Hee i love smelling books too (even modern ones), no idea what's up with that. Maybe my hippocampus thinks that's what ideas smell like?
Re foot fingers: probably my third or fourth game will be set aboard a space station, only parts of which have twirly artificial gravity, the rest being inhabited by people surgically altered for life in zero-g: diminutive, minimal vertigo / nausea or bone / muscle atrophy, capable of hibernation, and with two pairs of hands each (it's always bugged me how we've got four hands but waste two with walking). So um anyway neat to hear about the baby burbleclapping.
I also wonder if the reason we act so differently online is simply that we can't smell the folks we're interacting with, so our primitive monkey brains regard them as more like fictional characters than actual people.
Could be; how people smell is pretty important to me, and it rises above the level of subconscious awareness sometimes - did you know that a number of men under a certain age, if they don't have a regular sex partner, put off an odor that is really disturbing in closed spaces, such a car? It smells like a fire alarm - high ph and choking, like they might be dangerous. I've never smelled that odor on a man I knew was married or attached. It's completely bizarre
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I smell bullshitchhinnamastaJuly 4 2011, 11:19:09 UTC
did you know that a number of men under a certain age, if they don't have a regular sex partner, put off an odor that is really disturbing in closed spaces, such a car? It smells like a fire alarm - high ph and choking, like they might be dangerous
Alarm smell? Wait a freaking minute. I'm calling you on this. Some men may smell like you describe, some of the time, but how on earth would you confirm this hypothesis? You are not privy to the details of every man's sex life. It sounds like you've got a pet theory and you're operating with confirmation bias. You know nothing about the man who sits next to you on the train. What legitimate basis, if any, do you have to connect the frequency of sexual intercourse with such a smell?
Re: I smell bullshitbec_87rbJuly 5 2011, 19:48:32 UTC
Clearly I am b8llshitting, ladies. I have no idea about what men who sit next to me in the Metro do at home, of course.
I was trying to account for the fact that a certain number of men I have known over the years, when trapped in a car with them, had the alarm smell, and not one was married or had a live-in relationship, and all seemed to be, idk, a little lonely. I have no idea if the smell was a result. Maybe if you smell like that, it's hard to get a date?
Hmm never heard of that, reminds me of that bit in Silence of the Lambs, "That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia." Not that schizophrenics never, ever hook up but there might be a link
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online anonymity bec_87rbJuly 5 2011, 21:00:22 UTC
Definite feature, in my estimation. I don't want a coherent online persona, in part, because I am sometimes a raving %&&h@43 online, and there is no erasing some online declarations, even years after the fact.
I like that if I lose all good sense and say something truly radioactively horrid, I only contaminate a district of my good name, not the whole country that is online me.
I have gotten flack for censoring myself and constructing nicer, politer versions of me on the internet, to which I have to respond: Do they really want my real uncensored id laying around where children might find it? Isn't that like leaving cocked, rusty bear traps scattered around a playground with bags of M&Ms on the triggers?
Re: online anonymity explodingbatJuly 5 2011, 21:48:37 UTC
Clearly. I just don't get what the social networks are thinking. Must be either legally or ideologically motivated, but if the former why present the datum publicly, even if they have to collect it, and if the latter which ideology and why? Can't they see how they're shooting themselves in the foot?
Yeah i'm the same, different names on different sites. Which is bloody difficult since google won't let me log into multiple gmail and greader accounts at once. I'm going to have to resort to multiple virtual machines eventually, i just know it...
Re: online anonymity bec_87rbJuly 6 2011, 00:45:55 UTC
Okay, so I'm not the only one here. I pretty much got accused of being a pervert.
It's all about the dead presidents, baby.
If they can build one big profile of you, your buying habits, your kinks, what you will click, they can sell that. They can sell ad space on their site more easily because it is tailored to you. This is Madison Avenue gone berserk.
Re foot fingers: probably my third or fourth game will be set aboard a space station, only parts of which have twirly artificial gravity, the rest being inhabited by people surgically altered for life in zero-g: diminutive, minimal vertigo / nausea or bone / muscle atrophy, capable of hibernation, and with two pairs of hands each (it's always bugged me how we've got four hands but waste two with walking). So um anyway neat to hear about the baby burbleclapping.
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Alarm smell? Wait a freaking minute. I'm calling you on this. Some men may smell like you describe, some of the time, but how on earth would you confirm this hypothesis? You are not privy to the details of every man's sex life. It sounds like you've got a pet theory and you're operating with confirmation bias. You know nothing about the man who sits next to you on the train. What legitimate basis, if any, do you have to connect the frequency of sexual intercourse with such a smell?
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I was trying to account for the fact that a certain number of men I have known over the years, when trapped in a car with them, had the alarm smell, and not one was married or had a live-in relationship, and all seemed to be, idk, a little lonely. I have no idea if the smell was a result. Maybe if you smell like that, it's hard to get a date?
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I'd entertain alternative theories on why nice non-threatening men become alarming in places that concentrate their body odor.
Also, no one here has ever experienced this. This is my own personal insanity?
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I like that if I lose all good sense and say something truly radioactively horrid, I only contaminate a district of my good name, not the whole country that is online me.
I have gotten flack for censoring myself and constructing nicer, politer versions of me on the internet, to which I have to respond: Do they really want my real uncensored id laying around where children might find it? Isn't that like leaving cocked, rusty bear traps scattered around a playground with bags of M&Ms on the triggers?
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Yeah i'm the same, different names on different sites. Which is bloody difficult since google won't let me log into multiple gmail and greader accounts at once. I'm going to have to resort to multiple virtual machines eventually, i just know it...
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It's all about the dead presidents, baby.
If they can build one big profile of you, your buying habits, your kinks, what you will click, they can sell that. They can sell ad space on their site more easily because it is tailored to you. This is Madison Avenue gone berserk.
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