kiramanell

I can already see his mailbox filling up. "Help me, Obi-Wan Linden, you're my only hope!" 😛

Hehe, thx! ❤️ And I should look younger; it's Chloe from "Before the Storm."

Boobs came out just fine. Just be prepared for ppl asking you again why you aren't wearing a bra. 😛

🤣 See, that, right there, is great humor! ❤️ There are 4 things a thread generally needs: 1) Humor; 2) Taylor Swift; 3) Fun people; 4) Humor AND Taylor Swift. Not necessarily in that particular order.

Hehe, Seicher, thank you! You are one out of a small handful of ppl capable of instantly making me smile, from ear to ear, on a day which looked like it was gonna wind up pretty gloomy (forum-wise). Thank you!! ❤️🤗 As for my English, thanks for that too, but I just had to ask LunaSea, in another thread, what a 'tortie' is. 😛 So, yeah, there's that. Oh, and it was Fairre alright. I was just being subtle, is all. A bit too subtle, as it turns out, as nobody detected her. (Would make a nice kids game "Where Is Fairre?"). But lookit that face! (with unprocessed layer next to it)

I had to look up 'tortie' (urban dictionary). What I found was, well... probably not what you meant. 😬 If you did, well, nevermind then. 🤭

This looks so real, it's unreal. 🏆❤️ Amazing work, once again! And your hair is amazeballs!

Why, I didn't recognize you there without your beard. 😜 Seriously, though, nice avi!

No, my whole 'big' post this morning was about humor and religion alright. Primarily to try and determine why ppl would chuckle at the sight of, say, a toast with Taylor Swift in it, totally disbelieving the veracity of such event having occured, but do not find it funny at all, and are offended even, when a toast with Jesus'' face pops up (a 'miracle' they now think totally happened for realz). As I have said many time, to myself and others, talk about religion and politics are almost guarenteed to end in doom. And I should have known better. But I posted here anyway. That is really all on me. For next time, I really need to remind myself just to not engage in religious talk at all, ever. At least not on a forum. It's like trying to have your cake and eat it: it simply can't be done.

I mean, yes, you were a taker, but the discussion got rudely derailed suddenly, and now it's dead again.

I really appreciate all the work you put into this, and for explaining (and rectifying) how 'alts' made their appearance in your start-topic. All is much clearer now. Thank you! 👍

Yeah, you did. Looks like it wasn't meant to btw, though.

Good call. I was just going to post a pet peeve about something which just happened in another thread (with familiar players). But you're right: that's not what this thread is for, so I won't do that. Thx for reminding me.

Now you're being deliberately contrary, as the Linden who posted to THIS THREAD this morning specifically said: (Emphasis mine). And the topic of this thread is "Religious humor in Second Life?" I tried. But you can continue playing your mind games with others. I'm out.

Well, I tried, this morning, getting it back on track, talking about reiligion and humor, but there were no takers.

Because Fairre was one on the side of defending the toast; only fair. And I wanted to show how easy it is to fake a toast like that. And because me would have been too obvious, and Taylor Swift too unbelievable.

Um, because I Photoshopped her in, maybe?! 🤣 I suck at PS, but dangit, blending I can do! Give me burned toast, and you WILL be in there. (And now for the real kicker, the blending mode I used was 'color burn'). 😍

I meant to skip this (and the wisest thing for me would really be to do just that), as explaining why ppl are religious is whole pages full of another topic right there. But it just occured to me I'm actually probably not the best one to ask these questions. I consider myself in Stage 4. I don't do Organized Religion; I don't believe in the Transubstantiation, candles mean nothing to me (except over dinner), I don't do rites, and while I believe Jesus existed, it doesnt really much matter to me. I do believe in God, though. And that I do not need a priest to talk to Her for me: I can do that myself just fine, thank you, soul-to-Soul.

My question was not just generically why people believe in this or that, but why there's a glaring incongruency between why people have enough common sense to utterly dismiss portrait X in toast Y, but will suddenly insist the existence of portrait Z, in same toast Y, is absolutely real.

I'm a petite, kinda short person in SL. Mostly because my Chloe avi is; but I chose her for reasons, of course. My non-Chloe avis are genetically blonde (*g*), like me, in RL. I don't necessarily try and make em look the same as me, though. Just like they say "Don't dress for the job you have, but for the job you want," I prefer my avis to look more like how I'd like to (still) be, than how am I, per se. A Freudian might call this 'narcissistic identification' (with oneself as object, LOL). And The Matrix calls it 'Residual self-image.' Yeah. I am rarely entirely different from who I am in RL, though (one or two robot avis notwithstanding).

