What? Like existentially? You can never know another person ...
Sure. Turn me into a freshman ...
Ok. Yes, like existentially. Crap. All the big thinkers have been here. Even the French big thinkers.
Now, that is depressing.
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gus - Jul 02, 2006 2:21:03 pm PDT #5057 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Typo Boy - Jul 02, 2006 2:24:49 pm PDT #5058 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah but you are saying it more entertainingly.
Lee - Jul 02, 2006 2:25:56 pm PDT #5059 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Just had a very lovely brunch with lots of cool Buffistas and others.
No one ate any popsicles though.
Allyson - Jul 02, 2006 2:29:14 pm PDT #5060 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Most people -- not "most people online" or "most people in fandom," but most people -- do not form the kind of LD relationships this particular community has.
I'm disputing the chicken soup bullshit, because the person is stating that one can't forge those kinds of relationships online, and well, here we are. I'd send you chicken soup, Strega. In fact, today I saw a pirate flag lunchbox and thought, "I'll have to pick that up for Strega," because that's chicken soup, Strega style.
As for most people, or most people online, and this particular community, I can hand you anecdotal evidence from every community I've seen: Farscape, Firefly, The Bronze, here, The Well, all have resulted in meetups, hook ups, face-to-face friendships. Daily Kos just did it as well.
My hypothesis is that any community that has been online for 6 months or more will result in meatspace friendships among some members. But that's just a hypothesis, and until I get a grant from some crazy rich person, I'll not have any empirical evidence to back me.
Gus - Jul 02, 2006 2:37:51 pm PDT #5061 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Getting craxy here, but still willing to assert it: non-meat-space relationships are at least as valuable as online relationships.
Sometimes, the flesh lies.
billytea - Jul 02, 2006 2:48:54 pm PDT #5062 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah but you are saying it more entertainingly.
For a start, they're not growing beards to keep them company on those long, lonely nights.
Incidentally, Gus, I told my brother about your beard-growing theory. He suggested women could grow out their armpit hair. Can you believe he doesn't have a girlfriend?
Gus - Jul 02, 2006 2:53:30 pm PDT #5063 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Can you believe he doesn't have a girlfriend?
Well ... He could probably catch one who pets her armpits in public.
-t - Jul 02, 2006 2:56:11 pm PDT #5064 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hey, popsicles were not on the tour!
billytea - Jul 02, 2006 3:00:54 pm PDT #5065 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Well ... He could probably catch one who pets her armpits in public.
Yes! She'd be distracted!
sarameg - Jul 02, 2006 3:05:19 pm PDT #5066 of 10002
I love my brother. He might not be able to wrangle it, but he's trying to book a flight down to the parents' at the same time I'll be there, for just a couple of days. He'd bring the nephew. If he manages it, we're not going to tell our parents. Total surprise. Mom will PLOTZ. (and then freak out because only one spare bedroom is made up for guests, but we'll do that for her.)
I really hope he can manage it.