Sillyman, where is your shirt?

bodawei
August 19, 2010 at 03:26 AM posted in General Discussion

Coupla questions: 1. I am wondering if ChinesePod vets avatars at all?  (No doubt they are just happy to have them working again.)  The reason I ask is that 'new user' Sillman seems, from his avator, to rarely take off his shirt.  Question 2. But he has done so for his ChinesePod avator, I wonder why? (Maybe Sillyman would like to share?  Maybe it has some relevance to learning Chinese.)  I love the human body (as a principle and also in some discrete cases), but not Sillyman's specifically.  Nor do I advocate censorship.  

PS. I am of course making the assumption that the avatar portrays Sillyman himself, and not for example his best friend. 

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sillymouse
August 23, 2010 at 03:23 AM

Well seems like no room for a sense of humor, here, so I give up on the humor! Leastways didn't have my whole account deleted this time! Xiexie!

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xiao_liang
August 23, 2010 at 07:22 AM

Never a truer word :)

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sillymouse
August 23, 2010 at 03:30 AM

Boy, you need to lighten up!

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go_manly
August 23, 2010 at 03:27 AM

No need to give up on humour, just your version of humour.

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changye
August 22, 2010 at 07:26 AM

I'm just looking forward to reading the first comment, in English or Japanese, Sillyman would post here. Where are you, Sillyman?

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BEBC
August 22, 2010 at 02:36 PM

Out, damn'd Spot !

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sillymouse
August 22, 2010 at 03:45 AM

I am silly mouse! (I am not sillyman! No way!) My new account was deleted, not just my photo! But we silly mice don't lie down and die, we get up and wonder why, yes! There is room in the world for silly mice, that's what I say, yes!

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changye
August 23, 2010 at 07:18 AM

Hi hkboy

You might be right in saying the guy is a little shy, but unfortunately he is not shy enough to keep him from uploading the avatar!

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hkboy
August 23, 2010 at 06:53 AM

Changye,

I'm guessing he is a bit shy about responding in a public forum. Perhaps he is just studying the lessons. From his picture, he seems like a nice young man and I'm sure he is just eager to get going with the lessons.

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sillymouse
August 23, 2010 at 06:10 AM

Yeah riiight! Thanks for the laughs tal_ + you guys, I'll be seeing you!

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Tal
August 23, 2010 at 04:17 AM

laughing smileys Hey sillymouse, in Art everything is possible. smiley emoticons

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sillymouse
August 23, 2010 at 04:03 AM

Duh?! You mean like rats and hamsters getting it together?! I don't think that's possible. Is that even possible? Anyway Hamlet's father was called Hamlet too, I know that. I'm sticking my tongue at you!

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Tal
August 23, 2010 at 03:46 AM

Well... um, Hamlet's mother could be a Hamster. And that's how he gets his name see?

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sillymouse
August 23, 2010 at 03:27 AM

Hey tal_, you're crazy! I like that British humor like Monty Python! Anyway if Hamlet's uncle is a rat, how can Hamlet be a Hamster?! And... why am I even asking this question!? *squeak!*

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changye
August 23, 2010 at 03:02 AM

Hi hkboy

So far no message from Sillyman. I've been wondering whether the guy is Japanese or an expat in Japan ...... or neither. Actually the message I wrote in Japanese is very difficult to translate with Google translator, hehe.

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Tal
August 23, 2010 at 01:50 AM

Cheers mate, yeah I saw that "when you're a mouse" comment, but didn't get it 'cos I couldn't see your pic. The version of it I used I actually had to create myself via a screen capture, then upload it to Tinypic. Ha ha, the complications of online fun in the PRC!

Yeah, looks like sillymouse has once again met the farmer's wife. You know I'm kinda sorry, I actually think I'm gonna miss her/him. This whole thread has turned out to be a hoot!

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hkboy
August 23, 2010 at 01:33 AM

I can't believe Sillyman hasn't written you back. Perhaps you missed the private message.

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changye
August 23, 2010 at 01:19 AM

Unfortunately, sillimouse avatar couldn't survive, again. Personally I prefer it to Sillyman avatar, which has managed to survive, unfortunately, hehe.

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xiaophil
August 22, 2010 at 10:33 PM

I wonder if sillymouse will get deleted soon, and along with that, all of your fun here?

