic question.

No apology needed. Ogged gets it right. Hell, I surf them with my wife. They can be quite entertaining.

Arafat: Traitor! Let's go out!

That chick is all over the place.

"Mongolian BBQ" Awesome.

"Hardees" Gack.

"Muhammed Ali" Awesome.

"Cure, Depeche Mode, Morrissey" Run away, run away!

Arafat: Traitor! Let's go out!

Hard-liners need love too.

I've got a hard line for you to love, Teo.

From her profile: Please: No boaters and FoB's fresh from Egypt

Is this a common request on such profiles?

The pictures people take of themselves are great. Myspace cracks me up.

Guys: "Here I am casually flexing with all my might while shirtless in the bathroom."

Girls: "If I hold the camera waaaay over my head, my face looks thinner, and my tits look bigger."

No.

(Well, it's not unheard of, but it's usually put more tactfully as something like "looking for a westernized....")

I dunno, EgyQueen just sounds like the Egyptian-American version of JMPP to me. Except a little less picky. But she definitely sounds like a libertarian of ideas.

You can do better, ogged. Plenty of hot fish in the hot sea.

This is funny! I'm getting on a flight to Cairo out of JFK at 6:30 pm tomorrow. Right on. I'm your fucking EgyQueen.

Cairo? Dude, that's far.

25: Oh, okay. And since you swam across the Río Bravo to get here, you're still acceptable. I get it now.

Yeah, I'm interested to see how I like this EgyptAir longass flight. I suspect the food will be quite bad.

Is Egyqueen bi? Because I love her. And I would happily make love to her.

31: Religion: Islam--the only true religion

I suspect not.

I especially love that she says, "I'm a great artist." She's so so cocky. Very hot.*

*- I am Becks-style on some seriously good organic wine I got at Porter Creek.

32: Islamic girls melt for me. Seriously, dude.

32, 34: Plus, she lists Bad Religion among her favorite bands. Perhaps she's simply playing coy.

You know, I think this cockiness might be a cultural thing. I was talking to my dad on the phone the other day, talking about taking some of my friends down to his gallery, and he was like "well, really, you should bring the whole group, because my gallery is the best in Egypt." Totally serious. And sometimes I wonder where I get my cockiness from.

My cockiness is bigger than yours, leblanc.

Anyone notice that a significant number of dudes at Lovetastic are professorly older types in bowties? I know a few of that sort, and half expect them to appear upon further browsing.

That does seem to be the demographic they're going for.

I am multilingual and have been to almost every country in the world before I even turned 14 but I have not mastered English verb tenses.

also, doesn't the "F" in FoB stand for "Fresh"?

Describe the perfect evening or weekend: A spontaneous trip to countries in the southern part of Africa to check out safaris & Victoria Falls while I'm there and S. Africa's beaches & cities while I'm at it. I do not understand this concept called "time."

More seriously, she says she has her masters. Is a Masters in Being a Big Idiot a Masters of Sciences or a Masters of Arts?

Come on now, English isn't her first language.

OT (?): I just started watching The Battle of Algiers.

If you've got the DVD, watch the extras. Almost all of them are interesting.

Will do. Thanks, JM.

I'm...very open-minded and admire those that are the same.
What turns you off?: ignorance, close mindedness,people that are superficial, egotistical, or outright dumb.

Democrats: eliminate em

As much as I admire the man, you can skip the ones with Edward Said.

I suspect that's a rather large proportion of the Arab Lounge ones.

Stanley, you might be amused to read Collounsbury , the cranky expat businessman and myself discuss the movie in a short thread at Aqoul.

49: Still watching (damn pausing to read unfogged threads about bacon and porn), but I'll check that out, thanks.

I haven't finished reading that thread, but I don't think the movie's as partisan as you seem to think, JM. I suspect they thought they were making something more partisan, but were done by their commitment to art, and to a certain extent, to realism (or neo-realism, or whatever that style is called).

"done" s/b "undone" or "out done" or something like that - but not "done"

The main thing I remember about that Aqoul thread is how put out Lounsbury was when JM called him a leftist.

I was sporadically picking my way through A Savage War of Peace before I got started on the new Pynchon, and I agree with eb that arguing partisan vs. non-partisan isn't really the right approach. (I saw the movie in the theater so I haven't seen any of the extras; maybe they would change my mind.) Mathieu is one of the great monsters of movie history, but really, I'm not sure that a straightforward depiction of the facts would come off as any less one-sided, and I'm not sure that any movie that shows a teenaged girls blowing up pied-noir kids dancing at the disco is interested in whitewashing how horrible the struggle was.

Is there something "wrong" with bombing discos? I guess I've been misinformed.

It's people like you who have made Cominsky Park unsafe for the rest of us, terrorist.

43, 49, 50: I remember that there were a surprising number of laugh lines when I watched that thing during the Beirut film fest this autumn.

Bombing a baseball stadium would be wrong, unless it was being used as a disco.

Baseball stadiums have traditionally allied with the anti-disco cause.

We have to watch them to make sure they don't slip.

I like the subtle way she implies that the Jews run the US. Up until 2000, I'd have to say the Jews were doing a pretty good job.

Whatever happened to that libertarian who was too good (too slim and attractive and financially solvent and mensa-IQ'ed, as I recall) for the poor slobs who wanted to date her? Do you know who I mean? She wore pearls, I think, and she was all mixed in with the world of online gambling.

Is she still single? I'd be surprised to learn otherwise.

Not single.

Do you know who I mean

She is a running joke on this venue; people refer to her only by initials or by nickname any more.

Thanks for reminding me of JMPP. Also, this video she posts is awesome.