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I was discussing with my good buddy, and sexy co-host, Sumamba Buwhan, the issue of poster personification. How certain attributes tend to be exaggerated online, not just by a poster his or herself, but also by the people interacting with that poster. How, because of the fact that we see only a certain side of a person who is online, we fill in the blanks, we make assumptions, and we create a sort of mental construct.

I get accused of being a lot of things...and when I tell my real life compatriots, they often laugh. Sure, those things are part of who I am, but how you see me here is not at all how you'd see me in real life. I imagine that for the most part, this is true of many of us. Moreover, it might actually be interesting for some of us to let others create our online persona, and run with it.

However, it can also be frustrating. Sure, it's nice to be talked about...but when the creature being discussed isn't you, even though it is being billed as you..well, sometimes that personification is irking.

How do you think you are seen by others here? How do you see other posters? Have your mental images changed over time? What do you think about the personification of posters...what kind of process is this really? Who are we when we hop online?

I honestly think people just see me as 'that guy with that name.' I don't know that I have enough of a personality here for people I haven't interacted with directly to have an opinion one way or another about me.

I think people don't think of me because I'm not exciting enough to notice.


I think that the poster above me is a hell of a guy that I'd smoke a bowl with anyday.

How do you think you are seen by others here? How do you see other posters? Have your mental images changed over time? What do you think about the personification of posters...what kind of process is this really? Who are we when we hop online?

I dunno. You tell me. ;)

Neesika, as far as you are concerned I believe many people think you are something you are not. However with age comes experience in reading people and I would gather you are not to bad of a person. Certainly someone with a lot of passion.

I personally try to read between the lines of people. I can figure out fairly well I think who is trying to put up a front. Fass comes to mind quickly with that and a few others I can think of such as Oceandrive. These guys are probably fun to hang out with and basically regular people like the rest of us. Sometimes I think being behind the curtain of the Internet allows people to act out in ways that they would not normally act in a regular atmosphere.


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Also want to add that posting pics of ones self adds a lot to what the perception of someone is. This is really why I will post in the picture posts from time to time.

I've had my perception change a few times...in funny ways. I don't know how many people remember Occidio Multus...but she started a thread at the beginning of her posting that was all about racial slurs. I assumed, for whatever reason that she was a white guy, and got really pissed at her...only to learn she was in fact a half black/half Italian chick. We fought like cats and dogs for a while, oh it was fun...hated each other...until suddenly one day, we both sort of went..huh, we're kind of the same, crude bitches...and we hit it off after that. My original perception of her was SOOO off...ouch.

Then there was Santa Barbara (now Greater Trostia) who for some reason, (the name Barbara I guess) I thought was a woman in her late 30s, with long brown hair, and a very strident voice. Totally off.

Vittos Ordination...or City Sacker...grizzled old Dutch guy in his 50s, in overalls, a plaid shirt and rubber boots. Can't shake the image.

I used to hate Fass, until I finally saw his wit...people are sometimes so lacking in subtlety here that I wasn't able to detect it off the bat.

Oh yeah...can't forget that I thought Sumamba was a black guy...back when I was assuming all posters were brown, instead of white USians.

But aside from the people I speak to outside of NSG, the construct I have in my head of most posters is most likely not wholly accurate. Which is nice that we have had various meet-ups...just wish you lazy fucks would come up north :P

Seems to me that a truly coherent picture of anyone in such an anonymous forum is next to impossible. I believe we get flashes and hints, but even with tens of thousands of posts, it's difficult to determine how much of any NSer is really the person at the keyboard. I tend to be much more verbose here than I am IRL. I've always come off as at least a bit more intellectual in print than in person. I need time to truly articulate my thoughts, and the post method helps that -- I needn't respond immediately (which is good, because when I do, it's usually too vitriolic).

Very good question.

I talk about sex a LOT more than I get to here :D

And I discuss ass more than politics, which is really something, since I'm obsessed with politics :D

I'm also much less strident seeming in person...even when I'm being strident. I think it's cuz I'm so petite. And cute. :P

But for real...some of us have been interacting for YEARS, and still probably don't actually know very much about one another. It seems kind of insane...I mean, okay, perhaps you could have coworkers in real life that you'd interact with like this and not really get to know...but it seems unlikely. It's like this...very person, impersonal relationship.

Seems to me that a truly coherent picture of anyone in such an anonymous forum is next to impossible. I believe we get flashes and hints, but even with tens of thousands of posts, it's difficult to determine how much of any NSer is really the person at the keyboard. I tend to be much more verbose here than I am IRL. I've always come off as at least a bit more intellectual in print than in person. I need time to truly articulate my thoughts, and the post method helps that -- I needn't respond immediately (which is good, because when I do, it's usually too vitriolic).

Very good question.

That's wierd, because I think I can often times come off as a total dumbass, but I know I'm a lot smarter than my text would suggest.

Seems to me that a truly coherent picture of anyone in such an anonymous forum is next to impossible. I believe we get flashes and hints, but even with tens of thousands of posts, it's difficult to determine how much of any NSer is really the person at the keyboard. I tend to be much more verbose here than I am IRL. I've always come off as at least a bit more intellectual in print than in person. I need time to truly articulate my thoughts, and the post method helps that -- I needn't respond immediately (which is good, because when I do, it's usually too vitriolic).

Very good question.



That all sounds like something I would say myself. Also that I'm so very quiet IRL and too shy to meet anyone. Almost agoraphobic but I force myself to face that fear.

I think of all the posters here as being from the smurfs.
I would say the Seven Dwarfs, but then 99% would either be Grumpy or Dopey.

Yeah SB, so shy you get to have awesome threesomes with your wife.

My knee-jerk thought of one poster was that he was a dumb, silly @$$hole. I later concluded that he was actually an intelligent, silly @$$hole.

Yeah SB, so shy you get to have awesome threesomes with your wife.

The gods smile upn me occasionally because I ... errrr. ...I have no clue.

Yeah SB, so shy you get to have awesome threesomes with your wife.

So I don't count as a person? :p

So I don't count as a person? :p

I am confused.

So I don't count as a person? :p
In the Biblical sense....ah...no.
sorry.

I am confused.

In hindsight what I said doesn't make much sense.

(I'm #4 in the threesome.)

In hindsight what I said doesn't make much sense.

(I'm #4 in the threesome.)

The fluffer never counts.















oh yeah... I went there. :p

I have no idea how people here see me. I would hope that they think I'm a worthwhile person who, occasionally, has something relevant to say.

Have your mental images changed over time?

Only for one person really. I used to hate Fass with a passion, but thats gradually subsided into a grudging respect. While I don't agree with him 100% of the time, I think he has a talent for writing, and arguing a point.

My knee-jerk thought of one poster was that he was a dumb, silly @$$hole. I later concluded that he was actually an intelligent, silly @$$hole.

Best kind.

I honestly think people just see me as 'that guy with that name.' I don't know that I have enough of a personality here for people I haven't interacted with directly to have an opinion one way or another about me.

you'd be the guy with some badass movie references who occasionally discusses "buttering" like a "corn cob" ;)

Oh, and Quality.

I have an image of you as being someone who'd be pretty chill to go grab a beer with after work.

I'd pretty comfortable that people on here don't pay me any more attention than I deserve. The nightmare scenario is that the words I type on this message board are actually changing lives. Considering the content of many of my posts, that would be absolutely terrifying.

Romanar seems to have figured out that I'm just an intelligent, silly asshole, which is good.

I'd pretty comfortable that people on here don't pay me any more attention than I deserve. The nightmare scenario is that the words I type on this message board are actually changing lives. Considering the content of many of my posts, that would be absolutely terrifying.

Romanar seems to have figured out that I'm just an intelligent, silly asshole, which is good.

See post #22.

I honestly think people just see me as 'that guy with that name.'

Same

You're all a product of my imagination. If you were supposed to be less one dimensional, I'd be smarter. Blame the Star Goat and the voices in my head.


... Or something.

Eh... I really haven't had many major images of people change significantly. If there were any where I did, it was probably Neo Undelia, who went from being a bit of a dick to downright cool (even if he is a Kucinich supporter).

