This Place = Soap Opera

[shereads]

Soap operas are harmless fun. This is fun, but if it's harmless I'm Laura Bush.

(Am I?)



In my first weeks at Lit, I witnessed enough misunderstandings among intimate strangers to buy your shrink another Lexus. The place is a petrie dish for new social disorders. On a busy night, you can bet there's a psychosis or two in the works.

Not at the AH, of course.



No, the real angst is in the roleplay forums. Anyone who's dated recently knows it's hard enough in real-life to know where role-playing ends and reality begins. Take away every clue but words on a screen, and it's a miracle we survive. At this moment, men are being tricked into falling for other men. Women are baring their souls and agreeing to bare other things to Mr. Right, who's really a college fraternity chapter out to win a bet.

They're not trapped in Bush's "dark dungeons of the Internet." They're checking in at the cheap motel of the Internet, by the thousands. With partners they know less than nothing about. We guard our privacy more carefully at dinner parties than we do here.

The first pop psychologist to stake out cyber-relationships as a specialty will mine a rich lode of crushed egos, abused trust and fear of intimacy.

Thank God, that kind of thing doesn't go on in the AH.

 

[rgraham666]

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Thank God, that kind of thing doesn't go on in the AH.

Much.

 

[Goldie Munro]

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Soap operas are harmless fun. This is fun, but if it's harmless I'm Laura Bush.

(Am I?)



In my first weeks at Lit, I witnessed enough misunderstandings among intimate strangers to buy your shrink another Lexus. The place is a petrie dish for new social disorders. On a busy night, you can bet there's a psychosis or two in the works.

Not at the AH, of course.



No, the real angst is in the roleplay forums. Anyone who's dated recently knows it's hard enough in real-life to know where role-playing ends and reality begins. Take away every clue but words on a screen, and it's a miracle we survive. At this moment, men are being tricked into falling for other men. Women are baring their souls and agreeing to bare other things to Mr. Right, who's really a college fraternity chapter out to win a bet.

They're not trapped in Bush's "dark dungeons of the Internet." They're checking in at the cheap motel of the Internet, by the thousands. With partners they know less than nothing about. We guard our privacy more carefully at dinner parties than we do here.

The first pop psychologist to stake out cyber-relationships as a specialty will mine a rich lode of crushed egos, abused trust and fear of intimacy.

Thank God, that kind of thing doesn't go on in the AH.

I agree with you that many people have been 'stung' by ineternet relationship but that can so easily happen in other walks of life and I know that there are vunerable people out there but they will be vunerable anywhere and the internet is just another forum for meeting people and unfortunately in todays climate I would be wary of anyone I didnt know - no matter where we had been introduced - but I am an optomist and take people at face value but I am a realist and will not trust them until I know them better - internet or not!

Does that make sense?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

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Much.

Snicker

 

[Quiet_Cool]

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Soap operas are harmless fun. This is fun, but if it's harmless I'm Laura Bush.

(Am I?)



In my first weeks at Lit, I witnessed enough misunderstandings among intimate strangers to buy your shrink another Lexus. The place is a petrie dish for new social disorders. On a busy night, you can bet there's a psychosis or two in the works.

Not at the AH, of course.



No, the real angst is in the roleplay forums. Anyone who's dated recently knows it's hard enough in real-life to know where role-playing ends and reality begins. Take away every clue but words on a screen, and it's a miracle we survive. At this moment, men are being tricked into falling for other men. Women are baring their souls and agreeing to bare other things to Mr. Right, who's really a college fraternity chapter out to win a bet.

They're not trapped in Bush's "dark dungeons of the Internet." They're checking in at the cheap motel of the Internet, by the thousands. With partners they know less than nothing about. We guard our privacy more carefully at dinner parties than we do here.

The first pop psychologist to stake out cyber-relationships as a specialty will mine a rich lode of crushed egos, abused trust and fear of intimacy.

Thank God, that kind of thing doesn't go on in the AH.

True, but there's less deception here than in real-life, and the deception here is harmless to a point. In RL, wives and husbands can't seem to figure out that loyalty doesn't mean fucking your spouses siblings whil ethey're at work. Friends don't seem to realize that "told in confidence" doesn't mean tell everyone you know as fast as you can. And lies, well, here they're pretty big at times, like who we are on the whole, but the anonimity of the Internet also allows us to be honest without facing the harsh responses of others, so we probably lie less.
This is a more pure reality, where I'm a more realistic evil tycoon with plans to overcome the world that can only be stopped by my cheating wife, who is having an affair with the local priest, and that damned butler who keeps fucking my daughters. Of course, they're actually transvestite sons...

