I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

Eddy Gurge: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

How are yooooouuuu doin precious?

Sorry, I'm both a furry and into military types. I have my eye on Sgt Otter.

I, restrospect, I feel like I should now take a moment to mention that I am not a furry, not into military types, and that I most definitely do not have my eye on Sgt Otter (no offense, dude).

I put on my robe and wizard hat....

This story sounds familiar.

*Googles "Thomas Montgomery"*

Yup, Wired wrote about it three years ago. 20/20 is just getting in on the action now?

Link (new window)

I'm 99% sure I read about it on Fark back then, too.

Croooow!: This is the greatest moment of my life.

Redwing: I can't wait until tonight when we find out she's really a 35-yr-old mother of 14 behind on her mortgage payments...

***SPOILER ALERT***

Actually you're not that far off. I saw this story on the news a few months back (some special IIRC). Anyways, turns out that tallhotblond isn't a young girl. She's actually a mother (mid-thirties, I think or forties) who was using her daughter's pictures.

DOH!

Oh, and "marinesniper" kills beefcake. He's now in prison for 1st degree murder. Life.

Hender: Yup, Wired wrote about it three years ago. 20/20 is just getting in on the action now?

Plus 20/20 tried to leave us hanging so we would watch the show. HA!

Ive got Hender and ghostmagic to ruin it for me.

/thanks guys

joshthewaster: Hender: Yup, Wired wrote about it three years ago. 20/20 is just getting in on the action now?

Plus 20/20 tried to leave us hanging so we would watch the show. HA!

Ive got Hender and ghostmagic to ruin it for me.

/thanks guys

....sorry..... hence the ****SPOILER ALERT warning..but you just couldn't help yourself, could you? :P

btw, I found what I had watched; evidently it was the documentary, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1370889/

Still worth seeing.

ghostmagic: ....sorry..... hence the ****SPOILER ALERT warning..but you just couldn't help yourself, could you? :P

That was meant as an expression of gratitude. I care just enough to be annoyed that they left me hanging and not quite enough to care enough to actually find out what happened.

hmm 'marinesniper'.....i need to try that alias.

Well at least the article is honest about the horror of aging and the utter despair of the "American Dream" of wasting away in a suburb.

My screen name is actually pretty accurate

Genevieve Marie: VictoryCabal: Huh, I've been wondering what happened to DodgerOfZion.

Oh never mind, I missed it.

Carry on.

Please, do tell.

EmployeeOfTheMinute: My screen name is actually pretty accurate

Mine too.

Am I the only one who can only think of Cartman any time someone mentions "beefcake"? It can't just be me.

HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

That's how I can be excused for spelling errors. You have any idea how hard it is to type with radioactive flippers? I tried typing with my beak but the jerk polar bear in the cage next door kept making "typing with your pecker" jokes so I had to stop.

With your ID, I just figured it meant you worked for the FBI.

Jesus, this is all I had to read (FTFA): Montgomery began spending a lot of time on the Internet. "I found it easier to talk to the people online than I could to my own wife," he told "20/20." To this day, Montgomery can't quite explain what he was doing in a teen chat room on the popular game site "Pogo," in May 2005. But when a girl named "Talhotblond" started instant-messaging him, he decided to pretend he was 18 too.

Yeah, "talking" to "people" online probably is easier when they can't see that you're a creepy 46-year-old.

I've always wondered what the fark people imagine will happen when their "pretend" persona must be replaced by reality. Do they think the "love" that was created online will erase all the lying about their age and occupation and marital status and the hot 18-year-old will marry some scumbag who wants to leave his wife and kids?

Because, sure, all hot 18-year-olds want to marry losers who troll for half-their-age ass online. Who wouldn't? That's a goddam dream come true. I mean, 46 years old? Still married? A couple kids? Sign me up. What a dreamboat.

This must be the male equivalent of the large women who post 20-year-old pictures of themselves when they were (literally) half the size they are now. I just don't understand what people think could possibly come of trying to meet up "in real life" with people you've been deceiving for months about your true appearance, age, etc. I mean, obviously, stupid is a large part of it. I'm sure most of them would try to explain it by using some version of the word "love" or "infatuation."

HotLonelyTeenageGirl: I don't understand this thread or this article at all. Don't people usually choose names that accurately describe them when they sign up for chat rooms and such?

*rofl* Man I'd cheers your beer right now if we were within cheers'ing distance :P

/and if you're not drinking a beer get with the farking program, its past noon on friday!

It's getting REALLY HARD TO TYPE with just the floppy leaves, people!

*these

/it's getting REALLY HARD TO DRINK THIS BOURBON with just these floppy leaves, people!

One Bad Apple: I am quite bad and I've never met another me.

Well one bad apple spoils the bunch.

/AxiomJackson ...Away!

Shostie: Bagelox-99: Attention young ladies: If someone writes you in grammatical English with good spelling and claims to be an 18yo marine sniper, be very suspicious.

Posts should appear in the following prose:

"hey watupp im paul im 25 i live in arlington i was brwsing ur profile n i thought u was interestin so i figured id give it a shot n say wats upp i been living in arlington fr almst 2 years i havent been soo lucky finding relation ships or lady friends at all well i love art music exersize i wrk out regularly im goiing to school to become a graphoic n web designer im lookin fr a good looking flady friend like urself to gt to kno so if ur interested gt back to me id love to hear from you bye"

you win an internet my friend. Thanks, I lol'd at my computer my girlfriend thinks im a wierdo now.

But I'm sure someone must have the handle "shortbald46yofark."

This is what makes Chatroulette so great. You actually get to witness firsthand that 98% of the people in chatrooms are just dudes wanking off.

/also, I'm never, ever trying Chatroulette ever again.

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