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bababardwan
August 22, 2010 at 10:17 PM

you're on a roll tal. I love your adaptation. btw I wondered at the time whether you'd be able to see my pic above under my comment:

"No need for mouse outfits when you're a mouse:"

...I guess not, as you've posted the same pic. There were a few sites that had the same pic but I couldn't tell which was more likely to display in PRC. You're posting shows that at least one must have been visible...I just guessed the wrong one.

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BEBC
August 22, 2010 at 03:55 PM

Inspired ! Patent that and sell it to Disney. Second thoughts, don't. He'll murder it like Mulan.

Anyone know how to post/embed a video here ? I tried following the instructions but failed.

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Tal
August 22, 2010 at 03:37 PM

How about this though? Hamlet really does call the play within the play that he uses to satisfy himself of his uncle's guilt "The Mousetrap" ! That's neat because in this version in mouse outfits I'm imagining, you could have the uncle be like a rat, but Hamlet and Horatio and the others be hamsters and so on. It'd add poignancy. That's what I think anyway.

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BEBC
August 22, 2010 at 02:29 PM

This site is infested. Must be a trojan mouse. Where's the pied piper when you need him ?

Merry Mice of Windsor - you're taking the Mickey !

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Tal
August 22, 2010 at 02:29 PM

life's but a scurrying shadow, a poor rodent

That squeaks and runs his hour upon the wheel

And then is heard no more. It is a tail, cut off by

A farmer's wife, no more to run up the clock, time itself will stop.

(Sheesh, that'd have to be McMouse, of course. Feel like I'm cheating leaving the Prince of Denmark behind.)

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bababardwan
August 22, 2010 at 01:20 PM

that this too solid flesh would melt, thaw , and resolve itself into a [cheese] fondue

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bababardwan
August 22, 2010 at 01:17 PM

btw love your contribution to this shrewshuo bro'

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bababardwan
August 22, 2010 at 01:16 PM

hehe, thanks tal. No need for mouse outfits when you're a mouse:

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Tal
August 22, 2010 at 01:07 PM

Fine fooling old sport. Great titles! Mouse Shakespeare. Has there ever been a production of Hamlet done in mouse outfits, I wonder? Surely the world needs one. I almost feel inspired...

"To flee, or not to flee,

That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind

To suffer the traps and poison, or to bare teeth

Against the felines' fury, and thus end all scampering.

To die, to sleep, no more. And by a sleep to way

We end the squeaking and the thousand pains

And terrors that rodents are heir to..."

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bababardwan
August 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM

well the parting of the brie has miraculously left me unscathed, and no red brie flows from me as far as I can see.

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BEBC
August 22, 2010 at 11:48 AM

Haha - Midsummer Night's Cream ! Sorry about that, Julius, the dagger slipped. Are you okay ?

I contacted the Help people and they're looking into the PM problem. Last time I received a PM I had my settings set to not forward messages. Now I've set it to forward, I'm not getting anything. Maybe I should switch it back to not receive. Seems logical.

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bababardwan
August 22, 2010 at 11:38 AM

btw you forgot Romano and Jubilee blue [ or was that Romano and Gerbil ? ..I forget now ..it was some time ago now you know]

the Mousechant of Vermin

Hamster

Merry Mice of Windsor

Much Ado about Nailao

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bababardwan
August 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM

Not quite....it was Midsummer Night's Cream[cheese], Taming of the Shrew [ I would have left that untouched], but I love and will pay Julius Cheesier ,hehe.

Speaking of Cheesier, I should have added above:

et tu bolte?

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BEBC
August 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM

You can't blame me for being suspicious....you are the author of Midsummer Night's Cheese, Taming of the Cheese and Julius Cheeser, are you not ?

Eek!

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bababardwan
August 22, 2010 at 10:02 AM

Yes, well as you rightly point out not so much as a peep out of me, so I can't be your mouse.

hehe, when your mates squeak so highly of you, who needs enemies?

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BEBC
August 22, 2010 at 08:27 AM

go_manly: You just won first prize for comment of the year !

Bababardwan hasn't been around for a couple of days. Could it be ....... ?

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Tal
August 22, 2010 at 07:16 AM

Why thank you, and you have a nice... err, mouse. And outrageous cheek. I don't expect either to survive the weekend here mind.

