[QUOTE=DatWut?;36687145]Anybody here wants to see my bird?
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awwhh!!
what's its breed and name? :>
caw caw polly want a cracker
Mornin' gays~
I got like five hours of sleep and I'm feeling amazing anyways
[QUOTE=TehWhale;36684933]i asked a couple people and they agreed so yeah
it's not always 100% accurate but it is usually a good representation because there is a lot more people in the world than there are in your town. chances of you finding someone that shares interests is higher.[/QUOTE]
Use some logic here. Obviously it's not true that distance = similar personalities; I don't think you genuinely think that. Clearly there's people similar to you nearby.
Perhaps what you're really getting at is distance = less of a chance of me actually getting to know someone, so more of a chance that I can project a personality onto this internet stranger and then play at having a relationship.
Don't get me wrong, coming from London I'm going to have a different perspective on this to someone living in a one horse town in Arkansas, but I've heard this so many times on forums. "Oh, if only everyone on this forum lived in the same town! I'd have so many friends! I'd have a relationship" blah de blah. What's actually happened is you've gotten to know people in a low pressure, low worry environment; you're socialising over the internet rather than face to face so it's easier for socially anxious people to bond. Additionally, forums generally have a nucleus of some sort of interest, for example Facepunch originated around Gmod and then lead onto gaming. So you already are vaguely aware of those interests when you start interacting with people on the forum so it takes you less effort to get to know these people.
I used to subscribe to this school of thought. Then I started having a proper social life. Like I said, I'm in London so I mix with tonnes of interesting people every day. I imagine if you lived somewhere rural you might have a point, but the solution isn't to spend your days making friends on the internet, it's to focus on moving away from the boorish country folk and into a happening metropolitan area (something gay people do in general anyway).
[QUOTE=Calkkuna;36685114]Are you implying that people don't act like online like they do IRL?
If so, I disagree.[/QUOTE]
People are often very different on the internet. There's a mask of anonymity that people can hide behind and so this distorts their behaviour. For example, in real life if we were all hanging out together, I probably would not be anywhere near this abrupt. Occasionally, when trying to reason with people their failure to listen to rational arguments (e.g. "Empirical evidence shows weed is less harmful than booze. Just because you ate a bunch of mooncake that one time you went to Amsterdam and have never drunk more than four beers at a time does not mean your anecdotal evidence trumps the science. Considering you do a science degree, suggesting we should make weed a class A drug based on your one time of getting high and your failure to actually drink that much alcohol is problematic") will wind me up and I might start criticising them a bit, but I don't tend to tear into people as much as I do in the internet. Additionally, people can come across as a lot more intelligent and witty on the internet, because there's a Google bar up there and you can search things and make out that you've read books or watched films that you haven't. You can google jokes and post them here in a pseudo spontaneous manner. You can lie wholesale about your life and if you're good at it, you can convince people you live a life of amazing glamour because you avoid posting about that time you bummed around the house in your undies for two days eating icing with a spoon. You can post suicide threats for attention and not really have to face consequences.
Socially awkward people are suddenly not socially awkward because this isn't really socialising; this is more like typing to a chatterbot than interacting with people. You must be aware of all the research into the changing face of social interactions as a result of internet. Baroness Greenfield explains it better than I would:
[video=youtube;FE61qIV0zSQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE61qIV0zSQ[/video]
[video=youtube;X647P6z6tA4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X647P6z6tA4[/video]
To claim that people's internet personas are massively representative of their real life personality is truly naïve.
[QUOTE=Gar~;36685502]
It's a flawed metaphor. The whole "love" part isn't an act, neither is the talking to each other, or communicating any other way. Distance isn't going to stop you legitimately feeling for someone.[/QUOTE]
Distance won't stop that, and of course long distance relationships occur over the internet, but getting to know someone over the internet is difficult. It's easy to think you know someone when you don't, imbue them with personality traits they don't have... I mean people do this with people they meet in real life, so it's going to be way worse over the internet. How do you know someone? Some Steam Chats, a bit of Facebook, a tad of Skype, some forum interactions? How is that in any way comparable to getting to know someone in the flesh? You'd miss out on the physicality of a relationship.
There's a lot of kids on this forum who are very lonely and engage in e-relationships... I wouldn't say all e-relationships aren't actual relationships but I think a lot of them are pretend. They're interactions like "I love you <3!" and it's sweet, but ultimately these two people probably don't know each other and it gets cloying to hear internet strangers behave like they have something meaningful when in fact they're more in love with the idea of being in love than anyone in particular.
[QUOTE=Chickens!;36685969]Have you ever actually met up with someone online or read Romeo and Juliet?[/QUOTE]
Meeting up is different... I think he's more specifically addressing the phenomenon of internet friends falling in love, which is an apt comparison.
Romeo is deeply, deeply in love with Rosalind and is starving himself and laying in a deep depression because she doesn't love him. Suddenly, he sees a pretty girl at a party and on the basis of her looks decides he's deeply, deeply in love with her instead. Then they do a bunch of immature things and wind up dead. He wasn't really deeply in love with anyone, he had some shallow infatuations (as evidenced by how rapidly he stopped being in love with Rosalind and how quickly he got in love with Juliet). Juliet has a schoolgirl crush that's blown out of all proportion.
A kinder reading would be to say that Romeo and Juliet have a shallow, infantile sort of meaningless love, but like all young people, this shallow emotion is incredibly meaningful at the time. I'm sure everyone can look back at their younger years (NB this obviously doesn't apply to 15 year olds on Facepunch) and be amazed at how stupid they've acted over not very much stuff, but at the time it felt meaningful so it shouldn't be pooh-pooh'ed. I guess internet relationships feel meaningful to the people involved, but I'd argue they generally don't have the same emotional depth as a real relationship and frequently occur between two people who are projecting.
