How Similar to Your Online Persona Are You IRL?

[Upset Alert]

I'm pretty much the same as in straightforwardness thinking and opinionated. I can be snarky and sarcastic too. However, I've learned the hard way on my team's board that some people take message boards way too serious and have no humor. Some people on our board don't like my criticism of our clueless AD. Our football mod is a joke. I got blacklisted (a different moniker) for asking a question on a thread he created and didn't want to answer. Oh well, still love my Hoosiers but some of our fans (and a mod or 2) will not change me or how I want to post.

 

[hailtoyourvictor]

I’d say the biggest difference is I agree to disagree a lot more in person. I don’t like making people feel stupid in person by correcting them but online I do.

 

[Scotty00]

Im exactly the same in person as I am on here. I’m laid back and easy to get along with but I can’t stand people who are full of shit and I’ll let them know it. I’m a prankster who’s always messing with people and playing jokes on them. I like to be honest with people no matter if it hurts their feelings or not. I was always the guy that took up for the kids gettin picked on. Just think, if me and UNCheatinky would’ve went to the same school I prolly would’ve beat somebody’s ass for picking on him!Laughing

 

[LetsGoDuke301]

I’m fairly similar? Some big differences through.

First, my temper doesn’t come across here. In real life, I have a massive temper, but only about dumb shit. If I make a nice dinner and then drop it on the floor, holy Christ, run for cover. But I never lose my temper over anything meaningful.

I rarely get in any confrontations with people in real life. That said, there is FAR less illogical ridiculousness and in your faceness and general assholishness in real life.

The biggest thing is that my humor seems to be lost online. Not sure why. In real life, I am nearly always the funniest person in the room; it is my absolute defining characteristic. But I feel like online I’m not funny at all. Not sure why... I think a lot of it has to do with me generally being a bit rogueish and outrageous and yet “we are all in this together”... I love to make a horrible joke with a sly grin and making everyone crack up at the outrageousness o it, but none of that comes through online. It’s strange. Maybe I’m just a lot more precise and careful when I write, and that kills it?

I have far more conflicts here than anywhere else. In the real world, I’m friends with everyone. I’ve broken up with forty something women, and am friends with every single one but one. I’ve got no enemies. Generally I get along with everyone. Here, not as much.

I always thought your temper was well advertised here.

 

[TheDude1]

I always thought your temper was well advertised here.

Hah! No, I don’t think there is anything here that has really gotten me angry, you know? I might exchange unpleasantries or whathaveyou, but there isn’t really anything on here that has gotten me angry, because there isn’t anything “serious” enough here to get me angry. I think people mistake long responses or engagement in an argument to mean anger.

 

[LetsGoDuke301]

Hah! No, I don’t think there is anything here that has really gotten me angry, you know? I might exchange unpleasantries or whathaveyou, but there isn’t really anything on here that has gotten me angry, because there isn’t anything “serious” enough here to get me angry. I think people mistake long responses or engagement in an argument to mean anger.

 

[tw3301]

I'm way more racist and sexist in real life than I am on here.

 

[TheDude1]

That is a disturbing picture

Seriously though, I think people mistake frustration and disdain (and verbosity) for anger. I am not sure I can think of a single instance of getting actually angry here.

 

[LetsGoDuke301]

I'm way more racist and sexist in real life than I am on here.

All you had to say is that you are from Ohio.

 

[LetsGoDuke301]

That is a disturbing picture

Seriously though, I think people mistake frustration and disdain (and verbosity) for anger. I am not sure I can think of a single instance of getting actually angry here.

I don't know Dude, chicken little got you pretty worked up. Haha.

 

[northeastspartan]

I don't post here a ton but when I do I would consider myself a fairly average/neutral poster, but in real life I go out of my way to avoid confrontation whenever possible.

 

[tw3301]

All you had to say is that you are from Ohio.

How dare you.

 

[viviajm]

I'm exactly the same I just do it behind people's backs instead

I"m the same IRL. I love to argue sports and politics. Most of my opinions come from a conservative upbringing and my age. The only pro sport I follow closely is golf. I haven't watched the palm and travel league in a long time. I quit watching baseball with the last strike, and only watch NFL games during the playoffs. I have no particular college football love, but have a number of teams I like to watch. But I have been a KU basketball fan since the 1952-53 season.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

You really are Hank Moody.


I’m pretty laid back in real life. I don’t tolerate idiots very well here, or in real life, even though some of my friends are idiots. But not much really bothers me. Life is too short for all that.

I can see that from you.

I am similar.

My dad always told me never to take myself too seriously. He was my role model, but I could never be as laid back and nice as he. I try to be measured; however, I don't tolerate idiots very well either on this board and in my real life.

 

[npreston]

Pretty much identical. If I see someone wearing some fizzou stuff, I’ll look them right in he eye, and say “Rock Chalk Jayhawk.” Anyone wearing any other school apparel, i’ll try and talk hoops.

