Do you expect people to look like their avatars?

Piste

Are you ever suprised when you meet a boardsie IRL that they don't actually look like catwoman? Or that their skin ISN'T bright orange?

I always expect posters to look somewhat like their avatars. If their avatar is a person I'll expect them to look similar to it, if it's an inanimate object, I expect them to have the same colouring as it.

Apparently I look like my avatar (I would hope that's because I was smiling a lot at the time and not because I am blue, although I was wearing a lot of turquioise at the time the poster who mentioned this saw me :v:)

So what about you? Do you do a double take when you meet a poster and say "you look nothnig like your avatar at all!"

aidan_walsh

God help me if I do...

I'm not sure if you're expectation is based more on association, or being just plain daft. Probably both.

Basq

I actually AM my avatar!

Does that shock you?!

MIAOWWW!!!!

TerrorFirmer

Well, I smoke sometimes...

Silverfish

And my eyes look like that when I've been drinking.

bizmark

Im a spaceship

Binomate

I expect people to suit their avatars.

Diarmsquid

Some people were dissapointed when I didn't look like a smurf actually.
But, yes I do. When you've never seen them before, you form a picture of them in your head based on what you associated them with, i.e. avatar, sig or even name.

melekalikimaka

I'm not really Superman, my name is Clark Kent, I work for a newspaper

Scarinae

Well I wear purple I guess... But I'm not much of one for hats, and also I'm not a duck. However, I can flap in the night, even if I'm not a terror.

Nightwish

I'm as pretty as my avatar(!)

Ive been warned that Tar.Aldarion is fact an anime chick though!

TerrorFirmer

Nightwish, I have that exact avatar as a huge poster somewhere, Amy Lee wearing the old fashioned dress with bitch written all over it, yeah?

edit: You'd be doing well to look like that

Piste

basquille wrote:

I actually AM my avatar!

Does that shock you?!

MIAOWWW!!!!

FURRY!

bounty

i wearing the same stupid gap-toothed grin as letterman right now


on the subject of letterman, did you know oprah is finally appearing on the late show, after 13 years of boycotting him?

Nightwish

MobileInfantry wrote:

Nightwish, I have that exact avatar as a huge poster somewhere, Amy Lee wearing the old fashioned dress with bitch written all over it, yeah?

edit: You'd be doing well to look like that

I know...its wishful thinking on my part..*hangs head*

Tar.Aldarion

Nightwish wrote:

I'm as pretty as my avatar(!)

Fnarr!

Nightwish wrote:

Ive been warned that Tar.Aldarion is fact an anime chick though!

Yes well, why do I even try to hide it?



Mobile, I want your poster.

rainbow kirby

Well I don't look like a green Super Mario 64 block...
Though I *am* wearing a green hoody now

YeatsCounty

I'm the uncool version of Jon Arbuckle.

Agent Smith

i am pacman

Piste

I wish I were pac(wo)man



:wakka:

Rb

Nope, don't really expect people to look like their avatars tbh.

Endurance Man

Cartmans just my hero.

Dinner

I'm an old man at heart.

Pythia

I just like pink.

Creamy Goodness

i just love "that 80's guy" out of futurama.

Creature

Yes I look like my avatar. I was in an accident with nuclear waste after birth. Unfortunately I didn't gain super-powers just a hideous visage.

Capt'n Midnight

There are some people you wish looked like their avatar.

monkeyfudge

Here's a photo of me...

http://www.monkeyfudge.com/images/mojo.JPG

Admitedly it was holloween... but I do look a damn sight more like my avatar than most people.

Basq

monkeyfudge wrote:

Here's a photo of me...

http://www.monkeyfudge.com/images/mojo.JPG

Admitedly it was holloween... but I do look a damn sight more like my avatar than most people.

Whoa.. you've a great rack!

.....

Oh... wait... you're the guy in the monkey mask, right?!

Apologies!

monkeyfudge

I'll have you know I also have a great rack!

That reminds me... I'm almost completely out of parsley...

Nasty_Girl

woof woof

Well I have been described as a dog before

The Song Thrush

By default, everyone on boards is male unless they have a feminine avatar/username. :v:

DonkeyStyle \o/

Piste wrote:

Are you ever suprised when you meet a boardsie IRL that they don't actually look like catwoman? Or that their skin ISN'T bright orange?

