| Who Are You |
I thought this song fit in pretty well with what I decided to post about. I always did like the song and most of what The Who did.
Who am I? Who are you? Who is anyone that you meet online? This week we saw a meltdown in blogland as someone accused a fellow blogger of being fake and they fought back. In the end one has to wonder why it was so important to prove they was not who they appeared to be? But to be fair one has to also wonder they did what they did too. I know, way to vague but... Well, maybe it is just because we all do that online.
What is that? Well, you just never know who is on the other end online. I mean take me for example. I am pretty much who I say I am but my name is not BARMAN. Although I do believe I have shared my name in the profile, well at least first name. I also pick and choose what to share. I mean do you really think I would share that I snore when I sleep outdoors and maybe even other times? Oh wait, I think I just did. But my point is there are a few things I have not shared about me. Nothing major like "hey everybody, I am an ax murderer." Just trivial think like I am not the neatest person in the world, stuff like that.
I have also modified a picture I posted of me twice. Once I played with this one feature called thinify. Another time I made some nice little edits to hide some blemishes. But other than that, the pictures I have posted of me are the real me.
But I guess what I am saying even though I have fairly straight forward, I still have not laid it all on the line. Close but not complete. The good news, I have been fortunate enough to meet about 10 bloggers and so far I can say that have been pretty much exactly what they say they are and none have been significantly different. Amazing. But still you need to be careful.
I think people that blog are a lot like people that use these online dating services. Haven't you heard some of the horror stories about people going on a blind date with someone from one of those dating services? Well I also know one person that eventually married and now lives in Germany with her online sweety.
My policy is to always trust someone until they prove to me I should not trust them. I am to trusting but you know what, I would rather go through life that way then the other way around. But still I am always cautious regardless. You just never know. People post pictures of someone else. They pretend they are someone else that they are not. And I am sure it going on even more than I realize.
Now sometimes this can be fun. I have known people to pretend they were someone else just for fun. They are not mean. They are just funny and sometimes even do really nice things for people too. But I have also known other people to that totally fooled everyone, even me. Now I did not see them do mean things but it sometimes just makes you wonder where it could be heading.
I guess where I was heading with this is do yourself a favor. Be careful with your online friends. There are a lot of cool people out there, heck I have a list "this long" *shows fake scroll* of people I would love to meet someday. But there are others that deceive and still others that are just mean. I guess that makes sense because don't you run into that in real life too?
Anyway I am making progress on my game boards. By Friday I should have three of them painted and ready except for the logos. The fourth one, University of Michigan, is giving me some troubles. Darn "Maze" color is just not covering much at all. It is showing my mistakes and we can't have that. I will see if I can not post pictures for Friday or Saturday.
Now everyone get along, remember to include a few bloggers in you thoughts and prayers. Right at the moment GAB is still waiting to have further testing further I believe. Of course we have Jillie and her family and friends and all those in Southern California who have that terrible wildfire constantly threatening. We have Cay, Jillies friend who I believe is battling cancer. Crabby and Manny with medical issues... gee, just everyone send happy thoughts to each other. It would be simpler that way. Happy HUMP day.
Posted by barman at 5:49 PM::
I've met you in person so I know who YOU are.lol
tc
Top Cat, who on earth did you do that? You posted a comment 8 minutes before I posted it. You are amazing.
Yep, you know who I am and you still let me come over. You are so good to me.
By the way, I have that six pack if you only say good things about me, twelve pack of the good stuff if people actually believe you. LOL
OOoo i missed some good blog drama?? Whos the fake? n who called em out eh? name names man! ;) I need the entertainment!
That happens often though *L* Ive been in a lot of chat places and its waaaay common. Usually you can tell fairly easily though... at least I can... my radar is finely tuned!
Miss ya!
I'm with Chrissie. I can usually pretty easily tell. I've been burned in Blogland before, so I guess I'm more cautious.
Sending good thoughts and vibes to all my Blogger buddies in need.
Can't wait to see the progress you've made on the games.
P.S. I think I found a fix to my computer problems. It really sucks that Microsoft knows of these computer alerting errors and yet, they don't fix them. Grrrr...
