Do you "visualize" FOFC?

[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.

[Poli]

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]

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]

I visualize FOFC naked.

[JeeberD]

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]

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]

... 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/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm#_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]

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]

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

[Anthony]

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

LOL, me too.

[Poli]

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

[st.cronin]

Hell Atlantic = Frank Black
JimGa = Tom Waits

[Schmidty]

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

[Poli]

I don't really visualize anything. I just peek through your windows.Never thought about that. You must freeze most of the time.

[FrogMan]

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]

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

Shut up Papa Smurf!!!!

[rkmsuf]

I visualize myself as (manly)hot on FOFC.

[Butter]

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]

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


excellent

also

Bubba Wheels = eminem

[ISiddiqui]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Do you sing like him?

[Franklinnoble]

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/droidguy1119b/review%20threads/40yearoldvirgin9.jpg

[WSUCougar]

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]

Do you sing like him?]

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]

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/droidguy1119b/review%20threads/40yearoldvirgin9.jpg


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

[Raiders Army]

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

[Butter]

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]

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

[Desnudo]

I always pretend Desnudo resembles a member of Menudo.

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.

http://us.tv1.yimg.com/tv.yahoo.com/images/he/photo/tv_pix/mtv/mtv_video_music_awards_2005_arrivals_photos/ricky_martin/vma.jpg

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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... :confused:


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

[tucker342]

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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/droidguy1119b/review%20threads/40yearoldvirgin9.jpg
LOL!!!!:D

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

[ISiddiqui]

You know how I know you're gay?

[Izulde]

This thread amuses me.

[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.

[terpkristin]

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. ;) :D

/tk

[FrogMan]

At least one of those might not be far off. ;) :D

/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 :D

FM

[Desnudo]

I picture Icy as Carlos Mortensen, the poker player.

[SFL Cat]

I got nothin'