DON'T Change Your Avatar

[Surewhitey]

No avatar here, just a nickname my friends of color gave me which happens to be a close twin to my Germanic last name...it stuck, 25 years later.

 

[CaliKid]

Now I have an avatar.

 

[Sittingduck]

This thread is an absolute waste of time. Please continue...

 

[Meadbh]

So, Midpack, how did that request work out for you?

I currently don't have an avatar and am too busy/lazy right now to go hunting for a good one.

 

[Major Tom]

Thanks for the explanation behind Michael's avatar, Midpack. This shot really needs to be seen at a large-than-avatar size to be appreciated, and the story definitely helps to that end.

I wonder if Marsel got his phone back?

 

[W2R]

So, Midpack, how did that request work out for you?

I currently don't have an avatar and am too busy/lazy right now to go hunting for a good one.

I think it would be so cool if you found an avatar that you like. Looking forward to it! This was the only image that I found of Queen Meadbh, but I don't know if it is what you had in mind.

 

[RunningBum]

I doubt I'll change mine because I don't feel like bothering, and I do kind of like consistent avatars, but I find it ironic that the request comes from someone who has changed his in the past, and also has a misleading avatar showing someone of the other gender.

 

[GravitySucks]

Ha! I changed my avatar once because everyone was doing Xmas avatars. But then I just left it! I'm afraid I can't be bothered.

I thought it was a butterfly.
Now that I'm retired I love to watch the butterflies flutter by.

 

[Midpack]

I doubt I'll change mine because I don't feel like bothering, and I do kind of like consistent avatars, but I find it ironic that the request comes from someone who has changed his in the past, and also has a misleading avatar showing someone of the other gender.

So I take it you're a bear?

It was tongue in cheek. And I haven't changed as often as some do.

 

[kcowan]

It was tongue in cheek. And I haven't changed as often as some do.

At first I suspected you were a cross-dresser! Now I am suspicious of a transgender?

After this thread, I am convinced there are 2 kinds of posters: Fixed/no avatar and ever changing avatars. And there seems to be no crossings between them.

 

[Bestwifeever]

I'm not a visual person and although I enjoy seeing the avatars, I don't really connect them with the users--it's the user name I know, and I'm not even that good at remembering a lot of who's who by name. So change at will imo--I love the variety of what people come up with, and that's why I like to change mine occasionally too.

 

[Marita40]

For a very long time after I joined this forum, I thought Midpack and W2R were stunning young women. The power of avatars is such that I still think of them as stunning young women.
It is delightfully confusing when someone's name or avatar suggests a woman and then you find out the poster is a man, or vice versa.
I think I'll get me an avatar...

 

[hankster]

Hankster - Sporting the same silly avatar since 2008

 

[Midpack]

At first I suspected you were a cross-dresser! Now I am suspicious of a transgender?

For a very long time after I joined this forum, I thought Midpack and W2R were stunning young women. The power of avatars is such that I still think of them as stunning young women.

It could all be true.

 

[Marita40]

I now have an avatar! Kind of boring, but my favorite two simple pleasures: coffee and a good book or two.
(On the other hand, I think it may look like a "dream of genie" apparition arising from a stack of books. Oh well, first try)

 

[Gumby]

I have a standard roster of avatars and rotate through them. Now my avatar matches my name, so you won't get confused (at least until I change again).

 

[exnavynuke]

I changed my avatar this week! Of course, since I didn't have an avatar on this forum at all before this, it's probably not going to cause anyone major confusion...

 

[W2R]

For a very long time after I joined this forum, I thought Midpack and W2R were stunning young women. The power of avatars is such that I still think of them as stunning young women.

It could all be true.

Marita, thank you! Love your new avatar, too.

In reality, you might be stunned if you saw me, that's for sure. I'm a 68 year old woman, very tall with ice blue eyes, pale skin, and big bone structure. The latter is probably due to my Scottish ancestry; they're the ones that think it is great fun to toss big poles sort of like telephone poles around just for a lark, I understand. Anyway, unfortunately I am also very obese, despite herculean efforts, plus I have white hair and definitely look my age. I get people's attention when I walk in a room, but not for the same reasons that Eva Habermann might. She was the actress/model of my old avatar.

 

[ls99]

Can't seem to find a good enough reason to change my avatar. Besides doing it might resemble w*rk.

 

[Midpack]

You're welcome - see all the new and first time avatars this thread has produced!

 

[Nemo2]

It could all be true.

"You've got your mother in a whirl
She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl"

David Bowie, Rebel Rebel

 

[Fedup]

I changed my avatar again. Next time it will be a picture of some vegs or fruits from my garden.

 

[Silver]

I chose my silver moon just because I think it's lovely. No plans to change it.

 

[Ronstar]

Just changed mine to a sailboat off Key West at sunset

 

[Whisper66]

This thread got me to thinking. I haven't had an avatar, just too lazy to make one I suppose. Decided to be bold and quit hiding behind the annonymity of the internet ... so I just used a recent photo after I got my hair done.