Anyone else seen this?

Headhuunter

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18282277

SimonAH

It really is pretty sad. The problem is the anonymity that the web offers makes it so easy to indulge in fantasy - from the most common basement dwelling middle aged man posting as a young troubled lesbian to things that are ultimately far more evil and damaging.

I mean, for all you know, I might be a forty one year old family man with a beard like a gorse bush as opposed to the reality of my avatar....

mudcow007

SimonAH wrote:

It really is pretty sad. The problem is the anonymity that the web offers makes it so easy to indulge in fantasy - from the most common basement dwelling middle aged man posting as a young troubled lesbian to things that are ultimately far more evil and damaging.

I mean, for all you know, I might be a forty one year old family man with a beard like a gorse bush as opposed to the reality of my avatar....

u mean your not a fag smoking hag?

well i'm disappointed

pretty shocking behaviour on the part fo the Anna chick - could the Police prosecute her for accepting gifts an donations off well wishes?

bompington

While we're here, I'd like to confess that I am not actually a Border Collie.

notsoblue

bompington wrote:

While we're here, I'd like to confess that I am not actually a Border Collie.

I don't even have a bike...

Wow, that was cathartic. Couldn't live the lie any more.

Twostage

Meeooww. Honest.

Headhuunter

Wouldn't like to cast aspersions etc but there've been a couple of threads like this on BR recently with people pledging money etc...

SimonAH

Headhuunter wrote:

Wouldn't like to cast aspersions etc but there've been a couple of threads like this on BR recently with people pledging money etc...

Therein lies the rub of course. Still, one cannot allow the minority to taint the majority - that would be the death of kindness and compassion.

notsoblue

Extralight

I'm Brian, and so's my wife.

spasypaddy

i'm going to admit it, im neither spasy or irish

UndercoverElephant

I'm also neither a pachyderm, nor a secret agent. Phew. What a relief.

Used to frequent a football-related website, and there was one member on there who feigned her own death.

jonny_trousers

The examples in that article are pretty extreme, but I discovered first hand a few years ago how web forums are absolutely littered with compulsive fibbers. Sadly, I've now come to the conclusion it's best to be a little sceptical.

msmancunia

Ok, I'll come clean. I'm actually a middle aged man from Grimsby. Well, someone has to.

jonny_trousers

msmancunia wrote:

Ok, I'll come clean. I'm actually a middle aged man from Grimsby. Well, someone has to.

That won't stop DDD from wanting to hump your leg.

dhope

msmancunia wrote:

Ok, I'll come clean. I'm actually a middle aged man from Grimsby. Well, someone has to.

We guessed, there are no girls on the internet.
TOGTFO :roll:

msmancunia

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Ok, I'll come clean. I'm actually a middle aged man from Grimsby. Well, someone has to.

That won't stop DDD from wanting to hump your leg.

Well, it'd be something to do over the Bank Holiday weekend I suppose. I'll crack open the Veet for Men....

mudcow007

msmancunia wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Ok, I'll come clean. I'm actually a middle aged man from Grimsby. Well, someone has to.

That won't stop DDD from wanting to hump your leg.

Well, it'd be something to do over the Bank Holiday weekend I suppose. I'll crack open the Veet for Men....

i thought it was common knowledge that DDD gets his "awesomeness" from au natural women...rumour has it the hairier the better-er

CiB

I saw it and thought nothing much more than 'so?'. People get swept up; they want something to hold onto maybe; not for me guess why or how really. But finding out that someone on the internet hasn't been entirely upfront about something is hardly earth shattering news. I mean - I have my doubts that our Kieran always wears a cape, or that DDD really is a white middle aged middle class stockbroker in Surrey , but it wouldn't be much of a surprise to discover that people I've never met or am unlikely to be troubled by aren't exactly how we know them here.

I'd like to state unequivocally that I did beat my hour record today though. Still chuffed to f about that.

msmancunia

mudcow007 wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

msmancunia wrote:

Ok, I'll come clean. I'm actually a middle aged man from Grimsby. Well, someone has to.

That won't stop DDD from wanting to hump your leg.

Well, it'd be something to do over the Bank Holiday weekend I suppose. I'll crack open the Veet for Men....

i thought it was common knowledge that DDD gets his "awesomeness" from au natural women...rumour has it the hairier the better-er

Not for me. I'm sure I read somewhere that he prefers the "plucked chicken" look.

veronese68

msmancuniao wrote:

Not for me. I'm sure I read somewhere that he prefers the "plucked chicken" look.

Yikes! Don't start that again!!!

Twostage

Headhuunter wrote:

Wouldn't like to cast aspersions etc but there've been a couple of threads like this on BR recently with people pledging money etc...

Yes that crossed my mind also. I was wondering if we are going to get a "my story is true" post on the relevant threads.