Do People Look As You Imagined Them?
 

Was just wondering if the way picture people to look you whilst chatting on here or any other sites are ever anything like their true image? I know people have said they imagine me with short dark hair(I am fair and my hair is medium length). How does your mental image stand up against how a person really looks?

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well i always thought that accyman might have looked real sexy and dashing....till i met him :D

i already knew what you looked like Bernie, so that didnt make a difference

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OMG do they ever sometimes it can come as a shock..

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Emzy and karaokeman looked exactly as i imagined

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i'm a lot fatter than i imagined

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I'm younger than I thought I was :D

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Thats true, I saw him in asda, along with cashy (outside chatting) Graham Jones( at the till) and mishyfoote (working haha)

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didnt realise graham jones worked at asda !

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He was paying for his stuff der brain :D

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lol willow.... ive met quite a few accyweb members and none of them looked how i expected them to.

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i stil refer to people using their usernames,even if i know them pretty well.... its hard to stop doing it lol

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to me nobody is ever what they seem, perhaps i'm just crap at sussing.:rolleyes:

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I don't know many of the accyweb members in the real world.......and yes I do have images of how they may look.......I was quite shocked when I first met Mick and he didn't look a bit like that hairy scientist.(it was his avatar at the time)
But Less looks just as I had imagined him.
I'm just going to let you know that I look nothing like MY avatar:D

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I only know what those of you look like who are on photos of meet-ups. One or two, when I've seen them for the first time, have surprised me. ;) Apart from that, I knew what Pendy looked like many, many years ago but I haven't seen her since she was about 12, when I left school.

Sometimes voices give a false clue to what the person looks like. Some of the older members may remember, back in the days of radio in the 50s, there was a news and sports reporter called Tom Naisby. He was based in Blackburn and was very well known at the time on the "Northern Home Service". He had a very rich, "dark brown" voice, one of those voices that makes you imagine a tall, dark, handsome man.

My dad knew him quite well and one day, when I was about 14, he came to our house. What a let-down! He looked a lot like Norris Cole from Corrie - only fatter. It just didn't seem right that that voice was coming out of that body. :biggrin8:

Don't know how you see me (decrepit, probably) but I'm 5'1" tall, quite slim, have short(ish) grey hair, wear glasses and am, of course, devastatingly attractive. :) You guessed that, didn't you? :blush8:

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Never met an Accy webber so i`ve no idea........i just have this mental picture of Hobbits.....the lot of us.......

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Well, West ender...that has really burst my bubble.
I had imagined you with glasses and grey hair(nicely cut) but imagined you to be slim and leggy.

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yah should pop in too a meet pips, ya will be gobsmacked.;)

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Have you not met Flashy? I just got the impression that you had.

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Ooh, I always wanted to be leggy but I'm the only titch in a tall family. I even married a man 6' tall and I think of my son (who is 5'9 and a half) as quite short. My grandson makes up for it, though, he's 6'4.

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Me too, I always wanted to have longer legs......my husband jokes and says that M&S put turn ups on the knickers especially for me.......I've told him that many a big apple is rotten :D

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Don't you mean scarred for life :D

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Before I met some webbers I imagined them to be better looking than they turned out to be:eek:
.....but then I always was an optimist:D

rapid exit stage right
:s_whizz:

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I can imagine it's dissapointing to live near accywebbers like Neil and Rindy :p

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that lets me out, ya already knew i was ugly.

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Met quite a few people over the last 8 years or so from various sites. Most if not all have been nothing like I initially imagined. Always got to know people in the past before meeting, pics/ web cam, so had a rough idea of what to expect before the first encounter. That was until my one Accyweb meet, went to that virtually “blind”, did scour the gallery section before hand so some faces were not totally new to me.

Guess it’s always worthwhile to remember that some people have an “online persona” which is generally totally different to their real life character.

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No,never do.Went to a wedding once of a very close friend of mine(shall we say).Never met her husband,she'd never met Mrs Silver.The first time we met again afterher marriage bith of us agreed that our partners were nothing at all like either of us had imagined.I find it's the same if you're going to some place you've never been before,you have this mental image of how you think the place will look but it's always different.Please ignore that bit i put in brackets,it makes it seem as though something untowards was going on & there was'nt.Maybe wishful thinking....maybe too much drink blah,blah,blah

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I`m sure i would and i did my best to be at the last one at the Oaklea, its just up the road from me but alas, afternoon drinking put a damper on that(in other words i was ratted by tea)........i will try my best next time...:D

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Not yet although i`m sure the time will come............i have to meet an Accy webber so i can get into the over 18 `s..............:rolleyes:

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Are you as handsome as your avatar? or am I being optimistic (again);)

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all i can say Margaret is...................Glen Madieros has (or had) more hair than me..........:D

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Yul Brynner and Captain Pickard are handsome, but you need a slim neck to carry a bald head.

