I wonder...

[MagicNakor]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

[j2k4]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Umm.............yeah.

Does this circumstance require additional forum identities in order to reach full flower?

[Mr JP Fugley]

Kev and Les are trying to be real life people on t'interweb. They won't accept that this is an entire new way of interacting with other human beings. They are forced to bring their mores along for the ride.

As to your first, I wouldn't have it any other way; subterfuge is for strangers.

To your second, I surely do accept this is entirely new-it is the interweb, which I discovered only after I became a fully-formed adult.

To your last, my mores are too firmly affixed to leave behind; I even shower with them.

You forgot how to play, bet you were quite young when it happened. Early teens maybe.

Hide and seek is subterfuge, did you ever play it, with your friends. Or would that have been duplicitous.

So you were a fully formed adult when you found the interweb, had you lost the ability to adapt to new things?

Truth is you like to know who you are talking to, because that gives you a frame of reference. You don't like just reacting to what people post without that.

[j2k4]

Hide and seek is subterfuge, did you ever play it, with your friends. Or would that have been duplicitous.

If memory serves, the game of hide-and-seek gives context to the necessary subterfuge.

Is the subterfuge practiced here predicated on something other than whim?

So you were a fully formed adult when you found the interweb, had you lost the ability to adapt to new things?

Certainly not, or I'd never have found the interweb.

Truth is you like to know who you are talking to, because that gives you a frame of reference. You don't like just reacting to what people post without that.

As to the first, true.

As to the second, while I don't think any here would call me inhibited, I do feel personal interaction is subject to a certain degree of circumspection.

If doing so were not a social norm, noobs would have nothing to fear, would they?

As an aside, our membership level is probably several magnitudes lower than reported, owing to all these extra identities.

Not that it matters.

[MagicNakor]

You disappoint me, j2.

[j2k4]

You disappoint me, j2.

Sorry, MN.

While I have read "The Picture of Dorian Gray", I was never particularly struck by Oscar Wilde; he seemed to me a brilliant flare given to dissipation, which phenomenon we see often enough.

Che Guevara and the like ride in the same boat I've assigned to Mr. Wilde.

[Mr JP Fugley]

Che Guevara and the like ride in the same boat I've assigned to Mr. Wilde.

I didn't know Cheese Guevara was a big raving nancyboy.

[Gripper]

See he was,who'da thunk it,must be the beret!

[j2k4]

Che Guevara and the like ride in the same boat I've assigned to Mr. Wilde.

I didn't know Cheese Guevara was a big raving nancyboy.

I don't know that he was, I only meant that, like Wilde, he holds no interest for me.

I guess that makes me an equal-opportunity ignorer.

[Rat Faced]

I didn't know Cheese Guevara was a big raving nancyboy.

I don't know that he was, I only meant that, like Wilde, he holds no interest for me.

I guess that makes me an equal-opportunity ignorer.

omg, im agreeing with kev

About Che too... I'm sure that kev's picture of me includes the tee shirt