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, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)