Alter Egos

Have any of you ever created an alter ego that stands against everything you believe in just so you can screw with people and get their reactions? Maybe you want to get that off your chest. Me? Can't say I haven't thought about it...
 
Actually there was this one time years ago when chat rooms were new and cool; my psychotic landlord and I were pretending to be hard core feminist lesbians so we could bash all the pervs preying on young girls. We probably did a better job of it than actual lesbians. Huh... I almost forgot about that one...

Should have been posted in Off Topic. 
And no, that's pathetic in my opinion.

That's the dumbest thing I've read in a while.

what they said 

I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith lived in a graveyard once for a whole year -- it wasn't a dare or nothin', he just got kicked out of his house. He said he NEVER saw a single ghost 'cept for this one time when a ghost stabbed him from behind and took all his money, and he might've just been a homeless guy, 'cause he had a robe on with two eyes cut out his face.

Yeah yeah a moderator can feel free to move this to off topic, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and defend myself. Man its so much easier to get chastised on this site...
 
I'm not advocating douchebaggery here, there are a lot of people that make a living from alter egos and are quite popular because of it. Stephen Colbert anyone? He's being ironic, and I'm a firm believer that an ironic sensibility is typically exercised before a forum or platform is provided for one to justify it to their peers. So yes there are a lot of wierdos and bullshitters out there with no real purpose or substance to their alternative personalities but I think its unfair to put all practitioners on the chopping block. And I'm saying this as a person who hasn't really done it to any real extent. For fucks sake I'm just making conversation!

no, not really. my friend's think i'm going to be a pedo when i'm older. it's why i watch jail shows because i would have to learn the roles of jail. 
 
the ghost thing i can kind of believe. my friend's house is haunted from the ex owners grandfather. i felt a finger go into my back once and my friend was on his bed. the other night they told me that his mother heard a key go into the door lock. she was kind of thinking what is aaron doing home at 2:30am (he works night shift) she heard tiptoeing and a person hanging the keys on a coat rack something he doesn't do. when she woke up she checked the driveway and no car there.

Back when I played FFXI there was a guy in one of my Linkshells who played as a girl and played as a girl very convincingly. He would try and start online romances with other guys in the game and was often successful. They would have hawt cyb0rz and all that and then after they were done this guy would tell and show the other guy that he was in fact not a girl but a guy. Mind you these weren't one night stands or weekend flings in Jeuno. These were actual online romances that would go on for weeks or months before he would tell the other guy. Usually the people he had his way with logged off and never logged back on.

Stupid...

" Should have been posted in Off Topic. And no, that's pathetic in my opinion. "

You mean this screenname doesn't already count as some sort of alter ego?

In my "Music In Our Lives" class(Most useless class ever), we had to take journals every week and write how certain pieces of music made us... eugh... feel. I thought since the teacher was dumming down the class already, that it wouldn't hurt if I did the same to her. So, even though I'm an Atheist, every single journal entry I made was a comparison to Jesus, and how I'm reminded of his excellence etc. etc. The best part was that we never got to hear her reactions to the journals. She kept them and that was that. Hilarious.
 
Oh, crap. I didn't realize I wasn't supposed to post a real answer. Shit.

No, i'm exactly the same in real life as the way I post, maybe i'm more quiet in RL, however i'm exactly the same.

Yeah, bro. Fight Club really made me re-evaluate my life.

I don't like talking in RL.  I post and communicate here, so yeah, I guess this is my internet persona or some crap.

By day I'm the devious Heartbreak, by night I am the smooth criminal Tuxedo Mask

No@TheMustacheHero said:

" That's the dumbest thing I've read in a while. "

" Yeah yeah a moderator can feel free to move this to off topic, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and defend myself. Man its so much easier to get chastised on this site...  I'm not advocating douchebaggery here, there are a lot of people that make a living from alter egos and are quite popular because of it. Stephen Colbert anyone? He's being ironic, and I'm a firm believer that an ironic sensibility is typically exercised before a forum or platform is provided for one to justify it to their peers. So yes there are a lot of wierdos and bullshitters out there with no real purpose or substance to their alternative personalities but I think its unfair to put all practitioners on the chopping block. And I'm saying this as a person who hasn't really done it to any real extent. For fucks sake I'm just making conversation! "

" @TheMustacheHero: 
irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique or rhetorical device ...  So yeah, feigned ignorance. Alter ego faking ignorance. Alter ego being deceptive. Glad I took a small victory away from this. And now, I concede the point. I should have never started this topic its not even really important to me. It backfired and I look like an idiot but you girls can suck my willy anyways.  "

" @TheMustacheHero: 
irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a situation, literary technique or rhetorical device ...  So yeah, feigned ignorance. Alter ego faking ignorance. Alter ego being deceptive. Glad I took a small victory away from this. And now, I concede the point. I should have never started this topic its not even really important to me. It backfired and I look like an idiot but you girls can suck my willy anyways.  "

" That's the dumbest thing I've read in a while. "

My alter ego is going out in public and not yelling at every asshole that i meet for being a dumbshit.
 
Because then I'd be yelling at everyone.

" well  bak to the topic   i use to go on habbo as a woman and chat some one up then say im  a 52 year old virgin who lives with his mother in london  i need to say that im am none of the things i just liked messing with people   "

No and I sure as hell won't because it sounds stupid. 

" @CowMuffins: Go ahead and google Stephen Colbert & Irony and see how many articles pop up that explain just how ironic Colbert is. And uh, victory number 2. Anyone else? "

Hmm No.

that's a nice idea... 
 
I don't have any noticeable alter-ego, but i do try to understand and dialogue with the darkest parts of my being. 
  
But as long as you don't hurt anyone by doing it, expressing your alter-ego, go ahead, it will satisfy you! :p

" @TheMustacheHero: The real definition? So your such an authority that you can snip away the parts of a definition that don't support your argument? Hypocrisy was part of that definition, and that's exactly what an alternative personality (again like Stephen Colbert) functions under. Here's another example of what I mean, and do try to read it carefully...
 
  It is quite a task to find common grounds upon which to base a comparison of such radically different texts as Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus”and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” especially given the wide amount of time separating these two works. However, one finds upon a more critical examination of these texts that the theme of hypocrisy is timeless and although is a theme in both works, is represented differently to differing aims. While both “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “Doctor Faustus”employ subtle irony to poke fun at the hypocrisy that occurs, the reasons for such satire are completely different. For instance, the pointing out of hypocrisy in “The Importance of Being Earnest” is for the purposes of examining Victorian society and how one must appear on the surface to keep a name. In “Doctor Faustus”however, the role of hypocrisy is quite different since it is used to point out the errors of religion. Certainly, as “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde and “Doctor Faustus”by Christopher Marloweare two entirely works on many levels, the fact that hypocrisy is used as a theme points to the idea that it is a timeless social concept, both in life and literature. "

It's called being a devil's advocate. 
 PS - Don't make an alterego on GB, it's against the rules, and stupid.

Ever heard of batman?
 
 
 
I'm not him.

The Irony of Satire

 “ The Irony of Satire” is the actual name of a study done at Ohio State University on “biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report”. The study compared conservatives and liberals, and how they reacted to Stephen Colbert.

Interestingly, both groups thought that Colbert was funny. But the ironic part is that “conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said” (in other words, they think he’s funny, but they don’t actually get the joke). Liberals, on the other hand, “were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements”.
 
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