I tend to take characiture positions on NSG, rather than trying to take things from a more subtle angle. Most posters here tend to respond to subtlety with unsubtle counter-arguments that ignore most of the subtlety of an argument, so it isn't worth it. I also tend to be mildly less ascerbic in the real world than I am here.

No idea. I've been told I'm black/Arab/Lebanese/Aboriginal(Australian)/gay and female, none of which are true in any way shape or form, amusing as the ideas are.

I think people see me as a level headed methodical debater who takes great pains to mind his manners and engage in serious constructive discussion at every opportunity.

But believe it or not, in real life, I'm somewhat more chaotic and unpredictable. *nod*

I think people see me as a level headed methodical debater who takes great pains to mind his manners and engage in serious constructive discussion at every opportunity.

In fact, you're almost boring in your pedantic attention to detail in debate.

But believe it or not, in real life, I'm somewhat more chaotic and unpredictable. *nod*

It's always the quiet ones, so they say

In fact, you're most boring in your pedantic attention to detail in debate.Fixed ;)

I honestly think people just see me as 'that guy with that name.' I don't know that I have enough of a personality here for people I haven't interacted with directly to have an opinion one way or another about me.

Car guy. Uncreative with names.

People see me as "that asshole who seems to never take anything seriously."

I'm just another name on this forum.

i think i'm probably a bit of a non-entity on here, i doubt i've done anything interesting enough to become anything of an NSG personality.

I was discussing with my good buddy, and sexy co-host, Sumamba Buwhan, the issue of poster personification. How certain attributes tend to be exaggerated online, not just by a poster his or herself, but also by the people interacting with that poster. How, because of the fact that we see only a certain side of a person who is online, we fill in the blanks, we make assumptions, and we create a sort of mental construct.

I get accused of being a lot of things...and when I tell my real life compatriots, they often laugh. Sure, those things are part of who I am, but how you see me here is not at all how you'd see me in real life. I imagine that for the most part, this is true of many of us. Moreover, it might actually be interesting for some of us to let others create our online persona, and run with it.

However, it can also be frustrating. Sure, it's nice to be talked about...but when the creature being discussed isn't you, even though it is being billed as you..well, sometimes that personification is irking.

How do you think you are seen by others here? How do you see other posters? Have your mental images changed over time? What do you think about the personification of posters...what kind of process is this really? Who are we when we hop online?


Nice post!

I guess none of us are who we really are when we logon to these types of places, I thing that one attribute that we all share once logged on is we become more vocal, more willing to standup and shout, and argue and force our point across than in real life. Unless of course you are like this in real life.

.. and this strikes you as something particularly online-related?

The phenomenon is certainly enhanced by the fact that online, we can be a bit more creative in what we make up, and a bit less giving away what we don't want to shine through because of the limited channels, and we tend to interact with one particular poster less total time than we tend to interact with one particular person IRL, but.. the principle is the same whenever you 'get to know' people, no?

From all those people who know me IRl (as in, know me rather well), there are some who'd describe me as a rather polite, easy-to-please, nice conversationalist and educated young woman; there are others who'd describe me as one of the most bold, direct, tactless and ignorant of many things person they've had the fortune to meet; many others will tell you I'm extremely extroverted, batshit insane and the pulse of any party or chat, while others will insist that I'm rather shy, introverted, pensive, and quick to think but slow to speak up.
They all are right; I can be (and am) all of those, but different people bring up different parts of me, and so I tend to be 'different' with one group of people than with the other (let alone gaps in perception; what's 'batshit insane' to the one is 'mildly extroverted' to the other et vice versa).

So the tl;dr version: I think the display and/or perception of different facets of one's personality with different (groups of) people is a common feature of human interaction no matter whether online or IRL.

I honestly think people just see me as 'that guy with that name.' I don't know that I have enough of a personality here for people I haven't interacted with directly to have an opinion one way or another about me.

I see you as a musician and with wide interest in music, also cars and engines, and like someone else said, quite chilled out, probably nice guy for a chat with a few drinks. And did you ever think of a name?

I expect most would not have a clear view of me, I'm not exactly the most verbose or regular poster, and don't often get into long debates.

Eh... I really haven't had many major images of people change significantly. If there were any where I did, it was probably Neo Undelia, who went from being a bit of a dick to downright cool (even if he is a Kucinich supporter).
Hehe, yeah. I remember when I first started, he was the most hardcore Bushevik MTAE clone you could imagine. Then he changed opinions a few times until he got to pragmatist cynicism.

Always a good choice. http://assets.jolt.co.uk/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

As for myself, I'm probably a tad more extroverted here than in real life. I also only really talk politics here (and a bit of cars), while in real life I just talk about cars (and a bit of politics). :p

But other than that, I think what you see is largely what you get. Got into a big discussion with my lecturer today after I held a presentation on the pros of free trade and he felt he needed to "balance" the issue by presenting some of the negatives of free trade. I couldn't just let that stand. Silly, silly man. :D

How do you think you are seen by others here?

I don't give a fuck about how I am seen by others here.

How do you see other posters?

Apart from a few notable exceptions, I don't really "see" other posters. Outside those exceptions I noted, I tend not to keep track of the user name associated with posts I respond to other than maybe to keep track that I am responding in a proper "line" of responses.

I don't give a fuck about how I am seen by others here.

:D but......we love you.

Speaking of.... I love Fass. I don't understand why other people have a problem with him, he can be crass, and rude, and arrogant, and just plain mean, but that is totally why I love him. I think you people that don't like Fass just don't understand him at all.

I never had anything but affinity for Fass, so I don't really understand anyone who thinks differently.

Bottle used to piss me off, but I have come to understand her now, she still pisses me off from time to time, but I think it might be intentional.

Sin, confuses me to this day, I can not reconcile what I know into a picture of anything I have ever seen.

Gravlen seems too good to be true and I seek out a flaw......daily, and come up empty. He is the nice guy.....I can't shake it. I know there must be something else.

As far as nearly everyone else, you are charactures to me, sorry but it's true.

CToaN doesn't really count as "the rest of you" though because I feel like I know something more about him......and he reminds me of this guy I used to date. Which means I will never be truly frustrated with him even if we disagree about something.

Ruffy is FTW because he is basically me if I were a teenage boy.

that is not all, but I can't remember anything else right now.

I don't know. I guess the only impression I try to throw off is, "That brown guy who knows a lot about science."

Though apparently Dina things I'm somewhat Omnipresent on NSG.

:D but......we love you.

Wasted sentiment, whichever it is.

Wasted sentiment, whichever it is.

:) this is why I love you.

:) this is why I love you.

Aww, omgz, like soooo totally rad, bitchin' and hot, darlin'. Call me, we'll circle-jerk.

Aww, omgz, like soooo totally rad, bitchin' and hot, darlin'. Call me, we'll circle-jerk.

and this is why I hate everyone else.

Because you don't like circle jerks? Or because no one else invites you to them? :confused:

Aww, omgz, like soooo totally rad, bitchin' and hot, darlin'. Call me, we'll circle-jerk.

and this is why I hate everyone else.

and this is why I hate everyone else.

Hate is, like, bad, hmmkay, for whatever reason? Like, so totally bumming me out and I just like can't take it, AT ALL, ya'll hataz, ya'll don't know me! You like really hurt my feelings when you're not putting on an air de pleasantry. So, have some poppers and turn that frown upside-down, betch. I really love fake politeness.

I've only formed one mental image that really sticks:
Neo Undelia is uniquely bland, a man of such mediocrity that he has become permanently equated to "Middle Class American Dullness" in my mind. No violence, no passion and he watches Frasier.

The rest of you are probably just a bunch of obese, hairy perverts sitting around in dark rooms and posting BS to mess with my head.

Because you don't like circle jerks? Or because no one else invites you to them? :confused:

Don't be ridiculousl. Invites are never needed for circle jerks. Just, BYOL.

The rest of you are probably just a bunch of obese, hairy perverts sitting around in dark rooms and posting BS to mess with my head.

I totally resent that! I am so not obese. Like, eeuw. That's just nasty.

Don't be ridiculously. Invites are never needed for circle jerks. Just, BYOL.

Man, I am really pissed off at a whole bunch of people now. :mad:

:p

Man, I am really pissed off at a whole bunch of people now. :mad: :p

The only cure for being pissed off is pissing on. Golden showers of friendliness for all!

