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I've been trying to keep up with the series, but I lost it and now I'm looking for the DVDs. But really, Dexter Morgan is my real name, and people always try to compare me to him or refer to the show when I tell them my name. But I'm not sure what to say because I'm not caught up with the show yet.
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Wow, that's pretty weird, but kind of cool. Do you sometimes wish it were different, of do you like the attention?
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I really dislike attention, but it's my name. I'm not about to change it because a show's main character shares it. I do like the name Dexter. It's easy to wave some stupid comment off if it's relating to how the fictional Dexter and I are related. If it's how we think, we think identically, but anything else is... really nonexistent.
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That's cool, I can see how people can get kind of silly about things like that. I was just curious, some people actually like that kind of attention so it can be hard to tell sometimes.
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People are often very annoying of they keep repeating the same question or 'clever' comment. Such as if I'm the long-lost brother, if I'm 'under cover', etc. But no, I really dislike any attention I get because of the name. The serial killer Dexter and Exterminator-Investigator Dexter have no appearances in common, nor do we live near one another, and I'm sure I'm taller and thinner than he is.
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That sucks, good luck with that. People can be pretty thick-headed sometimes. Not that I can relate to this particular problem, but I know how people can be once they've found something to fixate on.
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Certainly. It usually takes quite a bit of self control not to beat their faces in when they crack a 'joke' about my name or relating to the series. I just tell others that it's good they don't share their name with a famous person or celebrity they like or dislike, because it really gets bothersome after a while.
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And I like most things really, I'm a huge Gaga fan though. :D I've considered getting a kindle but I'm not sure I like the idea of it, I really enjoy holding books, their smell, owning a hard copy of something so I'm worried that the kinda spells the end of the written world as we know it. xDDD yup dooommmsssdayyy! :D Ooooh what area of non fiction do you like to read about, I mainly like to read historical things. :) I'm not huge of celebrity biographies but I like truelife stories say of people who have survived great things or what have you. If you like true stories i'd really suggest: the girl in the red coat, by Roma Ligocka it's a brilliant book. :) Ah I see you are in to science, I have to admit it is not an area that has ever influenced my hugely though at school I was really good at it. May I ask what about science interests you. :) For me history captures me because I am curious about what shaped the world we have today, what life was like in days gone by our roots our origins etc. I also have a huge interest in powerful or influential women in history, like Joan of arc or Anne Askew. :) Hey all. |
Where does Fleet go? She has been gone for so long....!
Gaga? I've never been a fan of her, perhaps because she comes across as attention-grabbing and a little too 'out there' to be real. But a couple songs of hers I do like, actually. And welcome back! |
For me she comes across as someone who expresses her self and does not fear who she is, she does what she likes and is who she is.
Thats something that not many people can say for themselves - and certainly not me. Thankyou very much Dexter. Where are you from by the way and how old are you. Also are you taking part in the 50 book challenge on here? If not you should, I have been since October. I really like this thread guys. I like the slow pace and the fact the replies are longer in length so you can actually have a proper conversation! |
Oh she can certainly be whoever she likes, I would never tell her to tone it down, though I do believe she should, just a bit, a little bit. I do express my individuality in many more ways than one, both in physical appearance and my clothing style, but there is such a thing as a bit too much.
I'm... originally from Brazil. I prefer to keep a state or current country under wraps if in a forum. And I'm twenty-seven years old, though I feel fifteen years older. I had not noticed there was a challenge... I normally ignore them. Might you tell me what it's about? I do like the thread as well. Most threads, really, as they are normally slow-paced and with better thought-out replies. I've actually been thinking about making my own thread in Mene Nation, but I might put it off. |
Shes a figurehead though, she takes things to the extreme to prove a point and encourage others.
