It's time...

Okay. From the beginning of the time I've been coming to this forum, I've loved it. The mods are nice, no one has tried to rape me through the intarwebz, and I've been able to develop my character quite nicely.
Ah, if only my real life were as nice.

You see, my parents and my brother are internetaphobes. My dad got pissed at me for going on the SEREBII.NET chat the other day.
But the worst was yet to come. Yesterday, my dad made it clear that he thinks I'm going to sites he believes to be "inappropriate".

In his eyes, this site is one of said sites.
Which is why, for the past year, I have made no mention of this site to my parents. AT ALL.

My point? My parents can't know about this site, or I won't be able to come. This requires that I be more discreet in my log-on's. This requires that I come on less.

My school year ends as of Thursday, so I won't be able to post freely from there, either.


Bottom line? PA is becoming less active (to his dismay).
Or, at least until this all blows over... hopefully.

1. Discrete, not discreet.
2. AWW! D: PA! NOOOOOOES!
That suxorz majorly. Hope something good turns up...

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1. Discrete, not discreet.

Yes discreet. Dictionary, peon.

Shucks, PA. I feel your pain, dude; having to hide something as big as an entire roleplaying board from my parents all the time really grates on one's nerves. Hope that you can find some way to get around them--because they'll probably never understand, woo for cynicism--and get back here on the double.

See you 'round!

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1. Discrete, not discreet.

Yes discreet. Dictionary, peon.

D:<
NO, DISCRETE. DICTIONARY, WEAKER PEON. D:<

Discreet - Being cautious or careful

Discrete - Seperate, Disconnected, Isolated

Now just leave it alone Hiko, this is PA's thread and pretty bad news for him. I'm sorry to hear about this man. I wish you the best of luck with this little situation.

It seems that discreet and discrete are both real words, and mean essentialy the same thing. Oh, well.

Sorry to here that, PA. I really hope this is over with quickly. It's nigh impossible to explain one's feelings about an online community. See you then.

Want some advice? When you\'re on here, keep another window (or tab) open with a site that your dad doesn\'t think is inappropriate. When he\'s around, try using that site to hide this one.

Wait, your BROTHER\'s an internetaphobe too? Man, how old is he? Something\'s not right about that.

Unless he\'s the type to blindly follow your parents\' opinions on things.

*Adds PA\'s parents to the list of people I hate*
*PA\'s parents are now right next to EN\'s parents on said list*

BUMMER. Fortunetly, my parents couldn't give a rat's ass about where I go on the internet, as long as it isn't porn. (Which, in all honesty, I could do anyway, being 20 and all.)

At any rate, that sucks, PA. I'm sure that there are other people in similar situations as you, and with the school year ending, there may be drops in activity for others as well, as well as boosts in others.

See ya 'round.

If they do find out about this place, mention worse things saying "At least I don't go THERE!! I mean COME ON! This site is nothing copmpared to what commondragon goes to! And he can't talk about it or he's gonna get banned!"

Oh yes, you can use me as an example. I don't really care unless your parents are one of my steps twords becoming ruler of the internet



Luckily, I have one of those parents that MAKES their kids watch scary movies that most parents force their children to avoid (not really, but kinda). And I turned out OK >_>.....I is best :3

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BUMMER. Fortunetly, my parents couldn't give a rat's ass about where I go on the internet, as long as it isn't porn. (Which, in all honesty, I could do anyway, being 20 and all.)

At any rate, that sucks, PA. I'm sure that there are other people in similar situations as you, and with the school year ending, there may be drops in activity for others as well, as well as boosts in others.

See ya 'round.

same here steve, the part about the internet sites thing, not the age thing, anyways........*ahem* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo*cough, hack*OOOOOOOOOOOOoOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! cya around PA.

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Want some advice? When you\'re on here, keep another window (or tab) open with a site that your dad doesn\'t think is inappropriate. When he\'s around, try using that site to hide this one.

Great advice. Except for one thing...

You underestimate my parents. Yesterday, my dad wouldn't let me go ONLINE. AT ALL. He TURNED OFF THE F***ING WIRELESS ROUTER THAT CONNECTS ME TO THE INTERNET!
THAT's how paranoid he is.


And my bro? The internetaphobe? He was on the chat here, once. When I was on there, he comandeered my username for a few quick posts. I'm pretty sure FZ was there.
But he doesn't trust ANYONE online. AND he's a year younger than me, but he acts like he's two hundred years old...

Hiko, you ego monster you. D:

But I'm sorry to hear that, PA.My parents are internaphobes as well, but thankfully more moderate in the bias... So far, it's only amounted to my father-penguin dad, who I unfortunately spend the majority of my year with, warning me against giving out personal information (YES, DEAR FATHER, I AM FOUR YEARS OLD AND MORE THAN PLEASED TO OFFER THE FINE PEOPLE OF THIS ALL-PEDOPHILE FORUM MY ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER, AND THEY'VE TOTALLY ASKED FOR THEM, TOO) and telling me to be careful around Twi (;>_>.)

Internaphobes suck, it's as simple as that. They have all the paranoia but none of the knowledge.

Here's hoping you can come back soon. No one who enjoys the board that much deserves to be segregated from it. Here's hoping you can surrepetitiously come back soon, and be sure to bring your chibi fanaticism with you when you do. D:

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*snip*and telling me to be careful around Twi. *snip*

...I don't know whether to be proud that I scare your parents, King, or to be sad.

...I'll choose proud. EPIC WIN.

-Twi

"What's an Inter Net? Is it used for Pornography?"
Classic internetaphobe

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YES, DEAR FATHER, I AM FOUR YEARS OLD AND MORE THAN PLEASED TO OFFER THE FINE PEOPLE OF THIS ALL-PEDOPHILE FORUM MY ADDRESS OR PHONE NUMBER, AND THEY'VE TOTALLY ASKED FOR THEM, TOO

Oh my God. My dad's half-phobic now. He thinks that because you guys are all 20, you're automatically pedo and lifeless and liars...
D:<
I. HATE. STEREOTYPES.

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and telling me to be careful around Twi.

Dude, that's good advice for everyone.

Myself, I don't even know why my parents are so stick-up-the-rear about the whole Internet thing. I believe that it may be because they think I'm stupid; even though I'm always scoffing at the stupid girls on the news who get raped/killed by people they meet on the Internet and agree to hang out with in reality, and I wouldn't flaunt around taking planes to places to meet people, they still think that I'm going to get snatched off the street by some pedo I met on the Interwebs.

Damn crotchety ignorant middle-aged people.

I'm glad the internet doesn't have arms...it would kill people.

Mainly people like that.

My parents know I'm smart enough to not get raped from the internet.
Now they just wanna see the contents of my IMs and files so nothing is inappropraite

Luckily, they know nada about the forums... :rolleyes:

Maybe we oughta, you know, try to crack down on some of this stuff? Maybe start by taking down the ecchi thread, punishing for excessive swearing, and-

*taken out by a flying brick*

I don't think swearing is a punishable offense.

The ecchi thread, though... I thought about taking it down, but hopefully it'll keep that stuff out of the Random Images thread.