I totally resent that! I am so not obese. Like, eeuw. That's just nasty.
Fine, I suppose that, technically, some of you might only qualify as overweight.

Neesika is a sexy bitch irl.

Lies, all lies!

Neesika is a sexy bitch irl.

SB is a sexy bastard.

I am a sexy turtle.

The rest of you are probably just a bunch of obese, hairy perverts sitting around in dark rooms and posting BS to mess with my head.

Other than the dark room bit..

Lies, all lies!

You're a sexy bitch too, but you have a cack, so you're a sexy trap(?).

Though apparently Dina things I'm somewhat Omnipresent on NSG.

Woohoo, my name! *has self-worth*

Woohoo, my name! *has self-worth*

For what it's worth, I always imagined some sort of Borg-assimilated T-Rex going through hell having to type with such short arms when thinking of you.

For what it's worth, I always imagined some sort of Borg-assimilated T-Rex going through hell having to type with such short arms when thinking of you.

...I have no idea how I cultivated this image but I like it and I will continue it.

Also, first change to my sig in a year.

Because you don't like circle jerks? Or because no one else invites you to them? :confused:
I can't explain, it's not PG-13 (or it is but it will just get me flamed)

Hate is, like, bad, hmmkay, for whatever reason? Like, so totally bumming me out and I just like can't take it, AT ALL, ya'll hataz, ya'll don't know me! You like really hurt my feelings when you're not putting on an air de pleasantry. So, have some poppers and turn that frown upside-down, betch. I really love fake politeness.
:D

I can't explain, it's not PG-13 (or it is but it will just get me flamed)

Y'know, surprisingly little about you is...

Hate is, like, bad, hmmkay, for whatever reason? Like, so totally bumming me out and I just like can't take it, AT ALL, ya'll hataz, ya'll don't know me! You like really hurt my feelings when you're not putting on an air de pleasantry. So, have some poppers and turn that frown upside-down, betch. I really love fake politeness.

Fass is stoned, yay!

...I have no idea how I cultivated this image but I like it and I will continue it.

Also, first change to my sig in a year.

I think it's, like, a combination of "verg", in my head translating to "borg", and "dina" of course representing "dinosaur".

Also: woot.

Fine, I suppose that, technically, some of you might only qualify as overweight.

Chubby chaser.

I'm not overly worried about how people picture/perceive me on this forum, truth be told. I don't think I post often enough for anyone to build up any kind of profile anyway, although I might be wrong on that score... some people can be pretty perceptive, after all.

I post for reasons that are almost completely selfish. By reading a topic and considering what is being said in the thread I get to examine how I feel about whatever is being discussed. I find this valuable since the topics that come up are occasionally things that I have never spent any time thinking about, and would never otherwise have put any thought into, and so I get to expand my worldview without having to actively seek out new ground. I suppose that counts as laziness on my part, but I'm OK with that.

Sometimes, if it's something that I already have an interest in or some knowledge/a half-formed opinion of (or if one of the replies in the thread winds me up in some silly little way or otherwise piques my curiosity), I'll post. More often, however, I find the threads either too banal, too boring, too full of long-term residents of the forum stroking each others egos or picking fights with past opponents, or just too populated with extreme opinions on either side of a debate. In these cases I find myself just skimming through it, occasionally chuckling at the attitudes adopted by some people, occasionally horrified at the naiveté of some posters but generally just lurking.

I'm not ever going to get involved in the RP threads in the other forums here - not because I hold any disdain for them or anything of the sort, but just because I really don't have the time or the inclination. There's more than enough going on in the real world for me to ponder. I'm also not prepared to spend any of my time hanging out in the spam forum. Consequently my post count is destined to remain very low, which means that anything I do choose to say is possibly going to get ignored by some of you. As with my recognition of my laziness, I'm OK with that.

And now that I've read through what I've just typed, I come to the realisation that I haven't come close to even touching on the question of the OP. This, the way that I wander off on tangents all the time, probably makes me a fine target for a few 'get a blog' type responses. For completeness' sake then, I'll just say that I really haven't gotten round to personfiying my fellow posters on here... in fact, most of the time I don't even read the posters' names as I go through threads.

I suppose this kind of standoffish attitude to the community makes me a bit of an irrelevance but, surprise surprise, I'm OK with that, too :p

tl;dr

I'm not overly worried about how people picture/perceive me on this forum, truth be told. I don't think I post often enough for anyone to build up any kind of profile anyway, although I might be wrong on that score... some people can be pretty perceptive, after all.

I post for reasons that are almost completely selfish. By reading a topic and considering what is being said in the thread I get to examine how I feel about whatever is being discussed. I find this valuable since the topics that come up are occasionally things that I have never spent any time thinking about, and would never otherwise have put any thought into, and so I get to expand my worldview without having to actively seek out new ground. I suppose that counts as laziness on my part, but I'm OK with that.

Sometimes, if it's something that I already have an interest in or some knowledge/a half-formed opinion of (or if one of the replies in the thread winds me up in some silly little way or otherwise piques my curiosity), I'll post. More often, however, I find the threads either too banal, too boring, too full of long-term residents of the forum stroking each others egos or picking fights with past opponents, or just too populated with extreme opinions on either side of a debate. In these cases I find myself just skimming through it, occasionally chuckling at the attitudes adopted by some people, occasionally horrified at the naiveté of some posters but generally just lurking.

I'm not ever going to get involved in the RP threads in the other forums here - not because I hold any disdain for them or anything of the sort, but just because I really don't have the time or the inclination. There's more than enough going on in the real world for me to ponder. I'm also not prepared to spend any of my time hanging out in the spam forum. Consequently my post count is destined to remain very low, which means that anything I do choose to say is possibly going to get ignored by some of you. As with my recognition of my laziness, I'm OK with that.

And now that I've read through what I've just typed, I come to the realisation that I haven't come close to even touching on the question of the OP. This, the way that I wander off on tangents all the time, probably makes me a fine target for a few 'get a blog' type responses. For completeness' sake then, I'll just say that I really haven't gotten round to personfiying my fellow posters on here... in fact, most of the time I don't even read the posters' names as I go through threads.

I suppose this kind of standoffish attitude to the community makes me a bit of an irrelevance but, surprise surprise, I'm OK with that, too :p

You're a sexy bitch too,

That doesn't even have to be said.

but you have a cack, so you're a sexy trap(?).

All the more to shut your yap with, my dear.

Snip

80 posts = I don't know who the hell you are. Lurk moar less!

Fass is stoned, yay!

I'm high on life, dammit.

I'm high on life, dammit.

Heehee. I like this Fass too. *pokes*

That doesn't even have to be said.
QFT

Thanks :D

To be fair, I didn't ignore it so much as it made my brain glaze over.

80 posts = I don't know who the hell you are. Lurk moar less!

my post count is destined to remain very low, which means that anything I do choose to say is possibly going to get ignored by some of you.

Thanks :D

Heehee. I like this Fass too. *pokes*

Well, not just life. Sugar, too. Nutella is the devil's delicious cock! And I notice now as I read the label, unvegan. Woe.

Well, not just life. Sugar, too. Nutella is the devil's delicious cock! And I notice now as I read the label, unvegan. Woe.

Nutella is...Well, yes, I don't think I can say it better than you have. *keeps constant supply of Nutella in room*

Nutella is...Well, yes, I don't think I can say it better than you have. *keeps constant supply of Nutella in room*

Do you also like to lick the spoon and moan suggestively? Sometimes, I touch myself also.

To be fair, I didn't ignore it so much as it made my brain glaze over.
Ah well, at least you were fair about it... that's what matters *nods*

Do you also like to lick the spoon and moan suggestively? Sometimes, I touch myself also.

I see.

So how long has this been a hobby for you? :p

I see.

You wish.

So how long has this been a hobby for you? :p

Oh, I've been a devout follower of the spoonlicker lifestyle since I was a child. I always knew that was my bent.

You wish.



Oh, I've been a devout follower of the spoonlicker lifestyle since I was a child. I always knew that was my bent.

You made me lol.

You made me lol.

Yeah, that's the stuff. Validate me some more, big boy.

I'm high on life, dammit.

