Do your baiting modalities ever coss-over into Real Life?

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Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:45 am

After almost 2 years of baiting and admiring the work of other baiters on this forum, I'm finding myself being increasingly dogmatic and far less likely to put up with s--t in RL business dealings.

I think I might have pushed the boundaries a bit when I found the following 1-sentence response in my RL-work email box:

Quote:

Over my dead body, you Mother Fuckers!

For a few seconds, I thought I was browsing through my baiter emails.

It was never intended as a bait, but the reaction was equally amusing and (I think) worthy of a spot on my signature line.

Anyone else finding the distinction between their RL and Baiting World becoming blurred?

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:06 am

I've not been baiting for long so baiting and RL are separate entities at the moment, but there are a few people who I've crossed paths with in the past that would benefit from a permanent safari Laughing

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:36 pm

I've used the word "modality" in RL conversations.

It's like a secret handshake for baiters!

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:44 pm

I use the word "modality" ALL the time now in RL.

Also I don't put up with any BS at all any more. Not that I did much in RL anyway.

I have to stop myself from "slapping" the "other side" in a RL business deal when they don't answer the very simple questions I have for me.

I constantly have to think if I am asking a RL counterpart a question just to waste their time or not (and then decide if I WANT to really waste their time).

Just wait until I have a RL legitimate need to use WU and see what happens!

Elite Baiter Joined: 02 Jul 2006 Posts: 1702

about the same i dont use WU in real life, so nope my baiting and real life never seem to cross.

But i do get real life stuff that appears baiting but isnt its just some people really act in certain ways.

Elite Baiter Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 1455

Does sending people renamed dll files count?

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:48 pm

I've had a "cow-orker" tell me that I have changed in the last two years. I asked him in what way and he said that I won't put up with any BS at all. I told him it was because I am getting older and life is too short to put up with stupid mugus. Last month a vendor basically refused to send me a document. He said he could not attach it to an email. He told me he sent it as a FAX to me several times over the course of two weeks. He would wait until Friday to return my voice messages and give me some crap about making sure he sent it before going home for the weekend. I knew he was baiting me but could not understand why as I've only dealt with him for 6 months but have been consistently giving his branch tens of thousands of dollars of business every year. I took a trip to purchasing and found out that our orders were being sent to another branch. After I called him up and told him his commissions were being "chopped' and by whom, I received attachments and FAXes even to the K7 number that I set up just for him.

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:02 pm

Mugatu wrote:

I've used the word "modality" in RL conversations.

It's like a secret handshake for baiters!

I keep seeing that word in some lads' emails.

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:07 pm

That would be where we stole the word from Wink

Not quite a Newb Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 76

What the hell does it mean?

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:22 pm

^^^^ The root is "mode" which is very common in English, along with tons of derivations.

A modality is basically a "way of doing something."

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

The effects of baiting at 419Eater on my life:

When people lie to me, rather than call them out on it right away, I let them keep going, knowing that they are lying and incriminating themselves more and more.

My husband keeps emailing me from work saying "your email was received and the content noted" which cracks us both up.

My four year old son refers to doing anything on the computer as "posting". Laughing

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:23 pm

Modalities is a perfectly cromulent word!

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:25 pm

Mine doesn't cross. My baiter character is a 52-yr-old, horrendously ugly, horny, deaf, bored widow. In RL I'm a much younger, gorgeous, horny, healthy, busy and active wife and mother.

Laughing

REALLY! (Well, maybe not MUCH younger...)

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:16 pm

Ima Baeder wrote:

My husband keeps emailing me from work saying "your email was received and the content noted"

I do that - and I make sure it's the full text of my reply!

Especially when I'm biting my tongue and trying not to slap the other party.

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:43 am

I used the "OK" modality on my ex-wife while we were texting last night. I just checked . . . 5 texts I answered her with "OK" before she called me and told me to stop baiting her. We were both laughing our heads off.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:43 pm

The Man wrote:

Modalities is a perfectly cromulent word!

[hijack] rock on springton! [\hijack]

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:02 pm

My knowledge of West Africa and its geography has become ridiculously sharpened. I was watching Jeopardy the other night on TV and the category was Africa. I believe I breezed right through every answer. There was even one about 419 scammers in it! Given the fact that my wife does not know about my baiting career, she was quite impressed with my knowledge of Africa.

I have found myself increasingly paranoid and obnoxious too. But that might just be me.

Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:18 am

Definitely changed, even in a few months - I've always been intolerant of BS, but my BS-detector has become more and more sensitive, and I am far less inclined to accept whining excuses from others for their failure to do what I want them to do.

In some ways, it's a little scary - I enjoy being the characters I play and deceiving the deceivers, but at the same time, it's little different from writing fiction.

419Eater is my life Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 356

My internal lie detector has always been substandard, but after almost a year of baiting, it's getting a lot better than it used to be - for instance, I was able to figure out quickly enough that the higher-ups at the company I work for were lying when they said they'd make me boss of one of the most important crews if I promised not to quit like they knew I wanted to.

I'm still there (haven't found a different job yet and can't afford to be unemployed), and I'm still not boss, and if this had been a year ago I would have been surprised and angry rather than just smug about being right. Smile

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