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Hey i never said Bald....!!!!!!!!!!!! (well i`m not quite there yet!!!) LOL;)

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I have just looked at your profile
Is that really you sticking your tongue out:eek:
Shattered illusions again :(

perhaps you have a nice nature - more important;)

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It really is............but be assured i have an extremely nice nature....:D

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know a couple of Accy-webbers, (one I re-hooked up with thru accy-web), we live on three separate continents, haven't seen either for 30/20+ years but both will stay in my mind forever as they were then.

As for "mental images' of various Accy-webbers , Got to say the only "mental image' of any Accy-web user I can come up with is of Gayle .........every post of hers I read I see/imagine ...the actress Emma Thompson .
the only other Accy-web user I have a mental image of is the 'Smiler' character from 'Last of the Summer wine' and I think he is an Accy-web user who lives either full or part time in Spain

:D:D

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I'll take that as a compliment, thank you. She's one of my all time favourite actresses, she's talented, smart, funny and above all beautiful - see photo. Yes, I can see the likeness.

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Before I met Gayle, I imagined her as the classic caricature of a politically-correct womens' libber - frumpy, overweight, dressed in shabby hippie-type clothes, scowling, always on the look out for some perceived lapse into racism/sexism in the conversation. I was, therefore, quite surprised to discover that she was warm, friendly, intelligent, smart and attractive...which just goes to show that you shouldn't stereotype people.

Meeting Cashy was something of a shock too. After we'd talked on-line about the dozens of people we both knew and the places we went to at the same time back in the 60's, I expected to recognise him instantly...but I didn't know him from Adam. I must have been more out of it than I thought way back then!

The other person who didn't live up to my imagined image was the late Ianto.W. After our huge on-line row when he first joined, I expected a thin, miserable-looking sort of bloke with a persona to match. Instead, I found a large, expansive man with a warm personality and who turned out to be a laugh a minute. Although I only met him once, I still miss him.

As for you, Pipinfort, I can't for the life of me understand how you can be a regular up t'Stanley and NOT have met any Accywebbers. They're here, there and everywhere up there and I've met around twenty-odd simply by standing on the Clayton End, although I suppose you have to know one to "unlock the key" to rest...

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I dont really have an image of people I dont know, except from some avatars, they stick with me a little, it is much better having met people, then it is more like responding to a 'person'.

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As for you, Pipinfort, I can't for the life of me understand how you can be a regular up t'Stanley and NOT have met any Accywebbers. They're here, there and everywhere up there and I've met around twenty-odd simply by standing on the Clayton End, although I suppose you have to know one to "unlock the key" to rest...[/quote]

LOL, i`m not as regular as i used to be but i like the....`i suppose you have to know one to `unlock the key` to the others.....that sounds great....next game i`ll be there with my key:)

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you can get medication for that :rolleyes:

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Stop it .........mind in the gutter as usual..( like myself).....

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I think thats called toilet humour....

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i dont think pipples got exactly what i was on about

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I think `pipples` as you affectionately call him did and i`ve been twice today thanx..................:tongueout

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ewwwwww.TMI!! If started on about my toilet habits we would be here all blinking day!

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Who mentioned toilets........I was talking about Tesco..........;)

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Right, I'll be looking out for you next Saturday!

Just thought of someone else who wasn't what I imagined...KSH who I had down as a shy, computer nerd. Met him before last season's postponed Brentford match and he turned out to be an excellent bar-propping comrade. Still can't remember how I got home! :D

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I always thought you would be a black guy Mr H, only joking.:cool::)

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Pmsl..............

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Actually, there's a bloke on the Clayton End who dresses in classic skinhead gear (harrington, docs etc etc)...I was convinced he was you until I met you and found out different! :D

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That just goes to show that your avatar matters.
I just hope that when people compare me with my avatar, they will be pleasantly surprised

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pity compo died coz if you look like your avatar he woudl be all over you like a rash lol

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The shock on your face when you did see me.:D

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Awww, shucks and before I met Wynonie I had in my mind an aggressive, beligerent, right wing trouble maker and was surprised to be introduced to a warm friendly, right wing trouble maker. :D

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Trouble maker maybe, but right wing?...more a political maverick I would hope.