Damn druggie. And sorry about yesterday, but for no apparent reason my internet decided to crap out and stay out, no matter what I did to try and resuscitate it.

Well, not just life. Sugar, too. Nutella is the devil's delicious cock!

I resent that, seeing how it really is deliriously yummy.

I resent that, seeing how it really is deliriously yummy.

I don't see how one precludes the other.

I don't see how one precludes the other.

Yeah, I probably need to get glasses, too.

Honestly, I think it's rather like with olives; I've never tasted them but I'll swear from the sight of them five feet away that they'll be monstrously vile-tasting.

Yeah, I probably need to get glasses, too.

Honestly, I think it's rather like with olives; I've never tasted them but I'll swear from the sight of them five feet away that they'll be monstrously vile-tasting.

No, lies - olives are awesome. Even the green ones. I prefer black, though.

Yeah, that's the stuff. Validate me some more, big boy.

:(

No, lies - olives are awesome. Even the green ones. I prefer black, though.

"Once you go black you'll never go back", wasn't it?

"Once you go black you never go back", wasn't it?

Too buttery for my liking.

I resent that, seeing how it really is deliriously yummy.

Don't be freudian.

Honestly, I think it's rather like with olives; I've never tasted them but I'll swear from the sight of them five feet away that they'll be monstrously vile-tasting.

Uhm, you're seriously gonna make scent analogies? That's a bit ironic. But you are right, olives are crap.

I noticed a couple of people mentioning how being on forums like this will let people be "louder" or perhaps more confrontational than they would be in real life.

Oddly enough, I feel the opposite is true for me. When I post here, I have to type out what I'm saying, and I try to read through my post before I click "submit."

And I pretty much always end up editing something.

Sometimes it's just grammar or spelling, but often it's something more significant. I catch myself being imprecise with what I'm saying, so I clarify. I catch myself sounding rude (or more rude than I intended), so I tone it down. I catch myself being insufficiently rude, so I tone it up.

The upshot is that the me that appears on these forums is more refined, and generally more mellow, than the off-the-cuff me that people encounter in person. I have a chance to edit what I've said "after" I've said it, around here. In real life...not so much.

"Once you go black you'll never go back", wasn't it?

Why not have both?

Don't be freudian.

Don't rob me of the few pleasantries that I still have in my life after my much-hated flatmate decided to come back for a month-long spell from his much longed-for vacation away from here.

Uhm, you're seriously gonna make scent analogies? That's a bit ironic. But you are right, olives are crap.

Of course I'm right. And no, not a single word was breathed about scent, mister; that's all your evil and oh, so revealing imagination.

Don't rob me of the few pleasantries that I still have in my life after my much-hated flatmate decided to come back for a month-long spell from his much longed-for vacation away from here.

What happened to cute-voice-guy?

Of course I'm right. And no, not a single word was breathed about scent, mister; that's all your evil and oh, so revealing imagination.

Well my distaste for the smell of both olives and snatch got mixed up. Appearance-wise, though, still a bit of irony...

Why not have both?

I'm sorry, I'm just not into zebras much.

I was discussing with my good buddy, and sexy co-host, Sumamba Buwhan, the issue of poster personification. How certain attributes tend to be exaggerated online, not just by a poster his or herself, but also by the people interacting with that poster. How, because of the fact that we see only a certain side of a person who is online, we fill in the blanks, we make assumptions, and we create a sort of mental construct.

I get accused of being a lot of things...and when I tell my real life compatriots, they often laugh. Sure, those things are part of who I am, but how you see me here is not at all how you'd see me in real life. I imagine that for the most part, this is true of many of us. Moreover, it might actually be interesting for some of us to let others create our online persona, and run with it.

However, it can also be frustrating. Sure, it's nice to be talked about...but when the creature being discussed isn't you, even though it is being billed as you..well, sometimes that personification is irking.

How do you think you are seen by others here? How do you see other posters? Have your mental images changed over time? What do you think about the personification of posters...what kind of process is this really? Who are we when we hop online?

People who like/tolerate me: The 14-year-old.
People who don't: The <insert adjective/curse here> 14-year old.

What happened to cute-voice-guy?

Cute Guy is still off and away in his voluntary solitary confinement finding his Inner Thingamabob, and even if he were here, he could make a lot go away, but unfortunately, he's promised to lay off the violence as part of the finding his Inner Thingamabob, so he wouldn't be much use in making Stinky, Ugly Guy go away. *cries*

I think people see me as a level headed methodical debater who takes great pains to mind his manners and engage in serious constructive discussion at every opportunity.

Really....*brandishes soap*

I think people see me as a level headed methodical debater who takes great pains to mind his manners and engage in serious constructive discussion at every opportunity.

But believe it or not, in real life, I'm somewhat more chaotic and unpredictable. *nod*

PIE FIGHT! (pies LG)

Cute Guy is still off and away in his voluntary solitary confinement finding his Inner Thingamabob, and even if he were here, he could make a lot go away, but unfortunately, he's promised to lay off the violence as part of the finding his Inner Thingamabob, so he wouldn't be much use in making Stinky, Ugly Guy go away. *cries*

Sworn away violence? I guess he swore his dick away, too. Such a waste.

*snippage*... As far as nearly everyone else, you are charactures to me, sorry but it's true... *snippage*

So I am a characature of your husband?


I do wonder how people see me. I see myself as an amorphous cloud being that can be anything at anytime. I am constantly reevaluating myself and easily able to change my mind on something because I usually attempt to keep a balanced view of things.


You remind me of a friend from HS who I always enjoyed the company of.

So I am a characature of your husband?


I do wonder how people see me. I see myself as an amorphous cloud being that can be anything at anytime. I am constantly reevaluating myself and easily able to change my mind on something because I usually attempt to keep a balanced view of things.


You remind me of a friend from HS who I always enjoyed the company of.

I really think you are my husband, like in another dimension or whatever......or you know in this dimension, like if he had a twin.

Sworn away violence? I guess he swore his dick away, too. Such a waste.

I do wonder how you come to know about the wasteful quality of his member allegedly not being in use, but I'll try not to ponder it too much.

That said, unless he's aspiring to be a monk (which he's kindly refraining from right now), he has every sanction to engage in "non-harmful sexual conduct", even though he's supposed to "forgo all Existence and Bodily" - no, I'm not actively looking for logic in religion, but I still am sometimes caught marvelling at the beauty of its inconsistencies.

I really think you are my husband, like in another dimension or whatever......or you know in this dimension, like if he had a twin.

You would fool around with your husbands twin? Kinky.

.. and this strikes you as something particularly online-related?
*snip*
So the tl;dr version: I think the display and/or perception of different facets of one's personality with different (groups of) people is a common feature of human interaction no matter whether online or IRL.

I suppose this is true, yes, though you do get the chance to sort of 'get a feel' for people in real life, that I have found rarely steers me wrong. Not so here. Still, you've made some excellent points. Did you know that I picture you sort of like Ani Difranco, (in her short dreadlock phase, not her bald phase)? :D I also think you're batshit insane.

You would fool around with your husbands twin? Kinky.

I probably would..........

I probably would..........

Wow, it's like being slutty, but within the confines of a socially accepted relationship (in appearance)...and you could always claim 'oops'!

Look for triplets.

I probably would..........

I probably would too.

Wow, it's like being slutty, but within the confines of a socially accepted relationship (in appearance)...and you could always claim 'oops'!

Look for triplets.

:eek: that's the best idea I ever heard!

:) this is why I love you.

This is the only true way to irritate Fass. Bravo! :D

And I think I'm crystal clear as an 'entity'...I mean, I make total sense to myself...usually...

This is the only true way to irritate Fass. Bravo! :D

And I think I'm crystal clear as an 'entity'...I mean, I make total sense to myself...usually...

people have enough trouble trying to reconcile me, but for me to have a problem reconciling you? you are too complicated.

pick a cookie cutter damn it!

The rest of you are probably just a bunch of obese, hairy perverts sitting around in dark rooms and posting BS to mess with my head.

Yeah, it's so odd...when I first started posting (this was my first forum btw...) I just sort of assumed people were like what I was used to. A mixture, the minority being white. Instead, I had to completely revise my pattern of assumptions, and see everyone as white, male, USian, 17-26, and overweight. I still, however, have a tendency to see really good posters as 'hot'.

