# Doper Confessions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044 "2008-08-23T20:19:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/241 "2008-08-28T03:47:45Z")
Well, at least I can get by on the smart & funny requirements šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/242 "2008-08-28T05:18:02Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] [Here ya go!](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcmarbles/1372712755/in/set-72157601996522903/) [/QUOTE] Woo hoo! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/243 "2008-08-28T05:45:48Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Yeah, Iā€™ve heard a lot of those horror-stories . . . I have a friend who waited 16 years for a full-time position, which was promised to him, to open up. When it opened up they interviewed 50 people. He made the final 2 but lost out to someone else so he quit and heā€™s a corporate trainer now. Do you mind if I ask - are you a masters or PhD? I only plan on getting a masters so Iā€™m wondering if this is a huge disadvantage. If you could fill up your schedule as an adjunct, and work summers, would it be a decent living? [/QUOTE] You can work summers and winters at some campuses, as well as spring and fall. Itā€™s an hourly wage for many PTs, though, so youā€™d have to calculate it at Whichever College/University. I recommend supplemental work too. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/244 "2008-08-28T05:47:36Z")
Addendum: I have a Masterā€™s, not a Ph.D. They donā€™t seem to help much around here, though. I really think that being in your 20s or 30s is a plus, though there have been some exceptions. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/245 "2008-08-28T07:25:53Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] New Confession: Purely on physical hotness, which includes general hottiness; smile and such other things as may make you look like someone incredibly cool to hang with whilst trying not to peek when youā€™re not looking, you are among the Top Shelf of Doper-osity. Honestly, cleavage is nice if you got it, but not all of us are breast guys. Some of us just like purty girls. Oh, and smart and funny and stuff, but that all is assumed if youā€™re here to begin with. [/QUOTE] Well arenā€™t you just too sweet? šŸ˜‰ Honestly, I joke about the cleavage but it doesnā€™t bother me that much, Iā€™m happy with what I have. If I wasnā€™t Iā€™d either have to have surgery or gain a lot of weight, and Iā€™m not willing to do either. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/246 "2008-08-28T10:25:22Z")
[QUOTE=Khampelf] Oh, the confession? Thereā€™s usually a Led Zeppelin concert shirt under my dress shirt and tie. Color co-ordinated, of course. [/QUOTE] I love you, marry me. I donā€™t even particularly like Led Zeppelin and I only guess that youā€™re a man based on the ā€œshirt and tieā€ part of the post but damnit, thatā€™s style and not what half the people in the office with me today have on! (Thereā€™s about 200 people here, before anybody decides I must be alone with my shadow) ---
**Author:** ![Bravo\_Romeo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bravo\_Romeo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bravo_Romeo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/247 "2008-08-28T11:25:41Z")
Iā€™m a 20 year old guy. Iā€™ve watched the entire series of _Gilmore Girls_ (except I gave up halfway through Season 7, it was so disappointing). And _The Nanny_. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/248 "2008-08-28T12:58:19Z")
I am convinced all that I have in my life came from dumb luck. I honestly consider myself the third luckiest man in the world. (My Father was luckier than me, when he died up, I moved up to number three.) I brood. I fall into _melancholia_ easily and contemplate my mortality and morality. Oddly I find that the idea of death is strangely comforting. I believe in God due to faith. (Faith, the belief in things not seen.) I do not understand how smart people can not see that science tells how, but theology tries to tell us _who_ and _why._ I am fairly certain I am a worse-than-average driver. Despite it all. I am generally happy. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/249 "2008-08-28T13:45:44Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] Just ordered both from Netflix. (I hope you were talking about what I just learned were short-lived TV series, neither of which I had ever heard of before.) [/QUOTE] See what you did, **Telperien**? Pretty soon we may have have another ā€œ **I just watched Firefly for the first time! That was amazing!** ā€ thread over in CS. