No Problem
Jun01
on 2008-06-01
at 00:01
Chapter: 2008, Maddie's Monster
Characters: G'Nar (the Insignificant), Maddie
Location: Maddie's Apartment
Too Much Information – an online comic
An old house, a geek, a cute transvestite, a very tall lesbian, and at least one ghost–what could happen? – Adult situations and artistic nudity. Not suitable for children.
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Not sure what “ASL” means here (American Sign Language for the deaf?) but I’m pretty sure that a couple of hours on the Internet is not what I’d recommend for someone just coming out of 125 years in the dark…
@[ribbit]:
In this context, “A/S/L” is a request to learn your “Age/Sex(IE: gender)/Location(IE: where-do-you-live?)”, & it’s just about as rude as walking up to a stranger & expecting her to tell you her age & her home-address.
Maybe that has changed since dial up, but when I was first playing online games – mostly card games through a Microsoft site in the late 90s – it was the standard introduction. Who knows if the other people were telling the truth but I spent a couple of years regularly playing card games with someone who told me they were a grandmother living in the American Virgin Isles, and were amused that a twenty something man living in London was happy to partner with them whenever we were both online. I don’t remember anyone ever claiming it was rude to ask.
Not sure I’ll agree with DMC there that it’s necessarily rude, but it is a chatroom shorthand for age/sex/location. A quick way to get an rough idea of whom your talking to, in order to better choose appropriate conversation topics. If you were dying to tell somebody about this really gross German porn you just regretted watching… maybe that’s not a story to tell 13 year old Ingrid from Munich.
Mind you, if too abrupt, or clearly used as a reason to decide if you want to bother talking to this person at all… then it can be pretty rude, yeah.
blackflame:- it was considered rude if that was the first thing a new person would ask