Um-
Honestly- I don’t think it’s a true story. I think a lot of people feel the same way, but don’t want to say anything because of the small chance that it may be true-don’t want to hurt the guy’s feelings.
I don’t buy it-but it’s entertaining, and I’ll give him a little benefit or the doubt because I am not afraid of being “duped” by a romantic little story…
Nicely done. Cogent, well supported, good analysis. Definitely a “gold star” post.
-me
Well, it’s nice to see that I’m not the only one whose BS meter started to register. Being a newbie, I didn’t feel like I should say anything, especially since everyone else was buying it. As to whether it’s real or not, we may never know, but as others have said it’s not important. It reads well, but teenage romance stories don’t appear on my “must read” list. This girl is obviously ready for more than he wants to perform. Why does he not mention this? I can’t believe he’s that obtuse. What is interesting to me, [and slightly scary] is the number of major posters who seem to be caught up in it. Shouldn’t y’all be in GD or GQ?
I’ve read the whole thread and the one before it. I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit, and I hope he continues to post to it.
However, I don’t think it’s true. I think it is a very well crafted bit of fiction, for the reasons mentioned above by others and other reasons. One of my reasons is that someone in the original thread mentioned something, and it was incorporated into the story a few posts later. It could have been a coincidence, but it goes with all the other circumstantial evidence.
I have a feeling someone is going to find the book he stole it all from. His most recent installment is starting to sound forced, like he’s trying to be more expressive, so it sounds even more fake than the rest (which I at first tended to believe).
But like some, I’m not convinced it’s true at all.
What’s so unbelievable about an 18-year-old woman who is regularly allowed to attend school wearing see-through pajamas . . . in Northern Europe . . . in winter?
Heartless cynics!
A. I find it completely believable that his native language isn’t English. My best friend was born in China and didn’t speak a word of English 'til she was nine, and her English is absolutely, completely perfect (or at least as perfect as any native speakers). Upon meeting her, no one would ever suspect that English isn’t her first language, unless she told you.
B. I still don’t believe the story.
Well, in his defence, when I went to school in Canada I was in residence so for some bits of winter I never went outside. I looked a bit strange walking around in shorts when everyone else was bundled up against the (-20) weather.
My BS meter started to go off a little about mid-way down page two. I posted:
Granted I didn’t want to hurt some kid’s feelings by being outright accusatory because, well…I was hooked on the shit. 
Anyway, the more he wrote, it seemed just too polished.
Case in point, middle of page 4:
Are there any Harlequin junkies out there? Does this sound familiar? Just curious.
Anyway, Skewbald’s story is harmless enough, and it was fun for a while, but-- eh, I’m over it.
If it’s all true: Way to go, Skewbald!
If it was all a hoax: Way to go, Skewbald!
stv
What? Who? Where?
SHARON!!!
So you’re claiming things like that can’t happen in real life? Besides, I’m sure that someone going through the whole “young love” thing would wax very poetic when writing about his new joy. Remember, you’re hearing this all through a guy who’s very much caught up in the moment… if it seems too good to be true to you, then that probably means it feels too good to be true for him, too.
In the interests of academic research I read the linked thread.
Regarding the true/false debate, I couldn’t get past the horse, I’m afraid.
You see, there aren’t that many wild pony herds in northern europe. There’s the semi-wild ponies of Connemara (in Ireland). There are some wild ponies on Dartmoor in England.
In Scandinavia there is the Gotland pony which lives on a small island off Sweden but they are quite rare (only 9000) and they all live on this island so it can’t be them.
Wild ponies in northern europe don’t tend to run down the beaches crashing romantically through the waves. They don’t much like the beach. There’s no grass and they can’t drink the water.
Also wild ponies stick together in a herd, you don’t get odd ones running down the beach.
And, speaking as a northern european, if you did see a horse come running down the beach while you were making it with some girl you wouldn’t just vaguely register it in a kind of lovers dream.
Both you and the girl would sit up bolt upright saying “fuck me, there’s a horse running down the beach”.
So I’m wondering, what kind of wild pony was this? Coz they’re pretty rare things, north european wild ponies. And none of them tend to hang out round the beaches.
