Ever lie re: your race/gender/orientation etc. on a messageboard?

[DrWeird]

Ever become convinced that somebody else was for ill gotten purposes, yet couldn't prove it?

[Goldberg]

1. If I said either "yes" or "no", would you believe me?

How do we know what truth is on a message board? We don't.

[DrWeird]

2. You mean you're NOT irish catholic?!

;-)

[Goldberg]

5. Nope. Sorry.

I'm a home Baptist. ;)

[MountainLaurel]

3. Yes

Right now all of my registration information to the Washington Post points to me being Harry Potter. I am not.

:evilgrin:

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Never.

I am a 60-year old lesbian Ainu dwarf. <g>

[NoPasaran]

6. On the internet, no one knows you're a dog n/t

[corporatewhore]

7. oh in heated flames people have questioned my race

[earthman dave]

11. On IRC someone said to me:

"I bet you're one of those wogs from syria or lebanon". Charming man.

[populistmom]

8. No

Untruths have no appeal to me. I have neither the time nor the motivation for subterfuge. I have had instances where I have unfortunately had reasons to suspect it in others. It's rather disheartening to say the least.

[Bertha Venation]

9. first question: no; second question: hell yes. eom

[SOteric]

10. I'm really a 57 year old male wrestler from Wisconsin.

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

12. You forgot the part about your name being "Snake".

:-)

[SOteric]

13. No, that's my tattoo.

My name is Earl.

[GOPisEvil]

18. Ahhh...well, you're a good guy, Earl.

I'd buy you a beer any ol' time. We can sit around, grunt, scratch ourselves and toss a few back!

[LynneSin]

14. I'm really a 57 year old man with a stepford wife and twin daughters

Who has failed at everything I've done. But I use this LynneSin name and make you folks think I'm a really fun chick folks want to hang out with

[Zero Gravitas]

15. I am not

of mixed Arab/Chinese heritage.
I am not a 7ft tall lesbian.
I do not have a million dollars
or a perpetual motion machine.
I am not from Mars.
I did not invent the internet.
and I am not George W. Bush's cocaine connection.
I have not done time in a Turkish prison.

If I have ever implied otherwise I regret the misunderstanding, it was purely unintentional.

[Newsman Matt Drudge]

16. I'm lying right now!

Sincerely,
Matt

[commander bunnypants]

17. Sure

I am from Uranus. I am a ten foot tall blue, bass quitarist.


DDQM

[BritishHuman]

19. I had a foaming at the mouth guy convinced I was chinese

But that was on a filesharing program. I kept kicking him from my queue because he wasn't sharing anything himself, and apparently my polite message (a standard spiel when I did that, something along the lines of "Your client is not reporting any shared files, you should get that fixed") caused him incoherent rage. I responded a few times, maintaining a polite, even tone, and presumably my ability to spell and punctuate convinced him that I was... Chinese? I believe the word 'chink' was used a few times.

I may have suggested that his inability to play well with others indicated in turn that he was American, for which I humbly apologise.

[rbnyc]

20. No, I'm sickly honest.

I have some kind of anti-deception gene. I have a very hard time misrepresenting myself.

[catzies]

21. No. It's hard enough being myself to begin with.

In all my years on-line, in all the different places I've been, I always say exactly who/what I am.

I've met and made friends with a bunch of people I first met on-line. And none of them have ever been surprised when they met me because I turned out to be who I said I was to begin with. Disappointed, maybe. Surprised, no. :)

[Nikia]

22. I don't lie

Some people may believe different things about me if I don't say bit I never never said that I was anything that wasn't. I don't think that anyone has said that they assumed that I was anything besides female which I am.
I have been mistaken for different ethnicities and religions in person. Sometimes I have chosen to correct such people and sometimes I have not.