Not AIBU but AIBU related..

[theodorakis]

I have just realised that I have a mental picture in my mind of certain AIBU posters. A bit like I know exactly what Miss Theobald and Miss Potts look like on my mind's eye, I have only realised I don't actually know what people do look like, just what I have created. Cats bums, harrassed mums, Boden skinnys, sawdust feeders, dog rescuers, wind uppers, passionate BFers, McDonald's mums, etc. Sorry if I sound like I am generalising and labelling people, on the contrary. I have realised the error of my ways but wouldn't it be fascinating if MN was face to face??

and the kind and sympathetic and supportive women always appear in my head as a science teacher I had in 1982.

Actually I don't mean face to face. I meant that I had a screen on my wall that showed people at their computers as they post. A small glipse into the homes of others, maybe a sneaky coco pops box behind the lentil container

OMG I thought it was just me who mentally linked a certain 'look' to various posters

Anyone I haven't attached a particular mental image to...will just have brown curly hair and be quite portly

sawdust feeders?

Ha. I don't think you'd have so many people posting stuff if there was a video link at the same time. Mind you, I mostly post in the dark so you wouldn't see much

A sawdust feeder is one who is a step above a lentil weaver. Now, I am an aspiring weaver and hold them in the greatest regard but when they start getting picked on about food, you know that a sawdust feeder is online. Did I make that up? I'm not sure now..

Is it possible to be in more than one of your generalisations?

Theo - you need to explain more about a sawdust feeder - lentil weaver makes perfect sense to me, but sawdust feeder really doesn't - who do you feed sawdust to? What is the sawdust, actual wood-dust or is it like muesli stuff? [fick]

I do that too. Certain people I have very definate mental images of. I have pics on my profile though so no mystery there.

I am not sure if I would be disappointed to know what people really looked like though - it might shatter my illusions

Haha Worra, I do actually have brown curly hair and am quite portly

Some of the posters who bang the same drum constantly about certain subjects, appear in my mind as tall, thin and very pale with a kind of exhausted expression.

They also wear ankle length brown corduroy skirts and white blouses

Catgirl the 2nd photo of you on your profile is very similar to how I imagined you

Spooky

I think maybe my posts give away too much must stop letting people know am aging, fading lush

I always imagine you must look a bit like me worra as we often seem to have the same viewpoint on threads. Even though I know that makes no sense whatsoever

I don't look too unlike you actually

But my hair's a bit shorter and I'm much older

Maybe we were separated at birth :)

We could reunite on Trisha

Catgirl if I looked like that I would have no problem being online and visible I however would be extremely disappointing unless you love dawn French, as she used to be

The people I tend to agree with I think of as being attractive and quite cool. The people I disagree with are not. [shallow]

Aw thanks step. But I have had a baby now so I look like Keith Richards

And Victoria Wood is rather gorg :)

I think I got sawdust feeder from a food related post where someone accused another of suggesting that all food was poisonous and only she could produce homemade food that would be acceptable. Dry, brown depressing sawdust sprang to mind.

Ah thanks - that makes more sense now just needed a visual handle on it :)

Well I don't know what she looks like but my hero is the Scottish woman who used to be on the News Quiz a lot. I picture her with slightly over bleached hair and a biker jacket. I can't face googling her in case I don't like her. Shallow but human.

funny that catgirl cos I have been likened to Victoria wood at times but more for my sense of humour and northern accent than my looks. I live down in the SW now and they have no idea about where norther accents are from cept 'up the line somewhere' bless em.