Roirdan wrote:Chaka of the Pakuni wrote:Any Canucks here? There's a person in Canada named Jeff Weir. Here's his twitter account;
https://twitter.com/jeffster1970
Is this person a public figure in Canada? Anyone ever hear of this guy?
I know it's a stupid question, but......long story.....
Y'know, I think I've heard his name mentioned at work before? Its really familiar... other than that I don't know who he is.
I'm curious as to why you're asking. I don't think its a stupid question, and I would like to know what this "long story" is.
There's a website called broadbandreports.com. It has thousands of users and dozens of forums. This person posts there under an alias.
Recently, in one of the semi-private forums, someone made a post wondering if there are any famous people that post at BBR. The person in question made this reply...
I am famous, but not about to say who I am. Privacy. This crappy place is my only escape to talk to people.
I don't work for Apple. But I would imagine that based on the number of users here, I'm not the only 'famous' person. One of the regular posters is Drake, we're good friends. (no, I am not a musician either) Charlie Sheen has also been here, but hasn't been here for a couple years. ---- "Winning" also Aaron Laffey (MLB player) and his wife Jaclyn also post here regularly.
Just to name a couple.
He mentions he doesn't work for Apple because he has an Apple logo in his avatar. Later in the thread someone mentioned treating famous people differently, and that prompted this reply from him...
That would be the exact problem, people treating you differently.
I used to be here a long time ago and, again, kept myself as an unknown, and just got into too many arguments with some other members and heaved my membership. But there are not a lot of sites like this, so I ended up coming back after about a year.
Occasionally you see your real name pop up. I don't read those. Good or bad, I simply don't need to see it.
As well, there are probably a lot of lurkers that post questions that don't have memberships that are famous. Jennifer Lawrence was one of those, lol. Famous people have the same issues too, our internet isn't any better than yours, and a technician doesn't come out any more quickly than they would do you.
The other thing to think though, on an open forum like this, and you want to voice your opinions, thoughts, and everyone knows who you are, then posting about issues in the Red room or Blue room would create issues.
(the Red and Blue rooms are political forums)
Once again, he posts using an alias. But he made a post at BBR a little over a week ago where he was complaining about Harvey's in Canada. He went there, placed an order for hot dogs, and was then told they ran out of hot dog buns but they couldn't refund his money. He said he had a twitter exchange with them about it. Using that info I simply searched Harvey's twitter account until I found his twitter exchange with them, which gave me his twitter account.
So, he claims he's famous, but looking at his twitter account he looks like an ordinary guy. No idea if he actually knows the famous people he claims he knows or not.
Debating with myself if I want to call him out at the forums....
