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| The Holding up a Beer/Cheers Photos....
Posted: 7/20/2008 9:58:02 AM | Sometimes I'll be having a few beers and will take some stupid shot with the webcam.
Sometimes its a beer, sometimes its a hockey puck, sometimes its a silver trumpet. It's just a stupid internet dating profile and it amuses me. It's not the FBI, its just POF. Perspective is everything.
One time I took a pic of myself with a funky green clay mask on my face, I'll never do that again but my mail was hilarious. I looked like Jim Carrey.
C'mon its just social website, sometimes I get bored. Sue me. | |
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| The Holding up a Beer/Cheers Photos....
Posted: 7/20/2008 12:29:52 PM | I see it as an attempt to say "look at me, I'm a fun person! I hang out and party with my friends at the local "Cheers", and everyone loves me there, so, you'll love me, too!"
I drink...beer, Jack Daniel's, but I don't want pictures of it. It's like saying that it's all that matters...partying.
I say in my profile that I drink 3 or more time a week, but I don't care to show it in pictures.
But...to each his own. Some complain about pics of guys with ther motorcycles, their dogs, with other gals, etc...it's all an attempt to sell ourselves here. And if you are looking for a certain kind of someone, you advertise waht they're buying, I guess. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 12:36:19 PM | I know, it's terrible! All that fun!
I personally like to get shit-faced, ALONE, in the quiet musty corners of my basement!
Show me a girl that drinks with one of those hats with TWO beers going
at the same time, and I just might come out of hiding! | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 12:44:52 PM | OK, first of all, we can start forums on whatever subject we want so long as we follow the rules, so I find it weird when people chastise other people for posting a subject: if you don't like the forum, move on to the next one....
Secondly, since this is a dating site, maybe all the people with nothing but photos of them drinking will realize they need to put up some different photos as well, because it gives the connotation that all they do is drink...
Third: although the one guy is correct that most of us don’t walk around with cameras taking photos of our life and it usually is only at a gatherings where drinks are often being served, the point is that you know the person is taking the photo and yet you CHOSE to hold the drink up every frekin time….that is that part that speaks volumes! I have several photos of me at such places because I’m out with friends, but I can put the drink down (if in fact I was drinking) and take a photo of us having a good time instead of showing off the fact that “Hey, I drink!”…that is the point of the post, I’m thinking…I list that I drink, so I don’t need one in the photo to prove it… :) | |
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| The Holding up a Beer/Cheers Photos....
Posted: 7/20/2008 1:19:56 PM |
I don't think everyone who uses a beer emoticon, or has a bottle in his or her hand is a drunk. But the people that post it all over their page, and all over their messages give me the indication that they are a hard partier, and I'm over that stage
Indeed, that I understand and totally get, might send the wrong signal or amke for a bad impression.
ps, If I was a b!tchy person, I would have started b!tching about your b!tching about our b!itching, but alas, I deleted that post in an effort to keep my brain from imploding, thus proving you wrong so there! lol
Hehe, ok, truce? I wasn't trying to upset you or come across as a hypocrite or a
b!tching complainer nor was I trying to make it seem as though I was attacking you, I just thought it was unfortunate that some people would complain about the content of someones pics, but I can understand the concern in this on, so if I offended you or got you riled up, I apologize, I'll send myself to my room and promise to be a good boy later. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 1:29:45 PM | yeah i no what you mean about those pics, find them a bit "samey" but almost as bad as holding up a fish? whassat about????
It's about something the person likes to do! A lot of people love fishing.....and drinking, and motorcycles, and dogs, and I could go on forever!
It's showing the person looking at your profile a little bit about yourself.
If I see a picture I don't like, I don't ask why they posted it, anymore (I'm learning a lot today)....I figure it's what they want to show of themselves, and move on to another. Why ask why?
I'm probably contradicting myself, since I said above that I wasn't crazy about pics of people in a bar, raising glasses and hugging everyone around the bar, but I guess that's the image they want to project, and good luck to them with it.
I show myself doing things that I like....with my dog, on my HD, playing music, and speaking at a POW-MIA awareness rally (not all at the same time of course). I know each and every one of those pics will bother someone...someone I'm not trying to attract! But it just may attract someone with common interests.
See how easily a few posts can make us re-think, and understand? That's the whole point of forums. Maybe we can learn from each other, or at least learn to understand each other a bit better. I sure have!