[editline]9th July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Solece;36687085]I'm sorry from now on I'll refrain from ever mentioning TehWhale in any of my future posts or anything relating to him. I completely forgot this thread was all about you and that I should refrain from ever being happy when you aren't.
Seriously, bugger off.[/QUOTE]
When I was 17, I had a friend tell me that he was willing to die for a girl he was in "love" with. My response was "You're 17. You don't have the emotional maturity to say that. I doubt you're actually in love with her." His response was to stop talking to me for six months... turns out the girl wasn't the girl he thought she was and that he was being an idiot. Of course, at the time, he chewed me out because I didn't "understand" the depth of his love and I couldn't comprehend how deeply he felt for her.
People are getting annoyed because you're being egregiously in a relationship with TehWhale when you're not really. You've met up with him a couple of times (I think? Maybe once?) and are behaving like someone in a relationship. Not even that, you're behaving in this manner loudly across the thread. I, for example, mentioned in passing I got off at Pride... I did not go into loud detail. I'd say certain people in this thread are being unnecessarily crabby, but they have a point. Certain patterns of behaviour don't really mesh with a discussion forum environment.
if splurgy = true then
brain = off
end if
[QUOTE=redback3;36687195]awwhh!!
what's its breed and name? :>[/QUOTE]
It's a Senegal Parrot (latin name is "Poicephalus senegalus") and his name is Jackie.
[QUOTE=Solece;36686966]I did that to TehWhale all the time :v: Fun stuff~
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Then there were times he wasn't ticklish at all and I was all *tickle tickle tickle*, *glares* "Stop that." .... *tickle tickle*[/QUOTE]
idk why this gets dumbs
Well I awoke around 8:45 today, instead of going to bed around that time... And I feel lovely today!
Hopefully I can get my sleep schedule back on track now!
[QUOTE=Gar~;36687866]idk why this gets dumbs[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;GcqVhMp8nbE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcqVhMp8nbE[/video]
[video=youtube;PJhjSVovTag]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhjSVovTag[/video]
[video=youtube;MoUHY3Ng8ds]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoUHY3Ng8ds[/video]
not really
[editline]9th July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Spencer Sharkey;36687959]Well I awoke around 8:45 today, instead of going to bed around that time... And I feel lovely today!
Hopefully I can get my sleep schedule back on track now![/QUOTE]
I keep going to bed at 12 and waking up at 12
I really shouldnt
[QUOTE=Gar~;36688008]not really
[editline]9th July 2012[/editline]
I keep going to bed at 12 and waking up at 12
I really shouldnt[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I was going to bed around 5-6 and being forced to wake up around 12-1PM
It sucked, and it makes you feel like shit if you ask me.
I just got too tired after days of barely-sleep, and I passed out at around 9, woke up a few times during the night though. So I'm still beat. Hopefully I can get good sleep tonight! Everything's better when you wake up like a normal human being :3
Yeah, I'm bad with sleep. I stay up late for no reason then wake up and half the day is gone
i'm pretty much tired 24/7 due to my low metabolism which is pretty lame
doesn't matter how much i sleep, always tired
[editline]9th July 2012[/editline]
getting up at 9 for work is near impossible lol
[QUOTE=Nintendo-Guy;36688154]i'm pretty much tired 24/7 due to my low metabolism which is pretty lame
doesn't matter how much i sleep, always tired
[editline]9th July 2012[/editline]
getting up at 9 for work is near impossible lol[/QUOTE]
Maybe you're anaemic? My friend has anaemia and she has a low metabolism and always felt tired, but then she took iron supplements
don't know really
[editline]9th July 2012[/editline]
i do take medicine for the low metabolism tho
what kind of medicine do you take for low metabolism?
i'd like some of it
it's called levaxin
ah, okay
Afternoon, y'all!
Afternoon gays.
My first day of work experience went well!
[QUOTE=MasterFen007;36688761]Afternoon, y'all![/QUOTE]
more like good mornin :v
Fucking shit, I totally overdid it. 3 beers until 00:30, still not feeling tired. Moved up to whiskey. had a few shots and around 2:00 I must have finally passed out. Woke up at 6:00 for work, feeling a mess. Thought I was tired but by the time I got on my motorcycle it was pretty obvious that I was still pretty buzzed. Went to work, felt comfortably numb.
What scared me is that I really enjoyed this. Fuck man, I have to cut back on the booze as a sleeping aid. Gotta sort my shit out. One more year and I can finally go to uni.
Pft, alcohol.
I never drank any alcohol. And I'll keep it that way.
[QUOTE=DatWut?;36689065]Pft, alcohol.
I never drank any alcohol. And I'll keep it that way.[/QUOTE]
I highly doubt that.
[QUOTE=DatWut?;36689065]Pft, alcohol.
I never drank any alcohol. And I'll keep it that way.[/QUOTE]
i only drink coolers, but theres this alcohol infused whipped cream i've been drooling over lately, though i'm a lightweight and it got even my sister drunk :c
[QUOTE=DatWut?;36689065]Pft, alcohol.
I never drank any alcohol. And I'll keep it that way.[/QUOTE]
Why do people who don't drink always say they don't drink in a way to make it seem like they're better than others?
alcohol isn't very bad in moderation
Yeah exactly my thoughts mikey. People act like theres something wrong with a bit of alcohol.
alcohol is definitely demonized but if you drink it in small doses its perfectly fine
We should all invest in this.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9cV6uAhFEA[/media]
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