What exactly is the point of this forum if the guys and gals out there think their onto something with another let them be or at least stop making a big sh about it and mind your own business
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RedSoxpawn wrote:
What exactly is the point of this forum if the guys and gals out there think their onto something with another let them be or at least stop making a big sh about it and mind your own business
Now let me guess... you're a diplomat, in training? 
No I don't do the diplomatic thing very well except when I want to voice my opinion
May 4, 2008
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#105
PrettyGoPale wrote: batgirl wrote: . . . a smile
I see -- you're one to simply grin and bare it.
. . .I don't do anything simply.
It is no secret that people take on different personas when online (the idea of saying things without repercussion, social stigma or the awkwardness that comes from regection is to tempting for some people). So any online social network is bound to attract this type of behavior, and why not after all isn't it in our nature to embarrass ourselves as much as possible (or is it just me?).
especially since we hardly know another person here it is pretty much nature to act differently than normal
batgirl wrote: PrettyGoPale wrote: batgirl wrote: . . . a smile
I see -- you're one to simply grin and bare it.
. . .I don't do anything simply.
Eureka!! A person who can make changing a lightbulb an exciting and complicated endeavor. Which, of course, begs the question: How many Batgirls does it take to change a lightbulb? Video, perhaps, at 11 p.m.?
May 4, 2008
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#109
I love this thread - if I hadn't read it I'd never have learned that the quote "The
female of the species is more deadly than the male" was from a poem by Kipling.
Was there a category in the chess.com awards for best thread & best individual
contribution - there should be (thread: either this one or cheater_1's first
posting; indiv contrib: Springs420 2nd May 5:01 pm - UK time).
Well done feyterman for getting this going ...
female of the species is more deadly than the male" was from a poem by Kipling.
Was there a category in the chess.com awards for best thread & best individual
contribution - there should be (thread: either this one or cheater_1's first
posting; indiv contrib: Springs420 2nd May 5:01 pm - UK time).
Well done feyterman for getting this going ...
May 4, 2008
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#110
"(the idea of saying things without repercussion, social stigma or the awkwardness that comes from regection is to tempting for some people)"
. . .brings us to a slightly different area of conversation that has always intrigued me. I'm not really as much interested in the amorous issue as I am in the ethical issue - how a person acts when unrestricted and unaccountable vs how a person acts under the normal (RL) threat (if that's the right word) of repercussions. It's been said that the measure of a man/woman is how that person acts when he/she thinks no one is watching. It's fun to observe how people, chess-players in this context, react, respond and interact during, before and after a chess game. Of course, some people have more invested in their "identity," and this in itself affects how they might act. Others, with throw-away identities, more often found on sites like Yahoo where folks can have multiple-identities, etc., in my observations, tend to act, ummm... less nobley and more audacious.
I tend to think that anonymity brings out the best and worst in people and possibly a truer picture of each person's inner compass.
May 4, 2008
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#111
"A person who can make changing a lightbulb an exciting and complicated endeavor. "
I don't know about exciting, but I can certainly make it complicated.
that is a very interesting idea, and know that I think about it, that is rather true
May 4, 2008
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#113
"begging the question," to further complicate things, doesn't mean to invite an obvious question.
batgirl wrote: "begging the question," to further complicate things, doesn't mean to invite an obvious question.
Wow -- you're complicated even in your snarkiness!! If I wasn't so damned good looking, I might feel threatened.
May 4, 2008
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#115
"If I wasn't so damned good looking, I might feel threatened. "
Don't fret. I come in peace.
batgirl wrote:
"If I wasn't so damned good looking, I might feel threatened. "
Don't fret. I come in peace.
Cool. Gumdrop?
batgirl wrote:
"(the idea of saying things without repercussion, social stigma or the awkwardness that comes from regection is to tempting for some people)"
. . .brings us to a slightly different area of conversation that has always intrigued me. I'm not really as much interested in the amorous issue as I am in the ethical issue - how a person acts when unrestricted and unaccountable vs how a person acts under the normal (RL) threat (if that's the right word) of repercussions. It's been said that the measure of a man/woman is how that person acts when he/she thinks no one is watching. It's fun to observe how people, chess-players in this context, react, respond and interact during, before and after a chess game. Of course, some people have more invested in their "identity," and this in itself affects how they might act. Others, with throw-away identities, more often found on sites like Yahoo where folks can have multiple-identities, etc., in my observations, tend to act, ummm... less nobley and more audacious.
I tend to think that anonymity brings out the best and worst in people and possibly a truer picture of each person's inner compass.
very intresting, although I dont consider it an ethical issue but more of a social one. These people avidly seek out these mediums because they want to be able to say anything(or more accuratly things that they arent allowed to say in their normal lives). They look for escape or to become someone else, and these networks just help with their escape. So it's not like these people find themselves in these positions, but they instead avidlly seek them out for the purpose of this very behavior.
batgirl wrote:
"Gumdrop?"
What flavor?
To avoid complications, I'll let you pick.
I see -- you're one to simply grin and bare it.