Meadowlark Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I was just thinking of this...that I kind of have an idea in my head of what some people on here look like. I have no idea how I've come to that conclusion, but I have. Wouldn't it be fun to post pictures to see if our ideas are anywhere near correct? Or maybe the fun of this board is to be known by your thoughts and opinions, and not looks. Just an idea. I'd do it just for fun! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnIslandGirl Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/473885-picture-perfect-i-may-have-pictured-you-all-wrong/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meadowlark Posted October 22, 2017 Author Share Posted October 22, 2017 http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/473885-picture-perfect-i-may-have-pictured-you-all-wrong/ So this has been done before, but I don't think I was around then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera33 Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Huh. I don't wonder about looks or sound. I just startled myself by imagining Sadie with an Australian accent. :lol: I look like a female version of Karl Rove. Now you know why my avatar is a local landmark. :laugh: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaceful Isle Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I do wonder sometimes but I kind of imagine you people In my head to look certain ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I have a photo in my avatar because I appreciate knowing what other people look like. I mean, I know that not everyone cares one way or the other, but I am visual and enjoy imagining the face of the person I'm speaking to. I figure there are some others who feel the same. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 That's so interesting. I often don't even notice if people have a pic or not! My brain is weird though. For example, I have a sense of where different posters are located in my visual field when I engage with them, even though I don't imagine their faces! I know posters by their avatars. I get names switched all the time. All of the lion names confuse me. Even in real life I'll get someone's name wrong once because I think they look like a different name and then it will take me months to unlearn the first name. One of my kids' friends' dad calls himself not-Bill when he texts or calls (Hi Barb, it's not-bill) because his name is Jeff and I've been calling him Bill since Christmas. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I've had dreams about people here. I wish I had dream snapshots to post to see how close I was. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I'm a very visual person, so I always have a vague picture in my mind of what a person looks like if I've become familiar with their avatar. I don't try and imagine it... those images just pop up automatically! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 They're all wearing denim skirts and Tom shoes, of course.😂I've been lucky enough to "see" a couple of the ladies here :) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Our South Central PA (and MD, DE, VA) get togethers have been fun. Some folks were nothing like I imagined them. Not better or worse, but definitely different. I think most of us felt that way. It's nice having "real people" in my mind behind screen names. FWIW, I sometimes forget "real" names, but I still recall who folks are by their screen names for the most part. Their posts also seem far more real and meaningful after getting to know them (not just those at the get togethers, but those I've seen from travels, etc, too). The next get together is coming up Nov 2nd if I recall correctly. Anyone nearby is welcome to come! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 We could start a fun thread trying to describe what picture we have in our heads of each other. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I shouldn't change my round saw then ? Nooo! I may start calling you Susan or something 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I wad just inspired to put a picture for all you visual folks. I don't really look like that fyi ;) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I notice names and rarely look at avatars... I didn't even realise Sadie had a round saw. I thought it was just some kind of silver circle thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I wad just inspired to put a picture for all you visual folks. I don't really look like that fyi ;) Sure sure ... We all know you are really a pool noodle... (They are pool noodles aren't they?) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 ok, here I am https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/KWDgfT8WJX6tDlXNUfwKulPyYQa7MbgqFw6xa5BeeBE 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I picture people by the avatars they have. But, if your avatar is not your photo, I don't really have a different picture of you in my head. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 ok, here I am https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/KWDgfT8WJX6tDlXNUfwKulPyYQa7MbgqFw6xa5BeeBE Noooo! I always thought you were a unicorn and you are actually a cat! With hands and feet. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Sure sure ... We all know you are really a pool noodle... (They are pool noodles aren't they?) :rofl: Chalk. I'm chalk lol. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmasc Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 Sure sure ... We all know you are really a pool noodle... (They are pool noodles aren't they?) I was thinking sidewalk chalk! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 :rofl: Chalk. I'm chalk lol. 😆 And that is why I am not a visual person... As long as you don't squeak on the blackboard I'm cool with you being chalk... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 I'm not sure what to think, I don't identify as a pool noodle, although it's nearly summer :lol: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) Yes. Now don't go posting photos to mess up my happy images. LOL Honestly, it's voices that I am more often imagining as I hear you speak through these forums. Edited October 23, 2017 by Seasider 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paige Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 No, I never do. Weird, huh ? I'm not a very visual person. I'm more likely to wonder how people sound. Picture me sounding like a small 7yr old girl. Apparently that's how telemarketers picture me. And my dad, who can't tell the difference between me and DDs since they were 5. :glare: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I don't have very specific features in mind for any of you (it's all kinda fuzzy in my mind) but you all need to know that you're a very nice looking bunch. ;) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Send the pic to your email. Then when it shows up there, click “save picâ€. It’ll automatically make it smaller. (At least it does on my iPad) Thank you! It's always bugged me that I couldn't do this! