ATW's Awesome Androgynous Avaricious Azure Ardent Adamant Alluvial Random Banter #164

[Eruantion]

Perry's 15.

Eru: Ah, that's what the confusion was. See, I'm going into Junior. September Birthdays lead to funny cut offs. I could either be a younger Senior or an older Junior.

Nope, she's 16.

Oh, okay. That's a shame, you could be almost done with high school.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Nope, she's 16.

Oh, okay. That's a shame, you could be almost done with high school.

Haha, Gwyn: 1 Troll: 0
Yeah, going into my last year of high school next year. Excited to be done with it. Can't waiiit to be gone.

[Thufir]

No, because if I met people at a meetup they wouldn't like me anymore!

If you're presenting yourself without deception or duplicity, people would only dislike you in person if they dislike you over the internet. That's how social interaction works, whatever medium you do it through.

Hey! Friends has nothing to do with it! I'm just trying to make people curious enough that they'll head over here and I'll meet them IRL.

People might be more inclined to specifically make the effort to meet you if they felt more like trusted friends though.

What do you mean? You know that I've been lying about my age, I haven't lied about anything else. I'm not the kind of person who goes in for fabricated stories to make my life sound more interesting. Nope, a table really did catch fire last week in my life, and all the other things I mentioned too.

In which case, it may well be possible to deduce your age to a reasonable degree of accuracy. Anecdotes can give things like that away to a certain extent.

I'm going to be 20 in January. Kinda scary thought

I sympathize. I thought turning 18 was bad.

Stop complaining! Whippersnappers.

Learning that I'm older than people on the forums makes me go

Depends on the people in question for me. Some people give off much more of an impression of life experience. Also I think my perception of people's ages is skewed by how long they've been on the forums. I assume people are older if they joined the forums before me than I otherwise would.

[MoonCat]

People might be more inclined to specifically make the effort to meet you if they felt more like trusted friends though.

In which case, it may well be possible to deduce your age to a reasonable degree of accuracy. Anecdotes can give things like that away to a certain extent.

I hope my trusted friends know hat they are.

Quite possibly.

[LaZodiac]

Stop complaining! Whippersnappers.

I'll stop complaining when the world throws me a sinker, dagnabit. All these fast balls are making me angry face.

[HalfTangible]

I'll stop complaining when the world throws me a sinker, dagnabit. All these fast balls are making me angry face.

Did you try swinging the bat?

[LaZodiac]

Did you try swinging the bat?

Yes, actually, quite a lot. To the point of clubbing the umpire in the face.

[HalfTangible]

Yes, actually, quite a lot. To the point of clubbing the umpire in the face.

Well that explains it! *facepalm* You don't hit the umpire! That gets you kicked off the field.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

The trick is to not swing at the ones that are going outside the lines. It's all about the timing. You don't swing wildly!

[LaZodiac]

It's not that I'm swinging wildly, I'm hitting well, just there is always that little edge that makes it sour.

I can drop the metaphor and just explain it, but that wouldn't be fun now would it

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

It's not that I'm swinging wildly, I'm hitting well, just there is always that little edge that makes it sour.

I can drop the metaphor and just explain it, but that wouldn't be fun now would it

Wait, this was a metaphor for something?
Ooops.

[AsteriskAmp]

OK, Let's. I'm 16 and will be 17 in 2 months.

For real? I've got about a month and a half.

I laugh at the American School System. I'm half a year your senior academically despite being only slightly older (by days or a month and a bit) than the two of you.

[MoonCat]

Well that explains it! *facepalm* You don't hit the umpire! That gets you kicked off the field.

In a stage combat class I once accidentally punched the instructor in the face. It's a good thing that hadn't happened during the lesson we'd done the week before, groin attacks.

[Qaera]

Yeah, the A.S.S. sucks.

~ ♅

[Eruantion]

I laugh at the American School System. I'm half a year your senior academically despite being only slightly older (by days or a month and a bit) than the two of you.

What school system are you in? And how are you half a year my senior?

