Dewey's post
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@Horace said in Dewey's post:
@Tom-K said in Dewey's post:
One think that troubles me though: Steve Miller said over there:
"The most memorable thing about that visit was learning that Larry in person was exactly the same as Larry on line."
I really wonder if that is true.They probably saw each other for five minutes.
The magic of "in person meetings" and the forging of deep understandings of who a person truly is, way deep down, is one of the most consistently overstated bits of nonsense one finds on online forums.
I think you're very wrong about that. Steve didn't look into the deepest parts of Larry's soul for those five minutes, but there's much more information that gets conveyed in person which you would otherwise never get reading what someone wrote.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Dewey's post:
but there's much more information that gets conveyed in person which you would otherwise never get reading what someone wrote.
True. For example, I don’t even look like a key
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I guess one could be wrong with the initial in-person impression but as someone who has met scores of forumites over the years there are some who are pretty much the same as online and there are some who are very different in person, often times in the latter case it’s people who are far more argumentative online but not so much in person. (Quirt is an excellent example of the latter).
@jon-nyc said in Dewey's post:
I guess one could be wrong with the initial in-person impression but as someone who has met scores of forumites over the years there are some who are pretty much the same as online and there are some who are very different in person, often times in the latter case it’s people who are far more argumentative online but not so much in person. (Quirt is an excellent example of the latter).
I hope so, since the man can be an absolute asshole on-line.
OTH, most lawyers like to argue. Maybe that's why they seek out the profession.
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I got to know Quirt pretty well when he lived in this area - I liked him a lot. He's a lot of fun to hang out with.
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I'll take y'all's word for it. Seems like a nice lady he's married to, so he must have some redeeming qualities.
Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text. I try to have manners, have known to be cordial on occasion, tend to say what I think and if I think you are trying to intimidate me, I'll rip your ears off and feed them to you.
I'm just a big teddy bear 🧸.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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I'll take y'all's word for it. Seems like a nice lady he's married to, so he must have some redeeming qualities.
Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text. I try to have manners, have known to be cordial on occasion, tend to say what I think and if I think you are trying to intimidate me, I'll rip your ears off and feed them to you.
I'm just a big teddy bear 🧸.
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All I can think of as I watch this piling on from both “sides” is that Larry would have loved this sh*t. It’s actually made me laugh out loud a couple of time. Sorry, I’m in a weird place in my mind lately. A weird and sometimes overwhelming grief that pops up at strange times from losing my Dad and both of our cats this year, along with my mom’s dementia that has taken her mostly away, even though her body is still there. Really hard. So death has been on my mind a lot lately.
@jodi said in Dewey's post:
All I can think of as I watch this piling on from both “sides” is that Larry would have loved this sh*t. It’s actually made me laugh out loud a couple of time. Sorry, I’m in a weird place in my mind lately. A weird and sometimes overwhelming grief that pops up at strange times from losing my Dad and both of our cats this year, along with my mom’s dementia that has taken her mostly away, even though her body is still there. Really hard. So death has been on my mind a lot lately.
:woman-heart-woman: Tough times. I will send positive thoughts to you.
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I'll take y'all's word for it. Seems like a nice lady he's married to, so he must have some redeeming qualities.
Me, I'm just me. I write like I talk, except it's hard to convey the redneck accent in text. I try to have manners, have known to be cordial on occasion, tend to say what I think and if I think you are trying to intimidate me, I'll rip your ears off and feed them to you.
I'm just a big teddy bear 🧸.
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There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented. Personally, I suspect the narrative that Larry was almost complete fiction, is more fictitious than the stuff he wrote about himself. But confirmation bias, as always, rules the day in the minds of many.
Education is extremely important.
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But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.
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@Jolly said in Dewey's post:
But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.
I'm not part of that bullshit, though, right? I could never abide any clique so crass and irreverent that it'd have the likes of me as a member.
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@Jolly said in Dewey's post:
But at least we have a cool nickname....The Wolfpack.
I'm not part of that bullshit, though, right? I could never abide any clique so crass and irreverent that it'd have the likes of me as a member.
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There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented. Personally, I suspect the narrative that Larry was almost complete fiction, is more fictitious than the stuff he wrote about himself. But confirmation bias, as always, rules the day in the minds of many.
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.
It’s a shame you never met Vince.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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@Horace said in Dewey's post:
There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.
It’s a shame you never met Vince.
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Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...
He nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party who I suspect were relatives of the dancers. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@Horace said in Dewey's post:
There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.
It’s a shame you never met Vince.
@jon-nyc said in Dewey's post:
@Horace said in Dewey's post:
There appears to be an unfortunate consensus forming amongst the Dewites that Larry was a nearly complete fiction. That the life narratives he wove online were largely invented.
It’s a shame you never met Vince.
Vince is a convincing arbiter of this question, but not in a way you’re comfortable posting about publicly? Is that the take home message?
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Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lufin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...
He nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party who I suspect were relatives of the dancers. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.
@Mik said in Dewey's post:
Vince was a grade a hoot. I was lucky enough to meet him in a belly dancing restaurant in DC, along with Aqua, Ax and his family, Lug=fin, M&Ms and their family, Improv...
he nearly got me into a fight with the neighboring party. Vince was the friend who comes to town to party with you. You all end up in jail and you can't wait for him to come back and do it again.
I sat beside Vince for that dinner. I remember being sorry for that for Vince's sake. After all, this is at its core a piano forum, Vince was an institution in his world and I don't know shit about pianos or his industry. Kind of a waste to hang with the likes of me was my feeling on it. But he was very kind and accommodating.
And Vince... had some stories.