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sillymouse
August 22, 2010 at 06:45 AM

You mean 《The War Against Terrorism》? Yes, I believe in it! Funny video tal_, I like it! You have a beautiful finger, squeak squeak squeak!

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Tal
August 22, 2010 at 06:03 AM

laughing smileys I never thought CPod would ever have a mouse problem !

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go_manly
August 22, 2010 at 06:00 AM

Your picture says it all. You're a twat.

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sillymouse
August 22, 2010 at 05:52 AM

I am a proud American mouse, that's right! Who doesn't approve of me? I am not sillyman, mr. johnb is wrong! he he!

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xiaophil
August 22, 2010 at 04:25 AM

I really wish you weren't from the US, but I suspect that makes you happy that people disapprove of you.

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xiao_liang
August 20, 2010 at 11:18 PM

I'm giving this entire conversation a paddington hard stare.

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zhenlijiang
August 21, 2010 at 07:55 AM

OK. You'd have done the same for the avatar I was referring to yesterday (not sillyman's, but silly_mouse's) I'm sure. Given it a paddington hard stare that is. 

(which I can't seem to approximate with Japanese emoticons.)

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hamshank
August 20, 2010 at 06:11 AM

I doubt anyone would be bothered if it was someone with a ripped body and cheeky smile....It's perhaps a good job this account looks like it was joke account or there might be some poor chubby guy crying himself to sleep at night. :)

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johnb
August 20, 2010 at 05:34 AM

Hey everyone,

We don't check every new user's avatar (there are too many new users every day to make that possible), but we do have standards, and if we discover, or are alerted to, an avatar that violates those standards, we'll take action (and, incidentally, have several times over the last day or so, as a result of new accounts created by what appears to be the same person that created the Sillyman account). 

We're pretty liberal around here, and not into censorship either, so you have to go pretty far to exceed our standards. I think a good rule of thumb would be "if it's something that would get your thrown out of a public park, then it's not OK." Sillyman's avatar doesn't fall into that category (at least not in most locales).

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BEBC
August 21, 2010 at 05:40 PM

But not a 22 stone female sumo wrestler like this one, I hope. Talk about Whole Lotta Rosie !

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mark
August 21, 2010 at 05:11 PM

Changye, you should have caught silly_mouse before she got censored. I would have given her a pass on creativity, but I suppose that would be a slippery slope, and we would next be seeing all sorts of decorated body parts.

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changye
August 21, 2010 at 09:05 AM

I wish the guy were a woman!

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BEBC
August 20, 2010 at 07:01 PM

But he's not wearing a bra !

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Tal
August 20, 2010 at 04:14 AM

I'm still hoping sillyman himself will speak out on this issue.
@changye - shame I can't read Japanese!

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changye
August 20, 2010 at 05:34 AM

HI tal

Sorry, that is a piece of advice for Sillyman, based on an assumption that he is Japanese. I'm looking forward to receiving his response.

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zhenlijiang
August 20, 2010 at 03:50 AM

Bodawei re your question #1, guess not!
(No complaints from anyone today?)

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changye
August 21, 2010 at 08:57 AM

Thankfully(?), the guy doesn't seem to be a frequent poster, as of today. I don't think that seeing a lot of the avatar on the community page in the morning is a great way to start your day, hehe.

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bababardwan
August 20, 2010 at 04:14 AM

No complaints from anyone today?

...not even a peep...

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changye
August 19, 2010 at 11:57 AM

Hi sillyman

まあアバターについては小生も他人様のことをとやかく言えるような立場にはないのでありますが、ただその写真ばかりはちょいとマズいんじゃあないんでしょうかねえ。せめて「乳あて」をするくらいの配慮は必用じゃないかしらんと、老婆心ながら進言申し上げる次第です。猛暑の折、ご自愛くださいますよう。

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zhenlijiang
August 19, 2010 at 07:32 AM

Bodawei I am assuming that's a bearded lady (his mom, probably). It has been so damn hot here!

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zhenlijiang
August 19, 2010 at 09:47 AM

I'm sorry sillyman, should not have brought your mom (or anybody else's mom) into this. That was stupid and I apologize.

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Tal
August 19, 2010 at 06:49 AM

I'm just glad he chose to share only the upper half of his body.