How do you picture the guys (and gals) at Poly? - Page 2

Dis · May 13, 2003, 03:54

I'll send some pictures of me when I go on vacation in 2 days. I'll feel comfortable in my natural element- outdoors and outside the city.

orange · May 13, 2003, 04:04

well, i look a lot like this handsome stud...

Alinestra Covelia · May 13, 2003, 12:52

I'm medium height with brown hair and brown eyes. I work out at the gym each chance I get and I look it too. I'm not particularly muscly (I lost an armwrestle with HMB and he does no exercise whatsoever) but this body is the only one I'm going to get and I take its maintenance very seriously.

I look mostly white - I take after my mother, who's a white American with German backgrounds. My father is Chinese and people say I have his nose.

Shortly after I finished my SMAC fanfiction, I sent a couple of fanboys a photo of me chewing some bamboo in Beijing. Back then, I was on cable. Now that I'm on dialup I can't upload large pictures.

I'll try to upload a picture of myself when I'm back on cable.

(Note: none of my avatars have ever been pictures of myself. The one I currently have is of Pat, my housemate's girlfriend and one of my best friends.)

SlowwHand · May 13, 2003, 12:55

People who change their name should be beaten with a stick.

Zopperoni · May 13, 2003, 12:58

Maybe I should change my avatar, before people think I'm an Italian football-refereeing ghoul with an afro.

VJ · May 13, 2003, 13:04

When I see one of his posts - I always immediately think that Che looks similar to Trotski.

OT in OT -- >
Al C, posting in OT?

Pekka · May 13, 2003, 13:31

If everything goes well, I'll be able to send a picture of me tomorrow, submitting my privates. NO, not private parts.

Dissident, you know I really have a naked picture of myself wearing a gasmask and assault rifle. In that picture, I'm so much of a man that it's not gay at all.

Kontiki · May 13, 2003, 14:12

I think Agathon mentioned this in another thread, but I too am stuck thinking Obiwan looks like Alec Guiness.

GePap · May 13, 2003, 14:12

Sometimes, looking at the pics on the pic thread breaks a sort of illusion about what people might look like: it is liek readin a book and seeing a movie, somehow the movie version has a good chance of being nothing liek what you thought.

I bear a small amount of resemblence to my avatar, but with a MUCH smaller mustache. There is are very, very few digitcal pics of me, nor do I own a scanner, so i doubt my pic will be seen here in Poly.

loinburger · May 13, 2003, 14:15

I also tend to picture people as their avatars. This has led to some identity confusion, since I've started picturing myself as my avatar as well.

Kropotkin · May 13, 2003, 14:16

Gepap is no problem as he was quite frequently on the News once up in a time...

alva · May 13, 2003, 14:17

I don't even like seeing pictures of other posters.
(and not only for the obvious reasons

)

GePap · May 13, 2003, 14:17

I knew that was coming, I just knew it

orange · May 13, 2003, 14:17

Quote:

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
(Note: none of my avatars have ever been pictures of myself. The one I currently have is of Pat, my housemate's girlfriend and one of my best friends.)

the one you had before was gorgeous

You should post a picture of yourself

Japher · May 13, 2003, 14:18

I don't look anything like my Avatar. I don't even know what that thing is!!!

Is it an immortal?

Frankychan · May 13, 2003, 14:20

i hope nobody thinks I look like Peter Cushing. I'm not a skeletal caucasian male. (

)

(Besides, I already posted a pic in the picture thread).

Inverse Icarus · May 13, 2003, 14:21

yes, yes it is. you're obviously Persian, which makes you Iranian.

get the hell of my boards!

Japher · May 13, 2003, 14:23

Frankychan · May 13, 2003, 14:26

Whaaat?

Alex · May 13, 2003, 15:07

I also tend to think of people as their avatars.

And I don't look like my avatar (well, not entirely

), but I'd like to look like it. It is so damn cool!

Alex · May 13, 2003, 15:13

Oh, and this is how I picture Ming:

JohnT · May 13, 2003, 15:21

"Is that loinburger's pic in his avatar? cause what i think he looks like."

That is not Loinburger in the picture. When I met him a few weeks ago, I found the reality... "unsettling" to say the least.

SlowwHand · May 13, 2003, 15:27

After running a Google image search on JohnT...

Alex · May 13, 2003, 15:30

He looks like a true beast, indeed.

JohnT · May 13, 2003, 15:42

Alinestra Covelia · May 13, 2003, 15:47

Okay.

Now that I'm on the computer labs in the college, I should not be posting but I will try anyway. Assuming that I get the posting thing all sorted out, you should be able to see a picture of me playing the Brass Knobs.

This musical instrument was invented when I had to dismantle my bed's headboard, and was left with the brass knobs on my side table. Quick thinking housemate Hu Man Bing snapped a picture of me before I could get the camera off him.

Ta daa...

Boris Godunov · May 13, 2003, 15:49

One of the reasons I changed my avatar is that I didn't want people to start thinking of me as a hairy Russian Tsar.

SlowwHand · May 13, 2003, 15:52

Brass bed frames are so sexy.
The possibilities are endless.

Boris, you're still a hairy Russian tsar.

Alinestra Covelia · May 13, 2003, 15:55

Some of you expressed interest in my previous avatar, which showed the face of my cousin May.

Here's a larger version of the picture. She posed for the picture and wore a Japanese kimono costume for it, so it's by no means au naturel (haha!) but I personally think she's still one of the most attractive looking people in my family. (She's a second cousin on my dad's side of the family. She has the same Chinese surname as I do.)

Oerdin · May 13, 2003, 15:59

That picture makes your cousin look like one in a million.