[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'240709\' date=\'May 11 2010, 11:07 PM\']I know next to nothing about Twilight, or Lost or all sorts of things. But I make an effort to have a ground-floor level understanding about them, because then I can do things like talk and listen to people, and integrate myself into a group, as opposed to "Oh, well, I've never heard that musical group, they must be rubbish." Everything may be worth ten points some day, but being able to connect with your fellow man is worth much more.[/quote]
I do know a bit about
Lost (plane mysteriously crashes, survivors try to live on a "deserted" unknown island, some weird time-travel stuff/island is alive/writers probably making this stuff up on the fly), but never watch ABC. I'm a huge fan of the British series
Doctor Who, but I ran into trouble when trying to become a member of a
Who fan-group (weird adjacent-universe stuff) -- I used a self-insert version of myself (which was not prohibited in the site rules), and got banned.
[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'240709\' date=\'May 11 2010, 11:07 PM\']
And I just want to clarify something -- Yes, I'm a geeky dweeby spaz. I'm not insane, nor am I mentally-handicapped in any way, but I am tired of everything I try to do or say getting blasted by people who, I'm sure, have never been called the heinous things I've been called online. And please, don't ask what I've been called online. PLEASE.
Then you are terribly, completely wrong.[/quote]
I don't know whether to be happy or sad at that, actually, knowing that others are in the same boat as I (but trust me, Travis, I'm very certain that you have never been called what I've been called).
[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'240709\' date=\'May 11 2010, 11:07 PM\']
And I ponder my existence, too. I lie awake at night, wondering why I seem to have been "chosen" to be the first-person viewpoint of everything. My brain twists and turns at these thoughts, which I cannot formulate into a coherent question because I don't know exactly what I'm trying to ask.
I once pondered if I was the star of some sort of Truman Show, too. Not so strange.[/quote]
Not exactly what I meant, but you seem to understand the gist of my feelings. :-)
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'240710\' date=\'May 11 2010, 11:19 PM\']
And I just want to clarify something -- Yes, I'm a geeky dweeby spaz. I'm not insane, nor am I mentally-handicapped in any way, but I am tired of everything I try to do or say getting blasted by people who, I'm sure, have never been called the heinous things I've been called online. And please, don't ask what I've been called online. PLEASE.
I'm sorry...now's not the time to use your past for a sob story.[/quote]
Actually, I wasn't posting that for sympathies.