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/250 "2008-08-28T14:41:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sleeps With Butterflies] Honestly, I joke about the cleavage but it doesnā€™t bother me that much, Iā€™m happy with what I have. If I wasnā€™t Iā€™d either have to have surgery or gain a lot of weight, and Iā€™m not willing to do either. [/QUOTE] Will gaining weight give a woman large breasts? I know a lot of overweight women with very small breasts, particularly in comparison to their bellies. My confession; I love drama, even though I try to stay out of it. At work, I love when a big gossipy drama is going on around me. I eat it up, while never actually contributingā€¦just being nosy, trying to hear all about it. Same thing on the Dope. I love the train wreck threads, and I seek out threads that have trainwreck potential. ( autism/vaccination, cat declawing, etc..) One more confessionā€¦I canā€™t read the whole threads when I am here at work, but I canā€™t resist posting. So sorry if others have already mentioned my confessions. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/251 "2008-08-28T14:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] - Iā€™m very hypocritical about weed usage. Iā€™ve recently started using it when Iā€™m bored (injested with food) but I still hate all potheads and 420 mentality and I will not be your friend if you smoke pot. [/QUOTE] So you only buy weed from your enemies? This thread is fascinating to me. Do any of you (particularly those who have posted pictures either here or in a picture thread) wonder if people from ā€˜real lifeā€™ will be able to identify you? Maybe Iā€™m overly-cautious, but in my life, thatā€™s better than under-cautious. That said, sometimes I worry that I favor one of my kids over the other. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/252 "2008-08-28T14:55:57Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] Will gaining weight give a woman large breasts? I know a lot of overweight women with very small breasts, particularly in comparison to their bellies. [/QUOTE] Not necessarily, but it will certainly make whatā€™s there larger. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/253 "2008-08-28T15:13:55Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] That said, sometimes I worry that I favor one of my kids over the other. ā˜¹ [/QUOTE] Not speaking from experience, but I think itā€™s normal if you have two or more kids to worry about this. If it makes you feel any better, sometimes I donā€™t even like my kid that much. Iā€™ll never regret having him and Iā€™ll always love him, but I donā€™t understand parents who claim to be completely infatuated all the time with a two-year old you canā€™t reason with and whoā€™s kicking, screaming and lashing out thanks to allergies and a new molar. Why is it ok for me to sometimes not like my husband very much when weā€™re fighting, but if I say out loud that I donā€™t like my child when heā€™s been a little turd for two days, Iā€™m a bad parent? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/254 "2008-08-28T15:43:05Z")
I read and still own), many cheap teenage/young adult/mass fiction books (Cadfael series, RL Stine, Sweet Valley Twins) when I was younger, along with some more adult/mature books (for school and leisure). Even though Iā€™m not really interested in research, Iā€™m in a combined residency/PhD. program. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/255 "2008-08-28T15:49:56Z")
[QUOTE=overlyverbose] Why is it ok for me to sometimes not like my husband very much when weā€™re fighting, but if I say out loud that I donā€™t like my child when heā€™s been a little turd for two days, Iā€™m a bad parent? [/QUOTE] Heck if I know. I donā€™t like your kid either. What does that say about me? šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/256 "2008-08-28T15:55:07Z")
[QUOTE=overlyverbose] Why is it ok for me to sometimes not like my husband very much when weā€™re fighting, but if I say out loud that I donā€™t like my child when heā€™s been a little turd for two days, Iā€™m a bad parent? [/QUOTE] Because your husband is an adult, and when youā€™re fighting with him, itā€™s presumably because he did something that, as an adult, he knew he shouldnā€™t do, and you have the right to expect him to avoid doing, inasmuch as he has adult judgment, skills, and knowledge. When your child is a ā€œlittle turd,ā€ itā€™s presumably because heā€™s a child, lacking adult impulse control and judgment, and itā€™s a natural part of being a child. Also, your husband is thick-skinned and mature enough to hear some variant of ā€œI donā€™t like you,ā€ without reading dire consequences into it. Your child may not be. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/257 "2008-08-28T16:35:14Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] Because your husband is an adult, and when youā€™re fighting with him, itā€™s presumably because he did something that, as an adult, he knew he shouldnā€™t do, and you have the right to expect him to avoid doing, inasmuch as he has adult judgment, skills, and knowledge. When your child is a ā€œlittle turd,ā€ itā€™s presumably because heā€™s a child, lacking adult impulse control and judgment, and itā€™s a natural part of being a child. Also, your husband is thick-skinned and mature enough to hear some variant of ā€œI donā€™t like you,ā€ without reading dire consequences into it. Your child may not be. [/QUOTE] Well, now, we donā€™t know if she is actually saying out loud _to her child_ that she doesnā€™t like him or her. There are plenty of times that I think to myself that one of my children is being unlikable, or I may even tell my husband when the kids are not around OR I may tell my kids that I donā€™t like _their behavior_. Either way, my issue was that I feel closer to one of my kids than the other much of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/258 "2008-08-28T16:40:07Z")
