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Wheretheladies.at Shows You Where The Ladies Are At

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How long until this gets gamed by bogus foursquare accounts and everyone gets pointed to the nearest strip club?

As soon a someone creates a tool simple enough for you average strip club owner to use.

That seems like a group willing to pay to make it simple.

Just be weary of massive checkins around North Beach and you'll be okay

most events in San Francisco can easily go from a bonestorm to a bronado to a category five hisicane in a span of 30 minutes

Translation?

most events in San Francisco are such that the female/male ratio can easily go from relatively high (and therefore favourable) to very low in a relatively short span of time.

The term bronado seems to be a portmanteau of "bro" and "tornado". The term hisicane appears to be a pun on "hurricane". It uses the fact that "hurri" is a homophone of "her" then changes "her" to "his". We could not infer the etymology of bonestorm but we grokked the meaning by the context.

Comment of the day :)

Heh! I thought bronado and hisicane were Spanish or something :-)

I though bonestorm should be something more close to the finale?

bonestorm |bōn'stôrm|

noun

A sausage party: a preponderance of men in a gathering. The term is a vulgar pun implying that men in a group with even a small number of ladies will become sexually aroused (i.e. have boners).

EDIT: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bonestorm urban dictionary disagrees ... but I still prefer my interpretation.

Your interpretation seems natural, but it doesn't fit the context here, where bonestorm and bronado are evidently antonyms. The Urban Dictionary definition, on the other hand, does make sense.

Noah Webster, I might note, is currently spinning in his grave.

nandemo, I have no idea how you got to know this lingo, but I am very impressed.

"You go from a man-storm to a man-tornado to a category five man-hurricane in a span of 30 minutes" + puns on words. ha ha.

Urban Dictionary FTW!:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bronado

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bonestorm

Alas: urban ethnologists and lexologists have yet to define "hisicane."

Schroedinger's Bar

As silly as it sounds, they really got the "get your user laid" component right.

I've never found being in the proximity of women to be my largest barrier to getting laid. Leaving my home usually solves that.

No ladies in Zeitgeist. False information.

It's safe to say that if you need an app to find women, you probably also need one to tell you what to do once they're located. I should start iCyrano.

Rather than founded by surely it was hacked up by. Not everything with a URL is a startup.

Not everything that's founded is a startup, either.

And not every website with VC money is a startup.

This is awesome, but it would be great if they also told me what places are sausage-fests so I'd know where to avoid!

Yeah, and perhaps one that tells me where all the creepy guys who use this app "are at" so I can avoid them. :P

Then you'd be trying to avoid yourself.

Back in my day, we had to use our eyes to find girls. And it was usually dark.

Leave the sunglasses off. It helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXw4qqQqTrY

Truly painful. That felt a little like a rick roll.

You had to use eyes to find girls? Why, in my day, we hadn't evolved optical receptors, we all had to track girls by scent.

We would have killed for a sense of smell. We just had to move in one direction and hope there was a girl there.

It's the same app. Just don't go where the compass points.

But go 90 degrees away from the compass vector, otherwise you'll encounter the oncoming wave.

Brilliant. Now change up the UI a bit, make sure you change the name to something like "CreepAvoider" and then it'll be marketable to the ladies :)

And I'll create a service for users of Wheretheladies.at that shows them both where the ladies currently are and where CreeperAvoider is sending the ladies so that they can try to stay ahead of the curve and get places right as the ladies are migrating there :)

It'll be like a dating arms race.

Now I am getting visions of a bunch of Ladies huddled in a bunker somewhere while hordes of Creeps throw themselves against the doors and windows. Sort of Resident Evil style.

Terrifying. :|

Soon, all the ladies and all the creeps will be sitting at home, afraid to do anything, waiting for the other party to make a move. We've now got Dating Cold War!

Clearly CreeperAvoider needs to upgrade to using a true random number generator to generate its dispersion direction ..

Unfortunately just going somewhere else won't work, because the app will follow you. You need a strategy to disperse.

They should account for men, too, and give more weight to places that have a larger ratio of women to men.

The article didn't say exactly how they handle gender-ambiguous names, such as "Kelly." Here's one way:

Using the local census (which knows genders and names), estimate the probability that Kelly is female (in the local area), then weight each "Kelly" check-in by that estimated probability. The final weighted sum for a place is then an estimated expected number of ladies.

That's the kind of thinking which is likely to counteract the point of this app.

San Francisco is possibly the easiest place to find available straight women on earth, is this necessary?

http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/

Not really.

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Graphic/2008/03/29/...

http://www.lesjones.com/www/images/posts/singles2ql8.jpg

From a purely anecdotal point of view, I have lived in 8 different cities in the U.S., including San Francisco, and it by far has the least amount of available straight women (per capita) of those 8 places.

Reminds me of the part in "On The Road" where Sal is at a party with Rawlins and others.. quoting from the book: "Suddenly, there was a great inrush of youngsters from the opera, who just grabbed girls and kissed them without proper come-ons. Teenagers, drunk, disheveled, and excited, they ruined our party."

I hope these guys are smart enough to keep their receipts so they can write off all of the pub crawling they need to do to make sure that it's functioning properly. I might write such an app just to treat it as a 30% off sale on lounge liquor under the heading of "market research".

Even better, 'where the ladies who are tech savvy/nerdy enough to use Foursquare' are at!!

The knowledge that there are a great group of Ladies in some place can attract a powerful group of men, so we end with a crowded place, the next day everyone is looking for some more relaxed place to contact with someone interesting.

this is excellent timing for my new service, where for only $25/month we'll go to the mall 3 times a week and holla at bitches for you.

And I'm sure you're not even joking. And you'll make $$$ doing exactly that. Damn you Zack!

What if they holla back?

Do you doubt that there will be an app for that?

If it's like any other matchmaking site they'll let you know that people holla'd, but won't let you re-holla until you open up that wallet.

I am so tempted to call you on that one ;)

Sign me up, yo.

It should be "wheretheladies.are" to be grammatically correct. You aren't at somewhere...

You're assuming the name is intended to be in English. It's not; that's Ebonics.

And that's sarcasm. And you're irony ;)

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