It's like a fashion show, you wouldn't wear most of the things that are shown on the catwalk but elements are taken from the extreme to make highstreet clothes. So she goes extreme and flaunts her personality, which descends to the public in a much smaller degree. :) I see, thats cool, I don;t mind telling people where i'm from because most people don't know where it is and they wouldn't be able to single me out from that place. Haha I'm 17 and feel like i'm about 15 too. :) Well it's a forum by knerd and the challenge is to read 50 books in a year. :) I'm on 15 so yeah my progress isn't that good, I can link you to it if you like. Well most of the threads move at a moderate pace, but you get one word answers or just replies like : 'weeeeeeeee *hug everyone'* that really annoys me, I'm on this site to make friends. |
Perhaps, but there is always the too extreme, to where some think of her as an idiot or a media-grabber who only see the 'stupid getups' she wears and never her thoughts or words. I can always look past someone's appearance or outerwear, because it's the words that count. But fashion shows? Too boring. I see some of the stupid things, though, posted in the Internet, and it's just... where is the world going?
Well I'll just say I'm on an island with the closest things to a family I have. And it's the best thing I can ever think of. But if I just let anyone know, my past will come back, and I'm very easily singled out in a crowd. Being six and a half feet tall, extremely thin, with waist-length black hair I refuse to cut and an artificial black right eye, and a toned-down Steampunk style, I'm just a sprig of grass in a desert here. Oh! I can do that! I've already read seventeen books without even realizing about the... yes, I would certainly like the link... Oh, I know about those. I hate those threads. Sometimes on the Spy page I just see an entire string of gibberish that makes no sense or goes nowhere. I prefer making close friends I can trust and hold decent conversations with, not imitating stupid movements or noises. |
Dex you miss understood my analogy..... I said she's extreme cause she's a figurehead and that descends to the public on a much smaller level. As for fashion that was meerly an analogy to explain what I meant about Gaga.
But with fashion you must remember it is the extreme, they take the idea and exaggerate it then highstreet designers take the ideas expressed and strip it down to something wearable that has encapsulated the main ideas presented from the OTT couture fashion. Haha well I live on an island too, though it doesn't feel like it, and i'm right by the coast, I don't think I could live with out the sea, it's so beautiful and calming. I'm 5ft 1 xD You'd tower over me. A false eye? It seems a lot of people are in to steam punk fashion, it's not one that has really appealed to me, maybe it's much more of an American thing. I have no speicific style, I am me, I like quirky clothes that no one else has, though I do admit I feel a lot of pressure to conform to what my peers expect me to wear. Here's the link: http://www.menewsha.com/forum/commun...ou-handle.html It takes me ages to read sometimes, because I always have other things to do and normally I can't focus on reading when there's other things going on unless the book is really really gripping. Me too I've made some really good friends on here, who I am now facebook friends with or who I skype with, and we send each other parcels. :) |
Perhaps. Although not everyone is capable of thinking that. They see her, and it bounces off of them with no effect.
I've never understood fashion! I ignore it however I possibly can, so it's really of no actual importance to me, or what the designers think. They seem to want to make people a walking canvas of abstract paintings randomly thrown together. Sometimes I think it's a joke they pull to see who is stupid enough to wear it. Ah, all right then! I'll have to make a list and put it there. I'll start it in a blog first, though. Easy to keep track of. Oh, I've read the entire Harry Potter series (when the final book came out) in under a week. I read a three-hundred page book in a day, and Stephen King's new book The Dome in three days. It was at least seven hundred pages, but I never paid attention to the page numbers. I've made a few good friends here, and a single close-knit friend on Gaia before coming here. She transferred here when discovering I had, so I consider that a very good friend. And a few I keep up with on Email, but that is all. |
Yeah some people don't get it, but I tried to explain it to you twice haha. Just see designer as an exgerated presentation of an idea, here look at these: Summer Dress Shapes - High Street Vs Designer - Angie Smith Stylist < see the risque bright colours and the wealth of fabric in the first one's then the highstreet varations which are much more subdued more wearable colours and made of much less fabric. :) That it what I mean by the highstreet toning down designer fashions.