[QUOTE=lorene] This thread is fascinating to me. Do any of you (particularly those who have posted pictures either here or in a picture thread) wonder if people from ā€˜real lifeā€™ will be able to identify you? Maybe Iā€™m overly-cautious, but in my life, thatā€™s better than under-cautious. [/QUOTE] Iā€™ve thought about it, but I certainly donā€™t worry about it. I donā€™t really bad-mouth my coworkers here, nor are my co-workers the type of people who would be on this board. And if someone I knew as a friend found me here, I donā€™t see how that would be a bad thing. It would probably make for a good story. But perhaps Iā€™m just naive. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/259 "2008-08-28T17:04:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **lorene** > > This thread is fascinating to me. Do any of you (particularly those who have posted pictures either here or in a picture thread) wonder if people from ā€˜real lifeā€™ will be able to identify you? Maybe Iā€™m overly-cautious, but in my life, thatā€™s better than under-cautious. Nope, not at all. I am exactly the same in real life as I am online so if my friends find my posts here they will know it is me long before they see a picture. If my mom or dad show up here and stumble upon a picture of my breasts they will probably be a bit disturbed, but that will teach them to try to hang out in the same places I do whether that is online or in meat space. šŸ™‚ Anytime I meet someone and at some point in the conversation I think to myself, ā€œI should post about this on the Dopeā€ I ask them if the phrase, ā€œHi Opalā€ means anything to them. So far no one has understood it so I feel comfortable in the knowledge that they have no idea that this particular message board exists. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044/260 "2008-08-28T17:25:54Z")
I donā€™t worry about the IRL issue, because thereā€™s nothing Iā€™ve said here that I havenā€™t said out loud to somebody I know in meat-space. Iā€™m pretty much an open book and if the book contains disturbing imagery and dubious content, so be it! Iā€™ve sent my daughter links to threads Iā€™ve posted in and it wouldnā€™t surprise me if she ended up joining hereā€“sheā€™s a smart cookie and loves to write just like I do. I certainly make no secret of my Dope habit and my SO surely knows he could read my postsā€“heā€™s welcome to and if he gets pissed off at what I say he can tell meā€“itā€™s not like thereā€™s any shortage of things we fight aboutā€¦ šŸ˜› I have an affinity for those terribly trashy rich-bitch Hollywood type booksā€“Olivia Goldsmith type stuff. Itā€™s escapist reading of the first water for someone who mostly reads SF. Isnā€™t it kind of odd that I consider that ā€œslice of lifeā€ stuff to be the escapist fantasy? I donā€™t like most kids eitherā€“just like I donā€™t like most people in general. Iā€™ll make funny faces at babies and toddlers but older kids whoā€™re stupid or badly behaved I canā€™t stand. Iā€™m definitely one of those ā€œit takes a villageā€ types, though, and do not hesitate in the slightest to tell a misbehaving kid to shut up or stop running indoors or to keep their hands off something and if a parent gets pissed at that I have zero problem dealing with the confrontation, either. Anyone who uses the ā€œwordā€ ā€œcumā€ I suspect of being really, really, stupid and skeevy. I hate that particular neologism and wish it would retire to the cornfield post-haste. Unfortunately this circumscribes my written erotica sphere considerably. There has to be a better way, dammit! For that matter, I find it incomprehensible that people actually try to get into chat style sexual interactions with total strangers. Anyone who tries it with me gets short shriftā€“I mean, really, that person could be anyone or anything so why in hell would I want to get into even a fantasy sexual scenario with them? Iā€™d be infinitely more likely to fuck a guy I met in a bar because at least Iā€™d know what I was dealing withā€“what he looks like, smells like, how he dances, etc. I always picture anyone in a chat room as a Jabba-the-Hutt style alien and I get squicked out. Plus, the average person is ludicrously inept at written flirting and sexual descriptionā€“really, really, bad. Bulwer-Lytton bad. Anybody who tells me proudly that they donā€™t know how to use a computer or that they donā€™t read is pretty much relegated to the ā€œsubhumanā€ category in my estimation. I donā€™t suffer fools well, and fools who are proud of their foolishness I donā€™t suffer at all. I guess this makes me an elitist snob, but I figure I can live with that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-confessions/461044.md?page=14)