Oops, I meant "computer ALTERING" errors.
Love it! I going to post knew and maybe someone will tell me who I am. YAY!
new!
I left your blog and had a flash back of the error I'd made.
I learned long ago to take folks at on the internet at face value. Of course, that’s how gullible me generally takes all folks until they prove me wrong. There isn’t much that I won’t tolerate: prejudice, scamming, and attacking others is the primary list. However, I do quickly become annoyed with the high drama of Internet feuding. If folks want to play those games, they need to play them in their own living rooms.
I'm like you, Bryan. Trust--but not blindly--until proven otherwise. I know some bloggers in real life too and they are exactly who I expected them to be. And the fact that so many of my blogger friends know and have met each other--even if I haven't met them--only gives me more trust in our blogger circle. I feel so lucky to have fallen in with such a nice group of bloggers.
take care,
--snow
Chrissie, I can and I can not tell. I learned a little by listening to SignGurl talk about some of what was going on in blogland. I was amazed.
Sign I looked at the games after I got home. Looking good. Friday I should have some pictures for sure. Oh and your computer is OK now. What did you do to fix it? I better check it out with you. I am so curious.
Manny, you are just Manny. Loveable Man Eater Manny.
Nick I am pretty gullible to but that is OK. I am safe on two of the three things you listed. I try not to be prejudice but on occasion I see something surface that I wish was not there. I think I am doing better. I am no one for high drama myself.
Snowelf, the interesting thing is I have never met Jillie not have I met Lime but I know I would love them. First I enjoy seeing their posts and comments but more importantly I know Jillie has met BTExpress and Lime has meet SignGurl and G-Man and they still think they are super. Since I have met Sign, G-Man, and BTExpress I just know the others are AOK too. I love that.
Aww thanks Barman! I feel I know you just a little better than most (although not like g-man and signgurl) Because of our web chats. And I hate when someone calls another fake. I say what difference does it make? After all maybe what they post is what they wish they could be or do in real life but are to shy. Keep your fingers crossed Friday is the day I hope to find out whats what!
Yeah I hear ya man.
Cant we all just get along?
Good luck Gab. I just might have to have a Tim Horton's to celebrate hopefully good results for you. Sorry, something new in the area that opens tomorrow and I had to toss it in. Keeping finger crossed.
Susie, wouldn't that be nice.
Well... I like to think most of us are honest. Internet or in person, integrity should count for something.
I admit I can't generally tell how genuine people are. I did see quite a bit of the turmoil when it "hit the fan" this week. Some people got very upset about nothing that was important.
Truthfully, on the net, I guess nothing should surprise us.
Bryan, of course, is for real. There are a few others I'm sure of as well. That's good enough for me.
Bob, have you recently rejoined blogger? I see your profile has only been accessed 4 times since it was established only 2 months ago as the "stuff" was being readied to toss in the fan. If I were of the suspicious type I would think you were part of the half dozen phony profiles defined in the last two months that I have noticed that make up the "fan".
Bryan is for real, but are you my two month old friend without an email or blogger site? Just how many profiles did you establish for the "fan" two months ago?
JQ, Bob is my husband...and "I" am VERY well known, as you know. He and Barman are friends. And he is much too busy with his work to blog. Sadly, to post to his friend Bryan he had to set up a blogger account.
Answer all your questions? Or maybe you'd like to check out my profile also. Maybe I'm part of, "the fan"? Maybe we have weapons of mass destruction hidden under our beds? oooooooooo.
Mea Culpa... Bryan, Bob, Crabby...
I am not one to jump to conclusions, believe in conspiracy theories or look for WMD. While the person we are talking about reacted emotionally it was based on facts.
Crabby, I posted to your site about a phony comment and you deleted the comment I pointed out. Did you look at it first, the full page it pointed to contained some very raw porn that did not seem to fit in with your Blog.
Considering that two dozen sites were involved in receiving unsolicited content with a half dozen phony Blogger Profiles and another half dozen blogs; this far surpasses a typical disagreement.
