# Forum Personality Types **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 25, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729 "2012-03-25T01:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/1 "2012-03-25T01:42:07Z")
Every online forum has its own set of characters. Think: Friends or St Elmo’s Fire or any other group of predictable players. Who are you? ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/2 "2012-03-25T01:43:22Z")
I’m the one who tends to piss off the uptight and/or socially awkward types because they don’t understand my humor. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/3 "2012-03-25T02:05:12Z")
I’m the occasionally recurring character who shows up to make random pronouncements and then leaves. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/4 "2012-03-25T02:06:08Z")
“I’m one of the 32 lurkers who won’t reply!” -everyone thus far ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/5 "2012-03-25T02:18:05Z")
I’m afraid I must be the “Emily Vitella” character, the one who constantly gets little details wrong. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/6 "2012-03-25T02:19:50Z")
Red Shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/7 "2012-03-25T02:51:56Z")
One-line cynic. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/8 "2012-03-25T02:56:59Z")
I’m the passive-aggressive know-it-all. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/9 "2012-03-25T02:58:58Z")
> [@living\_in\_hell](#): > > I’m the one who tends to piss off the uptight and/or socially awkward types because they don’t understand my humor. Please cite a post on this board where you have shown your humor. Thanks. I am, of course, someone who asks posters to demonstrate that they have a sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/10 "2012-03-25T03:04:52Z")
I suppose my personality type is fairly common around these parts:\* smartassus americanus\*. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/11 "2012-03-25T03:06:02Z")
Ted McGinley ☹ ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/12 "2012-03-25T03:14:04Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Please cite a post on this board where you have shown your humor. > > Thanks. > > I am, of course, someone who asks posters to demonstrate that they have a sense of humor. Responding to Frank. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/13 "2012-03-25T03:15:17Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I’m afraid I must be the “Emily Vitella” character, the one who constantly gets little details wrong. Was that intentional? ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/14 "2012-03-25T04:08:17Z")
I’m the character who always makes their first and last appearance on the Very Special Episode. ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/15 "2012-03-25T04:40:00Z")
I am the one that dies in the first scene, noticeably blinks and breaths during my autopsy, then returns as my evil twin. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/16 "2012-03-25T05:00:45Z")
I’m the drill sergeant. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/17 "2012-03-25T05:02:20Z")
Evil nazi mod. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/18 "2012-03-25T05:30:54Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > I’m afraid I must be the “Emily Vitella” character, the one who constantly gets little details wrong. > [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Was that intentional? Grin! This time, it was. Alas, in the main, my blunders are the product of faulty memory, haste, and that great source of ignorance, believing in stuff I hear or read. The SDMB educates us all, not only by teaching us what we didn’t know, but also correcting those things we thought we knew, but which weren’t so. (Paraphrasing Mark Twain.) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/19 "2012-03-25T05:37:10Z")
I’m the guy with cut-off sleeves and a mullet who plays sax in the house band at a Georgetown bar. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729/20 "2012-03-25T05:47:29Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Red Shirt. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-personality-types/616729.md?page=2)