Do you "visualize" FOFC?

WSUCougar · 03-03-2006, 11:32 AM

When you read a post or thread, do you visualize the people that are posting? I don't necessarily mean matching up "What the hell do you look like" photos, but rather a persona that you associate with that poster. I do, and sometimes a comment or thread will dramatically change that visualization. Others are deeply ingrained.

As an example, I tend to picture Ardent in a naval uniform for obvious reasons. Ksyrup is the lawyer-baseball-FSU guy, but it's harder to pinpoint a specific mental image. Quik is a cross between Deep Blue and a guy buried under vast piles of spreadsheets, computations, and a blackboard with "2/3" boldy circled on it. Jeebs has an Astros jersey on, with a bottle of Shiner Bock on the desk and a UTEP pennant on the wall.

That kind of thing.

Poli · 03-03-2006, 11:34 AM

Not really, although I'd say more than half my posts have come while being in my uniform. Not the white uniform most have seen, but the utility uniform.

Bonegavel · 03-03-2006, 11:38 AM

I have different "voices" that I hear when I read most posts and that is mostly just cadence and possibly accent or the way they might emphasize a certain word the sentence.

Quik, for example is always a deliberate monotone-type voice where he enunciates all his end consontants and is never in a hurry.

Joe · 03-03-2006, 11:40 AM

I visualize FOFC naked.

JeeberD · 03-03-2006, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by WSUCougar

Jeebs has an Astros jersey on, with a bottle of Shiner Bock on the desk and a UTEP pennant on the wall.

I don't own an Astros jersey. Or a UTEP pennant.

I am usually wearing my UTEP hat or a UTEP shirt (or both), and you aren't too far off on the Shiner.

I really don't do the visualization thing, myself.

FrogMan · 03-03-2006, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WSUCougar

When you read a post or thread, do you visualize the people that are posting? I don't necessarily mean matching up "What the hell do you look like" photos, but rather a persona that you associate with that poster. I do, and sometimes a comment or thread will dramatically change that visualization. Others are deeply ingrained.

As an example, I tend to picture Ardent in a naval uniform for obvious reasons. Ksyrup is the lawyer-baseball-FSU guy, but it's harder to pinpoint a specific mental image. Quik is a cross between Deep Blue and a guy buried under vast piles of spreadsheets, computations, and a blackboard with "2/3" boldy circled on it. Jeebs has an Astros jersey on, with a bottle of Shiner Bock on the desk and a UTEP pennant on the wall.

That kind of thing.

absolutely, and it's funny you bring this up because I was thinking about the same thing last night, especially about the race/color of skin. I'm white and live in a very white community, it's just how it is. When reading here, I kind of assume most posters are white unless I read something that makes me think differently. Nothing against a race or another, please nobody go think I'm racist or anything, it's just like that. Sometimes it makes for some funny/weird realization when I either see a pic of somebody or understand that he/she is who he/she is. Hope this is not too confusing...

FM

JonInMiddleGA · 03-03-2006, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by FrogMan

... I kind of assume most posters are white unless I read something that makes me think differently.

Given that a pretty large majority of the users here are in the U.S. I'd say that's not an unreasonable first guess at to ethnicity.

Consider:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol...m#_Toc78020933

As of October 2003,
65.7% of the White population used the internet
45.2% of the Black population used the internet
63.0% of the Asian/Pac.Isl. population used the internet
37.2% of the Hispanic population used the internet

Now, take the ethnic breakout of the U.S. (circa Sep. 2004)
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762156.html

236m white X 65.7% internet use = 155,052,000
38m black X 45.2% internet use = 17,176,000
13m Asian/Pac.Isl X 63.0% internet use = 8,190,000
41m Hispanic X 37.2% internet use = 15,252,000
Total internet universe (U.S.) = 195,670,000
Percentage of (U.S.) internet users that are white = 79.2%

So, if you presume white, you got a roughly 80% chance of being right
(minus adjustment for "geekdom" factor or whatever else draws people to a football text sim forum)

Desnudo · 03-03-2006, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by WSUCougar

When you read a post or thread, do you visualize the people that are posting? I don't necessarily mean matching up "What the hell do you look like" photos, but rather a persona that you associate with that poster. I do, and sometimes a comment or thread will dramatically change that visualization. Others are deeply ingrained.

