"Not Friends. Not Strangers. What ARE you?" Topic

If John the OFM, Plynkes, Connard Sage and Oh were to attack me in the street and spend ten minutes teasing me, stealing my lunch-money, insulting my wife and then beat me to an inch of my life, and the Police asked me 'did you know any of these people?' I would have to say 'Never seen them in my life, but one of them looked real funny'

And yet I probably share as many conversations with some of them as I do with my real friends.

What would I call them? Is there a word for this sort of Internet Aquaintance? A 'Net-Pal'? Sounds a bit gay frankly. 'Intermate' and 'Electrochum' are surely made of washable Latex and only available in shops you find in back streets.

What is the word you would use to describe someone you speak to every couple of days but who you would not know from Adam?

Pat

'Net-Pal'? Sounds a bit gay frankly

if the shoe fits….

….make sure you disinfect it before insertion.

We obviously read the same Manuals Ravenscraft.

Pat

You can call me 'sir'…or 'mate', or 'Jeff', or ' '. I'm easy.

If you want to be a nerd, just add 'e' – 'e-mate'. Though if you do, be assured that if we ever do meet I'll definitely nick your dinner money

I'm easy

That's not what Ravenscraft Cybernetics said.

Pat

He's a colonial, what does he know? :)

Connard Sage 23 Dec 2010 6:20 a.m. PST
You can call me 'sir'…or 'mate', or 'Jeff', or ' '. I'm easy.

Yeah, that's what the rumours said.

"I'm easy."

That is what I read on the stall wall in the bathroom.

See? I told you. I left myself open there.

er…

He's a colonial, what does he know?

Ungrateful rebellion against the Kingdom that had just saved his cowardly ass from the French? Turning up late for Wars and then shooting the wrong people?

Pat

Ooooh controversy.

^that's the most useless popcorn smiley icon thingy in the world, ever.

And I don't get dinner Money – I get a Packed Lunch.

Pat

Well I'm not eating that.

yes, but what about my Packed Lunch?

Pat

I meant your packed lunch. You perv.

Bill, Bill he called me a Perv!

(Eats Dairylea Triangle, smirks)

Pat

*pokes Pat in ribs*

As it's nearly festiveyulemastide shall we let E-ConnardSage off the hook ?

Unless (as I hear) he prefers to stay there….

I wouldn't admit to knowing any of you to the police.

Acquaintance

That region in France the HYW was fought over???

My Ears! My Lovely Ears!

Taking the OP seriously (probably a mistake, but that's who I am, derrr):

I agree with the Editor. Acquaintance covers most of my relationships on TMP. I think of those I get along with particularly well as my Virtual Friends. Real World is better. There's a level I can't get past with a Virtual Friend, and I try to actualize the friendship when I can.

well, I just don't think

ACQUAINTANCE

quite covers it – I am no more acquainted with you than I am with the callers to a late night Radio Phone-In Show. We spout off in the same area of the internet, that doesn't make us acquainted.

Pat

WILL YOU ALL STOP BLOODY SHOUTING?

But surely one can have acquaintances in RL, no ?

I always say "some guy I talk to on the internet." What it lacks in brevity it makes up in something something.

In conversations, I use the moniker "TMPer" or "a buddy on TMP"…

E-quaitance?

Dudes………

support group ?

Fellow nerd?

Is this all part of the Social networking thing going on?.Are we nodes?

The people I personally know from TMP are friends. The ones I've not met face to face are friends in waiting.

I use "Net Buddy" which is just as gay as most of the rest of this conversation!

However, it is much less pretentious than "Fellow netizen" so I stick with it…

I've changed my mind PUT E-CONNARD SAGE ON THE HIGHER HOOK !!!!!

LOL

winky smiley face

etc

(and why is anyone worried about sounding " a bit gay", for goodness sake we're talking about pushing plastic or metal miniatures around following strict and detailed rules on how to do so. Let's not worry about sounding "a bit gay", we're more likely to be accussed of sounding "a bit mad" )

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

E-OUCH

Acquaintance.

Familiar correspondent.
-Kle.

YouTube link

What is the word you would use to describe someone you speak to every couple of days but who you would not know from Adam?

or
or even
also
ing er rectal thermometer Handbag

Margaret Thatcher's love child industrial grade PVC underwear ing er ed shaped like a carrot broccolli on his that smells like and Rolf Harris

etty ers Chris Waddell ers

just about covers it.

Just out of interest, how do I explain 'a bit gay' to my gay friends.