DanM82
13th August 2007, 10:00 AM
I was game (and in reflection stupid) enough to log into a chat room over the weekend. From the half hour I spent in there (I logged out because my eyes were bleeding), I noticed a few things:
I remember when I started chatting and to find out about someone you had to type A/S/L. Being that I wasn't in it for anything more than a chat I generally ignored them and said I was only chatting. They ignored me after that. Chatting in a chat room - ABSURD!
Since the days of ASL, we have no advanced forwards into the days of profiles. Some of these profiles are humorous, some are erotic and others just obscene. Though I must say, I did find others hypocritical. "No Pic, No Pvt". Sweet, I'm in. Granted my picture is about 6 months old, I don't have that hair cut any more and those sunglasses got broken but that's beside the point. I opened the profile... there was nothing there. All the answers were "prefer not to say" and the picture was a nice generic one provided by the site.
I started to chat to one guy and we eventually took it onto msn and continued to chat. Same pic in there as in chat. We were both bored and decided getting out of the four walls and having coffee would be ideal. I got there first and secured my usual table (the staff there know me by latte size and amount of sugar) and waited. He arrived. What was with the pic? Was it like 10 years old? Instead of this average build guy, I was confronted by a bohemoth with bleached orange hair and a shirt was accentuating the swell of his gut rather than his chest. We chatted and it was quite light and politically correct. He tried to rub his foot against my leg and my jeans started to corrode.
Two coffees and I "oh course I'll give you a call" while conveniently forgetting to get his number, I ran for my life. I think I took out two Asians, a small child and side of a mini van making my escape. I got back inside the unit and leant my back against the door, chest heaving. After doing domestics, I went back near my computer and there was an email "that was fun, again sometime. You forgot to get my number it's xxxx xxx xxx". Shit, power failure - dammit, lost the email.
I decided to log into a different chat site and read some of the profile names like youngnslim and cutebeachguy and sexcman. My God! What is the ACCC's number? FALSE ADVERTISING! One I think was my coffee friend (term used loosely) with a more recent photo, the beach one looked like that albino from The Cell (y'know the Jennifer NOpez thriller) and had most likely thought that going to the beach consisted of going to his sandpit out the back wearing SPF 90+ and the sprinkler going. Sexcman... don't let me start. I'm sure he WAS sexc... maybe in 1940.
I was flattered by all these men privating me... could one of them please be sub 40, have a photo that was taken within the last 12 months or have some sort of skin pigmentation? Am I asking too much? I'm not as discerning as others, a pulse would be good. Personality a plus but not essential and looks... well... they all look the same face first in the pillow.
This was a rant designed for some reason, I have no idea what it is now but I've finished... now please, profiles aren't scary. They're quite easy to write (if not, see an arts student - they can BS anything) and given mobile phones and digital cameras these days - pictures aren't all that hard to get hold of.
By the way my answer to A/S/L... legal/not if you're offering/at home.
I remember when I started chatting and to find out about someone you had to type A/S/L. Being that I wasn't in it for anything more than a chat I generally ignored them and said I was only chatting. They ignored me after that. Chatting in a chat room - ABSURD!
Since the days of ASL, we have no advanced forwards into the days of profiles. Some of these profiles are humorous, some are erotic and others just obscene. Though I must say, I did find others hypocritical. "No Pic, No Pvt". Sweet, I'm in. Granted my picture is about 6 months old, I don't have that hair cut any more and those sunglasses got broken but that's beside the point. I opened the profile... there was nothing there. All the answers were "prefer not to say" and the picture was a nice generic one provided by the site.
I started to chat to one guy and we eventually took it onto msn and continued to chat. Same pic in there as in chat. We were both bored and decided getting out of the four walls and having coffee would be ideal. I got there first and secured my usual table (the staff there know me by latte size and amount of sugar) and waited. He arrived. What was with the pic? Was it like 10 years old? Instead of this average build guy, I was confronted by a bohemoth with bleached orange hair and a shirt was accentuating the swell of his gut rather than his chest. We chatted and it was quite light and politically correct. He tried to rub his foot against my leg and my jeans started to corrode.
Two coffees and I "oh course I'll give you a call" while conveniently forgetting to get his number, I ran for my life. I think I took out two Asians, a small child and side of a mini van making my escape. I got back inside the unit and leant my back against the door, chest heaving. After doing domestics, I went back near my computer and there was an email "that was fun, again sometime. You forgot to get my number it's xxxx xxx xxx". Shit, power failure - dammit, lost the email.
I decided to log into a different chat site and read some of the profile names like youngnslim and cutebeachguy and sexcman. My God! What is the ACCC's number? FALSE ADVERTISING! One I think was my coffee friend (term used loosely) with a more recent photo, the beach one looked like that albino from The Cell (y'know the Jennifer NOpez thriller) and had most likely thought that going to the beach consisted of going to his sandpit out the back wearing SPF 90+ and the sprinkler going. Sexcman... don't let me start. I'm sure he WAS sexc... maybe in 1940.
I was flattered by all these men privating me... could one of them please be sub 40, have a photo that was taken within the last 12 months or have some sort of skin pigmentation? Am I asking too much? I'm not as discerning as others, a pulse would be good. Personality a plus but not essential and looks... well... they all look the same face first in the pillow.
This was a rant designed for some reason, I have no idea what it is now but I've finished... now please, profiles aren't scary. They're quite easy to write (if not, see an arts student - they can BS anything) and given mobile phones and digital cameras these days - pictures aren't all that hard to get hold of.
By the way my answer to A/S/L... legal/not if you're offering/at home.