Your projected image on CycleChat...

[Aperitif]

Interesting. I'll have a think about how I want to come across and get back to you later, Rich.
Perhaps 'Jack of all Trades, master of none, physical and mental, cyberspace and real life' might cover it.
There are plenty of smug folk on here though - ones that I would probably be polite to but not engage with in real life...particularly as their heads would be stuck in an orifice somewhere or the other.
Apart from that, I've met Rich, 3BM, and MacB, with a side dish of User (yes, he turned up), Bonj and Davywalnuts...and survived.
Forum? I'm for 'em!

 

[tyred]

I try not to take myself too seriously, either in real life or online.

I'm actually a very different person now compared to when I first joined as I was recovering then from years of being very depressed and in the meantime, have gained a much more positive outlook on life in general, have opened my mind and learned loads about all sorts of things and have re-gained my sense of humour so I do make inane posts sometimes in an effort to be funny.

I do like to help people in technical sections if I can but realise my store of bicycle knowledge centres around how to rescue worthless tatty bikes from skips on a shoestring budget rather than knowing the ins and outs of the latest technology. I do try to help and encourage anyone to try their hand at bicycle maintenance.

 

[MacB]

You look taller on CycleChat rich.

but the smell, at least we're spared that online

@Aperitif is far easier to understand in real life

 

[Boris Bajic]

I attract a lot of dismissive, derisive and contemptuous comments with my posts. This either reflects the reality of my life or (on occasion) reflects what people would say if they had the luxury of anonymity provided by the Internet.

I come across on these pages as a smug, self-satisfied, middle-aged, opinionated boor with an unwarranted superiority complex and way too much fondness for his own views. I cannot imagine why this is so.

Many others come across as just plain wrong, which must be ghastly for them.

 

[yello]

I love these sorts of questions. I could go on for hours in response... but won't!

In short, I'm more considered and 'serious' in my posts than I am in real life. I'm very aware that the written word can be misconstrued, and particularly on forums. Vital context is missing and cannot be inferred easily. You need to know the other person (as many of you do) to get an insight on their perspective... it's just not obvious from the words alone.

So I'm aware of all that and try to take it into account... which is, of course, doomed to failure for exactly the same reasons! I do have a dry (very dry) and vaguely sarcastic sense of humour, and as I don't actually like upsetting people, I rein it in.

Further, I don't see the point in deliberately angering someone (trolling or whatever it's called). It's easy to do if you're so inclined and proves nothing of any merit.

 

[RWright]

I cuss more in real life than I do here. I do try to use better English here than I normally would, since y'all are mostly from the UK and England. I know it is still terrible and I wouldn't know a comma if I saw one, but I try.

I like the atmosphere here and I just normally avoid discussing politics and religion in a forum/chat environment anyway. It bores me and I know I am probably not going to change anyone's views and they are probably not going to change mine. I know plenty of places to go for that type stuff if I want to. Other places I sometime chat I can get all the confrontational discussion I care to dish out and take and that is not very often anymore.

I am probably more reserved in real life than on here. In my work and home life I don't talk to a lot of people some days and I may get carried away here....sometimes...well, a lot.

 

[Crackle]

I wasn't surprised by anything when I met you Rich ...

He's never hidden anything has he, sometimes I wish I knew less.

 

[ColinJ]

Apart from that, I've met Rich, 3BM, and MacB, with a side dish of User (yes, he turned up), Bonj and Davywalnuts...and survived.

Bonj was probably the finest example of a CycleChatter with a manufactured online personality!

He was so quiet and shy that he sat on the fringe of our group at the cafe stop and I found it hard to hear what he was saying, when he actually spoke at all, that is.

What he did say made sense, unlike the wild and wonderful stuff he used to post on CycleChat. Things such as "Why don't they use rivers to bring water from the sea to arid regions?"

He was also good looking and a very fit cyclist, the young swine. Not that I was jealous, of course ...

 

[Melonfish]

wysiwyg in effect. i am who i am, why change it for a forum? i'm no lackey or sheeple i'm an individual and post my thoughts, i don't post on forums that i don't like either only ones which i deem the atmos is chilled out or interesting.
its a bit like who you'd drink with in a pub, i mean i'd quite probably happily show up to a pub gathering with people from this forum but others i've frequented in the past i wouldn't dream of it due to the arguing and trolling etc.

 

[Crackle]

I have no idea who I am, even after half a century.

 

[goo_mason]

Bonj was probably the finest example of a CycleChatter with a manufactured online personality!

He was so quiet and shy that he sat on the fringe of our group at the cafe stop and I found it hard to hear what he was saying, when he actually spoke at all, that is.

What he did say made sense, unlike the wild and wonderful stuff he used to post on CycleChat. Things such as "Why don't they use rivers to bring water from the sea to arid regions?"

He was also good looking and a very fit cyclist, the young swine. Not that I was jealous, of course ...

My favourite Bonj 'fact' was that if you cycled fast enough, you didn't need mudguards and you wouldn't get the big black stripe up your back from wet road crud.

I'm much quieter and much more reserved in real life than I am on here. Or so I like to believe.

 

[cd365]

I personally don't think I'm any different, but that is for others to judge.

 

[theclaud]

[QUOTE 2533113, member: 1314"]I’m probably a bit quieter in real life than I am here. Apart from that I’m the same persona, I reckon. I’ve made some good friends in real life from the forum. A couple of people I met and got to know had deliberately manufactured forum personalities which belied their personableness. I’m thinking of Origamist and Claud.
[/quote]

FFS! I've got a reputation to maintain here, you know. My lawyers will be in touch.

 

[Over The Hill]

In real life I don't even have a bike.

 

[Crackle]

FFS! I've got a reputation to maintain here, you know. My lawyers will be in touch.

I haven't told Rich you already did a much more erudite thread on the same subject, with straighter thinking and less fluffy waffle: Best not to let him know though.