We play with fire here, Roger. The reason I keep coming back here, despite being burned a few times, is because other forums play nice. Sure, we see a few live cremations from time to time, but it is purifying. We eat garbage and shit glass. Well, a vitrified silicate with some heavy metals in it, at any rate. And what we produce is truth. I've been burned, but I'm not on fire.
That's just it though. I want to be on fire. Running, screaming into the night bear hugging passers by and sharing in my immolation. I've began to like it. What this place needs isn't more kindness and tolerance. Look what tolerance has done to Britain! They had to apologize for putting puppies in the newspapers! And now that corporations have human rights, we have more things to burn on our list than we ever have before.
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 01, 2010, 10:59:15 PM
We play with fire here, Roger. The reason I keep coming back here, despite being burned a few times, is because other forums play nice. Sure, we see a few live cremations from time to time, but it is purifying. We eat garbage and shit glass. Well, a vitrified silicate with some heavy metals in it, at any rate. And what we produce is truth. I've been burned, but I'm not on fire.
That's just it though. I want to be on fire. Running, screaming into the night bear hugging passers by and sharing in my immolation. I've began to like it. What this place needs isn't more kindness and tolerance. Look what tolerance has done to Britain! They had to apologize for putting puppies in the newspapers! And now that corporations have human rights, we have more things to burn on our list than we ever have before.
Well they should. Puppies are an insult to minorities. Not sure how, but ours is not to question why.
We shall march on a road of bones, Felix...IF that's your REAL name...
It never was.
Speaking of identity, I've been a confirmed Discordian for about %40 of my life and I've never really done anything about it in meatspace (AKA real life). And in that other life, I'm just another pretty face. Quiet. Occasionally says something thoughtful. Like a nicer version of Silent Bob, someone once told me. That thread on Doubling that Cain did recently makes me wonder if I've developed a secondary identity within Discordianism. In hindsight, I don't recognize the person I used to be, but the person I am online has changed even more.
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 02, 2010, 01:37:22 AM
It never was.
You know, I've been a confirmed Discordian for about %40 of my life and I've never really done anything about it in meatspace (AKA real life). And in that other life, I'm just another pretty face. Quiet. Occasionally says something thoughtful. Like a nicer version of Silent Bob, someone once told me. That thread on Doubling that Cain did recently makes me wonder if I've developed a secondary identity within Discordianism. In hindsight, I don't recognize the person I used to be, but the person I am online has changed even more.
Most Discordians never do anything in meatspace, I think. Not everyone has it in them, or finds it funny, or has the resources.
And having more than one identity is a much superior way of going through life. For example, on this board, I am bitter, hateful, and rage filled. In real life, I'm actually much worse.
I, on the other hand, am in fact the kindest, most gentle soul you could ever meet IRL. I kiss butterflies and heal wounded possums with a stroke of the hand. Mostly all I do in meatspace is collect donations of canned food and secondhand prosthetics for homeless amputees.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 02, 2010, 07:05:20 AM
I, on the other hand, am in fact the kindest, most gentle soul you could ever meet IRL. I kiss butterflies and heal wounded possums with a stroke of the hand. Mostly all I do in meatspace is collect donations of canned food and secondhand prosthetics for homeless amputees.
I believe that. Well, I
would believe that, but I sorta remember something about you using senior citizens as shark bait. Something about catching "The BIG one".
Wait, siggy is Felix?
Why the hell doesn't anyone tell me this shit?
Quote from: LMNO on February 02, 2010, 02:17:34 PM
Wait, siggy is Felix?
Why the hell doesn't anyone tell me this shit?
I thought you knew.
One day, I'm going to change my username, and then you'll all be sorry!
LMNO
-unfortunately, my e-penis would be a dead giveaway.
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 02, 2010, 01:37:22 AM
That thread on Doubling that Cain did recently makes me wonder if I've developed a secondary identity within Discordianism. In hindsight, I don't recognize the person I used to be, but the person I am online has changed even more.
I feel you here
when I put on a fake moustache I think I actually do become a different person. It affects everything - my posture, my attitude, the way I think
I had an ego collision a few months ago when my Cramulus personality was forced to comment on the same issue my alt had already commented on. It was
surprisingly disorienting.
In many ways we are becoming these people, post by post.
I am exactly the same horrible cunt in person as I am online.
I'm actually less interesting IRL than here....which is saying very little indeed. :x
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on February 02, 2010, 06:59:56 PM
I am exactly the same horrible cunt in person as I am online.
Thank God for that. Having you be all sunshine and roses IRL would be like meeting Hunter S Thompson and learning that he's into macrame and pictures of puppies frolicking.