I'm glad Bob wasn't part of it. Glad to hear that his profile was a coincidence and not like the others that contain questionable content.
JQ, Ya think maybe you take this blogging crap too seriously? I mean, you just showed up outa nowhere posting off topic comments on our blogs.
How do I know you're legitimate? Maybe you should be proving "yourself" to us? Where did you come from? Who are you? Why are you trolling these blogs all of a sudden?
Frankly, I'm putting extra locks on my door and I do believe I'll start sleeping with a loaded gun under my pillow. Just in case.
PS. If you wanna carry on further...move this topic over to my place. We'll talk there. Far as I'm concerned, you have some explaining to do, mister.
You sleep with guns?
I'm calling Rosie O'Donnell and reporting you. She will decoupage your ass to the sidewalk for this.
Hey Barman...you might wanna delete all this off topic shit down here on this post AHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
*blog police*
I'd delete it for sure. But don't forget to hit "delete forever". Otherwise these ner'do wells can still draw people back to their lair and trap them in their evil doer webs.
blog police deputy Crabby Fife
PS. I'm not scairt of Rosie. I can take her.
Why would I want to delete this blogger police and deputy? I am getting more comments than I have ever had and all in an old posting. Go figure.
Watch out for Rosie, I hear she can be mean....
I'm sorry, I forgot to ask. If Crabby sleeps with a gun does that make her town a sister city to Cut and Shoot?
Hold Up, wait a minute, put a little love in it.
Crab-You might be able to take that ol' Rosie...but why would you want to?
Ahhh ah ah ah
Sincerely,
Deputy Goutfoot
Crabby, et al, I've been in the same place for over a year with four blogs and well over three hundred posts. My profile contains an email address, anyone is welcome to drop me a line.
If I'm taking this too seriously why did you follow my advice and do a permanent delete on the porn site, and by porn site I don't mean someone's blog with censored photos, I mean porn. Of all those who had porn that I warned them about you are the first to complain.
And BTW, this isn't off topic, it is very much on topic.
But some people just need to make a joke of everything... And others have serious crap to deal with and their sense of humor suffers...
BTW if someone else hadn't started this blog police thing with the need to be outing people, we'd have nothing to discuss here.
I said I'm sorry to Bob, don't make a big deal over it Crabby, you are taking it too seriously.
Well. Now I'm putting that porn site right back up.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Dude, you write some loooong comments. Here's a good writing tip for ya...less is more.
You don't have to thank me or anything. It's ok.
BTW...I gotta get me one of them there email addresses.
JQ, what are you gonna be for Halloween, need to borrow Crabby Fife's badge?
BTW,Crabby, how long have we been on the net? I think we should have gold stars, don't you? At LEAST a ten year watch.
BTW, JQ, how much sugar do you put in your Cheerios?
I'm bored. Who has Oreos?
BTW BOB, this is all your damn fault LMAO.
Crabby, you are such a mean bitch.
I'm telling Ethel on you.
Be nice to JQ. He's having a hard day, can't ya tell?
And BTW, I think this is all off topic now.
Oh well....lemme see....
Now....when was the internet invented?
A ten year watch would be really cool. A gold one.
It is Bob's fault. If he hadn't come over here all innocent..we wouldn't have had to bring the law into it.
Not good timing either...Deputy gout foot in a hateful mood what with her foot achin so.
Hang on...my gun just fell into the toilet again. JQ, could you go fetch that outa there for me?
Deputy goutfoot! I am NOT attacted to Rosie O. You take that back!
GASP! anything but Ethel's rosary!
Besides I'm not a bitch, I'm the law. and VERY well known.
PS. Barman is gonna kill us soon. Let's grab a cookie first.
Mits offa my Oreos Sparky.
Selfish bitch.
BRYAN...delete Crabby, she is cursing.
Sheriff Andy MilkMaid
Jesus H. Christ, I thought the dried up bags here at Willowbrooke were uptight and prissy till I stumbled upon this comment nightmare.
What a bunch of old ladies. Pshaw.
Sheriff Andy Milkmaid better get off my butt.