As an example, I tend to picture Ardent in a naval uniform for obvious reasons. Ksyrup is the lawyer-baseball-FSU guy, but it's harder to pinpoint a specific mental image. Quik is a cross between Deep Blue and a guy buried under vast piles of spreadsheets, computations, and a blackboard with "2/3" boldy circled on it. Jeebs has an Astros jersey on, with a bottle of Shiner Bock on the desk and a UTEP pennant on the wall.

That kind of thing.

I always picture Ksyrup posting from a laptop on a porch in a rumpled seersucker suit.

I sort of regionalize people when I imagine them unless I've seen pictures.

rkmsuf · 03-03-2006, 12:27 PM

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

Anthony · 03-03-2006, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

LOL, me too.

Poli · 03-03-2006, 12:38 PM

I take it back. I visualize duct tape over certain posters' mouths.

st.cronin · 03-03-2006, 12:42 PM

Hell Atlantic = Frank Black
JimGa = Tom Waits

Schmidty · 03-03-2006, 12:49 PM

I don't really visualize anything. I just peek through your windows.

Poli · 03-03-2006, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Schmidty

I don't really visualize anything. I just peek through your windows.

Never thought about that. You must freeze most of the time.

FrogMan · 03-03-2006, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ardent enthusiast

Never thought about that. You must freeze most of the time.

agreed. I think I'd actually pay to have him try to peek through my windows today with the wind and snow and all that...

FM

TroyF · 03-03-2006, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

Shut up Papa Smurf!!!!

rkmsuf · 03-03-2006, 12:57 PM

I visualize myself as (manly)hot on FOFC.

Butter · 03-03-2006, 12:59 PM

Sorry, Coug, but I do picture you as the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.

JiMGa = Rush Limbaugh
SkyDog = Hootie
QuikSand = The main English guy from The Avengers
KSyrup = Posts under a lawyer shingle hung outside his house while sitting on the porch sipping lemonade
EaglesFan27 = Posts from a busy ER while gunshot victims are wheeled around him

That's all I've got for now.

st.cronin · 03-03-2006, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

EaglesFan27 = Posts from a busy ER while gunshot victims are wheeled around him

excellent

also

Bubba Wheels = eminem

ISiddiqui · 03-03-2006, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Bonegavel

I have different "voices" that I hear when I read most posts and that is mostly just cadence and possibly accent or the way they might emphasize a certain word the sentence.

Same here sometimes... like I said in my parody thread, JIMG sounds like Foghorn Leghorn to me.

Antmeister · 03-03-2006, 01:15 PM

rkmsuf: I always imagined him as an outcast smurf who was banished from the smurf community because of what he did to Smurfette.

SkyDog: Unfortunately, I still think about the patriotic undies picture while he is typing on a computer on the front porch.

Quiksand: I imagine that he has an egg for a head (but with no mouth or eyes).

JoninMiddleGA: I imagine he is sitting at a computer with a shotgun laying on his lap, patchwork clothing and a container of uncooked grits in his trash can.

Senator: For whatever reason, I think Howie Long, but I have no good reason why I do.

Noop: Pants dropping below and bandana tied around his head with a picture of his possible girlfriend dangling from a chain on his neck.

AnalBumCover: I hate this image, but it is some guy who wears this stainless underwear with a padlock underneath his pants. Even though I know what the guy looks like, I keep thinking there is a thud whenever he sits down.

RaidersArmy: I have always thought of him as a drill sargeant barking out what he is about to type.

Bad-Example: I imagine him in a long trench coat and he wears his sunglasses at night with 80's hair.

rkmsuf · 03-03-2006, 01:17 PM

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rkmsuf: I always imagined him as an outcast smurf who was banished from the smurf community because of what he did to Smurfette.

I guess that's kind of cool?!?!?!?!?

JonInMiddleGA · 03-03-2006, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

JimGa = Tom Waits

Y'know, it kinda disturbs me that of all the visualizations mentioned for me to this point, yours is actually the closest to what I actually look like. It's waaaay far off reality, but it's still the closest ... and that's a bit unsettling.

Butter · 03-03-2006, 01:45 PM

Do you sing like him?

Franklinnoble · 03-03-2006, 01:48 PM

I visualize most of you guys as one of these two:

WSUCougar · 03-03-2006, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

Sorry, Coug, but I do picture you as the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.

That's okay. For you I always envision Orville Redenbacher (butter flavored) with Bryan Adams "Summer of '69" playing the background.

JonInMiddleGA · 03-03-2006, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

Do you sing like him?