It took me about a month to read the first 6 books, were you reading 24/7 to acheive that or are you just really quick. I'm not a slow reader or anything, but it's just finding the time and will power most of the time. i struggle to read for long periods unless it's a gripping book. I did read 2 books in about 5 days once though and that was about a total of 700 pages, but I must have been in a really big reading mood then though. xD Yeah i've made about 5-10 really close friends but I haven't seen some of them around here in a long while which makes me quite sad, and a lot of them have their own lives to lead, one recently had a baby and one got married so I can't blame them xD |
You may have, but it's late and I've not slept in forty-eight hours, so I have reason for being slow.
And I see them. I Although I see some real jokes out there as well, just not in the link you sent. It's in random sites that really only cater to failures in just about anything. No, I was reading... well, a little less than that. I read when I am bored, or cannot sleep, or have no jobs at the time. Books normally enthrall me, so reading comes naturally, and I'm a swift reader. I'm just gathering the ones I've read recently and will put them in a list, and look for some others to read as well. Certainly, reality first. One or two I have not seen in a while, or I see and they never speak to me, so I might get rid of them. Most of the friends I have now I met through RolePlay request, actually. |
Oh my, I would say go to sleep, but i'm selfish and I want someone to talk to so you should stay and keep me company. :) I really don't understand how people can have such poor sleeping habits. I tend to go to bed and wake up at the same times everyday, and can't imagine doing anything different. That way I wake up refreshed and I can make the most of the day as I am usually up at 7am, I'm much more of a day time person over a nocturnal person.
Yeah some fashion designers I see i'm like...what the hell is that. But I think since I have started to study art, my eyes have been opened to a range of concepts and styles and I find I can understand the method in the madness as sick. A little less that 24/7 haha awesome. :) I wish I had that much time on my hands. Yeah books amaze me too, I go to the library and get out normally the maximum amount of 10, sometimes I don't read them all but I just can't help myself. There's loads of books in my collection I have not yet read, but I find the books come to me. Like sometimes i'll look through my collection and the books don't stand out to me at all but i'll go back a week later and there'll be a book that just screams 'read me' at me, so I read it. I also tend to buy a lot of second hand books, out of my large collection only a very few have been bought from a shop, I tend to get mind from charity shops and carboot sales for 50p a peice sometimes a pound it depends. It's a really good way to save money. :) What are you reading at the moment? Sometimes sadly I find I often bend my time round the internet, because if i'm honestly it helps me to forget about my problems and be someone people seem to like. Yeah quite a lot of my friends I have roleplayed with but I tend to do that outside mene because I don't like the limits of PG-13. |
It's all right, sleep is not possible right now anyway. So I will stay around for a while longer. I'm an insomniac. Have been ever since I was a child, for reasons no one would want to know. But I love the night. I love the strange mystery of it, how endless the night sky seems as opposed to the blunt halt of the daytime sky. And it's darker as well, much easier on the eye.
I need only to look at some of these catastrophes and wonder what the hell these people were thinking? Who would wear that anywhere? I've seen fictional aliens with better anatomies than some of it. Some of the books I have, if not at least half, I bought from shops, but they were secondhand book shops rather than the usual bookstore I frequent nowadays. I find this or that, normally just picking up a few with covers that at least look halfway interesting, and give them a try. Most of the time it's spot-on, but often I find a single plain, orange or green-bound book with no title or illustration, and it's one of the best things I've ever read. I used to get most of my books from yard sales for a few cents each, and it's where my collection started. Now, though? I'm reading Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey. So far it's my new favorite book, be it offensive, juvenile, and violent, but it's that combination that makes it good. It's good to go online sometimes, tell others your problems, and look at the reassurances or kind words others send your way. I've never done it, mind, I would hate to bring people down with things that have already happened, but it's just a good way to get it out without the burden of speaking. I've got a few good ones on Mene, struggling a bit to stay within the limit, but I've only got one RolePlay in Email right now. But it's getting boring waiting for them to respond both here and there and I'm looking for another! |
Why is it not possible. My friend is a bit of an insomniac...she's tired alot and it makes me sad. I always have a lot of energy and that can annoy a lot of people. I hate the dark, I'm scared of it, thats why I love summer so much because the sun stays up a lot longer.
