How many different "sides" do you have???

[FlamingoBlue]

In real life I have try to play within the 4o yard lines, so to speak. That leaves me a little room to fuck up, from time to time. Sometimes I do it intentionally and sometimes I just slip. When I'm in my professional role, I play within the 45 yard lines. Here, however, I seem to be playing between the 30 yard lines.

I believe that we all have many sides to us that we show at different times, depending upon the circumstances and the boundries implicit within those circumstances. In cyberspace, those boundries are very loose and there are relatively few meaningful sanctions, especially when you are not using your real name and neither is anyone else.
That sometimes leads to a WTF attitude, because, well, WTF. So, if you want to let it all hang out here, you can. If you want to be someone you generally aren't, go ahead. If you are ordinarily shy, you can be as agressive here as you want to be. In short, cyberspace is an open invitation to be whoever and whatever you want to be. So, why not take advantage of that???

Are there limits to what you can say or do here on the BB? Are there any sanctions short of flames or shunning?
Is this the ultimate temple of pleasure and pain? Is Woody really an asshole. Is Deb really a bitch. Is Madam Pandora nothing more than a pedantic slut??(I couldn't help it).

Who the hell are we when we present here on the BB? And does it really matter??

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[Edited by FlamingoBlue on 04-24-2001 at 07:03 AM]

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Somehow, I just don't picture you as.....

a football dude.

I see shuffle board.

 

[SweetCherry]

I'm pretty much the sme here as I am IRL. I flirt all the time, be it online or out in the world. I have a tendancy to cut loose a bit more here than I do IRL, but this is kind of my place to relax and just socialize a bit. Trust me, if you were to meet me for real, I'd be the same then as I am now. A big flirt and a tease who smiles and hugs.

 

[willywanker]

I have been told in real life I have more than one side. I used to have my office in my home and my wife said she could tell from my voice whether it was business or a friend.

That said, I think the character Willy(wanker)(Wish I could change that name without starting over) is a true representation of who I am. I'm a flirt who uses humor, loves a good joke and always has one, a friend to those who befriend me and just another guy you pass to everyone else.

 

[Guest]

Two sides.

Mean evil bitchy side
Nice and sweet side

 

[Adoratrice]

I think to an extent that it is impossible to sway to far from "Who you are"........I might be more open about certain things here than I would be face to face with certain people but I am still me....I am more outspoken in "real" life, I love talking about off the wall shit and I have a wicked sense of humor...but I learned that I just can't pull it off here......I like who I am ...and I really don't have the time nor energy to go against the grain....ya know?
I think some people hysterically funny...others are just plain hysterical....whether they are showing their true selves or not...I will never know....but like I said I think it would be awful hard for me to create a persona and carry it out.

It doesn't really matter to me who others here really are...I take it all with a grain of salt....but I think I am pretty good about weeding out the bullshit.....I have thought many times about creating a "Predictions" thread just so I can post my thoughts on who is going to turn into what..you can't hide your true self forever...I'd be a pretty good profiling buddy for Deborah ...if she didn't scare me so much

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I am comprised of -

pure geo-fractal dimensionality.

I have no sides. I have infinite sides.

I am a solid - I am a gas - I can be seen - I am invisible.

I am invincible.

 

[LordMagicMan]

I believe I have a front and a back... Maybe a right and a left, but most of thats covered in the front and the back. So who knows, based on math I would have infinite number of sides, each in a differnt plane. So who knows.

 

[Isolde]

Two sides.

Mean evil bitchy side
Nice and sweet side

I am with jadedpast. I can be very sweet but push me and I will be the evil bitch from hell.

And yeah, I am a flirt IRL. Just not as much as here...here I seem to loosen up a bit.

 

[Weird Harold]

I'm perilously close to being a dodecahedron personality wise.

 

[bluntforcemama]

Ah, the many facets that are Myst.... I think I'm more like the Borg... the collective. You know, the queen bee, the head mistress, the big kahuna.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Yeah Myst.

But I preffer yer backside - as depicted in that randy cartoon of yours.

 

[Mistress]

Multiple personalities......

 

[Mensa]

Don't get'em mixed up

I have two sides. An inside and an outside. I find everything works best that way.

 

[nitengale]

I have many sides...many roles with many sides...and they all can shine through depending on where it is I am online. I have no time to pretend I am someone else. Truthfully with all on my plate it would only confuse me more.

So I do have many sides...but all quite visible. "nitengale" only provides me with the opportunity to be more creative in the written expression when I need to be.

 

[DevilMayCare]

Multiple personalities......

Them's fighting words Mistress. If you see Deborah in the area you'd better duck.

 

[Mistress]

LOL! They are all Mistress though, or should I say Misty.
Grins And I always post as Mistress....

 

[Xander]

The quiet stone face.
The party fool.
The Mystical one.
The one in the corner observing.
The one in the middle of everything, dancing like a moron.
The adrenelin junkie.


And the list goes on and on and on.

 

[bluntforcemama]

Xander

don't forget your fragged side....

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I have no other sides. What I present on the BB is as much me as typing and practiced anonymity will allow.

 

[Samuari]

I don't think that I can change very much. There are a few that have met me in real life, and they don't seem to find much difference. To quote Yogi of Jelley Stone, "I yam what I yam." Perhaps I am a little more relaxed here in cyber space, and more willing to discus intimite details frome behind the cloak of anonymity, but the basic me is pretty much the same. One thing that did surprise me was that when I had lunch with one board member, she kept being amazed at how young I looked, bless her little redheaded heart!

 

[Siren]

I aint got no sides....

 

[alexander tzara]

Blue - I didn't know what any of your American Football references meant so I'm not sure if this is what you're after.


I probably appear a bit more eloquent on the board than I actually am - I find it much easier to think logically and structure my thoughts when I'm writing than I do when I'm speaking. (I can also edit out the succession of nervous additional words like: "uhm", "kinda", "sorta", "like" etc.)

My contradictions in real life are that I'm shy and introverted in some social settings and extroverted and loud in others. I'm usually pretty friendly and people tend to like me, at least initially, but in other ways I'm a bit strange and anti-social. I often don't answer the 'phone or doorbell unless I know who's there - not 'cause I'm scared of attackers or Jehovah's Witnesses but because I often just can't be bothered socialising. I like having a lot of time and space to myself and it drains my energy if I don't get that. If I'm out drinking with friends, though, I'm liable to be right at the centre of the action making-merry and causing good-natured mischief. I like a lot of very weird music, books, films and humour etcetera and sometimes I show that in the way I dress. But in most cases I prefer not to stand out too much in a crowd. I don't like having too much attention on me unless I'm in control of it. I do play in a band and get up on stage in front of people but that's on my terms.

I'm a mixed-up fool. LOL

 

[Silverlily]

I am considerably more relaxed here than in RL. I have no reason to be otherwise. This is just a place to hang out and chill, a stay-at-home kind of bar.

RL is not. RL has issues and problems and situations that must be dealt with and I'm usually the one who has to deal with them. Subsequently, there often isn't time for being diplomatic.

 

[Ree]

I am counting but I have run out of fingers and toes to use. Would anyone like to volunteer theirs?