Iris, I KNOW! I myself am aghast...and also...agak.
Iris must be deputized. We're two deputies short of a posse.
Cept...I'm not sure where to pin the badge? Her boobs kinda start at her neck and go clean down to her knees.
No matter...we'll put it under her chin.
I hereby declare and decree, Iris now is Deputy Iris long boobies.
O.M.G...when I read the post on the old flabby cow lady's blog I thought the old people were pretending to be in a western but now I see they're pretending to be in high school.
That's even grosser.
It smells like baby powder and dried apricots over here.
Crabby, pul ease follow your own advice and take this back to your blog.
LW has made a comment and I have posted "just the facts Jack".
If you have more cow piles save them I moved into the city to avoid that crap.
If you to pass out gold stars, my internet experience dates back to DARPANET research projects over 2 decades ago.
And I'm with Iris, what a bunch of gossipy old ladies. And Lauren's comment too.
Hi jq75! ;)
Ewww...Milkmaid is disgusting and that avatar is like uber creepy because I know she's all old and dusty.
Pul ease?
ah, well. No matter.
the dried apricots are me. the baby powder is Iris. We're happy to share if either of you are feeling chaffed or constipated.
Milky, I do believe we're being insulted. Let's arrest them!
Ok...give me the keys to the jail. You do have them, right?
nice comeback...ugh.
don't you have like a bake sale at the church to get ready for?
i don't even know what old people do. have you discovered youtube? you might be able to find some I Love Lucy or something.
Oh well, I'm going to go enjoy being young and beautiful.
TTYL!!
JQ, so you're sort of a computer guru, huh?
Lauren, you might enjoy being young but...I blew up your pic and beautiful....just ain't in the cards, chickie. Not without surgery.
Two decades ago JQ??? Really now. Well that does it, you win. You are an older lady than Crabby.
And that's old.
Lauren, you have something stuck between your teeth. Pom pom strings?
Iris, did you have fish sticks for lunch again?
2 decades ago saggy milkmaid and flabby cow lady were allowed to order off the old people menu.
I bet you did blow up my image. If my hair looked like that I'd be looking for ideas too.
Sheriff Milky, if ya blow that pic of Lauren up you can see those things caught in her teeth are back hairs. Probably from the high school football quarterback. Yep. She's a biter. You can tell from the protruding teeth.
JQ IS older than me! Hell, no sense wasting the jail on him...he's practically got one foot in the grave anyhow if he's that old.
PS. Why does JQ post about LW's comments? ya think he's a stalker? I don't care for stalkers. They wig me out something fierce.
UGGGGH! Lauren...don't attack the hair girlfriend. DO YOU have a mirror? Seriously...what do you do with that stuff...spray it with PAM before ya tie it back? Or have you been outa shampoo for like....five years?
Upt.
BACK HAIRS???
AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I just peed.
OMG.....Lauren is growing a unibrow! check it out!
As a matter of fact, I am younger than Crabby, started my first computer job while in college earning my degree. The university, as many did, participated in government research and had a connection to the network that later became the Internet.
Must say Lauren is bustin me up. Maybe you ladies should call a truce.
Can I borrow your pocket protector?
Hey JQ, I have 4 other blogs. All with seperate profiles. All these profiles having more hits in 8 months than your's has had in over a year.
BTW, I have site meter on all my blog. Guess what? Your IP addy show's up frequently on all of them.
Lauren-WHAT?
No you can't borrow my pocket protector or my slide rulers either.
JQ!!!
I'm so proud!!
You did it, I KNEW you could do it.
See Crabby, I told you he could do more than tell you where to go and what to do. And lookit, he's got a sense of humor. Of course he keeps it buried under that damn pocket protector.
Sorry Manny, you are mistaken. I have never visited your blogs.
I mentioned the number of posts, but not visits, so again you, like your sister are short on facts, long on drama. But some people need to add that to their lives. Because litigation issues are involved on my main blog I have many readers who email rather than comment publicly.
