I'll never understand why some folk need to 'pretend' that they're something that they're not. Especially when it's completely apparent to everyone else that it's all bull.

Or why some people feel the need to talk boring, irrelevant drivel, (seemingly) just to get some attention.

Don't get me wrong, I can be as puerile as the next guy, but at least I hope that I try a put a bit of thought into it. It's one thing to act like a backward adolescent, another thing completely to give others the impression that you actually are one.

am i myself on the net?
Obviously for professional reasons some members need to remain anonymous  but some of us are in the phonebook!
I still start my day with the weather radar(hoping for rain or sun depending on the season) then email ,then the Coffee House but learnt a while ago to delay posting a reply  until i`m sure it`s as innocous as possible,make a second cup and by then the page has usually dropped out saving me another precious half an hour for the real world.
to me,the attraction of the Coffee House is you never know what will pop up next-it`s a bit like "Survivor:Forum" with the mods playing the Jeff Probst role.
cheers
tony    

No. I delete more on the interweb.

UbiquitousBubba


I tried being a snowflake once.

That's why they started Global Warming.

What sort of morphology did you take on when you were a snowflake?  … a dendrite or a solid prism, maybe a hollow column or possibly a sectored plate?!?!  It matters you know.

quantumeffect

UbiquitousBubba


I tried being a snowflake once.

That's why they started Global Warming.

What sort of morphology did you take on when you were a snowflake?  … a dendrite or a solid prism, maybe a hollow column or possibly a sectored plate?!?!  It matters you know.

Maybe he means he was afraid to go out and shovel?

Too lazy to go out and shovel.

SteveStrummerUK


I'll never understand why some folk need to 'pretend' that they're something that they're not. Especially when it's completely apparent to everyone else that it's all bull.

Or why some people feel the need to talk boring, irrelevant drivel, (seemingly) just to get some attention.

Don't get me wrong, I can be as puerile as the next guy, but at least I hope that I try a put a bit of thought into it. It's one thing to act like a backward adolescent, another thing completely to give others the impression that you actually are one.

No, my real name is Steve Strummer aka Jesse Sammler.
 
No, not really, honest !  Whilst I'm not a believer in putting much in the way of personal info on the www, my "personality" is certainly the real me, like it or not.
 
As in real life, people sometimes take my sense of humour the wrong way, but I try not to worry too much about that. I don't set out to offend anyone, almost everything I say is meant in good spirit,  but if people choose take offence at anything I say, there's not much I can do about it really. Besides, it seems to me that there are those that actually want to be offended just so they can do the superior act, so in that case I've done them a favour and they should be grateful ;)
 
Live and let live. If I don't like someone I just ignore them. They're welcome to do the same if they don't like me.

Believe it or not, Ubiquitous Bubba was not the name I was given at birth.  Originally, I was Goldurn Idjit.  Adults can be cruel.

Anyway, I have no problem with assuming an alternate personality online.  In fact, my online personalities are a distinct improvement over the original.  I pointed that out to a friend of mine who reminded me that I wasn't exactly setting the bar very high.

I made the mistake of using an alternate personality in the physical world.  Just like the online version, my new persona was a vast improvement.  The next thing I knew, my family and friends were asking me why I couldn't be more like my faux self.  He was nice enough about it, of course.  He tried not gloat when people would tell him how much better he was at being me than I was.  He would offer to share some of his becan with me.

The situation wouldn't last.  In time, he created an alternate personality for himself.  While distinctly different from him, this new version was still far more likeable than I.  They shared a number of inside jokes I didn't understand.  Sometimes, it even seemed that they knew what the other one was thinking.  They would often take pity on me and try to make me feel included, but it was obvious that I just didn't belong with myselves.

Eventually, we went in for personality surgery.  I was removed and placed in a jar on a scientist's shelf next to the jar with the decaying frog.  I'm pretty sure the frog was insulted.  My jar collected a lot of dust.  Spiders started using industrial strength webs in an attempt to seal my jar off from the others.  In time, it was decided that my jar should be moved to an abandoned missle silo for security purposes.  I think the plan was to fill up the room with concrete just to be safe.  Unfortunately, there was a freak traffic accident enroute and my jar broke open.

Well, they obviously couldn't just let me loose on the general population like that.  My various selves were contacted and brought to an abondoned lab positioned on a cliff overlooking an abandoned amusement park that had been built on an ancient burial ground.  In the lab, I was reintroduced to myselves.  We were not all happy about that.  A hunchbacked man threw a huge switch, there was an absurd amount of electricity, a crazy man in a lab coat giggled uncontrollably, and I found myself back inside me.

We were not amused.  At first, I thought we might like me better once we got to know me, but I was wrong.  Since my other personalities are better versions of me, we tried to be mature about it.  Sure, there were a few harmless practical jokes, but we generally tried to tolerate me. 

Where was I?  Anyway, I don't have any objections to assuming an alternate online personality.  We think it's rather harmless by comparison.  Me, too.

I see a slight paradox between the title and the content of the opening post. And it's reflected in some of the comments this far. 
Pretending to be something you are not is one thing, being honest/ blunt is another. 

We all here know the type who jumps in with zero homework done and expects to be spoonfed.
Those guys very likely get answers that offend them, and IMO, they deserve to be kicked in the butt a little. They go to another forum complaining the rudeness of SONAR forum, and that's OK with me.