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For the life of me, I don't recall hearing the guy sing, but based on this description of his voice, I'd have to say no.
a raspy, gravelly singing voice, described by one fan as ‘like how you'd sound if you drank a quart of bourbon, smoked a pack of cigarettes and swallowed a pack of razor blades. . . . Late at night. After not sleeping for three days.’"

Antmeister · 03-03-2006, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

I visualize most of you guys as one of these two:

That's because that is Cringer on the left and FrogMan on the right.

Raiders Army · 03-03-2006, 01:50 PM

I visualize all of you as superhot supermodels pretending to be nerds.

Butter · 03-03-2006, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

For the life of me, I don't recall hearing the guy sing, but based on this description of his voice, I'd have to say no.
a raspy, gravelly singing voice, described by one fan as ‘like how you'd sound if you drank a quart of bourbon, smoked a pack of cigarettes and swallowed a pack of razor blades. . . . Late at night. After not sleeping for three days.’"

I would add "while being tortured" to that description. He has his fans... but damn, his voice sounds like his larynx was removed, crushed, then reinstalled.

WSUCougar · 03-03-2006, 01:55 PM

...and he still sings better than Bob Dylan.

Desnudo · 03-03-2006, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hell Atlantic

LOL, me too.

A little tease for you. And my lawyer says that starting on Monday, you have to stay 500 feet away from me.

I always picture rkmsuf in a flannel shirt telling tourists that they "can't get thea from hea" and then giggling insanely.

HA I see as a conglomoration of New Yorkers I've met. Although he has a lot of back hair.

rkmsuf · 03-03-2006, 03:05 PM

I saw Adam Sandler's dad golfing in Manchester, NH. I didn't even hit into his group. That should improve the visuals.

Raiders Army · 03-03-2006, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by WSUCougar

When you read a post or thread, do you visualize the people that are posting?

How ironic is this that this question is on a text-sim message board with no avatars?

Antmeister · 03-03-2006, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

Doesn't Desnudo mean "naked" is Spanish? I think that is what my wife told me.

Desnudo · 03-03-2006, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rkmsuf

I saw Adam Sandler's dad golfing in Manchester, NH. I didn't even hit into his group. That should improve the visuals.

You in a flannel shirt on a golf course with the White Mountains in the background telling golfers that they "can't get thea from hea?" And giggling insanely.

Eaglesfan27 · 03-03-2006, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

EaglesFan27 = Posts from a busy ER while gunshot victims are wheeled around him

That's all I've got for now.

Hehe. You do know what type of doctor I am, right?

Then again, some of my patients have had a bulge in the back of their jackets...

Edited: Also, back when I was in medical school in Camden, NJ, that might not have been too far from the truth

tucker342 · 03-04-2006, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

I visualize most of you guys as one of these two:

LOL!!!!

That's probably about right, except most FOFCers don't get even close to as much ass

ISiddiqui · 03-04-2006, 04:02 PM

You know how I know you're gay?

Izulde · 03-04-2006, 04:12 PM

This thread amuses me.

Izulde · 03-04-2006, 04:14 PM

dola,

I always picture Frogman wearing a frog suit sitting on a boat off the coast of Quebec.

Eaglesfan27 I always see in a white coat, sitting at his desk and thinking about his FM teams.

Cringer I picture as a bear in Favre jersey sitting in a deer stand and chugging a beer.

terpkristin · 03-04-2006, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Izulde

dola,

I always picture Frogman wearing a frog suit sitting on a boat off the coast of Quebec.

Eaglesfan27 I always see in a white coat, sitting at his desk and thinking about his FM teams.

Cringer I picture as a bear in Favre jersey sitting in a deer stand and chugging a beer.

At least one of those might not be far off.

/tk

FrogMan · 03-04-2006, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by terpkristin

At least one of those might not be far off.

/tk

hoping it's not mine you are thinking of, wouldn't want to jump off a boat these days, would have to break off the ice first

FM

Desnudo · 03-04-2006, 04:29 PM

I picture Icy as Carlos Mortensen, the poker player.

SFL Cat · 03-05-2006, 10:56 AM

I got nothin'

03-03-2006, 11:34 AM	#2
Poli FOFC Survivor Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Wentzville, MO	Not really, although I'd say more than half my posts have come while being in my uniform. Not the white uniform most have seen, but the utility uniform. __________________ Cheer for a walk on quarterback! Ardent leads the Vols in the dynasty forum.