To those of you who post pics with a mug of beer in your hand...no more criticism from me, enjoy!
And to those who question any pics, (and I'm one of those who question certain pics) let's just let it be, and move on. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 1:34:23 PM | | Oops I forgot I was supposed to be trying to be attractive. I guess I'm just gonna be happy being an unattractive beer drinkin' goofball. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 1:40:10 PM | thanks for this thread..my fave lists went triple after ive changed my pic profile but it all came from beer drinkers.On the other side...my prospect date bailed out not to see me anymore because he was scared that im an " alcoholic" that poor **stard--he judged me because i was chuggin the big glass of beer? | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 1:41:31 PM |
I guess I'm just gonna be happy being an unattractive beer drinkin' goofball.
No, you are a very cute beer drinkin' goofball! And the fact that you changed a pic while in the forums, hold a beer and/or a trumpet, and call yourself a goofball, says a lot about you! Good sense of humor!
And to go back to the topic (so I don't get spanked for chatting)...that is the whole point of the profile, and of the posts in the forum...get people to know you. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 1:48:12 PM | You can't judge a apple.....by lookin at the tree...
You cant judge the honey by lookin at the bee.
gah! alkeyhall talk got me singin hank, dangit!
But you're right. The guy hunched over the Bemis is doin it because he wants to....not because he's an alcoholic partaking of any kind of self-destructive adolescent behavior.
Can we get off this malarky and get back to the subject? Beer pics......turnoff?
Beer's not natural....
Beer's not good.....
Not everybody does it......
Not everybody should.
I've gone George Michael, here. | |
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| The Holding up a Beer/Cheers Photos....
Posted: 7/20/2008 1:59:16 PM | How funny is that!! You know as SOON as I see that I move right along....I saw this one profile where the guy had 4 pics...all four he was holding a beer bottle and in 3 of them he had on a beer advertisement t shirt...i wanna hurry and meet that guy.... partying is one thing but advertising it is another.....
the other one i like is the one where the guy is making a muscle, although you don't really detect that he has ever lifted one dumbell...don't make a muscle if your bicep is the size of a grape.
it would be funny to see sum1 standing there with a Big Mac in both hands...lmao  | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 2:14:38 PM |
it would be funny to see sum1 standing there with a Big Mac in both hands...lmao
It will have to wait for tomorrow because I dont drink and drive and I'm all out of Big Macs at the moment. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 2:15:11 PM |
well trained beer chugger/drinker...turn off.... anyone??
Yeah. And I don't even like chicks.
no, actually im not drunk--this is how I act normally
Rehab me NOT..oh well.....
I'd encourage you to take an English class before I'd encourage you to go to rehab; unless it's causation.
There's nothing wrong with drinking, but it's pretty damn weird to be so proud of it. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 2:23:57 PM | If it's one pic with friends obviously celebrating and no one looks like they are fall down drunk it is no big deal, if a drink is a component of every pic, then you figure it helps you weed out people you don't want in your life.
Better question is to ask yourself if you would be upset if someone failed to advertise in such a way but you found out months down the road that what you thought was a bit of boisterous drinking is an alcohol problem. Seems that while this is a turn-off, you should count it as a blessing. | |
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| The Holding up a Beer/Cheers Photos....
Posted: 7/20/2008 5:43:59 PM | | The few good pictures I have of myself are from when I'm out with friends and they are taking pictures. In most cases I will be drinking and have a beer in hand but that in no way makes me an alky or irresponsible. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 6:53:46 PM | ^^^^^^Your Picture is priceless, although I prefer the more low key
approach to drinking! Something like that guy Julian, on Trailer Park
Boys! | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 7:13:52 PM | | It would depend on what the person's drinking. If she's holding a Budweiser or similar nasty, over-carbonated, p i s s-like, skunky-before-it-left-the-brewery swill, I'd know she's not for me. | |
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Posted: 7/20/2008 7:22:18 PM | So that's the problem!!! I have a Corona in once pic. Now it all makes sense. 
Good grief OP ~ I've seen some silly judgments here, but in all these years, I've never considered posting something over a pic that reads similar to "Come with me and let me ruin your life." That is just silliness. If someone doens't want to meet/date/or talk to someone who finds tipping a few socially acceptable in their own life they shouldn't write anyone who clearly states: drink? socially. Pretty simple. | |
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