Because I can't resist:

Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the little girls are FBI.

worry if you see someones forum handle called 'alty mandude'

I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC and your on "How to catch escaped psychiatric patients who are now on the internet". Please explain yourself. Wait, please don't. Just turn yourself into the closest mental health hospital.

Are you an Ork? Do you ask you boss to check your 'flash' by any chance?

There are no girls on the internet. If you meet someone who claims to be a girl online, it is most likely a GIRL*.



*Guy In Real Life

Interestingly enough my best friend met his current fiancee via WoW.

One from Texas, the other from Montana. Crazy huh?

The internet is disturbing, yes, but outside of Legion Anonymous, it's really just a bunch of people trying to talk to each other. Some people, myself included, also find communication via the written word less stressful and awkward. I know I have trouble meeting new people without coming off as a pissed off anarchist zealot (I'm really not, I just get passionate about my work in education)

Issue is that A BUNCH of people are on the internets. As in, possible way too many. Many of whom are perverts. Or furries. Or both.

Nicely done.


On a side note, public speaking is VERY different from communicating on the social setting. I am an excellent public speaker, I took acting classes in college, and I have on several occasions brought people to tears and laughter with well-planned speeches. There's the thing, though: they're planned. In communication without guidelines I tend to stay quiet and observe, speaking only when I feel the need to say something. Problem with this is that most people communicate on several levels beneath what I would consider "frivolous" speaking. Jokes are an excellent example of this: when someone jokes they aren't just making a joke, they are stating some kind of common belief system that they feel they can share with whomever it is they are speaking with. This is especially true of racist, sexist, or otherwise "risky" jokes. Body language, etc. also plays into this. It's less that I lack an understanding of this kind of stuff and more that I just don't care to take part of it, which tends to put a lot of people off since it is a fundamental part of their interaction.

Take the common greeting "How are you doing?" as an excellent example of this. Nobody cares how you are doing and if you respond with anything other than the rough equivalent of "Good, and you?" they will be put into an awkward situation. See, people like myself refuse to participate in this dance. If you ask me how i'm doing i'm going to say "Hello".

Likewise, if a stranger starts arguing with me about local vs national standards of education, i'm not going to play the "game" where I politely agree, or at the very least fail to disagree, with whatever they say then slander them behind their back. (Don't say that's not what happens because we all know it is). Instead, i'm going to do my best to plow their points into the ground and show my position is the better. To their credit, if they do the same to me I will humbly accept their point and acknowledge it as the better.

Communication at its core is a very, very complex beast and even in what I would consider to be simplified forms, i.e. the written word, messages can become garbled and confused. Add in body language, social constructs, and more of that sort of mess and you have yourself something of a monster.



Also, don't worry about Furries. I assumed they had reached all corners of teh interwebs by this point but thank Woden they don't seem to. I like anthropomorphic creatures as much as the next guy whose done research on the Baar-Sarkr, but I know there's a line to be drawn with such an interest.

Interesting route this thread took lol. But I don't like comments like "there's a line to be drawn with such an interest". For you there is, for them, the line is further back. Who decides where the line is? Society? The same society that thought slavery was a good idea and had a law against being gay (I come from Britain)?

That line can only be decided by an indavidual.

Unfortunatly there are some boundrys which are needed to help protect a society, but not from ideas and 'perverts' but from killers, fruadsters and Nazi's. How do you draw the 'line' between those two groups? You ask the question "who is this hurting?".

By hurting, I mean, who has had thier human rights breeched. (Human rights supersceeding all relegious texts for the 'treat each other well' theme). Who's rights does a furry impact?

Do you have a right to live in a world where there are no furrys?
Did Hitler have a right to live in a world with no Jews?



I find it... offputting when I see groups of people campaigning for the rights of others to be removed.

Im am not black, not gay nor a furry but when they come for the furrys and nobody stands up, who will stand up when they come for me?

Are you sure they are girls?  lol

When I said "there is a line to be drawn" I merely referred to my own interest.


Other people can do whatever they please with their lives, who am I to say otherwise? I just, personally, don't care to take any part in it. But for those that enjoy it, go for it.

If a girl is going to put up her own pic, and shes a porn actress then they would own up to it and I would imagine only take such drastic measures if they were harassed (which probably would happen, especialy in WoW). So I decalre MALE!

I still remember the Spohie and another spelling of the same name (hint) the sexy hot 'twins' from Planetside... hehe, it was a couple of 15 year old boys or something. The really funny thing with that is they were far more interesting than their trick female personas. They kept it up for quite a while too (as in they have the chat logs from the crowds of males talking to them - how embarsing for those invovled!).

Which leads too the second rule of the internet, never say anything on the internet you woulnd't mind telling a 40 year old FBI agent...

The problem with women on the internet is that they're too rare. You can usually tell that they're women because they're more level headed than us men. Or they actually do something.

I just figure everyone as "its". How are you ever going to seriously know what gender they are. Pictures don't mean a thing, I guess web cam would suffice, but if your getting to that stage, I think your digging to far.