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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Avatars Sun Feb 27, 2011 2:28 pm | |
| Do you like to know what the person you are talking to looks like? I do. Therefore my picture is quite currrent. It was taken Oct 9, 2010. The hat? It covers a bald head following brain surgery. |
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joefrank Five Star Member
Number of posts : 8210 Registration date : 2008-11-04 Age : 75 Location : Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:10 pm | |
| 2/27/2011
Alice...
You look gorgeous !
Cheers..Joe |
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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:15 pm | |
| Joe, Thanks! No make up either. |
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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:17 pm | |
| Joe, I like your picture. |
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Shelagh Admin
Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: Avatars Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:38 pm | |
| Your photo is super, Alice, and I love your hat! |
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RetiredName Four Star Member
Number of posts : 859 Registration date : 2008-12-29 Age : 55 Location : The Hub of the Universe
| Subject: Re: Avatars Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:11 pm | |
| Nice hat!
I'm too ugly to post a picture. |
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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:17 pm | |
| - Shelagh wrote:
- Your photo is super, Alice, and I love your hat!
Shelagh, Thanks! Hats cover a multitude of sins- such as no hair, bad hair etc. I will need them for a bit. Zizban, Why don't you let us be the judge of that? |
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dmondeo Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1485 Registration date : 2009-02-15 Age : 69 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:44 am | |
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Shelagh Admin
Number of posts : 12662 Registration date : 2008-01-11 Location : UK
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:57 am | |
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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:41 am | |
| - dmondeo wrote:
- Alice where is the duck?
The duck! On the floor beside my chair--I should have pinned it to my hat. Sorry! |
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Abe F. March Five Star Member
Number of posts : 10768 Registration date : 2008-01-26 Age : 85 Location : Germany
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:00 am | |
| Alice, I agree. I want to see the real person that I'm taling to or corresponding with. On some forums, like facebook, people who request friendship and give me a phoney face, I decline. What kind of friend is a phoney?
That is just my preference. Nice to see your true self. |
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A Ahad Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1102 Registration date : 2008-03-25 Age : 55
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:06 am | |
| Alice, You should have posted your pic sooner, you look awesome I hear what Abe has said, and agree, but sometimes it can work both ways. A put on face can make people curious, and get them to "look you up". Assuming that's what one wants... |
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alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:14 am | |
| Choosing to use an avatar other than one's own photo doesn't mean one is being "phony," Abe, or that one has something to hide. Sometimes an avatar is designed to express one's ideas or beliefs in a way you cannot see simply by looking at a face.
Some of us, sometimes, just get tired of looking at ourselves.
I have been considering changing my avatar for several weeks, as a means of conveying something that is important to me at this time, looking for a symbol that would express the wholeness of the person I think I am - today, anyway.
We are all more than our surface appearance, which, in itself, can be deceiving sometimes,
Just me.
Ann |
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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:36 am | |
| Okay, Ann, I just got tired of looking at myself. My book cover will be the new me. |
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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:40 am | |
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A Ahad Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1102 Registration date : 2008-03-25 Age : 55
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:05 am | |
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alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:10 am | |
| I believe that is a fallacy, Ahad.
Ann |
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Abe F. March Five Star Member
Number of posts : 10768 Registration date : 2008-01-26 Age : 85 Location : Germany
| Subject: Re: Avatars Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:05 pm | |
| Ahad, on a positive note, once over 40, there is a new beginning. You walked up the hill during the first 40 years, now you can walk down the other side with a sense of relief. The hard part is over. You made it over the top. You can smile just thinking of those starting their climb up the hill and what they will have to endure.
You have experience that is not available in books, untill you write it. |
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JoElle Five Star Member
Number of posts : 1311 Registration date : 2008-05-09
| Subject: Re: Avatars Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:29 am | |
| - Abe F. March wrote:
- Alice,
I agree. I want to see the real person that I'm taling to or corresponding with. On some forums, like facebook, people who request friendship and give me a phoney face, I decline. What kind of friend is a phoney?
That is just my preference. Nice to see your true self. I had my real face here for awhile. But I like my little fae avatars. I think most everyone here has seen the real me. If they forgot what I look like they can always go to my website. |
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fleamailman Four Star Member
Number of posts : 957 Registration date : 2010-04-30
| Subject: Re: Avatars Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:33 am | |
| "...I've been this linux penguin avatar since I converted from the evil empire..." mentioned the goblin, continuing "...whereas if I had put up my real photo, I dare say I would only be putting up another photo of me in a few years times, and then another too, and so on until the point I couldn't face seeing my face remembering what it had been once, so no, facebook is for those facelook types then, but I look the perfect goblin now and will till the last..." |
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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:51 am | |
| - JoElle wrote:
- Abe F. March wrote:
- Alice,
I agree. I want to see the real person that I'm taling to or corresponding with. On some forums, like facebook, people who request friendship and give me a phoney face, I decline. What kind of friend is a phoney?
That is just my preference. Nice to see your true self. I had my real face here for awhile. But I like my little fae avatars. I think most everyone here has seen the real me. If they forgot what I look like they can always go to my website. Where is your website? |
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Abe F. March Five Star Member
Number of posts : 10768 Registration date : 2008-01-26 Age : 85 Location : Germany
| Subject: Re: Avatars Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:04 pm | |
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alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: Avatars Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:00 am | |
| Abe, Thanks! I know where your website is and even know what you look like. It was JoElle's I was inquiring about. |
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LC Five Star Member
Number of posts : 5044 Registration date : 2009-03-28
| Subject: Re: Avatars Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:19 am | |
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- on a positive note, once over 40, there is a new beginning. You walked up the hill during the first 40 years, now you can walk down the other side with a sense of relief. The hard part is over.
Is it? I'm not so sure. Growing old isn't for sissies. My mom is experiencing a bunch of health problems, both mental and physical. Everyday life tasks are more difficult. They live in a different state so I can't easily help them. |
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alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: Avatars Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:42 am | |
| You're right, LC. Growing old is not for sissies. I'm reminded of that every morning when it takes me longer to get out of bed because - to paraphrase Robert Redford's character in the Electric Horseman: "The old parts wake up slower."
I'm currently dealing with one of those tasks. I've got to clear out the dead Mexican Petunia stalks in my back yard, from the series of hard freezes we had this winter, before the new spring ones start to grow in. My arthritis is yelling at me to stop, or at least slow down. Even after 10 years, the tobacco/nicotine residue in my lungs won't let me go much farther than my bones and muscles say is enough. But I can stand on my patio and see that the mess is much less than it was this morning, and at this time tomorrow, it will be even better, and that's enough.
I hear what Abe is saying, too. I like saying, "I am 67." Whenever I say it, I realize that I have come this far, and I am still here. Even though I screwed up a lot, I managed to learn some stuff along the way, and can look back and smile. I am well over half way through that next forty, and generally satisfied.
Life can be good at any step along the way, regardless of the outside circumstances.
Ann |
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