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

[Spun Cuppa]

Ah - a debate on existentialism could ensue. Excellent.

Not quite Existentialism, more pseudo-modernism c. 2006

From Wiki:

'...In 2006 the British scholar Alan Kirby formulated a socio-cultural assessment of post-postmodernism that he calls “pseudo-modernism.”[23] Kirby associates pseudo-modernism with the triteness and shallowness resulting from the instantaneous, direct, and superficial participation in culture made possible by the internet, mobile phones, interactive television and similar means: “In pseudo-modernism one phones, clicks, presses, surfs, chooses, moves, downloads.”[23]

Pseudo-modernism’s “typical intellectual states” are furthermore described as being “ignorance, fanaticism and anxiety” and it is said to produce a “trance-like state” in those participating in it. The net result of this media-induced shallowness and instantaneous participation in trivial events is a “silent autism” superseding “the neurosis of modernism and the narcissism of postmodernism.“ Kirby sees no aesthetically valuable works coming out of “pseudo-modernism.” As examples of its triteness he cites reality TV, interactive news programs, “the drivel found […] on some Wikipedia pages,” docu-soaps, and the essayistic cinema of Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock.[23] In a book published in September 2009 titled Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure our Culture Kirby developed further and nuanced his views on culture and textuality in the aftermath of postmodernism...'

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Are you David Brent?

Is that rhyming slang?

I didn't intend it to read as wet as it did, I mean, in a nutshell I don't get too involved in rows between Bushy and Czechoslavakian Dave as I tend to like both sides of a story, and I'm a bit of a joker/ Wum in real life.

 

[brakespear]

It depends. At work I'm quite a bit louder than I am either on NSC or at home. At home, I'm quite quiet and reserved (sometimes ). I also think more about what I'm saying on NSC and quite often go back and edit stuff out. I also find it more difficult to communicate via typing rather than talking.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I'm probably more diplomatic in real life but other than that, much the same.

 

[banjo]

Quite chilled out as a person and not very out spoken either. Not sure how that compares on here ? Hopefully the same. Find it easier to talk to someone face to face really.

 

[Insel affe]

Apart from being sarcastic I don't know ?

 

[Spicy]

I am spicy in real life and Spicy on here.

 

[hitony]

Cheque or bank transfer?

Neither, it's my pleasure to tell the truth (Oh and Rose sends her love to you and the family, hopefully see you in the near future mate )

 

[hitony]

I am spicy in real life and Spicy on here.

So true....I've seen the pics you sent me!!

 

[hitony]

I am just the same in real life as I am on here............(Let the binfest begin!!! )

 

[Return of the Rev]

Might surprise many on here but in real life i'm a complete tosser

 

[Questions]

I am a c... on here but a totally different style of c... in real life.

 

[hitony]

I am a c... on here but a totally different style of c... in real life.

Never met you in the real world (If I do I will buy you a pint ) but having had brief but recent discussions with you via PMs, you strike me as a decent guy.

 

[Taybha]

I like oranges and blue christmas tree lights , did you know that Burton Albion have a 7 peice band on matchdays !

 

[hitony]

I answer all my PMs, thank you. Except yours. Obviously. I'll rectify that immediately!

Errm....no you have not......

 

[grubbyhands]

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.

Very impressed with your command of the English language but disappointed with the sentiments in your earlier post regarding testicular cancer. Think about what you've typed as some of us may be touched by this horrible disease!

 

[looney]

There have been a few threads recently where I and others have been left wondering if some of the posters are posting as themselves or whether they have developed a new persona either for a specific thread or, in some instances, for all their NSC musing.

So, do you take the opportunity to portray a totally different persona on here to your real life persona? If so, does the anonymity afforded by t'interweb allow you to express thoughts/opinions that you genuinely hold but feel unable to express in real life, or is it all a big wind up? Or....what?

For me, how I am here is pretty much exactly how I am in real life. I save my alter ego for WoW.

EDIT: Oh, I'm a bit more sweary irl.

This also depends on how much of an abstract medium posters consider it. this varies more than personas and is the real issue. I doubt any on here are able to work out how much of an abstract medium it should be.

 

[marshy68]

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.

Crikey I wish I had such a command of any foreign language, my missus is French and I struggle with it daily. You sir are a credit to polska! The love in between the pols and the Brits goes back a long way and I am glad you are part of it.

I am pretty much myself on nsc say it as I see it and as all thing don't post drunk... two infractions last time I did that!

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Oh, Polish, thought you said polish.

I rarely laugh out loud when reading off the internet, but I did here.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

What you see on the written page is what I'm like in real life.
To be honest I wasn't going to reply to this thread as I felt a bit of a jcl.
I would like to think I am subtlety sarcastic with posters I do not agree with - leaving them in complete turmoil as to whether to have a go back or not
With a few fellas on here they 'get' my sense of humour and we have great fun hijacking some of the more dubious threads.
I love NSC if only coz it upsets the Missus every minute I'm on here