I suppose this is true, yes, though you do get the chance to sort of 'get a feel' for people in real life, that I have found rarely steers me wrong. Not so here.
I still maintain that you can (and probably will) get the same amount of 'feel' for people online IFF you spend the same amount of time with them, or rather, the signals they send of them. I think one tends to over-estimate the time one 'spends with' people online (you really only 'read their signals' the total amount of time needed to read their posts, right; time 'in between' on fora etc. doesn't count in) while under-estimating the amount of time spent reading RL people's signals (which you do every minute you are in a room with them, e.g., even if you don't actively talk to them).
Did you know that I picture you sort of like Ani Difranco, (in her short dreadlock phase, not her bald phase)? :D I also think you're batshit insane.

I didn't, nor do I know her, but I'll look her up presently. And I concede that I rank rather high on the batshit insane scale in ym own dim view, too.

ETA: Cute enough, that one. But, alas, no, the spirit is right but the looks aren't quite - neither do I have her nice complexion, nor does she have the supremely arrogant look on her face I'm said to sport at nearly all times.

Lies, all lies!

Deny it all you want, you'll still be begging for more nude shots of me, you bloody closet bi.

I
I'm not ever going to get involved in the RP threads in the other forums here - not because I hold any disdain for them or anything of the sort, but just because I really don't have the time or the inclination. There's more than enough going on in the real world for me to ponder. I'm also not prepared to spend any of my time hanging out in the spam forum. Consequently my post count is destined to remain very low, which means that anything I do choose to say is possibly going to get ignored by some of you. Bullshit. I've never once RPd or hung out in the spam forum, and my former nation had about 13,000 posts, added to the ones I have now.

Oh oh! What about me?:D:D

Oh oh! What about me?:D:D

they won't say you, for the same reason they won't say me........we are fragile. :cool:

Deny it all you want, you'll still be begging for more nude shots of me, you bloody closet bi.

Sum, ergo bi non sum.

I do wonder how you come to know about the wasteful quality of his member allegedly not being in use, but I'll try not to ponder it too much.

That said, unless he's aspiring to be a monk (which he's kindly refraining from right now), he has every sanction to engage in "non-harmful sexual conduct", even though he's supposed to "forgo all Existence and Bodily" - no, I'm not actively looking for logic in religion, but I still am sometimes caught marvelling at the beauty of its inconsistencies.

You must save him! See, I can even condone heterosexuality for the greater good.

I've only formed one mental image that really sticks:
Neo Undelia is uniquely bland, a man of such mediocrity that he has become permanently equated to "Middle Class American Dullness" in my mind. No violence, no passion and he watches Frasier.

The rest of you are probably just a bunch of obese, hairy perverts sitting around in dark rooms and posting BS to mess with my head.

:eek: Where's the camera?!?

*searches*

they won't say you, for the same reason they won't say me........we are fragile. :cool:

Aww. But I am not fragile. I mean, its only people on the internet. They can't make me cry or anything. Besides I already know what a few people would say about me, and I just want to read it again to have a good laugh.


As for you though, I think you are a good person. We won't ever see eye to eye on views either related to faith or politics, however, you are my sister in Christ, so much love to ya! :fluffle:

PIE FIGHT! (pies LG)

Ahh! How immature?

*wipes pie off face*

Honestly! :rolleyes: I suppose now, you expect me to stoop to your level and throw pies back. Well, I will not!

*pushes you into a vat of butterscotch pudding*

:D

Sum, ergo bi non sum.

Oh joy and rejoicing, do give me some more reminders that I shouldn't be on here, but last-minute cramming Latin for my exam tomorrow. Bitch.

You must save him! See, I can even condone heterosexuality for the greater good.

I might even try, as you know, but I'm not sure whether that'll cure him of his, uh, Search. Which is and remains the major catch.

Really....*brandishes soap*

:eek: Get that shit away from me! *dives into the pudding*

Oh joy and rejoicing, do give me some more reminders that I shouldn't be on here, but last-minute cramming Latin for my exam tomorrow. Bitch.

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.

I might even try, as you know, but I'm not sure whether that'll cure him of his, uh, Search. Which is and remains the major catch.

Women are supposed to be the ultimate corrupters and workers of iniquity. So, be a good Eve and get to it.

people have enough trouble trying to reconcile me, but for me to have a problem reconciling you? you are too complicated.

pick a cookie cutter damn it!

Look, it's very simple.
I'm an aboriginal woman from rural Alberta (hickland). I'm an atheist. I don't believe in marriage, I'm in a long-term common law relationship with two kids. I'm obscenely left wing. I'm bi. I'm a total slut, I'm into BDSM. People who aren't witty piss me off. I don't bother with acquaintences, I have a core group of real friends that are enough...I am dedicated to my huge extended family and my community, and I'm kind of a freak who ends up spending most of my energy on helping other people and forgetting about my own needs. I'm a bitch one moment, and a sweetie the next, and my favourite topic is ass.

There, got it? :P

ETA: Cute enough, that one. But, alas, no, the spirit is right but the looks aren't quite - neither do I have her nice complexion, nor does she have the supremely arrogant look on her face I'm said to sport at nearly all times.

I think I like you even more now.

Ahh! How immature?

*wipes pie off face*

Honestly! :rolleyes: I suppose now, you expect me to stoop to your level and throw pies back. Well, I will not!

*pushes you into a vat of butterscotch pudding*

:D

*dips taco in pudding*

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and my favourite topic is ass.

There, got it? :P

Got it. :)

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
While I resent you calling my exam an adversity (I still prefer to kid myself with thinking of it as The Hour of My Shining Triumph Over The Latin Language), I will have no other way than to go and meet it, seeing how not appearing will prevent me from being allowed to persue the profession I hope to have one day forever.

Women are supposed to be the ultimate corrupters and workers of iniquity. So, be a good Eve and get to it.

I'll be ill-advised to listen to your deliberations on what women are (supposed to be), thankyouverymuch. But if I'll see to the fatal deception of my Adam and the demise of everything else to follow, I'll send you a postcard.

Got it. :)

Kehehehehefackoffha. :P

I'm a bitch one moment, and a sweetie the next, and my favourite topic is ass.

Oh, okay, I accept Exhibit A of how one may not always be able to relay all one's facets with online contact.
I think I like you even more now.

I'm insulted at the capacity for improvement that appears to have existed before.

Look, it's very simple.
I'm an aboriginal woman from rural Alberta (hickland). I'm an atheist. I don't believe in marriage, I'm in a long-term common law relationship with two kids. I'm obscenely left wing. I'm bi. I'm a total slut, I'm into BDSM. People who aren't witty piss me off. I don't bother with acquaintences, I have a core group of real friends that are enough...I am dedicated to my huge extended family and my community, and I'm kind of a freak who ends up spending most of my energy on helping other people and forgetting about my own needs. I'm a bitch one moment, and a sweetie the next, and my favourite topic is ass.

There, got it? :P

got it. now do me. *waits for it*

got it. now do me. *waits for it*

*films*

While I resent you calling my exam an adversity (I still prefer to kid myself with thinking of it as The Hour of My Shining Triumph Over The Latin Language), I will have no other way than to go and meet it, seeing how not appearing will prevent me from being allowed to persue the profession I hope to have one day forever.

Memento "si peccasse negamus fallimur et nulla est in nobis veritas". :)

I'll be ill-advised to listen to your deliberations on what women are (supposed to be), thankyouverymuch. But if I'll see to the fatal deception of my Adam and the demise of everything else to follow, I'll send you a postcard.

Please, don't. Details are best kept in your bosom.

got it. now do me. *waits for it*
From what I've gathered, labelling oneself as 'bi' doesn't necessarily entail one will readily jump at anyone who orders one to do so, you know?

ETA: Beaten to it by Dinaverg, as it appears. Meh.

*films*

*sues*

Well my distaste for the smell of both olives and snatch got mixed up. Appearance-wise, though, still a bit of irony...

I enjoy the smell and appearance of both. =D

got it. now do me. *waits for it*

Sexy shit.

I enjoy the smell and appearance of both. =D

Degenerate.

From what I've gathered, labelling oneself as 'bi' doesn't necessarily entail one will readily jump at anyone who orders one to do so, you know?

