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Aaron
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March 27, 2008, 8:53 PM BST
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Quote: ian_w @ March 27, 2008, 5:06 PM
Yup. I'm in love with Aaron.
I bought some fruit pastals and opal fruits the other day and they made me cry.
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Aside from the typographical errors,  .
Quote: roscoff @ March 27, 2008, 6:39 PM
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Da boys from da hood?
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March 27, 2008, 8:53 PM BST
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Quote: Aaron @ March 27, 2008, 7:53 PM
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Genius.
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March 27, 2008, 9:00 PM BST Edited by SlagA on March 27 2008, 9:00 PM BST
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Quote: EllieJP @ March 27, 2008, 3:07 PM
What are everyone's views on online friendships? Are they real?
Can forums be likened to a work place/pub community?
Can you fall in love (for real) online?
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Yes to all - The last one can be more genuine than a 'real life' relationship as you get to know the person 'before' you boff their brains out.
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March 27, 2008, 9:08 PM BST
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Quote: SlagA @ March 27, 2008, 8:00 PM
(Online) you get to know the person 'before' you boff their brains out.
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So SlagA puts out on the first date.
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March 27, 2008, 9:10 PM BST
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I'm both sexually incontinent and incompetent.
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March 27, 2008, 9:10 PM BST
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Yes he does 
Quote: Aaron @ March 27, 2008, 8:08 PM
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Genius.
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March 27, 2008, 9:18 PM BST
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To add my pennies worth,
I think you can fall for someone and their personality online but at the end of the day I think you still have to fancy that person within a relationship so it has to stand up to actually meeting and attraction as well.
It’s sort of a reversal of meeting in a pub/club where that is how attractive you find them first and if you date after that you find out how compatible you both are. But on line you sort of find out about them first then the attractiveness comes later.
Hope that all makes sense and it's not just some mad ramble.
Lee
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March 27, 2008, 9:21 PM BST Edited by zooo on March 27 2008, 9:21 PM BST
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Makes perfect sense, Lee.
And it's not just a new thing either. Didn't Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning fall in love by writing to each other for years in the 1800s?
Someone like that anyway.
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March 27, 2008, 9:25 PM BST
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I read that as 'Branning' and wondered why the hell you were talking about EastEnders again. :-/
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March 27, 2008, 9:30 PM BST
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Dot and Jim?!
They sleep in separate beds thankyouverymuch.
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I'm sexually incoherent.
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March 27, 2008, 9:31 PM BST
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You'd better get on and practice then zooo! 
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March 27, 2008, 9:43 PM BST
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Zooo mate, yes I think you are correct after her poems were published he started writing to her, I think? don't quote me on that one. I am just a humble geordie...actually she was from up my way.
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March 27, 2008, 9:48 PM BST
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There was some kind of penpal situation involving poets. That's all I know!
Does anyone remember that sketch on Lee and Herring (was it?) with Anthony Hopkins writing letters to women, always signing off, I'm wanking as I write this.
Funniest thing ever.
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March 27, 2008, 10:54 PM BST Edited by ian_w on March 27 2008, 10:55 PM BST
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Quote: Lee Brown @ March 27, 2008, 8:18 PM
To add my pennies worth,
I think you can fall for someone and their personality online but at the end of the day I think you still have to fancy that person within a relationship so it has to stand up to actually meeting and attraction as well.
It’s sort of a reversal of meeting in a pub/club where that is how attractive you find them first and if you date after that you find out how compatible you both are. But on line you sort of find out about them first then the attractiveness comes later.
Hope that all makes sense and it's not just some mad ramble.
Lee
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But usually in real life if the person is attractive enough people will do their utmost to pretend (to themselves) that they love his/her personality.
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