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Bear411 Silliness
I was in Crate & Barrel yesterday afternoon when co-trailer trash ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jearbear65oh calls my cell phone.
"Are you near a computer?" he asked.
"Um, nope. But there's some lovely pie plates to my left if you're interested."
"Maybe another time. When you get a chance, go to Bear411 and look up the profile of bear511."
"Why are you on Bear411 at 2:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday? Go outside and get some exercise. Come back to it at 2 AM like everyone else."
"Never mind why I'm on right now. Just go look as soon as you can." *click*
When Jeff and I returned to his place, we looked up the profile in question:
"Bear511 - San francisco | CALIFORNIA | USA
Hi! My Name is Mark. I am a Bottom.
I Can Speak: -English-"
Fine & unexceptional, except the photo is that of my dear husband,kent4str circa 1996. He's a little greyer now than he was then --10 years with me will do that to a person-- but that's him.
I'm so tempted to mess with Mark... "Great photo! Got any more? No? That's a shame, but hey look, I have photos of at our campsite! At our thanksgiving party! At our wedding!"
kent4str is still trying to decide if he's amused, angry or just annoyed. I'm choosing the amused option, but then again, it's not my photo. I wonder if anyone has ever used one of mine. And I wonder what this Mark actually looks like.
jearbear65oh calls my cell phone."Are you near a computer?" he asked.
"Um, nope. But there's some lovely pie plates to my left if you're interested."
"Maybe another time. When you get a chance, go to Bear411 and look up the profile of bear511."
"Why are you on Bear411 at 2:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday? Go outside and get some exercise. Come back to it at 2 AM like everyone else."
"Never mind why I'm on right now. Just go look as soon as you can." *click*
When Jeff and I returned to his place, we looked up the profile in question:
"Bear511 - San francisco | CALIFORNIA | USA
Hi! My Name is Mark. I am a Bottom.
I Can Speak: -English-"
Fine & unexceptional, except the photo is that of my dear husband,
kent4str circa 1996. He's a little greyer now than he was then --10 years with me will do that to a person-- but that's him.I'm so tempted to mess with Mark... "Great photo! Got any more? No? That's a shame, but hey look, I have photos of at our campsite! At our thanksgiving party! At our wedding!"
kent4str is still trying to decide if he's amused, angry or just annoyed. I'm choosing the amused option, but then again, it's not my photo. I wonder if anyone has ever used one of mine. And I wonder what this Mark actually looks like.
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Bear411 is a truly strange little microcyberenvironment. :)
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It can be a sincere form of flattery, but it's also fraudulant and not being honest/truthful about who the person is when you go to the great lengths to find a pic of someone else to use as your main profile pic.
Then there are guys who insist they aren't bitter or angry but their posts indicate otherwise, like the profile I found on 411 yesterday while chatting with a fella from Portland.
Of course I had to post about it too. :-)
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This is still identity theft, even if it "only" involves pictures rather than legal information.
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I say, go for it. maybe adding "if you're going to impersonate my husband, the least you can do is take out the garbage and do the laundry at our house".
DO keep a copy of the offending page.
maybe even send a copy of your letter to mark to the site officials at bear411.
and ask him to send you a real photo, too.
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then in the blurb, say does he look familiar? I'm not "bear511" living in san francisco, neither is my name "mark". we live in silver spring, and have sometimes been the object of photo identity theft. But we're a fun couple and... [whatever else you want to say, possibly commenting on bottom-tude, but that may be oversharing in this instance]
leave the quotation marks in.
alternatively, you could ask the "mark" who shares your bed to take you to san francisco - I mean, if he lives there, the least he can do is show you around.
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I've been doing the online thing for a very long time (> 20 years) and no one has ever impersonated me to my knowledge. Should I be insulted?
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(Hey, I've known Kent since *before* the electric blue hair highlights incident...)
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Explain THAT, Markeypoo!
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whatwhatwhat?? this sounds like A Story. Dish! do tell!
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Of course, his hair was longer then -- this was the early '80's after all. And it was pretty curly naturally.
So he went to get a haircut, and somehow his hairdresser talked him into dying just the grey patch electric blue. And when I say electric blue I mean PAINFUL TO LOOK AT ELECTRIC BLUE. She also assured him that it would fade in about 2-3 weeks at the most.
That damn patch of hair took almost the whole semester to fade to baby blue. The only reason the blue went away is because he eventually got enough haircuts to cut it all off.
And then there was the time he dyed all the hair on his head deep purple. At home. Kinda matched a zippered, hooded sweatshirt I was fond of wearing at the time. He told me when he did the blue thing that I wasn't one to talk, since *I* wore such a loud purple sweatshirt. Didn't stop me much, though :)
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the first image this morning
I just had to comment about this being a photo of my friend on the east coast. How possibly could it be you on the west coast.
Maybe you could make him be your slave and do windows and corners!
A good week ahead to you both - it is gonna be hot, so keep cool!
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And of course "Mark" is a pseudonym. He's actually Skippy, Kent's evil twin. What's good about this is we now know that ETS is living in San Francisco, and if any hanky-panky starts up, that's where to begin the search.
as to "top" -- um, Real Tops don't wear powder blue ice skates.
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Oh, I guess I do. Never mind.
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2) They weren't powder blue, but more of a royal.
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I'm going to see about contacting him tonight, if he's still on Bear411. I'm still torn between being pissed off that he's putting out false information about me, flattered, amused, and curious about what he really looks like.
I'll let everyone know if anything happens.
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2)of COURSE it was Royal Blue, queens were wearing them. But the photo looks light blue, not dark/royal blue. unless you count the what look like velcro closures. NOT a butch top colour.
3)is this turning into a velcro bondage story for queens?
4)time to go to work now.
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ask him if he wants to be your stunt double in your next film...
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Unless I give them away first!
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oh my. I needed that!
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eye thengyew
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I was very sad to see this lunchtime, when I was going to point this thread out to a friend in Victoria BC, that the Bear511 profile is no longer online. Rats. and we were having SUCH fun with it.
That Skippy just has NO sense of humour.
hair colour - because we're WORTH it
perpetratorartiste who applied the pigment.Unlike Kent, mine came off 'meejutly. Washing my hair that evening was like the shower scene in Psycho without the knife.
(oh my. I had a full head of hair. and my beard was all dark brown. ou sont les cheveux d'antan?)
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Dirt! More dirt!
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I once had to drink an entire bottle of champagne with John Ford because of you ;)
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