Barman- I love you man, but I just have to.
jq-I am crab's baby sister. Bob married crab over 30 years ago. Since then she has not had to work, she has every new gadget that comes out, she has lived (and still does) in houses like nothing you'll ever have the chance to see the inside of, she has been loved, nutured, provided for, and best be-friended by Bob. Not to mention they still have mad crazy sex.
Bob is the commenter you attacked above. Bob doesn't blog. He doesn't have time for it. He's too busy handling his business, He's real like that. All he want's to do is occasionally hit his real life friends blog and leave a comment evey now and then.
Now let's try this from a different angle. Let's say Bob was simply a brand new blogger. First time online and just trying to get a blog up and running. Here come's jq being nothing more than a bully. I don't think brand new Bob would have deserved it either.
Whatever compelled you to bring this incorrect crap to someone else's blog? Did someone drop you on your head when you were little?
If you are going to come then come correct. And leave it off Barmans blog.
If you are going to come then come correct.
JQ, I haven't given you any drama. I've been humorous throughout. And quiet for the past hour because I had a chicken to deal with. But you have got to be hands down the biggest ass on the net.
Yea, but everyone has site meter.
I wasn't talking about what you said above, I said I see you IP addy on the site meter I keep on my blogs.
Let's try to pay more attention to detail. Wouldn't want there to by any confusion.
JQ, which facts are missing? Fill me in?
I know that I've never seen you before on the net. Yet you showed up out of nowhere telling me who to delete and how to delete them on "my" blog.
I know that you accused my husband of being a fraud and most possibly being involved in some internet drama that we were not even aware of until just days before.
I know that you seem to follow very closely whatever Little Wing is doing.
And by your actions I know that you know very little about most of us.
So why are you here? What am I missing? Do tell. Because you're starting to really piss me off.
Read your own damn blog Crabby...
And don't worry you all piss me off too, such drama queens every last one. Too bad none of you have a real life, get back to that crazy sex your sister brags about.
Jeez, one wrong comment and you want to crucify someone but you are happy to have oral sex being displayed on your site. A bunch of hypocrites every last one.
methinks manny is a man.
disgusting.
Barman, Bro...I apologize. I didn't know this was going to go from funny to what it's become. You need to delete anything at all you find offensive.
You're my adopted brother and you know I won't be upset by anything you do with this stuff.
This is not a person who is likely to joke around and laugh at much. This has gotten ugly and I am so very sorry for my part in it.
PS. Is there oral sex on my blog now?
No. The oral sex is on my blog
If you spent more time listening and less time dramatizing you'd have heard me say that over a third of that blogroll, including your site Crabby and I know nothing of Manny's had hard core sex photos available at a single click. But this is only the 4th time I've tried to tell you this.
How ironic, Lauren is trying to leave high school while the rest of you are trying to get in with this drama that would be booed off a high school stage. Well if that's what floats your boat.
Lauren has an excuse for acting a fool over something she know's absolutely nothing about. Her daddy is having sex with her.
As for you. You attacked the innocent. The innocent was my family. I don't play that.
jq, please man. Just lighten up and have some fun. We don't care about the links. We don't go there anyway. As for blogroll, I have to get help with mine. It's not to late for you to enjoy life and blogger. You're giving yourself wrinkles in your forehead.
You don't know what you are talking about, you don't even know what's on your own site. Oh and is it there now, for me it takes a minute to find out, you go look for yourselves and see if you can find it...
Someone will eventually and then won't they be surprised.
But then you've made it clear you'd rather have that than my suggestion (not telling you, just a suggestion), that you may not want hard core porn on your site.
By implication you've just invited half dozen bloggers who are watching these sites to take a whack at you now that they are done with LW.
ENJOY!!!
Do you think its funny to make sick jokes about serious subjects? Do you have some proof about the incest you alleged for Lauren, sounds like actionable liable to me.
You know the ignorance plea (or I was only joking) was gone when you reached the age of majority in your state. Physical age, not mental.
I made an allegation, based on fact, and was corrected, and apologized several times. WTF do you want! Huh! Blood!!
Now what basis was Lauren's incest accusation made from. Junior high school joke? Not very effin funny. I've seen some ugly shit, and it dulls your sense of humor, especially for the nonsensical moronic kind.