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on February 02, 2010, 06:59:56 PM
I am exactly the same horrible cunt in person as I am online.
lies. you are the very model of civility and tact.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 02, 2010, 07:46:23 PM
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on February 02, 2010, 06:59:56 PM
I am exactly the same horrible cunt in person as I am online.
lies. you are the very model of civility and tact.
I just had a mental picture of Nigel drinking tea with her pinkie stuck out. :x
Great, now I'm seeing that. The nose ring makes it particularly bizarre.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on February 02, 2010, 08:02:11 PM
Great, now I'm seeing that. The nose ring makes it particularly bizarre.
With a little hat and a Queen Elizabeth-esque bag.
:hosrie:
In meatspace, people are either amused or afraid of me due to my antics. Here though, I think I might be one of the more mild folks.
I am as nice and unassuming IRL as I am here. And more boring. :x
I'm not all that different. I don't have many friends, spend most of my freetime with my kids. We sticker, bookstore and cookie gasm together. But let's be honest how risky are most of the memes we use yanno?
IRL people are convinced I'm some kind of saint who would never lie or do bad things.
I don't know *why* they think that, but I haven't corrected them.
Quote from: LMNO on February 02, 2010, 02:17:34 PM
Wait, siggy is Felix?
Why the hell doesn't anyone tell me this shit?
I wondered too, but then I saw the 8000+ postcount. The easiest way to figure it out is to open the profile page, go to the last (oldest) page of their posts and open up a thread where they reply to a post in which they are quoted. The name in the quote box doesn't change when they change their screenname.
Still annoying but at least you now have a way to figure these things out.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 02, 2010, 07:46:23 PM
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on February 02, 2010, 06:59:56 PM
I am exactly the same horrible cunt in person as I am online.
lies. you are the very model of civility and tact.
Thanks, ECH.
I actually am pretty sure I say about the same kinds of things, and I know for sure that I swear like a drunken fisherman, but body language changes everything.
I adhere to a strict policy of What You See Is What You Get.
The only difference is that I fear real, live people more/tend to say things that make them back away slowly more IRL.
ETA: I blame THEM for that though.
Quote from: Triple Zero on February 03, 2010, 02:18:17 PM
Quote from: LMNO on February 02, 2010, 02:17:34 PM
Wait, siggy is Felix?
Why the hell doesn't anyone tell me this shit?
I wondered too, but then I saw the 8000+ postcount. The easiest way to figure it out is to open the profile page, go to the last (oldest) page of their posts and open up a thread where they reply to a post in which they are quoted. The name in the quote box doesn't change when they change their screenname.
Still annoying but at least you now have a way to figure these things out.
No matter what else I change, I probably won't change my Holy Name
TM, unless I am issued a revised version.
IRL I'm a spectator. I watch fucked up shit going down and most of it makes me laugh. And occasionally someone will stop me and ask what I'm laughing at and sometimes I'll tell them, just to see the horrified expression slither across their face like a stroke and know that I put it there.
I'm pretty nasty IRL but, then again, I have a lot of friends who like me. Not all of them are people who laugh at the same things I do. Some of them I feel compelled not to expose to that side of me, simply because they're "nice" and I can't get past the feeling that this is some kind of character flaw or weakness I have - I really ought to hate "nice" people but I can't bring myself to.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 05, 2010, 01:32:03 AM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 02, 2010, 07:46:23 PM
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on February 02, 2010, 06:59:56 PM
I am exactly the same horrible cunt in person as I am online.
lies. you are the very model of civility and tact.
Thanks, ECH.
I actually am pretty sure I say about the same kinds of things, and I know for sure that I swear like a drunken fisherman, but body language changes everything.
Yes?
Do you IRL also start fights with the regulars at your favourite hangout place when one of your friends they don't know barges in entering people's normal conversations with a most annoying ridiculous high pitched voice, and is asked if he could please use a normal tone of voice because then we would be perfectly happy to talk to him?
Do you IRL also, without any warning whatsoever, act as if you suddenly got possessed by five different random personalities, and ask your friends to continue treating you as if nothing is out of the ordinary? Then, when they act confused and some of them annoyed, start screaming at them, and a few moments later condescendingly laugh in their faces about how
funny it was to see them get all worked up about it?
Because, well, it seems to me you don't treat friends online with the same kind of respect as you do IRL, unlike you just claimed.
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Love Stoat on February 05, 2010, 12:31:11 PM
I dunno. I've never met myself in real life :?
You're fucking adorable! :D That's what you're like IRL. (I had breakfast with BAI last year, Folks, he's really the bees' knees.)
I am well, pretty much what I am on here, more polite to begin with, not so much once I uh "warm up."
Quote from: Triple Zero on February 05, 2010, 01:55:04 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 05, 2010, 01:32:03 AM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 02, 2010, 07:46:23 PM
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on February 02, 2010, 06:59:56 PM
I am exactly the same horrible cunt in person as I am online.
lies. you are the very model of civility and tact.