ETA: Beaten to it by Dinaverg, as it appears. Meh.


True but Neesika would :D

True but Neesika would :D

You would know.

Memento "si peccasse negamus fallimur et nulla est in nobis veritas". :)

Oh, I always do; I strive to complete my very own brand of imperfection every day - I usually sell it (successfully) as 'individuality' and 'creativity' or, if all else fails, 'lifestyle of alternative solutions', but I've been told Latin examiners are not swayed by such terms.

Please, don't. Details are best kept in your bosom.

You're asking for a waist-and-up nude shot? Sorry, that I don't do; I'll refer you to Neesika for that, she appears more than willing.

From what I've gathered, labelling oneself as 'bi' doesn't necessarily entail one will readily jump at anyone who orders one to do so, you know?

ETA: Beaten to it by Dinaverg, as it appears. Meh.

I was waiting, and Dina knows how I hate to wait.

Besides, Sin knows what she could expect........

*sues*

*uses profits from video*

I was waiting, and Dina knows how I hate to wait.

Besides, Sin knows what she could expect........

^__^

How do you think you are seen by others here? How do you see other posters? Have your mental images changed over time? What do you think about the personification of posters...what kind of process is this really? Who are we when we hop online?
Well I suck at creating them mental images 'cause most turn out to be wrong anyway. :(

Oh, okay, I accept Exhibit A of how one may not always be able to relay all one's facets with online contact. Oh please. I ooze sweetness.


I'm insulted at the capacity for improvement that appears to have existed before.Sorry, but even the most exemplary examples of human perfection have room for SOME improvement, even if only in the minds of they who admire.

You would know.

OR, I am just projecting.

Oh please. I ooze sweetness.

I don't recall we've ever gotten intimate enough for me to check.

Oh, I always do; I strive to complete my very own brand of imperfection every day - I usually sell it (successfully) as 'individuality' and 'creativity' or, if all else fails, 'lifestyle of alternative solutions', but I've been told Latin examiners are not swayed by such terms.

Audentes fortuna iuvat, nunc adaequatio intellectus nostri cum re.

You're asking for a waist-and-up nude shot? Sorry, that I don't do; I'll refer you to Neesika for that, she appears more than willing.

You sadden me on so many levels with that.

OR, I am just projecting.

Ejaculation is a form of projection, true.

got it. now do me. *waits for it*

You're a rebel. Your conservative Christianity by far out-rebels your previous incarnations as a druggie, a Satanist, a freak. Being a 'conservative Christian' freaks people out like crazy, because they make assumptions about you, and then you get to turn the tables on them. You are a devoted mom and wife, but you do it all on your own terms. You are strident, so you try to tone it down in order to promote harmony in your family...and to a certain extent here...but you will never be seen as humdrum, because you're a bit of a sexual freak too, and you love the shock factor.

You sadden me on so many levels with that.

*cues quivering chin*

*cues quivering chin*

Queue it, please.

Ejaculation is a form of projection, true.

Let's all stand in a circle and project onto Neesika

Queue it, please.

I'll just put it into the next parcel and hope it doesn't spoil till send-date.

Let's all stand in a circle and project onto Neesika

*approves*

Let's all stand in a circle and project onto Neesika

Glorious as though my cock be, it does not project while limp from such traumata.

i'm a commonly consumed item of pub food and a beverage usually contained in pint glasses or tankards and quaffed copiously. i'm almost like the holy trinity, but there are only two manifestations of me*. i do take on those manifestations at the same time though, and usually in the same place. in fact there is a third manifestation of me, that is gas. we don't talk about it too much.

edit: *what would that be? Holy Binity?

*approves*

*likes Dina more all the time*

Glorious as though my cock be

Proof please.

, it does not project while limp from such traumata.

I volunteer to take her place then.

Degenerate.

You love it.

Proof please.

Now, now, I can't go down that by you so well trodden path. I have a moral compass!

I volunteer to take her place then.

*checks* Nope, no convalescence.

I just realized - Fass is like Dr. Cox, from Scrubs. Except, he's gay. And he wishes his name was Cox.

You love it.

You dream.

I just realized - Fass is like Dr. Cox, from Scrubs. Except, he's gay. And he wishes his name was Cox.

How would you know it's not?

How would you know it's not?

what's the plural of 'cock' in swedish then? or is that really your name? that would be brilliant.

what's the plural of 'cock' in swedish then? or is that really your name? that would be brilliant.
Fassigen = horror again?

I have been accused of being a troll. My favorite comment I ever received here was when someone thought that I was single and lived in my parents' basement.

Fassigen = horror again?

Do you even speak Scandinavian?

Do you even speak Scandinavian?
Haha no. :D

I'm not really sure what people see me as, and I tend to have random images of posters I recognize. Like Gravlen is a frog. :)

You dream.

Well, that answers one of the major questions. Yes I will, in fact, dream.

How would you know it's not?

Magic.

what's the plural of 'cock' in swedish then? or is that really your name? that would be brilliant.

That would be. It'd be like, Coeux. Because the Euros are always cooler and their words look more awesome.

I'm not really sure what people see me as, and I tend to have random images of posters I recognize. Like Gravlen is a frog. :)

Honestly, I'm a nerd. And a weirdo. And I'm creepy. Therefore, I've imagined you to be an anime character - an asexual god inhabiting the body of a 12-year-old girl, imbuing her with the power of a thousand suns and other shit you just don't fuck with.

You're a supporting character, and your powers are never really fully used unless it's for the joy of overkill, simply because it would break the anime and make all challenge pointless.

Since it's my anime, obviously I'm the main character. In the first episode, I kill off four female supporting characters in an attempt to keep it from being a Tenchi or Love Hina ripoff. I attempt to kill you off, but since you're a god it doesn't work out. Obviously I plotdevice myself so I don't get slaughtered with the power of a thousand suns.


... So yeah, that's what I think about when I see your name. :p

I honestly think people just see me as 'that guy with that name.' I don't know that I have enough of a personality here for people I haven't interacted with directly to have an opinion one way or another about me.You'll always be the guy who is jealous of those drunken vandals who attend the UK NS meets to me. :)

I'm not really sure what people see me as, and I tend to have random images of posters I recognize. Like Gravlen is a frog. :)

i can't shake the image of an anthropomorphic chandelier when i see your posts, basically just a cartoon chandelier with eyes drawn in the disney style. call me unoriginal but...

Fassigen = horror again?

eh? i thought FASS was the acronym for some swedish medical thing. although my mum has a sack cloth bag from some aromatherapy peddlar that says FASS on it. maybe Fass is actually a quack doctor.

eh? i thought FASS was the acronym for some swedish medical thing. although my mum has a sack cloth bag from some aromatherapy peddlar that says FASS on it. maybe Fass is actually a quack doctor.

http://www.fass.se

Honestly, I'm a nerd. And a weirdo. And I'm creepy. Therefore, I've imagined you to be an anime character - an asexual god inhabiting the body of a 12-year-old girl, imbuing her with the power of a thousand suns and other shit you just don't fuck with.

You're a supporting character, and your powers are never really fully used unless it's for the joy of overkill, simply because it would break the anime and make all challenge pointless.

Since it's my anime, obviously I'm the main character. In the first episode, I kill off four female supporting characters in an attempt to keep it from being a Tenchi or Love Hina ripoff. I attempt to kill you off, but since you're a god it doesn't work out. Obviously I plotdevice myself so I don't get slaughtered with the power of a thousand suns.


... So yeah, that's what I think about when I see your name. :p

That's interesting. :)

I see you as looking kind of like a Florida panther.


i can't shake the image of an anthropomorphic chandelier when i see your posts, basically just a cartoon chandelier with eyes drawn in the disney style. call me unoriginal but...

Hehe. :)

Well... my mental image of you is similarly unoriginal...

I don't post as much as many people here, but I follow the debates and every so often try to throw in something intelligent. So, I'm going to say no one has a firm idea of me, and I really don't have ideas about other posters. My sense of humor is incredibly dense, so I can't tell when some people here are serious or joking. As such, I try to not to credit what a poster says with being what he or she really thinks.

http://www.fass.se

yeah, lamentably i can't read swedish. interesting logo though. why the amphorae? or is it something else?

