Anthropological research on netiquette in SL

Youre such a lush.
I went to rehab and am sober now. I dont liek to point this out but it's pretty obvious to anyone here that I am the only sober member of this clan of neverdowelz. Scylla sails along bombe-brained half the time. Deira just about makes it to Waitrose for her daily Scotch bottle and you've gotta stop hiding your booze under the sink and colouring it green to pretend its washing up liquid!
Lol.
Love, Jigsy.

/me slams the cupboard shut and staggers out of the kitchen squawking, "It got cold! You know better than to leave me to my own devices!"

If Dearsie is up to a bottle a day, maybe we should consider sabotaging the distillery's heli when we get to Scotland. I don't want to spend all my time fishing her out of a half frozen lake or worse, the gamekeeper's cottage

Be a good girl now and give me the names of those miscreants Scylla is slumming with in the public houses. I'll have a quiet word with Uncle Des to see if he can manage that situation before it gets totally out of hand. All we need is another illegitimate brat, er, unexpected blessing appearing.

We really need to get Jig and Scylla together for this official portrait, Laurin. Suitably attired, of course.

(I'll bring the Scotch - I have a wee dram by me.)

Yeah. It's a suburb of Detroit.

It may not be as easy as you think, Laurin. Last night I was out doing my charitable work (collecting for the Home For Wayward Women) and in one particularly disreputable hostelry I noticed a card game going on in a corner with four "gentlemen" being entertained by half-dressed floosies as they caroused and gambled. Three of the gents looked remarkably like Des, Phil and Lear, and although I didn't recognise the fourth, they all seemed to be behaving in an overly obsequious manner and smarming up to him, and addressing him only as "Mister Linden".

Pep (I caught a snatch of conversation which involved the words, "dowry" and "slavery" and Scylla's name was definitely mentioned.)

PS And as I was leaving someone who could have been Deira's twin sister (surely not!) was dancing on one of the tables with a wodge of banknotes stuffed down in her garter.

PPS I am not sure that Melita woman is entirely trustworthy either; anyone that wants to facilitate the distribution of free commodities to needy noobs must either be a saint or using it as a front for some racket, I reckon.

It's a mistake to assume that the question in the base post is the sum total of the research project. Research projects often start out with vague questions, and build from there. In this case, the initial question could be used to build a skeletal framework, which would be refined, corrected, and developed by future, more detailed research.

(This group has such imagination...)

Just popped by this thread to say, I've been wished a happy Cinco de Mayo and a Happy Bastille Day and Happy Ramadan and it never did me a lick of harm....

And they expect us to do all that work FOR them?

(In other words, I don't *care* if it's the sum total or not for all time. It's the sum total of what we were given here.)

So, now you see why I have sequestered myself away from society all these years, and tried to live a pious, quiet life of contemplation. It's in the wild blood of those Devon folk, I'm afraid. I had hoped fostering would mend the predispositions, but as you see...it gets worse and worse.

I suspect that pink faced Ephraim was lurking about as well. I have heard rumblings about certain inquiries and negotiations. Please excuse me, I am overseeing the packing for Switzerland, a journey at this point I shall make ALONE. Hopefully a solution will come to me with a bit of peace, quiet, and Vodka.

Many of my customers _ask_ for a copy of my shape. I'm happy to oblige them, of course, as I test all my fan dances myself, so ensuring a perfect fit of movement to avatar and props.

PS How many Wayward Women did you collect for your home?

It occurs to me that if you had just asked the question, without mentioning anything about it being a research project, you would have gotten a very different set of responses. Indeed, asking the same or similar questions in several different ways could be an interesting research project concerning these forums, though not necessarily related to your project.

The knee jerks missed noticing that, unlike many student research project requests we see, this wasn't a request to go elsewhere for some poorly structured survey, nor was it a list of a dozen meaningless questions to be answered here. It is a single, perfectly reasonable and relevant question. True, it couldn't result in a complete picture, but then again, if a small handful of students went in-world for a couple of months, they wouldn't get a complete picture either. I don't believe research like this could be considered complete if you didn't ask this question here, as well as other boards, along with in-world groups and other places.

I must admit that I did hear several of the audience shouting "I want your body!"

Pep (And they appeared to be willing to pay the going rate, as well.)

No, they never said they wanted you to do all that work. They just asked a single question. You responded in a way that suggests you assumed there was no other research being done. Why would you think that the sum total of what you were given here is a complete picture of the entire research project?

Yes, November and December are my busiest trading months

Fingers in my ears, packing-packing, fingers in my ears, I can't hear you....

Kidd, aren't you the one assuming...everything?

I am going by what I see here. I assume nothing beyond that.

(You can't have it both ways, by the way. I was responding to YOUR assertion that there was much more to come.)

"bombe-brained"????




I was doing RESEARCH!!! In fact, I've discovered that I can write off my rounds of drinks against my research grant . . .


And what (said she nervously) does "suitably attired" mean, precisely, in this context???


Hmmmm . . .

I begin to worry that "suitably attired" may mean silks . . .

It was a very global, vague question. AND they haven't come back to talk with us.

That's actually a good idea, a portrait of this special family, for the Cartel calendar, eh. Now who all is relatives again, that would be Deira, Laurin, Jig, Pep and Des? (Lord, how did Des end up with this crowd?) Must be an alt-er ego......anyway can't wait for that lovely family pic, to last for all time.......

Pep is NOT a member of the family.

He was just mummy's teddy boy for awhile . . .

I must emphasise that I am not a blood relative, or even an in-law. I was simply Jig's foster mother.

Don't forget Scylla, who is Jig's sister.

Pep jilted Laurin and he has been sexcommunicated.

The picture is for the official family Christmas Card. (Don't worry Treasure, I'll see you are on the list.)

Yes, everyone will ask how I got into the woodpile. (Distant cousin who nobody knows......)

There seem to be quite a few here who find the Forum Pep Persona less than endearing. If bringing out the worst in others is indeed one of your goals - and I have trouble imagining that it isn't - you have not been entirely unsuccessful.