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Corporal

Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: |
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tzechuk wrote: |
I think I am the same.. yeah, my conversations centre around my baby and my husband.. they make up pretty much most of my life now.
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That's a little sad. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:00 am Post subject: |
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I don't know who I am, really. Just sort of mucking about. If anyone has any suggestions about who I am please give me a PM. |
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The evil penguin

Joined: 24 May 2003 Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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captain kirk wrote: |
I don't know who I am, really. Just sort of mucking about. If anyone has any suggestions about who I am please give me a PM. |
yoo da man.... da boomerang man.... dats hoo yoo be
(bloody hell, i never could pull off amercian ghetto speak... damn my refined and cultured aussie accent...) |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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When I started posting here (over a year ago- yikes!) I was very very guarded. I obscured as much as I could about my background, even my gender. I was interested in learning about Korean culture, expectations, and I wanted people to see me as curious, kind and smart, but not much elese.
These days, I'm more apt to be brash'n'sassy, and have certainly revealed a different side of my life in the latest "how to pick up women" threads.
What am I like in real life? (or RL to the cyber-blooded.) Certainly more honest about myself, and probably less apt to make cutting remarks. |
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The evil penguin

Joined: 24 May 2003 Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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kermo wrote: |
When I started posting here (over a year ago- yikes!) I was very very guarded. I obscured as much as I could about my background, even my gender. I was interested in learning about Korean culture, expectations, and I wanted people to see me as curious, kind and smart, but not much elese.
These days, I'm more apt to be brash'n'sassy, and have certainly revealed a different side of my life in the latest "how to pick up women" threads.
What am I like in real life? (or RL to the cyber-blooded.) Certainly more honest about myself, and probably less apt to make cutting remarks. |
Are you really a frog?? |
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Bulsajo

Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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captain kirk wrote: |
I don't know who I am, really. Just sort of mucking about. If anyone has any suggestions about who I am please give me a PM. |
Ah, still trying to 'find yourself'. Me too. |
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waterbaby

Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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I read somewhere that ithin the first 30 seconds of meeting people (in the flesh, not a chat room), we form powerful perceptions of them:
55% is based on how you look
38% is based on how you sound
7% is based on what you say
On the Internet however, all we have is what we usually only pay 7% attention to... oh and those stupid emoticons Perhaps this contributes a lot to how we're perceived differently on a discussion board to real life.
itaewonguy wrote: |
my online personality is nothing like real life.. |
I've met itaewonguy a few times in real life and he doesn't come across like his online persona at all - I can vouch for that  |
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Yu_Bum_suk

Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Off-line I'm a real anal, sarcastic, snobbish, politically opinionated, self-righteous, know-it-all little prat. Nothing at all like my personality here.
Actually, I know some really nice people from Dave's who can be right buggers on-line. I've also known some people who weren't quite as nice as their Internet personae would lead one to believe.
BTW, my students think my Korean name is just lovely. In turn, I assure them that Micky and Eunice and Hae-ree are very beautiful girls' names. |
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jinglejangle

Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Location: Far far far away.
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Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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waterbaby wrote: |
55% is based on how you look
38% is based on how you sound
7% is based on what you say
On the Internet however, all we have is what we usually only pay 7% attention to... oh and those stupid emoticons Perhaps this contributes a lot to how we're perceived differently on a discussion board to real life. |
Actually that's really what I look like.
I'm a lot more thoughtful with what I write than with what I say.
***edit*** I also tend to ramble a heck of a lot more in writing****
Of course, I'm also a lot less polite online, which I chalk up to the small dehumanization of whoever I'm writing to, and the fact that I'm an A-hole.
Either way, I say about as much that I regret online as off.
Then again, were certain people I communicate and "debate" with here to prove the same in a real live conversation, I would probably excuse myself. The nice thing here is if I lose control of myself and say something hurtful or get mad, I can just edit it later. |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:24 am Post subject: |
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The evil penguin wrote: |
Are you really a frog?? |
Oh ...right, sorry. Er, yes. I am a frog. My avatar is an unfortunate snapshot of a typical Sunday morning after drinking with Australians. |
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AdamH

Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Location: Bachman Turner Overdrive...Let's Rock!
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:43 am Post subject: |
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I can only wish that I was as appealing in real life as I am on the internet. If you don't like my posts here, well that just goes to show what an arse I am.
I'd also love a big bulbous bouffant hairdo like Smashie and Nicey in my avatar...then I'd be king; style can solve many of a man's problems, at least until he gets married. |
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yesterday's child

Joined: 26 Apr 2005 Location: better for me if you don't know.
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:17 am Post subject: |
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i'm a hell of a lot better looking in the real world, baby!
any time and every place, if anything, i gotta be me, n'est-ce pas?  |
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Deconstructor

Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:20 am Post subject: |
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I'm the devil's advocate; I love getting people's goats! Sometimes I would go out of my way and say something that I absolutely do not believe in only to rattle some cages and REALLY piss people off. Clearly I've had some anger simmering in me since I was 12. I wouldn't give it up for anything because it is the source of all my creativity. I make sure that it doesn't affect my personal relationships; but on the net, in this forum I let it rip because I don't give a damn who you are and what you think. You are not real to me and cannot affect my life in any way.
That�s the power of the net!!!!!!
Wow! I feel a great sense of freedom!!!!!!!! |
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guangho

Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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I am me. |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:02 am Post subject: |
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Oh ho, I beg to differ! Last I checked, *I* was definitely me. |
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