Bagpuss is the main right wing trouble maker round here! :D

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well if ya remove the "right wing" it would be i, according to someone who shall remain nameless.:D

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I will take that as a compliment, cheers Mr H:)

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As for Bagpuss - hmmm, what did I think he'd be like before I met him, well that's a tough one but I did think he'd have clean knees!

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Was I there?
You leave my knees out of this thread please.;)

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when i met neil i was totaly surprised as it turned out we both served in vietnam together and had lost touch after the war

small world aint it :)

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what do you think i look like?:D

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When the ferry got beached you put on some pics of yourself - I remember

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I've met 3 people off here now 2 sort of by accident you could say, so I didn't have a pre-conceived idea of what they looked like.

Goodness knows what people must think I look like - a total airhead perhaps?? :(

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well if it helps any you dont look like your avatar :D

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A big cuddly white rabbit of course....................:)

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I though Pip would look like an 80's rocker :D long curly hair, tight leather pants etc lol

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pmsl I probably look more like Winnie the Pooh :dummy2:

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I have to agree with bagpuss, and half expected wynonie to be a black man :D. I think more or less everyone I have met on here have been nothing like I imagined :rolleyes:

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ah thanks,,,,your right with the big,,,,,,:rofl38::Banane23:

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PMSFL................:D (maybe i once did....)

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What Unit in Vietnam?......and when? :hothothot

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Besides imagining Willow, Harwood Red, and Pendy, as male, I always pictured Lettie as looking like Sissy Spacek, for some strange reason.

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I always thought Garinda would resemble a garden gnome.

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he does..........:D:D:D:D;)

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Don't really know what anyone looks like .... maybe I don't want to, as it would spoil the images .... I always did prefer the book to the movie.

I look Canadian, eh. .... sort of a cross between a lumberjack and an aging hippy.;)

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My son-in-law looks like that - and he's not Canadian, he's Warringtonian. :D

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Thanks Honey...............:D:D:D

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Well I've met very few people on here, cashy was much like I thought he would be, but was surprised how well we got on. I always thought of Rindi as an art student with long hair and colurful clothes, that is until saw his picks in the gallary. Young AndrewB (cyfr) was just as I imagined him. As for most of the others I've never met I ain't got a clue. Oh yes I think of Mancie as Freddy Frinton:D

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I didn't realise that they had trees in Warrington;)

I also resemble my avatar ... yes, I look like a house with a Land Rover parked outside ... drunken women with absolutely no taste occasionally find this attractive;) but not too often:D:D

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This is leafy Cheshire, we have millions of trees. :) My son-in-law doesn't chop 'em down, he just looks as though he would, given half a chance. :D

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lol I have never looked at wynonie's sex on profile but i expected a black woman lol
gosh that would have been a shock

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How wrong can you get...........put her right Steve. :p

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As well as the way they look I really struggle with names - I've got to know a few people off here but still call them by their online name.

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Is that a porn film?:)

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:rofl38: :rofl38: :rofl38:

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I think if my accyweb name was Bentroy as opposed to Royboy39...That would raise a few eyebrows....would it not?.....and if you ever meet me...dont even think about it :p

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Hey, I could send over my chain saw; he'd have fun with that ... wouldn't be long before Cheshire had thousands of trees:alright:;)

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I was a caucasian male last time I looked...still, a lot of people have made the same mistake.

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When I came over for my first Meet, and met 20 - 30 of you guys (all at once), it was pretty overwhelming: between putting names with faces and then the various accents. Funny how my thoughts went so quickly to meeting these complete strangers (physically speaking) to quickly warming up to each when the Accy names started fitting into the various characteristics and personalities I'd come to know and love from Accyweb.

I hope that makes at least a bit of sense!

Brian

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I've known Andrewb most of my life so he's never a shock.

I met Pam1 the other day and she was lovely. I met Margaret Pilkington earlier and wasn't entirely sure what I was expecting, perhaps someone older.

I expect a lot of you to be old miserable sods actually, so it is always a pleasant surprise to see that you are lovely and smiley :D

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Good job you haven't met me, then. I am a miserable old sod. ;)