Stay away from politics, unless I know they’re not a trump fan boy, then we’ll roast his ass together.

Like craft beer, pot, Jeeps, guns, dogs, and boobs. Pretty much the coolest guy ever. SmokinSmile

 

[npreston]

Being 6'6", 275 lbs

Beast mode! Holy smokes. I’m 6’2”, 175 lbs. You would crush me.

 

[KYtotheCore]

Beast mode! Holy smokes. I’m 6’2”, 175 lbs. You would crush me.

Not if you're on top . . .

 

[829305]

I can see that from you.

I am similar.

My dad always told me never to take myself too seriously. He was my role model, but I could never be as laid back and nice as he. I try to be measured; however, I don't tolerate idiots very well either on this board and in my real life.

I know I can come off a bit aggressive and dismissive with the idiots/trolls, so it paints me to be more of an ass than I would ever be in real life. Is what it is, I guess.

On a side note, my students do a research paper every year in my class and this year it had to be on something tied to the Civil Rights Movement. Anyway, a couple of the students used a book in our library written by Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham. Any relation? I feel like you have mentioned having some authors in the family.

 

[npreston]

Not if you're on top . . .

IRL, I’m a pitcher, not a catcher. On here, however, I could be persuaded to mix it up a little.

 

[JimboBBN]

IRL, I’m a pitcher, not a catcher. On here, however, I could be persuaded to mix it up a little.

I can vouch for this

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I know I can come off a bit aggressive and dismissive with the idiots/trolls, so it paints me to be more of an ass than I would ever be in real life. Is what it is, I guess.

On a side note, my students do a research paper every year in my class and this year it had to be on something tied to the Civil Rights Movement. Anyway, a couple of the students used a book in our library written by Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham. Any relation? I feel like you have mentioned having some authors in the family.

I googled her (not a sexual act! SmokinSmile) and could not find her husband's name. So I have no idea.

I do have a lot of black cousins and the Washington D.C. area is a good one for my relatives as we came from Barbados to Jamestown in 1705, then to the Amherst, VA area. (I have some DNA connected black Cousins in Barbados through Ancestry.com.)

I would love to claim kin, but I can't at the moment.

 

[speedfrk]

IRL, I’m a pitcher, not a catcher. On here, however, I could be persuaded to mix it up a little.

Power bottom?

 

[KisteK]

I get waaaay more dick irl

 

[Da_Bull]

I get waaaay more dick irl

We know

 

[IUfanBorden]

I’d say the biggest difference is I agree to disagree a lot more in person. I don’t like making people feel stupid in person by correcting them but online I do.

Me too. But not particularly "stupid". Makes me uncomfortable. Not a big fan of confrontation.

 

[hailtoyourvictor]

Me too. But not particularly "stupid". Makes me uncomfortable. Not a big fan of confrontation.

Yeah, if we were in person I wouldn’t correct as much for how often you’re wrong about bad calls

 

[IUfanBorden]

Yeah, if we were in person I wouldn’t correct as much for how often you’re wrong about bad calls

On the flip side, I wouldn't tell you how much you didn't know WTF you were talking about...

TBH, I think you and I would actually get along. My wife laughs at me. Says, "you know whay you get so mad at him(YOU). Its becasue you are just alike"....

 

[hailtoyourvictor]

On the flip side, I wouldn't tell you how much you didn't know WTF you were talking about...

TBH, I think you and I would actually get along. My wife laughs at me. Says, "you know whay you get so mad at him(YOU). Its becasue you are just alike"....

I thought my fiancé could name forum members because I pass things on to her sometimes but Borden was the only one she could name. Imagine that.

 

[IUfanBorden]

I thought my fiancé could name forum members because I pass things on to her sometimes but Borden was the only one she could name. Imagine that.

LOL...Every time I say to my wife, "baby read this". She says----"what'd Hail say now"?Laughing

Weird, huh. Women, man. THEY KNOW.

 

[coryfly]

Im a sarcastic pos. Hope I haven't disappointed.

Beast mode! Holy smokes. I’m 6’2”, 175 lbs. You would crush me.

I'm 5'11" and about 160. I'm not fighting anyone.

I'm pretty much the same as in straightforwardness thinking and opinionated. I can be snarky and sarcastic too. However, I've learned the hard way on my team's board that some people take message boards way too serious and have no humor. Some people on our board don't like my criticism of our clueless AD. Our football mod is a joke. I got blacklisted (a different moniker) for asking a question on a thread he created and didn't want to answer. Oh well, still love my Hoosiers but some of our fans (and a mod or 2) will not change me or how I want to post.

 

[Silent Banjo]

I basically never talk politics. TBH, just not educated enough to do so.

Being educated has never been a prerequisite to talk politics. A quick scan of the main board proves that.

 

[Wildcat-in-STL]

Im not even real......... I was trapped in the interwebs by a wizard.