# Wait....people develop characters here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129 "2014-01-18T04:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/1 "2014-01-18T04:47:23Z")
A post in this thread(I do not endorse the OP lol). > **[parkega3, is there something wrong with you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=709494)** > > So, one day I see this in the “Good jokes you’ve heard recently” thread: Okay, you hate cats. I get it. I guess not everyone likes the same things I do. Really, it’s just one cat-related joke - and it’s not too mean for the cat. I can live with it.... > [@](#): > > Seems to me like he is actually just trying to develop a character - he is the grumpy guy who now doesn’t like cute kittens as much. Now I understand gag accounts, BigBustyNurse who posts about nothing but sexual hospital shenanigans is a gag…probably. And obvious trolls or outlandish crap, the 103 year old, someone posting by blinking, I don’t even take those seriously. But the idea that not only are people here developing more subtle characters, but growing them like a garden, and it is well known and accepted by all and I didn’t know about it leaves me uneasy. It feels I dunno…offputting. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/2 "2014-01-18T05:06:38Z")
Thanks for not endorsing me. :dubious: But really, I think the “character” was only for that one thread. Otherwise, I think people’s “characters” are generally pretty much like their own selves. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/3 "2014-01-18T05:14:34Z")
We have poster called **BigBustyNurse**?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/4 "2014-01-18T05:40:48Z")
I am completely made up. By whom? I’m not allowed to know. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/5 "2014-01-18T05:44:33Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > We have poster called **BigBustyNurse**?! :eek: Well we might now. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/6 "2014-01-18T06:56:07Z")
So **Blinky** aint real?? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/7 "2014-01-18T09:29:32Z")
Give credit where credit is due, though. I speak, of course, of **Curtis LeMay / Qin** who joined as a bombastic and shallow youth and is maturing nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/8 "2014-01-18T13:50:29Z")
> [@grude](#): > > […] it is well known and accepted by all […] I hope I’m not missing a joke or misunderstanding, but I think it’s a big no-no to have multiple accounts here under different names. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/9 "2014-01-18T14:17:25Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > We have poster called **BigBustyNurse**?! :eek: Well, I could get a username change if you insist. But I probably won’t. 😉 (I am, however, big, busty and a nurse.) ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/10 "2014-01-18T14:32:27Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Well, I could get a username change if you insist. But I probably won’t. 😉 Why not? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/11 "2014-01-18T14:40:54Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Why not? See? It just fits too well…either people are asking me why not, or I’m asking the world why not! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/12 "2014-01-18T14:54:34Z")
I remember a pretend Englishman who used to post on here . Unfortunately he got his English slangs mixed up, and used words that we’d never do even though we understand what Americans mean when they use them . For example due to films and tv you’ll hear people say Guys, or French Fries, but anyone who said vacation or sidewalk would be laughed at mercillisly . ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/13 "2014-01-18T14:59:00Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > So **Blinky** aint real?? ☹ I don’t think anyone’ shown that. Some people just doubt based on how extraordinary his situation is. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/14 "2014-01-18T15:10:25Z")
Aren’t we all a little angrier than we probably are in real life? ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/15 "2014-01-18T21:27:48Z")
I am a nicer person here than I am in real life. If that is ‘developing’ a character, then I suppose I am guilty as charged. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/16 "2014-01-18T22:12:44Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > So **Blinky** aint real?? ☹ Neither are you dude. Sorry to have to be the one to tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/17 "2014-01-18T22:48:11Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Neither are you dude. Sorry to have to be the one to tell you. But it is right in his name. Ambi **valid**. If he isn’t real then who is?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/18 "2014-01-18T23:46:03Z")
Gender is often hard to guess on this board. I’ve wondered if some posters leave it ambiguous on purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/19 "2014-01-18T23:56:46Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > So **Blinky** aint real?? ☹ > [@Cyros](#): > > But it is right in his name. Ambi **valid**. If he isn’t real then who is?!?!? Yeah it is right in his name, but the first part is ‘ambivalent’. So even he is ambivalent about whether he is in fact valid. Whoa. I just blew my own mind. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129/20 "2014-01-19T01:04:37Z")
You found me out … I am not really a cartoon coyote nor have I ever had any dealings with a company called ACME. _cries and runs out of thread_ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-people-develop-characters-here/679129.md?page=2)