Thanks for the link to the previous thread, Futile Gesture. I didn’t feel like finding it but it’s definitely worth pointing out that we have been through this before.
I, too, have been reading it since the thread started and have had my doubts, increasing as he posted each installment.
Basically, I’m in total agreement with stv on all counts. His post in Skewbald’s thread about his doubts coincided pretty well with the first thought in the back of my mind that it might not have all been on the up-and-up, and I am equally ‘over it’ now. Haven’t checked in in the last couple pages IIRC.
I agree with Futile Gesture as to why the story is questionable: “It’s just that they’re too good, too perfect, too detailed, too unlikely, too well written, too stylised, too clichéd, too American,” except for the last one.
But I’m shocked at the suggestion that a moderator should look up Skewbald’s IP to make sure he’s from Northern Europe. Tomcat, that is totally unnecessary.
I don’t see why you all think it’s fake. Maybe just because you have never met a girl like that. My first girlfriend (2 years ago, when I was 18) acted a lot like PJ girl. The thing you don’t seem to realize is that if people are acting romantically, it may not mean they are fake, but rather that they are intentionally acting that way. My gf was taller than me, she gave me letters written in cursive which I thought was beautiful (and it was in different colored pencils too!), she would always steal my math book in class and we get into a wrestling match. She didn’t wear PJ’s to class, but she did try to wear clothes to make her stand apart from everyone else. I could probably write a story like Skew’s, using poetic license of course, but clearly based on actual events. My only doubt is that Skew may be writing about something that happened to him when he was younger, but this may only because I am looking at it as it would be if I was writing it. I think you are all looking at it as if you were writing it too, and of course if you were writing it it would be fake.
I must have missed the part where he was talking about wild ponies or horses. It could very well have been someone out for a ride on the beach. And, while, a horse galloping through sand does not make as much noise as, say, a horse galloping down an asphalt road, it still makes some noise. If it passed close enough, and Pyjama Pants Girl wasn’t in a deep sleep, but dozing, then I don’t see why a horse galloping by could not have woken her up.
As for the “I don’t believe he’s Northern European because his English is too good”… Well, I’m a native Finn, but my English is also at a native speaker level. I learned to speak it when I was four, and I’m sure I’m not the only person in Northern Europe in that situation.
And someone said that they couldn’t believe that his English was good, yet he didn’t know how to type? Oh, come on. I know plenty of native English speakers who would type more accurately than they do now only if they poked randomly at the keyboard with a broom handle…
I’m not making any claims about whether Skewbald’s story is true or not. I’m just saying that, while discrepancies can be found, they can also be explained in other ways than claiming that the author is making it all up.
Yep, that one pretty much sent my BS-ometer off the scale and set me thinking that the OP definately had elements of fantasy, and that there was a distinct possibility that the author was more a DOM than an 18 yr old.
But then, thinking back, my fantasies at 18 yrs probably starred the odd classmate in see-through underwear.
Yep, that one pretty much sent my BS-ometer off the scale and set me thinking that the OP definately had elements of fantasy, and that there was a distinct possibility that the author was more a DOM than an 18 yr old.
But then, thinking back, my fantasies at 18 yrs probably starred the odd classmate in see-through underwear, so who knows
In this thread he responded to some questions about the story.
If it’s true or not, it’s still not my kind of story. I really don’t want to hear the extended play version of a story where a guy is getting aquainted with a girl and her thongs, while the girl can’t stop commenting on his penis. Blegh! You won’t see me near that thread again anytime soon. Thanks but no, I’m not the least bit voyeuristic about sex. I did have to laugh about the part where he says he just can’t write about having sex with her, that would just be wrong- but apparently everything up to actual penetration is okay to reveal. :rolleyes:
I’m really surprised at all the people who say they don’t care if they’re being lied to or not. I, for one, don’t like to hear bullshit, and I would have thought that was a part of the whole fighting ignorance thing, but apparently not, as long as it has nostalgic entertainment value. :::shrugs::::
BTW, he said somewhere that he voted in his country’s elections last year. Does anyone know which Northern European country had elections in 2001?
Also, Princhester, do you mean DOM as in S&M kind of DOM? Not sure I’m following you there…
DOM = Dirty Old Man
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