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Today, for the first time in well over a year, I was approached by an ICQvert. I think we discuss theology, but I'm not really sure on that.
Looking For Truth: hi are u the one that have a strange web site why do u live and use the net is it scary to be alone
Looking For Truth: yes u r the one on that poorly site now i know u r a headic
ShanMonster: I'm sure there is more than one person with a strange website, but yes, I qualify as one of 'em. I live because I haven't died yet. I'm not scared to be alone. I'm not scared of the dark, either. What is a headic?
Looking For Truth: :-) you'er the one that knows english very well on net dear ;-)
ShanMonster: Yes, but that doesn't mean I understand Internetese. What is a headic?
Looking For Truth: let it go are u ill?
Looking For Truth: u r site index takes along time to open wanna see you is that ok?
ShanMonster: Why should I let it go? If someone uses terminology I am unacquainted with, it levels the playing field if that person shares their knowledge. It's impossible to communicate, if people do not understand one another. And no, I am not ill. I'm feeling quite peachy, actually. Thanks for asking.
ShanMonster: I suspect my page takes a while to load because of the chat box on it. It's hosted by another server.
Looking For Truth: strange bab with a starng looking i belive
ShanMonster: I have no idea what you are talking about. Care to elucidate?
Looking For Truth: if u start first?
ShanMonster: If I start what?
Looking For Truth: let me know u
Looking For Truth: is it hard?
ShanMonster: Is what hard?
Looking For Truth: to tell me about u
ShanMonster: Yes, it is rather difficult. And the reason is because you appear not to be understanding anything I'm writing to you.
Looking For Truth: i see u think you'er self a girl of god
ShanMonster: Er, no. Not even slightly.
Looking For Truth: haven't any one tolld u befor god have no kids dear;-)
ShanMonster: No, no one has ever told me that before. Of course, no one has ever told me squid carry handcuffs in their back pockets, either. Neither makes any sense, without contextualization.
Looking For Truth: by the way what is you'er study?
ShanMonster: I study many things, like kung fu, dance, metal arts, and the depths to which the English language can be bastardized.
Looking For Truth: i ask if u can do a billy dance good? eastern in other word
ShanMonster: Billy dance? I've never heard it called that before! But yes, I'm passable.
Looking For Truth: in fact i wanna see you'er picture to know u will and i think u won' agree am i wrong?
ShanMonster: My pictures are scattered all over my website. Are you wrong about what?
Looking For Truth: you'er site did'nt opne well with me could u send one of you'er pictures?
ShanMonster: If my page didn't open for you, how on earth could you discern whether or not my site is strange?
Looking For Truth: is it hard for u ?
ShanMonster: Are you a bot?
Looking For Truth: bot what does it mean?
ShanMonster: It means you are seriously failing the Turing test, as far as I'm concerned.
Looking For Truth: i belive u should see a doctor cuz may be u will be in real danger.
ShanMonster: Why? Are you threatening me?
Looking For Truth: nice no my dear strange girl but u r not normal
ShanMonster: I didn't claim to be.
Looking For Truth: so u say u r a psycho?
ShanMonster: No, I didn't say that, either.
Looking For Truth: if u think u r an angel or devil u must be a psycho.
ShanMonster: You are confusing your psychopathologies. And I claimed to be neither, anyhow.
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Date: 2004-05-02 10:41 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-05-02 11:12 am (UTC)From:Wow.
This guy needs to come with his own english/wierdo-ese dictionary; i barely understood a word he said. Between the horrible spelling, the painful grammar, and the extremely large leaps of 'logic' he's pretty well unintellibible.
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Date: 2004-05-02 11:14 am (UTC)From:post post post post please pretty please
Date: 2004-05-02 11:31 am (UTC)From:Cas
Re: post post post post please pretty please
Date: 2004-05-02 11:37 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-05-02 11:35 am (UTC)From:i guess he does say 'dear' a lot, so maybe thats the requisite clue.
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Date: 2004-05-02 11:37 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-05-02 11:41 am (UTC)From:Hey, maybe you should try talking gobbledegook back at him and see if he understands it better than actual english. Of course you'll have no idea what you said, but it would be funny to try. :)
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Date: 2004-05-02 11:50 am (UTC)From:I've talked back to ICQverts in ICQvertese before. I can't remember which one it was, but it was quite funny because I told that guy I was an English teacher, and he believed it. Oy!
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Date: 2004-05-02 01:13 pm (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2004-05-02 11:49 pm (UTC)From:I think I can clear up the tortured English part of the equation. I'm thinking either Turkey or Egypt. It must sound horribly racist of me to say so, but I have yet to get a message from a male in those parts that wasn't liberally peppered with inappropriate endearments. Add to that the fact that most are under the impression that they speak "beter good english" than they actually do.
Not all of them come right out with the come-ons, but enough of them do that I cringe every time I look at user information (SOP for me before I'll accept a message from someone not on my list) and see certain countries listed. (I think the worst was from a 13-year-old boy in Turkey. Not for the language, which was relatively tame, but just the ewwww factor involved. I told him to go back to his sandbox and comic books until he was old enough to grow a beard.)
I don't know why it seems to be 75% males from that region sending messages like that. (Not a scientific sample; I'm going on pure empirical observation here.) Some of them have actually been offended when I compare asking a complete stranger to type dirty at them to accosting a random woman on the street and demanding sex. But of course, it's different; everybody knows that if a woman is on the Internet, she's a seething volcano of pure lustfulness, waiting for the message light to blink so that she can type naughty things onto the computer screen.
Idiots.
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Date: 2004-05-03 04:46 am (UTC)From: