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Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:57 am
by thedoc
Greta wrote:
Booze just doesn't do it for me. Great for loosening up and socialising but nothing else IMO, aside from dehydration.
I find that some wine in the evening keeps my stomach from getting upset. I only smoked a few cigarettes when I was young and have never smoked weed. In fact I was at a concert and noticed a funny smell, and I asked my date what it was, she laughed and said it was marijuana. We were in an arena and were up along the one side, while there was a good crowd down on the floor where it was getting a bit cloudy, you could actually see the haze, you didn't need to smoke to get high.
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:00 am
by Greta
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Greta wrote:Sorry to disappoint you, Veg - you're not the first and won't be the last :lol: Very good description of Mum, though.
Booze just doesn't do it for me. Great for loosening up and socialising but nothing else IMO, aside from dehydration.
So it's just the weed? Neither really do it for me.
How disappointing :lol:
I thought your avatar was a painting!
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:12 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
Greta wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Greta wrote:Sorry to disappoint you, Veg - you're not the first and won't be the last
Very good description of Mum, though.
Booze just doesn't do it for me. Great for loosening up and socialising but nothing else IMO, aside from dehydration.
So it's just the weed? Neither really do it for me.
How disappointing
I thought your avatar was a painting!
It is.
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:18 am
by Greta
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Greta wrote:I thought your avatar was a painting!
It is.
A generic painting or a particular one?
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:40 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
Greta wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Greta wrote:I thought your avatar was a painting!
It is.
A generic painting or a particular one?
What's a generic painting? I just liked it.
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:33 am
by Greta
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Greta wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
It is.
A generic painting or a particular one?
What's a generic painting? I just liked it.
By particular I meant that it might be a portrait of you or a relative, or painted by you or a friend etc. "Generic" would be just something you liked.
My avatar is a photo I took of the sky reflected in a building. I didn't think much about it. The good thing about avatars is you can see who has posted at a glance.
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 10:43 am
by vegetariantaxidermy
Greta wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Greta wrote:
A generic painting or a particular one?
What's a generic painting? I just liked it.
By particular I meant that it might be a portrait of you or a relative, or painted by you or a friend etc. "Generic" would be just something you liked.
My avatar is a photo I took of the sky reflected in a building. I didn't think much about it. The good thing about avatars is you can see who has posted at a glance.
Yes. I think it makes it more interesting when posters have avatars. Thanks for the explanation of yours. I wondered what it was. Now I will always see Hobbes as a lanky stick-insect of a man crouched over a computer screen. Of course, we now know there's a lot more to him than that, and I thought of BW as a permanent beer-guzzler until I realised it's a coffee cup he's holding
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:19 pm
by Dalek Prime
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Greta wrote:vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
What's a generic painting? I just liked it.
By particular I meant that it might be a portrait of you or a relative, or painted by you or a friend etc. "Generic" would be just something you liked.
My avatar is a photo I took of the sky reflected in a building. I didn't think much about it. The good thing about avatars is you can see who has posted at a glance.
Yes. I think it makes it more interesting when posters have avatars. Thanks for the explanation of yours. I wondered what it was. Now I will always see Hobbes as a lanky stick-insect of a man crouched over a computer screen. Of course, we now know there's a lot more to him than that, and I thought of BW as a permanent beer-guzzler until I realised it's a coffee cup he's holding
Veg, you changed your avatar! Greta I like your avatar!
Isn't Bill holding a beer stein?
I have to put my Dalek back up.
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 12:41 am
by Greta
Cheers Veg and Dalek. At the time, the avatar size looked to me like a De Stijl painting. Moderately pleasing and fairly bland. Might be time for an upgrade ...
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 12:41 pm
by Harbal
Greta wrote:Cheers Veg and Dalek. At the time, the avatar size looked to me like a De Stijl painting. Moderately pleasing and fairly bland. Might be time for an upgrade ...
I always liked your rabbit in the tea pot avatar.
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 1:37 pm
by Bill Wiltrack
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I'm holding a USA Coffee mug in my profile picture.
USA Coffee Company, owned by Ted Massinello is the only union coffee company that supports union coffee from tree to cup.
It's not unusual for the cup to also be filled with a union beer or spirits.
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Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 1:51 pm
by Harbal
Bill Wiltrack wrote:.
I'm holding a USA Coffee mug in my profile picture.
USA Coffee Company, owned by Ted Massinello is the only union coffee company that supports union coffee from tree to cup.
It's not unusual for the cup to also be filled with a union beer or spirits.
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I'm wearing a pair of medium blue socks that come to just above the ankle. I had no thoughts of announcing this publicly until you just set the precedent.
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:16 pm
by Hobbes' Choice
Harbal wrote:Sometimes I can’t help wondering about the actual people behind the avatar and screen name. We know it’s a bad idea to let our real identity be known on-line but there’s nothing stopping us from being open about who we are in the broader sense. Conversely, there’s also nothing stopping us from being whoever or whatever we want to be. On this forum, for example, there will probably be those who are completely themselves, while there will be others who adopt the persona of the fantasy character they would like to be. Many of the possibilities that lie between the two will most likely also be present. I’m sure that in their actual, everyday lives, there are some people who are not completely satisfied with who or what they are and I wondered if being able to get on the internet and “be” the person they wish they could be in the real world is a usefully therapeutic activity. Is it a psychologically heathy thing to do?
This is an opportunity to be honest - honest about everything except your identity.
This is healthy. The trick is to not take anything personally.
Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:30 pm
by Bill Wiltrack
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This is an opportunity to be honest - honest about everything including your identity.
This is healthy. The trick is to not take anything personally.
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Re: On-line personality
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 2:39 pm
by Harbal
Hobbes' Choice wrote:
This is an opportunity to be honest - honest about everything except your identbity.
This is healthy. The trick is to not take anything personally.
Whenever I say anything about myself here, I am being honest, it wouldn't occur to me to not be.