That's interesting. :)

I see you as looking kind of like a Florida panther.



Hehe. :)

Well... my mental image of you is similarly unoriginal...

it'd be accurate though ;)

i don't think my normal posting account would render an image so easily.

http://www.fass.se
Is that related to medications?

EDIT: Oh, there's a medical dictionary too. And something on diseases and vaccines.

The rest of you are probably just a bunch of obese, hairy perverts sitting around in dark rooms and posting BS to mess with my head.

Fuck you pal.

















I have the light on.

http://www.fass.se

Don't ask me why, but I decided to try www.fass.com and www.fass.de , and lo and behold, both are actually in existence (albeit one somewhat more than the other, so to speak).

I don't give a fuck what people think about me. Therefore I post in this particular thread... you know... just in case somebody didn't know... and wanted to talk about me...

...that's all.


You can now talk about me.

I won't read it, you know! Cos I don't care!

...but I will respond, mind...

I don't give a fuck what people think about me. Therefore I post in this particular thread... you know... just in case somebody didn't know... and wanted to talk about me...

...that's all.


You can now talk about me.

I won't read it, you know! Cos I don't care!

...but I will respond, mind...

http://www.jimbenton.com/images/buttbunnylg.gif

http://www.jimbenton.com/images/buttbunnylg.gif

Why, of course. So do you, basically.

Methinks I haven't been around long enough to have built up an image in peoples minds

........

At least I hope no-one has one yet. It would most likely be bad :eek:

Methinks I haven't been around long enough to have built up an image in peoples minds

........

At least I hope no-one has one yet. It would most likely be bad :eek:

i imagine you with one of those silly tartan berrets with the bright orange hair coming out of them on. but also with a distinctly earnest expression that clashes humourously.

i imagine you with one of those silly tartan berrets with the bright orange hair coming out of them on. but also with a distinctly earnest expression that clashes humourously.

A Jimmy Hat?

Damn thats extremely accurate

A Jimmy Hat?

Damn thats extremely accurate

ha! you're ginger too? back when i had long hair i once wore a similar hat but without the fake hair. the look on the idiots face who tried to nick my hat when he wipped it off my head but the hair didn't follow was pure comedy. yeh, my hair is that brightly orange.

yeah, lamentably i can't read swedish. interesting logo though. why the amphorae? or is it something else?

Is that related to medications?

EDIT: Oh, there's a medical dictionary too. And something on diseases and vaccines.

It is the Swedish pharmaceutical association's catalogue of all prescription medications available on the Swedish market. It has detailed information about their indications, side effects, dosages, pharmacodynamics and -chinetics, interactions and so on. I use it daily and when I signed up with my first nation I had the printed version next to my computer and that was how I picked the name. When that nation was deleted, I added "igen" (again) to "fass" - tada.

The amphora? It's probably a symbol for pharmacology in some way.

Methinks I haven't been around long enough to have built up an image in peoples minds

........

At least I hope no-one has one yet. It would most likely be bad :eek:


Usually these things have more to with the one doing imagining than the imagined....

It is the Swedish pharmaceutical association's catalogue of all prescription medications available on the Swedish market. It has detailed information about their indications, side effects, dosages, pharmacodynamics and -chinetics, interactions and so on. I use it daily and when I signed up with my first nation I had the printed version next to my computer and that was how I picked the name. When that nation was deleted, I added "igen" (again) to "fass" - tada.

The amphora? It's probably a symbol for pharmacology in some way.

amphorae are good for mixing or somthing. plus alcohol is 'medicinal'. as much of a link as is necessary to satisfy me anyway. better than a couple of snakes on a stick.

I just realized - Fass is like Dr. Cox, from Scrubs. Except, he's gay. And he wishes his name was Cox.If Fass is Dr Cox.. Then I guess I am the Janitor.

It is the Swedish pharmaceutical association's catalogue of all prescription medications available on the Swedish market. It has detailed information about their indications, side effects, dosages, pharmacodynamics and -chinetics, interactions and so on. I use it daily and when I signed up with my first nation I had the printed version next to my computer and that was how I picked the name. When that nation was deleted, I added "igen" (again) to "fass" - tada.ah

an me was thinking Federation of Animal Societies (http://fass.org)

ah

an me was thinking Federation of Animal Societies (http://fass.org)

Why in the name of sanity would a pick a name after a horrible organisation that promotes "animal agriculture"?

I wouldn't believe anyone even knew I was posting, much less see me as something besides words on a page.


Well, except for the Spammers of course, but they're a whole different monster entirely...


I'm not really sure what people see me as, and I tend to have random images of posters I recognize. Like Gravlen is a frog. :)

:)

I used to picture you as something of an OperaGhost, I really did...

I'm sure you all have your ideas of me, and they are probably all wrong. I'm much different in real life than I am online.

I try not to personify anyone on this forum, as it's easier for me to dismiss people if they're just ridiculous conglomerations of repetitive drivel. (Which they are. Especially Fass.)

You wound me so, pumpkin.

I try not to personify anyone on this forum, as it's easier for me to dismiss people if they're just ridiculous conglomerations of repetitive drivel. (Which they are. Especially Fass.)

I'm sure you all have your ideas of me, and they are probably all wrong. I'm much different in real life than I am online.

You're a white, pampered, young male. I doubt very much that I'm wrong.

I wouldn't believe anyone even knew I was posting, much less see me as something besides words on a page.


Well, except for the Spammers of course, but they're a whole different monster entirely...


:)



i picture you as a short haired viking with a permanent sheepish grin.

How do you see other posters? Have your mental images changed over time? In way too many cases, the better I've been getting to know people, the less I like them.

I've only formed one mental image that really sticks:
Neo Undelia is uniquely bland, a man of such mediocrity that he has become permanently equated to "Middle Class American Dullness" in my mind. No violence, no passion and he watches Frasier.
:rolleyes:

My avatar has a lot to answer for.

My avatar has a lot to answer for.

Someone thought I was obsessed with Transformers because of mine, so chalk up another wrong impression due to a cool avatar.

I dunno what kind of ideas people have of me here, although I do get a lot of assumptions that I'm male.

I used to picture you as something of an OperaGhost, I really did...

Yay! :D

I dunno what kind of ideas people have of me here, although I do get a lot of assumptions that I'm male.

I see you as that picture of you that's upside down. :)

Not a clue. However, I echo what Atlantian Islands wrote.

i picture you as a short haired viking with a permanent sheepish grin.

...so you've seen my picture?


:p

In way too many cases, the better I've been getting to know people, the less I like them.

:eek::(


*Offers chocolate*

I dunno what kind of ideas people have of me here, although I do get a lot of assumptions that I'm male.
Where are all the women, Tribes?
They're male, Dem.
Who is?
Everybody, Dem.
What, Sinhue?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Pancake?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Ilie?
They're all male. Everybody's male, Dem.
Ashmoria isn't, is she?
Everybody is male, Dem!
Not Peech?
Gordon Bennet, yes Peech. Everybody. Everybody's male, Dem!
Whereyouthinkyougoing?
She's male, Dem, everybody is male. Everybody is male, Dem!
Wait...are you trying to tell me everybody's male?
...Should have never let you out in the first place... (http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=9tgnBSgsIyc)

(cos I'm bored and still refuse to believe that there are wimmin on the web)

Where are all the women, Tribes?
They're male, Dem.
Who is?
Everybody, Dem.
What, Sinhue?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Pancake?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Ilie?
They're all male. Everybody's male, Dem.
Ashmoria isn't, is she?
Everybody is male, Dem!
Not Peech?
Gordon Bennet, yes Peech. Everybody. Everybody's male, Dem!
Whereyouthinkyougoing?
She's male, Dem, everybody is male. Everybody is male, Dem!
Wait...are you trying to tell me everybody's male?
...Should have never let you out in the first place... (http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=9tgnBSgsIyc)

(cos I'm bored and still refuse to believe that there are wimmin on the web)
Hah, love that show. Well, the first few series, anyway.

Umm, anyway. You guys all are names, first and foremost. I mean, you all have personalities and even lives outside NS, but mainly I see you all as a name and a posting style. I think. Maybe your outside character does impinge on the way I see you all. Hmm. *ponders* Certainly I have a better sense of who NSers are once I've met them in real life...