Well it's all about expressing ideas, a reflection of thought or perspective it's like pieces of art like this: ^ May I ask what you see in that. I'll write an explanation/answer in white and we can see what we both come up with. [Well, Georges Braque was a cubist artist. Cubism is seeing a scene from many different perspectives all at once, so say if you were looking at a bottle you would get a front view, maybe a view of the base and the view of the top all at once in one picture. This image is of musical instruments You can make out the sides of a guitar/violin and parts of maybe a trumpet, in the background of the picture you have much more distorted shapes and forms which are pared down and distorted versions of some of the shapes that make up the instruments.] How does all that relate to fashion, well some of the more extreme ideas that many don't understand are just new ideas, different ways of seeing things etc. :) Yeah I hate paying full price for most things in life. And I love old books because I find they have much more of a story or tale to tell, along with the words within them, for example, who owned it before me, what did they do what were they like, etc. I think that is one of the reasons I find such a thrill in history, it's something real, these people exsisted and i'm holding something that is a direct connection to them - I hope you understand what I mean. o.o;; Currently I am reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. :) What genre of book do you mostly read? :) Well sometimes I like to have a good vent on here because I know the people on here don't know me and will probably never meet me so I don't care if they judge me. That is something I am very concious of, what people think of me. I think that's why alot more people like me online because I find with the computer screen as my shield I can be much more myself and show more of myself that in real life I keep hidden. Also there is much more of a chance of meeting like minded people which I think is great! also if you ever need anyone to talk to for support and advice I do not mind helping you can send me a pm whenever or if you want to talk about it in the thread. I'm quite a good listener and good at giving advice and you don't need to worry about bringing me down, I'm a tough cookie. :) I rp with a few different people, though I have found a lot of my rp's have fizzled out, which makes me sad. |
I'm always tired. But I have a high-energy job, so I can use that energy I do have and let it feed the rest of me when I'm not on a job. It's why I normally have very shadowed, heavy eyes. I love the dark. So much chance to conceal the mysteries of the world, yet quietly unyielding, without force, without flaw.
What do I see? Well (and I will say, I could have just highlighted the white text in the post but did not because I'm nice), I see distorted images. It looks as though one is looking through a crystal or type of bended, many-angled glass. It looks like a musical instrument here, a bottle or woodwind there, shards and bits running into one another to create something one cannot directly identify, but understand by the basic outline or shape and form of it. This is what I think. Different ways of seeing things... Such as that suit I saw that was so wide it had two extra neck holes as though the person was a human-based Cerberus. I really have no problem with paying a full price. I just used to because I hardly had five cents to my name. But I've read my fair share of older books, with their details of the future or what they believe in that certain time period. So interesting to see how our thoughts mutated to become what they are now. And I do understand, yes. It's why I like history. There is so much to it, so much we are told, and to see or hold something they used to hold or see, or hear about it some way, is a strange feeling. And it makes me think about the future of us. Perhaps some day someone will hold something of ours in their hands, and wonder how it used to be. Genera... I go anywhere, really. But I strictly avoid romance bases. They all seem so... the same. Oh, I do vent, but I keep it to a blog post or my own journal. I hate letting others know of my weakest moments, my most vulnerable ways, what I did, what others did to me, how I lived, when they have no idea who I am. Then they can make their own image of me, and it might be absolutely distorted and they will see me as a terrible person rather than someone who might be scarred from fighting life, but still a good person despite the past. And I doubt I will really need advice on anything. I've learned my ways of dealing with a problem, and they are very effective. I myself am also a good listener, a good advice-giver. The best thing I can ever hear from someone I've never even met is that I changed their lives or helped them through a terrible time just by giving them my two cents. I hate when RolePlays fizzle out! Long-term ones with literate partners are so full of potential. |
Oh wow, I remember that artist and piece of art from years ago, I did a piece inspired by him for my final exam about 5 years ago now. Sorry to butt in, I just wanted to start posting somewhere. :P
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Not a problem, Bangs, the thread is for anyone who cares to join in!
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That's good to know. :) I've only just come back to the site so I'm still really new.
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Then welcome back to the site. I recently came back as well, a couple months ago, but had to make a new account as I lost my name and password.
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