 

[rgraham666]

I'm going to be living with that image for a while. Thanks.

I'll do something nice for you, when the time is ripe.

 

[Wholemanz]

Peyton Place has nuttin on dis here spot.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: This Place = Soap Opera

Soap operas are harmless fun. This is fun, but if it's harmless I'm Laura Bush.

(Am I?)



In my first weeks at Lit, I witnessed enough misunderstandings among intimate strangers to buy your shrink another Lexus. The place is a petrie dish for new social disorders. On a busy night, you can bet there's a psychosis or two in the works.

Not at the AH, of course.



No, the real angst is in the roleplay forums. Anyone who's dated recently knows it's hard enough in real-life to know where role-playing ends and reality begins. Take away every clue but words on a screen, and it's a miracle we survive. At this moment, men are being tricked into falling for other men. Women are baring their souls and agreeing to bare other things to Mr. Right, who's really a college fraternity chapter out to win a bet.

They're not trapped in Bush's "dark dungeons of the Internet." They're checking in at the cheap motel of the Internet, by the thousands. With partners they know less than nothing about. We guard our privacy more carefully at dinner parties than we do here.

The first pop psychologist to stake out cyber-relationships as a specialty will mine a rich lode of crushed egos, abused trust and fear of intimacy.

Thank God, that kind of thing doesn't go on in the AH.

Aye!

Thank God somebody appears to have got me. I'm sure others did, but either didn't realise it, or just didn't say it. Apart from Ted that is.

HOWEVER, having said that, I know how glorious online relationships can become. I know that very well. That is if they actually develop into real life relationships, of course.

Quiet Cool, you brought up the thing about secrets, telling people things in confidence. You're right, I do think online, people do tend to honour these confidences better. However, sometimes there are the worst kept secrets going. I'm sure most of you know what I mean by that. Hehehe!

One thing I must point out, being British I think my idea of a soap opera is vastly different from how most of you in the US percieve them. In the soaps in this country we have dowdy characters, not glamour and riches. There's bitchiness aplenty, broken hearts, stalkers, double-crossers, pain, heartache, death, but not glamour, money and make-up.

Lou

 

[shereads]

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Aye!


HOWEVER, having said that, I know how glorious online relationships can become.

Oh God yes. Sweet jesus yes.

Ahem.

Yes, I've heard that too.

Of course, I wasn't referring to normal people like you and me, with our healthy skepticism and that finely attuned, sixth sense that tells us to back off when someone insists that we meet his German Shepherd's mother.

I meant those other whackos. The gullible newbies who still think they know which sex everyone else is.

 

[pop_54]

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Aye!

Thank God somebody appears to have got me. I'm sure others did, but either didn't realise it, or just didn't say it. Apart from Ted that is.

HOWEVER, having said that, I know how glorious online relationships can become. I know that very well. That is if they actually develop into real life relationships, of course.

Quiet Cool, you brought up the thing about secrets, telling people things in confidence. You're right, I do think online, people do tend to honour these confidences better. However, sometimes there are the worst kept secrets going. I'm sure most of you know what I mean by that. Hehehe!

One thing I must point out, being British I think my idea of a soap opera is vastly different from how most of you in the US percieve them. In the soaps in this country we have dowdy characters, not glamour and riches. There's bitchiness aplenty, broken hearts, stalkers, double-crossers, pain, heartache, death, but not glamour, money and make-up.

Lou

You forgot plane crashes on pub's, car crashes, ambulance crashes, fire engine crashes, police car crashes, typhoid, floods, punch up's in the Rovers, Queen Vic, Woolpack, local womens institute, boy scouts hut, pub's, clubs, betting shops, and car repair shops being blown up by baddies, Syphilis, landslides, rare British earth quakes, terminal illness, murder, rape, pillage, alien abduction, smallpox, Claude Greengrass, and Nora Batty, dear!

 

[pop_54]

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Oh God yes. Sweet jesus yes.

Ahem.

Yes, I've heard that too.

Of course, I wasn't referring to normal people like you and me, with our healthy skepticism and that finely attuned, sixth sense that tells us to back off when someone insists that we meet his German Shepherd's mother.

I meant those other whackos. The gullible newbies who still think they know which sex everyone else is.

Umm... haven't got an address for that German Sheperd's mother have you dear.

signed: popina

 

[matriarch]

Peyton Place has nuttin on dis here spot.

Indeed!

But how does one so young, know about Peyton Place?
I thought that had long been despatched to the archive for old and sad would-be-soap-operas???