Including 'Location' in bio:

Ok I've been browsing the forums too long, I got completely lost and had to re-read this about 10 times. *crosses her eyes and tries to read on*

Hang on, knowing which part of the universe someone camps erm dwells, o no resides in may help you understand their viewpoint? I thought having a conversation did that.

As an aside I really also wonder why it is in any form or fashion relevant where anyone is from. I feel absolutely no need to know private information about people to be friends with them.
The only time it's been vaguely useful to know the general direction of someone's timezone is when I was planning a party

Your post made me think a bit more about this. If knowing simply where someone is from is helping someone else form their impression of them or what their personality might be like....sounds more like that person is stereotyping to me. I dont want to have anyone begin to form any opinion or impression of me simply based on living where I do. To be blunt, that would be a buncha bs.

I thought that was the 'happy line'...

/me laughs

Sorry. I meant some of us are as hairy as apes and the "happy line" doesn't exist.

I think most women who are attacked as a result of information shared over the net directly gave their attackers their details.

But it doesnt mean that the stalking stuff cant occur.

Since violence against women is the most common form of violence in America (and in much of the world), I think its our perogative to be a little bit paranoid about it.

I choose not to give out a location to profile browsers simply because who knows who's looking and why. If you've ever had an online stalker, you know what I'm saying. Before you poo poo that, trust me, it can happen.

People who I associate with in SL know I separate RL and SL. I don't consider my avatar to be me. I only wish I had that washboard. The RL info or lack thereof is simply a privacy factor. If I wanted the entire hockey league showing up for a barbeque at my house I'd send out invites. (Maybe next season, ha ha)

I use voice, generally just with my SL wife and the hockey league.

There is ONE very trusted person I know in SL and not in RL who knows my name, address, phone, etc. I can think of a few others who know my general region. But as a general rule I would not recommend to people giving out any personal information. Bad idea.

That's not what we heard.

WTF kind of word starts with R, ends with Z, and doesn't have a P, A, N, T, I, E, or S in it??? That is going to drive me crackers.

Probably no word , it was just photoshoped to look like that.

I don't like putting up information on websites and forums as they can be harvested and used for spamming and other junk.

Rzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Ruffluvs Panties?
Roomyyzz Panties?

trying to rzzzzzzzzzzzz something and .... yawn......... fell asleep while waiting for it to appear

All I could come up with was "Penis Tzar". Two words so I'd be disqualified.

Not sure if you've seen Countdown, but nine letter words are rarely found. The contestants take turns to pick nine letters from consonants and vowels, then they have 30 seconds to find the longest word possible. Person with longest word wins. There are a couple of maths games too, and the Countdown Conundrum at the end in which the only answer is a nine letter word. If a contestant gets it, everybody in the studio goes zOMG and a pensioner expires somewhere in the audience.

If you are English you will know all this because Countdown is firmly embedded in the British psyche, and I will now be eternally embarrassed. :blush:

Incidentally, we were just recently posting funny Countdown videos at SL Universe: http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/showthread.php?p=8024&highlight=countdown#post8024

Oh erm, did I drift off-topic?

Does Brenda have the nickname Roooooooz that I didnt know about?

I don't think so Colette. Naughty words come up on Countdown quite a lot. That thread at SLU I linked to has a genuine example, far more disturbing than PANTIES. Although the OP points out that the first one is (unsurprisingly) faked.

I did make the AGENDA one myself.

Oryx and I were under the impression that it worked like Wheel Of fortune. What you are saying is that the letters from Panties could show up again in the top word?

Thats totally different

So is this game that we're seeing here at ALL like The Wheel of Fortune, where letters are chosen, then all of them are displayed? Or am I allowed to find ANY word that starts with R and ends with Z and has 6 letters in the middle, regardless of the letters in "panties?"

[Edit: What Colette said.]

there cant be many words that start with R and end with Z and pertain to panties.

LOL

How does Wheel of Fortune work? Don't answer that. I've derailed this thread too much already.

This YouTube clip demonstrates how a Countdown letters game works: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LOU7meJonVc

The R&Z are irrelevant really. In the picture you're talking about, a contestant came up with the word PANTIES from nine random letters. Carol just transferred the letters which make up PANTIES to the bottom row, leaving the two unused letters behind, in order to demonstrate that said contestant indeed spelt that word from those letters.

So its like Scrabble

Wheel of Fortune works like Hangman but its usually a phrase.

Dang it, if I'd known THAT I wouldn't have tried to make an 8 letter word starting with R and ending with Z.

So you're saying there IS a word that DOES contain R, Z, and all the letters in "panties?"