How different is your NSC persona from you in real life?

[Eeyore]

Anything I say on NSC I believe I should also say in a real life conversation. I try to stick to that. That is why I don't personally abuse people.

The difference, however, is that a lot of folk in real life just switch off or ignore me. On here the audience has read the post before they get a chance....

Like you've just done.

 

[Goldstone1976]

In the real world I wouldn't say boo to a goose, can't stand politics, and if someone slags off the Albion then just shrug and ignore them.

I'm far too patronising and knowall on NSC too.

Well, one of those sentences is right, for sure.

 

[Guy Crouchback]

If you are Polish and English is your second language I am mightily impressed

Thank you very much. I wouldn't go as far as to call English my second language; it is still, by and large, a foreign language to me, but my admiration of your country's literature and friendship with a couple of your compatriots living in Poland are very useful in improving my command of this most beautiful and rich language.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

What is this 'real life' of which you speak

 

[Guinness Boy]

Thank you very much. I wouldn't go as far as to call English my second language; it is still, by and large, a foreign language to me, but my admiration of your country's literature and friendship with a couple of your compatriots living in Poland are very useful in improving my command of this most beautiful and rich language.

Your English is better than about 70% of the posters on here who claim it as their first language. You should be very proud.

 

[Goldstone1976]

What is this 'real life' of which you speak

Ah - a debate on existentialism could ensue. Excellent.

 

[Guy Crouchback]

Your English is better than about 70% of the posters on here who claim it as their first language. You should be very proud.

Ahhh, shucks!

 

[BBassic]

Interesting thread - short answer is "don't know". Someone could set up a research project on it?

Whilst not scientific at all, a webcomic I read did come up with this:

Human + Anonymity + Audience = Idiot.

Of course they were referring to the people you have to endure when playing games online but I think the theory is sound(ish)

 

[Bozza]

What is this 'real life' of which you speak

That's a point I've tried to make with various NSC users, particularly over the last few years. NSC, like all internet interactions, is very much real life now - there is no differentiation.

The difference I'd make is it's a different form of communication and we do all probably behave differently, if only subtly, when communicating via a keyboard as we do when face to face.

 

[sydney]

take what you find with me...if you no likey .......... fookey offey..innit..!! other than that i reckon i would get on with 99% of posters on here , there are a couple that i might end up belting ...but that is just life.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

You just got to be who you are ,why bother putting up a persona to hide behind , all my fans love me ,what's not to like about that
regards
DR

 

[tinycowboy]

Ah - a debate on existentialism could ensue. Excellent.

I think this whole thread is already a debate on existentialism - we are all coming to terms with having created (to some extent) an artifical persona, possibly in order to fit in socially, possibly to achieve the opposite. Could this change how we act in real life, or who we would like to be? I'm sure there are thousands of dissertations on this. This thread could run and run until it reaches an absurdist conclusion.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Erm, not sure really. I appreciate I can be a bit of miserable old goat sometimes and that's true away from NSC.

 

[El Sid]

Ah - a debate on existentialism could ensue. Excellent.

Sartre purports the idea that which "all existentialists have in common is the fundamental doctrine that existence precedes essence". If you are an existentialist and agree with Mr Bloom that the squad is now "competitive" then we're play-off bound.

I think

 

[John Bumlick]

I am generally quite shy and genuinely hate being the centre of attention in any way.

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[Trufflehound]

Sartre purports the idea that which "all existentialists have in common is the fundamental doctrine that existence precedes essence". If you are an existentialist and agree with Mr Bloom that the squad is now "competitive" then we're play-off bound.

I think

Doo bee doo bee doo - Sinatra




Or something like that.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I'm far less serious in real life. My edgy humour wouldn't translate well by text.

 

[mr sheen]

I am severely restricted, in terms of showing my real persona on NSC, by the fact that I would seem to be the only Polish poster here; it means that I have to be aware of the fact that people might judge my country and my people by the way I behave and interact with other users of the forum. I must admit that I do not nurture feelings of particularly amical nature towards certain posters here or their views and opinions, but my role of Polish Ambassador to NSC forces me to restrain myself in expressing my disapproval towards them.

I really wish more Polish people joined NSC and took over the role of representing Poland here, so I could finally start calling people c*nts and telling them to f*ck off and die of cancer (preferably testicular).

I'm a polish poster too

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

I'm far more arsey and very short-tempered in real life.

However, this is an Internet forum - what's the point in getting in a strop over some words on a screen that someone I don't know has written? I'm an adult.

 

[Mellotron]

I think I come across far more aggressively and more opinionated on here than in real life. I'm pretty laid back and hate confrontation in person.

Just realised that's pretty much the dictionary definition of a keyboard warrior. Oh well.