How about we all raise the bar a bit. And none of you (except Bryan) got the hint, even with the embedded link that I moved this crap to Crabby's Blog as she asked.
You my friend are paranoid. You shouldn't skip your meds like that. It's not good for you.
I don't have any porn links on my site. I prefer the real thing thank you.
Damn! This guy's a loon, Manny!
embedded links, oral sex, what's next, humpin monkeys hidden in the blog headers.
WE DON'T CARE! It's the internet. There's all manner of stuff out there. You look at it or you don't. just like switching the channels on the television.
Now run along ya little toad! And watch how you talk to my sister!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Last week it was me having the crazy comment blog war in my box (which is up to 112 comments now, so barman, you've still got a bit of catching up to do, lol) Crabby you told me to put my toys back in my pram, which I did and now it's you causing the ruckus! LOVE IT!!!
Just shows us the weirdos out there (not meaning you crabby!)
Meaning me?
Manny, for the fifth time Crabby had it, I don't know if you do.
Crabby if you accept hard core on your own site, why the third degree when I tell you about it. Just ignore me like you do the porn.
Vi, you and your new old lady friends here can have a ball slinging crap or bingo or what ever old busy bodies do to pass the time away.
I'm not a parnoid or a loon, its just I've been out of high school and away from my grandparents for so long I can't handle this much idiotic drivel.
You started it you wacked out freak!
We simply let you know we had a real life person who decided to comment today.
You're the one who just CAN NOT let go.
You should tr being cool. We are not perverts or porn freaks. We are just not going to waste time busting everyone.
All we want to do is have fun and play.
It would be advantagious for you to play nice because we are really cool people!
For all that is good in this world! Please just exhale!
Barman- I love you man.
I am so very sorry for this.
xoxox
You are the ones with your panties in a bunch. You don't bust porn but you bust me for telling you about ir and I'm the loon.
Look in the mirror ladies, knock on those glass walls, and look at the color of your kettle and relax.
This is so circular. I've repeated myself 5 times, re-read it, with a dictionary close by and figure it out.
If my panties are bunched, it's because you attacked my family. I have high family values. I have a high level of integrity. All I did was protect my family.
All I wanted from you was an apology without all the background noise about porn. Save that for a seperate comment.
He deserves his own apology.
Manny, that was nice. You're a good person and I'm proud of you.
I sure hope he stops repeating himself soon.
We need to move on to other stuff now. something fun!
But sadly, I have dishes to wash. The maid didn't show again. I've been waiting for that woman for over 30 years and she still isn't here.
Silly Crabby... Lucy will do the dishes for you.
I'm not doing them that's for sure. And I don't have any of my own because pizza comes in a box. LOL
desert comes in a box too. Frosted Flakes.
You had about three apologies between two blogs, that's more than enough. And when do I get the first apology for the personal attack on me? How about one for Lauren and that incest remark?
Wow high family values and you are cool too. Funny me too.
Not once have you apologized for attacking my BIL without adding a bunch of porn talk in the same comment.
Why don't you go to Crab's and apologize and leave the porn out of the comment?
If it was a real apology, you would have kept it humble. You didn't. You apologized and then starting right back in on the porn.
Let me try to break it down like this.
Type your apology in a comment box all by itself.
You got what you're getting period. I don't need to bow down and kiss your ring after all the disrespectful shit you said to me. Who the F--K do you think you are?
Respect is something earned. You haven't earned mine. You're just a simple zero.
Now we can agree on that, you haven't earned my respect either, and I am no less a human than you.
Anybody have Cheerios?
ACK! Damn it, Manny! Don't send him over to MY place. Barman can keep him. AHHHHHHHHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Milky, I have cheerios. Two kinds. With berries and, K, I can't remember the other one...but I have it.
But....you know if you feed them they start following you around. I'm just sayin'...I wouldn't.
I think he should change his name to "Stuck on stupid"
I have honey bunches of oat with peaches. Mmm
DILLIGAF ;-) :-P :-)
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