What is wrong with this Secondlife world?

The Eagles. How sad are they this year??
/me cries silently for her team

LOL @ "Hardened Criminal"

Oh, and who wants to do an, "Illegal visitor to the country of Desparation Isle" RP with me?

sounds life fun

Damn! They are getting strict up in Canada, aren't they?

Blame Canada! No, it was actually Ireland and the plane ride back was mega-uncomfortable. I had to watch "Gone in 60 Seconds," and get permission to use the lavatory. And the dude next to me kept staring at my cuffs, LOL so I tried to keep them under the tray table.

How the Hell do you get into Ireland illegally? It's an island for Chrissakes. Did you pullan Elean?

I had been looking for a Mets shirt since I joined SL. I finally bought one a few days before the season ended. Now I'm too ashamed to wear it.

Maybe if I had a prim paper bag to wear over my head....

Trade secret.

Oh, Oryx... I'm so sorry.

*hugs the weeping Oryx*

I had to watch Road Hogs on my last flight. Gonna take a lot more than a hug to get over that one.

I have 3 Different Mets shirts, a flag...AND a Jets Shirt.....

They beat the Jets at least.......

Beat the Jets...who beat the Dolphins...

Hickory Farms meat and cheese sampler?

ROFL! Oh thank you Ava, that totally made me laugh and relieve a lot of tension from the day from hell. You rock.

Oh, God, I share your pain. Problem is, NFL teams tend to peak out and decline, until being low on the totem pole lets them get enough good new talent from the draft to start rising again (the Detroit Lions are a significant exception, of course, always being at the bottom). I am a rabid Eagles fan and have been since the Pilgrims landed and carved their graffiti on that rock. On Sundays from August until end of season, I bleed forest green. Alas, the Iggles missed their chance. Donovan McNabb is getting a year older each year, and their other talent is falling by the wayside year by year. I think their best chance was the year when injuries practically wiped out their entire first team, and it is downhill for the foreseeable future.

/me sobs uncontrollably, with convulsions that defy medical treatment, and locks self in a dark closet and assumes the fetal position until things improve)

I think the idea of creating an alt AV of the opposite sex to "walk a mile in another's shoes" to see what that is like *could* be interesting from a psychosocial perspective. But there are all kinds of people in SL and some are not as emotionally healthy as others. So even with absolutely no promises of any kind, even dancing with a woman who *thought* one was a male RL *could* be potentially hurtful.

Anecdote: I played EQ for years. I know there were a lot of men who played female AVs. Two of the reasons I heard most often were: "If I'm going to look at myself from the back, I want something attractive to look at" and "People give females more free stuff."

Regardless, unless I know otherwise, I tend to take people as they present themselves. One day I was doing some solo NPC fighting. A female AV was also soloing and we struck up a very pleasant conversation which resulted in us meeting up there regularly to partner fight - which resulted in her inviting me to her guild.

During this time I had experienced a rather irritating situation with a male "friend" in game and shared some of this with my new female friend. To my complete surprise, "she" told me she was a male in RL and thought "she" had told me that previously.

This particular person wasn't trying to be deceptive - he honestly thought he had mentioned it in our first meeting. We had several men in our guild who played female AVs - many married and playing EQ with their RL wives in game also...it was no big deal.

But for me, even though he and I continued a very nice platonic friendship, I just never thought of him quite the same again as when I thought he was a RL female because our initial friendship had been forged when I *thought* he was a female RL.

Methinks those who try to parse gender-bending on the Net - and ESPECIALLY in SL - are wasting their time - or indulging their personal hang-ups.

Enough to know that you know what the avatar is that you see, and you have NO IDEA what the person behind that avatar is.

Take it from there.

It's as if you could read my mind...

Beef stick. Is there any pain it can't soothe?

Yes, there are several. But fortunately, there is PEPPERONI!

This thread has now come full circle.

I wasn't looking and found the other half of me I have looked for for a eternity.

so never say never there are a ton of weirdos ans A$$' but if you are here to find that ONE well your in the wrong place go to church or ... this is a game . or life you pic

ROFL! There are so many tasteless and unsatisfying beefsticks in the world! All I want is one beefstick to call my own...

/me rethinking the whole idea.

Duely noted Trout. I thougt I had a cursory idea of how difficult it is for guys, hell I've been less than friendly on occasion myself. Not rude or ugly, just very clear that I'm not interested. You're right, that whole "hey baby can i get wit choo" crap after years of it in RL and then coming in to SL and finding it to be even cruder...well, a girl can get annoyed. Especially when the guy doesn't have a clue as how to take NO for an answer.

But, I submit I really don't understand what it's like for you poor nice guys - My experience in RL as a gay woman is that women as a rule just tend to be nicer to other women. Even when they are straight and truly only interested in a platonic friendship it seems that they are just more pleasent when rejecting us. (lol) One friend told me she was never offended when a Lesbian ( a nice polite one) asked her out. I think it must be in the approach.

Anyway, Dang. Now I just hope I can get someone to even talk to me.