[Heliomance]

Southern hemisphere, school years correspond with the calendar year as opposed to starting in September.

[Eruantion]

Southern hemisphere, school years correspond with the calendar year as opposed to starting in September.

Makes sense, but that's not just America, but any northern hemisphere country.

[Heliomance]

And? August lives in Brazil if I recall correctly.

[Eruantion]

And? August lives in Brazil if I recall correctly.

What I was saying is he shouldn't make fun of the American school system for starting in late summer. There's plenty more stuff we do wrong
That would explain why he has a Hispanic sounding name. At least, if his user name is anything to go by

ION: I'm going to see Harry Potter with my Quidditch team!

[AtlanteanTroll]

Nope, she's 16.

Haha, Gwyn: 1 Troll: 0

I linked to Wild Mass Guessing for a reason.

Yeah, going into my last year of high school next year. Excited to be done with it. Can't waiiit to be gone.

Oh, okay. That's a shame, you could be almost done with high school.

Not really. I'd rather be one of the older kids in my grade then one of the younger. Think about it. (Also I get the security of school longer.)

If you're presenting yourself without deception or duplicity, people would only dislike you in person if they dislike you over the internet. That's how social interaction works, whatever medium you do it through.

Key word. I make stuff up or leave stuff out, I just don't say everything that happens to me.

I laugh at the American School System. I'm half a year your senior academically despite being only slightly older (by days or a month and a bit) than the two of you.

Yay! You get to go out in the real world sooner! FUN!

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I have ever mentioned I've been mistaken for 50 by a 35 year old on WoW?

[MoonCat]

And? August lives in Brazil if I recall correctly.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, WHAT? Since when? Really? How did you know? Whoa. Wait, really? Hang on, when did this happen? Wait, I thought you were European or something. Wait, what?

[LaZodiac]

I have ever mentioned I've been mistaken for 50 by a 35 year old on WoW?

You just did. Talk about impressive! You must be very adult sounding. Or bad at the game in a sterotypically adult fashion

[Cobalt]

@^^ I actually think it came up a long while ago. I remember it being mentioned.

And he doesn't seem all that European to me . There's a certain way about someone of Europe-living that I wasn't getting from his posts.

[AtlanteanTroll]

You just did. Talk about impressive! You must be very adult sounding. Or bad at the game in a sterotypically adult fashion

No, that wasn't it. I can just pull off mature sometimes.

[MoonCat]

It seems I have no class or education whatsoever. I just watched Ian Macellen doing Macbeth's famous monologue, and all I could think was 'That man looks absolutely off his rocker'.

ION:. Welp, off to go tickety searching. I assume everyone else hunting for tickets caused the abrupt drop in posters.

[Rawhide]

I MUST FIND AND WATCH THIS!

[ZombyWoof]

I don't watch bad movies so I'm going to still be around tonight.

[LaZodiac]

I don't watch bad movies so I'm going to still be around tonight.

Same here! Alternatively, I watch bad movies on my TV.

It seems I have no class or education whatsoever. I just watched Ian Macellen doing Macbeth's famous monologue, and all I could think was 'That man looks absolutely off his rocker'.

ION:. Welp, off to go tickety searching. I assume everyone else hunting for tickets caused the abrupt drop in posters.

Ian Macellen's Macbeth monologue is SUPPOSED to look like he's completly off his rocker. It's Macbeth.

Enjoy your movie that could of been consolidated into one six hour movie and been much better for it

[ZombyWoof]

A six-hour movie?

Enjoy your bastardization of a book that wasn't even good to begin with

(No, seriously, every single time they bring it up you have to say, in unison, the elder wand, the death stick, the WAND OF DESTINY!)

[LaZodiac]

A six-hour movie?

Enjoy your bastardization of a book that wasn't even good to begin with

(No, seriously, every single time they bring it up you have to say, in unison, the elder wand, the death stick, the WAND OF DESTINY!)

Yes, instead of two 2:30 movies, you get a six hour movie. Five hours herpaderp. Maybe add in a whole hour of footage that was cut.

Also, I never said the book was good, just that it would be better