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SereneHome Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 ALL.THE.TIME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosika Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I'm a visual person, but I'm almost glad to not know what some people look like! For me, on other message boards, I've been taken aback by a few people who I was way off base about. And then I can't reconcile that in my mind, so I'm forever internally tormented by my image of them versus the reality of them. LOL Like I said, I'm a visual person. It's like playing FOR REAL. :lol: This is only true of posters who I didn't already form a visual for. Posters who use a portrait as their avatar don't offer me an opportunity to form my own visual image of them. I only see them as the lovely ladies they are! It's the same reason why I generally don't watch movie adaptations of books. I just .... can't, mentally, deal with an image so counter to my own! It's the same reason why I generally don't watch movie adaptations of books. I just .... can't, mentally, deal with an image so counter to my own! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junie Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 My avatar is my a photo of my Mii. It's a reasonable likeness, I suppose. :) I don't wear my hair in a ponytail as much as I used to, so just imagine that my hair is down. Also, I have nicer glasses now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 WTH has happened in this thread? First, I found out there’s not an implied “g’day mate†at the beginning of all your posts and now you’ve gotten rid of the saw?!? What is going on here?? :willy_nilly: :willy_nilly: I actually did say g'day to someone today. :huh: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I was so giddy when I got married I posted a link to my wedding pics. Other than that I try to remain anonymous. I do wonder what you all look like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epicurean Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 No you don't. You look mellifluous :) FYI I have standard AU city accent....not the outback kind! No 'g'day mate' from me! Do you read everyone in an Aussie accent even though you know most people here are American? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Mom4 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I look exactly like my profile pic. Exactly. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Long before avatars, I pictured people on my mind. And every time I met someone, I was completely wrong in my imagination. I still picture many of them as I imagined them Weird. I do not look like a tomato, myself. :0) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Patty Joanna, every time I see your tomato avatar, I wonder about the winged section. Did it grow that way, or is it cut and lifted? Did you grow it yourself? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 And FWIW, even though I'm very visual, I don't think much about what people look like unless they share their photos. I identify people by their avatars. Change your board name all you like, but leave those avatars alone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I actually did say g'day to someone today. :huh: :lol: I say G'Day all the time. just not when answering the phone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Do you read everyone in an Aussie accent even though you know most people here are American? No. I don't, mostly because you all use terminology that isn't Aus speech. Sometimes I have to translate, sometimes I have to ask my Canadian DH to translate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 My photo in my avatar was from my dd's 10th birthday. She's now 21. I haven't changed at all, not even a little bit. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 There's no mystery with me, I guess. ;) My avatar picture is less than a year old, so I look exactly the same. Except more tired now that I have a young baby. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Patty Joanna, every time I see your tomato avatar, I wonder about the winged section. Did it grow that way, or is it cut and lifted? Did you grow it yourself? That is a tomato from my garden. And it grew that way! It made me laugh—it’s sort of a sassy tomato. :0) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) Do you read everyone in an Aussie accent even though you know most people here are American?It always throws me to hear SWB's accent! How she says 'poem'! *swoon*Yes, I read you all with a normal accent, you all speak city-aussie in my head. 😜 Edited October 23, 2017 by LMD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Do you read everyone in an Aussie accent even though you know most people here are American? I've got most of you on mute. :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 I've got most of you on mute. :p Like 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 OK. That's me. I'll leave it up for 24 hrs, lol. Then I might go back to my saw. This is from a couple of months ago. eta that is very weird, seeing one's face everywhere. I don't like it! You look very much as I'd imagined you would (but maybe a little younger)! That almost never happens--I always imagine people completely differently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Sadie, you are beautiful! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth86 Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 Oh yeah. I've made up a face for all kinds if you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 OK. That's me. I'll leave it up for 24 hrs, lol. Then I might go back to my saw. This is from a couple of months ago. eta that is very weird, seeing one's face everywhere. I don't like it! Sadie you are beautiful! I didn't imagine you UNbeautiful, but you seem very serious and stoic and well I just didn't expected such a young and beautiful woman! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted October 23, 2017 Share Posted October 23, 2017 There are some posters that I have a picture of in my mind what I think they look like and others I don't. Not sure why that is. I look a lot like my picture aside from the fact that was 3 kids ago and I have added on many pounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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