I'll tell y'all what DCD is like if he ever calls back cuz if he does I'm going to go have a drink with him Friday night since he is vacationing in Vegas.

Where are all the women, Tribes?
They're male, Dem.
Who is?
Everybody, Dem.
What, Sinhue?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Pancake?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Ilie?
They're all male. Everybody's male, Dem.
Ashmoria isn't, is she?
Everybody is male, Dem!
Not Peech?
Gordon Bennet, yes Peech. Everybody. Everybody's male, Dem!
Whereyouthinkyougoing?
She's male, Dem, everybody is male. Everybody is male, Dem!
Wait...are you trying to tell me everybody's male?
...Should have never let you out in the first place... (http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=9tgnBSgsIyc)

(cos I'm bored and still refuse to believe that there are wimmin on the web)

Inspired pr6gra0. Truly brilliant, and yet another criminally undervalued British comedy.

:eek::(


*Offers chocolate*
Well, not everyone, so it's not all that bad.

Where are all the women, Tribes?
They're male, Dem.
Who is?
Everybody, Dem.
What, Sinhue?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Pancake?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Ilie?
They're all male. Everybody's male, Dem.
Ashmoria isn't, is she?
Everybody is male, Dem!
Not Peech?
Gordon Bennet, yes Peech. Everybody. Everybody's male, Dem!
Whereyouthinkyougoing?
She's male, Dem, everybody is male. Everybody is male, Dem!
Wait...are you trying to tell me everybody's male?
...Should have never let you out in the first place... (http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=9tgnBSgsIyc)

(cos I'm bored and still refuse to believe that there are wimmin on the web)
:p

In way too many cases, the better I've been getting to know people, the less I like them.
she hates me *cries*

she hates me *cries*

Tears of joy.

she hates me *cries*

I feel confident in knowing that she does, in fact, love me.

I feel confident in knowing that she does, in fact, love me.

Don't we all....:p

Don't we all....:p

Absolutely not.

Ahh! How immature?

*wipes pie off face*

Honestly! :rolleyes: I suppose now, you expect me to stoop to your level and throw pies back. Well, I will not!

*pushes you into a vat of butterscotch pudding*

:D

You never stoop to anyone's level. You always go one lower. :p

Look, it's very simple.
I'm an aboriginal woman from rural Alberta (hickland). I'm an atheist. I don't believe in marriage, I'm in a long-term common law relationship with two kids. I'm obscenely left wing. I'm bi. I'm a total slut, I'm into BDSM. People who aren't witty piss me off. I don't bother with acquaintences, I have a core group of real friends that are enough...I am dedicated to my huge extended family and my community, and I'm kind of a freak who ends up spending most of my energy on helping other people and forgetting about my own needs. I'm a bitch one moment, and a sweetie the next, and my favourite topic is ass.

There, got it? :P
There is a lot more to you then that but I am sure that you would like me to keep quiet about it. :p

You're a white, pampered, young male. I doubt very much that I'm wrong.
2 out of three.

Not a clue. However, I echo what Atlantian Islands wrote.
Sometimes I think of you as the more eloquent with words, British version of me.

2 out of three.
You're black, aren't you.

You're black, aren't you.
No....?

:eek:*checks*:eek:

Or am I.......

I believe someone mentioned something about "alternative lifestyles" re: my visiting a certain state...

2 out of three.

This is what really does get me on NSG. Anybody who falls further right than raving Socialist is automatically labelled a "pampered, middle class white kid".

I dunno what kind of ideas people have of me here, although I do get a lot of assumptions that I'm male.
If I had a penis for every time somebody mistakenly assumed I was male around here, we could make some deeply twisted hentai.

:eek: Get that shit away from me! *dives into the pudding*

Aha! Got you! It's soap tainted pudding. :D

I'd be quite interested if people can even guess if I am human or just Skynet.

Bullshit. I've never once RPd or hung out in the spam forum, and my former nation had about 13,000 posts, added to the ones I have now.
You evidently have a whole lot more free time than I do. I'm really quite jealous ;)

Sometimes after I write a post about something I've gotten fired up over, I read it later and think "oh gawd, people are going to read that and think I'm either A) one of those bandana'd, dreadlock-wearing, scrawny street urchin types that show up and wave a rainbow flag and throw rocks at G8 summits; or B) a lisping morbidly obese twink in a 'pretty' bedroom who when riled resembles one of those shrill, drunken straight skanks outside the bar at 2:30 AM. Or, worst of all, C) one of those scrawny queer emos who even argues in that whiney, nerdy droning timbre where it sounds like they took a moment out of their busy schedule of cutting their wrists and crying about stupid boys to fake some enthusiasm for an argument.

None of the above would be accurate, by the way.

You're black, aren't you.
Just his heart is. :D

This is what really does get me on NSG. Anybody who falls further right than raving Socialist is automatically labelled a "pampered, middle class white kid".
Yes...but fortunatly most of NS are either A) kids who don't yet know the real world and will thus become a bit more conservative when they have to pay taxes, have a family and exit school/university, or B) Losers who either are failing or have failed life.

Yes, that's really how I feel.

Just his heart is. :D
Touche, Canuck!:D

Where are all the women, Tribes?
They're male, Dem.
Who is?
Everybody, Dem.
What, Sinhue?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Pancake?
Everybody's male, Dem.
What, Ilie?
They're all male. Everybody's male, Dem.
Ashmoria isn't, is she?
Everybody is male, Dem!
Not Peech?
Gordon Bennet, yes Peech. Everybody. Everybody's male, Dem!
Whereyouthinkyougoing?
She's male, Dem, everybody is male. Everybody is male, Dem!
Wait...are you trying to tell me everybody's male?
...Should have never let you out in the first place... (http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=9tgnBSgsIyc)

(cos I'm bored and still refuse to believe that there are wimmin on the web)

Gravlen and Laerod know I'm a giiiiirl, they met me in RL. And soon a bunch more people for the Philly meetup too. :D

Yes...but fortunatly most of NS are either A) kids who don't yet know the real world and will thus become a bit more conservative when they have to pay taxes, have a family and exit school/university, or B) Losers who either are failing or have failed life.

Yes, that's really how I feel.

Even me??

P.S. Which one are you?

Even me??

P.S. Which one are you?
It doesn't apply to me in the context of the conversation Chris and I were having, as we were discussing it in accordance with the massive ammounts of leftism found here.

You? No idea. (I did say "most"....)

I'm sure you all have your ideas of me, and they are probably all wrong. I'm much different in real life than I am online.

You're less of a racist in person? Somehow I doubt it. Less open about it, perhaps.

You're a white, pampered, young male. I doubt very much that I'm wrong. Te quiero.

My avatar has a lot to answer for.

I blame John Varley for my image of you.

There is a lot more to you then that but I am sure that you would like me to keep quiet about it. :p

Don't pretend you know me.

You evidently have a whole lot more free time than I do. I'm really quite jealous ;)

I'm an amazing multitasker. That's code for, I get bored easily, at work, or at school and I can keep ahead enough that I don't need to not slack off, posting on NSG.

I don't really personify other posters. I think of them as bundles of ideas and arguments.

I'm pretty sure that anyone who has tried to "personify" me has gotten me very wrong.

Edit: Then again, a whole lot of the people I actually know don't get me either.

Lets see, I am a dark, morbid, sarcastic, misanthropic, anti-social, self-centred, arrogant, bastard, with a twisted sense of humour, both here and IRL. So the only question is how others here see me, something that doesn't matter to me one iota.

:rolleyes:
If you keep doing that, your eyes will stick that way.
And what I said is true, all of it, so save the silent condescension for someone who needs it.

I don't really personify other posters. I think of them as bundles of ideas and arguments.

I'm pretty sure that anyone who has tried to "personify" me has gotten me very wrong.

Edit: Then again, a whole lot of the people I actually know don't get me either.

I agree - I really only view people through their post history and what they're saying within the debate. I might glean factual information but it doesn't really impinge on how I'm looking at ideas presented.

I hate using the 'I am' argument, or trying to back up my debate with personal experience though sometimes it's unavoidable.

Having said that, you mystify me most.

Having said that, you mystify me most.

Why?