# What posters have the opposite personalities in real life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400 "2005-06-01T16:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/21 "2005-06-02T01:56:47Z")
> [@alice\_in\_wonderland](#): > > Ya know, I was totally ready to post that I was a 6’5" trucker named Bubba, and I just play a girly-girl on the dope, but then I realized that might not be as funny as I first thought, in a been there, done that sort of way… You’ve DONE a 6’5" trucker named Bubba?!?!?!?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/22 "2005-06-02T02:00:32Z")
Haven’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/23 "2005-06-02T02:33:48Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > I have been told multiple times by multiple people that I look/act like nothing they expected when they actually meet me. > > I cannot get anyone to tell me if this is a good or a bad thing, though. Hey, I was expecting a giant flaming eyeball, okay? Also, I didn’t realize that the lord of Mordor doesn’t like tomatoes. Tolkein never covered that. I post less than I talk IRL. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/24 "2005-06-02T02:38:43Z")
I’m pretty much the same… except that here I often hold back from making silly wasteful “me too” posts or lame jokes. In real life, unfortunately, they escape. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/25 "2005-06-02T02:46:35Z")
I’m slightly more amusing in real life than I am here. But only slightly. Also, I could teach “Swearing For Sailors: Graduate Seminar” at the Naval Academy. For some reason that doesn’t come out here that much. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/26 "2005-06-02T04:01:51Z")
I’m way different in real life. I’m so chatty in real life, I’ll talk to just about anybody. Online it’s different because it’s like I actually have to _think_ about what I’m going to say before I say it, then I just don’t say anything because I think it sounds retarted. But that’s how I am in real life. I talk a lot and most of what I say is just stupid stuff where I’m trying to get people to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/27 "2005-06-02T06:24:54Z")
I talk more in real life than online. I’m also much ruder and less feminine-acting. I pit people everyday IRL, but prefer to keep a more mild and meek face on the dope. I also act differently on other message boards. I have been on boards where I was nothing but a total bitch. I like to reflect the personalities of people I hang out with, so how I will act at a Dopefest depends on who I am with and how I am feeling at the time. ---
**Author:** ![TygerDralion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@TygerDralion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TygerDralion)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/28 "2005-06-02T06:58:57Z")
> [@kimera](#): > > I talk more in real life than online. I’m also much ruder and less feminine-acting. I pit people everyday IRL, but prefer to keep a more mild and meek face on the dope. I also act differently on other message boards. I have been on boards where I was nothing but a total bitch. > > I like to reflect the personalities of people I hang out with, so how I will act at a Dopefest depends on who I am with and how I am feeling at the time. Same here, but I tend to hug people A LOT, and tend to get stuck on one to tell everyone for a day. This past week has had both a “Have you seen my stapler?” day (really, it was gone!) and a “You’re doing a GREAT job, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_!” Mind you, I’m no where near a supervisory/managerial level, but I still couldn’t keep from saying it. I’m very ADD. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TygerDralion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@TygerDralion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TygerDralion)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/29 "2005-06-02T06:59:20Z")
> [@kimera](#): > > I talk more in real life than online. I’m also much ruder and less feminine-acting. I pit people everyday IRL, but prefer to keep a more mild and meek face on the dope. I also act differently on other message boards. I have been on boards where I was nothing but a total bitch. > > I like to reflect the personalities of people I hang out with, so how I will act at a Dopefest depends on who I am with and how I am feeling at the time. Same here, but I tend to hug people A LOT, and tend to get stuck on one thing to tell everyone for a day. This past week has had both a “Have you seen my stapler?” day (really, it was gone!) and a “You’re doing a GREAT job, \_\_\_\_\_\_\_!” Mind you, I’m no where near a supervisory/managerial level, but I still couldn’t keep from saying it. I’m very ADD. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/30 "2005-06-02T11:26:08Z")
I oscillate regularly between being good-humoured, pleasant and witty and a grumpy little sausage: sadly, that’s reflected here too, except maybe the witty part. I could blame it on medication, the time of the month or being a Gemini, but the unfortunate truth is that I can be a right dickhead at times. If it’s any consolation, five minutes after being rude I always regret it, and I don’t hold grudges. Well, not many. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/31 "2005-06-02T12:13:13Z")
I’m nothing like my Internet persona in real life. IRL I’m an obnoxious, loud, overbearing idiot who has no idea what he’s taking about. What? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/32 "2005-06-02T17:18:20Z")
Aw, **Cal** , you’re nothing like that, honest. _hug_ 🙂 I wouldn’t dare flirt with a guy in real life–I’d be friendly, but I’d probably blush, stutter, and become stupidly clumsy if I tried to say anything like I do here. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/33 "2005-06-02T17:29:00Z")
So, we’re mostly a bunch of closet introverts. I rarely flirt on the boards, but _never_ IRL, because I married a woman from Wisconsin and I don’t need my knees broken. And if you think it’s easy to be in the SCA and never flirt with anybody, _you_ try it. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/34 "2005-06-02T17:36:29Z")
I have a lot fewer typos IRL and just yesterday a cow-orker said to me “You’re about the quietest person I’ve ever worked with.” Nobody here has ever told me that. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/35 "2005-06-02T17:45:56Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > So, we’re mostly a bunch of closet introverts. > > I rarely flirt on the boards, but _never_ IRL, because I married a woman from Wisconsin and I don’t need my knees broken. And if you think it’s easy to be in the SCA and never flirt with anybody, _you_ try it. What’s the SCA? Please tell your wife she is a very lucky woman and not to break your knees. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/36 "2005-06-02T17:46:47Z")
Well, I’ve never flattened Tokyo, and have very little Gaos-fighting experience. But I _am_ a giant turtle. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/37 "2005-06-02T17:47:40Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Well, I’ve never flattened Tokyo, and have very little Gaos-fighting experience. > > But I _am_ a giant turtle. Thank you. Now come clean the watermelon off my screen. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/38 "2005-06-02T18:05:47Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Thank you. Now come clean the watermelon off my screen. 😛 Sure thing. Can I borrow your shirt for a sec? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/39 "2005-06-02T18:13:32Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > I have a lot fewer typos IRL and just yesterday a cow-orker said to me “You’re about the quietest person I’ve ever worked with.” Nobody here has ever told me that. I take it these would _not_ be the people you’ve farted on? SCA: Society for Creative Anacrhronism. Medieval recreationism, kinda like a pre-Ren Fair for fun and personal education rather than for profit. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/40 "2005-06-02T18:24:57Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Sure thing. Can I borrow your shirt for a sec? > > 😃 I’ll take **that**! _runs off_ 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400.md?page=3)