# Do You Differently or the Same in Life as You Do on These Boards? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-differently-or-the-same-in-life-as-you-do-on-these-boards/36302 "2000-10-09T20:01:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-differently-or-the-same-in-life-as-you-do-on-these-boards/36302/41 "2000-10-11T09:16:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Do You Differently or the Same in Life as You Do on These Boards? > > I don’t understand the question. Do I do what differently? Type? My typing, I’m sorry, _keyboarding_ sucks in real life, too. Is that what you’re asking? Or maybe this is it\*\* UncleBeer pokes fun at the typo made in this thread. What he doesn’t tell you is how he misspelled “candidates” in the title of **this** thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41727](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41727) ::ducking and running:: ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-differently-or-the-same-in-life-as-you-do-on-these-boards/36302/42 "2000-10-11T09:19:49Z")
I’m every bit as unpleasant in real life. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-differently-or-the-same-in-life-as-you-do-on-these-boards/36302/43 "2000-10-11T10:13:07Z")
Crap. ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-differently-or-the-same-in-life-as-you-do-on-these-boards/36302/44 "2000-10-11T11:40:15Z")
IRL I’m _subtlety-impaired_. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-differently-or-the-same-in-life-as-you-do-on-these-boards/36302/45 "2000-10-11T12:25:51Z")
> [@](#): > > IRL, I’m Robert Howard, that dirty little coward, who laid Jesse James in his grave. Uke, any chance your confusing Robert Ford, who shot Jesse James, with Robert E. Howard, who shot. . . Robert E Howard??? ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-differently-or-the-same-in-life-as-you-do-on-these-boards/36302/46 "2000-10-11T17:32:12Z")
Well, it goes without saying that I’m taller IRL…shoot, said it anyway. IRL I rarely have “speako’s” as opposed to the regular and flagrant typo’s I display here. I’m not a touch-typist, what do you want from me? I think I’m a touch less opinionated online than I am IRL, though I’m not really that bad in either place (I think). I’m a strange dichotomy of anal-retentive and sloppy, depending upon my whims, though on the boards I’m mostly tidy. I think I flirt about as much here as I do IRL, though I tend to take RL flirting more serious than the virtual displays (but I’ve meant every word for you, **struuter** ) I think I make more intellegent assertions IRL than I do here, just because I look at the boards as a place to kick back and have fun, rather than IRL, where I tend to take things perhaps a touch more seriously and sometimes find myself defending statements that were rather innocuous to begin with, but grew rather deep, rather quickly. Here, I can dispatch mistakes with a wink and a glib remark, thus being done with them. Most folks don’t harp on past statements, positions or mistakes here. Most of my friends, associates, companions don’t wither, but I find myself striving to be as non-contrary as possible sometimes…doesn’t always work. One more thing, I do tend to get loud, perhaps obnoxiously so, when I **a)** play NTN trivia and/or **b)** get really drunk (as opposed to buzzed or just kinda drunk, where people generally don’t even know that I am). On the boards, you’d never know this because I only post from work (for now) so you’ve never stood witness to this side of me. PS: **Drain Bead** , now that I’m in Columbus, ya wanna get together for a drink next time **Satan** is in town? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-differently-or-the-same-in-life-as-you-do-on-these-boards/36302.md?page=2)