Got to do some more thinking (in a thread about a guy who got resurrected, but which itself just won't die. 😇) That potato lady and Letterman. It wasn't so bad, in my eyes. Primarily because I didn't feel she was being mocked. For sure, there was a bit of nervous giggle going on, which is rather normal when an audience is being confronted with a certain amount of eccentricity. And she didnt actually believe there was a goat in her potato chip. In effect, she was no different from ppl seeing animals in clouds. Many do. I do. And guy taking potato chip out of his own bowl, that really WAS funny. In my country, there's a very popular show ("De Wereld Draait Door"). The very first episode/pilot was awful, though. They had a generic (possibly genetic) blonde on the show. She was stereotypical in every way, pretty, and not too bright. She was rather native too. But very kind. And the 3 men, also guests on the show, were making fun of her. They kept telling she had to press 'the Play' (-button). An incredibly juvenile pun based on the fact 'de plee' (= the toilet) sounds the same in Dutch. I wasn't amused at all. Not simply because of the bad humor, but because I was appalled by the 'gentlemen' mocking her, without her even realizing it. That, to me, is on par with making fun of mentally disabled people. She wasn't, really, but might as well been. It was downright cruel. They were making infantile jokes, over her head, compounded by the fact that she was being very nice, all the way thru. But she was defenseless (heck, she didn't even realize she was being attacked). That kinda cruelty I find abhorrent. And if I ever catch someone doing that in front of me, I will rip him apart, quite literally. Now, onto the Jesus-toast. Remember this one? No one here, in their right mind, would ever believe my breakfast toast, yesterday morning, really showed an outline of Fairre in it. They would smile a bit, maybe, or think "Kira, that's obviously doctored!"Or simply think not much of it at all, as every sane person understands FAKE being FAKE. But now for the thing I can't really answer, what makes this clear fraud so different from a toast showing Jesus? Or, put differently, what make ppl suddenly drop their normally quite working common sense when a picture of Jesus is seen in a toast? Why are they suddenly highly offended for not being believed? I get that Jesus is an important figure to many, but why does a picture of Jesus in a toast not invoke the same common sense brakes on one's gullibility, like when seeing a toast with the face of Fairre in it?! As always, I don't mean to offend anyone. And no, not Fairre either.

We don't always see I to I on everything, but frankly, no, I can't 'certainly see' why they took you off. You are knowledgeable about most everything SL, you're experienced, you know a great deal about building and mesh, and you're not afraid to share your knowledge. You should, by any reasonable account, still be an Advisor.

First of all, I want to repeat that I really like Ivy's intentions. I regret a bit that she brought 'alts' into it, though. An 'alt' is simply a different persona to post under, for whatever reasons (supporting oneself, pile-on posts, trolling even, etc). A 'scammer' is something completely different. (And I have a hard time even figuring how they're related to alts to begin with: I reckon a scammer will simply use whatever account they made for such nefarious purposes)

It all sounds a bit too 'doxxing/stalky' to me. Even though there's no RL info being uncovered, of course, I find the notion of desperately trying to find out who someone is, a bit too creepy, even though I absolutely believe the intentions of the OP are good. Me? I don't need to know. Here, ppl simply are their words. I have no inclination to try and unearth who the 'real' identity is behind a poster (even when said 'real' identity is just another poster's alt). I can't be bothered by that sleuth stuff, regardless: too much of an upkeep, and half the time I would dramatically suck at it anyway, even if I tried. Seicher Rae was posting with a cute cat-alt. I *might* have noticed it eventually, and in hindsight I can see it, because she outright told us, but the more likely scenario for me is, that I will miss 99% of such 'transitions.' And that's really an area where 'blissful ignorance' simply works for me. Makes life simpler, and it's better for the soul.

"Bello, Barone. Veramente!" 👍 Indeed, context is everything (when is it ever not, really?!). There's one particular instance, though, where I actually don't like the term 'woman.' Like in "A college woman has been reported missing." That sounds like a schoolteacher having gone to Vegas for the day with a few friends or something, whereas what they really mean, is "A young 19-year old girl was abducted, r*ped, and now lies dead in a ditch somewhere." Sorry for the graphic, but using 'woman' in that context somehow diminishes the severity of the crime, makes it too generic, as it were. Like "A man got killed in the war." When you say it like that, ppl go like 'Yeah, whatevs.' Which is why I generally refer to a teenager as a 'girl.' Or 'young woman,' at best. Whatever the Law says, at 18, you're still a child. And when a crime is committed against you, at that age, reports should reflect that, IMHO.