Thanks, ECH.
I actually am pretty sure I say about the same kinds of things, and I know for sure that I swear like a drunken fisherman, but body language changes everything.
Yes?
Do you IRL also start fights with the regulars at your favourite hangout place when one of your friends they don't know barges in entering people's normal conversations with a most annoying ridiculous high pitched voice, and is asked if he could please use a normal tone of voice because then we would be perfectly happy to talk to him?
Do you IRL also, without any warning whatsoever, act as if you suddenly got possessed by five different random personalities, and ask your friends to continue treating you as if nothing is out of the ordinary? Then, when they act confused and some of them annoyed, start screaming at them, and a few moments later condescendingly laugh in their faces about how funny it was to see them get all worked up about it?
Because, well, it seems to me you don't treat friends online with the same kind of respect as you do IRL, unlike you just claimed.
:pokewithstick:
Quote from: Triple Zero on February 05, 2010, 01:55:04 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 05, 2010, 01:32:03 AM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 02, 2010, 07:46:23 PM
Quote from: v=1/3πr²h on February 02, 2010, 06:59:56 PM
I am exactly the same horrible cunt in person as I am online.
lies. you are the very model of civility and tact.
Thanks, ECH.
I actually am pretty sure I say about the same kinds of things, and I know for sure that I swear like a drunken fisherman, but body language changes everything.
Yes?
Do you IRL also start fights with the regulars at your favourite hangout place when one of your friends they don't know barges in entering people's normal conversations with a most annoying ridiculous high pitched voice, and is asked if he could please use a normal tone of voice because then we would be perfectly happy to talk to him?
Do you IRL also, without any warning whatsoever, act as if you suddenly got possessed by five different random personalities, and ask your friends to continue treating you as if nothing is out of the ordinary? Then, when they act confused and some of them annoyed, start screaming at them, and a few moments later condescendingly laugh in their faces about how funny it was to see them get all worked up about it?
Because, well, it seems to me you don't treat friends online with the same kind of respect as you do IRL, unlike you just claimed.
:mittens:
Sorry, I had to.
Wow, I'm so glad to hear that my thread is also being dragged through this retarded drama.
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 06, 2010, 04:42:41 AM
Wow, I'm so glad to hear that my thread is also being dragged through this retarded drama.
mm sorry about that, Felix :(
it was just something I really needed to get off my chest and I did so at the first opportunity without paying attention where I put it.
you want it split? never split a thread before, but I figure it can't be too hard :)
Quote from: Triple Zero on February 06, 2010, 12:21:08 PM
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 06, 2010, 04:42:41 AM
Wow, I'm so glad to hear that my thread is also being dragged through this retarded drama.
mm sorry about that, Felix :(
it was just something I really needed to get off my chest and I did so at the first opportunity without paying attention where I put it.
you want it split? never split a thread before, but I figure it can't be too hard :)
Splitting a thread requires black candles, the horn of a narwhal, the beard of a mountain goat, salt from the shores of the Dead Sea, and, well, mod access.
Triple Zero not only has mod access, but database access.
He can change all your posts into binary if you're not careful.
Quote from: Cain on February 06, 2010, 03:56:06 PM
Triple Zero not only has mod access, but database access.
He can change all your posts into binary if you're not careful.
He doesn't have the gu0II00I0000II.
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Damnit, 000.
:lulz:
Thread just became awesome again. :lulz:
Quote from: gin on February 06, 2010, 05:01:45 PM
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Damnit, 000.
:mittens:
(for awesomeness, and equilibrium)
Quote from: Sigmatic on February 02, 2010, 01:37:22 AM
It never was.
Speaking of identity, I've been a confirmed Discordian for about %40 of my life and I've never really done anything about it in meatspace (AKA real life). And in that other life, I'm just another pretty face. Quiet. Occasionally says something thoughtful. Like a nicer version of Silent Bob, someone once told me. That thread on Doubling that Cain did recently makes me wonder if I've developed a secondary identity within Discordianism. In hindsight, I don't recognize the person I used to be, but the person I am online has changed even more.
I'm curious by what you mean by doing "anything about it in meatspace" - do you mean, like, putting up posters, or engaging people in whatever you think of as Discordian themes of conversation?
If your offline and online personalities were bound more closely together, which do you think would change the most, and in which direction? Which would you want to change? Not trying to play guru, just curious, I haven't really thought about those questions myself, either.
Interesting question!
I'd probably have started a 'cabal' of some kind, or at least gotten in contact with more local Discordians. I'd probably have spent more time showing the world what monkeys they all are, and generally making more of a fuss about life in general.