03-03-2006, 12:27 PM	#9
rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo. __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

03-03-2006, 12:38 PM	#11
Poli FOFC Survivor Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Wentzville, MO	I take it back. I visualize duct tape over certain posters' mouths. __________________ Cheer for a walk on quarterback! Ardent leads the Vols in the dynasty forum.

03-03-2006, 12:42 PM	#12
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	Hell Atlantic = Frank Black JimGa = Tom Waits __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

03-03-2006, 12:49 PM	#13
Schmidty Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Early, TX	I don't really visualize anything. I just peek through your windows. __________________ Just beat the devil out of it!!! - Bob Ross

03-03-2006, 11:38 AM	#3
Bonegavel Awaiting Further Instructions... Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Macungie, PA	I have different "voices" that I hear when I read most posts and that is mostly just cadence and possibly accent or the way they might emphasize a certain word the sentence. Quik, for example is always a deliberate monotone-type voice where he enunciates all his end consontants and is never in a hurry.

03-03-2006, 11:40 AM	#4
Joe Pro Starter Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Minneapolis	I visualize FOFC naked.

03-03-2006, 12:57 PM	#17
rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	I visualize myself as (manly)hot on FOFC. __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

03-03-2006, 12:59 PM	#18
Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	Sorry, Coug, but I do picture you as the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. JiMGa = Rush Limbaugh SkyDog = Hootie QuikSand = The main English guy from The Avengers KSyrup = Posts under a lawyer shingle hung outside his house while sitting on the porch sipping lemonade EaglesFan27 = Posts from a busy ER while gunshot victims are wheeled around him That's all I've got for now. __________________ My listening habits

03-03-2006, 01:15 PM	#21
Antmeister Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: At the corner of Beat Street and Electric Avenue	rkmsuf: I always imagined him as an outcast smurf who was banished from the smurf community because of what he did to Smurfette. SkyDog: Unfortunately, I still think about the patriotic undies picture while he is typing on a computer on the front porch. Quiksand: I imagine that he has an egg for a head (but with no mouth or eyes). JoninMiddleGA: I imagine he is sitting at a computer with a shotgun laying on his lap, patchwork clothing and a container of uncooked grits in his trash can. Senator: For whatever reason, I think Howie Long, but I have no good reason why I do. Noop: Pants dropping below and bandana tied around his head with a picture of his possible girlfriend dangling from a chain on his neck. AnalBumCover: I hate this image, but it is some guy who wears this stainless underwear with a padlock underneath his pants. Even though I know what the guy looks like, I keep thinking there is a thud whenever he sits down. RaidersArmy: I have always thought of him as a drill sargeant barking out what he is about to type. Bad-Example: I imagine him in a long trench coat and he wears his sunglasses at night with 80's hair. __________________ "I'm ready to bury the hatchet, but don't fuck with me" - Schmidty "Box me once, shame on Skydog. Box me twice. Shame on me. Box me 3 times, just fucking ban my ass...." - stevew

03-03-2006, 01:45 PM	#24
Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	Do you sing like him? __________________ My listening habits

03-03-2006, 01:48 PM	#25
Franklinnoble Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Placerville, CA	I visualize most of you guys as one of these two:

03-03-2006, 01:50 PM	#29
Raiders Army Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Black Hole	I visualize all of you as superhot supermodels pretending to be nerds.

03-03-2006, 01:55 PM	#31
WSUCougar Rider Of Rohan Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Port Angeles, WA or Helm's Deep	...and he still sings better than Bob Dylan. __________________ It's not the years...it's the mileage.

03-03-2006, 03:05 PM	#33
rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	I saw Adam Sandler's dad golfing in Manchester, NH. I didn't even hit into his group. That should improve the visuals. __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

03-04-2006, 04:02 PM	#39
ISiddiqui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Decatur, GA	You know how I know you're gay? __________________ "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" -Tennessee Williams

03-04-2006, 04:12 PM	#40
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	This thread amuses me. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

03-04-2006, 04:14 PM	#41
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	dola, I always picture Frogman wearing a frog suit sitting on a boat off the coast of Quebec. Eaglesfan27 I always see in a white coat, sitting at his desk and thinking about his FM teams. Cringer I picture as a bear in Favre jersey sitting in a deer stand and chugging a beer. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

03-04-2006, 04:29 PM	#44
Desnudo Coordinator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Here and There	I picture Icy as Carlos Mortensen, the poker player.

03-05-2006, 10:56 AM	#45
SFL Cat College Starter Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: South Florida	I got nothin'

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