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I'll be honest, Finalgear is one of my guilty little pleasures. None of my friends know I go on here. Where I'm from forums are considered extremely geeky/nerdy or something like that. It's not that I'm embarrassed about writing on a forum and am trying to hide it, I just don't feel the need to share something that comes with a pre-conceived stigma, and totally does not match the rest of my lifestyle. I'm mainly on here to learn about cars and jump to OT when I'm bored. This is the forum I've ever joined too.

What's your story?
 
Canuck said:
What's your story?
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Well, I was born in Rez? (Loire-Atlantique) on 4 July 1899. I enlisted in the army to avoid being jailed, saw action in the Balkans, and served through the war. Afterwards, I joined the Dada movement, and in 1921 published Le Passager du transtlantique, my first book of poetry. I left the Dada movement following Andr? Breton and joined Surrealism.

I worked with and influenced other poets such as Octavio Paz. In the fall of 1924 I was the co-editor of the journal La R?volution surr?aliste, becoming chief editor in 1925. In 1928, before living in Brazil (1929?1932), with my wife Elsie Houston, I published Le Grand Jeu. Buffetted by the winds of politics, I fought in the Spanish Civil War with the anarchists, met Nathalia Sedova, Trotsky's widow in Mexico City (1942?1948), and returned to France and then spent the remainder of my life in Paris. I was married to the Spanish artist Remedios Varo and we escaped Europe together with the help of the American based Emergency Rescue Committee. Barred from immigration to the United States because of my political history we instead immigrated to Mexico where we lived together in Mexico City until our divorce in 1947.

Among my other published works are the surrealist novel Mort aux vaches et au champ d'honneur (Death to the Pigs and the Field of Battle) (1922?23); La Brebis galante (The Elegant Ewe) (1924?49); Les Couilles enragees (Mad Balls) (1928); and L'Histoire naturelle (Natural History) (1958); as well as the poetry collections De derri?re les fagots (From the Hidden Storehouse) (1934); Je ne mange pas de ce pain-la (I Won't Stoop to That) (1936); and Je Sublime (1936).

I died on 18 September 1959 in Paris. So I guess I told nobody about forums or something.
 
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Canuck said:
None of my friends know I go on here.[...]
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That?s pretty much the same for me, but only for the reason that none of my friends is really into Cars or car-related tv-shows ... I don?t hide it from them, but I just know they aren?t interested ... my gf knows (and prob checks up on me from time to time if I?m trying to woo some other women :angel:) about the sites that I visit regulary and the aliases that I use. Who I definetly keep this and other sites that I?m active on a secret are people like colleages, work-buddies - People who I know and deal with on a regular basis - but who I don?t consider to be real friends ... stuff like that. I want to be free to talk about work and stuff without having to worry about someone stabbing me in the back or me losing my Job over some comment made towards a superior or my employer in general.
 
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Most of my friends are at least somewhat involved with forums and all are very geeky so it's not really a problem, though I only personally know a couple of people on here.
 
Most people know.... My bosses don't give a shit, my Ph.D. advisor tells me to spend less time online in general (she mostly does so when mailing me at 3am, so it's more of a joke), my gf knows... why should one hide it? Most people i know are active in at least one online community and/or facebook.
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So I guess I told nobody about forums or something.
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You are Benjamin P?ret.
 
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Most of my friends aren't into cars so it isn't really something I ever discuss with them, which is why coming on here is good because it's nice to talk about cars and share car related things. I'm not into forums or anything like that, this is the only one I visit and the only one I have become a member of.
 
Participating in several online communities (all of them forums... I'm from the older Internet days, back when the term "Social Media" didn't even exist) is part of what I am, so practically everyone knows. Not necessarily the particular forums, but I don't make a secret out of it.
 
Yeah I would get hazed pretty bad by some of my friends if I let slip I posted on forums. Then again its a car forum so they would be less harsh than if it was a Malibu Barbie Dreamhouse forum. Then again they knew I was on a forum for our "social organization" in college and those online connections hooked us up with lots of out of town places to stay and access to parties.
 
NOONE!

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efoolution said:
my gf knows (and prob checks up on me from time to time if I?m trying to woo some other women :angel:) a
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Hey efoolution's girlfriend, did he ever tell you about the things he did with a prostitute and a rare exotic bird?

:D

Seriously though, I don't tell everyone, but I don't keep it secret either. No idea if people know about this specific forum, but people generally know I talk to other people on the internet.
 
Nobody, no one asks so I didn't tell. This is really the only forum I post on regularly, the others I just signed up for access to the game mods and some cool stuff.
 
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Everybody knows, more or less, because I'm always showing them pics in the funny pics thread. Or repeating jokes from the joke thread. Or generally running my mouth off about various FG topics.

However, if anyone I know from, say, work ever joined and got in the NSFW threads... I might get a bit nervous.
 
Am I missing something? *Goes looking in the NSFW section*
 
You guys have friends? :cry:
 
No one knows. Although it wouldn't surprise me if they find out. I'm always talking about TopGear, wouldn't take much searching.
 
Most of my friends know but they're not particularly web-savvy. They only use use the interent for downloading music, movies, TV shows and for checking emails and doing the Facebook. I doubt that any of them would come here and even if they did, they don't actually know my screen name anyway.

My parents and my sister know but they don't care.
 
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Most of my friends know but they're not particularly web-savvy. They only use use the interent for downloading music, movies, TV shows and for checking emails and doing the Facebook porn. I doubt that any of them would come here and even if they did, they don't actually know my screen name anyway.

My parents and my sister know but they don't care.
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FTFY :p
 
thevictor390 said:
Most of my friends are at least somewhat involved with forums and all are very geeky so it's not really a problem, though I only personally know a couple of people on here.
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:wave:

A lot of my friend know I live my life on here. They also know I have 80,000+ car pictures on my laptop. 'nuff said.

Also, sometimes when I send my parents an interesting news story, I accidentally slip up and send them a link to a tread I've started here, or a post I've made.
 
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No real secrets here. I browse a lot of forums and my friends do likewise. I dont go out of my way to promote my internet habits but I have nothing to hide. Mostly.

I was in a car with a mate one day and we were talking about Top Gear and he said he goes to some place on the internet called Finalgear ("have you heard of it?") to download the episodes. Not just heard of it, got my forum thread posted into Top Gear Magazine ;)
 
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