My best friend introduced me to b3ta
but has never been to a bash. She was mildly aghast that I was planning to venture all the way to London and get drunk with a load of strangers and she knows what it's like on here - trying to explain it to the rest of my friends who have no idea, well... it's just easier not to explain.
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 11:58, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Oddly enough, the same happened to me. It was a good friend who sadly doesn't post much here
But laughed off my suggestion that we could go and "meet the internet." Seemed a little hypocritical given he inspired me to sign up to the place.

I have, however, been bold/foolhardy enough to force the interweb on my real life friends - my regular drinking crowd have had both Monty and Lampito inflicted on them on occasions. Though when people ask Brian and I how we know each other, it seems less embarrassing to say "we met at a blues jam" than "we are from the internet."
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Spikeypickle was named my 'man date' for months after I first met him.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Fortunately, Lampito and I have a non-internet mutual friend
Which helps when my mum asks why it is I know her.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:06, Reply)

See, I think I've mentioned to my folks that I post on b3ta
(Not that they'd be curious enough to look it up, I hope), but I've shied away from admitting to them that I meet up with its denizens every so often. I think it would be too hard to make them think it wasn't weird.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:09, Reply)

I suspect my mum would either completely
fail to understand what b3ta was, or pitch a fit because I'm going to a strange place to meet a bunch of strange people.
Or both. I've long since stopped trying to convince her that most of the things I do aren't weird (probably because it's not true).
(berk, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:11, Reply)

A friend of mine who managed to internetstalk me to here
_{(my own fault really, longish and uninteresting story)}
insisted that it wasn't weird and sad, and that sites like b3ta were little communities where like-minded people met one another, and that the only real difference from a beer festival, a convention or a jam night was that these people met and got to know one another over t'web. It was just people's perception that, because it was on t'web, it was "weird" and "sad."
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:15, Reply)

My mum has met Kaol.
I don't know what I was thinking.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:22, Reply)

Presumably via you
Rather than by stumbling across him in a dark alleyway sharpening one of his machetes?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Yup.
I let him, Catface and Clenders come round my parents' place before the Edinbash. Fortunately no-one was killed.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Brave man
Though I imagine Clenders and Catface are lovely enough to compensate for Kaol being a bit stabby. But then I've never met the man, so perhaps I judge him too harshly.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Nope, you've got him about right.
He has mellowed a lot since those days, thankfully. Hahaha "Mel"lowed. Becuase his missus is Mellicious, you see. Hahahah.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:35, Reply)

yeah Applebite would rather tell her parents that she met me through pole dancing
than on the internet.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:19, Reply)

Tbh, she'd rather not tell them about you at all
She's thoroughly ashamed of you.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 12:22, Reply)