Nope... I don't think sitting infront of my PC for 14 hours a day has driven me that mental yet.
Maybe soon though :v:

SouperComputer

ive no idea what\who my avatar is. Picked it almost three years ago now and its just stuck ever since.

compare it to this:

http://www.boards.ie/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/148

besty

I should hope not...
Face like an ass, literally

lazylad

There's noone out there quite like Dino

monkeyfudge

SouperComputer wrote:

ive no idea what\who my avatar is. Picked it almost three years ago now and its just stuck ever since.

compare it to this:

http://www.boards.ie/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/148

It's Brainiac from the Superman cartoons.

He's a super computer from Krypton... I amazed you picked it without knowing who he was.

SouperComputer

monkeyfudge wrote:

It's Brainiac from the Superman cartoons.

He's a super computer from Krypton... I amazed you picked it without knowing who he was.

now thats some messed up shizz. I had no idea! crazy!

Zillah

*bounces around laughing hysterically and then eats some sandwiches*

SouperComputer

mmmm, sandwiches. Feck, shoul have done shopping today instead of working.

Anyway, better take ay drunk ass to bed.

monkeyfudge

More info about Brainiac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainiac_%28comics%29#Appearances_in_other_media

Personally I love the direction they took the character in the cartoons.

ferdi

i 'm the image of Rocko

aidan_dunne

The Song Thrush wrote:

By default, everyone on boards is male unless they have a feminine avatar/username. :v:

Ummm, not a good rule to follow, to be honest. And I'll explain why.

You see, unlike the original poster, I don't expect members to look like their avatars in real life (I mean, come on, you actually expect someone to look like the Starship Enterprise or Pacman? ). However, I did used to think for a long time that a person's sex on Boards was represented by their avatar, i.e. girls had "girly" avatars or avatars which depected women. I made a few mistakes then, though, based on this by referring to certain people as girls or females when it actually turned out they were male, and vice-versa. I quickly found out that some people actually take great offence at this and can get very pissed off with you. :eek: So I don't make that assumption between avatar and a member's sex anymore. Well, at least I try not too!

As for my own avatar, no, I don't look like Cosmo Kramer, probably the complete opposite in fact. I will admit, though, that I probably am a little crazy and share similar mannerisms at times!

I think I'm more like the avatar I previously used, to be honest...... Homer Simpson eating a donut!

BrokenArrows

no i dont but my avatar is the exact likeness of me. lol.

funk-you

man i wish i looked like my avatar. dow dow dow dow dow dow dow get up-ah!

LegacyUser

Piste wrote:

Are you ever suprised when you meet a boardsie IRL that they don't actually look like catwoman? Or that their skin ISN'T bright orange?

I always expect posters to look somewhat like their avatars. If their avatar is a person I'll expect them to look similar to it, if it's an inanimate object, I expect them to have the same colouring as it.

Apparently I look like my avatar (I would hope that's because I was smiling a lot at the time and not because I am blue, although I was wearing a lot of turquioise at the time the poster who mentioned this saw me :v:)

So what about you? Do you do a double take when you meet a poster and say "you look nothnig like your avatar at all!"

Why don't we post a few pics and people can see for themselves if we look like our avatars??




You first....:p

xzanti

sillysausage wrote:

Why don't we post a few pics and people can see for themselves if we look like our avatars??




You first....:p

You can in the "Know your Nerds" section... Dont think I would tho.. Scaaaaarlette

LegacyUser

xzanti wrote:

You can in the "Know your Nerds" section... Dont think I would tho.. Scaaaaarlette

Ah just wanted to see who was brave enough to stick one up, I stuck one up ages ago in PI, dunno if I would do it again.

Love

I expect people's avatars to suit them... but not necessarily look like them.

My avatar's favourite question is "why?!";)

And i did have red hair at various stages over the last year... soon to become red again btw...

dundalk cailin

well id feel wrong without little miss sunshine...ah what the hell im as sunny as her

sometimes ive been mistaken by members usernames, thought they were male, they were female and vice versa!! sometimes u cant tell, but by reading the posts u guess..

(for those who dont remember their irish, cailin is girl in irish )

Big Nelly

Im trying to take over the World!!