Well, I put in 50/50, which isn't really accurate, since I'm pretty much me on these forums, but I do tend to shave off the more extreme aspects of my personality. Hmmmm.... That didn't sound quite right. Sounds like I have an Xtreme!(TM) personality. Not quite what I meant. But I am a bit rough round the edges in real life and for people who don't know me too well I can come off as well... an angry, hate-filled, racist, sexist, chauvenistic, arrogant, self-centred, cocky son-of-a-b***.
Which I'm not.
I'm a really friendly, easy-going, empathetic sorta guy, I just have an screwed up way of expressing my empathetic, easy-going friendliness. And it's not one of those "don't know how to express myself" thing, I just don't express myself in a typical sort of way.
Like if one of my female flatmates is crying over one thing or another, I'd say something like, "Ah, would ya shut the f*** up, ya big eejit", or "Jasus, f*** off would ya? I'm not in the humour." OK, so not exactly the nicest thing to say, but since they know me & know I care, it makes them laugh, and then they can talk about it properly.
Oh, and I curse a
LOT. But every profanity is carefully considered to have the proper effect, and is used for colour, rather to offend, or to use them simply to use them. When I left my last job, there were a load of people who said they were really going to miss calling me for the way I used to curse over the phone.
And when I get riled in real life I tend to shoot first and shoot more later, while the medium of the forum allows me to cool off and consider my response. Otherwise I'd probably have been banned from the forum for language alone by now.
So yeah. Who I am on the forum is more or less me but with the rough (read: offensive) edges filled off for public consumption.
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